Anders wrote:Why do people even consider buying from these bastards? Ignore them and let them waste their money. Fuckheads.
disciple wrote:Put in fake bids for them.
Is there some sort of fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism going on here? Supply and demand dictate price. Unavailability hikes prices. He does say he'll ship internationally, and so he's aiming at people who want one right now. If they're willing to stump up more than RRP for it then all power to them; there are far better evils in this world over which to get your knickers twisted.
Stone
I tend to think capitalism can go too far.
Reading that Kotaku article Sony might as well have stuck their entire allocation on ebay to go to the highest bidders, capitalism at work. At least that way you wouldn't have the mess that that Kotaku article describes.
Problem with that is it's the rich that get then rather than the fans.
disciple wrote:Reading that Kotaku article Sony might as well have stuck their entire allocation on ebay to go to the highest bidders, capitalism at work. At least that way you wouldn't have the mess that that Kotaku article describes.
Short of leasing the early PS3s I can't think how you'd prevent them being
sold for profit.
I wrote this April 6th, 2006:
I don't think the price matters much, I'm sure Sony will sell every
single one that they can produce. They might as well fleece the
early buyers. Hell if I was Sony I'd ebay a few hundred a week
early at a stupidly high price to get the idiots to hand the money
direct to them.
disciple wrote:Reading that Kotaku article Sony might as well have stuck their entire allocation on ebay to go to the highest bidders, capitalism at work. At least that way you wouldn't have the mess that that Kotaku article describes.
Short of leasing the early PS3s I can't think how you'd prevent them being
sold for profit.
I wrote this April 6th, 2006:
I don't think the price matters much, I'm sure Sony will sell every
single one that they can produce. They might as well fleece the
early buyers. Hell if I was Sony I'd ebay a few hundred a week
early at a stupidly high price to get the idiots to hand the money
direct to them.
Fuck the middle men.
To be honest I dunno. Only thing I can think of would be to delay release, Sony are aware of the demand so ideally they shouldn't release till they can meet that demand... But obviously there are other pressures involved so it's not that clear cut is it.
I guess there are software solutions to prevent resale (within a timeframe) and of course they could step on ebay if they wanted to.
I think Sony were just a bit suprised, given some of Kutaragi's previous comments I think the last thing he expected was to be interviewing a load of Chinese tramps about their new PS3 purchases!!!
Well given what happened at the 360 launch it can hardly have come as a surprise that a huge number of people are looking to make a quick buck on ebay from the PS3.
It really didn't matter how many units Sony had manufactured, demand was always likely to outstrip supply. Just ask Nintendo.
Stone wrote:...and so he's aiming at people who want one right now. If they're willing to stump up more than RRP for it then all power to them...
So what about the people standing in line for hours at launch? They also want their PS3 right now, but can't, because they've been bought up by these fucks.
They could have pre-ordered - this only happened because some of the shops decided to sell first-come-first-served rather than on a ticket basis. No idea why, but it's their choice. Taking it to extremes, they could have hired tramps (or students) to wait for them too. I don't understand why it's such a huge deal - it's likely to be very easy to pick one up later in the week once the panic has died down anyway.
If everyone took pre-orders only then it'd still happen.
I can't help but find the rantings of people who want a PS3 (or any other new console, for that matter) right now kind of amusing.
Despite the fact that those who make them are the ones with the right to sell/distribute them as and when they see fit (after all, if it wasn't for them, these things wouldn't exist at all), there seems to be this sense of outrage from fanboys, as if it's somehow their inalienable right to have these baubles and gimcracks when they want them, or something like that.
I have a feeling Sony is following in Gucci's footsteps; pulling away from mainstream entertainment and instead catering exlusively to the rich and famous =
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