Nope, it's just good ole capitalism at work. Buy low and sell high. If you start picking and choosing which goods you want to no longer apply to reselling , things get messy. I can't say that I can have a strong opinion on the act of scalping because I have discipline and patience to just wait for when the product is widely available. Especially for something as non essential as gaming.
However, the use of bots to purchase entire warehouses of stock is just wrong in my opinion. These retailers need to put in place software that makes botting harder to accomplish when checking out. If they really say they care about consumers like they all seem to say, they should invest in making sure they're able to sell as much product to as many customers as possible at MSRP.
If the government wants to step in and say otherwise, I have no problem with that either. As others have pointed out it's illegal to scalp tickets so it's not like there isn't any precedent. The other issue is ebay has little motive to actually take down scalper accounts because they're getting 10% of every $1500 PS5 or XSX sold. And then PayPal (which is owned by ebay) gets another cut of that $1500. There are still scalpers selling disinfectant spray on ebay. Policing these things seems to be more trouble than it's worth.
My advice, just stall the scalpers out. Don't buy from them. It's not like either console has "must have exclusives" or games that can't be played on Gen 8.
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