These Scalpers Raided A Retailer's Recent PS5 Drop A Day In Advance Of Public Availability
Late last year and early this year, gamers have been faced with a minimal stock of consoles and computer components. This in part due to extremely high demand, bots, and scalpers trying to get their hands on tech. It seems that the scalpers have gotten crafty in recent months, as some were able to buy PlayStation 5s before they were even available to the public at U.K. retailer Argos. This is incredibly disappointing for legitimate console buyers and a warning to retailers to harden their defenses against scalping.
Earlier today, U.K. gamers saw the PS5 in stock at Argos for an incredibly brief period, which is par for the course these days. Furthermore, the retailer's app and the website were crashing, glitching, and generally slow. To add further insult to injury, there was supposedly less stock than what was expected for the brief sale. Anonymous sources to IGN confirmed that this was due to individuals who ordered PS5 consoles from Argos yesterday.
While Argos is not entirely out of the clear for its mistakes, the Express Notify group, in theory, goes against the terms of service of Discord. We have abbreviated the terms of service, including the important rules below:
As an example, you agree not to use the Service in order to:Ultimately, Discord should take action on groups like these as they are harmful to commerce and other Discord members trying to get what they want legitimately. Moreover, websites need to be aware that there are now groups out there that will do nearly anything to get people a console or computer component. It is incredibly disappointing to see this happening, but hopefully, this will happen less in the future as a spotlight is placed on the issue.
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