 Hey folks, this is an interesting video because I don't know a Way to approaches that makes people look a little not scummy For those who don't know at least in the United States This isn't legal in every country in the United States It is legal to buy a product and resell a product So as an example, I could buy this our family Sparkling mixed berry water and assuming it was sealed or whatever I could resell it and that it being in the state it is now I technically could resell it if someone was willing to buy it And that's the case with technology I could I could buy this phone resell it even if after it's used all that jazz It's perfectly legal in the United States And what happens in a time like we are facing today where there's a worldwide pandemic and there's shortages on a lot of things is that people take advantage of the situation to buy out the already limited available stock of things to Resell them for a higher value and this is happening with the Nintendo switch in particular It's not as prevalent with the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox one because there seem to be more stock of that because I guess most People that want one usually have one at this point. Whereas there is still high demand for switch Especially in wake of animal crossing coming out. So we're sitting here wondering What is exactly happening now? There was a man a while ago. I don't know how many people saw the story There was a guy who bought up all the hand sanitizer In a given area and then tried to resell it and then was shut down because well I mean that's just a really scummy thing to do and hand sanitizers obviously considered a much bigger essential than Say the switch But what's happening is there's a free app or a free program you can download on your computer that when you run it, it'll just check the internet for available switches at various retailers and Buy it assuming that you have, you know credit card information or whatever entered in and then yeah, there you go You have a switch this sounds like a great tool for those of us that want to get a legit switch But it actually was created as kind of a byproduct of the group of friends that wanted to Make it easier to buy and resell switches and now that the app is freely available basically scalpers are using it like crazy to buy up all the available stock of switch and Resell it and the sad thing is it's working. So here's the original story as I have seen it on Nintendo life So it says, you know, there's a new open source tool in the market This is partly responsible for the current Nintendo Switch shortages when you get down to it This person Said I decided to make it as a joke, but I quickly realized just how powerful it could be me and my friends We're talking about reselling Nintendo switches and at one point my friend named nickname bird told me I should make a bot in Here we are today And so it's at least partially responsible and making it much easier to scalp But the crazy thing is that people are buying these scalp switches and buying them at insane markups So let's just take a look at what's actually selling on eBay. Not just what things are listed for what they're selling at Because this is insane and it's easy to track on eBay because it does tell you how many of this item has sold If a person selling more than one Alright, so as you can see here this this particular user is selling the Nintendo switch light gray yellow turquoise, etc And they're selling it at about an 80 to $90 markup depending on the color and he sold 78 of them at that price The switch light actually has the smallest markup because the demand for the switch light in the United States is not as strong as it is for the Normal switch, but still that is a markup for at least it's a brand new unit You'll see later the used units are selling for insane prices Here is a new this is supposedly based on the picture the original You know joy con gray GameStop certified So this is essentially refurbished switches that that people are buying from GameStop like literally buying from GameStop and selling at $429 plus $14 and 40 cents in shipping. They've sold 16 of those so far at that price. That is insane Moving on down. You're seeing a completely used switch here selling at $415 21 people watching and no one's actually bought it yet Here you see the Nintendo switch light again with the various colors selling at 284.99 with 460 plus of them sold that's a lot You're seeing a switch like that has a bid right now That's basically already up to what retail pricing is so the bids probably going to be going higher than that it just started It's less six days Left so yeah, that's going to sell for much more than 200 You're seeing here a bundle which might be worth 700. I don't know probably not Probably a used switch that someone's trying to resell for for quite a chunk of money Here's another one, you know 400. That's a used switch. It comes odyssey at least but people are trying to get that at a much higher rating 265 on this switch light or best offer. So It's it's out of the box usually if a product's out of the box It's considered used that lowers the value a little bit, but still selling it higher than retail value You know 380. This is maybe one of the better things. I've seen however You know again, it's used so it is what it is. You have seven people watching this $480 one. This is the new model with a better battery life You have 425 down here 459 with 26 of them sold and almost gone So you probably only has a couple left in the stock at that price, which is just insane to me You know, this one's still getting bids it has eight bids and it's up to 340 bucks already on the bids So again, $40 ahead of retail value. This one's, you know, $70 ahead of retail value You know and more switch lights eight sold It just goes on and on and on like this most of the switches selling the Normal switches selling, you know between 400 and 500 dollar switch lights is selling between 250 and 300 You'll see some that that are that are quite a bit higher. I believe if the animal crossing bundle pops up here I think that's going for like 700. I don't know how many are actually selling at that price But obviously that's an even harder Unique system to get in fact Let's just actually look up the animal crossing switch here and just just take a glance of any of actually sold at that price And you know, which would require a seller having more than one. I mean $760 776 of them sold. This is the last one he has He has sold 76 of these animal crossing bundles, which were $300 by the way They don't even come with the game. There's $300 76 of them and he sold them at 759 dollars. That is what like in that's more than double What he paid that's an insane profit margin and people are buying it people are Spending this kind of money on this and it's a sweet system and it might never come back in stock again And that's it's insane to me like here's one. That's at least it's on a bidding system though So it's at 520 right now, but you know, who knows where it's gonna end up at this one's, you know, 650 Last one he has, you know, I guess it's a little bit cheaper, but not much 700 you know 17 bits and this one for 540 You kind of you kind of get the point. It's going for an insane amount of money I mean 29 of this one sold this one's a little bit cheaper 29 of this one sold at 620 Just insane what what is happening with the Nintendo switch in the current marketplace and I point all this out because I don't know What we as consumers are really going to be able to do about it right now when Nintendo's not able to make enough switches to satisfy demand This is going to open up things to the scalping market And it's just an unfortunate reality of being in kind of a capitalist country and a capitalist society in general for a large part of the world is that people are gonna take advantage of the these pandemics and People are gonna be willing to spend the money. They're getting their stimulus checks here in the US They might be like, oh whatever. This is free money. I might as well. Just go buy One of these switches off of eBay because I really want one. I really want to start playing switch games And then I know there's some people out there that also have the opposing attitude that if you wanted to switch You should have got one, you know a year ago or two years ago And I I think that's an invalid argument because you don't know people's financial situations You don't know their personal desires. Maybe there weren't games out. They wanted to play But now there are games they want to play And obviously we're dealing with a situation where people didn't have time necessarily to game that they do now With so many people out of work. I think unemployment rates are over 11 million people in the US now Maybe it's up to 15. I'm not sure it seems to be rising every single day And even the people that are working a lot of them are working from home only able to work part time They can't do their full job. So they have even more time to waste And you know with the lockdown and everything people have time to game now that they normally wouldn't and so it would make sense That right now they're kind of looking at hey, whatever gaming options and what's the hot system The hot system is switch, you know Why pick up a PlayStation 4 and Xbox one right now when you know PlayStation 5 and the Xbox series X are coming Like why not just wait on that and instead buy a current system. That's still getting new games. Just had a hot release I'd argue another big, you know free-to-play release coming out in in Jala is coming as well and Consumers are just kind of left sitting there. What are we gonna do? My I know my local stores are sold out my local GameStop all three local Walmart's Let me see here. I'm trying to think of all the best buys target and We don't have a shop go any more to close. So All of those local retailers are sold out Even refurbished units sold out You might get lucky at a pawn shop But almost all the pawn shops have been shut down because they're not essential retail. So You're at this point now where The only viable option for a lot of us is to either Travel store to store to store to store at a time when we're not supposed to be traveling not supposed to be doing that and maybe getting lucky a few counties over in the middle of nowhere and finding one unit available or You just go online. Don't leave your home and order off eBay off Amazon, etc and just pay the premium that scalpers are putting on it right now knowing that it's a hot commodity and that's just an unfortunate reality of the world we're in right now and You know if you're a prospective switch buyer who's trying to Would like a switch, but you don't want to pay these prices. Obviously wait, you know, if you wait like a month two months I'm sure things will settle down manufacturing. We ramp back up and they'll be able to meet supply and demand right now They're failing to even meet it in Japan the home country. So You know, it's something that maybe can be dealt with by Nintendo But it's gonna be you know two three months before we finally have regular stock of the system And are you willing to wait is the 250 $400 you could save? By waiting worth it to you, you know, or would you rather have it now? Well, the quarantine is going on because in two three months, it's possible You may all be able to go back to our regular lives and maybe we don't have as much time to game So you want it now and I get that people want it now And I don't really have an easy answer for you beyond paying Skelpers which kind of rewards them again for taking advantage of the supply and demand market and using these applications now Obviously one thing I will say is that you know, maybe you guys should go check out the app I'll put a link to Nintendo lives article down in the description if you're a perspective switch buyer It could work for you to it could work for someone who legitimately wants to get a switch at retail pricing But good luck because a ton of scalpers using the app as well Might swoop in and purchase all the products before you got a number scalpers are very keen on the market when you're seeing, you know Systems going for for four hundred and sixty dollars, you know to over a two hundred dollar markup and You know, they're selling, you know dozens of them It's to a point where these are these scalpers are making a lot of money doing this And so there's no reason for them to stop and they are they have people going, you know Sometimes 24 hours a day running these kind of applications to really snatch up all of the stock, you know They'll rotate family members in the house Keeping things running or whatever and I know this because I've seen some people in real life Who's who who basically make a living off buying things and selling them at a premium? By looking at the market and what's what's in short demand and right now with the pandemic There's a lot of things in high demand that are under supplied In fact, it's actually kind of weird my local Walmart. There's like hardly any vacuum cleaners left We we happen to get a really nice one because we needed a new one It's one thing we use our stimulus check for but it's it's one of those situations where they're sold out And when we talk to them, there's no stock coming because they're not being made By a lot of companies because they're not essential so It's just it's crazy. I don't know What's happening out in the world beyond my own little bubble and in Chippewa falls and Eau Claire Wisconsin Which we're already kind of in the middle of nowhere and we're struggling So I can't imagine what people that live in more high-populated areas are going through But good luck. I'm buying a switch. I feel I feel for you. I really do Hopefully if you're someone who's trying to get a hold of a switch and you've been watching this and you see some switch gameplay of stuff. It's not making you too jealous because Times are hard right now and I feel it. I feel you You know, I'm I'm fortunate to be in the position. I am like I multiple switches You know, there's one in the background like directly behind me. You can't even see I got one upstairs There's one actually right here. That's My daughter switch that doesn't have joycons right now, but that's here. That's working So like it multiple switches in my house. I got all the switch games, you know back over here PlayStation 3 up there had an Xbox one, etc. Hey I'm a fortunate person in life when it comes to gaming And I feel for you people that right now really need the distraction and maybe Netflix isn't enough for you or your board And you want to do something more interactive. Anyways, I think that's what you're doing And I'm gonna roll for chance from the center brim be sure to answer our trials of mana giveaway You know by commenting down below I Liking the video subscribing hitting that bell icon. I didn't mention it at the beginning of the video today because it kind of slipped my mind This is a weekend video and I haven't been making a lot of these But stay tuned. I have another video in the works for tomorrow That video is gonna be all about Ninjala. I am pretty excited for Ninjala a Free to play game coming to switch next month. I'm gonna tell you all about my hands-on experience with the game I'm gonna tell you why you should be excited yourself Maybe some of the new features that I didn't get to try out that we now know are happening about a special event happening for Ninjala on the 28th. Also, there's a prologue video out there We're gonna kind of go through all the Ninjala goodness tomorrow, but for today. I just wanted to talk about Skelpers and what's happening why it's happening and how we're kind of powerless to stop it Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video