Console Scalping is RIDICULOUS on eBay! 

Imo, for anyone who is thinking of buying a ps5 for $2k. I would recommend buying/building a $1.5k pc mess around with it until prices return to earth and then buy it for msrp with the $500 that’s left.

You are so right and it is so sad that these people get away with it. Genuine people like myself who were trying to get a 3070 and then had to see all those idiots on EBay selling for silly money. People need to stop paying the scalpers, also the selling companies need to be more robust and restrict orders to one per person initially to allow more individuals to purchase. Well said Greg love your content

Funny thing is most of those dummies buying the new consoles from scalpers for 3x the price are probably the very same people who always make a point that consoles are better because they're cheaper.

Time to use bots again and bid them to 50000$ and never pay :)

My favorite thing is to offer scalpers MSRP. "Oh, listing $1,999? How's $499 instead?"

For those PS5 prices, you could build a kick-ass PC.

The scalping is insane but for anyone buying a PS5 at these prices: You can never say PC gaming is too expensive again. The PS5 offers a pretty good value to the consumer just looking to play games, at MSRP, not at these prices.

I'm pissed off Amazon is letting scalpers on the site.

Maybe people should stop buying them on ebay for 3 times rhe price and eventually theh woild have to drop the price if they atleast scalped em and charged mahne 100 200 tops over msrp but 3 times come on

One thing I hate about scalpers is that some probably got one over someone like a parent trying to get their kids a nice Christmas gift or someone who wants one to occupy themselves over brute forcing their depression or something. I personally do NOT like consoles, but I can still feel the frustration.

New reusable title for future videos: eBay is cray-cray

I cant find ps5 anywhere need 2 one for my nephew and one for my son I tried Walmart launch day all four times same thing in the cart and error after error 5 mins later work but sold out and they're all over ebay some people have pictures with 13 ps5 they have for 1499 a piece bullshit ruin kkds Christmas

Im tempted to say electronics like this should be in person only. Go online to get your reservation, then pick it up in person. One per customer. It would almost totally eliminate scalping.

It's not the scalping that's ridiculous! It's people buying the product second hand who's ridiculous.

UGH I HATE bots and scalpers they just make things worse as it is with the pandemic!!

Scalpers are like used car salesmen, and those malware programs that pretend to fix your old pc for $500

With those prices it would be nice to see how many get relisted due to cancelled bids. I imagine a few of them are no shows when it comes to paying for them.

3 times I had PS5 in my Cart at Walmart and when I went to pay for it Site said product was out of stock..

Personally not into consoles myself but with the ongoing graphics card/cpu debacle it’s just even more egregious how bad this has gotten and the people that defend this. Something has to give here

Managed to secure a RX6800 and not even 10 minutes later I saw it was selling for double its price on ebay! Rest assured I'm not scalping my card. I'm upgrading from my old gtx 1060

I'll wait six months to a year before buying an XBOX Series X for my son unless I can get one at MSRP before then. I'm in no hurry to get one.

I still remember when I was in high school the year of the PS4 release, how different things were. I worked my summer job til I had enough, and I walked into an EB Games (GameStop but Canadian), and pre-ordered one. It was not announcement day, and I certainly didn't have to stalk online stock numbers to catch an opportunity. You just could order one if you wanted to. Apparently that's now a novel concept. This year I had tabs for every retailer on the 3080 launch, and spent hours getting nothing. I just got one (a more expensive AIB card than I wanted), weeks later, out of pure luck. I had to wait 3.5 hours for a Ryzen 5000 cpu, and I didn't get the one I wanted, I still had to backorder. It's absolutely nuts.

At first I thought some people have too much money on their hands to keep feeding the scalpers. Now I think they are just dumb.

gamedevs have a Devkits sent by sony.... so no reason to buy 2k$ to access a console.

Scalpers: People who failed in life as businessman and think that buying something at launch and selling it at a higher prices makes them "hustlers". Anyone can click on the button that says "Buy", receive the item, and then click "Sell" on Ebay. It does not take 200IQ.

YSK that sony required all retailers to sell online only, pick up in store because of COVID. It wasn't necessarily Walmart's decision, although walmart's lack of bot protection is their fault.

Getting 3 or 4 pre-orders is completely possible by a normal human. Now, it may be different with the Series X, but I was successful for four of them. Walmart then Microsoft then two from different Best Buys. I was trying to get them for two other people who were also attempting to pre-order. Ended up keeping only two of my pre-orders (Microsoft and Best Buy in store) as my other buddies ended up being successful and then sold my extra for retail to another buddy I hadn't seen in 17 years, lol. So there are decent people out there, just trying to be helpful to their friends but still needing to get their hands on a few. Legitimately, without bots.

I wont be thinking about a new GPU until mid next year. For msrp. Have patience people! Why are people so desperate

Why doesn’t eBay stop or remove these. Thought Sony said they going stop this. I can understand beta or early dev kits unit, but not this. I love both pc and consoles. Grew up on Atari 2600. But ya this crazy. Sony should do something and make you Have Sony account to buy and make sure you can only buy 1-2 max. Ya with RTX and coming AMD 6xxx, But nope, no body learned from this?

when all the 3080s launched and got bought up i just came to the conclusion afterwards that i will forever be a gen behind now because i refuse to pay 1200 for a 700 card.

I'm reading alot of comments suggesting that Sony does not or should not care about this boting/scalping issue because in theory the console is being bought either way. The truth is this practice of using bots to by up launch inventory and then selling the console at inflated prices on the secondary market does hurts Sony pocket. If most consoles are being bought up by a reselling secondary market, this in turns means those console purchase will not have near future accessory, games, subscriptions etc sales. Chances are those consoles will be sitting for a very long time in someone's home and not generating any other revenue streams I listed above. This problem certainly should be addressed by Sony to ensure the hardware is getting into the hands of people that will also be promptly buying the other proxy products that come along with console purchases

In canada all PS5 and Xbox series sales were online only. I think it was the same in the US. I managed to get one but it was pure luck

Ebay could get some really good PR by canceling all these orders. Literally taking away the scalpers funding source. But no. They would loose too much money

at as of 4:45pm the day before the Rx 6800/ XT launch theres already a huge line in front of my local microcenter. There's a stock tracking discord and everyone is talking about how they're there to scalp the cards.

I assume there're plenty of brainwashed masses out there with the attitude "must have it now at any cost..." enabling these scalpers. Hopefully they have the cash to back it up, not getting these on credit etc and getting themselves in debt. Not that hard for retailers to stop this if they want to, but in a rampant capitalistic system, why should they? Their incentive is to sell as many units as possible, not to bother about whom or fairly so that everyone can have one.

I hate how retailers wont just take money and put your name in a queue. I don't care when it ships, could be next year for all I care - just send when my order comes up. It could help deal with scalpers if we can just give money to the right people.

Thing that surprises me the most, is that this stuff even happens at my place in germany, whereas I'm pretty sure that's absolutely illegal. But also the prices aren't that ridiculous here, you can win Bids on one for like 100$ over MSRP or buy one Now on EBay for 200$ over.

Can there not be made a law or something that could make this illegal. I see so many posts on reddit about new unused graphics cards for sale with the description "i realized i didn't need this much GPU power" LIKE WHAT!!!! who just buys something, don't use it, and then sells it because they don't need it, or rather have no use for that kinda power anyway.....

Ps5 aren't selling locally at half that price ($1999), in CAD. They are available locally for $800 CAD. BTW people were selling confirmations of consoles too.

I think Ps5 was online only everywhere. There was in store pickup for online orders. But there were no consoles actually on shelves just to avoid the people rush.

Just watched The Quartering reporting on people saying the new consoles are already bricking. Why do people buy into the hype on anything new? It is like going out and buying a first model year car imho. And then to pay way beyond MSRP because you just "have to have one". Ridiculous.

I had one in my cart on Amazon, went to check out and it sold out....almost cried lmao

Companies like Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon don't care about who buys from them or however many they buy. They just care about making their money back, ROI. We can send negative feedback to these companies all we want over availability issues, shopping for these types of products but it's not going to solve anything. Bottom line, it's their company they choose how to make profits. The best thing you can do Greg is keep trying to educate people on not buying over-priced new products from scalpers, Ebay etc...Research before you buy people! Good stuff man, always is.

Scalping is only possible when people buy. Take some personal responsibility and don't buy from them, simple.

all stores were not allowed to do in person stores. you can do online pickup

I have some friends who do this its pretty insane how complicated these things get but interesting too.

Retail profit margin on the console is only 5-10% at best. They make their money on the accessories/ other products/ services... Which bots aren't going to buy, so it's in their best interest to block them. Some retails set up a separate site for queueing to prevent main site crashing... Maybe on the queuing site, they could find ways to eliminate bots.

There is a fundamental problem with all the individuals on Ebay advertising the new Playstation 5 and Xbox S/X consoles as "new" or "brand new," when in fact they are no longer new since those who bought these systems (or any other retail item for that matter) and took them home are now selling used goods. Those people selling said consoles on Ebay, or any other site, are now the owners of those consoles, thus making anything you purchase from them a second-hand purchase. In other words, they are all selling USED , second-hand consoles. The extent to which these consoles were enjoyed does not matter. Granted, there is high demand for these systems this season and some are willing to pay, it still doesn't warrant the exorbitant prices these re-sellers are asking. They are not manufacturers, distributors, or retailers by definition therefore cannot ethically, morally, or possibly even legally (depending on state/province) label these consoles sitting in their living rooms, basements, garages, etc. as "new." Lack of time of used does not matter. Said sellers took delivery of the consoles, thus making them the primary owners. If you buy a Playstation 5 or Xbox X/S from one of the re-sellers featured in this video, or the many others like it, know you are buying a used console. Just a friendly PSA.

Why are stocks for Hardware and electronics so low? This has been the case for about 2 years right now...

If the retailers and manufactures would only allow 1 upc number sale per shipping address in a 1 month time frame, it would help stop some of this scalping.

For consoles it feels like it started with the wii when that came out, I recall even reputable retailers were cancelling orders and then relisting the console for sale at 2-3x the previous price.

What’s funny is, they complain about how expensive pc’s are yet they buying consoles from scalpers for the price of the same pc they claim is too expensive, logic just went straight out the window.

Why do eBay allow these listings ? Why can't they moderate them ? People,Please, don't waste your money 💰. Stock will always come and go.

When it says best offer...I offer 499

if this wasn't during a pandemic, I would have done in-store pick-up preorder if I was CEO of a company. You either do a walk-in or on-line preorder and then come to the store to pickup ONE per person for the first few shipments of sales. I'm not a business person but I hope this would limit scalpers. I would love to hear stories about how scalpers give their preorder tickets to other people but then found out most of those people took those systems for themselves.

To be clear, true bots only work on web stores where they have less than the bare minimum of protection. A lot of web stores require captcha, and only have single item purchasing. for many web stores with the graphics cards, bots are still useable, but the most they can do is to automatically add the item to your cart. a real user still has to go in and pay and check out manually. I don't know about walmart for consoles, but amazon is the only graphics card retailer I have heard of that still has api ordering, where a script can literally push a request, and can buy the full stock of an item. the rest of them are one item at a time and are protected by captcha or something like that. i don't think many of the people pulling this stuff out there have a bot sophisticated enough to run multiple fake accounts at the same time to purchase a tone of cards one at at time. it really is just normal users getting one at a time, but the only people who even get one are users with scripts because stock is so low

i think you should look at the sold prices filter instead of a price that no one had bought at for a realistic comparison

Just buy with a credit card, get the item, open an eBay case, item not received, or some other multiple-choice option, and request a full refund. FYI, you can do this with every radius option one after the other even if your case is denied until your case is filed in your favor and you get a full return. There is no limit to requesting a refund on ebay. So keep at it. Get the item for free and let the scalper feel this hit.

Walmart should have made it so you could only order online, but then have them be limited to store pickup/delivery from the store.

Why don't these retailers make it harder to buy these in demand products? How hard can it be to require a verified account or something before you can purchase?

Buy the ps5, return an empty box, claim shipping/lying.

A dude here in denver colorado had 16 x boxs and 16 ps5s his listing photos showed every single console he was selling Them for 1200 obo. Its messed up luckily me and others spammed his post and it was removed

IMO the only way to stop this is either 1. People stop buying these from scalpers OR 2. The initial supply needs to be well above demand. Both of which will probably never happen. 2020 has been the worst year ever

People that pay double and triple the price are also ridiculous. It's frustrating for people like me who have kids that won't get a console at Christmas because of this business practice.

In 2005 I wanted an Xbox 360. They were almost sold out by the next evening in my area (Tri State). I went to Sears and promptly bought the last one they had. I was beyond lucky. My Ex knew I wanted one. Imagine my surprise when I find the entire kiosk in the back of my Exes' car! She talked the salesmen in the electronics department in Toys R Us to sell her the entire Kiosk! So now I had 2 Xbox 360s. I put an add in Craigslist and in about 10 minutes got flooded with calls each offering more than the last if I held it for them. Some for hours, some for days. The last call I took got it. He offered $1000 and lived about 5 minutes from me. Even kept me on the phone while he drove over "just in case". Sometimes it's not scalpers. People wanting these items are driving less scrupulous people to act on them, sadly, and this is a fact of life. Draconian as it is. I myself got whipped into a frenzy in 2005 as I answered call after call and each call wanted to give me more than the last. It was outrageous. Oh and get this...the kiosk had a PC power supply running it all so he bought it WITHOUT the power brick. Those were in stock strangely enough.

We should teach scalpers a lesson. The strategy is very simple. 1. Set a price that you want to pay for the product in question (ps5) for example $500 or $400. Me I bought ps4 for $300 last year, so for me does not make sense to pay more than $300 for a ps4 replacement. 2. Then, be emotionally intelligent and stick to your rule. Don't give up. Stick to your price. 3. Also buy from the original source as much as possible. Don't buy from ebay or no-name sellers on Amazon. Buy it from Sony. If the seller is not Sony, the price should reflect it as a discount because the increased risk of getting a fake product. If the seller does not give you a discount for not being Sony, don't buy it !!! Also companies should prepare for scalpers and produce more products. Hold to your rules. Eventually the scalpers will give up. If everybody is emotionally intelligent and the scalpers bought more units than the market demands (and by market I mean that segment of market who don't buy directly from Sony using the bit name companies like Amazon, Target or Walmart, etc ...) , they will give up. And when they do there will be a blood-bath, you will find ps5 for $100. I mean why would you pay more when you buy from a shady seller ? It is this combination of having ps5 for Christmas that the scalpers take advantage of. If the scalpers decided to ruin your Christmas and not let you have ps5 for $500 on Christmas, they should pay a price. Make them pay !!!

In the uk it’s called the recommend retail price which means even bloody Asda could sell them for £1.000 a reckon because of demand £750 is a fair price for one

Not just on Ebay. Amazon is guilty of it too.

As a software engineer... this pissed me off. These are multi billion dollar companies who can’t be bothered to hire a couple of engineers to implement a easy bot prevention measure... It took me 1 HOUR to implement that for The Google Store. IT DOES NOT TAKE THAT LONG. But... ig they can’t be bothered. Bot prevention against publicly available bot software is incredibly easy, it’s a joke.

What a crazy time we live in...

You know I don't blame the scalpers or even the people who buy from them.... I blame the corporations like Sony, Walmart, Ebay and Target who not only try to prevent this but seem TOTALLY FINE with this happening. They still get money so what do they care?

Here we go again

if this keeps happening, i would not be surprised to see people start DDoSing the various shop sites into oblivion on every product launch going forward to stop the Bots from grabbing everything.

Why can't Ebay just be punished for allowing this crap?

I'm not a huge fan of Walmart, but I don't think most of the bot users purchased their cards their. Walmarts "online only" sales were actually a pretty good idea, they still sold out in seconds, but you had to purchase your console through the website from a physical local store and then go pick it up. I actually got an Xbox series X from them by being ready the moment they went on sale, having my zipcode and local store already selected. Then when I came to pick up my console, they required me to present a photo ID to pick it up. I WISH the graphics card retailers handled things at least that good.. :(

There has got to be some kind of a new law that protects consumers from these scalpers. Ebay should also be doing something about it.

It's a free market, and as long as people are willing to pay 3 times the MSRP, this will keep happening. Take the profit motive away, and scalpers will go away, it's really that simple. I will do what I always do, I never buy day one, or even day 30, I'll wait for 3 to 6 months and buy it off the shelf at MRSP or lower.

0:59 yea that's the retail price in my country, great isn't it? it's not even scalper, it's distributor

I like waiting on buying new consoles since they are producing them so fast to meet new demand I just don't trust them being made very well. I wait a bit until stores can keep them in stock and production may be tweaked after learning some issues from launch + software patches are released as well for launch issues on the OS side.

My cousin caved and bought one for $800 from Facebook marketplace, lol

Thank god I got my console at msrp still has a week to go before it arrives but I can’t wait

Well some karma up here in Canada people who are scalping and trying to sell online then meet up to deliver these are being violently robbed *Shocked*

It’s so much easier to get scammed as a seller on ebay lol these scalpers have balls

Between $1500 and $2500 on ebay in Australia.

there needs to be a law where u can't overprice a console and should only be allowed to sell it at either its original price or below it if used

Manufacturers need to really stock up before they launch products from now on. Or delay the launch until they have sufficient stock. It would be absolutely awesome if they did, and when the scalpers come in and bought thousands of them, there'd still be plenty left afterwards.It'd be win-win for the manufacturers and the customers. I'd love to see scalpers stuck with hundreds of PS5s or GPUs, and having to sell them for MSRP, or less, to get their money back.

It is very frustrating having the money for one yet I can't buy one. But I'm not about to give these scum bags any money especially when once stock hits, the consoles go back to msrp. Ill keep my money and buy something else thank you very much.

You know what I think? These game companies hold back inventory on purpose so their employees can scalp online to transfer that money back to a corporate account. Just seems so funny how this happens, like these companies don't know how popular their consoles are going to be *cough* Nintendo *cough*

Symbiosis has to happen between 'scalper and scalped. Never need to rush for a fad.

Thanks to many factors (supply chain issues, consumerism, scalpers), I've just come to accept that this is how things are now.

Would online queues be a reasonable way of having online purchases being fair? Have each person do a few human proof tasks maybe. Yes it would take much longer, but it would essentially stamp out scalpers.

A friend of mine in a discord bragged about how he got like 10 consoles, and his friend got even more. He is 17 and already scalping stuff. And he claimed it wasn’t scalping because there is “plenty of stock”.

Honestly as much as I hate the scalpers, the market is the problem. Scalpers can buy a pallet of consoles for $25k and sell them IMMEDIATELY for double after fees and shipping. As long as companies manage to build hype for a product launch without building adequate supply, and retailers put in absolutely no effort to curb bots, and consumers have no self-control, this will be our reality. Manufacturers, retailers, and scalpers all get paid by screwing over the people giving them money, and we let it happen. Hell we MAKE it happen.

Well console gamers pay 150 to 250 for COD every year for it to end up on a gamestop shelf within 2 months so I'm not surprised they will pay 2000 for a PS5. The only good thing is that these folks that have all these consoles and PC tech will be trying to give them away once stock is plentiful so check ebay in 6 months or so for great deals below MSRP.

How to stop scalpers :D ask then for retail price;) Or Don’t buy the scalloped price

I feel the same way about people who bought the 2080ti and 3090 from nVidia...

I really hope they sell them in store soon ;-; and that scalpers won’t get to them again. It’s been out of stock for so long now.

imho buying a product for the sole purpose of immediately reselling it above MSRP is as obvious as a scam gets and it should be illegal. I hope ebay users are reporting them to the police because I highly doubt any one of those scalpers buying dozens to hundreds of consoles is a licensed trader who can just open a console/gpu shop. Even if scalping isn't illegal tax evasion definitely is.

in my region you can buy easy 30 series because it is overpriced at retailers

Ironic you show a 3080 selling for $1300 and the local retail stores here are selling 3080s for just $200 less.