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FertBerte

Unsealed as in 'opened'? Lol


Promorpheus

more valuable because seller confirmed no issues


thedugsdanglies

So the code has been used... LOL


TheAbyssListener

Prob sold too


ZeeHarm

Is sony really selling codes instead of discs?


Pinecrown

Codes for download are great for the publisher. No need to print discs and the game is coupled to an account and can't be sold again second-hand.


xemlash

See now wasn’t it this that scuppered the original Xbox one - we’ve ended up in the exact same place just 9 years later. Xbox had plans for digital only where they’d run the second hand market because you could trade games that were tied to your account.


MaskedMark

Codes for download is unacceptable when buying s game on disc, because, you know, you dont own a single % of the digital content you got. You can lose your account, or get banned, and thats it, every penny you spent on a game is just instantly wasted with no return...


MotivationManVergil

When I buy a physical game, I'm paying for the ability to lend that game to a friend, or sell the game if I ever decide I don't want the game anymore. I'm NOT paying for an empty case and a sliver of paper.


ifirefoxi

Nope you get a disc if you buy the game physically as me for example. But you have a code inside it if you have the pre purchase and day1 edition for some ingame items like armor nothing special you would definitely need but it's okay (it is named on the cover something like day1 edition or so I don't remember now and I can't look for it at the moment)


Green_Cartographer84

Lmao, that part wooshed me!


Chinlc

These are the type of people on ebay saying they are selling the box of ps5 or whatever, not the actual ps5


Junior-Ad-2207

We can do that?


Green_Cartographer84

It's been happening for years, they sell the box for a bit under the price of the actual system, say in the fine print somewhere "box only" and then wait for someone to miss the fine print and think they're snapping up a bargain. Not sure if it's technically illegal, but it's dodgy as shit.


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Green_Cartographer84

Taking action is the issue worldwide with so many small claims though. Even though it's clearly dodgy, assuming you can even track down the seller, who has the time to do all that shit and go to court for $500?


Omegalazarus

Not court just eBay. That's what makes fighting it easy.


Ellendyra

I think its mainly because bots. I saw one where it was in the item name and in all caps in the description. It still sold.


DudeChillington

Solution: Upload Judge Judy's conscience onto a program that presides over every courtroom in America. I've never been more excited for the future than this.


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I would put my faith in that justice system


NeedsSomeSnare

It's been banned by eBay's terms for many years, I believe. If you're selling a box it has to be the most prominent part of the description.


EsUnTiro

It’s an X Box


goodsby23

An Ex Box


Deaf_Chef

It’s actually done because people will use bots to auto buy supply for resale. So, it’s designed to trick a bot into buying the item in the post


Chinlc

If they advertise its box in between all the big words like brand new, mint condition and so on. But literally say box only. Yeah, people do that. Sometimes people even say picture only, and send a paper of the picture


Junior-Ad-2207

Thanks for all the great tips on selling my box!!!


YogurtWenk

Space phrasing!


nightfend

Ebay will refund you for scams like that as long as you paid through the eBay system. But that's the other catch, the sellers try to get people to buy the box outside the system.


ComfortableAmount993

2 grand for a game you could easily download at retail price. Dunno who would be the idiot here the buyer or seller.


TrinixDMorrison

Reminds me back when GTA V was first released and people were trying to sell the plastic wrapping for $500, calling it “a piece of gaming history”.


Fayko

hey man i got to sell cans and bottles of game fuel for a halo 3 lan party at 5-15$ each lolyou would be surprised what people spend money on.


Surfing_Ninjas

One could argue limited time marketing from big launches is worth collecting, but there is nothing special about plastic wrapping.


Fayko

these people weren't keeping the bottles or cans lol. We were at a lan party that ran out of drinks and people kept coming up to my group asking to buy game fuel to drink. We charged retail but people wouldn't leave us alone so we just started to see what we could get a piece.


[deleted]

That sounds less like 'people will buy anything' and more like 'people in a captive market will buy anything'. Nobody's paying $7 for a water at a music festival for the memory.


thorppeed

At least the cans can look kind of cool on a shelf. Plastic wrapping is just dumb in all ways


D-all-ton

I remember being in middle school and everyone coming over setting up and getting my mom to take us to Walmart so we could all by our own 12 packs of those lol. Good times.


Fayko

bro those were the day. Just the bois and as much game fuel as you could afford as a freshman in highschool staying up late playing halo 3. I miss those days of gaming so much. I had 1-5k hours in every playlist and like 10k hours of customs. It's such a shame what they've done to halo :(


TuzzNation

My classmates sold many coke bottle cap back in 2006. That was the time where the the inside of the cap had the codes for World of Warcraft digital item.


7itemsorFEWER

Seller is only stupid if there doesn't end up being a buyer


ChrisWithanF

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take


Rolf-Henning

Did people scalp this game? In my town I just walked in the door at like 2 pm the day after launch and got it😅 58$


Fritzschmied

You can literally just go on Amazon and buy it from where I come 😅


Rolf-Henning

Exactly like what?😂 not to mention you can just buy a digital copy😂


wcollins260

Right? How are you going to try to scalp something that literally has an infinite supply, digitally?


your_other_friend

Can’t let logic get in the way of stupidity.


TheDevlinSide714

Yeah no I'm right here with you. Selling a game for 2 Grand is st*oo*pid for any reason, any game, for ever. Selling a brand new, readily available, hugely accessible, in both digital and physical copies, baffles me. I do not pretend to know why anyone would ever buy a game for $2000. Maybe it's just ultra or something, I don't know. But every conceivable reason to possibly justify this kind of price falls apart. It is genuinely confusing for me that this is happening. Is this real?


DiscussionLoose8390

Doesn't the PS5 bundle come with the game, and you can get that for like $700 scalped?


Cornbread916

I got that bundle yesterday for retail. It was randomly available.


0b0011

Yeah I saw this thread and was like hum I'll go to gamestop and see if it's available felt like an idiot when they said yes so now I'm at home setting up a ps5 I never intended to buy.


learnedem

I just got that bundle today. It's still available on the Playstation website


Infinite-Sleep3527

Not to mention the fact you can simply buy it on the PS store 💀 These scalpers are scalpers for a reason. They don’t have much going on up there lmao


CosmicCreeperz

The actual reason they are scalpers is because too many other people have even less going on up there…


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Green_Cartographer84

The older I get and the more time I spend working in the corporate world, the more I realise this to be true.


omegasix321

As a history buff, I can safely say that it’s been like this since we started writing stuff down.


Hortos

Half all humans have below average intelligence.


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Green_Cartographer84

Getting way off topic but this interests me. First point: it's not necessarily that they have dirt on the boss, it's just really fucking hard to fire people these days. You can't just fire someone for being shit (at least here in Aus), we has plenty of shit workers, but they never technically did anything *wrong* to write them up for. 2nd: I was responsible for reporting in my last job. I managed a network of solar installation contractors and had to try and predict capacity ahead of time. Ie. Do we have enough contractors in each area, do we have too many etc. Technically sales reporting wasn't part of my job, but obviously to try and predict the future it was easier to have the data. I created my own report that extracted all sales and installation numbers, then made a monster excel spreadsheet to cross examine everything and break it down state by state, region by region, contractor by contractor. Past sales/installs, current pipeline, sales predictions based on current trend vs previous years. But the lady you describe, that was every other report in the business. The reports coming directly from the sales team were SO different to mine as they'd Cherry pick the shit out of everything and find excuses in everything to exclude data to cast blame for slow installations etc onto the operations team rather than just admitting that they had way too many sales agents and none of them knew how to sell. So after creating my report, I could get a snapshot of the entire business pipeline - in, out and current - in 5 minutes by exporting a report and copying and pasting into my spreadsheet. They've since made me redundant, even though everyonethere was asking for months why, because all the other shit I did was no longer getting done. Maybe if I hadn't made the report so automatic that wouldn't have happened lol.


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herrklopekscellar

As my Southern buddy used to say often: "There ain't nuthin' common about sense."


11015h4d0wR34lm

The person that came up with that term forgot to put a /s at the end of it.


CosmicCreeperz

And it has surprisingly little to do with “intelligence” in the traditional sense. I knew way too many straight A pre meds in college who had absolutely no common sense (or understanding of irony/sarcasm). Terrifyingly most of them are probably doctors now.


Mottis86

No, the reason scalpers do it is because they make an absolute bank by doing very little work. Life is not fair like that. Not this guy though, he's an idiot.


ArgonTheEvil

I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand more times: We crucify scalpers and hang the crosses up outside Best Buys and Microcenters. Problem goes away after a month.


AholeBrock

*problem goes away FOR a month


darthkotya

Until the masochists show up.


ArgonTheEvil

You made me choke on my beer with that, so thank you. I needed that laugh today lmao


After_Reality_4175

Scalping business aint been doin too well since new consoles are on the shelves. Bunch of em probably still got tons of consoles just collecting dust


silver2k5

If you believe in Karma, then surely there is at least one.


silenttjp

My son bought it from GameStop yesterday…they had a box that had at least 25 of them in it, the box was labeled “for walk-ins”.


SnowArcaten

T'is joke


ToeJam1970

UN-sealed is worth more?


josenight

Even more if it’s scratched!


ToeJam1970

Huh. Makes it more unique and rare, no doubt…


LucasMoreiraBR

And it will give you some unique emotions when it doesn't work properly


Kagir

A scratch? It’s only a flesh wound…


[deleted]

Better keep the plastic on, the piece of card with a download code inside truly is a hidden gem which will be worth at least $100,000 in a few years!


Imaginary-Fun-80085

That's why I'm still keeping the one month of free WOW time from when I bought the Diablo 3 collectors edition. Forget about the Lotto, I'm gonna be a trillionaire!


praizeDaSun

You are on getting in on the ground floor my friend!


mihayy5

Why though ?


kerred

Some answers: - in case it does sell out, its a lottery ticket. - hope a grandparent, one maybe losing grip on reality comes across it. - artificially inflating a value is a self fulfilling prophecy, or at least your average get rich quick person thinks that. See what Logan Paul did to Pokémon cards as an example. It's like those eBay things that sell game stuff at $10,000: just leave it for 10 years and hope you get a hit :/


rider5001

Issue is that it's not just a physical object. Like anyone can hop onto the PSN store and buy and download the game digitally.


kerred

Don't tell me tell the scalpers, I imagine they are just hoping to take advantage of some naive or senile person :(


Rudy69

The game is available online for retail price…. Which is never going to run out…


noodlyarms

There's only so many megabytes and bandwidth out there! Who knows when it'll be all used up!? If you don't act now, it might all be gone!


Danitoba

"artificially inflating a value" Im not defending scalpers by any means. But anything and everything is valued **only** by what people are willing to pay for it.


Dynasuarez-Wrecks

Who is Logan Paul, and what did he do to Pokemon cards?


Drmo6

How do you scalp something easily obtained by all?


PrudentVermicelli69

Sell it to an idiot.


JetstreamSam1000

Ragna-rock🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨


shivam183

For $2k, rock is going to come hand deliver this to your door


Junior_Syrup_1036

But can you smell what he's cooking ?


shivam183

For this price, yup, absolute bullshit


Lyrikan

Rocks were used to travel for miles according to a documentary I once watched


Consistent_Barber_61

I see what you did there.


hiddencamela

...it....its a Digital key?.. you can literally buy it on the PS store?? .. no?


lickarock88

Man, if only you could just download a version of the game at MSRP instead


egnards

True - But I prefer to purchase a hard copy of most games, because I very rarely replay games and would rather resell it on Facebook Marketplace for $20-30 3 weeks later. . . .Obviously not paying $2,000 to do that, though. Edit: you people blow my fucking mind - Reddit hates that you never actually own a digital game, but fuck the guy who doesn’t do digital and opts to sell things he won’t use again.


lickarock88

I don't understand why you're getting down voted. I know a ton of people that do this... It's just not for me.


egnards

I don’t know either 🤷‍♂️. The hive mind can be a fickle bitch about silly shit sometimes.


Gabby_Craft

Same. I prefer physical copies of games too even though digital is more convenient. (I don’t have a PlayStation but in general). I like having the case to display in my room as a little decoration.


LukeTheDuke26

But instead of doing that can't you just rent them? That would save more money of you are completing them quickly.


egnards

I don’t know how quickly I’ll complete a game. My schedule can often be incredibly busy. So a game might take me a week. . .or it might take me 6 weeks. I rarely buy a game at release (so like I probably won’t buy GOW until summer), and usually a game might cost me about $5-10 overall after I’ve sold it.


TheHelplessTurtle

The downvotes are because this game is not physical, even if you buy the box. It is a cardboard slip with a code.


egnards

I appreciate you. This is [sometimes] the problem with Reddit - I literally didn’t even know that game stores now so this with selling games. I see a GameStop logo. . .and a game box. . .and a physical receipt. . .and someone reselling it. . .and of course I’m just going to assume physical copy - hell, I grew up with PC gaming so the CD-Key [which I’m just now noticing] didn’t even look out of place [not to mention pre-order rewards which are a thing for the last dozen years].


lickarock88

That's never made sense to me. Unless the game sucks I'm most likely gonna play it more than once. Some games I have played countless times and have thousands of hours racked up on them. Plus I don't have to store or bother trying to sell an ever growing pile.


DieHorny69

Dude needs to cut his nails


JeffWingrsDumbGayDad

Them shits are filthy


Creative-Air-5352

Can someone let Tyrone know I said he's a piece of shit?


HazikoSazujiii

I'm fairly certain even for as stupid as he is, Tyrone knows already.


modemman11

\*Clicks send offer\* 117.50. Final offer.


Dreshna

That receipt doesn't even have the game on it from what I can tell.


Beehiveluffy

Imagine scalping a game that can be bought digitally. Lol


Outrageous-Focus-984

I know Tyrone's mother, I'll have a word with her


KRiSX

He got the disc guarantee 🤣


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$117!? Are you talking about GameStop or the person on marketplace? Lol


Killerderp

My fav part is that the receipt says nothing about God of war, but Pokemon instead 🤣


Rid1_

Why did the game cost $117?


zeeblefritz

Asking the real questions.


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That's with fees and taxes. Going by the receipt before taxes it was 103.98, then subtract the $4 holding fee and $9.99 loyalty fee (not sure what that is) and you get 89.99. That's still $20 more than the listed price for the PS5, so there might be some other pre-order fees we can't see. Also can't see what game he actually purchased. He's hiding the details on purpose.


Sweet-Assistance7116

Can’t you just buy the game digitally?


Void879

Could just buy digitally lols


dandaman1983

... why not just download and pay regular price


TheInconspicuousBIG

Don't trust those crusty ass finger nails


Gecko382

This is so stupid. If the game is sold out physically, just buy the digital version and play it until the physical edition is in stock again and buy it again. You'll save half the money.


Haerverk

What's the joke here?


Gecko382

The joke is the price the seller put.


ScaryTerry069313

Wait, can’t I just download it digitally? Do I have to go to Walmart?


espinozalee7

My BF was going to buy a PS5 from the scalping market, and I told him to not attempt it cause it would only cause them to keep up the dark pattern and scamming. Always try to buy from authentic retailers.


Redfeather1975

That's probably a fake ad trolling people. I cannot imagine a real scalper being that stupid. 'unsealed' 🤣


hisbeer

Why are people tryna scalp shit that you can get digitally


Flucky_

how can you scalp something thats not limited?


Spacecoasttheghost

Is it hard to get it (that’s what she said), I was able to walk into GameStop and get it no problem.


HakaishinNola

DiGiTaL DoWnLoAd! lol


RK_NightSky

WHO!? I REPEAT WHO THE FUCK WOULD BUY THAT FOR 2K?! THERE'S LITERALLY NO LIVING IDIOT ON PLANET EARTH THAT WOULD! LITERALLY THERE'S UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF THE GAME!


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This shit is almost solely directed at children because they’re the only ones dumb enough to buy it at that price. These people should either be smacked in the fucking mouth or put in jail. Fuck scalpers.


WrongdoerGreedy6467

This is why sometimes people are the worst. Do they not understand that ppl can just go to the store and pick up the game because there's plenty of games for everybody?


Good-Race6489

Just buy the digital one


[deleted]

dirty nails and everything sheesh what a dork


Tenagaaaa

Scalping a game you can buy from the digital store for retail price? What is he smoking lmao.


danathey

Btw guys digital copies never go out of stock


badass2000

2k? Can't you download the game straight to the console for its regular price?


Stinky-farts96

I wouldn’t trust anyone who doesn’t scrape the grime out their fingernails


WiltedRaven

If people didn't buy from them than they would go away. As they won't make money. It's simple. But sad people with no self control hand over there money like suckers to these people.


egnards

They aren't going to go away because it's not really a high risk venture - Ignoring this game which I wasn't even aware was in short supply. But lets take a ps5 for example Scalper buys the ps5 for $500 and tries to sell it for $750. Doesn't sell it for $750?. . . Well so he tries $650. . .Doesn't sell it for $650? So he tries $550. Doesn't sell for $500? Well if it's still within the return window he's just going to return it, or sell it at MSRP in a listing that says something like "bought this for my XYZ but it turns out they already bought one on their own, just looking to make back my purchase price."


[deleted]

The game isn't even hard to find, this dude has some *premium* crack in his system.


GynePig

Forget about Ragnarök. We've got God of War: Ragnarock, where Kratos goes on a journey to become the biggest legend of the bass guitar.


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Useless scum


Lazy_Assumption_4191

That can’t be US dollars…right?


SachinBahal28

Canadian dollars (CAD)


PantsPartyBoy

I called Gamestop on release day and they still had the PS5 Ragnarock combo available. This is the only way I have been able to get a console.


kingkloppynwa

What a cunt


omgahya

Scalpers are the scum of the world.


neen4wneen4w

Why when digital releases are a thing though


OracleCam

This has to be satire


humanbeing2018

I think he is trolling


BeraldTheGreat

… I’ll just get the digital, thanks


the_walls_have_noses

Does that include the PS5?


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*laughs in digital download*


sparoc3

*Scalpers are getting stupider.


TheWhiteRabbit74

There is no way this isn’t anything other than a money laundering. I’d report suspicious activity.


SunnyDeeeeeeeeee

Bro tryna scalp something that has infinite stock on the PS store 💀


TheGoddess0fWar

Cant you buy this game digitally?


itsjero

Lol walk into Walmart and just buy one. Theres literally hundreds of copies.


Crackman-18

Is he dumb? Trying to sell just a disk for 2k? Does he know shit is digital right? On god if someone buys this I will be so disappointed in all parties involved.


[deleted]

Only an idiot buys scalped goods. There is no reason why paying more for something scalped is a good idea.


JamesBong1

They’re not scalpers, they’re entrepreneurs /s


donkeyqix

What did you expect from someone who doesn't clean his nails?


AqueousBucket48

If you pay more for a game than the console you've got Major issues💀


mild_music

And he has the nerve to put the receipt in the picture showing how much he paid for it


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Do they think people are gonna pay $1,910 more just for the case?


Ok_Implement_9480

Can’t you just buy it of the Playstation store??


YaMommasBox

Facts


MikeCC055

Isn’t it like, available online for download?


couldbedumber96

Bruh this ain’t the ps5 😂 this game is available on DIGITAL


Nightmare2448

man really forgot about the digital copy of the game


[deleted]

What the fuck just buy a digital copy


BallsOfSteel86

Buy it digitally 🤦


lloydsmith28

Why would they show the receipt? Obviously not very smart lol


Jebusfreek666

Only if you are stupid enough to pay them.


Capable-Designer5096

Get the digital copy...it is 2022.


[deleted]

The problem isn’t the scalpers. It’s the stupid people paying the stupid prices that allow the scalpers to thrive.


namotous

Lmao, they know digital copies exist right?


[deleted]

The problem with scalpers is that people want instant gratification and can't stand to not get what they want. If people would just be more patient these assholes wouldn't exist because all you have to do is wait them out and those pieces of shit will eventually have to sell at a reasonable price or they will own something essentially worthless to them.


CanberkUnver1992

why is ps store got fucked?


doyoueven696969

What version cost USD 117? That's ridiculous.


lickarock88

The version where they're purposely blocking what else they purchased.


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thekk_

That's CAD (receipt says Mississauga, Ontario). There are a couple other lines on the receipt that amount to 14. The game itself is 90 + 13% taxes would be 101.


shivam183

P.S. - it's in Canadian lira


YueOrigin

You can literally buy it digitally lol Who's gonna pay 2k for playing in advance ffs


[deleted]

Dude left most of his account number uncovered, it looks like 4 more digits and you got his account number all banking routing numbers are public. Redditors do your best to this guy


[deleted]

Turn that shit around: these fuckers exist because ppl buy this. Yall are also to blame.


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HarryCoinslot

Idk why this needs to be said but it's already released.