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.
I now don’t mind the store screw up. Thanks to the illusion of how limited it was, now there are a bunch of scalpers left taking a loss.
If you have credit on your eBay account from any of the promotions they’ve done over the years, this might be a good chance to snag a steam deck OLED LE under retail price haha. You’d have to worry about Warranty possibly depending on your region. But for a lot of regions you’ll start the Warranty when you register the device to your account as long as your the first.
Also this is great for people outside the US and Canada. Means you can get the LE without a huge mark up!
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…
I can still click buy now and get one in two to four weeks. Why would I buy from a scalper? Stupid scalpers.
ppl outside of north america
People outside north america exist? (It’s a joke). I forgot they were only selling them in North America.
Personally I would wait a year. Hell if that, probably come the steam summersale you’ll see them comeout with different colors. That purple case everyone was in love with? There’ll be a purple one.
What are they doing? Don’t ebay take a huge percentage from their sales. They are losing money
Didn’t even buy one and I’m glad to hear things went smoothly. I always hate when scalpers ruin things.
As someone who was freaking out trying to order a 512GB OLED earlier (got mine after 26 minutes >_>), I will say Valve is the only gaming manufacturer who manages to shut down scalpers.
It’s pretty nice.
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 $750.
750 is basically the retail price. That means the scalpers are losing quite a bit of money. Makes no sense…
They scared the shit out of me but I think it’s so cool there’s more than just a handful of them.
I think it’s fine to sell one unit overseas, but if you do, don’t be crazy. I think a 20-30% mark up is reasonable, especially if it’s an LE to say the UK or Australia where it’s hard to get them.
Don’t think steam decks are even available to Australia outside of the Grey markets x x.
10% goes to eBay in taxes.
I reckon international shipping would be customs cost (tax) + about 70-80$
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.
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.
Be funny if this thing wasn’t limited at all and Valve was just trolling scalpers 😂
