Hahaha... he'll never get that.

If he put it up for $150 he might have got someone to be that stupid.

Someone somewhere was selling an old software manual for $3,500. I think it was the Per.Oxyd codebook I was looking for. I'll bet you what this guy did is pre-ordered his own copy for MSRP, and is planning to turn it around for a profit. Technically, it's illegal to sell something you don't already have if you're not a licensed vendor for pre-orders.

It has to be. What other explanation is there? Also aren't licensed vendors supposed to follow MSRP guidelines for pre-orders regardless? I think the PS3 edition the description says limited to 2000. Isn't it 25000?

Amazon attracts the dumbest sellers on the planet. They always price things so high that they never sell. Maybe they enjoy paying insertion fees for nothing. I love amazon for shopping but they need to place restrictions for advertising items before street date.

One guy to avoid it "HitGaming". Anything that's out of print he jacks up the price on because he considers it "Collectible". I'm talking about GBA games, Gamecube games, PS2, etc. I asked him about it once, and he gave me a lecture about "Supply and demand". Sounded like he was quoting from my old high school Economics textbook.

You should have replied back with you may have the supply, but there's no demand at that price.

Actually I'm curious what your reference is on the legality of what he's doing? I know he's not committing fraud for any definition of fraud I've ever heard.

I mean, if his intent is to have pre-ordered the game himself, and then sell it to the buyer once he receives it from the merchant HE bought it from, then essentially what he's doing is selling a pre-order purchase. That's wrong, especially if the merchant he pre-ordered from should happen to come up short in stock, and he doesn't receive the item he means to sell.

I agree that it's douchebaggery, but you said "technically illegal", if it is indeed against the law I'm just curious which, I'd like to read about it.

Amazon sellers getting dumber by the moment

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Cassie zannen: $999.99
reliableSupply $10 000

I think they just do it to show off they pre-ordered the item.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B003O6E8UA/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1298246913&sr=8-1&condition=new

Isn't there a law that covers selling things you don't already have? And I doubt these scalpers are licensed pre-sellers, so there's got to be a law or regulation against that.

I don't think they're breaking the law unless they take money for something and don't send it, that's fraud. There's nothing special about being a "licensed" seller, it usually just means you have a legal contract with a supplier.

Over their own websites, I can understand. But doing it over something like Amazon or eBay, I'm pretty sure there's a statute for that.

All the scalpers I've seen have the following in their listings:
"This is limited to 2000 TOTAL UNITS. That means this will never be available again! Lock yours in now and we will ship it the day it comes out!"

The fact that more than three scalpers have this in their listing for the product indicates to me some kind of chain scam, like 419s.

This and Metro 2033 which i picked up somewhere for $9 (which i am still yet to install) are actually the first games i will actually own that require steam, i even rejected Half life 2 Collectors edition when it was new because i was not interested in it and not wanting to install steam on my computer.