New Tech Price Gouging

[bcl95]

As a tech enthusiast, I'm always on the lookout for the latest and greatest electronics, especially in the personal computer space. I'm sure many others are aware of the latest launches, including the RTX 3000 and Radeon 6000 series graphics cards, and Ryzen 5000 CPUs, and especially how little supply there has been from main vendors.

Now I know electronics wouldn't be considered necessary items like TP or sanitizer, but I can't imagine I'm the only one just as fed up with the scalpers and price gougers that are doing the same thing now with tech as they were doing with previous health items.

Is Ebay unable, or unwilling to enforce the same anti-scalp/anti-gouge measures?

[buyselljack2016]

eBay should not be involved in "price fixing" on non-essentials.

[pullulate93.123]

Unwilling and unable tbh. Ebay is about profit nothing more. They used to have shipping price abuse as a reportable thing, now they don't have that so scammers that list items for low prices but have exorbitant shipping fees get top billing in the lowest price filter. Many buyers miss that detail when they get into the really good price frenzy and buy it now. Just look at amazon and it's overpriced slime pit, heck amazon even prints books on demand and sells them without authors consent or getting any copyright fees. That being said parting willing fools from their money is a huge profit center. I see ebay becoming more and more like amazon which I never buy or sell from now, after years of doing both there on a moderate scale. Go elsewhere, wait or pay those prices that others seem to pay. The Apple tax syndrome lol

[bcl95]

It bugs the heck out of me that these platforms enable those lowlifes. Necessity or not, people know they can abuse bots or loopholes in policies to buy up stock in this case to deny it to genuinely interested consumers, just to turn around and jack up the price. I'm all for free enterprise, but holy sh!t, the amount items are marked up is absurd. And I'd love to go to my local store and buy one, but that's unfortunately not an option because of all these price gougers.

It's one thing if an item is a specialty or exceptionally rare. It's another if it's been artificially jacked up.

And I'd love to see Amazon get a taste of trust-busting, lol. Or at least pay their people decently.