PS5 consoles are hardly available or only available for a lot of money from scalpers. Now one of these sellers claims that scalpers can afford a life thanks to the PS5.
What are scalpers? Scalpers buy hardware, for example, to resell it at a higher price. This is also called reselling. Especially in the current time, where hardware is scarce, scalpers are likely among the least popular people one can imagine. Because scalpers buy thousands of PS5 consoles using bots and sell them at a high price.
A scalper has now explained that this resale enables many people to afford a comfortable life. This is unlikely to make him more popular with those who are desperately trying to buy a PS5.
Because scalpers sell PS5s at a higher price, they can afford a life
Who is speaking? The user who speaks here runs a website where people receive notifications when there is a PS5 or Xbox available for purchase. For this service, people pay 30 British pounds per month (approximately 36 euros) on the platform. In a conversation with Sky News, he spoke about his activities and his customers (via news.sky.com).
This is what he says: In a conversation, he explained that many people could create a good side income through reselling (via gamingbible.co.uk). For many users, this is going so well that they can even afford a life with it, which was not possible before. This even goes so far that people can give up their old jobs. He explains:
They [the scalpers] spend more time with family, with their children. We have people who could renovate their houses, who bought their children climbing frames, who bought their wives new cars, who bought themselves new cars.
Many people from his customer base are also said to be very young. He explains:
What they [the scalpers] do is that they are entrepreneurs, they go out, create a side income, and do something that 90% of the population has no time for.
By the way, the user is not the first scalper to justify his position. Another one already explained that he only wants to help users with the reselling of PS5 consoles. However, many potential buyers likely see this quite differently.
Other users, like an IT professional, prefer to let a bot work for them, instead of selling consoles at an exorbitant price. He is also quite successful with it, as he revealed to people. You can read about the story of the IT professional and his bot in our article:
The PS5 or Xbox is “just a luxury”
In the interview, he also explains that many do not need to buy the console at all. After all, it is a luxury item and not a necessity. And if you really want luxury, you could also pay 100 pounds more:
For me, owning a PS5 or Xbox is not a necessity, but a luxury, okay? If you can afford to spend 450 pounds, the additional 100 pounds should be pretty marginal if you can spend the money on it.
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