Ebay cracks down on PS3 Pre-orders

Mike Howes (Winga) A number of PS3s have already appeared on eBay, marked up by thousands of dollars; however Ebay seems to be cracking down on those listing the pre-ordered PS3 console's for outrageous prices.

October 16, 2006 6:18 PM ET in News,

A number of PS3s have already appeared on eBay, marked up by thousands of dollars; however Ebay seems to be cracking down on those listing the pre-ordered PS3 console’s for outrageous prices.

These are machines that are being pre-ordered by staff at games stores and listed on Ebay with a huge mark-up. The antics of the store owners have been attracting attention from PS3 fans, who fear a repeat of the Xbox 360 debacle, where store owners and managers took advantage of a unit shortage, taking the consoles off their shelves and flogging them on eBay.

However, it seems that eBay has decided to ban such sales. PS3 pre-orders with huge mark-ups appear to have been pulled from the auction site, upon the orders of eBay HQ. It is unlikely to stop the black-market in PS3s taking off when the console is released, but it is a start.

Source: The Inquirer

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4 Comments:

  1. zero.counter
    17 Oct '06, 12:16 am

    Good, futile though.

  2. Jengo
    17 Oct '06, 2:41 am

    Nice Try ebay.

  3. muddocktor
    17 Oct '06, 8:04 am

    Anyone that pays that much for those PS3's that they are going to be scalping deserves to be screwed. :

  4. Leonardo
    17 Oct '06, 5:20 pm

    Anyone who pays that much for game system that will be a fraction of that price in only a couple months does not have a real life. Sad, really.

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