I guess consumer protection laws don't exist for this? At least I can trust our lawmakers to curb it and the companies themselves to take action lol. Just like how they stopped ticketmaster from directly profiting off of it, which is the next logical step for the console makers.
Yay "capitalism"!!
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/...es-x-consoles/
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CrepChiefNotify is a company comprising thousands of paid members, which is based in the UK but recently launched in the US. It is said to utilise bot software to circumvent online retail queues and automatically purchase consoles as they come in stock.
The group recently rose to prominence after it boasted that its members had obtained some 3,500 PS5 consoles to resell for profit. On Sunday, CrepChiefNotify claimed that it’s now managed to obtain a significant amount of Xbox Series X consoles from an unnamed retailer [UPDATE: Speaking anonymously, one member claimed the retailer was UK firm Very].
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