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PS5 and PS5 Pro 30th anniversary scalpers are being mass reported to eBay after players decided to take matters into their own hands. The best part? It seems to be working to quite an extent, and there's now an ongoing community effort to bring the listings down.

Enter X user Jimmy Bowers, who announced that he's having a lot of success reporting all the listings to eBay, which are in violation of the website's policies because they are preorders. The result? Those listings are being taken down.



Bowers is now being joined by others, although not everyone is having the same level of success. Still, the scalpers are being mass reported and eBay is taking action.

While these consoles will end up popping up on other platforms, it's still quite cathartic to see scalpers losing one of their favorite platforms.

PS5/PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Scalpers Mass Reported to eBay and It's Working - PlayStation LifeStyle

PS5 and PS5 Pro 30th anniversary scalpers are being mass reported to eBay after players decided to take matters into their own hands.

www.playstationlifestyle.net

 

[Neofire]

Time to visit eBay

 

[tommib]

This is great. This shit needs to stop.

 

[Schmendrick]

Kinda pointless. The auctions will go up again the moment the hardware is released. All this does is waste 30 seconds of a scalpers time.

 

[GoldenEye98]

Seems like this will only applied to pre-ordered items. Once they get them in their hands they will still be able to put them up..

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Meh... just us again having to deal with a problem these OEMs created. It should even be them making these reports. Not us.

there are at least 5 very effective ways Sony could have prevented this from happening to begin with.

 

[Cornbread78]

 

[Cornbread78]

there are at least 5 very effective ways Sony could have prevented this from happening to begin with.

Yup, this is 100% Sony's fault when there were only 12k made. They should have done a special auction or vetted sales to existing long term customers. Anything but throw them to the bots & scalpers

 

[gamer82]

Good on them if stops the scalpers getting funds any ealrier good. Who knows maybe sony may just make more to gut punch them people may finally wake up to being ripped off i mean those prices its not worth it just for a collectable and gd luck trying rt get a profit if you try sell it off .

 

[Deleted member 848825]

Anything that messes with scalpers, even just for the short term, has got to be good. Just a shame its only temporary.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Kinda pointless. The auctions will go up again the moment the hardware is released. All this does is waste 30 seconds of a scalpers time.

Predictably there will be a flood of a lot of consoles at the same time, and together with automated price adjusting there is a chance even if scalped, it will not be to the same degree as right now.

 

[Illyria]

Sony is really the one to blame. There should have been account requirements and/or just make 30,000 of them. Sony won't though. I'd get one even w/o a unit # on it.

 

[ap_puff]

Kinda pointless. The auctions will go up again the moment the hardware is released. All this does is waste 30 seconds of a scalpers time.

good, waste their time

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[FingerBang]

Sony is really the one to blame. There should have been account requirements and/or just make 30,000 of them. Sony won't though. I'd get one even w/o a unit # on it.

I think many people would have liked that. I would have spent more for the Pro bundle, but now I'm just buying the base Pro. They'll make less money with it.

They should have made more of those. It was impossible to get one for many of us but scalpers are going to make bank out of it.

 

[Celcius]

You love to see it. Scalpers get rekt.

 

[rubik's dude]

It's highly unethical, but ebay money back guarantee largely favors the buyer. It's why a lot of people choose not to sell on ebay anymore (myself included).

If somebody really wanted to screw a scalper and, at the same time, get a 30th anniversary PS5 Pro, they could buy one from a scalper, make a claim for "item not as described" to ebay, and then say, "they switched out the insides for a regular PS5," which the seller has no way of proving isn't true. When it comes to INAD cases and he said/she said, ebay (almost) always sides with the buyer.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Scalpers sell that way, little effort and make as much as they can.

 

[crazyriddler]

It's highly unethical, but ebay money back guarantee largely favors the buyer. It's why a lot of people choose not to sell on ebay anymore (myself included).

If somebody really wanted to screw a scalper and, at the same time, get a 30th anniversary PS5 Pro, they could buy one from a scalper, make a claim for "item not as described" to ebay, and then say, "they switched out the insides for a regular PS5," which the seller has no way of proving isn't true. When it comes to INAD cases and he said/she said, ebay (almost) always sides with the buyer.

Damn you, don't give me bad ideas.

 

[FeralEcho]

 

[lh032]

Sony is really the one to blame. There should have been account requirements and/or just make 30,000 of them. Sony won't though. I'd get one even w/o a unit # on it.

100%

This is a limited stock.
There is NO REASON for Sony not to put the preorder exclusive for PSN users only.

 

[Radical_3d]

I wish eBay would ban selling the 30th completely. That way I could say to my family and friends that keep telling me to sell it:

 

[Topher]

Ebay should require all auctions to have the item in hand before listing. Selling shit that comes out next month is asking for trouble

 

[Mobilemofo]

I've reported around twenty myself in the last hour whilst eating tea. Also had a few replies within ten minutes or so saying they have been taken down. What a way to enjoy my tea. .

 

[MiguelItUp]

While you love to see it, you know the reality is they'll just migrate to other marketplaces and continue to sell unfortunately. I really wish we could stop all of this entirely...

 

[yogaflame]

Good. Scalpers are illegal, scammers, and ruining the industry. Jobs from manufacturing and R&D and legal retailers are very affected with scalpers.

 

[mayham2199]

It's highly unethical, but ebay money back guarantee largely favors the buyer. It's why a lot of people choose not to sell on ebay anymore (myself included).

If somebody really wanted to screw a scalper and, at the same time, get a 30th anniversary PS5 Pro, they could buy one from a scalper, make a claim for "item not as described" to ebay, and then say, "they switched out the insides for a regular PS5," which the seller has no way of proving isn't true. When it comes to INAD cases and he said/she said, ebay (almost) always sides with the buyer.

Yea I always worry about selling on ebay because of this. I had a guy get pissed because I didn't send my mobo with something to cover the CPU slut beyond just putting it in those anti static bags or whatever they are called. Then he requested a refund and I told him that's fine but he needs to send it back to me. That's when he bailed on the refund and let the issue drop.