Starting to think people are treating these more like Pokemon cards rather than a computer. Gotta scalp 'em all.
I am 100% sure they are being used to launder crypto.
You can set up a crypto card as your payment on steam, buy Steam Decks and then sell them easily for your preferred fiat currency.
Why not just buy drugs?
This is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever read on here.
People are really obsessed that something nefarious is going on with steam hardware purchases, but I’ve never seen any evidence. Just wild speculation
Haha, sounds like you might be overestimating your own intelligence (classic Lemmy syndrome, don’t worry about it)
The irony
A person raised their price on their Facebook marketplace listing because they saw the price went up.
Yeah… Its Pokémon cards.
Comments like: They had only 4 or 6 units.
Actually Valve can’t count to 3, so there were only 2 (one for each).
People think americans have no money for anything. This might be true for tens of millions of americans! But there are hundreds of millions of them… and a lot of them have 1k to throw around like it’s nothing.
It’s just not much money for most of us. Just check our grocery bills, electricity bills, mortgages… a one time 1k is just not much. Especially true for urban areas with millions of inhabitants where rents start around 2k a month and go much, much higher.
It used to not be that much money for me; it feels like they realized that and they went “oh, you have money huh? Well then you can afford to pay THESE prices!!”
They also have credit cards.
I uhh, misread that as North Korea at first. I need to sleep
People complain about the price, yet they bought it.\ Same didn’t happen with Nintendo switch 2? People said “but my friends bought it”, pathetic! Time to grow up, we are in differnt times.
Stop buying and you will see how companies will the impact in their pocket.The folks who complained are likely not the ones who bought it.
right if we complained enough, valve would have been forced to just fab up their own chips and save us all from the ongoing supply crisis
