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StealThisSheen posted...

A scalper is artificially impacting the supply/demand, though. They're shrinking supply without actually meeting ANY of the demand and then inflating the price based on the restraints they now caused. It hurts both other consumers for obvious reasons, and actual production since scalpers are making it impossible for them to actually meet the demand.

You can make a case that first line resellers (retailers), should put a limit on the amount that someone can buy (many do this already). It won't stop dedicated second line resellers (scalpers) from buying from many different sources, but they can't be everywhere (in terms of both physical locations and websites) at once, which will delay their lightning speed and allow others to purchase things before them. Many first line retailers are greedy though, and don't really care. You can blame them just as much.

Also keep in mind that many scalpers are just regular people, and often poor, so they might be more dedicated to camping out if it helps pay some back bills.

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