Yep, Scalpers Are Already Listing Xbox Series X On eBay

This is not looking good tomorrow morning....

Doxing really does have practical uses. Where's anonymous when they're needed?

I'm starting to wonder if there's actually a point in racing for pre-orders at all tomorrow.

@Tasuki Totaly agree 👍🏻

Scalpers always ruin the fun for everyone though I am not planning on getting one at launch regardless.

I’m waiting for a limited edition,I will never support a scalper but a bunch of desperate idiots will,and it continues,what makes me laugh is just wait a month and they can buy one normal price

I hope the UK gets enough stock that this doesn't happen....

I’m up and ready to preorder 8am in the U.K.
GOOD LUCK everyone.

@Dezzy70 same here 😂 If I miss out on getting a pre-order then I'll (try to) wait for a limited edition. No way would I support these people, proper scum. They're like the ***** that would do YouTube videos waiting in line and then smashing the product in front of the queue of people.

@Justifier Yes. I guess if you have enough money to burn and really want something, you'll pay any price, it's no big deal, what's an extra thousand for the pleasure of being first? Of course you could buy a screaming pc for that money, but i said they were rich, i never said anything about smart.

I picture most of these people being/buying for Michael's kid in gtav.

Back in the 80s parents were sketchily trading wads of cash for cabbage patch dolls from car trunks in dark parking lots like drug dealers and gun runners. Little Jenny really really needs that doll for Christmas. I hear you've got inventory.... I see it up front or no deal...(click)

Argh 8am and sold out

Wish they did what Sony did. I managed one of those preorders. Guess I’ll have to pay a scalper £800 or just wait. #angryface

The good thing is that if you don't get a pre-order it isn't like you will miss out on any games so just wait for them to be back in stock rather than line other people's pockets.

I stand corrected. Amazon still have stock just no more all access availability. If only I had a spare £450 to spend...

Ebay UK is already full of them, they shouldn't even allow it. Why should people who genuinely want it be ripped off by scum who have no interest in the product

@StonyKL or maybe more stock will become available

Wow that was totally crazy for 20 minutes.
I had four sites open and some how
And I can’t work it out.
Got one at Argos.

@carlos82 going to have to hope. All access smyths was oos at 8:00 while game gave me a 30 minute queue only to get in and be oos.
I did preorder a ps5 in case this happened so will probably end up with this come November so not all bad news but was hoping I didn’t have to spend £450 in one go this year and placing my hopes on the all access Payment. Can always cancel if finances are dire by then!

I managed to get a Bundle pre-ordered - didn't want a Bundle but as the MS store crashed as I tried to add to cart, Game had a 30min+ wait time to log into my account, I just bought the first option I could rather than go looking to find a retailer to buy just the console...
At least its all paid for now!!

@Dezzy70 I had about 4-5 sites open too - just went with the 3rd site that actually didn't crash. I started to log in with Game at 07.42 and was told 10mins wait, buy 7.58, it was 22mins. So I tried MS and that crashed, checked Simply Game and they only had bundles so I bought one (with AC:Valhalla, extra controller and Plug and charge kit).

@BAMozzy
It was hectic and well done at least we both got one.

yeah and congrats to you too - I had a slight panic when my login wait with Game was actually increasing as it got nearer and nearer to 8am. I thought I was going to be OK with MS as I added my purchase to cart - then crashed and so I quickly used my email link with Simply game, couldn't buy the console on its own so just added the bundle to ensure I had one....

Especially with all these issues with PS5, RTX 3080's and then Xbox in Australia....

I can relax a bit now - at least I can give my Son the extra Controller and Plug and Charge kit for Christmas as will be using my Elite Controllers anyway...

Hope everyone else was lucky - hate to think the Scalpers took the majority...

I got one direct from MS and I got a second from Amazon thanks to a link shared here, both X's. My oldest Son's birthday is on November 12th so his present is all sorted well in advance. Seemed to be a fair amount of stock in the UK.

I saw a scalper trying to return 20 Wii U's once. The Guy was almost in tiers. Brought a smile to face

But really, who's buying from these guys ?!! Jeez....

If it's 24th Dec and wee Johnny is expecting one, parents will pay anything

@Justifier if it was a limited edition I could understand it to some degree,but it’s pure impatient stupidity to buy one from a scalper when you can buy one a month later for regular price,a person is not missing out on ever getting one,it’s ridiculous,I would be embarrassed to tell anyone I payed twice as much because I just couldn’t wait lol

@TooBarFoo I love it when a greedy scalper gets stuck with stuff they can’t sell,I was in GameStop once and this older woman had preordered 3 kingdom hearts limited edition ps4 consoles and GameStop told her they were unable to get the consoles and canceled her preorders,she was crying that she had already sold them for $800 each and how was she going to give the money back because she spent it,I still laugh about that

People who buy from these scum scalpers are just as bad as the scalpers themselves.

I’ll just get one in December & not deal with any of this stuff. 👍🏻

@NEStalgia there was a load of difference in Cabbage Patch doll era- you had to physically purchase the dolls. Sure people could stock up, but retailers could also put limits that forced scalpers to drive to store to store. I can almost appreciate it the work it took to be in the scalping business. Not so much with a bot. :/

@mousieone Haha, yeah, that's a fair point. I still don't quite get how the bot scalping business works. With order limits they need a whole host of accounts, and you would think they need lots of payment types as well. I would have thought the main aim in scalping is using stolen CCs and "gift cards" and the like, so I'm surprised that doesn't seem to come up as an issue. You'd also think stores might easily notice tons of orders with the same credentials, unless they're still only buying one or two per store. I guess with 2 CCs, a bot net, and 6 retailers you could still net a dozen boxen to scalp.

I don't have a very good criminal mind, I fear.

@Shujja33 Oh man, now that's funny. I really can't comprehend that stupidity. Even if you're a total grade-a-hole scalper.....at least wait to see if you get your merch before you flip it? If you're scalping you should be at least a little familiar with the preorder nightmare?

Although Gamestop really did screw the pooch that one. Usually if you're going to cancel preorders you find out shortly after taking them and cancel them. They waited until a few days before shipment to cancel..... I was one of them. I was this close to boycotting both Gamestop and Sony forever after that debacle. It really put me off preordering anything. (And has me twice as paranoid about my not from Gamestop preorders this time.

@NEStalgia yeah I was pretty pissed at GameStop for cancelling mine also,I thought it was one per customer,and here is a non gamer preordering 3,I wonder what scalper got mine,or yours for that fact,gamer lives matter

@Porridge2215 I grew up before Xbox’s existed,Christmas ment nothing to me and still doesn’t,i was lucky to get some school clothes,I did get a BB gun one year and got it taken away just as quickly,it would have been sweet to have gotten a new Xbox,kids don’t realize their privilege lol,Although I probably wouldn’t have graduated high school,I would probably have weighed 300 lbs by the time I was 10 years old

@Shujja33 i spent days searching the internet for what happened with that. Best i could figure out, gs, and most retailers oversell preorders expecting some of them cancel. Not as big a deal with new consoles since they'll get more eventually and can delay orders, but limited edition is different. As the rumor goes, Sony gave gs a range of now many theyd be allocated that was very wide. Gs oversold pre-orders for the high end of the range. There weren't many cancellations, and Sony delivered at the low end of the range. Gs apparently does that on purpose to try to force vendors to allocate more to them... But it was an LE of a nearly discontinued console, and wasn't originally meant to go outside Japan to begin with. Sony didn't bite.

Worse, the original preorders were supposed to be online only, but a bunch of stores took preorders, and they used the online allotment to fulfill them.

And then to be total scumbags, they waited until they were supposed to ship to tell anyone. Rumor has it the cancelled almost 75% of online preorders, and still a lot of in store ones, too.

Needless to say, I did not order my series x from GameStop

@NEStalgia two word gift card. You buy gift cards with the stolen CC numbers. Not that I’m a scalper, but used to be in the banking industry.

@mousieone Yeah that's one i had thought of... Not because I'm i criminal mastermind, but because of all the "you owe back taxes, you need to pay us exclusively in a dozen gift cards" scams. And the time PSN compromised my CC and i ended up buying a bunch of Walmart gift cards and a bunch of WoW currency and builds in Malaysia . The bank refunded the gift cards but couldn't refund international purchases for some reason, so a bought someone a few hundred in WoW costumes. If you're going to game with my money, at least have better taste in games.

@NEStalgia lol. Well when mine was compromised, someone bought flowers on the other side of the country. At first, the bank didn’t want to refund my money. Apparently, they think I forgot spending 100+ in roses.

@mousieone Why do you get a would be Casanova doppelganger, and i get the Malaysian WoW addict? I need to be able to screen my identity thieves to ensure they're consistent with my standards!

Pay a high price for a first batch usually means you’re getting overcharged for a console that may have all the release day curses