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JTWrenn Scalping should be illegal, or at least stores should have the right to say you cannot buy this to resell for x amount of time or something. The whole thing is bad for customers who want to use the devices. We have enough middle men. This sucks. Reply
Dementoss JTWrenn said: Scalping should be illegal, or at least stores should have the right to say you cannot buy this to resell for x amount of time or something. The whole thing is bad for customers who want to use the devices. We have enough middle men. This sucks. If people had the sense not to buy from scalpers, It wouldn't need to be criminalised. Reply
beyondlogic Ah yes the parasitic nature of scalpers stop buying then they go bust simple Reply
JTWrenn Dementoss said: If people had the sense not to buy from scalpers, It wouldn't need to be criminalised. I completely agree, but that's like saying it would be awesome if we had no crime then we wouldn't need laws. Humans, are gonna human and people have no impulse control. So we need some form of regulation on it at this point. Reply
dimar JTWrenn said: Scalping should be illegal, or at least stores should have the right to say you cannot buy this to resell for x amount of time or something. The whole thing is bad for customers who want to use the devices. We have enough middle men. This sucks. Please include all junk/processed food too. Like all of it! Reply
EduApps Dementoss said: If people had the sense not to buy from scalpers, It wouldn't need to be criminalised. This is a fallacy. You can use the same phrase in almost every illegal activity: If people had the sense not to use cocaine, it wouldn't need to be criminalized. Reply
ezst036 Dementoss said: If people had the sense not to buy from scalpers, It wouldn't need to be criminalised. Yeah but if we could just pass laws for everything then we would not have to be informed because that is hard work. I just want to play games and not know anything about anything. Reply
raxx Lulz, I wouldn't pay $30 for that monstrosity. Reply
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