![]() Steam Deck resale price on places like Ebay is as high as five thousand dollars for the 512GB model, thus scalpers are gaining a large profit from buyers. At the time of this posting, current Steam Deck reservations won’t ship until Q2 2022.For Valve, Steam's Deck pre-sale was without question a success: demand in the first few hours was so great that Steam's servers were overwhelmed, there were so many customer reservations to the extent that fresh bookings are planned for the third quarter of 2022 only.Īs with other high demand items, scalpers have their units also booked and will already sell their reserved consoles for delivery when they receive them in December. Valve has attempted to minimize scalping activity and unauthorized resellers by limiting Steam Deck reservations to Steam users who have made a purchase on Steam prior to 2021, but that special window will soon be over. Luckily (and to the dismay of scalpers), eBay has already begun identifying and deleting most of these listings, as they violate the company’s terms and conditions for being pre-sale items that won’t be delivered within 30 days. ![]() Shortly after the Steam Deck went up for pre-order on Friday, July 16, auction sites such as eBay became inundated with listings for the popular device, with some lucky but immoral reservation holders seeking as much as $5,000 from desperate gamers wanting to receive a unit early. Valve’s announcement of a portable PC called the Steam Deck has been a pleasant surprise for gamers who are seeking a convenient way to take their entire Steam libraries on the go, but what followed was disappointingly typical in a year where hotly anticipated tech items are preyed upon by anyone desiring to seek a profit. ![]()
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