PS5 and video card scalpers don’t understand why they are hated by people

When we talk about scalper, that is, those “touts” who buy in mass the hottest technological goods of the moment (consoles and video cards in particular) thanks to sophisticated automatic bots to create shortages and make money, we just can’t talk about them well. It will be that we would like to see the products we try in the hands of gamers, and above all at the prices decided by the companies.

The amazing thing about that scalpers complain. Yes, indeed they don’t understand why people and the press portray them as vultures. In an article that appeared on Forbes, these crafty ones dare to say that their actions have been misunderstood and the negative image people have of them unjustified. Yes, you read that right, why are you complaining?

A certain Jordan, co-founder of The Lab, a private group that teaches paying users how to scalp (ie let’s face it, vultures squared), has the ardor to say that “there seems to be a lot of bad press about this incredibly valuable and un I think it’s justified, we only act as an intermediary for limited quantity items“. And we who call them vultures are intermediaries!

“The middleman” Jordan bought 25 Playstation 5s in January, reselling them for £ 700, against the £ 450 that the console is expected to sell for. And he sees nothing wrong with it. “Basically every company resells its products. Tesco, for example, buys milk from farmers for 26 cents per liter and sells it for more than 70 cents per liter. Nobody seems to complain to the same extent that they are doing it with us “.

It does not seem like a perfect example, but we must break a spear in your favor dear Jordan: several angry players have made a mistake, and have threatened you with death, and this is never acceptable. The analogy does not seem a little over the top only to us, but also to the gamers themselves, with an enthusiast who has ruled that the scalper “does not understand that it is another layer of speculation“, then add”non Robin Hood“.

Gi Robin Hood, he stole from the rich to give to the poor, the scalpers instead they buy from the rich to get rich in turn to the detriment of the “poor” (pass us the term, to give an idea). And then they do not understand why they are unpleasant to people (so much so that in the UK they are trying to bring the Parliament issue).

The Forbes article is interesting because it delves a bit into the technical part behind these automatic bots and how they evade the countermeasures of the various sites. Behind there is a job that often involves the employment of a full-time staff, because in addition to beating the poor traditional users who use the archaic method of putting the product in the cart and clicking on buy in human times and when they have time, you must also beat the other scalpers.

The Jordan brokerage group “monitors hundreds of websites” to readily understand when there is a supply of certain products. “pretty simple to set up as all top-level bots have in-depth guides or very simple interfaces. All you need is the product ID, some billing and proxy profiles (proxies allow us to access sites from different locations, which whether a specific country or city) everything is ready before any refueling to give us the best chance of buying. If you are slow, even with a bot, you lose the product“.