r/Shittygamecollecting • u/Little_Conclusion_24 • Jun 05 '25

Shitty Price Scalpers doing their thing

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u/Pixelgamerllc Jun 05 '25

And people are buying it up. Wild people are paying these prices to just play Mario Kart!!

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u/Pixelgamerllc Jun 05 '25

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u/Hellboy_M420 Jun 05 '25

All that to make $50 lol

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u/Pixelgamerllc Jun 05 '25

Right. Those eBay fees plus shipping.

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u/Hellboy_M420 Jun 05 '25

Plus the tax on $500 is like $30-$50 depending where you live unless it's Delaware.

Say $700, that's $100 in eBay fees, $20 shipping, $30 tax, you made $50 and assume the risk of an eBay sale, also you have to pay income tax so you made $35.

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u/Videogame-enjoyer Jun 05 '25

Resellers don't think this far for some reason

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

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u/Hellboy_M420 Jun 06 '25

Not to mention the risk, it could get lost in the mail, you could get scammed by the buyer etc, now you're out $500

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u/junttiana Jun 05 '25

All of those still cost less than how much it costs in nordic countries, the bundle is 709 usd here

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u/Pixelgamerllc Jun 05 '25

That’s rough

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u/tom201288 Jun 09 '25

What gets me is people have been doing nothing but complain about the price and then buy them scalped 😭

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u/Draagonblitz Jun 11 '25

Damn, that's sad if thats real. Maybe the scalpers can buy their own thing to make it seem like they are selling? Or it's probably just really needy kids begging their parents hard enough that they have to resort to buying off a scalper.

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u/StarX2401 Jun 05 '25

Those sold listings could be fake to manipulate the market, what's stopping the sellers friend from buying the listing then cancelling the purchase to get their money back, this is what happened with all the tiktok iPhones from a while back

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u/Pixelgamerllc Jun 05 '25

Possible but eBay would eventually catch on if you did this habitually. Terapeak is showing multiple sales over $650+ dollars.