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Scalpers are already selling the Steam Machine for over $3000 on eBay despite Valve's efforts (www.tweaktown.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Correct. They're not even selling you a physical machine at that price. They're just allegedly selling you their place in the preorder lottery for the opportunity to buy one.

I can't imagine how anyone could possibly be that desperate.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    I'm surprised that eBay even allows them to because I think that breaks their seller guidelines. I'm pretty sure merchandise that you don't physically have on hand You must clearly mark as I don't have this and as a pre-order and any pre-order is required to be shipped out within 40 days of the sale happening.

    I can't imagine anyone on eBay is able to actually confirm they'll have it in 40 days

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I should be shocked, but I'm not.... Some people go to great lengths to get pokemon cards.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I mean, sure. I have tons of rare knives, too. But a PC is a commodity item; it's easily susbtituted with any other which is really the whole point of the architecture to begin with.

    I think the Steam Machine is neat. I'm still not paying $3000 for one.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    While Valve only officially supports 3 devices, it is possible to install its image on any PC (or just run Steam on Linux). But quite a few Steam users don't realise that.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Also, Valve only officially supports Ubuntu LTS desktop (Gnome). And their own OS of course. Yes, despite having the Steam runtime. The only thing this means is that support agents will say "but did you try installing Ubuntu?".

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