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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

BBTS is looking to make a very limited product made available to people who can't fly all the way across the country for a convention and then drop extra cash in on top of that.

The scalper is just trying to take advantage of supply and demand to line his pockets.

I don't follow that logic at all. In this case, where BBTS is having people go to the con to buy products for them, or more likely, exploiting hookups to get more SDCC items than they should be able to, they are doing the exact same thing as a scalper.

they are taking advantage of a limited supply in order to make a profit. That is what a scalper does too.


you can't justify it by saying "but BBTS is really just trying to help folks that can't make it to SDCC get them"

IMO, the only people that "deserve" these are the people that actually go. I know it sucks, but if I went to the con and was unable to buy one because BBTS and other scalpers had decided to "redistribute" them to other folks that didn't even come, I would be livid