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ono ( ono@lemmy.ca )  to GamingEnglish · 3 years ago

Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers

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Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers

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ono ( ono@lemmy.ca )  to GamingEnglish · 3 years ago
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With the release of the Steam Deck OLED and the Steam Deck OLED Limited Edition tomorrow, Valve has given out a little bit more info on how they plan to combat scalpers.
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    it could be drugs or money laundering rather than people actually paying that price for a real deck.

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      I could be wrong, but I would bet that launderers are probably not targeting this niche device. I’d guess that the people buying them are more likely from a country that they don’t sell in. Like Australia for example.

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        That’s not how laundering works, but it probably isn’t laundering. The product is the excuse, the price difference is where the laundering happens.

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          Yeah, I get how laundering works. I just don’t know why they’d pick this specific item.

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            They wouldn’t, except for laundering on a scale too small to be worth going after.

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      Does that make it better?

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        did i imply it does?

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