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Except PS5s were produced en masse. So if you buy just 1 and try to resell it for a profit, any would be buyer will just pay sticker price in a store. With the CT, people have had their name on the list for years. What’s more, is they will be produced slowly at first limiting the availability. So someone could ostensibly reserve dozens of them staggered. If you have the cash for the first one, you buy it and quickly turn it. Now you can easily buy the second when it comes available while turning a profit and so on.

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cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Except PS5s were produced en masse. So if you buy just 1 and try to resell it for a profit, any would be buyer will just pay sticker price in a store.

Sounds right on paper, except that’s not what happens in reality, there were $700/$800/$1000+ PS5s and Series Xs all over eBay and they were selling

So someone could ostensibly reserve dozens of them staggered. If you have the cash for the first one, you buy it and quickly turn it. Now you can easily buy the second when it comes available while turning a profit and so on.

True, not saying there’s going to be 0 scalpers, but that’s a bit more complicated and risky to pull off compared to just a couple Gs and throwing stuff on eBay. I’m sure there will be a few, but not so many that it’s this huge problem

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