PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition Pre-Orders Sell Out Rapidly Amid Scalper Chaos

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Sony open pre-orders for Games for PlayStation 5 Pro regular edition and a special edition for the 30th anniversary of PlayStation on Thursday (26/9). Unfortunately, the moment the latest generation of game consoles was immediately ruined by scalpers.

Pre-orders for the PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Limited Edition opened in the UK and Europe first, priced at 959 Pounds Sterling or 1,099 Euros. This special edition console can only be ordered through the PlayStation Direct website.

Sony only produced 12,300 PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition units, so it’s no surprise that the battle to get your hands on this console is fierce. This console comes in a classic PS1-style gray color with a package of accessories such as a DualSense controller, DualSense Edge, a controller connector with a classic design, and several other special edition gadgets.

Just a few minutes after the pre-orders opened, many fans who had been queuing for a long time were unable to continue the ordering process as the console had sold out around early As of now, the 30th anniversary edition of the PS5 is still not available on the PlayStation Direct website.

As with rare and popular products in general, limited edition PS5 Pros immediately appeared on buy and sell websites such as eBay. Brokers who managed to pre-order the limited edition PS5 Pro sold for up to 10,000 pounds Sterling or about 202 million Rp.

But these scalpers are not selling the limited edition PS5 Pro they already have, but just confirming that their pre-order was successful. The situation is so bad that some other sellers are warning eBay users not to buy PS5 Pros from scalpers due to the possibility of fraud.

Even limited edition PS5s, which have unlimited sizes like PS5 Proalso sold out and resold by scalpers at fantastic prices. Likewise with utilities such as the PlayStation Portal and DualSense controller.

An eBay representative said that its platform allows the sale of pre-ordered items that the seller does not yet have if they adhere to appropriate pre-sale policies. The price increase or price increase policy also does not apply to game consoles such as the PS5 Pro.

“eBay’s policy to increase prices only applies to essential items, and does not include items such as video game consoles,” said an eBay representative, as quoted by IGN, on Sunday (9/29/2024 ).

This situation is reminiscent of the launch of the PS5 in 2020. At that time Sony also had a chip crisis that made the PS5 stock very limited, and scalpers made this situation worse because many discontinued it the PS5 and resell it at crazy prices.

Sony tried to avoid that at launch PS5 Pro by requiring users to log into their PlayStation account on the PlayStation Direct website before ordering. But it seems brokers can still get around this rule.

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