Graphics cards, game consoles, and more have been hard to come by at retail prices. Keller During the last year it’s been incredibly hard to procure certain items. As a after q3 I’m at that point where I’ll pay 1.3k just to get my hands on one, I don’t know if I’m angry or sad at this point. Valve Tackles Scalping With Steam Deck A 4 reservation and a legitimate Steam account is needed to make a reservation for the Steam Deck. It's just utter tech market greed, i mean looking at the ps5 scalpers, they own most units in their storages, now sony are aiming to bring out a ps5 pro, which can only mean the scalpers will be then trying their best to sell off most of their current stock to start scalping the Pro version etc, before long i find they will aim to do something to avoid the scalping at some given point, such as a system in place where it will somehow track the spending on certain tech to ensure scalping isnt involved maybe, not too sure, but hopefully the greed will stop, I honestly wish i could go back to the days where this wasnt a big issue etc. Valve offers three different versions of the Steam Deck: A 399 base model that features 64GB of eMMC storage, a 529 model that includes a 256GB NVMe SSD, and a 649 model with a 512GB NVMe. I also dont have to bare the burden of being so dumb to buy from a scalper XD. Would help a lot if they are useless because the serial is linked to the original buyer.

I see idiots pay 1600 euro's for a 512GB. Also the limitation to activate only one Deck on one account. Like mandatory activation with the same account the Deck is bought with and a cooldown period for three months or so (no new account can be activated without the main-account active on that deck). Originally posted by ClassicGamerNL:They should build in rules against scalping.

Scalper steam deck