Scalpers reckon you'll pay $2600 for Super Mario 3D All-Stars

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Shiken said:

Chrkeller said:

It certainly is a dirty tactic and I don't like it.  But I think the easiest solution is to have a scalper buy 10 ps5 units and end up having to sell them for $400 and lose $1,000.  It would end this nonsense quickly.  But instead scalpers are able to sell their inventory for $1000 each.  We need to cut off the incentives for said dirty tactics.  

Oh your not wrong, I hope they all lose money.  If people were more patient and did not buy from them, this problem would not exist.

I am just saying that the guise of "capitalism" that people like to bring up is not a valid argument when they are breaking ToS and bypassing web security to buy everything up in seconds, and artificially inflating demand.  There is no logical way for anyone to defend this, and everyone doing it deserves to lose money.

So my point was not to imply that we the people couldn't stop them if more of us had better self control, because we certainly could.  My point was that given how scalpers are doing things, we shouldn't have to because they are abusing the system in first place.

Agreed as I talked about in my earlier posts, the method of acquisition via bots is the problem and is what differentiates this form of scalping from normal trading buying and selling patterns of supply constrained items because it is no longer just a natural product of the changes in supply and demand, the use of bots manipulates the market by exacerbating the shortage and drives up prices far beyond normal buying and selling practices.