Tag Archives: Scalpers

Last week, Larian Studios announced that they would be releasing a physical version of the universally acclaimed Baldur’s Gate 3. Costing $79.99, the Deluxe Edition includes quite a lot for relatively little. Despite the high demand, Larian has now warned fans not to buy any copies from scalpers as “there …

Over the last year, we've seen a sharp rise in scalping, with many utilising bots to snatch up stock for graphics cards, game consoles and everything in between before regular customers have a chance to make a purchase. This in turn leads to artificially inflated prices, with massive profit margins …

Steam Deck was only announced last week but scalpers have already started to put the console up for sale by more than double its MSRP. Searching for "Steam Deck" on eBay shows multiple listings of Valve's upcoming console, some priced at up to £1200...

Leo is loving life with his AMD RX 6800 XT graphics card to go alongside his liquid cooled Nvidia RTX 3080. Is he the luckiest graphics card enthusiast around by having managed to bag both cards? And what is exactly is going on with supply? Let's have a discussion...

MSI has found itself wrapped in controversy this week, as allegations of the company scalping its own products for a higher price on eBay began doing the rounds. The accusation started off on Reddit, with someone linking a company called ‘Starlit Partner' to MSI. Starlit Partner recently sold several RTX …

Nintendo seems to have found success with the launch of its Amiibo figures. The little collectibles bring new functionality to a couple of games unfortunately, Nintendo can't seem to make enough of them, which has caused quite the scalper problem. Not only are scalpers buying Amiibos in bulk and selling …