Valve honestly did an amazing job with the waves of Limited Edition releases. I’ve seen the average price on eBay drop from $1100 to $800/750 in the past hour.
Almost 18-20 hrs later limited edition is still available shipping 1-2 weeks. Get fucked scalpers!
I saw one yesterday listed at about $1,900 but today it dropped to $1,100. Just insane…
edit: There are new listings up showing a screenshot of their confirmed order and the price they paid. These people have no shame.
10s of units sold for $900-$1200 in the first 2 hours though
There are always people with more money than brain just to pose they are better than others, the scalpers feed on those people!
Heck the entire TikTok System relies on narcissists trying to pose and that works well for them.
all these resellers will be sitting on a bunch of steamdecks lmao
Naw there is enough demand from people who can’t buy them that scalpers will still be able to sell them internationally.
I’ve seen some for 2 grand on eBay not even kidding
There was one for 2700 on the Canadian Market.
As someone else said, that’s like a 4090…
Womp womp
Valve has handled this amazingly! This mid refresh is more than we could have asked for and they are allowing a ton of people to order a limited console. Props!!! Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, take notes!
How does this work? With tax you’re looking at $700+ and with Ebay’s cut you’re making like $20 off of it if you’re only selling around $900. You’re making a loss selling it for $750.
I was skeptical in the morning but after I got my order in and seeing how this played out, I can’t applaud valve enough. The thought of all the people out there that tried to turn a profit and now might have to lose money makes me happy. The sneaker industry should learn from this.
They scared the shit out of me but I think it’s so cool there’s more than just a handful of them.
I think it’s fine to sell one unit overseas, but if you do, don’t be crazy. I think a 20-30% mark up is reasonable, especially if it’s an LE to say the UK or Australia where it’s hard to get them.
Don’t think steam decks are even available to Australia outside of the Grey markets x x.
10% goes to eBay in taxes.
I reckon international shipping would be customs cost (tax) + about 70-80$
To make it worth it should be a profit of $150 IMO.
I paid $720 after sales tax for my LE.
I’d have to sell it for $950 and charge shipping cost to make $100 profit. That’s roughly 11% margin, and 30% markup would only be $882, that would be $44 gained at 5% margin.
I’m keeping mine but just as an example.
Haha, rotten snakes!
Be funny if this thing wasn’t limited at all and Valve was just trolling scalpers 😂
Eat a bag of rotten dicks scalpers!
750 is basically the retail price. That means the scalpers are losing quite a bit of money. Makes no sense…
