Very common tactic, unfortunately. “Rare” cars like highly sought new releases have always been hard to get a hold of, and people will manage to get the money together to make a quick buck.
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jonne@infosec.pub 9 months agoI don’t think scalpers are anything to worry about when it comes to cars. Anyone who pays over the list price has too much money.
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
People will 100% try to scalp low vin Cybertrucks, or just any Cybertrucks they can get ahold of right now.
In a place like Silicon Valley, where you see $100k R1S Rivians casually rolling around on the reg ( I see multiple a day,) there is MORE than enough people willing to pay an additional $20-30k for a fast and rare EV.
There is a lot of dumb money flying around here, and tech bros love blowing it on luxury EVs.
jonne@infosec.pub 9 months ago
And I don’t have any issue with people taking advantage of dumb money like that. These aren’t concert tickets (with a hard limit on supply) or GPUs (relatively cheap item where scalpers can screw up the whole market).