I thought this was illegal.... S8 on Ebay

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>> classified ads column across, well at least the Toronto area, PS2's were
>> being advertised for between double and triple their commercial price by
>> private individuals who had the money to put thousands of dollars on
>> deposits, just to make them that much more expensive for those of us that
>> didn't have the money to buy them before they disappeared.

> The supply was constant regardless of whether they were sold directly
> by Sony, by stores, or by speculators.  The problem was simply that
> not enough were available to meet demand.

All marketing hype and bullshit, which the entire gullible world fell
for.

Here in the UK we had the same crap, recognisable as such from the
start:

   "Only 160,000 PS2s for the UK before Christmas."

   "Deposit required six weeks in advance."

   "One only per household."

   "No more until Easter."

And then late on Christmas Eve in Sheffield one of the stores had three
in the window - "10% off for Christmas".

Same thing happened with the Audi TT.  It's still supposed to have
rarity value, even though Audi has already built 20 times as many TTs
as it built ur-quattros in eleven years.  Some people will believe
anything.

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