Scalpers🀅 are selling Switch OLED pre-orders at inflated prices on Ebay, one of which has listed the system for £800.
Whenever a new piece of hardware is announced, the scalpers aren't too far behind. Nintendo's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:announcement of the Nintendo Sw▨itch OLED has seen a number of scalpers attempt to list pre-orders of the console on Ebay for less than reasonable prices. While th🐭e majority of listings are only going for slightly extortionate prices, one scalper is🐭 trying to flog theirs for a whopping £800.
The is just a screenshot of what looks like a pre-order confirmation from UK retailer Game, albeit with all the important bits covered up. To really put the cherry on top of this horrible cake, the seller won't even send the system to you and would rather have you travel to Wigan to pick it up in person.
It's not surprising that we're seeing Switch OLEDs being scalped, especially due to what seems like a significant rise in scalping over the past year. Likely exacerbated by the pandemic, everything from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:new consoles to Pokemon cards 🦩have been ridiculously diffi𓆏cult to get a hold of without paying an obscene amount of money to a scalper.
Scalping has become so much of a problem in the UK that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:government of💃fi𓆉cials are starting to take notice, although getting the British government to do anything useful at the minute is like trying to squeeze water out of a stone. Console manufacturers like Microsoft have even been 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:setting up special pilot schemes to try and get around the scalping problem.
It's pretty much common sense, but please don't buy a Switch OLED from these people, even if they say that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:their reputation "isn't justified." Prices will go back to normal eventually and Link and friends aren't going anywhere any time soon. There's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:no difference in power to a regular Switch and it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:won't even have improved Joy-Cons.
If you're absolutely set on buying one now, you're better off waiting to snag a pre-order from a genuine retailer rather than line the pocket of a scalper. Happy hunting!
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