Are scalpers just IRL merchers? Or are they just cancer?

>>382211541
They should kill themselves. Fucking cunts buying up all the NES Classic Editions and selling them for a thousand dollars. I was going to buy one but I couldn't fucking find any. And fuck Nintendo too because they purposely made that shit limited.

They're smart business minded individuals wouldn't be surprised if they're all jews

>>382211541
This is capitalism, if you don't like it you're free to fuck off to some commie shithole

Anyone who makes living off buying shit cheap/selling at higher price, considering it doesn't add any convenience to a customer, should be sent to jail or public works. Like Satlin did with these assholes murricans cry about in our country few decades ago. :^)

>>382211541
I used to be a vidya scalper/reseller. Obviously we wouldn't exist if autistic gamers didn't buy our overpriced shit for e-cred or whatever. I don't feel bad for taking advantage of people.

>>382211541
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>>382212128
Got a problem with capitalism, son? How very unpatriotic of you. Maybe you should go to one of those faggot socialist hellholes where they believe in baby shit like fairness.

Those toys are for rich kids. Maybe if you stopped being POOR you could have one too.

>>382212096
>capitalism
>literal jews buying out stock from every vendor
>others can't get any
>forced to buy from said jews at times 5 prices

How's that dick up your ass?

>>382212296
>>literal jews buying out stock from every vendor
Yeah, that's capitalism. First come first serve. If you have a problem with it you're free to leave

>>382212245
I remember this pasta. Make something new.

>>382211541
They are legitimate business men. Fuck them.

Anyone who does not support capitalism is a SJW, if you don't support capitalism you don't belong here

>>382212328
Its called being a scumbag, you must enjoy little cocks up your ass to defend that.

>>382212505
Why are they scumbags? Because you were too slow to get one yourself?
Nut up or shut up, crybaby

So many anti-capitalist cucks in this thread. Are we being raided?

>>382212328
>literally supporting jews because muh capitalism

>>382211541
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>>382212128
>>382212296
>>382212505
8 more years, faggots.

It's a bit of an asshole move but there's nothing wrong with up, they're just being smart.

If you're upset about the price of amiibos/NES classics/SNES classics, you should be complaining about Nintendo not making enough and pricing the too low.

Scalpers ensure there is always supply available. Not everyone has a job where they can stay up to 4am refreshing GameStop's website, so if you want one you can just pay about MSRP to a scalper after.

There's nothing magic or sacred about MSRP that means anyone selling above it is evil. It just means there is a ton of demand and not much supply.

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>>382212609
Deal with it, SJW

If you don't want their gamble to pay off, just don't buy their shitty Nintendo toys off of them in the first place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QEkw6_O6w

>mfw people think they are entitled to a luxury product at exact MSRP just because they exist

>>382212692
Fucking Christ, how cucked are Americans?

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>>382212668
>Scalpers ensure there is always supply available
Jesus fucking christ

>>382212581
No, you're just an underage retard. It will pass when you grow up. Hopefully.

>>382212809
hot argument fagtron, sure convinced me

>>382212824
>you'll grow out of capitalism when you're older
lol

They're cancer but the fault does lie with Nintendo, if Nintendo wanted to stop it happening they would, there's a few ways to do it but they clearly don't care.

>>382212552
Haha are americans so fucking stupid they will defend something because muh capitalism and muh freedom? Also this isnt capitalism.. Capitalism is owning a means of production and exploiting labor.. Youre even too fucking retarded to know what youre saying.

>>382212668
>Scalpers ensure there is always supply available.
What. Scalpers are a big reason why the supply is always fucked in stores.

>>382211964

It's the same with everything online, graphics cards are the same at release, blame nintendo for not making enough, it's supply and demand, just don't buy from the fucking scalpers and they'll stop doing it.

Scalping wouldn't exist if it didn't work.

It works because either or both the company is too inept to maintain supply, and because there are people who willingly pay the premiums.

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>>382212668
Oh definitely. I just love buying products that are priced at $13, at 5 times the price from some autist that ensures no one else can get it at the original price.

>>382213339
Should've been quicker to pre-order then, faggot

>>382213372
>autists that have literal jobs refreshing pages
>buys everything
>shoulda been faster lol

How cucked are ya bud?

Scalpers wouldn't exist if Nintendo stops enabling them.

>>382213484
Not as cucked as you, better go give those autists your money :)

>>382213484
Smart autists employ bots to do the buying for them.

>>382213074
If scalpers didn't exist, the stuff we're talking about would sell out almost as fast because Nintendo does not produce enough to meet demand.

Scalpers basically do Nintendo's job for them. They buy their products, and put them up for sale at a high price. They then continually lower the price until people start buying. Essentially, they are finding the market-clearing price which will always be higher than what Nintendo sets as MSRP. This allows people who couldn't stay up to 4am refreshing a web page or camp out outside Best Buy the opportunity to get one at a later date for some more money.

>>382213339
Again, there is nothing magical about MSRP that means anyone who buys above it got screwed, or that you're entitled to buying a product at MSRP. Nintendo doesn't make a lot of these, and they price them low. Scalpers distribute the products via who is willing to pay the most, instead of who can stay up the latest and camp in front of Best Buy.

>>382213524
>I'll gladly suck that BBC for my jewish masters:)

Like pottery

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>>382213635
You're a jew if you're against capitalism.

>>382213072
>Capitalism is owning a means of production and exploiting labor
Karl Marx 101
Its good to be the world power

>>382211541
>buy thing
>sell it
>this somehow makes you a bad guy
wooooow

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>>382213678
>jew
>against capitalism

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Scalpers are a supply problem. If nintendo wouldn't create shortages to drive sales, scalpers wouldn't be interested in their products.
Be patient, eventually nintendo will release more product and you will be able to get it. If for some reason that will not happen then don't buy it at all, it's a luxury product after all. It's not like they are scalping something you need in order to live, right?

>>382211541
They're based because they fuck over Nintendo fans

>>382211964
Just emulate the games, dipshit.

>it's not the scalper's fault that he's scalping, it's nintendo's fault and the public's fault!
Jesus christ.

>Your wallet was stolen? Well don't get mad at the thief, it's actually society that's at fault. Also it's your fault for not taking care of your wallet! But it's definitely not the thief's fault.

The NES Classic was easy to get if you set up alerts and were willing to wait in line somewhere a couple hours. Scalpers are willing to do both of those. They want the product more than you if you don't want to do those things.

You can blame scalpers for having to do those things in the first place, but you also have to blame the company for not producing enough product, and the idiot consumers who pay scalper prices because they are impatient or lazy.

If Nintendo made more product they'd get more money, but Nintendo hates money so they don't make more product.

>>382213782
>buy all the stock of thing so no one else can buy it
>mark it up 500%
>sell it
>"lol get over it you were too slow"

ftfy

>>382214054
That's what feminists actually believe tho.

>>382214128
Exactly. Only SJWs are posting this anti-capitalist shit. Don't be fooled. Scalpers are true patriots.

>>382211964
Nintendo never expected the NES classic to sell that well. People act like Nintendo thought of it as anything more than just a way to advertise their brand through a simple piece of collectable merchandise. Same thing with SNES, their main concern is getting Switch units out in time, not making sure everyone who wants a piece of nostalgiafag collectable merchandise gets one

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>Excited to get the NES classic because it was my first console
>Decide not to pre-order incase it has some major flaw or something and wait for a review
>Go into store day 2 to pick one up... all sold out
>Guy says he's already called up other stores for earlier customers... none left in stock anywhere
>He tells me thought to just emulate them

>I say "Ah yes of course" then i get home, google what emulation is

Thanks scalper faggots for saving me money. Anyone dumb enough to pay more from a scalper deserves to be swindled.

If I see a SNES in store sure I might actually pick it up just for Star Fox 2, but otherwise those 21 games just aren't worth the price stores are asking, let alone what scalpers will try for.

>>382214054
>>Your wallet was stolen?
They aren't doing anything illegal. Stop with this stupid comparison, fuckwad

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>>382213782
Usually it happens like this
>stay up all night refreshing the pre-order page because you have no job
>buy out as much as you can
>sell shit at 10 times the price for doing literally nothing to people who were slower than you

It's still a risk though. There an incident during some iPhone release where a woman payed some guy infront of the line $800 to take his place.
She turned out to be a scalper and intended to buy out every new iPhone the store had until she was informed that the apple store had a one model per person policy. Fucking apple has better customer relations than nintendo.

>>382214341
Sounds like you're mad that they found an easy way to make money while you're a wageslave

It's no different than the people who buy all the baby formula to sell it for marked up prices.

>>382214341

Heh it was also a women who bought up like 40 WiiU's, the entire stock of her area thinking she was going to make mad profit selling them at 5x the price.

She only sold like 1 at a profit and the rest at a loss according to anon.

>>382214283
Then why are they doing the SNES mini instead of focusing on the Switch and then do the SNES mini when stock is out there comfortably on the shelves?

Everything Nintendo has done in this affair has looked like a stupid decision.

Limiting stock and artificial scarcity enables scalpers. Hurts fans, and some fans give in to scalpers and get jewed.
All Nintendos fault for being incompetent.

>>382214283
>Company built on nostalgiafaggotry surprised that nostalgiafags will buy goods pandering to their nostalgia.

Nintendo is run by incompetents if they think it's sound business sense to sell only 5 NES Minis per city and wait months for a restock. Then again, they made the Wii U and Federation Force, so that's already a given.

>>382214341
Nintendo often tells stores to limit to 1 per person, but retailers can easily just ignore this order, or an employee can circumvent it for himself, family, or friends
And of course the motivation is there because the employee can make a profit selling them himself
All the more reason for Nintendo to make more so they never reach such high prices

Nintendo loves the hype and brand prestige though

>>382214341
I really dont think Nintendo ever expected the NES Classic to sell as well as it did. They were probably just as much blindsided as consumers by how much scalpers bought up or how many people wanted one

>>382214536
Still more successful than you with the few failures.

>>382214558
I don't buy this. The thing was ridiculously popular on social media when it was announced -- tons of non-gamers were talking about getting one. Even if it were true, it doesn't make sense why they wouldn't produce more if they didn't want to create artificial scarcity or whatever Nintendo's fucked up plan is.

>>382214589
Instead they left money on the table which the scalpers happily grabbed in their stead.

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>>382211541
>Nintendo never expected the NES classic to sell that well

>>382211541
>NEETs upset that they can't buy plastic tat

>>382214621
Here's your (you), don't spend it all in one place.

>Have 11 SNES Classics preordered
>Keeping one and scalping the rest

I made over $2000 with the NES Classic.

>>382214507
>Then why are they doing the SNES mini instead of focusing on the Switch

Because the SNES mini is just another form of advertising the brand so that they can get people talking about Nintendo products so they can sell people the Switch. Anything that helps get their name on people's mouths is a good thing for the company, but they're not going to put a huge chunk of their budget which needs to go towards other things like the Switch, Amiibo as well as tons of other merchandise just for one novelty device that you're mad you can't get.

>buying nintendo DLC toys

You deserve to be fucked by scalpers

>>382214826
I have more fun shitposting about games than actually playing them, so the idiocy coming from games companies is just gravy.

>scalper whining thread
>it's always Nintendo happy meal toys or expensive as fuck proprietary emulator boxes

this shit will never not amuse me. Enjoy your shit hobby collectorfags.

>I wanted to buy all this useless garbage to prove to myself that I was such a fan, but it was out of stock!

I can't even fathom being this much of a mental child.

>>382214795

>Lying to strangers on the internet

>>382214552
It's more likely for scalpers to take thier friends and family to buy more under the 1 per person rule and also use their addresses to order more online if preorders are available. They probably also have bots to do it for them if being sold online.

>>382214686
Part of the reason they made the NES Classic was to get rid of leftover Wii controller cables. They probably just used up their stock and decided to call it at that.

Scalpers aren't smart people, most ship from home address which makes it really easy to do them over and sell their stuff for even more than they did.

If you're ever scalping in a big way always remember to use PO.Boxes.

>look up if there was any NES classic on sale
>someone is selling empty box +manual for a 60€

Jews, jews everywhere.

>>382212809
They do - when supply is limited price increases to ensure the safety of supply.

lern2basiceconomics

>>382214686
Nintendo manufactures a lot of stuff and stuff like the NES classic or the SNES costs money and resources to produce. It's not as simple as printing more. They want people buying the Switch this holiday season, not a mini SNES box.

Chances are Nintendo could easily be taking losses with each SNES mini sold, but as long as it does it's job in making it easier to sell people in Nintendo fever a Switch, thats probably good enough

>>382211541
Just search more. You can easily find one at smaller retailers.

Just a one more reason to video game crash to happen.

>>382215080
>make a plastic box with a flash drive inside
>sell at a loss

Not only is Nintendo incompetent to match supply to demand, they sell this shit at a loss too.

Your shilling tactics aren't actually helping Nintendo, you know.

>>382215091
Also, just because scalpers are trying to sell them for a high price, doesn't mean they actually do.

Scalpers are pretty stupid and as long as people refuse to pay high prices for stuff, they'll eventually be forced to lower the prices. When SNES mini drops, nes mini prices might drop as scalpers are forced to liquidate the units they couldn't sell

>>382215249
>I have no clue how this industry works

You do know that console manufacturers often sell their consoles at a loss right? Why? Because it allows them to sell the items for lower to consumers which allows the console to have a larger install base which means more people to sell games to, the profits of which, especially from royalty charges to third parties,generally make up for any losses on the console.

Just because the NES mini or the SNES mini sell well doesn't mean Nintendo actually makes any profit on them or that whatever profit they may make is worth diverting attention away from Switch manufacturing, which even if each Switch were sold at a loss, it will make up for this loss by creating a larger install base to sell first and third party software to.

If the SNES minis purpose was to merely act as an advertising billboard for the Nintendo brand so that people will buy even more of their bigger and better products, then even if it were sold at a loss per unit and even if there aren't enough to satisfy demand, as long as it got Nintendo free advertising through social media and news coverage and people talking about the SNES mini and their favorite Nintendo games, then the SNES mini has served its purpose a thousand times over

>>382214747
Did you? Did anybody? It makes almost zero sense why there was such fucking demand for it. It was unreal.

>>382215745
>You do know that console manufacturers often sell their consoles at a loss right?
You do know that Nintendo actively go out of their way to avoid this right?

>Just because the NES mini or the SNES mini sell well doesn't mean Nintendo actually makes any profit on them or that whatever profit they may make is worth diverting attention away from Switch manufacturing, which even if each Switch were sold at a loss, it will make up for this loss by creating a larger install base to sell first and third party software to.
Not when the install base consists of nostalgiafaggots, which is a pretty static base.

>If the SNES minis purpose was to merely act as an advertising billboard for the Nintendo brand so that people will buy even more of their bigger and better products, then even if it were sold at a loss per unit and even if there aren't enough to satisfy demand, as long as it got Nintendo free advertising through social media and news coverage and people talking about the SNES mini and their favorite Nintendo games, then the SNES mini has served its purpose a thousand times over
I've already debunked this in the previous points, but let's assume you're right. Problem is, Nintendo's having shortages on FUCKING EVERYTHING. Instead of building hype, it's building frustration and resentment, except for, you know, the scalpers.

>>382216027
>You do know that Nintendo actively go out of their way to avoid this right?
All companies do. The ideal would be to sell your console with a profit on each sale and then make more profit on each software title per unit sold or from royalty fees charged to third parties. Sony at times has sold it's consoles at a loss, but this matters little when Sony can easily sell consoles to new consumers and long time fans of Sony products, which creates a larger install base, which attracts developers who will make Sony more profits to compensate for losses on the consoles. All companies do this. The nostalgiafag base is also not static at all. It really just sounds like you're letting your contempt for those who would go out of their to buy something like the SNES mini cloud your own basic common sense. It's a lot easier to sell people new products if you remind them why they loved your old products. When people are saying "oh yeah, Super Mario World, that was a great game", it's easier to sell them on the latest Mario game you're pushing. Likewise, when people are talking about how great Nintendo is or was, it puts the company back into a more public spotlight, which in turn inspires people new to the brand to look into the company's products. The success of Pokemon Go resulted in higher 3DS hardware and software sales. All the buzz about the NES Classic also generated higher software and hardware sales all around for Nintendo and the focus of attention on Nintendo helped Nintendo to remain enough in public attention as Nintendo prepared to launch the Switch.

>Instead of building hype, it's building frustration
With respect to the NES mini, most of the frustration has been towards the scalpers and the shortage on Switches has certainly not created so much frustration that people still aren't trying to get one as soon as one becomes available.

How many SNES Mini did you scalp so far /v/? I got 3 of them myself, I can't wait to scalp retards in a few weeks and make money off those cucks.

>>382214283
Explain the SNES mini then.

Nintendo realized it sold so well and said "Don't worry, we'll produce enough" then they stopped production entirely. But then some suits realized "Wait a moment, we're selling 30 popular NES games for 70$/€ but we sell one NES game for 3-5$/€ on our eshop. WE'RE LOSING MONEY"