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Counterfeit PS1 Games Are All Over AliExpress (www.retronews.com)
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There has been a significant increase in fake PlayStation 1 discs being sold on AliExpress, a well-known online marketplace.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe if you weren't ~~scalping~~ price gouging that shit then there wouldn't be a market for knockoffs. Personally, I don't care if I have a knockoff or the real deal anymore. As long as I and the console can't tell the difference, who cares?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What exactly is your definition of scalping in this case

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, wrong term. Price gouging. The market is absurd and most of it is thanks to WATA's pump-and-dump shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

For PS1?

https://www.pricecharting.com/console/playstation?sort=highest-price&genre-name=all&exclude-variants=true&exclude-hardware=true&when=none&release-date=2024-09-24&show-images=false&in-collection=

95% of games are below $60, and the vast majority of those are below $20.

You might mean "more than I'm willing to pay," but it's a market. There are millions of copies of certain titles, so no one is cornering the market. People are just willing to pay more than you. In the case of PS1, maybe $10-20 more. No one is getting rich from that.