PS5 Biggest Console Launch In History!

[COKTOE]

Azzanation said:

COKTOE said:

That's not one scalper. It's an estimate of all the consoles scalpers got a hold of in the UK. I was wondering what you were driving at with your initial post, thinking you may actually be saying the reason for the sellout was due to scalping.......PUUHLEAAESSE. People are constantly trying to get a hold of them. I would be shocked if say, 100,000 units are in the hands of scalpers worldwide. I mean, to go even further, and say 200,000, which is an overly generous figure, that's less than 10% of the window for estimated sales. How you can think those wouldn't have been sold is beyond me. There's no basis to be making such a claim.

I don't make the news, just reporting whats being said. I can say this, in Australia the same issue has arose, no stores have stock but you look online and the stock is on 3rd party sites. Besides i never said it wouldn't have sold out, i just said we wouldn't actually know. Scalpers are buying into thousands and thousands of stock. Also what figures are you going by? How do you know how much stock the scalpers have brought into? 

Did you not hear the issue with pre-ording the systems? Did you not hear all the complaining that people couldn't place a pre-order on pre-order night? Hmmmmmmmmm i wonder why.

Just 1 UK scalper group managed to buy 3500 PS5s, having more stock than some actual online retailers. That's just one group in the UK.

So when you say "I dont want to be that guy but Scalpers also have a major part in this story unfortantly" (sic), the implication is.....nothing? Nothing to do with anything regarding sales, sales potential or any aspect of the launch numbers themselves. You must have simply come into this thread to mention it is unfortunate that scalpers have been buying consoles, and you don't appreciate the practice, right?  You just did so in an very obtuse, awkward, almost unbelievable manner, instead of simply stating as much to begin with....bullshit.

And you're asking ME what figures I'm going by when you say, again, "I dont want to be that guy but Scalpers also have a major part in this story unfortantly". (sic)

Well what's the story? The story of the most successful launch in history. " Scalpers also have a major part in this story" How major? Where are YOUR numbers?

And of course, none of this matters, because a sale is #1, a sale, and #2, some of theses scalped units will be repurchased on the secondary market. This type of activity only happens when items are expected to be IN DEMAND. You realize that's how this works, right?

Last edited by COKTOE - on 26 November 2020