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2021-01-21 01:46 26303514 Anonymous (Screenshot_20210121-074224_Chrome.jpg 1080x1410 291kB)
I dont know if this is a finance question but how the fuck do we stop scalpers? Is it possible to make the bots who do this shit illegal? I want a fucking PS5 and I still can't fucking get one

2 min later 26303631 Anonymous
how the fuck do we stop investers? is it possible to make the bots who buy low and sell high illegal?

4 min later 26303693 Anonymous (1591926117381.jpg 471x388 13kB)
>>26303514 >Complains on /biz/ about buying low and selling high

6 min later 26303752 Anonymous
>>26303631 stfu pussy

8 min later 26303823 Anonymous
>>26303514 >I dont know if this is a finance question but how the fuck do we stop scalpers? Holly shit new friend you couldn't be more wrong, this is literally the place where scalpers come from >inb4 shitstorm congratz for teh loot 2000 PS5 at what 800 bucks? noice profit m8

9 min later 26303867 Anonymous
Who cares fag buy pc and be a man

11 min later 26303908 Anonymous
>>26303514 It depends. If it's an essential item like bread and toiletries then it's easier to justify rationing.

11 min later 26303909 Anonymous
>>26303693 BASED

11 min later 26303937 Anonymous
>>26303514 Give me 1 (ONE) singular reason why I shouldnt keep buying PS5 consoles and reselling them at a premium to soiboys who need their bing bing wahoo fix ? I fucking despise these autistic menchild types, they should pay premium. You can call it oestrogen tax for fags that arent real men.

13 min later 26303966 Anonymous
>>26303693 Fucking this. OP is either an onions consoooomer, or an onions commie. Get fucked op.

13 min later 26303973 Anonymous
>>26303514 >Buys low >Forces consumer fags to either wait or buy high >Indirectly making consumers fix their dopamine and stupid spending habits >Indirectly creating better humans while also turning a profit Are scalpers the most based people in everyday finance?

13 min later 26303995 Anonymous
>>26303937 Rude but fair.

14 min later 26304006 Anonymous
Why the fuck would you be desperate for a ps5 now anyway? To play the new spiderman? Fag

15 min later 26304051 Anonymous
>>26303514 Scalpers deserve Medal of Honors for making basedbrains suicidal. >inb4 muh rtx 3080 and PS5 and huemane rites

16 min later 26304060 Anonymous
are you 16? or a nigger? by any chance because buying a playstation is cringe af

16 min later 26304070 Anonymous
>>26303514 PS5 is sold for too cheap in retail. That is why this keeps happening. I would not buy it from scalper, let him sell for loss.

16 min later 26304084 Anonymous
>>26303937 Thank you for your service sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar!

20 min later 26304203 Anonymous
>>26303937 Based >>26304070 >Soiboys don't buy from scalper because they learned their lesson and take steps to becoming real men >Scalper sits at home with 70 PS5 nobody is buying >"Scalpy scalpy lost all his money on scalping" >Scalper doesn't care that he is mocked for he made the world a better place full of realized men who can delay satisfaction

21 min later 26304237 Anonymous
>>26303514 Easy scalp them but in Minecraft

21 min later 26304245 Anonymous (1610715763777.jpg 986x1024 100kB)
>>26303937 ATH based levels

25 min later 26304333 Anonymous
>>26303867 PCs are so fucking gay. I bought one and returned it. “Oh wow I point and clicked and got an easy kill, whoopdie fucking do”. Back to console to game properly.

26 min later 26304369 Anonymous
>>26303973 YES

28 min later 26304426 Anonymous
>>26303514 >be Sony >make PS5 and sell 500$ or something, and 70% margin, "made to order" with really conservative estimates >scalp yourself >resell 800$, 80% margin >??? >go to jail because illegal, but still makes you think

31 min later 26304483 Anonymous (1868768768787.png 621x702 57kB)
>>26303514 >buying anything at launch

33 min later 26304544 Anonymous (3x.gif 112x112 264kB)
>>26303752 >calling others pussy >willingly pays 600€ for a 60fps console >plays vidya in 2k21 ngmi, saged, go back to plebbit

33 min later 26304548 Anonymous
>>26304333 can you imagine wasting trips on saying maybe the gayest fucking thing of 2021?

33 min later 26304553 Anonymous
>>26303937 Keyed.

33 min later 26304569 Anonymous
>>26304203 when you think about it, scalping is a moral imperative. instant gratification and escapism is killing our society slowly

34 min later 26304590 Anonymous
>>26304544 120 fps 4k rainbow tho still sucks ass

35 min later 26304594 Anonymous
>>26303937 Don’t care if you do individually but how do these faggots secure thousands of consoles without being a retailer?

35 min later 26304612 Anonymous
>>26304590 120fps 4k on what games? gta 5? fuggin kek:DD

36 min later 26304641 Anonymous
>>26304569 I agree with this. /biz/ should start a buyers club to scalp large scale.

36 min later 26304653 Anonymous
>>26303514 The manufacturer should meet demand instead of this artificial scarcity bullshit.

36 min later 26304659 Anonymous
>no, you can't just scalp luxury goods! Kek, anti-scalping laws are pathetic and anyone complaining about scalping of non-essential goods is a baby

37 min later 26304678 Anonymous
>>26303514 You want to play spider-man on the PS5? You little 15 years old faggot nigger

37 min later 26304701 Anonymous
>>26304333 You're a huge faggots in multidimensional ways

38 min later 26304714 Anonymous
>2021 >buying a video game console you are either a nigger or a child

38 min later 26304728 Anonymous
>>26304594 Most likely connections to a retailer. Dont have one for PS5 but I know a retailer who couldve provided hundreds of FFP2 masks at market value at the time when you couldve sold them for double that on the open market. Obviously I didnt because it is unethical but still. Guessing the same thing here where some retailer gives his consoles to the scalper instead of his customers and then they split the profit margin ontop of what the retailer wouldve gotten.

38 min later 26304740 Anonymous
>>26303937 Mega based.

39 min later 26304752 Anonymous
>>26303514 Why don't they just make enough to meet demand?

39 min later 26304759 Anonymous
Would you like some soi with the ps5 faggot?

39 min later 26304769 Anonymous
>>26303937 kinda baste

40 min later 26304789 Anonymous
>>26304006 Yeah this is something I don't get. Normies are really good goys

40 min later 26304796 Anonymous
>>26304789 *goyim

42 min later 26304838 Anonymous
>>26303514 You're fucking retarded. This is the result of hardware manufacturers not adapting to the market and increasing prices to what suit supply and demand. >>26303752 Get a job.

44 min later 26304902 Anonymous
>>26304752 this desu you'd think sony knows how to manufacture electronics alternatively, why don't they make them more expensive at launch? and, most of all, why care?

44 min later 26304909 Anonymous
>>26304333 lmao you fucking bitch

46 min later 26304984 Anonymous
>>26304612 i said rainbow

46 min later 26304986 Anonymous (272d3f1985fbb13fd8701390fa2c8723.jpg 640x628 40kB)
shouldn't stores just have a 1 per customer policy on popular items, i dunno just a thought

47 min later 26305014 Anonymous
>>26304902 >>26304752 World shortage of comouter chips. In other news, buy TSM and AMD stocks.

47 min later 26305024 Anonymous
>>26303514 scalpers are a product of capitalism enjoy it

47 min later 26305042 Anonymous (samsoys10.jpg 1180x585 145kB)
Are you jealous or do you want a PS5? I see no other reason to be upset and if you want one then you should get the hell off this board

48 min later 26305053 Anonymous
What the fuck would you actually play on it? Last of Us 2?

48 min later 26305075 Anonymous
>>26303514 kek

49 min later 26305084 Anonymous
>>26303937 You sir are a fine example of basedness.

49 min later 26305092 Anonymous
Scalpers are based as fuck. If you need to consume the latest bing bing wahoo then pay up bitch.

50 min later 26305131 Anonymous
>>26304752 Making a product like this has a lot of potential bottlenecks when it comes to resources, this is why Samsung phones have different processors in EU and in the US. Sony are probably making as many consoles as they are able to with the current state of the world. What's confusing is why they aren't increasing their fucking prices on launch and slowly turn it down to satisfy the market, lol. I swear public relations probably have board meetings by the balls and convincing them that an expensive Co sole would hurt investors

50 min later 26305140 Anonymous (1601292528527.png 398x376 180kB)
>>26305042

51 min later 26305147 Anonymous
>>26303514 I WANT TO CONSUMEEEE NOOO PLAYSTATION PLEASE MAKE MORE CONSOLES I WANT CONSUMABLES AAAHHHHH MY ONIONS BOTTLE WONT OPEN AHHH

52 min later 26305206 Anonymous
>everyone in this thread is actually based I'm kind of surprised, you faggots will argue about anything else

52 min later 26305207 Anonymous
>be a merchant >company sells product undervalued compared to demand >purchase large quantity of product >upsell product roughly to market price people are willing to pay >profits /biz/ is like the worst place to complain about scalpers. Yeah it sucks you can't get your PS5, but this is a good and perfectly legal move for them. Do what I did. Camp on NowInStock and grab them from Sony Direct. I got two this way.

52 min later 26305219 Anonymous
>>26304612 same performance requirements tbqhfamalam

53 min later 26305232 Anonymous
>>26303514 You simply can't, scalpers are too powerful. Your only option is to restrict buying to physical locations and one per person if you don't want to raise the price, or to open the price at something ridiculous like $10,000 and slowly drop the price over time until you find the good supply/demand point. Selling anything online will always be vulnerable to scalpers running bots. Ticketmaster has the same problem. Comic con also has a problem but they at least have no problem permabanning people so it takes some of the heat off (and demand is so sky fucking high anyway it really makes no difference).

53 min later 26305234 Anonymous
I told you to be bullish on PS5 but you wouldnt listen >muh video games Buy on sight! 10k EOY

54 min later 26305289 Anonymous
>>26303514 I don't know maybe if we could get people to stop compulsively buying childrens toys then we would get somewhere.

54 min later 26305291 Anonymous
>>26305042 kek

56 min later 26305334 Anonymous (1599127031946.gif 749x578 163kB)
>>26305206 I used to be bad for consoooming plastic shite and electronics, /biz/ showed me the way and made me realize that consooming mever actually made me happy, it's just a bandaid over a shitty life that sedates you for 5 minutes.

56 min later 26305349 Anonymous
>>26304333 Wasting trips being a faggot. gg anon

57 min later 26305397 Anonymous
>>26304986 free market. If I want 10 Teslas and have the money to do it there shouldn't be restriction to that

58 min later 26305425 Anonymous
>>26305334 I consoom but I don't really have any emotional attachment to it. Feels better financially setting myself up for a comfortable life.

58 min later 26305438 Anonymous
>>26303514 >vidya grow the fuck up manchild

59 min later 26305480 Anonymous
>>26304051 I had the misfortune to have my 11 year old PC start dying last week and I wanted to upgrade, so I find the 3080 shortage to be pretty annoying. However I also don't really want to play the latest games so I just picked up a 1050 card that was still available for $180 and it'll be more than enough to do what I want. A bit more painful was paying a $300 premium on the CPU I wanted but I'll live with it. Basically, what I'm saying is, even though I'm personally being hurt by the shortages: FUCK CONSOOOMERS, BUY EM ALL SCALPERS.

1 hours later 26305489 Anonymous
>>26303937 based

1 hours later 26305539 Anonymous
>>26305397 Businesses imposing a one per customer policy is the free market, dumbass.

1 hours later 26305572 Anonymous (soijak23.jpg 192x175 8kB)
>>26303514 Based scalper, fuck soiboys

1 hours later 26305782 Anonymous
>>26305207 I actually got three this way. Yes I resold them to manchildren for a higher price.

1 hours later 26305858 Anonymous
>>26305782 may i suck your dick please ?

1 hours later 26305946 Anonymous
>buy old classic audio studio equipment from bankrupt showbusiness technicians' company because no music shows >buy nore units then then the ones I need for my own home studio >pay less because I bought them in bulk >resell them only for double what I paid to feuityloops soibois that make rap beats for soundcloud or record shitty teenagers indie bands

1 hours later 26305973 Anonymous
>>26303937 actually this kind of inspired me to scalp Is it still viable these days?

1 hours later 26306020 Anonymous
>>26303937 Absolutely based Scalpers shouldn't exist in an efficient market. If it's feasible to scalp legally, it's immoral to not do it

1 hours later 26306026 Anonymous (bda.png 380x349 79kB)
never change /biz/

1 hours later 26306032 Anonymous
>>26303693 i mean, that's the opposite of what you're supposed to do isn't it?

1 hours later 26306033 Anonymous
>>26305973 still viable - try opening a onions latte store and naming it STARBUTTS

1 hours later 26306172 Anonymous (1597267386364.jpg 189x177 13kB)
>>26306033 that's not really scalping

1 hours later 26306185 Anonymous (looking.jpg 720x469 72kB)
>>26303514 >I want a fucking PS5 Why? Everything after N64 has been trash. You zoomers have actually managed to somehow lose quality on new technology instead of gaining like everyone who came before you. Also why do you retards pay for shit like extra levels or characters after already having bought the game? That stuff is supposed to be unlocked by beating the game, not sold to you. Stop getting cucked.

1 hours later 26306216 Anonymous
>>26306033 Onion latte? Sounds nasty anon.

1 hours later 26306238 Anonymous
>>26303514 Just do what you do with crypto, don't buy and wait till the price starts dropping. Make the scalper into a red faced wojack.

1 hours later 26306316 Anonymous
The market solution would be for producers like amd, nvda and sony to auction off their high demand products to the highest bidders directly on their own website This would maximize profit for them and desu i dont know why they didn't do that for years

1 hours later 26306341 Anonymous
So how did this guy manage to score 2000 of these?

1 hours later 26306440 Anonymous
>>26304653 >Artificial demand Look at tsmc idiot

1 hours later 26306562 Anonymous
>>26306341 Using a bot, proxy, having others buy it for him etc. Also OP you want a PS5 you little faggot nigger zoomer.

1 hours later 26306608 Anonymous
>>26306440 >Artificial demand Who are you quoting?

1 hours later 26306627 Anonymous
>>26306316 this the scalpers are simply providing a solution for a market problem, if the producers were to simply allow their prices to float for a bit then everyone who wanted to spend extra money to get a console early could do so while providing the console makers with extra cash.

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