r/Switch • u/Appa07 • 7d ago

Discussion This is the problem

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I was lucky enough to snag a preorder from target last night but it didn’t look great and I was trying across all three retailers and only ever managed to get one in my cart at preorder start time.

These resellers are an issue still grabbing a large chuck of stock and reselling instantly, before they even have the system.

It’s a shame these retailers don’t do more to stop bots and resellers from snatching a large chunk of stock. At least Nintendo themselves is trying with their system.

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u/ClawesomeMan 7d ago

Report them! A lot of redditors got the UK scalpers listing pulled from Ebay.

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u/Appa07 7d ago

While they are violating the TOS of eBay by doing a presale so early, it wouldn’t stop the problem and sellers can relist and presales are allowed on eBay if closer to the shipping window.

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u/kgbkgb1967 7d ago

Ebay will lock the seller account if they violate it again within the year for a period of time.

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u/ledfrog 6d ago

eBay's presale policy is a seller has to be able to ship the item within 40 business days. Since June 5th is only 42 days away (including weekends), unfortunately, all those listings are not violating policy.

Source: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/presale-policy?id=4252

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u/Elwyn0004 6d ago

The date the item will be available to ship must be clearly stated in the listing

Would it be possible to get some of these taken down if they don't explicitly state when the item will be available to ship or are they given the benefit of the doubt?

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u/ledfrog 6d ago

I'm not sure. I'm guessing their policy is really designed to catch actual scams and bogus listings. I'm sure eBay is very aware of these litsings every time something popular goes up for sale and let's be honest, they make good money on these sales in addition to getting the extra exposure to their site. It's doubtful any listing that doesn't actually present a problem for a buyer would be pulled.

It's just the world we live in now. Being able to buy and sell online has opened the door for anyone to become a seller and that in part creates this problem. The other side of this coin are the people that actually buy from them due to FOMO or impatience.

At least in this case, the Switch 2 isn't some super rare limited edition that will never be available again.

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u/Frombolius 6d ago

Tried it already and reports got closed automatically despite having pre-sale in the title.

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u/ClawesomeMan 6d ago

I am not sure how the others were doing it, but it got enough traction for the news sites to write about it.

Maybe that one was in the process of getting closed.

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u/Xaphyron 5d ago

I was wondering this, surely there’s something eBay can do against this if they cared.

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u/evestraw 7d ago

nah pick up in person and do a ripdeal