There’s an app I use to buy merchandise. And on this app a guy has 37 unopened 15-year Anniversary Collector’s Editions for sale.
Back when they were for sale, through various websites, there was a very small window of opportunity for me/others to purchase one. People like him swept up the majority of the CE’s making the opportunity to buy one even more scarce.
The principle of the matter is ridiculous, if one guy did that then there’s surely multiple guys that did the same thing. Players like me who missed out now have to pay an exorbitant amount to buy one of these things.
How can we fix this for future buyers?!
By limiting 2 per household.
That’s fair, that’s right.
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Blizz doesn’t care who they go to, so long as they get sold.
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I agree actually. Kind of surprised they didn’t do this.
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Okay, and if I use a VPN, pre-paid debit cards from Walmart, and multiple PO Box delivery addresses, how are you going to stop me?
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It’s not a problem. I always buy large amounts of limited edition items to resell them. It’s how I pay my rent. Early bird gets the worm.
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You could work a job that pays your rent, that doesn’t have to make you a giant jerk that makes things more expensive for everybody.
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I feel you OP but nobody cares,
I made a thread about the same thing when it first happened, trust me nobody cares enough for it to change.
I was lucky enough to get one copy, I think I’ll just keep it unopened in a cupboard for a few years
I feel for people who actually want it and missed out so scalpers could sell it for twice the price
But why work when you can do that?
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It is uncool when that happens, but oddly enough, the best measure is just to not buy them from second hand sellers. Given enough time, then people would stop purchasing large amounts of them.
I was fortunate enough to nab one.
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So I walk next door and pay my neighbor to buy 2, and email a few buddies of mine and Paypal them the money to buy 2 each…and so on.
There are always ways around that.
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I know I know, ethics towards your fellow man is in short supply. They are still a giant jerkface.
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If you seriously go through all that trouble then you need to take a deep look inside yourself and ask why you’re such a horrible person.
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Or you need to look inside yourself and figure out why you weren’t able to purchase one single box when others can purchase 37. That’s one really big you problem.
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I hardly think ethics applies to buying special editions of video games.
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Ethics and morality is involved in everything we do when interacting with others.
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Ethics applies to Everything.Everything.
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Let me rephrase then. I don’t think it matters.
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I personally don’t, and I do agree with you that such practices are… not undertaken to the endearment of others… but while inconvenient the time investment for the above isn’t really all that significant once you know how.
So… how does one stop it?
Perhaps I was at an actual job that required actual work and not being a vulture online waiting for said items to go on sale.
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And they are often situational.
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