Scalpers getting robbed. You hate to see it.

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Toronto police have issued a safety alert after a spokesperson says multiple people selling gaming consoles were robbed Monday evening.

The safety alert was first posted on Twitter after 9 p.m.

The spokesperson told Global News there were multiple incidents near Yorkdale Mall within a short period of time involving the proposed sales of a "popular" gaming console.

They declined to say which console model or models were involved.

There were no reports of anyone being physically injured.

Toronto police issue safety alert after people selling ‘popular’ gaming consoles robbed - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

A Toronto police spokesperson told Global News there were a few robberies of people selling a "popular" gaming console within a short period of time near Yorkdale Mall Monday evening.

globalnews.ca

 

[Outrun]

Regardless of the ethics of the scalper, robbery is illegal.

 

[Iori Fuyusaka]

Are we celebrating robberies? I mean, fuck scalpers, but this isn't the answer.

 

[ChuckXL]

One is a crime, the other isn't. Let's not get crazy here.

 

[Strat]

I mean, you can be a total fucking dick OP, but I know one of these people and he was selling it at cost when he got jacked.

The idea that they deserve to be robbed because they're scalping is pretty fucking gross.

 

[Tatsu91]

Regardless of the ethics of the scalper, robbery is illegal.

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eh Illegal does not mean not moral Using its illegal as an argument is a bad basis for judgement as what's illegal is not always what is immoral.

 

[Lant_War]

Hate the game, not the player. Scalpers aren't doing anything illegal.

 

[Kaiken]

Hate to see it? We saying these people should be robbed?

 

[Real]

OP thought this take was it, huh? Robbery is a crime.

 

[Robin64]

Yeah, I do hate to see it. Robbery is a crime. They paid for those things and now have nothing. I mean, I don't like scalpers, but this is not cool.

 

[Chiramii]

Yeah, nah... Fuck robbers.

 

[808s & Villainy]

Regardless of the ethics of the scalper, robbery is illegal.

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Who here was claiming robbery was legal? Although I guess being gleeful over someone being robbed is a bit...eh

 

[JEH]

in for the thread back fire

 

[Aurongel]

Scalping isn't a crime, robbery is. Get a grip.

 

[Linus815]

Hate the game, not the player. Scalpers aren't doing anything illegal.

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ill continue hate scalpers, thanks much

 

[rebelcrusader]

Ah always finding new lows

Celebrating people being robbed

 

[catswaller]

Oh a bootlicking thread

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

They went from robbing to getting robbed huh

 

[SpottieO]

This console release is making some of ERA insufferable

 

[Deleted member 8468]

Ya'll actually gonna celebrate people robbing folks, huh?

 

[Monkey Gland Sauce]

 

[Rodrigues solitaire]

They deserve to experience the trauma of an armed robbery because they dared to sell a console to a fool willing to pay for it. Deserved!

 

[kevin1025]

Scalping is crummy but not enough to celebrate threats and theft.

 

[HardRojo]

I mean, scalpers are terrible but it's no robbery. So no, I'm not gonna celebrate scalpers getting robbed.

 

[FusionNY]

They're just gaming consoles op. No need to want people to be robbed lol

 

[Omnistalgic]

wait so I have another PS5 that I'm selling, put on for bid on Ebay? Am I a scalper? Does Era hate me?

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

Ah always finding new lows

Celebrating people being robbed

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Oh a bootlicking thread

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lol

 

[Deleted member 70788]

Scalpers can be annoying but I'm not going to applaud robbery. Come on man. Equivocating these two things is dumb as hell.

You need to get priorities in order.

 

[Josh5890]

Scalping is a moral issue. Stealing is a legal issue.

One wrong does not justify another wrong.

 

[Lobster Roll]

They went from robbing to getting robbed huh

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Uh, no.

 

[GalvoAg]

Oh a bootlicking thread

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Hope you never get robbed

 

[Uzupedro]

Didn't crazy shit happened on the PS3 launch too?
I read that people were even killed for the console.

 

[Kami]

I doubt the robbers were doing it because they were scalping lol.

 

[chandoog]

Robbery is of course a crime, but I simply cannot bring myself to feel sorry for people scalping consoles at ridiculously high marked up prices.

 

[IIFloodyII]

Shit can happen to anyone not just scalpers, the robbers don't give a fuck about what the asking price is, so we really shouldn't be happy or laughing at this.

 

[Sanka]

Get mad at companies exploiting you and other people not fucking private people. Goddamn, scalping of video game consoles is one of the least worrying aspects of living in our capitalist hellworld.

 

[Iori Fuyusaka]

Scalping is a moral issue. Stealing is a legal issue.

One wrong does not justify another wrong.

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I'd argue that stealing is also a moral issue.

 

[Muitnorts]

eh Illegal does not mean not moral Using its illegal as an argument is a bad basis for judgement as what's illegal is not always what is immoral.

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Well in this case it's fair to say that violent robberies are both.
Fuck scalpers but fuck this more.

 

[Diogo Arez]

While being robbed is a terrible thing I don't wish anyone goes through I kinda don't have sympathy for scalpers. Still bad sure but part of me truly doesn't like scalpers

 

[catswaller]

Hope you never get robbed

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Id never sell toys at markup because im not ebenezer scrooge so i think ill be ok in this situation

 

[Deleted member 7883]

fuck them scalpers lmao

 

[Gibordep]

If the robbers were some kind of Robin Hood I wouldn't mind, but probably they are others scalpers.

 

[Ikuu]

The people stealing these will just sell them on for similar prices lol

I'd argue that stealing is also a moral issue.

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Let's hear it then.

 

[Thardin]

Oh a bootlicking thread

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The number of people using legality as some sort of high ground is astounding. Plenty of morally questionable shit is very legal and plenty of illegal is morally fine.

I'm not condoning the robbers, but I'm definitely not crying for the scalpers. What goes around comes around.

 

[GalvoAg]

I'd argue that stealing is also a moral issue.

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Armed = more than stealing

 

[Outrun]

Who here was claiming robbery was legal? Although I guess being gleeful over someone being robbed is a bit...eh

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That is what I wanted to highlight :)

 

[Lord Fanny]

I mean, you can be a total fucking dick OP, but I know one of these people and he was selling it at cost when he got jacked.

The idea that they deserve to be robbed because they're scalping is pretty fucking gross.

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Why was he buying multiple consoles just to sell at cost?

 

[My Blue Heaven]

"i couldn't get a PS5 so i'll laugh at people being robbed" is certainly a very ERA take

 

[bdwnfn99]

They declined to say which console model or models were involved.

Series S hype is real

 

[bob100]

I don't understand how people in this thread are laughing at someone being robbed. It makes no sense.

Some of the people in this thread..wtf