I have to say, some of these may be scam too.
Ain’t nobody buying it for the official price, let alone twice that lol
If you buy from scalpers, you’re part of the problem.
Why? They can only have one unit, just don’t buy it off of them. End of problem.
Why would anyone spend 3x the already too much for a steam machine?
Its not like they locked the os or even think the price is good. Who needs one of these this bad?
Rich FOMO gamers
Scalping only worth it if people will pay it. Are people actually going to pay that price?
idk, im sure there are some hardcore steam fans somewhere idk how much of those have money but I’m sure some are getting sold.
Scalpers are some of the worst scum to humanity has produced.
if you seen the pokemon scalpers, pretty much. people who dont even play it try to cash in on it.
Apparently you can get those listings easily removed by reporting them that the seller sells an “intangible item”. Which is true, since a reservation is indeed not a tangible item.
Scalpers are the proof that a lot of humans are dumb af. Scalpers wouldn’t exist if the vast majority humans were capable of using their brain.
Especially considering that is makes zero sense to pay extra, since you can literally go out and buy any other computer instead.
Just need to install Steam OS after
Dude scalper are a symptom too. I people weren’t wired for imefiat access to thing they wouldn’t exist. But hey you can get stuff in 24h, who wait a month or more for things in this society ?
They are a symptom, but they are a problem too. Denying that is pure laissez-faire capitalism. Scalpers create artificial supply issues to increase prices while adding zero value. That it pays off because some pay that, doesn’t change any of that.
In this case of course the original price was already high and that scalper price is absurd. I’d be surprised if a lot of people are ready to pay that kind of money for it, but what do I know.
Yeah well done you pointed to one of the parasitics classes. There are much. I never bought from a scalper but they clearly don’t sell to us. This system is fucked. Once th first billionaires spawned it was too late.
Valve should make a false initial sale then “run out” causing scalpers to stock up then all of a sudden “find” a bunch of extra stock to start selling immediately after the first batch runs out.
That would require having enough inventory to meet total demand at the set price.
IMO the best they can do is cut the scalpers out by starting the price off high themselves and lowering it as supply increases. Low supply and high demand will always lead to increased prices and trying to avoid that by keeping prices low will result in others taking advantage of that market inefficiency.
And the best we can do is just not buy the higher priced options and wait for supply to come up.
Welp… time to put SteamyOS on my old lenovo.
There’s one for $3
spoiler
I think I played with that last week
how did that go?
Pro tip: don’t buy obviously overpriced scalper shit.
Doesn’t mean anyone is buying. Let me know when they actually get sold.
They are being sold for that (or close)…Ebay Germany
“presale” and “preorder” - so a 200% markup for them to handle the valve store reservation?
Those look like offers, sales involve both a buyer and a seller agreeing to the transaction.
Sorry to dissapoint.
Those are sold pre-orders :pVerkauft means sold
