A free market is only good for a society if everyone plays nice. If they don't, then the only people who benefit are the people ripping everyone off and screwing people over. So, the argument that a free market which is 100% unchecked is somehow a "good" thing, is up for debate. 

And making a rule to limit the numbers anyone can buy a product so there isn't any scalper is  good because?

It's good because it places the power in the hands of the people and companies who actually make and sell those goods and allows them to set the price. Ideally, that's how it should work.

Are you suggesting that people wouldn't buy SNES Classic consoles at $79.99? We both know they'd completely sell out anyway. The only difference is that the only people getting them would be people who actually want them and not parasites, looking to make a buck off desperate parents/people.

I remember that photo of a woman with an SUV back cargo area loaded with WiiU consoles she was going to try and flip, expecting the WiiU launch to be crazy like the Wii.

It's bad. The sole fault for scalpers existing are on the supplier and people that accept to pay more for it. So there is zero need for a law on this.

True that suppliers that don't do their job for whatever reason have a responsibility in the crime of scalping but just as a law broken for whatever reason means criminality in general can go higher does not mean that criminals aren't the first ones to be blamed for their crimes cause they definitely are.

As for the demand, it is the prime motivator for a scalper to commit his/her crime. And the price something is sold at is supposed to reflect the value of the product and a higher price is only justified by an added value, for example if you buy a pizza in a store for you to cook it should be fairly cheap, if you call Domino Pizza cause you want them to bring you a pizza that is hot and ready to eat, they add value by cooking the pizza and bringing it to you so it is fair that they ask a higher price than what you'd pay that pizza in a store, but scalpers don't add any value, they short-circuit the market by obtaining as many copies of a product as possible so that they can artificially increase the price but they add no value whatsoever to the product. The buyer cannot say, your price is too high so I'll just go to a store and buy the product there at normal price because the scalper made sure there are NO units left in stores so as to make the buyer have no choice if they want the product. It's plain wrong and should definitely be criminalized.

And it's weird that you don't realize that.

Faster delivery is an added value, priority seats is an added value. Scalpers don't add any value to the product, they make sure no units are left in stores so that people have no other choice than to buy from them.

In other words, scalpers are parasites that don't add extra value but still increase the price for no reason. They're thieves abusing a flaw in the system. Profiting off someone's impatience in and of itself is predatory but not enough to warrant jail in my opinion but when you create on purpose such a situation as scalpers do then yes it deserves jail. They don't profit off a situation that was there, they MADE the product unavailable by buying all the copies and thus create a situation that did not need to exist in the first place.

No because at the end of the day I don't have to pay more, whereas with a scalper you cannot say: Don't send me the product tomorrow, send it in 3-5 days in exchange of selling me the product at no extra cost.

Good luck getting that deal from a scalper.

That is not to say that Amazon cannot be criticized for their practices. But the way you are trying to vindicate scalpers with something way less serious as waiting 5 days from Amazon, sounds to me like you really want to make me believe scalpers are alright.

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.