peanutbutterlatte
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I agree with them. Your phone is too big. Get a tablet or a phone you greedy asshole.
My God I Fucking Can't Stand Scalpers
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It seems like so much work for so little gain. Maybe it's just because I have a decent job, but the risk and effort involved in a potential gain of just like $30 does not seem worth it.
I guess there's things like this pip boy that you can be sure will sell for a profit, but then there's people that stocked up on Wii Us or some shit and made a loss.
Just work an honest job for honest money, I say.
I guess there's things like this pip boy that you can be sure will sell for a profit, but then there's people that stocked up on Wii Us or some shit and made a loss.
Just work an honest job for honest money, I say.
Hip Hop
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Because there's only so many factories can make. These aren't the only things being built.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/28/fallout-4-pip-boy-edition-no-more-units/
spawnsniper
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I honestly thought this was a nut thread again lol.
ClayKavalier
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If misfortune is not being able to have to have a video game toy you're sitting pretty.
Scalpers don't morally offend me. I wouldn't do it unless I was having trouble putting food on the table, but if other people want to it's fine. If someone is willing to sell out a ton of money for a game or toy, good for them.
That said it is pretty sleazy when well-off people do it to make money on the side.
Always-honest
Banned
Don't buy. And laugh at the people who do.
Tinfoilhatsron
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Oh yes the mysteical GAF Hivemind. Get over yourself, strawmanning stuff. Lol.
Daffy Duck
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You've seen nothing my yet, wait until they're released. Prices will be crazy, same with the Juggernog edition of Black Ops 3.
What about Donald Trump. Pretty sure he is scalped.
Pops Maellard
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At least for stuff like videogames or other collectibles, why not just slap a preorder on it and decide later? Amazon doesn't charge until shipping, at the risk of stating the obvious. If you thought you even kind of wanted the Pip-Boy edition, you could have just preordered and made up your mind over the next 3 months before release. If not, cancel it and lose nothing. Even if you're at work, I feel like you can probably take a two minute break to grab your phone and go through the purchase process.
Stallion Dan
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Odd seeing the reactions to this thread and the thread of the guy who marked up the price of pills.
"If people are willing to pay it!"
"If people are willing to pay it!"
Pops Maellard
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Medication =! videogames/collectibles/things that are generally being discussed ITT. One is necessary to living a normal life, and one is a luxury that no one has to have. If I can't afford to buy a version of Fallout 4 that is being scalped for far more than it's MSRP, I'm not going to die.
Stallion Dan
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I meant scalping in general, which people are commenting on.
Same with PAX. Last year there was a couple, excited that I had extra Saturday and Sunday badges. I didn't guarantee them anything, but I would be glad to sell them. They are worthless in a day. Then out of nowhere, another couple offered to pay double in the afternoon so they could hang out later.
At that point I had no obligation. Made the extra few bucks. Felt a little bad that the couple was supposedly on their way up, but losing the risk, gaining money? Well worth it.
I was able to purchase one whole drink from those booze scalpers at Whiskey Priest!
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you?
How do you figure?
A ticket to an event costs $XX. From the aftermarket, that ticket can be $X, $XX, or $XXX. It's really not that complicated.
In understand people not wanting to deal with them. The thread title kind of dictated the discussion here.
Discotheque
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i can't stand them for very limited items, just because the demand is incredibly high for them and the markup from scalpers is like 10X like for sneakers or collectible items since they know people will pay
but for everything else they're fair game imo, and that includes event tickets. i've gotten far better deals from them than shitty ticketmaster for instance.
but for everything else they're fair game imo, and that includes event tickets. i've gotten far better deals from them than shitty ticketmaster for instance.
I hate them with a passion, and I pretty much never use the word hate. But this is something I truly hate.
There was an event in my town for perhaps the most popular musical act in my country who nowadays performs only once a year. The only way of buying tickets is through their online system. There is an online queue starting 1,5 hours before the actual sale starts. People are then told that the first queue doesn't matter - you are automatically put in another queue when the sale starts in a random position. So no matter when you started queuing, as long as you were there before the sale you could end up in any position.
For this event you can buy 10 tickets per person. This musical act has a lot, and I mean a lot, of diehard fans that desperately want a ticket. Obviously people swoop in and buy tickets for their original $70 price, and then proceed to advertise them for around $350, or even more, on the concert facebook event page. The event sold out in about thirty minutes. Shit like this makes me furious. These assholes only want to profit off the fandom of kids, students and young people (he has mostly younger fans, ranging anywhere from 13 to 25) to make a quick buck. I hate everyone that does this. The only reason why I got a ticket is because we teamed up like ten people to make sure we got in, and then bought for our friends.
There was an event in my town for perhaps the most popular musical act in my country who nowadays performs only once a year. The only way of buying tickets is through their online system. There is an online queue starting 1,5 hours before the actual sale starts. People are then told that the first queue doesn't matter - you are automatically put in another queue when the sale starts in a random position. So no matter when you started queuing, as long as you were there before the sale you could end up in any position.
For this event you can buy 10 tickets per person. This musical act has a lot, and I mean a lot, of diehard fans that desperately want a ticket. Obviously people swoop in and buy tickets for their original $70 price, and then proceed to advertise them for around $350, or even more, on the concert facebook event page. The event sold out in about thirty minutes. Shit like this makes me furious. These assholes only want to profit off the fandom of kids, students and young people (he has mostly younger fans, ranging anywhere from 13 to 25) to make a quick buck. I hate everyone that does this. The only reason why I got a ticket is because we teamed up like ten people to make sure we got in, and then bought for our friends.
The irony of this post is beautiful.
The solution to scalpers is ensuring your purchase, I think it's pretty funny that lately pre-orders are looked down upon at the same time these days. lmao.
Goro Majima
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I have a kinda hard time getting upset with scalpers if we're talking about luxury goods (which we mostly are). This isn't exactly food or medicine.
In the case of tickets to events, they're also assuming an inherent risk so being rewarded for that after investing in the original face value is fine.
Scalpers for goods that can be returned for full value when they don't sell is a little more dodgy to me since that feels more like exploiting customer service and that risk is passed onto the retailer, which is shitty. Also probably the real reason retailers do the "limit 1 per household" thing.
So basically scalpers are fine as long as they assume some kind of economic risk because that's just buying low and selling high (again talking about luxury goods here, not essentials).
In the case of tickets to events, they're also assuming an inherent risk so being rewarded for that after investing in the original face value is fine.
Scalpers for goods that can be returned for full value when they don't sell is a little more dodgy to me since that feels more like exploiting customer service and that risk is passed onto the retailer, which is shitty. Also probably the real reason retailers do the "limit 1 per household" thing.
So basically scalpers are fine as long as they assume some kind of economic risk because that's just buying low and selling high (again talking about luxury goods here, not essentials).
Forsythia
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Is this mostly a US thing? Because I have never missed out on a CE or other game related thing because of scalpers. I've only encountered this shit with concert tickets.
That said, I think scalpers can fuck off, but so can people buying from them. As long as the demand is there, scalpers will exist.
That said, I think scalpers can fuck off, but so can people buying from them. As long as the demand is there, scalpers will exist.
Why does everybody assume everything is a US thing? lol
boiled goose
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Yup.as long as there's money to be made, someone will. Basic arbitrage.
Sure it's annoying, but blame suppliers, not people making a few bucks.
peteykirch
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Last year I sold one of my spare season tickets for college football, and that one ticket pretty much recouped me my entire season ticket purchase price.
But yeah people who scalp on things you can get readily available at a slightly higher premium are garbage.
But yeah people who scalp on things you can get readily available at a slightly higher premium are garbage.
Subpar Scrub
Banned
just ignore them.
Sparrowhawk
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Yes, America is the only country with companies that manufactures limited/collector editions of games that sell out immediately. /s
When people buy things they know will be rare with absolutely no intention for themselves to enjoy said item, but instead to turn around and double/triple the money they started with by selling it to someone else that really wants it.
AKA the whole practice is really gross/selfish, but people will defend anything. /shrug
Kingpin Rogers
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Can't hate them because they're just taking advantage of their situation.
dreamcastmaster
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Truth it's the impatient buyers with too much money that are the problem.
If people are so enamoured by a materialistic and unnecessary item that they're willing to pay well above the odds for it, shouldn't they be just as privy to blame? Scalpers wouldn't do what they do if such people weren't willing to throw down these stupendous amounts.
I don't really have an issue with it tbh, and have even done it myself in the past with a few items. Unless of course it's to an extreme extent, Eg one guy buys hundreds or even thousands of a particular item, essentially manipulating the market and almost having a monopoly over the extent of scalping. Otherwise like with anything, it's just simple supply and demand.
I don't really have an issue with it tbh, and have even done it myself in the past with a few items. Unless of course it's to an extreme extent, Eg one guy buys hundreds or even thousands of a particular item, essentially manipulating the market and almost having a monopoly over the extent of scalping. Otherwise like with anything, it's just simple supply and demand.
Here's an idea: how about scalpers just stop being assholes and, as Transhuman so eloquently put it, "who would take something special like that, that brings people so much joy and just exploit that to... to make a quick dollar."
I mean I understand why scalping exists and why people do it, but if I found out that someone I knew was a scalper I probably wouldn't talk to that person again.
I don't mind scalpers in theory, the secondary market is the secondary market, but they make trying to get high demand things a pain in the fucking ass. especially getting a ticket to a high demand concert. many scalpers employ a bot strategy so they're skipping the captchas and just getting right in there and then *boom* 30 seconds later the whole fucking thing is sold out and you're left to hold out for a re-release or pay secondary market prices.
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