Who or what exactly can prevent scalpers from buying away future PS5 supplies in just fractions of a second immediately after the Realese. In order to then sell them for 3 times the price?
What exactly is preventing these scalpers from continuing to do so, so that you only get a PS5 as soon as the PS6 comes out?
Who says waiting will do anything?
First of all, it would help to simply let this greed for profit run wild. Only buy from official sources and let these people choke on their hamster purchases.
After all, it's not a vital thing…
There are no official sellers who still offer this, because the scalpers with their bots buy everything empty from the officials in just seconds. They have their own programs to automatically buy away every console on Ebay, which is a price of less than 1000 euro.
Then there are people who step out of line and are willing to pay 2000 euro for a 500 euro console.
After all, it's not a vital thing…
Does that mean that I should wait the next 8 years until the PS6 comes out and the scalpers lose interest in the PS5 or what?
What prevents you from not doing this forever by always pushing the market price up because there are no cheap sales because even the cheaper scalers are bought up by more expensive scalpers!
No, I would get a PS5 for the next few months
They won't buy forever. If no one bought them, they'd sell them for 450 or so
As long as there are people who can neither wait nor have the intelligence of price gouging, market distortions, fraud, … To recognize and not know what to do with your money and are willing to pay 3 to 4 times compared to the RRP, it will these scalpers always give.
This problem will be resolved by itself at the latest when the PS5 comes into the stationary retail trade. Then their bots will no longer bring them anything.