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Posted: 10/13/2021 11:04:34 AM EDT
Meet the Group That Buys and Resells Hundreds of PS5s Every Day
https://www.pcmag.com/news/meet-the-group-that-buys-and-resells-hundreds-of-ps5s-every-day |
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It would be funny if those dumb fuckers cause Sony to change the way they do buisness by only selling them to people direct.
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Quoted: I got mine direct from Sony a few weeks ago; I refuse to play that game. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: It would be funny if those dumb fuckers cause Sony to change the way they do buisness by only selling them to people direct. I got mine direct from Sony a few weeks ago; I refuse to play that game. That's a game too when they send you an email telling you've got early access and then their website takes a shit for an hour. I'll play God of War 5 and Horizon 2 on PS4 when they come out. Fuck that noise. |
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Yes, it was ebay, but the seller was also in AZ. I paid $720 shipped, so I don't feel too hosed on the deal. Was brand new, factory sealed.
@deerhuntercrt2 DafterDan did you but a new one off someone on fb marketplace or something? The avg for that unopened is 750 In my ao. |
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got mine directly from sony on release day. i hope those cunts get stuck with a bunch of units they cant sell then have to take a loss.
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I made a twitter to follow some dude that announced inventory drops. Got a series X from Walmart at normal price.
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Quoted: I made a twitter to follow some dude that announced inventory drops. Got a series X from Walmart at normal price. View Quote That’s how I got my PS5 last December. Twitter account, follow people who post restock alerts, got an order through at like 5am after getting a notification, and had it in my hands a few hours later. It took probably a month of trying. Better than paying over retail, though. |
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Quoted: That’s how I got my PS5 last December. Twitter account, follow people who post restock alerts, got an order through at like 5am after getting a notification, and had it in my hands a few hours later. It took probably a month of trying. Better than paying over retail, though. View Quote Care to post their handle? |
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Quoted: Quoted: That’s how I got my PS5 last December. Twitter account, follow people who post restock alerts, got an order through at like 5am after getting a notification, and had it in my hands a few hours later. It took probably a month of trying. Better than paying over retail, though. Care to post their handle? This was last December and I immediately deleted my Twitter after scoring one (I only made it for trying to get a PS5). /r/PS5restock on Reddit might be a good place to look for who to follow. |
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I followed Jake Randall on twitter and watched his youtube videos and got the disk version for 499 a few months ago from a walmart drop.
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Quoted: Meet the Group That Buys and Resells Hundreds of PS5s Every Day https://www.pcmag.com/news/meet-the-group-that-buys-and-resells-hundreds-of-ps5s-every-day View Quote |
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Ill give them this, they found a way around Ebay, which I respect.
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I've purchased 4x XBSX since the end of May. Followed some slick dude on Twitter for drops. Easy peasy.
Posted his handle on here but no one cared so I edited it. Good luck! |
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I have bought four PS5’s recently. Tuesdays, GameStop, 11 am EST, power up pro account.
Seriously folks, I post this in every one of these threads. It’s easier than people make it out to be. If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. |
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Quoted: I have bought four PS5’s recently. Tuesdays, GameStop, 11 am EST, power up pro account. Seriously folks, I post this in every one of these threads. It’s easier than people make it out to be. If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. View Quote Just signed up PUP account. How do I get notified to buy a PS5? Is there anything I need to fill out or some list I need to get on? @proheromk1 |
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Quoted: I have bought four PS5’s recently. Tuesdays, GameStop, 11 am EST, power up pro account. Seriously folks, I post this in every one of these threads. It’s easier than people make it out to be. If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. View Quote So I'll ask again the same question, what are you going to do with the other 3 PS5s? I haven't had a problem buying them, I get the emails from Sony saying you can register to be guaranteed one on a certain day, but I don't want version 1 of the PS5. |
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Quoted: So I'll ask again the same question, what are you going to do with the other 3 PS5s? I haven't had a problem buying them, I get the emails from Sony saying you can register to be guaranteed one on a certain day, but I don't want version 1 of the PS5. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I have bought four PS5’s recently. Tuesdays, GameStop, 11 am EST, power up pro account. Seriously folks, I post this in every one of these threads. It’s easier than people make it out to be. If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. So I'll ask again the same question, what are you going to do with the other 3 PS5s? I haven't had a problem buying them, I get the emails from Sony saying you can register to be guaranteed one on a certain day, but I don't want version 1 of the PS5. Probably getting them for friends/family that don’t want to bother with the process. |
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Quoted: Just signed up PUP account. How do I get notified to buy a PS5? Is there anything I need to fill out or some list I need to get on? @proheromk1 View Quote You should get an email Tuesday morning when they have them. Sometimes I haven’t gotten it and just jumped on the site at 11 am on a Tuesday. They only do tuesdays and only sell them in bundles. They had a restock last Tuesday so tomorrow may not happen, but if it doesn’t, you can all but guarantee next Tuesday they will drop more. I have yet to see it go live right at 11 so keep refreshing the page. One time it was 1124 before the add to cart button was live. @HillBilly69 |
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Quoted: I have bought four PS5’s recently. Tuesdays, GameStop, 11 am EST, power up pro account. Seriously folks, I post this in every one of these threads. It’s easier than people make it out to be. If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. View Quote Bull shit. Paid for the pro membership. I saw it as basically paying for the ability to buy one. Early access to the consoles before regular non members. OK, why not, as the playstation direct thing is not working. No emails after about a month. First time, they sent me a email at 10:15 telling me there would be a re stock at 10. You can guess how many were still in stock. I had no idea what days and when, as they never gave you any of that info beforehand. Then I see they are doing in store restocks for "select" cities. Say what? So what happened to pro members getting early access? WTF did I just pay for? Now today I get the email, and I am already signed in, at the page and reloading every 30 seconds. At 9:59, the website will not load/refresh, just blank page "waiting on gamestop.com". A few min later it finally loads. Says not available. Then after about 30 seconds of me cussing the add to cart button becomes active. I hit add to cart and get two spinning circles in the screen for about a min then nothing. I check my cart and it is empty. I reload, add to cart again, get the two spinning circles, then nothing. Cart is still empty. I keep doing this over and over then it finally pops up a "I a not a robot" box, I click it and it says they are no longer available. Now I see another in store restock in select cities, when they are not even holding up their "pro members get early access" BS. If that was true, they would be selling to pro members. Updated my PS email preferences over a month ago with not a peep from them. I registered for their "lottery" or whatever you want to call it when they opened it. Not a peep from that either, however long ago that was. I am doing all I can. I am a working man with a full time job and can not set at a computer all day every day scouring for a restock somewhere. I will not buy from a scalper, fuck them and buying from them only makes then continue to do it. Also, those assholes in the OP, need to eat shit and die. |
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Quoted: Bull shit. Paid for the pro membership. I saw it as basically paying for the ability to buy one. Early access to the consoles before regular non members. OK, why not, as the playstation direct thing is not working. No emails after about a month. First time, they sent me a email at 10:15 telling me there would be a re stock at 10. You can guess how many were still in stock. I had no idea what days and when, as they never gave you any of that info beforehand. Then I see they are doing in store restocks for "select" cities. Say what? So what happened to pro members getting early access? WTF did I just pay for? Now today I get the email, and I am already signed in, at the page and reloading every 30 seconds. At 9:59, the website will not load/refresh, just blank page "waiting on gamestop.com". A few min later it finally loads. Says not available. Then after about 30 seconds of me cussing the add to cart button becomes active. I hit add to cart and get two spinning circles in the screen for about a min then nothing. I check my cart and it is empty. I reload, add to cart again, get the two spinning circles, then nothing. Cart is still empty. I keep doing this over and over then it finally pops up a "I a not a robot" box, I click it and it says they are no longer available. Now I see another in store restock in select cities, when they are not even holding up their "pro members get early access" BS. If that was true, they would be selling to pro members. Updated my PS email preferences over a month ago with not a peep from them. I registered for their "lottery" or whatever you want to call it when they opened it. Not a peep from that either, however long ago that was. I am doing all I can. I am a working man with a full time job and can not set at a computer all day every day scouring for a restock somewhere. I will not buy from a scalper, fuck them and buying from them only makes then continue to do it. Also, those assholes in the OP, need to eat shit and die. View Quote Don’t know what to tell you man. I have been a psn subscriber for over a decade and never got a single email from Sony. I have had zero issues with GameStop, doing it on my phone, at work no less any time I have logged in to buy one. When I bought the system for my sons girlfriend, I didn’t realize it was Tuesday until about 1135. Jumped on and still bought one with no problems. |
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Quoted: If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. View Quote I disagree. Signed up for a PS5 tracker app that have alerts go off when there is stock. Signed up for the PSN lottery and do the PSN direct thing. Best buy, walmart and target sell out instantly. Can't even add the system to cart. PSDirect is always 1 hour plus wait, by the time I'm up, they're sold out. The only thing that stays in stock for a few minutes is gamestop with their overpriced bundles that has nothing in it that I want. |
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Quoted: I disagree. Signed up for a PS5 tracker app that have alerts go off when there is stock. Signed up for the PSN lottery and do the PSN direct thing. Best buy, walmart and target sell out instantly. Can't even add the system to cart. PSDirect is always 1 hour plus wait, by the time I'm up, they're sold out. The only thing that stays in stock for a few minutes is gamestop with their overpriced bundles that has nothing in it that I want. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If you can’t get one at this point, it’s you and not the system. I disagree. Signed up for a PS5 tracker app that have alerts go off when there is stock. Signed up for the PSN lottery and do the PSN direct thing. Best buy, walmart and target sell out instantly. Can't even add the system to cart. PSDirect is always 1 hour plus wait, by the time I'm up, they're sold out. The only thing that stays in stock for a few minutes is gamestop with their overpriced bundles that has nothing in it that I want. So far the gamestop membership has been the closest I have come to being able to buy one. But it was still a no go. I am also unhappy with the forced bundle they make you buy. But I figure I can sell/trade the games, the psn gold membership I will uses, as well as the gift card. But I really do not want that, I just want the system. Bad part is, we compete with everyone who sets around with no job and nothing else to do buy search for and buy systems to sell to scalpers like in the OP. As soon as they come in stock anywhere, the sites are flooded instantly with 10's of thousands of people all trying to buy one at the same time. |
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Quoted: If you have a psn account keep an eye out for an invitation email. I got one last month randomly. I didn’t request for the email so I’m sure they’re just sending them out randomly if have an account. View Quote It seems that is just a completely random lottery. My track record with the lottery is pretty much zero. So I will never get that email. |
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Quoted: So far the gamestop membership has been the closest I have come to being able to buy one. But it was still a no go. I am also unhappy with the forced bundle they make you buy. But I figure I can sell/trade the games, the psn gold membership I will uses, as well as the gift card. But I really do not want that, I just want the system. Bad part is, we compete with everyone who sets around with no job and nothing else to do buy search for and buy systems to sell to scalpers like in the OP. As soon as they come in stock anywhere, the sites are flooded instantly with 10's of thousands of people all trying to buy one at the same time. View Quote I just want a disc system and the remote. I don't want anything else. No stupid sports, spiderman, or any other game they bundle. I don't use PSN + membership and don't care about a giftcard. I also have no interest in reselling the bundled items, at a loss, to some stranger on craigslist. |
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Quoted: It seems that is just a completely random lottery. My track record with the lottery is pretty much zero. So I will never get that email. View Quote i have gotten 2 emails from sony direct. i have had a psn account active for several years. got my ps5 first day. the second time on top of the page it says you can only get one per household through sony direct was hoping to get the second one for friends but cant do it. |
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Quoted: i have gotten 2 emails from sony direct. i have had a psn account active for several years. got my ps5 first day. the second time on top of the page it says you can only get one per household through sony direct was hoping to get the second one for friends but cant do it. View Quote Yea I have had a PSN account since somewhere around 2007-2008. Still not a peep from sony other than a recent black friday sale email for games I have no interest in. Me and my girlfriend are both signed up for the sony lottery and neither of us have gotten one. She has had her PSN account for about the same amount of time as me. We signed up as soon as they let people sign up. Once black friday is over, I wonder if chances will go up of getting one. My guess is no. Still way too many bots buying all the stock, retailers doing nothing to stop it, and scalpers re selling them. Plus the complete assholes that are in the link in the OP. |
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Quoted: Yea I have had a PSN account since somewhere around 2007-2008. Still not a peep from sony other than a recent black friday sale email for games I have no interest in. Me and my girlfriend are both signed up for the sony lottery and neither of us have gotten one. She has had her PSN account for about the same amount of time as me. We signed up as soon as they let people sign up. Once black friday is over, I wonder if chances will go up of getting one. My guess is no. Still way too many bots buying all the stock, retailers doing nothing to stop it, and scalpers re selling them. Plus the complete assholes that are in the link in the OP. View Quote If your account set up to receive sales offers and promos? Mine wasn’t and after reading about it here I went in and made the necessary changes to my account and a couple of weeks later I got my first offer. |
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Quoted: If your account set up to receive sales offers and promos? Mine wasn’t and after reading about it here I went in and made the necessary changes to my account and a couple of weeks later I got my first offer. View Quote Yep, I checked every box for every email I could a few months ago when I first heard of it, and then signed up for the lottery when they started that. |
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Quoted: I followed Jake Randall on twitter and watched his youtube videos and got the disk version for 499 a few months ago from a walmart drop. View Quote 1st. was gamestop on Thanksgiving. Had to stand in line for over an hour. 2nd was Walmart online. Got both within 4 days of eachother. |
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Matt Swider is who I followed on Twitter for the restock alerts. I scored my Series X that way after about 2 weeks.
I already had the PS5 because I paid a scalper what I considered to be a "reasonable" fee to buy one right after release. $700, which I consider a decent deal based on what they're still going for. They're worth what we're willing to pay, I suppose? |
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I cancelled my subscription notice for the PS5s, as I was tired of getting all promotions but the one for the PS5. Today, 2 days later, I get an invite to try and buy a PS5 at an upcoming event.
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I bought my Series X on launch day and paid regular price.
jk, I wish they were more available, I’ve been trying to find one for a friend for months. |
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https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps5/register-to-buy/ I signed up but luck of the draw if you get selected.
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Quoted: Quoted: Got an email from Sony yesterday for tomorrows drop Exactly what my email was about. Same. I signed up from a link I saw in a GD thread a while back. Guess Ill see what happens. Email said my link was active at 2pm EST |
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