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Limit to 1 card per person and requiring a deposit might help address that.

twic 6y ago
Require customers' Steam usernames and validate that they are true gamers. Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line.
- Something1234 6y ago
  > Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line. At least there's some originality there.
tinus_hn 6y ago
If this were easy, it would have been solved already. It has not been solved.
- cwhiz 6y ago
  Unique fingerprinting is completely solved. Retailers just have no motivation because the craze is driving huge traffic to their sites.
  - fjkjf67457 6y ago
    how? i have seen zero implementations of this.
    - cwhiz 6y ago
      Why would any retailer implement this? Oh please don’t repeatedly come back to my site. As far as how, there are dozens of things companies could do. Require a credit card verification, don’t allow digital credit cards, don’t ship to PO Boxes, don’t allow VOIP phone numbers, require an account with the retailer, do browser/machine fingerprinting, don’t allow purchasing on a VPN, scan the secondhand market for barcodes and ban people, require linking social media accounts and check for matches, don’t allow different billing and shipping addresses, require phone number verification, and on and on and on. If retailers wanted to make sure it was one customer per video card, they could absolutely, trivially, do it. But why would they? That’s a lot of commotion, and things people would probably get upset about. It will lead to less traffic on their site. And, at absolute best, they will get the exact same revenue.
- victor9000 6y ago
  Limiting one card per mailing address or credit card? You're telling me this is hard?
tvb12 6y ago
I thought it would be cool if you could pre-order one through a local library. Here, at least, getting a library card requires visiting in person, so scalpers would have trouble getting multiple unless the librarian were in on it. I don't think that sort of relationship between manufacturers and libraries exists, though, and I'm not sure it should.

twic 6y ago

Require customers' Steam usernames and validate that they are true gamers. Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line.

Something1234 6y ago
> Oh, you just play pixel art indies? Back of the line. At least there's some originality there.

tinus_hn 6y ago

If this were easy, it would have been solved already. It has not been solved.

cwhiz 6y ago
Unique fingerprinting is completely solved. Retailers just have no motivation because the craze is driving huge traffic to their sites.
- fjkjf67457 6y ago
  how? i have seen zero implementations of this.
  - cwhiz 6y ago
    Why would any retailer implement this? Oh please don’t repeatedly come back to my site. As far as how, there are dozens of things companies could do. Require a credit card verification, don’t allow digital credit cards, don’t ship to PO Boxes, don’t allow VOIP phone numbers, require an account with the retailer, do browser/machine fingerprinting, don’t allow purchasing on a VPN, scan the secondhand market for barcodes and ban people, require linking social media accounts and check for matches, don’t allow different billing and shipping addresses, require phone number verification, and on and on and on. If retailers wanted to make sure it was one customer per video card, they could absolutely, trivially, do it. But why would they? That’s a lot of commotion, and things people would probably get upset about. It will lead to less traffic on their site. And, at absolute best, they will get the exact same revenue.
victor9000 6y ago
Limiting one card per mailing address or credit card? You're telling me this is hard?

tvb12 6y ago

I thought it would be cool if you could pre-order one through a local library. Here, at least, getting a library card requires visiting in person, so scalpers would have trouble getting multiple unless the librarian were in on it. I don't think that sort of relationship between manufacturers and libraries exists, though, and I'm not sure it should.