One captcha before the order and we wouldn’t have this mess but the retail stores act as if they couldn’t do anything
Such a stupid take. Truly. I don't give them business, but some desperate shit head definitely will and already has. So many people here on these forums hate scalpers and don't give them business. Has that stopped them? Ha!!This here.
If people hate scalpers, then stop giving them business. If scalping was a losing venture, then they would stop doing it (or at least slow down). It's just like people that complain about corporations getting too big on twitter using their iphone, while wearing Nike shoes, waiting in line at Wal-Mart.
I often wonder if people actually pay these scalping prices. I've had auctions before where the person backed out last second. I can't imagine, especially now with so many people out of work, that people just have thousands of dollars lying around.
It's easy. If there's more than one purchase to the same address, refuse anything over 1 purchase. Scalpers and their bots don't ship to more than a few addresses, so it would ultimately slow them down to a crawl, at the very least. And limiting 1 per customer every 6 months is a safe and fair bet.It is very hard to automatically detect whether an order is legitimate or a bot, especially when there are thousands of requests per minute, both legitimate and bots. You could implement a series of captchas every step of the ordering process but that's not very consumer friendly. And 99.9% of any store's inventory will not have scalpers preying upon it, so it's a lot of work to secure that one item doesn't fall into the wrong hands. And in the end, money is money.
I hope you're being sarcastic since Sony had a strict limit of 1 PS5 per household.Why don't you buy up all the PS5's and then sell them to people at retail price?
I believe NVIDIA was manually checking addresses and canceling anything suspicious.It's easy. If there's more than one purchase to the same address, refuse anything over 1 purchase. Scalpers and their bots don't ship to more than a few addresses, so it would ultimately slow them down to a crawl, at the very least. And limiting 1 per customer every 6 months is a safe and fair bet.
I hope you're being sarcastic since Sony had a strict limit of 1 PS5 per household.
I'd prefer door-to-door PS5 salesmen from Sony selling PS5's over this current bot-snatching bullshit.If a scalper can do this, why can't a whitehat scalper sell them to people at retail?
I'd prefer door-to-door PS5 salesmen from Sony selling PS5's over this current bot-snatching bullshit.
Not unless someone here runs a bot and snags a shitload of PS5s.Could GBATemp arrange something like this? Probably not officially, but...;P
Then you have to hope the delivery driver doesn't replace the box contents with stuff like cat food and cheap kitchen appliances.Not unless someone here runs a bot and snags a shitload of PS5s.
Am I the only one who thinks scalpers are good businessmen?
Why don't you buy up all the PS5's and then sell them to people at retail price?
you just have to say that you entered the wrong amount to retract a bid on ebay. there's actually like four or five options you can select from to retract a bid and there are no consequences or anything. I saw on ebay a playstation 5 (box only) going for over $800. that either can't be real, people aren't reading the title and or description, or just people fucking around with scalpers. that auction was obviously put up just to trick people into thinking they were bidding on a ps5.
Is it naive to buy from scalpers?If the final customers weren't as naive to buy from scalpers, then they wouldn't have that business model.
But people are so consumer addict that most of the time they don't care about paying more money for whatever they want to own, even if its pure crap.
Suddenly my little country house is a block of flats (and with the rate of house building around here nobody has a current list of anything), floors 1 through 30 and A through Z on each floor (maybe even some number-letter combo to go further), or indeed if my mate works in a block of flats as a doorman then package intercept for people never addressed to, never paid anything for and will never know (they never paid for anything after all, maybe even just the little old ladies if they do think to check against their database and confirm activity).It's easy. If there's more than one purchase to the same address, refuse anything over 1 purchase. Scalpers and their bots don't ship to more than a few addresses, so it would ultimately slow them down to a crawl, at the very least. And limiting 1 per customer every 6 months is a safe and fair bet.