Thoughts on scalpers?

thoughts on scalpers?

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Subhuman pieces of trash

In vidya, they only exist for nintendo products, and I'm not dumb enough to buy nintendo.

here's some scalper justice porn for you guys

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Ruined retro game collecting for everyone and I'll never forgive them for it.

But hey, at least my Virtual Boys are now worth 2-3x what I paid for them 5 years ago.

>they only exist for nintendo products

hello newfag

nothing wrong with it
if you're dumb enought to buy from a scalper because you cant wait a bit for your toys to get restocked, then you're fucking retarded
dumb nintendrones

>blizzshit

trips don't lie

You couldn't pay me to play Diablo 3 again, you aint getting shit for that

Scalping new shit is retarded. If you fall for it you're worse then the scalper.

For actual old collectables, or serious limited quantity shit, there needs to be limits in place per customer.
Also ticket scalpers need to be shot on sight.

>Implying they get restocked

Like he said, it literally exists because you're impatient.

It's your fault and you are the problem.

also this. christ, fuck diablo 3.

I've never understood why people insist on trying to argue a point that is demonstrably untrue. It's either deep desperation for attention or mental illness.

Get real friends nigga we aren't a replacement for social contact.

Hey Americans, serious question. How does a piece of shit woman like that manage to have $100,000 of casual cash?

>you aint getting shit for that

lol

sorry nintendo follows supply and demand about as closely as taylor swift follows calculus, maybe you should try not buying garbage next time
either she's been doing that sort of thing for a long time or she married/divorced into it

So this is a thread about stupid faggots buying a bunch of shit they'll never unload.

I love seeing them get btfo once a product get restocked

How many have sold?

>Has a sugar-daddy who, at a corporate level, probably does the same the she does

or

>Took out a very expensive loan and a very high rate

I'm leaning towards the former since it seems like a very on-the-whim thing to do.

$800 isn't absurd for someone in the middle class.

No one other than the narrator said she intended to buy out the store.

lol

How much would you pay for a wii u?

Why do people constantly use Ebay as some metric for what something is worth? It's worth what people will pay for it, not what people can list it for. I saw a fuckton of retards who literally, genuinely, honestly believed they could sell botted Pokemon Go accounts for hundreds, even though Niantic killed the game already.

so that's about $5600 USD profit

>58 sold since 2012

niggers and beaners and trailer trash
aka scumbags

$150.

Sucks to be me. Sucks to be ninty too.

because

I wasn't talking about OP's image, I was talking about things like FE fates special edition and thing of the like
Of all the threads you could have entered, you entered this one to spew your consolewar bullshit?

I'm kind of a scalper. I buy consoles by the dozen and then import them in 3rd world countries avoiding taxes adn then sell them for a bit less than the market value. AMA

I paid 60 for mine, and I kind of wish I had spent 40
too bad its worth nothing, I could have made like a hundred bucks

Morally I think they're assholes for making profit off of taking something other people are excited for.

Legally and financially, there's nothing stopping them so why not take advantage of it? I've bought grossly marked up tickets before and they've always been worth. They got their money, I got to see the show I was dying to see, everyone's happy. Sure, its retarded when you take a step back from it, but sometimes you gotta play by other people's shit rules to get what you want.

name one other video game company that constantly understocks its products

>buying an adapter to use a deformed controller from 15 years ago to play 1 game that would be forgotten in 2 years max.

doest that shit at least works on a PC considering it has USB ports?

damn that dude is so fucking cool

Bought 3 copies of FE Fates Special Edition and holding on to them for now. I'll probably keep one for myself and sell the other 2. They for about 150-200 now on eBay.

>remember how shitty the first iphone was
>nowadays phones are fucking miniature PCs in your pocket

Makes you think what the next decade holds

>maybe you should try not buying garbage next time

yes actually
well probably, I only had a mayflash not a genuine
but yeah it worked on pc

can't take the bantz huh?

Scalpers only get as rich as people are retarded and willing to buy at exorbitant prices.

In a sane world they would hardly exist.

Can you really make a decent profit off selling shit like this?
Even this I would image you could only feasibly sell at maybe 100~150 profit.

Scalped for years until I got sick and tired of it. Made thousands of dollars. Today it's harder because the normies do it thanks to slickdeals.

Used to be so easy, I made at least a thousand a month just by going to a store and buying discounted shit and selling it on fleabay. They're so much smarter now though, stores have all cracked down on it so it's not even viable anymore.

I remember one month I made like $10k by buying up all the shitty laptops at my nearby Best Buys and Staples. I knew I could only get two laptops at a time so I just timed the shifts just right and ended up getting several hundred in a matter of weeks. They FINALLY figured it out after two years of doing this and just stopped selling me any laptops.

I stopped doing it because I hate talking to retarded managers at retail stores. They absolutely hated me and were jealous that I was making more than them. Luckily most of them never lasted and were gone after 6 months, they all hate their job. Longest I've seen one was maybe 4 years, but they all eventually leave because Best Buy is a shit place to work at.

No, I'm saying you should probably do something better with your time and not shitposting, and then you say 'nam sumfin betur thn ur company'

That isn't fucking bantz

>2 years max

We're already half way into the 2nd year and Smash 4 has 1.2k entrants at Smash Con. GC adapter is a great adaptation if you're into the tourney scene.

>that one lady who bought a SUV full of Wii Us

o i am laffin

Scalping works because there will always be those specific autist that must buy that product. For example: a tranny on twitch is selling a book by a popular fighting gamer for $1000. The book was originally for $15. When you have mental illness you know your area well enough that another person with mental illness will buy said product overpriced.

If you actually go back and look at the initial reception to the iPhone it was overwhelmingly negative.
Fucking everyone hated it

So glad I was smart enough not to scalp those. Knew it was a flop the day it was announced.

How did stores crack down on it? Limit 1 per customer and shit?

Also forgot to say, if you use Dolphin a lot than that's another use for the GC adapter due to direct connect.

Also note that mental illness sold more than 3 for that price already at EVO. Mental illness knows autism very well.

It's better used on Nintendont and that one hack that lets you use it on other Wii U games as a Pro Controller (I think). But yes, it does work on PC.

calm down nintendrone, what I actually asked for was something worse than nintendo at gauging markets (which you seem to be calling "your" company which is how I know you're a faggot drone), which was relevant to the OP image, one of the strongest examples, and a shitty peripheral at that, and you're the one that imagined some sort of console war nonsense
go back to the nintendork defense force forum you came from

> Gets $800
> Just moves down to second in the line in a one persone, one purchase store
Fair play to the man, probably paid for his iPhone and goodies with that money. He probably could have got a grand out of her though.

Was it the Daigo book? They only made like 200 and retards just want to buy it because it was made by Daigo. Not even that good of a read.

Wii U right now. Nope. Not in demand.

Apple set us back about a decade. Smartphones back then were trying really hard to be like full blown computers. Then the iPod phone comes along and just adds a pinch to zoom touchscreen to a dumbphone and the rest is history. I legitimately believe had Apple never stolen pinch to zoom, they would've never succeeded at all. That was the one feature that sold their stupid fucking dumb phone and what's insane is that they sued everyone else who added that hardly useful feature. .

Those aren't the same listing.

That's pretty jewish, mate. Did you buy all three copies at once?

mental illness market eh?
quick, what's a furshit product that they don't make any more besides miniature dolphin cocks

She said outright, as soon as she appeared, that she had $100,000 and planned to buy as many as she could and resell them. Be more attentive.

i have to deal with these assholes in the retro vidya market on the weekends.

i HATE seeing some 300lb guy beat me to a huge tub of games for $20 and pull out some crazy expensive shit and make near $1k on ebay.

>Sup Forums looks down at scalping
>happily steals autism bucks from the government

furshit's almost exclusively made by amateurs, isn't it?
you'd have to dive in and find out which materials absolutely can't be replaced.

First you assume I was a drone for calling you out on your shitposting (which in fact wasn't?), I wasn't defending nintendo's terrible management of what needs to be ordered, in fact it's the reason I dropped them entirely

I assume thing from you, and you assume things from me? Got it

it makes perfect sense. autismbux don't make you rich in any sense, so things autists like becoming more expensive is evil.

>still nothing that lets you play your 3ds games on your Wii U
I just want to play Monster Hunter on a fucking television.

you can stop replying to yourself now

Yes it's not that good of a read, however you cannot contain people's autism. You know that there are other people with autism/mental illness, so why not take advantage of it. Especially if it makes you over $3000.

That guy was smug as fuck

jesus christ this
the super gameboy and gba player were the best, why can't we have one now that the graphics are actually kinda okay and my tv is 100 times better

Not really, depends on the store. They just got smarter with their prices.

For example, it was common to find a clearance laptops brand new at Best Buy for literally 50% off. Some stores sometimes had over 10 of them still in stock. Today that's just impossible, probably because the local manager doesn't set the prices anymore. They probably have someone dedicated at the corporate office that sets the prices nationwide after they got butthurt over resellers.

As for open box items, I also believe that's being set by someone at their headquarters who has a better understanding about prices.

Only place now is probably Staples, but again, too many scalpers now thanks to slickdeals it's not even worth it. Just last year I was able to get a display dell Venue pro tablet for like $30.

>tfw not a faggot so I don't care about special editions and shit like that

I ordered at several places mostly to just secure a copy for myself, never expected to actually get all of them.

>playing 3DS games without that disgusting sub PSP resolution

Man. 3DS emulation can't come soon enough.

I fucking wish I could apply for welfare. I'm just stuck with a shitty minimum wage job.

what about stuff like the Silent Hill PT

There's also a trend where most things online are actually cheaper than in-store
The only time I actually go to stores now is for food and to buy big unweildy stuff like posters frames

>welfare
>in america
good joke

That's incredible. I wish you'd do something like an AMA on leddit[/spoiler because i could read about that shit.

Free market, faggots.

It's because it was basically an ipod without the same amount of space on it, that you could also use to call people.

Eh. It's just a game, well, demo.

I have like 100+ games in my backlog. A little teaser of a walking sim doesn't really make me knees buckle.

Besides, what does this have to do with scalpers and buying special editions? I thought it was released for anyone who had PS+?

the problem with that is, you still can use it, but you have to do a bit of tricky and the first step involves you haven't to have at least played it once.

that isn't something you can take advantage of and make money off of.

consoles with it installed have gone for pretty ridiculous prices, I guess they took it back down after not very long or something

People are really retarded then.

This autistic practice is more relevant with Nintendo products. This...really...makes...you
...think...

What am I reading here?

>flappy bird craze
>game gets taken down off the store
>I still have it installed on my ipod (which I jailbroke and never really used again)
>some dumbasses are buying stuff with it on it for like $1000+
>when I go to sell it I find out the app was put back up

its also tied to your account
if your account isn't on the system or deleted, you can't even access the game on another account on the system

its all BS, thanks PS+ hack of 2011, now i can't share my shit with friends for free like i used to.
Ps4s method is really stupid and annoying, you can only share with one other console too besides your main one.

>tfw recently sold my ps4 for 300
>later found out PT was worth something
>cleared it off my ps4 with other games

I work in the toy business.

Everybody hates scalpers except other scalpers and the people who cut deals with scalpers to slide them product before it hits shelves, which happens all the time, especially with shit like SDCC exclusives.

They make everything harder for people. Some scalper heavy regions no longer have a functional market outside of the secondary because there's just too many scalpers.

They love showing off and pretending that people giving them shit is just haters gonna hate crap, but they honestly ruin shit for people so fuck em.

>In vidya, they only exist for nintendo products,
Nah, they also took over the retro vidya market and occasionally get away with scalping limitted edition games that come with physical stuff

Glad they got fucked over on the GC adapter/amiibo front though

>women being cash-leeching whores is an america-only thing
yeah ok, keep telling yourself that

Yeah, I'm super glad I rebuilt most of my retro game collection in 2009/10

By 2012 a lot of what I bought was already at least 30% to 100% more expensive.

scalpers are fucking scum
meaningless middlemen that provide nothing of worth, and often times are too fucking lazy to even send whatever they marked up on time

Don't think he was doing anything special, there are plenty of shit skins that make money scalping tickets for concerts / sporting events all the time. This shit was common before the internet was even around.

I fucking hate this type of narrator. Why does he have to sound like that? Jesus fuck.