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  1. Tek

    Tekkytyke Well-Known Member

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60709207

    IMO something is only worth what someone else is prepared to pay. If someone advertises an item twice RRP and the item is hard to come by, and someone else is prepared to pay for it what is the issue?

    EDIT: I laugh my socks off watching numpties queueing all night to try and be the first to get the latest iPhone when the Apple store opens.

    I rarely buy 'bleeding edge' Tech anyway and when it comes to video with Blu Ray releases (and now streaming where you pay to buy or view on Prime), sooner or later they are FTA or vastly reduced in price. I managed to avoid any spoilers with Infinity Wars and Endgame for months and bought Blu Rays in 3D for a fraction of their release price.
     
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    Thought this was going to be a thread about the battle of Little Big Horn
     
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    Well some people do consider 'scalpers' as Cowboys!!;)
     
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    People doing this for a living are beyond the pale if you ask me, but that is just my personal opinion. I like my job because I help people every day, I'd not get the same satisfaction ripping people off for some vastly over inflated fee.

    Technology I don't really care about, but concert tickets take the piss. The amount of times I've tried to get tickets for something only to see them at ridiculous prices on reseller sites a day later is nuts. People still pay for them though and enable this to continue sadly.
     
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    Son wanted the new Xbox X for Christmas, couldn't get them from the shop, but they were available for £200+ more on ebay, etc. We just told him we're not going there. Now we managed to get one ordered today for the RRP from Curry;s after checking and re-checking every week or so, now he's getting it for his birthday. Anyone buying to re-sell higher just to make money is a special kind of C U Next Tuesday.
     
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    The issue is that it’s only hard to come by because people buy loads of them, just to sell them on for an inflated price.
     
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    Any trueYorkshie person should wait until initial demand stalls and wait for the price drop or bundles offers ! :p
     
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    I don't know why, but your comment conjured up images in my mind where Apple Iphone sellers are stood in a circle, and they're under attack by all these technophobes on push irons!:oops:.... best get to work lol
     
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    Massively immoral IMO. These are people who have zero interest in the thing they're scalping, and know full well they're depriving people who genuinely really want that thing but now can't afford it.

    This isn't meant personally, but people who tend to hold the view that you have, just happen to be uninterested in the thing being scalped, or are scalpers themselves. If it was something you really wanted that was being scalped, I suspect you'd hold a different view.

    I do agree it's fuelled by supply/demand though, and those willing to buy from scalpers are entirely complicit in creating the situation.

    Two examples in my world are records and gig tickets. Limited edition vinyls that sell out, then go straight on eBay before they've even been released. Makes my blood boil. Same with gig tickets. The thing that broke the scalpers market on gigs was things like Twickets, where gig goers basically all got together and said 'we refuse to pay above face value and would rather miss out'...at that point, scalpers are fkd.
     
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    I agree with everything that everyone has said about it being wrong but have one question. At what point does genuine reselling where people buy things to sell at a profit become scalping? And at what point does it become immoral?
     
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    Oh look, a right winger siding with unfettered capitalism over morality and decency.
     
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    I've read the article, which seems to highlight people are doing it because they need to make ends meet.

    So. How the #### do they manage to "stockpile" in the first place.
     
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    When they are buying something and literally doing nothing to improve the product. This isn't like upcycling or doing up a house. It is immoral full stop.
     
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    Yes but at work we buy things in bulk and sell them to members of the public for a profit. In fact it's what every shop does. My point was just that at what point does it become immoral and change from legitimate to scalping? I'm not defending it at all but my weird brain can't help but ask where the line is.
     
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    You are probably buying things though that a member of the public may not know how to obtain directly, so again it is different. You are also providing a service.
     
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    Buying in bulk at your place attracts possibly a discount. And those items are likely still available to be bought in general anyway. I doubt that you hoover them up so nobody can get hold of anything.

    Whereas, such as a PS5 doesn't. You can't get hold of one at all.
     
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    It's the system/sites (not resellers) that allows it to happen in terms of tickets. All they need to do is personalise them I.e. printed name and have to provide ID and there's no problem.
     
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    WHo comes up with these terms!?
     
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    I’d say when you are doing it with something that is scarce/limited edition. Shops often place advance orders and things are specifically made to fulfil those orders. I presume (hopefully) your work’s business model isn’t just going down to the corner shop and buying everything off the shelves and then reselling them to the people who turn up and look lost by the empty shelves.
     
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    It's a popular way to make cash, as is dropshipping where you sell something you don't have but when it sells you order it from elsewhere so they send it to the buyer.
     
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