>guy comes in Gamestop store >asks for 8 nintendo switches

>>375687612
Why exactly hasn't gamestop limited them to one per customer anyway?

>>375687686
Nintendo should honestly enforce this at this point. It would probably help the shortage issue instantly, and similar limits are common in Japan.

>>375687686
Not sure.

>>375687686
Fuck you communist shit

>>375687612
Good man

>>375687612
Do your fucking job desu.

>>375688043
>>375688339
Kill yourself scalpers

Enforced quotas are a much worse system than either raising the price or meeting demand. Scalpers are a side effect of an inefficient market

>>375688486
>raising the price
Can you imagine the ensuing shitfest?
>meeting demand
Airplanes. They're trying.

>>375688486
Gamestop can't do anything about meeting demand if Nintendo won't ship them more and raising the price just means people will go elsewhere. I don't think "1 per customer" is bad considering their options.

>>375688613
The secondary market had proved people will pay $400 for a switch. If retailers temporarily raised it to that it would probably solve the issue

>>375688043
get killed

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>getting low on my quota for people signed up for power up rewards and for the magazine
>guy barges in and says "how many nintendo switches do you have"
>"i have eight in stock"
>"ill buy all eight of them"
>thinking quickly, i say that only members are allowed to buy more than one, its just a small fee, so he'd have to register four people, also sign up for the magazine.
>man mindlessly agrees to do it, wringing his hands, licking his lips, and firing up his craigslist account

>boss comes back from lunch
>hey jimmy how are sales doing
>i sold around three thousand dollars worth of product and signed up past my quota of people to our scam rewards
>get employee of the month

>>375688735
I'm willing to bet it's down somewhere in the contract they sign with Nintendo that they can't jack the price like that.

>>375689065
its the "we want to stay in business so we will not purposefully charge MORE than literally every other competitor, effectively removing any chance people will buy from our store" contract

>>375689215
If GameStop still had switches in stock, but for $400, people would buy them. I guess there would probably be some outcry, but it's not like their current business model is stopping them from going bankrupt