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Topic	People selling PICTURES of PS5s for hundreds of dollars.
Colegreen_c12 12/02/20 3:06:06 PM #75:	HashtagSEP posted... said the scarcity wouldn't be as bad because you'd have a higher percentage of actual consumers getting the item in each drop I mean at the end of the day the same number of consumers are getting the product. It's just that people willing to overspend get a priority. Which was back to my original question. Would people have been more ok with this if sony itself allowed you to have priority access for $200 more? Of if some retailer, say a gamestop, offers bundles of stuff people don't really want with a ps5 for a higher price for more profit. Like yes a scalper cheating the system by getting a bunch is obviously not great. If you told me a few years ago a college kid waited in line overnight to buy a console to make a couple hundred bucks reselling it to pay for food or rent i would have had no problems with it. HashtagSEP posted... Also you're making a lot of assumptions on what's "fair." Is it fair if they use a lottery system and scalpers cheat to get more entries? Theres plenty of ways to prevent this kind of thing tbh. Will it be perfect? Probably not. But a scalper having 10 entries in a raffle out of 10,000 for 1,000 where he's expected to get 1 is a lot less impactful than snagging 5-10 ps5s with scripts before normal consumers can --- DPOblivion beat us all. <cite>Colegreen_c12 posted [p:947844888] in People sel... [t:79147131]...</cite> <quote>HashtagSEP posted... </cite> <quote>said the scarcity wouldn't be as bad because you'd have a higher percentage of actual consumers getting the item in each drop</quote> I mean at the end of the day the same number of consumers are getting the product. It's just that people willing to overspend get a priority. Which was back to my original question. Would people have been more ok with this if sony itself allowed you to have priority access for $200 more? Of if some retailer, say a gamestop, offers bundles of stuff people don't really want with a ps5 for a higher price for more profit. Like yes a scalper cheating the system by getting a bunch is obviously not great. If you told me a few years ago a college kid waited in line overnight to buy a console to make a couple hundred bucks reselling it to pay for food or rent i would have had no problems with it. HashtagSEP posted... </cite> <quote>Also you're making a lot of assumptions on what's "fair." Is it fair if they use a lottery system and scalpers cheat to get more entries?</quote> Theres plenty of ways to prevent this kind of thing tbh. Will it be perfect? Probably not. But a scalper having 10 entries in a raffle out of 10,000 for 1,000 where he's expected to get 1 is a lot less impactful than snagging 5-10 ps5s with scripts before normal consumers can --- DPOblivion beat us all.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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