Comment on Steam Machine Reservation eBay Listings Double Retail Price as Scalpers Take Hold of Valve's New Console

JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably because there are not a firm law on scalping, on top of being international site which makes applying laws even more difficult.

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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yea… but also, they’re a private business, they don’t have to accept it. It’s called having integrity.

    It’s pretty slimey to be like “welp, it’s immoral, but not illegal, so we’ll profit off of it”.

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a business and an American one at that. Of course they’re going to put profit over morality.

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    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And stop it how exactly?

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      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Company policy to delist scalped products. It’s quite simple. It’s not like these listings are hard to find.

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    • FlordaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a corporation. They only care about money. Integrity is only important to them if it leads to more money.

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• then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because it’s not illegal, just immoral.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If fleaBay stopped them, they’d just do it somewhere else and then they would lose profits and solve nothing. It’s really not their responsibility.

  When Ford and Tesla tried to stop stuff like this they were lambasted for infringing on customer freedoms.

  https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-sues-john-cena-for-flipping-his-gt-supercar-and-making-a-profit/

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• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is mostly what it’s designed for, peak capitalism. If it weren’t for the scam concerns presented by the fact that this is a spot in line and not actually a real product sale, eBay would want to have more of this.

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