UK retailer GAME has seemingly blocked multiple people on Twitter for reporting PS5♏ scalpers, as opꦇposed to taking direct action towards the scalpers themselves.
The news comes from a Twitter account named UK PS5 And Xbox Series X/S Stock Alerts, which regularly posts updates pertaining to where players can buy next-gen consoles at any given time. After calling out GAME for facilitating the scalper bot known as Carnage's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:haul of 2,000 PS5s just yesterday, the retailer 🏅decided to block the a𝔉ccount on social media, while taking no visible action against the scalpers themselves.
One person in the replies𝄹 to the thread embedded above noted that GAME has also blocked another innocuous PS5 stock page, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with scalping activity. It currently appears that whoever is running GAME's social media is either incapable of determining what constitutes scalping, punishing innocent people who are actively trying to do good in the community, or is simply blocking anybody who posts dissenting opinions towards the retailer's recent behaviour.
Yesterday's scalper, Carnage, stated that iಌt "just keeps getting easier" after reporting that it had acquired over 2,000 next-gen consoles. The account was set to private shortly after receiving backlash from people who have yet to obtain a PS5 for themselves due to scalpers buying up the vast majority of stock and i🅘nflating the cost to extortionate prices.
It's important to note that this comes in the wake of scalpers shifting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:over 60,000 PS5 aꦬnd Xbox Series uniꦗts in November, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:earning millions in the process. Given that GAME is a UK company, British MPs have also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:called for action against th﷽e ღpopular retailer.
As it stands, it appears that people reporting the improper use of bots to obtain thousands of PS5s are being punished, as oppoꦿsed to the scalꦦpers responsible for widespread stock shortages and drastic inflation on the secondhand market.
TheGamer has reached out to both GAME and the accounts that have been confirmed to be blocked for comment. We'll update this story accꦛordingly as facts continue to come in.