 Alright, this story makes me laugh. We all know scalpers have been running amok. They've been bragging. They've been trying to act as if they are a charity act. In fact, the very group that said that they are basically doing God's work by providing food and paying bills for scalpers by charging them fees to access tools claiming they're not using bots. Some people who have leaked information claims they actually are using bots, it is what it is. This very scalper group just got screwed. So this article is over there on Eurogamer by Emma Kent. Let's just take a reading of this because man, this is glorious. I love, I love when a retailer sticks it back to scalpers. So since the launch of both PS5 and Xbox Series XSF, stories of scalping groups and extraordinary third party prices have hit headlines and it's often felt like little has been done to prevent the practice. But today's scalping story ends somewhat differently as a group that boasted about securing 1000 Xbox Series X orders has found them all cancelled. The scalping group, the same one that claimed to have ordered 2500 PS5s at launch and I will note that's also the group that said they're doing charity work here basically. Yesterday posted on social media that it had secured over 1000 plus Xbox Series X consoles from a very well known online retailer. The scalping group charges 29.99 pounds monthly subscription or lifetime subscription membership for 399.99 pounds for its members to get information on how to carry out scalping themselves and reportedly uses bots to automatically find cheap prices in complete mass purchases. The group claimed to have notified its members of a restock at the retailer and urged its followers to buy a subscription for that information. The retailer in question it seems was very, which normally limits console purchases to 1 per address. It seems likely the scalping group was able to find a way around this restriction, which they have found a way around these restrictions on all retailer websites. But unfortunately for the scalpers, the company has cancelled all of the orders. Can you imagine, yes we successfully attained 1000 of these systems and they're like, ha! By the way, those systems don't exist, have a good day. God, I want more retailers to do this, please. Alright, it does suck for legit consumers too, but man. As a result of a technical error, some people were able to place orders for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X console for a short time on Sunday, very told Sky News. However, these items are not on sale. Oh, that's great. And affected customers have received notice that the orders have been cancelled. We apologize for the confusion caused. A couple of legitimate customers claimed to have been swept up in the confusion, but very has promised to refund for the majority of customers within 48 to 72 hours. According to Sky News, very did not confirm whether it currently had next-gen consoles in stock. Even if the mass order was only possible due to a technical slip-up, it is quite amusing to see scalpers group beaten at its own game on this occasion at least. Retailers are often reluctant to discuss the issue of scalping, but you may remember that Curries used its own unique brand anti-scalpy measures by temporarily increasing console prices to £2,000 and giving customers a £2,000 voucher. This was likely used as a way to allow legitimate customers to complete their purchase without the website being overrun by bots. Talk about a bot rescue mission. I mean, think about that. A retailer is temporarily increasing the price of these systems to £2,000 and then later giving you a voucher, so like you spend £2,000 on it absolutely, but then they give you a voucher that gives you your money back and then you just pay the asking price for the system. It's obviously a way to deter things, but knowing this, scalpers could technically still take advantage of it, but man, this is great. Any time you could stick it to scalpers is a good time. I mean, scalpers are just, they're getting to the point that we, within these systems anyways, that we could just call them criminals. I mean, let's just look at the Xbox Series X on eBay right now. Xbox Series X. Okay? Because this group, you know, was boasting about securing a thousand of them. I mean, look at this, $1,300, $1,200, oh, this one just under $1,000. Let's go to buy it now though because that's where you really see what the systems are going for. And so you're $1,300, $1,200, oh, this one is still a sponsored post at $995, $900, oh, another sponsored post, new listing for $900. So the price has come down a little bit, $800 here, assuming this is even a legit posting because there's been a lot of fake posts as well. And I'm guessing the fake ones are the ones that are undercutting the market. $1,500 for this little bundle, $1,200, $1,300, $1,250, $1,200, oh, this goes on and on and on. I mean, we already know it's really bad for PlayStation 5. I think the point that we're seeing here is that scalpers are just scum. And I like that even though this was unintentional, that scalpers ended up getting screwed in the end. I mean, here, I'm just glancing at the price of Siri S's. Remember, this is a $300 system. People still want $200, $300 for it. I mean, people, you know, you think it's exclusive to the next gen. I mean, just glance at the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch is being scoped right now. This bundle here is selling for $489. Here's a new sealed red box edition one, which is the only version they're selling, and it's selling for $475, it's almost $200 over MSRP. Like it is insane right now. Things remain in the Fortnite bundle that just came out, geez. Of course, that's being scuffed to hell. I mean, at least the Nintendo Switch lights only $40 past, you know, what it costs at retail. That's because people aren't that interested in the light. They want the full Switch, and of course, for good measure, we'll just glance at PlayStation 5 because it's just a joke what's happening with PlayStation 5. But you know, we have to look. We have to look just for posterity's sake in the first listing, $1,800. It's to a point now where scalpers are basically thieves. I know in free markets, like in the UK and the United States, it's not against the law what they're doing, all right? It's interesting because there's been people during the pandemic that were hoarding toilet paper, hoarding, back when that was an issue, but I guess remember the toilet paper issue, the great toilet paper issue of 2020, there were people that just were hoarding supplies like hand sanitizer or N95 masks. And the government basically came along and said, nah, you can't do that. You can't be doing that and selling it for 700% markup. Technically, it's not against the law for them to do what they were doing, but because it was a pandemic, the government stepped in. What sucks is it took a pandemic for the government to do something about those scalpers. What's it going to take for the government to do something about these people right here? These people right here, they're snatching up, I mean, look at this person, five. He's got five PlayStation 5 consoles, all disc versions that he's trying to pedal off for almost $2,000 each. This like shouldn't happen, shouldn't be possible, but this is the reality that we live in. People have multiples of this system, you know, three of them here trying to sell for $1,700 each. I mean, look at this one, this guy's got eight of them trying to move them for $1,300 each. I mean, look at this guy, look how many he's got, what is it? Got 12? 2,000 he's trying to get. It's insane. And I hope that these people, this person here with 12 systems, I hope this person doesn't sell a single one of them, not even for retail value. When the price has inevitably come down in six months and you're able to get this system at retail, I hope that none of these systems sell and they are stuck with these 12 PlayStation 5s and unable to recoup any of their sunk costs for it. If you think about it, you know, that person spent a pretty penny to get all those systems. Six grand plus taxes and shipping in some cases to get those systems. I hope that they lose all six grand. Even if they keep one system for themselves, they lose all six grand and get nothing back. I'm sorry. I'm all for the free market and I believe you absolutely have the right to resell your stuff, resell your games, resell your systems, resell whatever you need to sell to get by. I sold a bunch of stuff last year when I was in a hard financial time to get by, pay bills, put food on the table. I get it. We're in a pandemic, so it's hard times, but this isn't about hard times and don't believe this scalper group. When they say it's about hard times, it's not about hard times. They would have been doing this anyways. This is about supplying demand and PlayStation and Xbox are unable. Nintendo as well right now to keep up with demand. So because of that, scalpers are using backdoor links that is not available to the public. They're using inside connections that, again, are not available to the public, to know when restocks are going to hit and to get the orders in before the public has even a shot. There are retailers that there are certain retailers where this group, and I know this because unfortunately, I know someone who's scalping on PlayStation five who used a similar group. These groups have backdoor links that show available stock before it shows the public the stock is available so they can essentially sneak an order in before they even let the public in to order. That's how bad it is with scalping. And this happens in other fields. It gets ignored because we're in the video game community. This happens a lot with sneakers. You know, every Air Jordan release, it happens. This is something that happens in a lot of different fields. Something needs to be done about it at some point. Retailers have tried their best to curb it, you know, only one system per address, only one system per email, only, you know, confirmed customers or like, you know, trying to put up, you know, cues. Like there's been various cues at places, you know, to try to stem this. But then what's happened with the cues is that there's been secret links to get around those cues and get directly in and make an order in front of thousands and thousands of people that are waiting for their chance to buy one. So this is just the world we live in right now. It's a sad, pathetic world. And unfortunately, it doesn't seem that we can do much about it. But on a day such as today, we get to laugh a little bit because those 1000 Xbox Series X's that were bolstered by this hacking community. This has really got a hacking. Well, they're kind of a retailer hacking community, right? Like boasted by this, this, this disgusting, this disgusting business. Lost all their orders. I hope they don't get refunded. I like most people are refunded in 47. I know they can't steal the money, but I almost don't want them to refund. That's that's where I am right now with scalpers. All right, folks. I'm Nathan Robodance from the center prime and I'll catch you in the next video.