Playstation 5 Release: Unscrupulous rip-off among new PS5 fans - fans are shocked

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

is huge.

And there are enough people who boldly enrich themselves with impatient fans.

This is currently what happens on

.

There, the cartons are being

of

sold - empty, mind you.

The hint that the deal for the new

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

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 “

”.

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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.

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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

,

, 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

at various online retailers.

For a few minutes anyway, and then the

sold out.

The lucky ones who managed to

pre-order

one of the

looking forward to November 19th, the announced delivery date for the

.

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

.

At the same time, online marketplaces are full of offers for new

.

Sometimes twice as expensive as the

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 upon 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: Resellers shamelessly take advantage of gamers' impatience

While more and more organizers are personalizing their concert tickets and thereby try to put a

to usury, manufacturer Sony has

missed

this opportunity with the

.

To do this, the company would only have had to introduce one rule that only one

can be purchased

per email address

or that the

tied to a name.

The desire

to hold

the

in your hands at the time of release is understandable.

However, there are

always two

to this

phenomenon: If you give in to

impatience and turn to the

on the Internet, you support this system and the unscrupulous usurers with several hundred euros, which you should better spend in more games in a month or two the PS5 is stuck.

If everyone were to

boycott

the

from now on

, many of them would - at least for the time being - sit on their goods.

A nice dream.

(Sebastian Richter)

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