Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia

• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You obviously never heard of taking advantage of such a situation. multiple $100 more is more than the import costs. Can’t believe how you are sympathizing with the scam prizes.

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No one forces you to buy from them, they are providing a service of convenience. If you think their prices are a “scam” you can take the time, effort and money to import one yourself

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    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah exactly, don’t want to pay that price? Sort it yourself. Everyone that complained about the price of shit needs to understand this.

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    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This has nothing to do with forcing to buy. Scam prices are prices, because they take advantage of a situation in need and inflate them for more profit. And defending any scammer makes you part of the problem. I grew up with imports of videogames since the 90s and know this kind of problem well.

      My reply was about your nonsense sympathizing reply:

      those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss

      Which you fabricated it for god knows what reasons. It is not about selling it at a loss, dumbass. Man people are sometimes stupid.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A hundred more on a thousand dollar device sounds exactly like the 10% duty we pay on things we import

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