topic Re: Price Gouging in Technical Issues

Price Gouging

aries-au — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:40:59 GMT

Hey,

Within the help section you have an article on how to report an item for price gouging, and yet if you try to report an item there is no such option as the article describes. Could you please fix this, and while talking about price gouging, could you please pull down all these sellers that are putting up rediculous prices for the new generation consoles. It's disgusting, they shouldn't be getting a single dollar from being unpleasant and charging double the retail price. Please put a maximum listing price on the new gen consoles, or at least monitor what's going on.

Thank you,

Re: Price Gouging

kopenhagen5 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:03:38 GMT

eBay doesn't read here.

Re: Price Gouging

lyndal1838 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:09:53 GMT

Sellers can charge what they like for their items......you don't have to buy from them if it is too expensive.

Re: Price Gouging

sandypebbles — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:13:14 GMT

Price gouging is for things like PPE and hygien related items, not games and toys

If you feel that strongly about what other people knowing choose to pay, contact the sellers and tell them what you think of them

Re: Price Gouging

aries-au — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:42:16 GMT

Profiteering is the term for essential items, price gouging is just being unpleasant

Yeah, maybe. I just feel like ebay shouldn't be letting it happen. It's not like a vintage item or anything, there should be limits based on current retail prices. They buy multiples to rip people off.

Re: Price Gouging

aries-au — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:24:32 GMT

When we're talking about a new release such as these next generation consoles, these people are going out of their way to buy multiples and then to sell with an exorbitant profit. It shouldn't be allowed. I'm surprised Microsoft and Sony don't care. Ebay should not let it happen, and I don't want these people to get away with greedy, underhanded tactics to make a profit.

Re: Price Gouging

aries-au — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:25:46 GMT

I can't find an email anywhere to contact them directly.

Re: Price Gouging

sandypebbles — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:31:26 GMT

Emailing is useless, it is an automated bot system

There is a help tab at the top and bottom of every page, follow the 'steps' there to contact eBay via Live Chat

Re: Price Gouging

davewil1964 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:32:52 GMT

@aries-au wrote:
I can't find an email anywhere to contact them directly.

No point. All emails are answered by bots.

You call it price-gouging; eBay and most people call it caveat emptor.

Don't like the price, don't buy. I'm sure Microsoft and Sony will be producing more Xbox <insert current version here> and PS5s in the future. Wait until then, and buy from a shop. Or wait for the next generation and get in quicker.

I could, if I was interested, have bought a PS5 pre-ordered, from JB and paid retail. And I would have had it posted to me if I couldn't collect. I'm sure JB isn't the only legitimate retailer to do online sales.

Re: Price Gouging

gutterpunkz05 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:47:31 GMT

Simply basic economics 101 - supply and demand

Re: Price Gouging

davewil1964 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:54:28 GMT

@gutterpunkz05 wrote:
Simply basic economics 101 - supply and demand

And hype.

The need to have the latest and greatest, even though the pre-existing games work perfectly on the pre-existing platform.

Re: Price Gouging

daydreams_12 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:14:30 GMT

If you had pre-ordered as suggested you would not come up with this problem. Release dates are always well advertised. If you really want the irem now you will have to pay whatever people ask.

Re: Price Gouging

aries-au — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:32:09 GMT

"Pre-ordered as suggested". The pre-orders sold out in less than half an hour.

Re: Price Gouging

davewil1964 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 07:58:10 GMT

Then you wait for the next release. It's not rocket science.

And complaining about gouging is only relevant if you MUST have the item. I don't consider games consoles to be must have, especially, as noted, that you have to wait for the particular games ONLY suitable for the new console to be available. Which almost definitely only contain minor tweaks.

In answer to your original question - you can't, because it isn't.

Re: Price Gouging

gutterpunkz05 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 09:03:26 GMT

@aries-au wrote:
"Pre-ordered as suggested". The pre-orders sold out in less than half an hour.

So is that due to a lack of planning by the manufacturer, or a market strategy!. Why would there ever be any legitimate reason for a pre order of such an item to run out, when the manufacturer can simply produce humpteen million extra units to meet demand.

Instead by not releasing items sufficient to meet demand they are ensuring that the items sell at or above RRP.

Re: Price Gouging

*tippy*toes* — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:38:16 GMT

@aries-au wrote:
"Pre-ordered as suggested". The pre-orders sold out in less than half an hour.

You snooze, you lose. I ended up with nearly 700 of them and have made a cracking profit! I am surprised how many people are prepared to pay upwards of $3,000 for them. I'm kicking myself I didn't buy more. I could pay my house off.

And, it's rIdiculous, not rEdiculous. I have no idea when people thought it was acceptable to use an E instead of an I. Each to their own though.