Ka-pi96 said:
You could quite easily say to scalpers "don't send me the product at all, I'll wait until the stores restock". Nobody is forcing people to pay those inflated prices. Just like they're not force to pay for express shipping on Amazon or other internet retailers. |
The difference being, the scalper will try and get all units of that product when the stores restock so as to precisely prevent you from having any other choice. Because if a product is not rare and if you can find it elsewhere at the normal price, the scalper's fraudulent business model disappears. It is by essence how this works, you cannot get the product elsewhere, if you can then there is no scalping...
Personally even if I really want something and it's not available elsewhere, I simply give up cause I'll cut my throat open long before I agree to pay a scalper, but that's just me. The world is full of impatient idiots that will pay anything. I have seen the NES mini sold for thousands of dollars by scalpers when the store price is 60 dollars. Humans are very stupid and scalpers should be stopped by the law. Just as hard drugs are illegal cause people are too stupid to realize when they buy and take those drugs that it will destroy their body and health so drugs had to be made illegal. Same idea with scalpers, in my opinion of course.
