This is like saying that walking up to someone in a dark alley, pulling out a 9mm and robbing them is just filling the demand of the market of not getting shot in the face
The market demand they are filling is cutting in line. Every time a scalper buys an item, a legitimate customer doesn’t get it. So genuinely SOMEONE is not getting a steam frame because of a scalper. That’s how it works. The steam frames being sold on ebay aren’t just magically generated by scalpers, they are the result of someone else getting pushed out of line.
They’re not fulfilling a market demand, Valve intentionally underproduced Steam Frames to create temporary artificial scarcity (hype) and the scalpers are taking advantage of that. Supply & demand aren’t natural laws because humans control production levels. Scalpers are lowkey encouraged by Valve because they increase the perception of value/scarcity
This is some weird logic. How as a business could you know exactly how many of an item you need to produce and have in stock less than a week before you take orders? What happens to a business that produces lets say 1 million units but then when orders start they only sell 10k?
The only way to solve this with your way of thinking is to do some kind of Kickstarter/early order before production.
These are some high level conspiracy theories if you seriously think this is how it works.
But without the scalpers the market demand would be met to saturation by the original supplier. As it is some people are paying more for this thing because people who didn’t want to use it bought it.
I would say that those that buy is just as big of a problem as the scalpers. If people would just stop buying… Sad scalper.
The scalpers are just filling a market demand. Even without the scalpers you wouldn’t be able to get the steam frame yet
This is like saying that walking up to someone in a dark alley, pulling out a 9mm and robbing them is just filling the demand of the market of not getting shot in the face
The market demand they are filling is cutting in line. Every time a scalper buys an item, a legitimate customer doesn’t get it. So genuinely SOMEONE is not getting a steam frame because of a scalper. That’s how it works. The steam frames being sold on ebay aren’t just magically generated by scalpers, they are the result of someone else getting pushed out of line.
Supply isn’t increasing because of them.
They’re not fulfilling a market demand, Valve intentionally underproduced Steam Frames to create temporary artificial scarcity (hype) and the scalpers are taking advantage of that. Supply & demand aren’t natural laws because humans control production levels. Scalpers are lowkey encouraged by Valve because they increase the perception of value/scarcity
This is some weird logic. How as a business could you know exactly how many of an item you need to produce and have in stock less than a week before you take orders? What happens to a business that produces lets say 1 million units but then when orders start they only sell 10k? The only way to solve this with your way of thinking is to do some kind of Kickstarter/early order before production.
These are some high level conspiracy theories if you seriously think this is how it works.
But without the scalpers the market demand would be met to saturation by the original supplier. As it is some people are paying more for this thing because people who didn’t want to use it bought it.