Scalper company secured almost 3,500 PS5 consoles for resale

Re:Scalper company secured almost 3,500 PS5 consoles for resale by lulzury on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:16PM (#25223919)

There's so many ways to mitigate scalpers, but do you think companies like Sony have any incentive to implement any of these if they're still selling out of units? What do they gain?

If anything, Sony will see that given the demand, they could probably sell the consoles at a higher price in the future.

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Re:Scalper company secured almost 3,500 PS5 consoles for resale by musicale on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:47PM (#25225399)

> What do they gain?

Possibly the following:

- Happier customers

- Additional positive news coverage and better PR

- Customers buying more games (and sending more money to Sony) instead of putting money in scalpers' pockets (in addition to the commission fees pocketed by eBay etc.)

- New players who can't afford the scalpers' excessive markup but might become long-term PlayStation customers if they could just find a console at MSRP

I almost wish Sony had offered PS+ subscribers the chance to preorder a console that would be factory locked to their PSN ID for a year or something, sort of like a phone upgrade.

Fortunately Sony seems to have a better availability track record than (cough) Nintendo, so I expect that the supply will improve fairly quickly. Also since many transition games work on PS4 as well as PS5, there's not a huge downside to waiting.

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Re:Scalper company secured almost 3,500 PS5 consoles for resale by cercatrova on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:18PM (#25225511)

Scalpers won't buy more games on average than actual players, and console manufacturers make money on games and online sales, not the console itself, it being a loss leader in many instances in video game history.

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