Scalper Problem?

[timothmurph85]

when are you guys ever gonna do something about your blatant enabling of scalpers profiting off of your platform? do lawmakers have to get involved?

I understand msrp of digital products being slightly higher due to shortages but +150% over msrp?!

that’s unbelievable and throughout all of the beginning of the pandemic till now, guess who’s been the mecca of scalpers?

when playstations and xbox got scalped guess where they were sold?

when Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards were scalped guess where they were sold?

a 700 dollar item should by no means become 2,000 dollars.

I see no reason why buyers of scalped items and platforms they’re sold on allow scalping. 

do better ebay. atleast make it break TOS in some manner.

ebay was the same place where people were selling scalped hand sanitizer and toilet paper when people needed it most.

are your executives or wherever changes TOS just gonna act like that wasn’t a thing?

[timothmurph85]

I appreciate your response, thanks for not insulting me for complaining about this like many of the other replies. I agree, a fool and their money are soon parted.

I’d contact nvidia, microsoft, sony, and amd if I could but I have no idea how to do such. 

I really just wanted to start a discussion even if it meant being nailed to the cross for it.

[timothmurph85]

that was a tongue-in-cheek comeback to what you said, I truly don’t care whether a person who’s quick to insult someone over the internet wants to reply to my post or not. I was essentially flipping your don’t like it don’t buy it response back towards you.

I made it broad to show examples of many of the forms scalping has taken and how they’ve impacted different buyers in different ways.

I only wanted to start a discussion. 

[timothmurph85]

what is non essential about n95 masks, sanitizer, and toilet paper. at the height of the pandemic?

[timothmurph85]

thank you for giving me credit where it was due for my real estate example and not insulting me like some of these people have.

however I believe the marketplace price is so arbitrarily defined it’s not really easy to say what the true price is, some are 1,300 others are 2,000 and this if for the same exact item with the same exact conditions of said item.

I just wanted to start a discussion for whatever it was worth and bring attention to the matter.

I’m disgruntled to say the least that none of what I’d wish to purchase is even close to the msrp it should be. I was spitballing and maybe I was wrong about ebay’s ability to change such a thing but I wish they could do some sort of thing such as tagging accounts as scalpers

I just wish more could be done about this. aside from the anti scalper bot bill congress introduced.

I’ve seen photos where people have an office with hundreds of xboxes, playstations, or graphics cards. and they’re all being sold for thousands.

[kensgiftshop]

If you don't like the prices here, buy them in the stores, where the scalpers bought theirs.

[timothmurph85]

I wish it were that easy, thank you for the suggestion but I’ve tried multiple different variations of different product lines and none of them are in my area. nor do some of the manufacturers sell them on their websites now.

[kensgiftshop]

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@timothmurph85 wrote:

which law specifically says they can’t set, at the very least, guidelines of how sellers should conduct their pricing. I think if it was illegal for that one guy who scalped health items such as toilet paper hand sanitizer and masks. by proxy ebay should also be responsible at the very least for not deterring such actions. deterring doesn’t mean regulating per se. if you are intact right I think new laws should be made, because I don’t like the thought of every time something becomes slightly short seeing it on ebay for 2.5x or even 10x the price. it’d be fine if there wasn’t literally only scalped items on certain search queries.

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There's a big difference in those items, people need those.

People don't need gaming systems and video cards.

[stainlessenginecovers]

@timothmurph85  so if a billionaire decided to buy up all the real estate  in a town and raise the prices even if the tenants wouldn’t be able to pay it in order to get them all out that would be fine?

Absolutely 100% legal, has been done and will continue to be done. Happening right now in Cali and NV. 

Car Dealers have been doing this, clearly marking up new vehicles (Corvette, Camaro, Challenger, Supra) for decades. 

[timothmurph85]

I like conservative fiscal policy but there’s gotta be a line drawn somewhere eventually. does everyone wanna live in a blade runner/cyberpunk society? 

some of our regulations are stupidly strict and some are stupidly loose in the weirdest areas

not everything that’s legal is necessarily right.

[mrdutch1001]

eBay did put a stop to the price gouging of "n95 masks, sanitizer, and toilet paper.", and thereafter only allowed the sale of such products by specific sellers...

Your complaint now seems to be with the likes of  "playstations and xbox, Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards"

so please get it straight as to the difference between N95 masks and an Xbox.....

[buyselljack2016]

law makers are involved

states have price gouging laws

has nothing to do with games, and other non-essential niceties

When they get into that...........   it is  "price fixing"

"price fixing" is against the law.

that covers it

end of conversation

end of discussion

[soh.maryl]

The guy you describe was dealing with essential items at the time of a pandemic.

Most eBay sellers are not. 

[soh.maryl]

How were you "nailed to the cross"? To the best of my knowledge, that's only happened once in the history of mankind.  

[soh.maryl]

A discussion is a situation where diverse ideas and opinions are wanted.  

[tryno2]

Alright, that's enough with the scalpers stuff.  Use the proper term, businessmen and women.  Buy low, sell high, that's what keeps the capital market going, keeps EBay (and others) going, heck I'm sure in one way or another businesses buying low and selling high keep the OP going.