After the long-awaited release of the Playstation 5 (PS5), some online retailers are taking advantage of the impatience of the gamer community.
She is shocked.
On November 19th, the new generation of
game consoles
from
Sony
should finally
appear.
The
Playstation 5
was sold out almost everywhere on the Internet within a few minutes.
So-called
resellers
enrich themselves on portals like
Ebay
with the impatient - and cause horror among the fans of the
PS5
.
Update from Monday, November 23rd, 2020, 1:53 p.m.:
The rush to the new
Playstation 5 game console
is huge.
And there are enough people who boldly enrich themselves with impatient fans.
This is currently what happens on
Ebay
.
There, the cartons are being
PS5
of
Sony
sold - empty, mind you.
The notice that the deal for the new
Playstation 5
is empty packaging is usually well hidden in the small print or the item description.
An offer for such a box, for example, is
traded
a few minutes before the end of the auction on
Ebay
for more than 800 euros - plus shipping for the empty box.
According to the online portal “gamepro”, there are currently a number of such brazen offers from so-called “
resellers
”.
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On Ebay, a number of rip-offs are currently using the hype surrounding the Playstation 5 (PS5) for lousy business - and offer, for example, empty packaging.
© Screenshot Ebay
Playstation 5: The rush for pre-orders is huge
First report from Saturday, November 21, 2020, 12:34 p.m .:
Offenbach - Fans have been waiting for seven years, then it should finally be there: The long-awaited new generation of
game consoles
,
the Playstation 5 (PS5)
, celebrated its release in November.
On November 19, around 1 p.m., sales started on Amazon.
The rush was so great that the shipping giant's website had to deal with massive disruptions in the meantime.
Since September you have been able to
pre-order
the
PS5
at various online retailers.
For a few minutes anyway, and then the
console was
sold out.
The lucky ones who managed to
pre-order
one of the
consoles in time were
looking forward to November 19th, the announced delivery date for the
Playstation 5
.
For many, this day was instead a day of disappointment: the postman often did not bring the early Christmas present.
The hashtag # WoBleibtMeinePS5 trended on Twitter, under which countless gamers complained about the delay of their
Playstation 5
.
Console name: | Playstation 5 (PS5) |
---|---|
Manufacturer: | Sony |
Type: | Stationary game console |
Release: | 19th November 2020 |
Price: | 499 euros |
At the same time, online marketplaces are full of offers for new
PS5s
.
Sometimes twice as expensive as the
game console should
actually cost.
Cheeky usury at the expense of the end user.
The method is already known from pre-orders at concerts by popular world stars: Bots secure numerous tickets immediately after availability, so that they are sold out within minutes.
A little later, the tickets go on other platforms at horrendous prices over the virtual shop counter.
This business model is now also being used by cunning people with the
Playstation 5
.
Playstation 5: Resellers shamelessly take advantage of gamers' impatience
While more and more organizers are personalizing their concert tickets and thereby try to put a
stop
to usury, manufacturer Sony has
missed
this opportunity with the
PS5
.
To do this, the company only had to introduce one rule that only one
Playstation 5
can be purchased
per email address
or that the
consoles are
tied to a name.
The desire
to hold
the
Playstation 5
in your hands at the time of release is understandable.
However, there are
always two
parts
to this
reselling
phenomenon: If you give in to
your
impatience and turn to the
resellers
on the Internet, you support this system and the unscrupulous usurers with several hundred euros, which you better in a month or two in more games for the PS5 is stuck.
If everyone were to
boycott
the
resellers
from now on
, many of them would - at least for the time being - sit on their goods.
A nice dream.
(Sebastian Richter)
List of rubric lists: © Screenshot Ebay