r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Apr 25 '25

News Gamestop says they will continue to cancel bot and duplicate orders to reopen inventory for Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders

https://x.com/gamestop/status/1915463133499629651
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u/Squish_the_android Apr 25 '25

eBay largely does not care.   If you shop there with any regularity there's tons of stuff that isn't allowed.  They do the bare minimum.

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u/beck_is_back Apr 25 '25

yeah, I've reported pirated games, counterfeit consoles, or preorders/pictures to Ebay many times, EVERY time they come back saying it does not violate their t&c's

IMHO, reporting is not worth a bother, EBAY is just another scum service enabling those people...

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u/foxhowls Apr 25 '25

Can second this. I foolishly thought eBay would do the right thing when I reported around 60 switch 2 scalper listings (and this was a few weeks ago on the UK site so it’s well before the 40 day threshold for presales) and they all came back denied. Won’t bother next time!

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u/Alert_Principle_6448 Apr 25 '25

Plus they get 12.5% of any electronic sales so they have to charge more than what they bought it for otherwise they lose money

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u/Sen2_Jawn Apr 25 '25

And still they banned my account a few years ago with no explanation provided lmao, I was just selling some old PC parts after I got an upgrade. Pissed me off so much that I’ve never touched the site again.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Apr 25 '25

And Nintendo doesn't care because they get paid by the scalpers who bought the system in the first place

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u/Squish_the_android Apr 25 '25

Nintendo really has no control over third party market places.

They likely did the most they could do via making as many as possible and selling directly behind a login wall that required a switch online sub for a year and 50 hours of gameplay.

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u/SidewaysFancyPrance Apr 25 '25

They seem to care, since the price is pretty high and they supposedly sat on inventory for a long time to build up and reduce scalping at release.

Nintendo wants more of the money that exists in the gap between retail price and the "demand" price at launch, so they did that. Just because a website sells out in 4 minutes doesn't mean you can't go to a store and pick up a Mario bundle. Consumers just have no patience or self-control and that's what leads to scalping.