Seriously, it’s loser behavior.

  • ddplf@szmer.info
    8·
    5 days ago

    Libs in my country often say - “Socialism heroically fights problems that don’t exist under any other system.”

    And I like to think about it each time there’s a debate about shit like scalpers, billionaires, hedge funds, lobbying, etc.

    Because under socialism, at least we were trying to overcome problems that weren’t know to the capitalist societies. Under capitalism, we can only cope, because the system is designed around it’s crippling problems and if they were eliminated, there would no longer be capitalism.

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    7 days ago

    Report them all and give them fake offers for the lulz. Even better, when they actually ship, find the people selling them on Facebook and make them drive an hour away while you sit in your room laughing.

  • vathecka@lemmy.radio
    15·
    7 days ago

    Pro tip: if youre buying from a physical store, you can just take shit from their cart. They dont own it yet

  • rounding_error@lemmy.today
    9·
    6 days ago

    I reported as many as I could under “suspected as fraudulent.” Nowhere can I find an option that says “Presale” is not allowed. I’m not that surprised since this is eBay.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      It’s because presale isn’t actually against their policy. What is against their policy is someone putting an inventory up that they haven’t confirmed they are going to have.

      So like if they have the email from Valve saying “this is the timeframe you get this” and that timeframe is more less than than 40 days out, as long as they can confirm shipment within 40 days of the item listing it’s allowed.

      I wonder if you get a new report option if the page has been active for more than 40 days, or if said issue requires a buyer to report them when they don’t ship within 40

      Being said, I think valve should crack down on the resale of their product on platforms like ebay, if they can find a listing that links to a steam account terminate future sales. With how overarching their system is they could likely cite Policy violation and close the entire account as well.

      I assume it would be fairly easy to look for identical card numbers across the platform, or require the primary account on the device to be the account that purchased it for at least X amount of days having the system like how phone carriers do with carrier locking.

  • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    7 days ago

    I recently got lucky and managed to pick up a Cafelat Robot (really hard to get manual espresso maker). It completely sold out in minutes. I paid $495 CAD. I then saw a local listing a few days later, someone was selling one BNIB for $950. It sold in a couple hours. I was so mad when I saw it sold.

  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    Crazy how the way the heros in that story “win the day” is by killing themselves. One character gets thwarted and is forced to live forever lol.

  • blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    7 days ago

    Wait I thought the Steam Frame is sold to random people who registered for the purchase? And only one per person? So how do Scalpers purchase them in bulk?

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      They don’t… If they do, they had many multiple accounts with multiple addresses and payment methods, have actual play time on actual paid (not F2P) games and made a Steam purchase before 2026/04/26. They could be sitting on their accounts for a long while to be ready for this. Don’t buy scalper stuff. Only purchase from Valve. Be patient. Used market an old headset if you’re new to VR, they’re cheap and work today.

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
      7·
      7 days ago

      Ways to buy in bulk aside, there will be people who just buy their one allowed Frame only to scalp it, just like people did with Steam Decks. Most scalpers are not big operations, just people who bought one in order to resell.

  • Axolotl@feddit.it
    8·
    7 days ago

    I wanna buy a home server so i sometimes check eBay and FUCKK SCALPERS they buy every computer, remove RAM and SSD ans then sell it again without them at the same price so i cannot afford anything anymore because i have to buy overpriced RAM, overpriced SSDs and over priced computers 🥹

    • rounding_error@lemmy.today
      3·
      6 days ago

      Yeah this makes my blood boil. It’s been happening for yearrss, long before the AIpocalypse. So many used/decommissioned computers on eBay that don’t even have RAM. As for storage, there is somewhat of a “data sanitization” angle there, but seeing as how people put used disks up anyways, there is kind of no excuse to not leave them in after sanitizing them.

  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    7 days ago

    Do not look at the tcg scene

    Riftbound t1 collectors set was set to drop for 350 usd, scalpers resold it for 6k

    Pokemon is the worst tcg, no one plays the card game, it’s literally cardboard collection simulator

  • chode_tode@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    The companies selling multiple to one customer and allowing this are the ones to blame. Screw the scalpers too, but we should be angry with them as well I think.