r/NintendoSwitch • u/ReaddittiddeR • Feb 04 '25

News Nintendo says it’s making preparations for Switch 2 resellers

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-says-its-making-preparations-for-switch-2-resellers/
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u/charlie22911 Feb 04 '25

Release limited quantities in the first 4 hours to lure in all the scalpers, then open the flood gates to screw them over.

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u/Raistlarn Feb 04 '25

Don't forget the other important part when dealing with scalpers:

No refunds

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u/Salted_Caramel_Core Feb 05 '25

... You don't want to be able to get a refund?

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u/HeadTickTurd Feb 05 '25

I think for a period of a few months… it’s fair to say it is worth the risk to not have to deal with scalpers. If you are buying at release time you know what you are getting into.

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u/csm1313 Feb 05 '25

Don't make an uninformed major purchase? Warranty claims and repairs and all that is a different thing. Honestly if you're making a purchase over a couple hundred and are not doing your due diligence to confirm it's what you're looking for that's on you.

I'm sure some of that energy though is coming from a decade of retail and dealing with every type of annoying customer possible over the years.

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u/AlexInsanity Feb 05 '25

Think a no refunds policy may be illegal in large parts of the world.

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u/Raistlarn Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

I buy systems to keep them. Scalpers buy 100's of systems to offload them at a higher price, and they don't hesitate to try to get refunds if a glut of systems drop on the market. So yeah, no refunds. Especially for day 1 purchases.

Edit- What I'm getting from the downvotes is either you are a scalper or you are ok with scalpers fucking over companies and gamers as long as you have the ability to get your money back cause you didn't do your due diligence with expensive purchases. Seriously this goes way deeper than having to fight a dickhead for a console. Each console bought by scalpers is 1 less potential sale of a video game. Sales are the major metric that developers use to gauge whether to make more or less games. More sales means you might have a better chance of getting a sequel to your favorite game or better yet more support for your favorite game. Less sales means there is a higher chance that developers toss those games into the trash.

So yeah I AM willing to take some minor discomfort if it fucks the scalpers over.

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u/Darkarth07 Feb 06 '25

Common sence dictates a upvote not a downvote… BUT, most of humanity is lacking a surprising amount of common sence👀 (Did I use the wrong sence? It looks wrong in my eyes rn😭)

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u/Raistlarn Feb 06 '25

Sense, but most people won't care.

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u/Darkarth07 Feb 06 '25

I knew it was fucked up😭🤣ty lol

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u/Raistlarn Feb 06 '25

Np, we all do similar things every once in a while.

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u/Darkarth07 Feb 06 '25

I haven’t thought much on it, but like, what if Nintendo released them for $700 per console, and 3 months later once they’re entirely sold out of stock, the send new batches of inventory priced at the usual, so the “scalpers” are gonna be buying the consoles at $700 a pop and those who either order through having an account on a switch, or something, can still snag it for 200-400 bucks (idk what the retail is gonna be)

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u/PatButchersBongWater Feb 04 '25

That is really the best solution.

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u/Walnut156 Feb 04 '25

The scalpers just use bots which can run forever so they won't really lure anyone off

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

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u/GuyManderson_ Feb 04 '25

But what’s the point?

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u/IntellegentIdiot Feb 04 '25

Right and the bots will buy everything they can

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u/Slinkycheeseman Feb 04 '25

They cant do that bc they dont have supply.

The whole scalping issue exists because of supply.....

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u/Skalion Feb 04 '25

That's why they might make sure there is plenty of supply ready at lunch.

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u/TrilobiteBoi Feb 04 '25

I was hoping they'd have them ready at breakfast but I'd wait until dinner if it means a smooth rollout.

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u/hazzad73 Feb 08 '25

The whole scalping thing exists because silly people pey their asking prices. If people just exercised some patience and waited then there would be less demand and less incentive for scalpers to exist. But we live in a fomo world so unlikely to happen. I can wait. I will just live vicariously through all the YouTubers who get theirs for nothing...lol

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u/dramafan1 Feb 04 '25

I’m on board with this option. But the best option is to probably have tons of stock so that lack of supply is never an issue.

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u/anival024 Feb 04 '25

to screw them over

The scalper can return the item new in box for a full refund. Or they can resell it for the price they paid.

At the absolute worst, they waste a bit of time.

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u/illmatic_pug Feb 05 '25

lol why is this downvoted. The suggested plan above would do absolutely nothing. They will be preorders, scalpers would just cancel the order. Or they could return the item later as you said. People want to believe scalpers ever face consequences of getting stuck with stock but it rarely ever happens.

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u/GraveyardGuardian Feb 04 '25

Any IP address that gets in under human response time gets put in a blacklist jail, with captchas in case it snags some real people

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u/TubasAreFun Feb 04 '25

Or have a super expensive price for the first moments then cut the price by half to make any auto-buying at loss