Scalpers

[LabR@t]

I still need a GPU

I gave up and got xbox, albeit a s as the x's were out of stock

 

[TBirdUK]

Easiest way is to drop a line to HMRC - most of the scalpers wont be declaring their income, especially the ones that make lots of money.........

 

[Feek]

I buy my wife a Harrods Christmas bear every year as a tradition, these are usually £30 a pop but are all sold out at Harrods but they're on Ebay starting at £72.

My daughter buys me a Kylie Minogue calendar every year but last year they were in reduced supply and sold out really quickly, when I checked eBay, they were selling for over £70 with single sellers having loads available.

I went without.

 

[The_Arbiter]

It's nice to see a load of xbox series x have become available with various retailers at rrp, and haven't immediately sold out. It's almost as if stock was being held back ready for Xmas, possibly to teach scalpers a lesson. I imagine there are a few people with garages full who won't be having such a merry Xmas this year.

wow, so they are. I never saw that coming before xmas!

I'm still holding out, not sure if i'll just pick up an S in the end anyway.

 

[theone8181]

Easiest way is to drop a line to HMRC - most of the scalpers wont be declaring their income, especially the ones that make lots of money.........

I wonder how much hmrc would even care, with it being a relatively small amount.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

It's not just scalpers it's also drop shippers. These people just order it from the cheapest website and have it directly sent to the users without having stock. They making money at other companies expenses.

 

[adam cool dude]

Is there anything we can do to stop these parasites from doing what they do? I guess the only solution really is to flood the market with stock so they physically don't have enough resources to purchase everything but from a retailer's point of view that's rather risky, and that's not even considering the supply chain problems we're facing or the fact that some items are just generally meant to be limited.

I get the whole "capitalism lol" thing but it's getting a bit ridiculous, I buy my wife a Harrods Christmas bear every year as a tradition, these are usually £30 a pop but are all sold out at Harrods but they're on Ebay starting at £72.

This particular seller has already sold 28 of them and still has "more than 10 available". That's already £1176 profit with more stock to go. That's one product. These people obviously make quite a bit of money depriving others from the items they want or making people spend ridiculous amounts of money for what amounts to nothing more than sheer greed.

Will we ever see an end to this? I'm just annoyed that I will be having to pay one of these utter cretins more than what I want to be able to maintain a tradition.

Whinge over

It is basically a profession now and is old as hat. When I was at college I used to go into HMV and buy all the hot Christmas stuff. Like PS2 slims, Wii's etc then sold them on eBay for profit.

I used to drop box quite often as well from that famous offshore site as people were just too dumb to look themselves.

It is just so easy now as you can sit at home and do it. Before you actually had to ring up shops and check for stock etc.

I am surprised the high street doesn't reinstate in person pre-orders as it will get people back into the high street but as said they are too short sighted to see this as a scalpers money or genuine money doesn't matter to them.

 

[Minusorange]

If you want to beat the scalpers open a chip fabrication facility so that supply for chips can beat the demand

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I always want to punch scalpers at gigs. “Want to buy a ticket?” No you **** otherwise I’d be say at home, not walking through the door of Brixton Academy.

 

[Ahleckz]

How many Harrods teddy’s do you have?

 

[Raymond Lin]

It’s online shopping that makes this easier. If products are mainly sold in store then the staff can implement 1 per person rule.

It is basically a profession now and is old as hat. When I was at college I used to go into HMV and buy all the hot Christmas stuff. Like PS2 slims, Wii's etc then sold them on eBay for profit.

I used to drop box quite often as well from that famous offshore site as people were just too dumb to look themselves.

It is just so easy now as you can sit at home and do it. Before you actually had to ring up shops and check for stock etc.

I am surprised the high street doesn't reinstate in person pre-orders as it will get people back into the high street but as said they are too short sighted to see this as a scalpers money or genuine money doesn't matter to them.

That's the difference now. Before you can only do so much having to buy it in person. There are so many PS5 you can carry in your hand even if you can afford it. But now it's all delivered next day to your house with free delivery most of the time.

Now all the hard work is just clicking a button, with bots it's even let the computer do that too. No wonder everyone is at it.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

I don't really see why the government should be wasting their time on this, nor have any idea how they'd enforce it. It's nothing new.

On the console front, there's been loads of opportunities to pick one up if you keep an eye out on the likes of HUKD

They did it with ticket touts I don't see why this should be much different. I think the real reason is lack of will if it becomes commonplace with everyday goods I can see govt stepping in otherwise its beneath their radar, gfx cards certainly is its too niche but I can see this particular cottage industry expanding.

I regularly get pings from part alert discord but by the time I get to them an hour or two later they're gone you need to be online at the time or forget it.

 

[HungryHippos]

I hate scalpers and think it's a scummy thing to do, even if I have the opportunity to buy something I know I can resell for more later, I don't. I only buy stuff I want and will use

Saying that, I don't think it's the governments job to stop it, especially on items like consoles and graphics cards which aren't exactly necessary every-day items for people to have.

The people who pay above the odds are the ones who make it worth the scalpers time doing it.

I'd like to see retailers try and find a better way to stop people abusing orders though, not sure what this would be, but it can't be impossible to put some measures in place to make it harder for the scalpers.

 

[Jono8]

Our entire economy is one large "scalp".

That's capitalism for you.

How do you stop it? Making a rule that says people can't buy in demand luxury products to sell for a profit would be undermining how the entire system works.

 

[Kelt]

Hate scalpers with a passion, leeching scumbags the lot of them.

Would never buy from one, and really don't understand people who do.

 

[.Lethal]

really don't understand people who do.

Of course you do.

 

[arknor]

This 100%, it's a retailers dream, sell all the stock they can make, and as a bonus no warranty to honour.

they might as well just be the scalpers.

maybe at some less repute etailers employees get first dibs then to off to ebay and facebook etc

 

[R.P.L]

You will only see an end when people stop paying those inflated prices.

Absolutely this. In fact more people that do buy from scalpers just fuels their greed.

I have zero issues with "Scalpers" it's the idiots that buy from them that's the problem.

Yep, don’t buy, scalpers lose money and don’t try again. Problem solved. Unfortunately the human element means this will never happen.

Spot on. If you don't like the price, don't buy it - simple as.

 

[Jono8]

Spot on. If you don't like the price, don't buy it - simple as.

Indeed.

If it was for essential things like medicine or water etc then I would have a problem with it.

For consoles and gpus? Pfft, just don't buy it from a scalper and pay over the odds! Just wait and be patient as you don't need it. Just play on your ps4 or your existing gpu for a bit longer

People only have themselves to blame.

 

[LeMson]

1 a year is quite the attrition rate