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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

This is generally why cons have a so and so amount limit per customer. If that's in place and they can't just buy the con supply out. It's not scalping. Scalping is about cornering the market to make sure demand stays high. The limit hinders that and keeps it within confines that would match even a greedy collector.

How fair is a con exclusive if the first person in line buys 20? Take the helicarrier for instance. If someone in line wanted a fleet of those, you'd be just as screwed as BBTS buying however many for pre-orders. They are at the con, they have just as much right to buy those 20 helicarriers as you do your one while visiting the convention. This is why they generally have that limit of roughly 2 or 4 per customer. So it keeps both the amount of resellers and the amount of over-troop building in check to better meet the needs of those who like multiple and those who just at least want one.

That's why I had said before it falls into one of those areas of just assume everyone in line is buying the max they can get and hope for the best. That's the way items released of this nature are handled and the expectations around them anyway. It sucks, but it's a convention exclusive. It's going to be sought after and people are going to sell them to those that couldn't be at the con. Con exclusives by nature cannot be considered 'scalping' unless the scalper is cornering the market on them to artificially inflate the price(buy cheap online early, resell high online later).

Mass Retail items are another matter, but as long as they aren't cornering the market and making it impossible to find certain things it's not a big issue. Then again though really, a sale is a sale. And the more product moved for MU the better.

I disagree with your definition of scalping. Scalping has nothing to do with cornering or dominating a market. Scalping IS buying something with the intent to make a profit from selling it. That's it. Not sure where you are getting all those other extra requirements from.

as for the buying limits. I agree that nobody should be able to buy them all. Depending on production, the limit should be 1 or 2 per ticket holder. Everybody at the con that wants one, should be able to get one. If you are not at the con, then it sucks and it's not fair, but that is life. We don't have the right to everything we want.