| Hiku said: Well, it is interesting that this has been allowed to go on and get out of hand when retailers are not allowed to overprice them like that. Some say this doesn’t hurt Sony or MS, etc, because they already got paid. But I think if those people think about it a bit more, they’d realize that if someone spends that much extra money on thd console, they have that much less to spend on games. And it’s the games that make these companies money usually, because the consoles are sold at near production costs. If not at a loss. If scalping tickets is illegal, they might as well apply it to new electronics as well. I think ideally it should be retailers that should have counter measures, but it’s difficult to get around the bots. Though sites that resell these things lile eBay should straight up forbid markups for new electronics. |
This. And every scalped console that doesn't get resold at a ripoff is every scalped console that Sony, Microsoft, etc. DON'T generate game, subscription, etc. sales from, which is where they really make their money, so they're fucking manufacturers and gamers over by doing this.
