there's no REAL way of stopping "scalpers". They ordered & paid for the console units. And now with more widely available store credit card accounts, a single consumer can buy as many consoles as they can put on a store credit card. The failure is with consumers thinking they "can't wait" & buying the new consoles or bundles for far more than retail prices.

if a scalper can't sell his units fast enough, they just sell at retail prices eventually or risk losing money - having to compete with Sony or a retailer sale/deal in the future.

People who think that Sony and retailers are siding with the scalpers are fools. Sony doesn't make money from selling consoles, the HDMI cable the thing comes with alone is worth nearly $200, let alone the high speed computer we call the ps5. They make they're money from selling software, video games. Do people think these scalpers are buying video games? Hell no! Not unless they intend to "bundle" the ps5 with the game. It's not some big conspiracy, people were just too stupid to have the foresight to see this coming and too incompetent to stop it if they did.

Hey does anyone know if any such app / chrome extension is available for Canadians?

Simple, do not buy from Ebay or pay above the retail price.  Sony and these other game developers will notice why the games are not being purchased when all the consoles have been sold.  Remember, these scalpers cannot buy all the games!!  ;D

Don't buy from scalpers let 'em go broke lol

@April

Sony and Microsoft should care, because scalpers don't buy games, which is where they actually make money from their console ecosystems.

So it's that many sales and profits lost for months until non-scalper supply finally overtakes demand.

The real fail is retailers all agreeing to sell online only instead of in stores. If consoles where available in stores this would not be an issue.

Why would Sony or Xbox care if the average shopper bought their product? After all profit is profit, a scalpers money is just as good as the average consumer. If someone is willing to pay the extra money, that's their choice. However I refuse to pay extra money because frankly at the the end of the day it's just a game console. It's not life or death.  Did I want to surprise my kids and be super mom by providing the impossible , hell yeah. But not at the cost of a peaceful and wonderful holiday season." 'Tis the season to be jolly"

Why anyone would want any of the first batch is beyond me... There's ALWAYS problems with three first batch of units that go out... Been like that since the N64.

I'll never get in line for a first release console.

I've always gotten mine around February March.

Wanna get it for your kids for Christmas, get them a visa gift card with the amount needed so they say least know they can get it as soon as they find it... Never buy scalped units.

Don't buy. Let it rot. They get their lesson.

How about they try something like how the drugstores to pick up their medicine.  For example I'm allowed to get 1 Sudafed with my valid photo I.D. so how the heck can drugstores such as Rite Aide, CVS, Walgreens etc... can put a stop on how much we can get but SONY can't get their ish together!!! Man I lost an entire day on the 12th trying to surprise my son with one for his birthday and then when they were released shortly the month before my husband went to get one at Game Stop he was 12th in line and told they only got 10 units??!! That's outrageous cmon SONY MAKE 2020 better again!!!!!

Quote from: Vince on November 16, 2020, 03:23:41
I would say this is a Sony problem. To bad it's pretty obvious they care very little to actually do anything about it despite how easily it could have been done to handle this.this entire stock of 2 million units should have just became one giant lottery where the oldest psn accounts got first dibs to secure 1 unit of their choice and it should have been done months ago. Wait a week and anyone who didnt claim them move on to the next year of psn accounts offering one until all are sold out and they tell us we have no more until 2021. At least it prevented this chaos and the crazy amount of scalpers. I'm fine with not getting one, I'm not fine with the false hope of possibly getting one if I sit at my computer all day tracking down who is releasing when, and still not get one. Oh well, if Sony believes this was the best they can do then guess I'm waiting months till I get one.

My thoughts exactly

The best way to deal with scalpers would be to flood the market with product so there isn't an incentive to buy from a reseller or they'll risk losing out from frustrated customers switching to PC

Sony and Microsoft is actually siding with the scalpers otherwise they would have used countermeasures to stop this from happening. Hell with them I will wait a year and still game on my Nintendo switch and pc.

It is unfortunate. There should be measures against this. Sony or Microsoft should do something concrete about this. I had saved up but someone I knew they have bought a bunch of units but selling it 1k so I decided against buying it. Say No hard to scalpers and they will learn the lesson... These people are so selfish and without a shame.