Honestly, I think what this tells me is that Valve’s system is working, and not a lot of scalpers have reservations.
If there were more competing scalpers, or if some guy had 200 of them he needed to move, they’d be less ambitious than triple the already very high price.
I mean everyone that wanted one gets a fair shake at it in the randomized queue. I suppose I’m just hoping and speculating that Valve can detect and remove mass preorders from scalper bots.
At least these scalpers have one good effect for Valve: They make the Steam Machines original price by Valve look like a bargain.
I hope they just end up sitting on their steam machines with no one buying. 1k is already steep, in no world would I pay 3k for this type of hardware
You know valve should just over price these machines on first sale then drop the price after the scalper grab everything, offer 1 coupon per account for buyers after with the value of the coupon being the diffrence in price on the before and after, but only one per buying account. That way valve can raid scalpers bank accounts and keep they’re customers happy.
It is against eBay’s TOS to sell an item not physically in possession.
Report every single one of these as a violation
- Presale listings must guarantee that the item will be shipped within 40 business days of purchase
- The date the item will be available to ship must be clearly stated in the listing
When’s valve shipping them? Have they even given an eta yet?
Well they better hope there is no delays with manufacturing, like a ram or sad shortage. It says the item must ship in 40 days.
🙄 anyone paying $3000 is just a rube with too much money, lol.
It looks like a nice machine, don’t get me wrong, but you can do better elsewhere if willing to spend that much $$$.
Let’s be honest, you can do better for less than that. That price hike is specifically because of brand recognition, puny production and the stupid tax.
This why we cant have nice things…
Seriously, people complain about high prices and evil companies, but we do it to ourselves by being unable to resist these bad deals
Nearly $3000 on a Steam Machine, constant price increases from Netflix with tightening restrictions too, etc
I dont have any of these things but can you rrally blame someone just trying to have fun?
If you had $3000 to spend on a PC why the fuck would you spend it on a Steam Machine? You could have bought a way better machine and saved $1000.
I dont get that part but i het the demand. People really want to escape from this corporate hellhole and valve being one of the least shittiest tech companies it makes sense why the demand is so high. I dont get why you would pay 3k to get a chance to get a console with the performance of a 800€ machine.
If a little bit of patience means we can all have fun then yes we can.
Like AC in Europe 😓
There really aren’t that many listings on eBay for it. I think Valve largely handled the pre-order system with wisdom. Verified accounts with previous purchases, no more than 1 per household, and a raffle for the literal pre-order slot.
What’s telling is how many are actually sold, which by my count is 11. That’s pretty damn low.
Are these the prices on completed transactions, or are they just idiots making a listing with that price?
