If you buy from scalpers, you’re part of the problem.
Why would anyone spend 3x the already too much for a steam machine?
Its not like they locked the os or even think the price is good. Who needs one of these this bad?
Scalping only worth it if people will pay it. Are people actually going to pay that price?
idk, im sure there are some hardcore steam fans somewhere idk how much of those have money but I’m sure some are getting sold.
Scalpers are some of the worst scum to humanity has produced.
Apparently you can get those listings easily removed by reporting them that the seller sells an “intangible item”. Which is true, since a reservation is indeed not a tangible item.
Scalpers are the proof that a lot of humans are dumb af. Scalpers wouldn’t exist if the vast majority humans were capable of using their brain.
Dude scalper are a symptom too. I people weren’t wired for imefiat access to thing they wouldn’t exist. But hey you can get stuff in 24h, who wait a month or more for things in this society ?
They are a symptom, but they are a problem too. Denying that is pure laissez-faire capitalism. Scalpers create artificial supply issues to increase prices while adding zero value. That it pays off because some pay that, doesn’t change any of that.
In this case of course the original price was already high and that scalper price is absurd. I’d be surprised if a lot of people are ready to pay that kind of money for it, but what do I know.
Yeah well done you pointed to one of the parasitics classes. There are much. I never bought from a scalper but they clearly don’t sell to us. This system is fucked. Once th first billionaires spawned it was too late.
Valve should make a false initial sale then “run out” causing scalpers to stock up then all of a sudden “find” a bunch of extra stock to start selling immediately after the first batch runs out.
That would require having enough inventory to meet total demand at the set price.
IMO the best they can do is cut the scalpers out by starting the price off high themselves and lowering it as supply increases. Low supply and high demand will always lead to increased prices and trying to avoid that by keeping prices low will result in others taking advantage of that market inefficiency.
And the best we can do is just not buy the higher priced options and wait for supply to come up.
Welp… time to put SteamyOS on my old lenovo.
Pro tip: don’t buy obviously overpriced scalper shit.
There’s one for $3
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I think I played with that last week
how did that go?
Doesn’t mean anyone is buying. Let me know when they actually get sold.
They are being sold for that (or close)…Ebay Germany
“presale” and “preorder” - so a 200% markup for them to handle the valve store reservation?
Those look like offers, sales involve both a buyer and a seller agreeing to the transaction.
Sorry to dissapoint.
Those are sold pre-orders :pVerkauft means sold
You can build or buy a lot more computer than the Steam Machine for $3000, even at today’s absurd component prices. I’m not quite sure which is more moronic, trying to scalp a Steam Machine for that price or somebody actually paying it.
you can build a better one for $1050…
Could also be people who just like the form factor but valve refuse to sell it to them directly because international shipping is too complicated for a small startup like valve. /s
Scalpers are low lifes who don’t necessarily know much about the products they scalp. They must have thought it was going to be the same as the last few generations of gaming console releases.
I also believe that the typical potential customer for a Steam Machine will know better.
I’ll always remember going to a rise against concert and scalpers outside were saying “tickets for rise against the machine”, they have no idea what they are selling
Yep, even Valve themselves told multiple times “it’'s just a computer”, hence the price that comparable to other prebuild computers. Who in their mind would pay 3x of that?
That being said, Alienware and Razor audience also exists, so anything possible.
If you spend US$3,000 on the Steam Machine your brain must be made of tofu.
I didn’t actually see any that sold for that price. Highest I’m seeing currently is 2000. Your comment is still valid at $2000 though.
full of protein? tell me where! I would switch to eat brains of tofu in a blink
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Valve’s efforts were never supposed to stop the scalping, only mitigate it.
