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Message: [QUOTE="AnonymousCookieMonster, post: 122728, member: 3229"] There's probably several ways to fight scalpers. If accounts have large orders for consoles/games then they should be put at the bottom of the list for shipping said titles. Same for known scalpers. That or give them the first batch since they are the most likely to have issues and if they resell and have to refund later they are stuck with hardware. Second have enough of said titles that scalpers are wasting their money. So say have 10-20 million Playstations available at launch. For games, when you sell out push another batch out. Pressing discs and in bulk is something like 10,000 at a time, so making more shouldn't be hard, more than that you just put a 3 week shipping note which gives time for said discs to be pressed, and then sent out to the warehouse where they can then be distributed to orders so a slight delay vs letting them worry about scalpers. Finally... Once scalpers several times in a row find they scalp something and they can't resell it because there's abundant supply, they will sell at a loss to get rid of stock, at which point the producers slow down probably to half speed and then produce as they need. [/QUOTE]

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