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I was just thinking about making a one off script to grab a ps5 tomorrow. But not for scalping, just to give to my mom to give to my son.

wow_why 6y ago
Why don’t you take care of your son?
- tdy_err 6y ago
  Sounds like he’s proxy gifting or helping his mother afford Christmas, maybe relieving her of guilt about expensive gifts on the wish list.
- athriren 6y ago
  generally speaking, one sentence responses that beg the question don’t contribute much to this forum in my opinion. here is an entirely plausible chain of conditions leading to the GP comment: 1. it is very difficult to buy a PS5 right now. 2. son wants a PS5 for christmas. 3. grandma wants to buy a PS5 for her grandson. 4. tech savvy parent wants to make it easier for not tech savvy grandparent to accomplish the goal of buying a PS5 for their grandson. (heading off a potential objection—“why doesn’t grandma buy something she can actually figure out how to buy”—by just saying that sometimes you want to do something nice for someone that you need help to accomplish and this kind of communal help among relatives and close friends is pretty common practice) reading the GP, i do not understand why you chose to interpret the comment as hostilely as possible. you did not even ask “why don’t you buy the gift for your son” which would still be presumptuous in context. you asked instead “why don’t you take care of your son”, which assumes a whole host of negative things about someone you have never met who has given you no indication that this question has any basis at all.
  - dec0dedab0de 6y ago
    Thank you. FYI your first scenario is dead on, I assumed that would be obvious.
- bfuclusion 6y ago
  Why do you care? And why is that any business of yours?
t0mbstone 6y ago
No reason to write one. Google "sneaker bots". There are whole communities on Discord. The sad thing is that it would be so easy for the retailers to stop the bots (seriously, just put a captcha in the checkout process), but they won't do it because why would they? Why wouldn't they want to sell out instantly and take the money to the bank?
- elindbe2 6y ago
  That doesn't make much sense to me. The purpose black friday sales for companies seems to be 1.) to drive customers to their store where they will also buy non-sale items and 2.) to build brand image and name recognition with potential customers. Neither of these objectives are met by selling to scalpers.
- dec0dedab0de 6y ago
  yeah, but whats the fun in that. As far as captcha, for the use case of just running on a local computer to buy one thing you could have it feed the user the captcha to solve over and over.
- rdtwo 6y ago
  They are a bit expensive couple hundred bucks to license. Got any favorite communities?
rdtwo 6y ago
You might do ok watching one of the twitter account that announces drops like @wario64. The bundles are pricy but can generally be bought (GameStop and Costco) the Walmart drop forget about it. Bots only and “oh deer” error messages

wow_why 6y ago

Why don’t you take care of your son?

tdy_err 6y ago
Sounds like he’s proxy gifting or helping his mother afford Christmas, maybe relieving her of guilt about expensive gifts on the wish list.
athriren 6y ago
generally speaking, one sentence responses that beg the question don’t contribute much to this forum in my opinion. here is an entirely plausible chain of conditions leading to the GP comment: 1. it is very difficult to buy a PS5 right now. 2. son wants a PS5 for christmas. 3. grandma wants to buy a PS5 for her grandson. 4. tech savvy parent wants to make it easier for not tech savvy grandparent to accomplish the goal of buying a PS5 for their grandson. (heading off a potential objection—“why doesn’t grandma buy something she can actually figure out how to buy”—by just saying that sometimes you want to do something nice for someone that you need help to accomplish and this kind of communal help among relatives and close friends is pretty common practice) reading the GP, i do not understand why you chose to interpret the comment as hostilely as possible. you did not even ask “why don’t you buy the gift for your son” which would still be presumptuous in context. you asked instead “why don’t you take care of your son”, which assumes a whole host of negative things about someone you have never met who has given you no indication that this question has any basis at all.
- dec0dedab0de 6y ago
  Thank you. FYI your first scenario is dead on, I assumed that would be obvious.
bfuclusion 6y ago
Why do you care? And why is that any business of yours?

t0mbstone 6y ago

No reason to write one. Google "sneaker bots". There are whole communities on Discord. The sad thing is that it would be so easy for the retailers to stop the bots (seriously, just put a captcha in the checkout process), but they won't do it because why would they? Why wouldn't they want to sell out instantly and take the money to the bank?

elindbe2 6y ago
That doesn't make much sense to me. The purpose black friday sales for companies seems to be 1.) to drive customers to their store where they will also buy non-sale items and 2.) to build brand image and name recognition with potential customers. Neither of these objectives are met by selling to scalpers.
dec0dedab0de 6y ago
yeah, but whats the fun in that. As far as captcha, for the use case of just running on a local computer to buy one thing you could have it feed the user the captcha to solve over and over.
rdtwo 6y ago
They are a bit expensive couple hundred bucks to license. Got any favorite communities?

rdtwo 6y ago

You might do ok watching one of the twitter account that announces drops like @wario64. The bundles are pricy but can generally be bought (GameStop and Costco) the Walmart drop forget about it. Bots only and “oh deer” error messages