Seriously, it’s loser behavior.
I somehow ended up on a Pokemon card collector Facebook group.
Scalpers are losing thier mind because the drop rates of rare cards are higher in the new sets and they made ALOT of sets.
So a lot of the scalpers are like “how could they do this to us! This is my livelihood “ and all the people who enjoy the game are like “well this is fucking amazing!”
Report them all and give them fake offers for the lulz. Even better, when they actually ship, find the people selling them on Facebook and make them drive an hour away while you sit in your room laughing.
I wish eBay and other popular marketplaces would just enforce msrp or lower for certain categories new
if they enforced MSRP, then how the hell would places like Nvidia get away with selling above MSRP…
MSRP is bullshit anyways
I am only talking about person to person marketplaces
Maximum 5% upsell with required receipt. Otherwise must be below MSRP.
In the US we need modifications to the first sale doctrine. I don’t think it should be done away with all-together but, It should be forced like you said to be MSRP as the ceiling. They also need to codify that licenses to use and digital goods apply to the doctrine meaning that any digital good must have a capability to resell/transfer rights of. Because with everything becoming digital only, its making the entire doctrine useless.
I recently got lucky and managed to pick up a Cafelat Robot (really hard to get manual espresso maker). It completely sold out in minutes. I paid $495 CAD. I then saw a local listing a few days later, someone was selling one BNIB for $950. It sold in a couple hours. I was so mad when I saw it sold.
I am doing my part
Wait I thought the Steam Frame is sold to random people who registered for the purchase? And only one per person? So how do Scalpers purchase them in bulk?
Ways to buy in bulk aside, there will be people who just buy their one allowed Frame only to scalp it, just like people did with Steam Decks. Most scalpers are not big operations, just people who bought one in order to resell.
70 ALTERNATIVE ACCOUTNS
OR it’s just everyone ordering even if they don’t want it and selling it after
They don’t… If they do, they had many multiple accounts with multiple addresses and payment methods, have actual play time on actual paid (not F2P) games and made a Steam purchase before 2026/04/26. They could be sitting on their accounts for a long while to be ready for this. Don’t buy scalper stuff. Only purchase from Valve. Be patient. Used market an old headset if you’re new to VR, they’re cheap and work today.
Do not look at the tcg scene
Riftbound t1 collectors set was set to drop for 350 usd, scalpers resold it for 6k
Pokemon is the worst tcg, no one plays the card game, it’s literally cardboard collection simulator
Is there a lot of counterfeiting within TCG’s? I always wondered about this
For pokemon yea. I’m sure you can find counterfeits for any other tcg but pokemon is the most popular
I wanna buy a home server so i sometimes check eBay and FUCKK SCALPERS they buy every computer, remove RAM and SSD ans then sell it again without them at the same price so i cannot afford anything anymore because i have to buy overpriced RAM, overpriced SSDs and over priced computers 🥹
It’s infuriating building a home lab in 2026.
Joke aside. AM’s hate speech is one of the hardest hate speeches I have ever seen.
Reminds me of that rant about the US south (or red states?). Haven’t seen that one in a while.
Crazy how the way the heros in that story “win the day” is by killing themselves. One character gets thwarted and is forced to live forever lol.
At least he won.
Lol those are the msrp prices I’m Canada…
Given that Steam Frame is ARM64, and runs a rooted version of Linux, I wonder how long until a homebrew version crops up. I hope people are playing with this idea.
Well, it probably wouldn’t have this much demand if it ran Solaris with no root password set on SPARC…
Anyways, you can hotglue a computer to a Valve Index then make it run Monado with WlxOverlay. I don’t know if it can run without a monitor, I guess you will have to try it and see, or just make a fake software monitor.
I used to hate them, now I just find another hobby
The companies selling multiple to one customer and allowing this are the ones to blame. Screw the scalpers too, but we should be angry with them as well I think.
I mean it’s basic economics. The real solution is for companies to price them correctly in the first place. You can also have a lottery, but the current state is silly.
