You've enabled that person to continue doing what they do when you could wait a few weeks and a get a PS5 then.
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Did anyone else buy a PS5 from a scalper? (OP scammed, Help inside)
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Don't just pay to be a beta tester, pay around 200% more for the frustration of having to deal with launch issues.
I bought two series x consoles at launch and sold one to a coworker at regular cost. Making someone happy is worth more to me then netting some extra cash.
£800....holy shit OP.....lol.
It's your money though.
I'm just gonna wait till the new year when I can get one easier and there have been a few firmware updates.
It's your money though.
I'm just gonna wait till the new year when I can get one easier and there have been a few firmware updates.
I've had 3 consoles so far. One for me, one for a friend, the 3rd arrived this morning and is for the friends son for Christmas. But friend just told me that his son is all excited because they're selling for £1200 on Amazon. I'm kind of hesitant to give it to him now
I paid an extra $100 for my PS5. No way I would've paid much more than that, but I don't feel bad about it at all.
Bingo! If people would stop buying scalpers wouldn't even try!
No..... what are you talking about? Deathloop, GT7, Ratchet and Clank, Returnal and more are all coming first half 2021
On topic: I would never just based on the principle of the matter.
I know this may get some scrutiny here, but I did get an extra PS5 disc version that a friend backed out of purchasing from me at retail price. Once I saw the resale market, I decided to sell it on eBay (might as well offset the cost of my own). I auctioned on eBay and a buyer paid $1,025 USD for it. Since he was in the same state, he paid nearly $100 in taxes, and he even asked me to overnight it for an additional $120. I was absolutely shocked that some dude could just drop $1250 on a $499 MSRP console, but that painted a pretty clear picture to me that the scalpers market can be a gold mine if you put in the hustle. There's clearly a subset of people with money enabling the market.
Damn,after looking at this thread I jumped on Ebay to see the PS5's for sale....there are so fucking many over priced consoles on there.....fuck me,no wonder no one can get hold of one....fuck these arseholes,lol.
Yeah OP is part of a shitty problem.
Also wild you're willing to pay almost double rather than wait a few weeks/months.
Also wild you're willing to pay almost double rather than wait a few weeks/months.
Yeah I could see someone paying up to an extra 200. But double the price is insanity.
no, i got a launch console but i sold it to my friend at cost bc i'm not a kid who can't make good money through skillful means anymore. i could've afforded to keep it and i'll get one eventually most likely but eh, world markets have been on fire the past few months and $500 invested can grow so much rn, pretty much everything i want to play is on last gen anyway so i'm in no rush until a killer app comes out like bloodborne 2 or something (like with the 4, never planned to buy one then bloodborne came out and i needed it day 1)
No one I know of has done this, but the choice is yours. Scalpers are fairly scummy, but you are the one that makes the value choice on whether paying them the inflated price is worth it or not, based on how much you want it now over waiting on availability.
You've made the choice regardless, and so long as you receive it as expected in the timeframe you expected, then that's that.
Personally i don't know of anything that would make me do that, and pay over an RRP. I just don't care enough about being first / having something now
Yeah, I think 200 would be my personal cut off, but it depends how much money you have and how much the thing is worth to you. Insulting the OP because they deemed it worth whatever price is pretty lame. Particularly when a company having more stock and/or making the preorder process easier would solve some of the issue.
Nope. And if I hadn't secured one on launch day I was prepared to wait until "mid 2021 " (as ppl were saying) to get one. Fuck scalpers.
Not related to ps5 but I was almost part of the problem. I had offers to sell my Xbox series x for $1000 and I was tempted to sell but I decided to keep it. I realized it was too greedy of me to sell it.
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That's beautiful that's an entire character arc
Yeah I preordered PS5 from 4 different places, and they all ended up going through so I sold to friends and colleagues for regular cost as well.
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Wow, talk about Sony's marketing strategy...
I will go with what we have been told so far despite what people think. We have a release date for Deathloop, and Sony themselves says the others are fist half 2021
I ended up selling my Digital Edition for a little over € 1000,-. I pre-ordered it to be sure that I would be able to get it, but the closer launch got, the less interested I became in the launch games. Without that there was no reason to keep it and seeing the prices they were going for only made the choice easier to sell it.
I think it's really crazy people pay this much, but in this case I don't feel bad because I sold mine to someone who drives a luxury car and said he could afford it no problem. Most of all I originally bought it for myself and bought only one.
I think it's really crazy people pay this much, but in this case I don't feel bad because I sold mine to someone who drives a luxury car and said he could afford it no problem. Most of all I originally bought it for myself and bought only one.
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