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]

whoever* not wherever in the last question.

[redmodelt]

You are not talking to eBay, we are buyers and sellers and do nothing about it. If you don't like the price, move on to the next one.

[timothmurph85]

you must not see or know of the items I’m referring to, none of them are even close to msrp. I’m aware that I’m not talking to ebay but I’m hoping there’s more dialogue on the part of sellers and buyers who see the clear manipulation of consumers. if you have a problem with that read another community post. 

[alcoforever]

Another complaining whiner that doesn't want to pay the going rate for non-essential goods.

[timothmurph85]

google msrp. quit clutching your pearls.

[timothmurph85]

another thing is, going rate would imply said rate is a standard but the scalpers arbitrarily set random prices all exorbitantly above the msrp of the manufacturer in question. non essential goods would imply it doesn’t happen with essential goods such as hand sanitizer n95 masks and toilet paper like it did in 2020.

[soh.maryl]

Every eBay buyer sees the price of an item before he bids or buys.

If he feels that price is too high, he can simply hit the back arrow and find another listing/item with a more satisfactory price.

eBay cannot, by law, regulate the prices charged to buyers by sellers.  There is no eBay requirement that a price must be at the MSRP or below.  

[alcoforever]

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@timothmurph85 wrote:

another thing is, going rate would imply said rate is a standard but the scalpers arbitrarily set random prices all exorbitantly above the msrp of the manufacturer in question. non essential goods would imply it doesn’t happen with essential goods such as hand sanitizer n95 masks and toilet paper like it did in 2020.

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Going rate is the rate at which willing buyers and sellers agree upon.  There is no standard except that which the market sets.   

[timothmurph85]

so an individual or multiple individuals buying up tens hundreds or thousands of a product when it’s in short supply and setting the price high is “the market” setting the price? 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? and the market setting the price?

[donsdetour]

Some fool is willing to pay 2,000.00  FOR A 700.00 item is the why of such:

a fool and da money are soon parted.

Seems you not willing to pay such...

Yet there is this post about scalping.... LOL

Ah how many say sold, and then: they be the how many got scammed out of the money and the item????

Who you should be complaining to in the manufacture of such items not ebay, or the users on the boards.

Its a game of supply and of course demand...

[redmodelt]

Anyone can comment on any community post they like, as long as it is not a member of that group section only section.

You may not like my comment, but I have the right to post my OP. 

"you must not see or know of the items I’m referring to, none of them are even close to msrp." Your post cover a wide range of items, Xbox, graphics cards, hand sanitizer etc., maybe a title that is more directed rather than being so broad.

[mrdutch1001]

SUPPLY & DEMAND!

don't like the prices you see on eBay, go elsewhere!

There is NO law for NON-ESSENTIAL items that one has to be concerned about here; NO law that sellers cannot price their items however they so choose...

It's all about SUPPLY & DEMAND

[timothmurph85]

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.

[dryophelia]

MSRP is Manufacturers SUGGESTED Retail Price. 

The price you find it in the marketplace is the actual value of the item. 

Your billionaire real estate tycoon scenario is spot on. Look at the real estate situation in Hawai'i as just one example.