It is against eBay’s TOS to sell an item not physically in possession.
Report every single one of these as a violation
eBay doesn’t give a shit. Just saw someone sell some cool shit then instantly cancel on the winner to immediately repost the sale with a $.01 start and a shitty note about their reserve now as the first text in their description.
🙄 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.
Not by much less. I’d say you’d need at least $800 to be sure to run most games at at least 1080p60. I’ve been playing with pcpp lately, using Belmont’s Curse as an upcoming game with fairly tame recommended specs (10th gen Intel and a 3060), and I couldn’t really come in under $800 after case, reliable PSU, etc were all factored in. Maybe if you went for specifically used/secondhand parts but I limited my choices to just new or manufacturer refurbished since used inventory will vary widely in availability and price from area to area.
Of course, the minimum requirements are like an 8th gen Intel and a 1650. So you can probably hit 1080p60 with a lot less than the recommended.
I’m curious how low we could go, requiring all parts be new or manufacturer refurbished. I tried for $500 but couldn’t get anywhere close.
I was referring to the $3k price tag. Though seeing the downvotes, I dare say you’re not the first to somehow miss that I was talking about the article title, and not the MSRP.
Ahhh, okay. Yeah 3 grand would get you a beast. Or, you know, like a car or something.
I think people willing to pay that much are idiots that don’t deserve the money they have, though. Somehow I don’t think that’s a mom or dad wanting to get a Nintendo for their kids or whatever.
Even as grim as things are getting there’s still a lot of people with far more money than they deserve.
At least these scalpers have one good effect for Valve: They make the Steam Machines original price by Valve look like a bargain.
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.
I can put my next turd up for 10k preorder on ebay. Doesn’t mean anyone is actually buying it. Unlike the shitstain that is tomshardware I actually checked and I count 4 sold units in my region, all for around 2000€ and around 25 on the US site for between $1500 and $2500. Funnily enough, some of the listings seem to be just a screenshot of the preorder form for around the same price as the actual unit. The rest of them include some form of email screenshot as “proof”, which means nothing since they are barely personalised and don’t include any actual ID or information that could be verified with Valve. I’m not losing my mind over those numbers, but it’s still hilarious how stupid some potential buyers are.
Dumb people will buy anything.
These computers are underpowered and overpriced.
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.
Hot take. Don’t buy scalped products and the market will dry up.
Are these the prices on completed transactions, or are they just idiots making a listing with that 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.
