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SOURCE 1: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/scalper-bot-firm-claims-it-secured-2000-ps5-orders-from-game-uk-today/
SOURCE 2: https://twitter.com/Carnagebot/status/1351491387670331393
SOURCE 3: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKOmykcnHMa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
SOURCE 4: https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5-scalpers-used-a-loophole-to-buy-stock-before-it-was-live-in-the-uk
SOURCE 5: https://twitter.com/ExpressNotify/status/1353690258840416258
SOURCE 6: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/argos-ps5-restock-loophole-allowed-scalpers-to-buy-consoles-early/
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Console makers and retailers need to step their game up with purchase security, this is getting ridiculous.
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The one time you need AutoCaptua and that piece of sh** let us down.
In the UK there are barely any PS5 stock drops and when there are you need a miracle from god to get one before the bots get them
Jesus Christ man. Just go back to in person fucking sales ONLY now.
STOP YOUR COMPLAINT. As long as there are buyers, there will be a market, – so, stop buying! Very simple.
I honestly forgot next gen consoles were released :/
Scalping should be illegal. If they do this with consoles, who says they can't do it with medical products?
You’d think the ps5 was made of diamonds. It’s just a stupid console 😩
This is so stupid maan…
"Fail"
they don't fail.
most of them DO NOT CARE.
they care about their bottom line.
and scalpers don't hurt the bottom line. since they get money from them. and in bulk.
so they literally got ZERO incentive to go against them. only the Founder of X product and the actual consumer suffer here. the shops in the middle do not.
its easy to just put a capta. or even make it so you need to get an email and accept it then write the code in it to buy a PS to slow down the bots.
they don't do that either.
Capitalism! Yay!
Why not fight Fire with Fire. Let the Public use these bots to buy there PS5's! If they can do it why not the average consumer if they really want a PS5. I don't mind, ill wait 🙂
Don't buy them. These guys are driven by profit, the second they realise they can't sell for a profit (and have been lumbered with a big amount of stock and are out of pocket), they will stop doing this shit.
Besides, the real issue here isn't scalping. It's a massive inability to meet demand by the manufacturers. That is what is creating this environment. Even if there were no scalpers, there aren't enough consoles for everyone that wants one.
Not bothering with PS5 now. I’ll just get the gaming PC next month I’ve been wanting but put off because console was “easier”.
If you want to compete you'll have to use the bot yourself so that you can finally get a ps5
Have next stock instore only
scalpers are not problem, sony is the problem. also most of the scalpers will loose money on this. already more thand third of all sold ps5 is inactive (waiting to be resold) and sony is going to flood the stores with at least 10 million machines in a month or two…
I have to agree with a lot of the commentors we need to return to a Buy it in person model for these premuim items and only once the quees start to die down for these items then they should put them online.
If the pandemic wasn't still ongoing the solution would be to just make stock be only able to be sold physically in store, limit to one per person, ones ordered online have to be physically collected from the store (so if one dude shows up because he bought 30 PS5's on 30 accounts they could check).
Scalpers are getting away with this just now because many physical stores are still closed or have restrictions so buying online is "easier".
Well. Shit.
Guess it’ll take a while for me to get my hands on a ps5 for the original price, I won’t break though. I won’t throw money at these scalpers, never will.
All this waiting keeps me saving money. By the time I get the chance to buy a PS5, I'll probably have enough money to buy/build a decent PC 🤔
On February 12th it will be three months since launch and I don't know a single person who has gotten their hands on one.
If XBOX and Playstation blitzed the market with loads of stock it could put the scalpers at a loss and be stuck selling consoles at stock price.
Look at payment method and address to check orders
I have a solution…."In store purchase only"….."1 per customer"….Would at least slow it down.
Let's say you manage to get your hands on a PS5 – what games do people play on those consoles? And what makes me even more curious: there are people who buy a console at such prices?
Retailers should ask for an ID card or passport scan for each order to prove the identity… Let's be honest, they just don't care, as long as the consoles are sold.
How to confirm that a purchase is legit?
Look at the receiving address. If even one account has the same address as another then they could count that as a bot
Call them latest gen FFS
Wow crepchiefnotify, not only do have one of the most douchebag names you have ruined children’s Christmases, absolute losers.
Retailers must be loving this, they get to sell out everything ez pz no problem. So much money for them too.
This will only affect SONY and all the game developers releasing games on that console because nobody will own a PS5 to even buy/play the games on it!
I'm a pessimistic realist by nature, so odds are it was an inside job, and/or that the whole "we have measures in place to prevent bots" is just PR fluff to avoid backlash and people are clever enough to get past past them with bots. Ultimately, legislation needs to change to prevent or at least somewhat regulate sales and distribution. It may be a free market and scalping is technically morally gray (in some circumstances), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't or can't make it illegal on the basis that it's shitty thing to do as a society. Not to mention how it's a wide spread issue that's tangibly screwing with the economy. The scalpers themselves should be held accountable for it, assuming laws change to reflect that.
The "s" in ps5 stands for scalping
As long as consumers will pay extra to a scalper the problem will persist. Be patient and they will die out.
Ppl just need to not buy them. If u wait till we can get physical purchases these guys would lose tons of money
The answer to this is simple but long term.
1. Stop buying from scalpers. Exercise patience and tack the delay onto the release date in your expectations.
2. Have ebay and other resell sites block reselling new products for the first month. Make the scalpers sit on stock. A month plus is important because many are buying all this stock on credit. Make them pay the interest on these debts. The longer the better.
3. Educate the websites. Gamers dont buy games and peripherals for consoles sat in storage. Game and amazon and everyone else are losing subsequent business. This is incentive to improve their algorithms.
4. Get into the website arms race. Include the scalper bots as part of e commerce anti fraud measures and have security firms test and rate your platform against latest scalper bot nets. Encourage consumers to buy from places where they prevent scalping.
This is like the early days of ecommerce before ssl was introduced and it was the wild west. It can be tamed and theres money for everyone involved if they do.
At this point my hype for the ps5 is gone… Scalpers can have it all, as long some desperate Fanboys pay them their prices…
Scalpers are not the problem, they are a symptom
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
Companies like eBay would do well to block posts where these consoles are substantially higher than MSRP.
Obviously not on everything that's sold on there, but at least these new gen consoles, to help mitigate the problem.
On the flip side, if people could control their desire to have the newest thing for long enough, they could hurt these scalpers by not giving them the profit they're doing this for.
But that's consumerism, I suppose.
We ought to boycott these consoles until retailers do something about this
I would break in and steal them, and then I would sell them half price on eBay!
I was able to preorder mine Xmas 2019 and I got it in the the 1st release phase
A few UK sites such as ShopTo are doing it right at the moment.
When a stock drops, they verify the buyer through various ID checks on their accounts. If more that one PS5 delivery is going to the same place/same person/same payment method, the cancel the shipment very quickly and release the cancelled stock later in the day.
Additionally, they skirt around the bots by sneakily releasing different bundles not listed on the site prior to the drop.
This was how I recently got my PS5 – bundled with Demon's Souls, The Pathless and an extra controller.
Many verified customers did same and scalpers got zilch from the site!
I believe there is no way to get a ps5 for 500 in 2021.
One easy solution would be to check whether the address has been used before.
Same to check whether the credit card has been used before.
the fact that ps5 cant do reflecting beacons on fs19 its useless and doesn't do anything for vr no man sky waste of money jus wait for ps5 pro
I'm gonna scalp 10 from a scalper who scalped 20 from another scalper who scalped 50 from another scalper who scalped 100 from another scalper, and sell them back to the original scalper's wife for x4 the original scalper price. Thus throwing all scalpers into a false sense of scalping security.