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PS4 and Xbox One consoles already being sold on eBay

Gadget Mill: Here at Gadget Mill we love our gaming and of course getting the best deals. As we are extremely hyped up this generation for the next round of consoles to make their way to the stores; we decided to go ahead and pre-order this time round.

After a bit of hunting around we found some amazing pre-order deals where some retailers were selling consoles for less than the retail price. So be sure to keep an eye out as you could save some money which you could then of course put towards your games. However we also found a good share of bad deals where retailers were charging more than the retail price and of course people on eBay taking advantage! If you check on eBay you will see exactly what we mean, as there are quite a few listings available for PS4 and Xbox One pre-orders.

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majiebeast3947d ago (Edited 3947d ago )

Damn scalpers they are scum. So many people couldnt buy Ninokuni CE because scalpers bought a buttload and then sold em for insane prices.

Im so glad their WiiU scalping backfired badly and they had to sell the consoles at a loss.

deadlydragon1213947d ago

Exactly, its almost like a crime organisation move if you ask me!

ChrisW3946d ago

Guaranteed to be a criminal organization behind it!

SilentNegotiator3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

Imagine Edward G. Robinson holding up a Wii U in front of a massive pile of Wii Us saying "We're gonna be rich, see?! Rich! Nyeah!"

pixelsword3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

Just send them a post-dated cheque and if they bungle the order, just tell your bank to stop payment on the cheque.

Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II3947d ago

This is stupid mainly becuse your not gonna buy a brand new console over ebay and lose out on the protection a dedicated game store brings and amazon probably, if my ps4 broke down i would be happy to be able to drive to gamestop or w/e to get it sent away for repair.

jeeves863946d ago

I'd have to disagree. There are people out there who absolutely 'have' to have it first, regardless of what it costs.

This is particularly true at Christmas with parents who are desperately searching for that one thing that their kid 'must have.'

chrispseuphoria3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

The Last of Us Statues on Ebay are over $300! That's disgusting...

HammadTheBeast3946d ago

#worth.

Actually not really. For $100 you could probably have a custom statue made yourself.

Nikhil3946d ago

I mean, it's not their fault it's selling for that much. The people biding are the ones driving prices so high. It's just supply/demand.

SilentNegotiator3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

They're called collector's items. If you wanted one, you should have collected one.

Collector's items go up in value.

oof463946d ago

As long as people buy them, people will scalp them.

jeffgoldwin3946d ago

And this is why scalping tickets for sporting events in illegal in most cities. Cant completely stop it, but at least it slows it way down.

Mainsqueeze3946d ago

I think its funny that people are stupid enough to buy from them...almost serves them right for not having the common sense to look it up on Amazon or something.

yeahokchief3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

Dont hate the player. I got my PS4 for $330 with release day shipping via amazon. If I can sell it for $600-800 around christmas, you bet your sweet ass I will.

I love how Microsoft is potentially helping me make money this year.

deadlydragon1213946d ago

I think that is fine; most people's beef is with the individuals who buy these at bulk looking to profit from the gamers who couldn't get a hold of the consoles. Best thing for them is the fact that they usually can return the consoles if they didn't sell like hot cakes as expected - like the PS3 in the UK..

RedHawkX3946d ago

no ones gonna buy an xbox one let alone an xbox one from a scalper thats even more overpriced lol.

Realplaya3946d ago

It'll be funny when they send you a message that the price has changed playa.

yeahokchief3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

Nope.

$408 with release day shipping. paid for with amazon $50 gift cards purchased for $40 each. $328 on release playa. Not to mention i'll get back 5% cash back off the purchase which gets sent right back into my account.

So actually i'm only paying around $311. Dont hate.

So if i can mark up two of them to $600 at christmas that means i'd profit around $580. Easy money.

rdgneoz33946d ago

If you bought $50 gift cards for $40 each, you're spending $388 on release (you only saved $20, not $80). %5 cash back should make it about $368.60. Still better than $408, but its not $311.

yeahokchief3944d ago

rdgneoz3... seriously learn to do math

400/50= 8x40=320+8= 328x.05= 311

dont hate. this is why you dont get deals. youre dumb.

tanookisuit3946d ago

OH GOD, don't even remind me about Ni No Kuni. Namco Bandai can burn in hell!

LordHiggens3946d ago

Welcome to the free market...I personally would have a few on there if I could afford it.

When it comes down to it it's just trading one item for another. Supply and demand...simple economics. I have something you want and you will pay an exuberant amount to get it. I'm the bad guy for taking advantage of such simple behavior? No I don't think so.

Bruce_Wayne3946d ago (Edited 3946d ago )

These scumbags need to get a job if they're dying for money. Or they can just ask me for a few bucks.

BaconBits3946d ago

Not sure if you would really take a loss as a scalper. They can just return the unopened console to the store for a refund during the 30 days.

-MD-3946d ago

"m so glad their WiiU scalping backfired badly and they had to sell the consoles at a loss."

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You still have a receipt, you just sell it back to the store if nobody buys it at launch. Nobody had to sell their console at a loss.

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PopRocks3593947d ago

Silly article. Everyone knows that brand new game consoles being sold online prior to launch always cost thousands upon thousands of dollars.

deadlydragon1213947d ago

Why would it so soon? You can still go to a store right now and pre-order a PS4 and receive one day one. The point is people are already selling and buying these console pre-orders on eBay.

PopRocks3593947d ago

It wouldn't be. I'm just saying every time I've seen a console go on sale on eBay prior to its official launch, the prices are astronomically high. This is more likely a scam.

Or if they are legit pre-orders, then something is sure to go wrong for some of them. The picture in the article of the Gameboy in the Vita box pretty much says it all.

Muffins12233947d ago

@popRocks359

Edit* You mean psp box?Thats not a ps vita box

KillrateOmega3947d ago (Edited 3947d ago )

They sure are a bunch of quality, upstanding individuals... /sarcasm

PigPen3946d ago

I don't trust nothing on ebay. I also don't feel that strong demand for the consoles to be sold on ebay. Looking at the preorders from amazon alone is why I strongly believe there will be consoles in stock launch day and after.

Transporter473946d ago

Ebay is good at what they do, just read the description and if they give you something else then you still get your money refunded btw.

deadlydragon1213946d ago

If your a buyer on eBay nowadays you have more rights than sellers - this is coming from a seller! In some cases buyers even take advantage by trying to earn themselves partial refunds over silly things!

Dark_Overlord3946d ago

100% agree, there's a lot of tricks 'buyers' use to scam sellers, and Ebay protect these 'buyers' as much as possible. Sellers aren't even allowed to leave negative feedback if a buyer rips them off :/

RedHawkX3946d ago

just order from amazon why buy from ebay? these consles will be in stock like wii u was.

Cam9773946d ago

I wouldn't preorder from eBay anyway.

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mkis0072h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows901h ago(Edited 1h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot28m ago(Edited 26m ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis00721m ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19893m ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot0m ago(Edited 0m ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw1h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno1h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy8541m ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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