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Finally. SOME Justice
The uk made scalping illegal for concert tickets. But nothing massively changed on others product points
It is genuinely shocking seeing Yong without their glasses. It's like two different people, like Super man and Clark Kent.
Shoutout to everyone who didn't buy a PS5 or a video card when the prices were mad unreasonable. You deserved better.
Shoutout to me who participate the move because i totally definitely not a lie have a money to buy it but chose not to
Both my PS4 and PC are nearing their end-of-life. Probably clocked in several thousands of hours in use. I was very worried that prices skyrocketed during the pandemic and would have to replace them that time, and I'm quite happy they both held on.
Thank god I bought my tower for 900 dollars. Running an I7 2080 graphics card. It was so nice.
I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
Got my 3080 launch day for msrp. I’m still shocked 😂
Congratulations to everyone who waited and didn't give money to scalpers.
Let's hope these scammers loose much more cash than they gained thanks to our patience.
Yep can confirm got a ps5 and xbox series S
The smart ones moved on long time ago sadly, they profited plenty but I'm glad these didn't
I got both my sis's PS5 and mine through retail, & my Xbox from Microsoft directly. Scalpers can all shove it
Sincerest congratulations, I've been waiting a long time as well and though I still don't have, I have resisted their inflated prices. Fuck these parasites.
Got my PS5 a few months ago. Scalpers can suck it. Hope they go broke.
I’d say those who brought from scalpers are part of the problem themselves. There’s absolutely no reason why you need a PS5 that urgently and have to support the scalpers. Sony also needs to do better, they can just set anti-bot measures and put people on waitlist if they can’t meet the crazy demand.
But people wanted to play god of war ragnarok on launch day and ratchet and clank on launch day
Lmao no but forreal. There really is no reason to buy one at a higher price. They could have gotten it at msrp and get the games for cheap too since they'd wait to get a ps5 and people selling off their games
Why aren't you running a business? instead of smacking your keyboard because you clearly know so much about it. Some people can simply spare the expense. Don't be mad because others are more successful than you and they can afford more than the "bare necessities"
@@kobba932scalper detected
Screw these guys.
When I worked in the electronics department these same group of scalpers would come in as soon as we had a fresh stock of PS5s
They’d each buy one and then demand I accept their tax exempt cards. So they wouldn’t have to pay the sales tax.
I tried so hard to deny sales to them, pretend we didn’t have any or stock them later in the day so regular people had a chance of being able to buy them.
I got into several arguments with them and had my store manager turn them away. They made my life miserable.
U tried ur best and that’s what matters
You'd think that with all the effort they put into they'd get real jobs.
You my friend, are proof that not all heroes wear capes. Hats off, mate.
Tax exempt cards, interesting. Let's track how, where, and whom they were issued by~
@@MezzoForte4 in my last argument with them I did tell them to get a real job. They laughed and mocked me saying “Oh, yeah cause Walmart is a real job? You’re just jealous that we actually make money.”
Such assholes.
Its almost like being a scum bag had an expiration date. They had a good 2 1/2 year run taking advantage of shortages. I don’t feel bad for any of them.
This rule is universal I’d say. Tricks and schemes will get you so far. Until people are clued into your bullshit. And now you have a price on your head from the people that had to deal with your shit the past years.
Sadly is like dynamite or uranium the longer, the more dangerous and volatile.
Ready for the used PC market to normalize. It was so bad.
Lasted longer than it should've.
Let's hope evil corporations face a bigger karma
The middleman excuse only comes into play if there is a barrier other than people buying them to scalp them. Like, if someone was selling them in a rural area with no stores that would sell them and it was a pain to get things delivered (or pre-internet days), then it’s at least an excuse.
Even then the locals who wanted a product they couldn’t get would just drive to a larger town. My folks grew up in small farming towns in Iowa, if they wanted a top of the line TV or VCR they would just go to Des Moines and buy it at MSRP in a Sears. Most towns would have appliance shops you could order limited products in anyways, with few markups except maybe a delivery fee.
Retailers in my town completely shut down online orders for PS5s during the scalper plague. Only way to get them was to call up, check for stock and then go in and order face to face. They took note of you and enforced the one per customer rule. The scalpers would have to have recruited a LOT of people to get stock lmao. One store even put up fake stock online and took note of every inhumanly fast order and blocked them from further purchase attempts, alledgedly the scalper responsible whinged about that on instagram later that day (story from a friend, accuracy may vary).
What always got me was when the backlash happened and the scalpers went "we are only the middleman". Like bitch the stores are already the middleman!
It’s because no one wants to be the bad guy, they wanted to be seen as a good guy well committed to scamming people.
not just the retailers, but also the Distributors. There were Already Two layers of middlemen (both of which were providing Actual Utility) before the scalpers (who absolutely were NOT) got involved.
@@namelessliberty9869 my favorite superhero
It's honestly terrifying when scumbags start shamelessly trying to defend their actions with BS rhetoric, because I know some people are dumb enough to believe anything if criminals or politicians say it enough times. I don't want a future where scalping is normalized.
@@namelessliberty9869 Doesn't quite have the same ring to it...
I was at the mall yesterday and saw a kid happily carrying a ps5 home with his parents. It made me happy to see it finally in stock and no scalpers to buy off of
You didn't really care stop lying.
@@ZERO-Shinkai and what would makes you think that he didn't care or lying? Go somewhere else please, we have a celebration here
Heck yeah. To see it happen with no involvement of dealing with the internet.
Just walk into the store. See the console on the store shelves and buy it.
That's how it should always be.
@@ZERO-Shinkai failure parents
@@ZERO-Shinkai
I understand your parents didn’t hug you enough. I feel sorry for you.
I was not looking to buy a PS5, and have no interest in picking one up in the near future, but scalpers having to sell at a loss definitely brings a wide smile to my face. Of course there would be no scalping in the first place if the gaming public at large could exercise a scintilla of willpower and wait to buy things at MSRP.
Patience was key since release, thankfully developers supported last gen with games until now that consoles are easy to come by at Walmart, Target, GameStop and other official retailers therefore making the need to upgrade during that time period unnecessary… I finally bought a series X at Target by simply walking in to the store 🏆
Hearing YongYea say "scalpers are struggling to sell PS5s" puts a smile on my face
30-40% of ps5 sells are from scalpers.
Best news of This year
Sucks to be them.
You realize Heisenberg was a scalper right ? But with meth
@@raider_reaper_4194 PS5 scalpers aren’t making their own better versions of PS5’s though…they’re just selling normal PS5’s at an insane markup, Walter white made his own meth that’s 99.1% pure which was far above anything else on the market.
Scalpers taking Ls? You sir have just made my day.
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They take L on the old Leaking models.
Its good news, but wont last for long. Just wait for the new switch and scalpers will return.
Right the people who been selling ps5s for 800-1000 are taking an L 🤣
@@furydeath except they aren't selling them dipsht that's what the entire video is about 😂💀
I remember hearing about this and thinking wtf, and was talking about how I’m not gonna pay such a huge mark up price for a ps5 it was like between 800 and 1k dollars or something absurd. My friend tried to recommend a friend that was doing this whole scalping thing saying he would give me a good price. I looked at him and said I’m not that desperate for a “good price” I’ll wait. Still don’t own a ps5 though lol, I have been considering on getting one lately though.
I work at Target and I was so frustrated with how our management would just let one person buy an entire pallet of PS5s through our OPU system. They knew exactly what was happening because the same person would come in and pick up multiple consoles under different names meanwhile I had to constantly explain to our customers why we didn’t have any in stock.
You should have taken a photo of that scalper and whenever customers asked show them the culprit
i would have doxxed him and went to his house with a little 'warm' surprise ;)
It’s funny they allow that but will limit customers to 3 packs of Pokémon cards. Oh the world we live in
Should have made a complaint to Target corporate.
U work at target? Lol minimum wage jobs
I am from the UK it got really bad here it took me over a year of trying to beat the bots. It was one of the best feelings getting to check out before any bots could grab them all. As a side note the most expensive ps5 I saw was £1200 and it sold that was insane.
“we’re just trying to help people get items during a shortage!”
my brother in christ, you CAUSED the shortage
I had one tell me once that they’re paying for his time. And I was like YOURE THE REASON THIS IS HAPPENING AT ALL
Price is a rationing force. It will determine if you really really really want the merchandise.
Instead of crying and throw tantrum on scalper, blame should be placed on the production and distribution of the scalped merchandise. If production and distribution can flood the market at will, scalpers will stay at sideline.
@@gorilladisco9108 You can rationalize it however you want, doesn’t change how ethically pathetic it is to purposefully eliminate people’s market access to a product in order to profit off of their desperation. Martin Shkreli used your exact logic with Daraprim and it’s a damn shame.
@@ocean_0602 The Shkreli case is different. The government prevent the importation of the product, made his company a monopoly. And then you surprise when a monopoly acted monopolistic?
I got so mad when an “ex” friend did this. She didn’t even play video games. She should be glad I didn’t hit her for it.
The bitter irony is that this could have ended in a month or two. All it would have taken was for EVERYONE to refuse to buy from scalpers from day one.
FOMO can be a powerful tool.
You think that's bad? Go work at a car dealership, they're basically government-mandated scalpers.
It's actually better it took this long because of larger accumulated losses. Instead of 5 Playstations it's now 50 units.
@@drewtheunspoken3988 What is that
Exactly
A simple solution is for retailers to not sell online for the until the supply stabilizes and limit the number of consoles to 1 per person and record the state ID for each purchase. It won't stop someone from getting 2 or 3 with the help of non gamer friends but it will stop large groups from driving up the prices.
The manufacturer could also charge more for the first few months and bring the prices down over time so that it is clear to scalpers that they need to have a quick turnover or suffer a loss.
This also affected the vr industry, mostly the Oculus Rift S a while back. It was ridiculous, there was a sub Reddit of people who were trying to buy one but it just turned into a waiting area until you could actually get one. I had fun there but was disappointing that scalpers bought EVERY SINGLE HEADSET
Im proud to say I'm part of the patience/holding off gang
Not giving into scalpers is a good feeling knowing this
Broke
😊 patients truly does pay off
@@cecilbigman4250*Smart
And your reward for that patience is kicking scalpers in the balls, well done!
Same
When I worked for Walmart it would piss me off when the store managers would communicate with each other to gather up stock for scalpers. I still remember the limited edition 3ds's. The store manager would come up to us and show us a text message from the district manager communicating to other store managers telling them to give the customer (scalper) whatever he wanted as he is spending loads of money on the items. He pulled me and the dept manager to the back room and had us load everything onto a cart and when the guy showed up he bought our entire inventory of 3ds's and the games that came out that day. Same thing happened with switches. Whenever I asked them what he needed all the consoles for they would respond with "oh im donating them to a shelter for kids" mhm yeah okay buddy.
I worked at Target when they had the limited edition Spider-man PS4s. Thankfully I lived in a small town with limited foot traffic, I clocked in the morning and only bought one at the end of my shift. Played it fair, didn't take one off inventory and hide it for myself to buy later. At the end of my shift there was still one left after I got mine. All the customers that walked in only got one for themselves, this was like a year or two before online ordering really became a big thing. It's nice when everyone played it cool and everything was chill.
think that is illegal and you should of reported your manager.
@Fishy I agree, honestly he should face jail time for enabling this behavior
@Fishy First, that's not what "an enabler" means. He wasn't making excuses for anyone. A person that buys from a scalper is more of an enabler (though, even then that's not exactly what that term means). My guess is he needed a job more than he needed to stand up for our freedom to get new gadgets as cheap as possible. Who knows....maybe he was one of those people that needed to eat sometimes. You don't work at Wally World because you are rolling in gravy. Second, I think the world would be a far better place if folks didn't go around looking for reasons to call others names.
Yeah report your manager to the shareholders and news outlets. This is illegal.
I went into a small "retailer" who was asking $1200 for a PS5, no way. It's a tough one, but I don't think they can do online sales for these, maybe only big retailers who only sell in person and by lottery. That will still delay you from getting one, but you would get one before availability and prices go down (3-years). It's madness.
"Good things come to those who wait." Congrats to everyone who was able to hold the line and get a ps5 at retail stores. GAME ON MY DUDES!!!
Scalpers still won by making profit for two-plus years...
@seth - Depends if there's a shortage and if there's more stuff in place to prevent buying many units. - I'd sooner think that a "pro" version would be more interesting for both consumers and thus scalpers. - A "slim" version would usually come later, towards the end of a console's life-cycle, so you could be waiting years anyway.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Come-
Let’s goooooo!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
I waited and waited and waited AND waited some more but now I can say that for the past 2 months Im the proud owner of a ps5 ❤ fuck them scalpers
Moments like this remind me of how patience is a virtue. It's worth not playing games day one when it hurts a scalper.
Day one gaming is a bad in the modern day unless you lived in the 90's or 2000's
Day one gaming is overrated.
@@MaoRatto yeah last time it mattered was when gta 5 and rdr2 came out and ironically both made by rockstar
😂😢
Being a PC gamer helps too because you can still play all the new games too while you wait.
I think it took as long as it did for prices to correct because of COVID and the subsequent microchip shortage. Usually next gen console prices correct in about a year or so after release. They might pick up again around their 2nd Christmas time, but even then any price bump is typically marginal.
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The funny thing is landlords literally do the same thing, only these scalpers that are receiving so much hate or hoarding things you don't actually need to live. Landlords are like these guys only a million times worse because they're actually hoarding shit that you need to live. When are we going to come up with news headlines denouncing landlords?
We've been at that for decades, its just there are larger legal hoops to jump through and the scalpers' friends are all in office.
Slum lords, land barons, same old song and dance we've always dealt with
I remember the time where Games Workshop was selling Warhammer 40,000: Indomitus game sets. At first, they had supposedly limited stock for the sets, which were near-instantly snatched up by scalpers and instantly put on ebay for like twice the price (these sets were already like $200 as a base price). And then, after being "out-of-stock" for a while, suddenly the game sets all became made-to-order.
Scalpers were now stuck with actual walls of $200 boxes of plastic miniatures while everyone else, after buying their regularly-priced sets, flocked to reddit to meme on them . T'was a joyous occasion
that’s also a genius play from GW. could practically double their sales if they carefully timed the switch to made to order
Evil GW accidently doing something Good lol
@@adrenjones9301 Still didn't solve the scalper problem for their other products with limited release.
My kind of corporate activism
The boarding patrol boxes were limited releases and a couple had miniatures that hadn't been released yet, I believe? I think it was the Tau and Orks. Anyway, they were being flipped on ebay for more than double the rrp
My neighbor was into scalping graphics cards, he bought THOUSANDS of them and was reselling them for a ridiculous price. He spent his entire life savings and took out a personal loan to get the ball rolling. His wife was pretty pissed about the whole thing especially the loan. He had everything in his garage and he was also running a mining gig...it overwhelmed the electrical and caught on fire and his garage and everything in it burnt to the ground, the cherry on top was that he also didn't have insurance it appears. He lost a TON of money and his wife left him. The moral of this story is...don't be an asshole.
Damn, he got way too greedy, would have made a fortune on reselling cards alone. Lol.
This sounds like cap. Thousands of them really?
Damn, what a waste. I would much prefer him to just be robbed.
Hell, I would gladly then resell those cards below MSRP and donate the money, just because I'm petty
my god that is beautiful
This story was too good to be true.
i sometimes pretend to be buyers and ask scalpers to meetup so they waste time and gas going to somewhere while i sit back at home and play on my pc
The most recent console I've bought was a Steam Deck that I waited about a year for my spot in the preorder queue to come up and it's the only console I've purchased during year one of its release, partly thanks to your reviews and videos.
Every time a scalper gets screwed over, an angel gets its wings.
I'd rather the scalpers become angels, if you get my drift.
What flavor wings? Buffalo? Garlic Parmesan? Lemon pepper? Garlic Pepper? BBQ?
Edit: also how many pieces? 6? 10? 15? 20?
@@QuarterKnight01 they're leeches, they don't get to be angels.
@@QuarterKnight01 heh good one
A *GAMER* gets their wings, maybe?
Being a hitman also puts food on the table. Putting food on the table isn't a good enough excuse.
Haha for real. These degenerates could also try working a normal job like everyone else
Yep, "Iceman" Kuklinski really loved his family...
Great point. Like, "Don't judge me for selling CP online. It puts food on the table"
More importantly, they're taking food OFF the table of regular people by making them pay exorbitant prices. He should've said, "We're putting food on our table by stealing it from yours".
Yup people do way worse for the excuse of putting food on the table but scalping is definitely still a POS thing to do
Since the release of the PS5 i never saw any of them physically until only a few months ago.
when you see prices for these items drop like this ALWAYS lowball their offers just to spit in their faces
Scalpers calling their market an important one was one of the best things I've heard this year. What's more important than making it harder for end users to buy consoles?
And they're not even helping transit or delivery. They're literally just a "middle man". The troll in the bridge collecting taxes.
The way the coped was something worth documenting.
@@FelipeKana1 the retail store is the middleman. Scalpers are more like parasites.
As a police officer said to a man trying to resell hand sanitizer. Price gouging illegal
@@TallicaMan1986 They are just another store simply selling higher. They wouldn't do it if it didnt work.
I was so stoked when Sony themselves sent me an email to ask if I wanted to buy a PS5. Took em up on it, bought at MSRP, and had it in hand two days later. No need to go to a store, no reseller, just direct to consumer sale.
Oh same thing here, Sony sent me and email wanting to know if I would he interested in buying a PlayStation 5 and I left the whole process to my brother. He sent me a text later showing the order confirmation
What is MSRP?
@@dudeoftheyear1260 msrp is the original price for a product (as far as I know)
@@dudeoftheyear1260"Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price"
I actually got kinda lucky with mine.
I don’t remember how I ended up there but I noticed that they had some in stock on the website (MW2 bundle) and I added it to my cart and I second guessed myself before actually ordering it.
A week or two later I was back on the website and everything was sold out and I was regretting not buying it the first time… that’s when I noticed there was something in the cart.
Click on it and sure enough, the PS5 was still there… go through the process and get a confirmation expecting it to bounce back at some point and throughout the next week or two I was constantly checking the tracker and it never updated and I thought for sure they canceled it and that follow-up was coming.
The morning it was supposed to be here at home in Illinois, I was in North Carolina for work in my way back when I check my email and it was shipped like 20 minutes before i checked it. I have never been in a bigger hurry to get home before in my life.
By the time I got home it was sitting in my garage. Those couple weeks were like an M. Night Shyamalan movie I swear…
Microsoft and Walmart had a good system going. I can’t remember how it worked, but basically they would contact you when a small shipment would come in and then you could only buy one Xbox and then you had to go into the store you shipped it to and have them scan your phone to verify your purchase. They made it so inconvenient for someone trying to get multiple consoles to resell but perfect for an average consumer. Through that system I was able to get a console about 7 months after release for $500.
I still have no interest in PS5 partially due to scalpers, partially due to the limited release, partially due to: the console's lineup just isn't impressive enough to justify buying it.
Back when all the scalping was going on, I'd go on craigslist and flag every single scalped ps5 I saw - because fuck em. I did this nightly for a few months just because it was a fun little game to play before bed: scroll through 3000+ listings, flag the ones in my area, flag ones in other areas nearby, flag ones in random states, just generally be a nuisance to the garbage.
As a trucker as I was traveling the USA I would buy PS5's and sell them to friends that couldn't get them at cost plus shipping just cause we all were so tired of the scalpers. Managed to get 4 total over the years. Great times for me and friends as a result.
Huge W, I've been thinking of doing this too but with bots just like them scalpers. But instead of marking up price I'll just sell them at retail, basically anti-scalping
Amazing.
then your an awesome friend nice to see someone decent :)
@@tytytut435
My friend actually did this (kind of).
He'd managed to get his own early on, then stumbled on a retailer with them in stock. He called me to see if I wanted one, which I did, but he also bought another two.
His plan was to sell them at cost price plus whatever it would cost to ship them, or free for collection (as we both hate scaplers due to event tickets etc).
Anyway, he listed them for sale at retail price, explaining why he was doing it and also included the receipts with them.
Long story short; the (understandable) mistrust was unbelievable.
He only managed to sell one this way about a month later. The other was bought by a mutual friend a few months after that.
@@stevehaire6324 damn that’s interesting, never came into my mind about that mistrust. But now I get it, most people will think that we’re scammers if we sell at retail when others sell at 70% markup lol
One thing not mentioned is the fact that if you buy from scalpers now, there's a good chance you are getting a console that's been sitting around in who knows what conditions, so the longevity is going to be decreased.
Stashed in some dudes garage for multiple seasons.
@@kenosabi full of mold and corrosion
@@waterking74 Got a colony of bugs in it
Potentially unpopular opinion incoming
Even if the ps5 was from amazon in Mint Condition and everything, it wouldn't be worth a single penny, like the x box would be a better choice than something coming from S*NY.
@@victoralexandervinkenes9193 which one?
I managed to get one within 4 months of them coming out. First time trying to buy one too. Even then it was stressful bc you had to worry about employees or the mailman stealing the damn thing. It was worth it though. Loading up demons souls was insane.
Funny, my Walmart always has them in stock yet I always hear people complain that they aren’t available
This isn't just the retailers 'failing to provide security' from bots. You'd have to be crazy to think the retailer management themselves (higher up) aren't in on this scalping. They'd be crazy NOT to be in on it, scalping their own company's products. It makes their company sales look good, then they can try to resell at a much higher price point for additional personal profit.
Good point. Either themselves or friends could profit from it.
@@landotucker such fuckery is not unheard of.
To think we got scum like that around and not yet in jail
Even if that's not the case... companies still profit the same from scalpers, almost doubly so in these kind of scenarios.
Great way to look at it. This is exactly how the Pokemon TCG scalping has been happening. FOR YEARS. People got exposed in a Facebook group and on Tiktok showing off their literal STACKS of dozens of the same holo and extremely rare cards. ㅑｕㄷＫ all these people
@@Kmosely42 They actually don't. Retail makes way more money off game sales than they do off consoles. So all these consoles sitting with scalpers means they're losing out on sales of games, accessories etc
And even when people were buying them from scalpers, that's an extra ~$200-$300 that they aren't spending on those things either.
imagine being a scalper, then developing an undeserved ego around it
it is a job like anything else, nothing bad about it but nothing to brag about either. i made over $13 000 in profit from reselling PS5s to consumers in need. if people really wanted it, they were willing to pay an additional price to get it right away and I was glad to assist them. i stopped reselling ps5s in 2023 though so I never had any problem with unsold units. it was a good run to earn a little extra money, nothing that really changes ur life big financially.
@@SoyAntonioGaming The name fits.
@@SoyAntonioGaming nah bro thats scummy.
@@thegrove5259 it is just business. Btw i have 20 copies of Sackboy if ur interested.
@@SoyAntonioGaming its not business at the expense of others. Thats called extortion
Being in the military, I remember my friends on base having to show their CAC's at the Exhange to purchase a PS5. That way they can keep track of who bought one and no scalping happened on base.
I tried to preorder one on a local game store website it crashed.
Wasnt too fussed, but I was near my local game store the next day, walked in and they had one ps5 left for preorder. 😮 didnt know how lucky i was till later when people were crying to get one.
Part of the fun was trying to find one, I was apart of a group that announced restock at major stores, I got a ping while at work that there were 2 left at a Target, I left work and got it, I was so happy being able to get one at retail price while they were rare
Finally bought one myself at a local Best Buy and walked out feeling super proud not giving in to those scalpers.
Same here. They call it “paytience”
Got mine early December last year off the playstation website for retail price. No way in hell I was gonna pay some loser scalper for it
Got mine in march 2022. Very fortunate to get it in a short window of opportunity. Never give into people like the scalpers.
I’m gonna walk out of Best Buy this Monday with a PS5 :)
Those scalpers can eat shit
As you should be. I hope everybody who patiently waited enjoys their PS5s!
I got mine in the middle of the madness when they were impossible to find. I helped this guy outside of Walmart blow up a tire with my portable air pump. About ten minutes later the same guy approached me in the store except for this time he was wearing a Walmart vest. He asked me if I had any kids and I told him yes two teenagers. He said follow me to the back of the store. We walked back by the fishing gear, he opened a blue door to the back and handed me a PlayStation and said we got this in today. I fist-bumped him and proceeded to check out and leave. It wasn't until I got home and gave it to my son that I realized how much of a unicorn I had scored. He literally broke down. I knew they were scarce but didn't know how much of a score it was.
Quest reward
Bro did a side quest at Walmart
They were never scarce, just assholes buying em all same thing is happening with pokemon games
@@societyisboring Sooo;thus, making them scarce.....
And everyone clapped.
I work at Target and we’ve had over 30+ ps5s in stock 24/7 sense February
Unfortunately I don't see this happening to the scalpers that got the Starfield Constellation Edition. eBay is full of them.
There was someone in my area who was trying to hoard and scalp every ps5 he could get and sell them on eBay and Craigslist. One of his deals ended with him getting shot and robbed. No one felt bad for him when he started complaining on social media about it.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Whoever did that, I praise them.
I think it'd be funny if people found out where these people lived and robbed them when they weren't at home, stealing all their scalped PS5s
@@IDontModWTFz Not cool. Scalping is bad, but it's not a crime that should be punishable by heavy injury.
2 wrongs don't make a right.
They really went with "we're solving the shortage by causing the shortage".
One way they could prevent this in the future is to require VPNs off when ordering and keep track of which IP addresses have ordered them. If too many are being bought from a small area, or too frequently, an investigation could start to find out why, which could lead to police getting involved, and potentially arresting them and confiscate their stock if they're found to be scalping. If they're delivered to homes or picked up, noting and verifying the home addresses and/or license plates could also be done.
Or just disable online purchases and make them wait in line in front of the store like everyone else.
the problem with that is the way ip addresses work like library books, if you love in a populated area or apartment building this would only hurt you
The government and taxes don't like them either. So if they are posting their flex photos with all the inventory, they make profit off of poor households, photo evidence isn't enough for the government to hire a task force to penalize them???? How about compensation for consumers who bought from known scalpers?
It’s as if you’re standing in line at a retail store. You’ve been waiting all day and you’re next in line. All of a sudden someone cuts in front of you and nabs the last one and then turns around and says you can have it for $1000. No difference. This is exactly what they were doing.
Yeah, at least I can kick his ass as he cuts in front of me in the line.
It's more like you're fifth in line right before the store opens, and right as they open someone cuts in line, buys the entire stock of the store's product, then sets up a booth right next to the line selling them for $1000 a piece. Even scummier because no one gets one except the scalper.
While scalpers suck they don't "cut in line". You're just not in time to be in the line before them.
@@cycy9154What a terrible hot take this is. Scalpers use bots to snag consoles faster than humans possibly could.
That literally IS the equivalent of cutting in line
Good analogy!
I've lost friends over them becoming scalpers. This warms my frozen heart.
Dang this world is so fast and crazy. I've seen people I knew in high school fall to crypto scams and have their Instagrams gutted and filled with crypto ads its really wild to see what people are willing to do for money.
It’s not that deep. I wouldn’t scalp but I don’t think it’s evil. Same thing as scalping shoes to me 🤷♂️
@@manwithoutmercy look at it this way: people want to pay for a luxury item that provides happiness. People have been waiting for this item for years. They’ve been looking forward to it, some way more than others.
Then you have scalpers come in to essentially take away their chances of receiving said happiness and hold them ransom until they cave and pay a hefty price tag for an item that isn’t the scalper’s own original content.
The scalpers know this. The scalpers intentionally take advantage of the desperation that the consumer is feeling, and wishes to profit off of it. Anything more than that is extra added onto of a mountain of inevitable karmic payback.
If robbing people of their chances of happiness isn’t evil to you, I wonder what your standards are.
@@professortree9387 holy shit you are so dramatic. You said it yourself it's a luxury item. Quit crying dude, it's so weak.
really? you just threw away your friendship because they were scalping? i dont like scalpers but i would never end a friendship over that.
Scalpers literally f*cked up the first two years of the PS5 console.
No one could get one, so no one was buying games.
I think it hit several devolopers in the ass with that issue.
I mean why release games when only 100 people had a PS5 xD
Usually I get launch edition consoles , starting back with the PS1… with the 5, I refused to pay the prices these scalpers asked and never got one . Now that they are pretty much everywhere , I do not even want one anymore ..shrugs
The last time I was this happy was when I've heard of scalpers buying RTX 40XX series GPUs only to find out that there was a 50% chance they have bought faulty ones with melting power plugs and couldn't ask for replacements because there was the policy of "1 replacement per customer"
Oh shit, when did that happen?
@@davidsauceda4971 From what i could find, the earliest mentions of those faulty GPUs date to at least October last year.
Most of the news mainly talked about how a manufacturing error in 1 of 2 companies of those GPU plugs caused them not to connect fully and leaving the gap wide enough to cause sparks to jump in between and melt them in the process, Nvidia's plans what to do and how recall would look like, etc.
Then, some time later, i remember a video talking about scalpers getting into issues with a buttload of those GPUs. They couldn't test every single one of them, stores would refuse to replace those and a majority of official market sites (eBay for example) would basically make them pay extra if cards they sold would turn out to be faulty and they would have to pay back the whole cost of the card to any customer who would have purchased by using their site.
@@konradzukowski213 Never would have thought that a lack of quality control would have been a good thing for us. I guess there really is a first time for everything.
bit why would they care if they sold you faulty goods?
@@testoftimegaming5219 A GPU is going to be used for quite a few things. So if someone is looking for a particular GPU, odds are they are also going to know about any recalls of it. If there is someone still trying to sell it in the midst of the recall(s), especially if said someone is a scalper, then the potential buyer will likely suspect faulty goods from the outset and therefore not buy from the scalper, which is a massive L for the scalper.
Im glad im finally at a point in my life where i no longer care about having to have the latest and greatest console, video card ..ect. Scalpers definitely helped get me to this point for sure. They sucked all the joy i used to feel for those things long ago. Now even with surplus I just no longer care.
the bonus is you save money lol
Nice Trinity Blood profile pic
I will never buy a new gen console ever again unless it's from nintendo. I still wont get this gen, not only because of this shit but almost 3 years later and we still don't have any decent exclusives, that is beyond depressing
I got mine in Oct 2021 when I just so happened to find a Gamestop selling a few while out getting groceries. It was great.
This analysis is laughable. If your value system is so warped that you’ll pay 2x-4x retail for a video game console, you deserve to be scalped. In reality, what this shows is that Playstation underpriced their product at the outset.
I owe the scalpers a debt of gratitude for helping me over my horrible video game addiction. I was hype for ps5, now I don't play any games anymore. Rip my 30 year hobby.
Same. Its for the best. The gaming industry as a whole is garbage. Waste of time and money
Just because no time or did you find something genuinely better?
@@legaltowter9811 No, I didn't fill the hole. There's a blackness now in the part of me that used to be taken up by my love of gaming. But I don't miss it. Like a gangrenous leg...
Same the game industry grosses me out walking away from the gaming world was the best habit I decided to drop bless these greedy sharks for opening my eyes
@@noelienoelie8425 have you tried indie games or anything other than the constant failures of triple A gaming
Another thing about buying from scalpers is that they could tamper with the ps5s, so you might end up paying for a brick, or they might have downloaded something into it. It’s just a lot safer going retail than to a scalper.
As if getting your PS5 bricked by accident isn't bad enough, somebody (scalpers) might've bricked it on purpose too...
@Iqbaal Annaafi Especially from the scalpers who claim they have "jailbroken" consoles, promising free/steeply discounted games or content you otherwise wouldn't (or shouldn't) have access to.
"Bippity-boppity, your personal information is now my property."
THIS. No matter what price point the scalpers are willing to sell to you, NEVER buy from them. The risk of having a bricked PS5 and compromised personal info is never worth it.
@@JBrander I mean, if you're into console repairs and are foreseeing the future demand for repair parts, DO snap them up if you find them at a pittance, make the scalpers bleed and stock up on replacement parts!
@@neoqwerty its probably way cheaper to buy broken consoles and salvage the working parts rather than a "working" scalper unit
This is how I feel about the shoe resellers it started with galaxy foams and online market places and it seems it will never end
There's a scalper group in my country during the pandemic now they're out of business.
Karma is what we call this
That's what I was going post.
The sad thing is that there was good economical reasons for retailers to fight this: if people can't get the hardware then they're not buying the software. Granted, retail doesn't make any significant profit on software but it's still a factor.
There's plenty of reason not to fight it. Plenty of items are total duds and flops in sales. You might as well take the scalpers money and dump your inventory
This includes Sony themselves. Game consoles are in general sold at a cost, and the actual moneymakers are the games. An unused console sitting in a scalper's warehouse is a net loss.
There's like zero overhead on electronics for retailers. They would basically have to lose money to fight this by hiring nerds that are better than the scalpers to combat it. Very costly. Better to just sell them whichever way they can.
This was a problem and why the slow game releases
Very few people are buying software at retail these days. Most software is digital. Retailers have little incentive to fight this beyond an angry consumer base. Sony and Microsoft have more reason to fight this.
Going up to a scalper and laughing in their face.
Same thing that happened to the housing market around the same time.. but that one we can't do anything about
I love this because I work at a pawn shop and sometimes I get people coming in to try and sell us a PS5 for retail price, and of course we need to make money, so we can't buy them for that much. It's glorious seeing them get pissed because we offer them $175-225 since we sell them for about $300-325
yo my dog if yuou get another one in stock for that price can you hit me up? will pay shipping. cant find em in my city still and thats a good price
@@iliketrains263 im pretty sure the sony website always has stock 💀
Bro you selling them closer to retail I bet
Hopefully not cause I need one too at 200-300
That almost sounds like your shop is in the selling business. Most pawn shops I know detest having to take ownership of collateral.
This is fantastic news to hear. Truly heartwarming.
I still haven’t bought a PS5 myself (can’t really afford one), but when I do, you can bet I’ll be going through Best Buy, Amazon, or the like. I know it’s hurting my wallet, but I’d prefer to spend the extra money through official channels instead of even putting $200 into the hands of a scalper.
Wait until the pro, save your money $
@@sovietninja6865 Good point! I'll have to keep an eye out for that.
""""""""When I buy a console, best believe Im going to buy it through a corporation!!! Fuck these individuals who try to earn rent. Jeff Bezos needs more rent money for his 3rd yaught than any of you peons need for a bed""""""
-Road to Dawn
I haven't bought a PS5 yet as there's no games I really want for it, but I registered with Sony for press tuff many years ago and they consistently tell me if I wish to order through them I can easily get one. Glad to hear that users in the US are getting them more readily now though.
@@crunchyfrog555 don’t worry. Just make a friend who can eliminate government sales tax. It’s apparently common for a minimum wage register employee to give you 10’% any purchase you say please on.
Road to dawn, I would still like a confession for your lie. You won’t get into any trouble, as it follows government approved messaging, but why do you prefer supporting billionaires over people just trying to make it bye.
It guess it depends on availability. I just got my Tears of the Kingdom Link amiibo on a retail store at regular price, but I was more than lucky, as it’s not available because scalpers and scalpers price is about 4x the regular price. Actually mine was a returned item for a minor scratch on the blister and the person who returned was , you might guess it, a crappy scalper. Anyway, I was waiting to the moment that no one gets it on high prices and I would eventually get one.
Scalpers are not the problem and I don’t mind them existing. I’ve never scalped and I’ve never bought from one but at the end of the day they are the product of a limited supply, high demand item made way to accessible to them by careless distribution and careless retailers.
Policies and practices can be put in place to stop the practice from getting so out of hand.
Definitely was a double whammy. The new consoles came out right when covid hit. All stores refused to sell them in store, instead forcing online shopping for it. Like you said bots raised hell with it and took them all while stores refused to update their security and just let scalpers run Rampant. Even as of this comment, walmart still refuses to sell them on the store floor 😂
Walmarts in my city have started to have them on the sales floor
@CalicoJoeJoe mine too I bought my ps5 right in store a few months ago
@CalicoJoeJoe maybe mine didn't get the memo haha. If I could share a picture on TH-cam I would. They still have the sign up that says "only available online for in store pickup, please visit blah blah blah" they had the sign up originally "due to covid and supply isuues" I asked recently post pandemic, and they said "so you won't get robbed or fight over it" but there's nothing stopping someone from robbing or fighting you for it in the in-store pick up area or parking lot lmao.
Side note, best buy and game stop are in the same shopping area as Walmart and both of them sell the consoles in store.
I asked my local Walmart if they had them and the guy told me that they did but they kept them in the back don’t know why but at least they have them now
Because they'll get stolen
I'm so glad to hear that, scalpers are one of the worst when it comes to in demand items. Props to everyone who are determined to stick to retail and wait to screw scalpers.
Without warranty these consoles are basically worthless.
I’m so glad I’ve been seeing PS5s and Series Xs in stores! It really feels like waking up from a nightmare. Just so many people wanting these consoles and you either had to be REALLY lucky or sell your soul to get one. So it’s just great knowing people won’t have to resort to buy these things for up to 4 times their value. I managed to get a Series X through Walmart and later a PS5 GoW R bundle from Gamestop and so glad I waited
got mine about a month ago. paid full retail price at nebraska furniture mart. i waited 3 years for mine lol
I would literally not recognize Yong if I saw him in public without his glasses.
Suddenly, Clark Kent's disguise makes perfect sense
Just like Sailor Moon wearing a regular school uniform when she's not fighting crime. xD
I scrolled down quite a lot to find someone complimenting YY looks without glasses and the best I've got is this, poor guy 😅
But hey YY, if you somehow read this: you look great, man! It's a bit weird seeing you like that (no pun intended) but you look cool without glasses too 😁
Yeah its weird how people can take out one of their familiar feature and suddenly become much harder to recognize
Gonna tell a story, my dad, which is a videogame fan as well as me, told me that the brother in law of his coworker had recently bought a ton of PS5 to resell them at 1200$, I wanna see his face when he tries to sell them 😅
These makes me wanna sing
"You deserve it
You deserve it
YOU
DESERVE
IT"
Dang that picture in the beginning really hurts cause they couldn’t even have the decency to swap the ps5 with an actually good Nerf Blaster.
The thing about scalping for PS5s or other consoles is that there's no real demand for it. There's a *desire* to be sure, but not really a demand amongst the casual gaming community - which makes up like 99% of gamers.
Why would anyone pay markup for a PS5 when they can still play the same games on a PS4 that they've already paid for? That seems to be a concept that scalpers didn't understand when they assumed cornering the market would allow them to control the price of the console. I don't have Xbox or PS products, but I do have Nintendo and for as long as they continue to make products for the Switch I'm not going to buy their new console.
I think the same can be said for most of the community, and it usually takes about a year (sometimes up to three) for games to finally be sold exclusively on a new console.
I knew this day would come, hesitating to buy from scalpers was always the right moral decision lmao
There's fuck all games for it anyway right now
I just can't drum up any sympathy for people who bought from scalpers. Nobody NEEDED a PS5, you just WANTED one. Your lack of self control paying more than a PS5 was ever worth is your problem. Nobody forced you to pay that much.
I resisted too. Not that it wasn't hard, most of the cheapest scalping prices I saw where I live were increased 50% from retail prices. But being annoyed was an understatement. But I have mine now finally
Ofc it would eventually it's just that most gamorz are impatient
@@thehumblepotatoreborn9313 There's always Cyberpunk :D
You know, seeing the PS5 on Amazon, no longer needing a reservation for the chance to buy it, truly did put a smile on my face!
I see the PS5 and the Series X at Wal-Mart regularly now. It wasn't just individual scalping, either. A local game shop called Vintage Stock was doing it. To be eligible to buy a PS5 for $899, you had to buy 2 controllers and 2 games. I saw a guy doing it and his total was over $1400. Ridiculous! I got mine at retail through Wal-Mart+. Screw these assholes.
Thanks to these guys I made the jump to PC and I’m never looking back
I looked on Walmart for shits and giggles and they're being sold "under MSRP" but the shipping cost is around 200 dollars lmao. They're still trying to find a way, be careful yall
For the record, this could’ve been prevented. Valve sold ample units of steam decks to players without scalpers being able to do this
Mainly because Valve has a system in place that checks account age and owned games that determine Deck prioritization in reservations.
I don't think Sony are able to do what Sony does. Steam able to avoid by having steam account verification.
The scalpers bought through retailers who for the most part didn’t give a damn who bought the PS5s and Xbox Series consoles. Steam required it’s customers to verify that they had a legitimate account to buy Steam Decks.
Yep, retailers just chose to sell them to scalpers
Funny, thou because steam deck isnt available in my country, i had to rally scalper. The few first months, the prices was ridiculous. Like 1,75x - w”2,5x from actual price. Nowadays its 1,05x. And at this price point i deemed it an okay to buy from them. Because of the hassle the have experiance for the import.
Thats not yong, I see no glasses... oh, I see, contacts. Glad you said that. I was scared for a second.
That's a step in the right direction at least. Now if only the consumers would stop purchasing pre-orders and full priced betas. Day one purchases are worthless at this point. Nothing ever works right out the gate. Looking forward to Street Fighter 6 in six months to a year from release💪. Unless I can find a physical copy for cheap sooner. Which usually ya can. Gamers gotta take back gaming!
It’s almost as if the market would inevitably catch up to demand and deem the hoarders’ collection to be a huge L.
I've never been so desperate for anything that I'd pay a grifter.
Not meaning to be inflammatory to this harmless comment but some people do this to baby formula and people don't have a choice not to pay for it lol. It's evil
I bet the people who paid double or triple the msrp feel like massive idiots right now.
@@ImLikeYouIHaveNoName90 grey fox?
*especially* a PS5
all this time, and there's still only like 3 games
My wife got lucky and got 1. Off Wal-Mart site in 2021. I didn't even throw away the box cuz ps5s in my area we're getting stolen from houses that they seen boxes in the garbage.
The only time companies have learned something is when it has negatively affected their profit.
I still remember that day during the thick of the PS5 scarcity, I walked into this small EB Games(Canadian GameStop) at a mall.
The conversation about the scapling was sprung up when I was talking about to my brother. Then one of the employees asked if we were looking for one cause they have a few on the shelf and several in the back.
We said, "No thanks, but that is amazing."
After that, whenever we were in the area, I always walked back in there, and they always had ps5s in stock.
I gotta respect that. So now that place is my first go-to when I wanna buy something.
I didn’t get a series x on launch day due to scalpers so I waited a year until the series x Halo Edition was announced so I immediately drove to my nearest GameStop and pre-ordered.
I managed to get mine the day all those stores suddenly put them up online for preorder. Still shocked I managed it, but once they were out, the scalpers got them all. It was almost better the way it happened at first. Randomly open for preorder without prior warning.