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It seems like online scalping in general has skyrocketed since the pandemic started in 2020, the most famous probably being GPU cards.
by wnevets 5y ago
It seems like online scalping in general has skyrocketed since the pandemic started in 2020, the most famous probably being GPU cards.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoAnd the ubiquitous ticket scalper bots.
- chmod600 5y agoI was interested to hear more about why this model is so exciting. Any thoughts, or just faster/better?
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoI think it's just because it's the newest model and for many newest == best. Also, they're cheap, so the difference between a pi4 and a pi2b isn't that much $$$.
- noobermin 5y agoIt's across the board, with GPUs, things like these pis, retro games and accessories even, it's pretty annoying. Thankfully necessities like TP and masks are no longer being scalped but it's still happening in electronics.
- sbierwagen 5y agoScalping happens when the list price is lower than the market price. Nobody scalps shares of Alphabet, because the price floats. Merchants don't want to increase list prices, because they'll get yelled at, so instead they run out of stock and middlemen collect the arbitrage price. If you don't like it, tell stores to increase prices, and tell CNN to stop running stories about how awful greedy businessmen are causing inflation purely out of spite.
- valdiorn 5y agoA short squeeze, like happened with gamestop, is basically scalping on stock markets. the market really, really needs those shares, but not enough are available, so price shoots up.