alt Hacker NewsThat prevents flooding of tickets by a single person but doesn't prevent me from signing up even though I just want to resell
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jack_pp • yesterday at 7:20 PM
Sure but no one can do anything about your free will. This is about being fair, any ideas to make the system fairer?
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nehal3m • yesterday at 7:17 PM
Well if you’re prepared to sell a kidney for a flux capacitor and a DeLorean, go for it.
mywittyname • yesterday at 7:32 PM
I mean, go for it. Do you really want to risk getting stuck with a $1100 device that you have to now offload (and pay the associated fees)?
The corollary to this lottery will ensure that people who want Steam Machines day 1 actually get them at cost. So not only does this negatively impact the supply-side of scalping, but it also impacts the demand-side.
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You can fight scalpers by hardware limiting the device to the account that was used to purchase for some set time (2 years or so)