I mean they could check a lot of things. Verified purchases. Account age. Time spent gaming. Any barrier to entry, no matter how small, would stop the majority of scalping.

Require an account three months old, at least one verified purchase in the past year, ten hours played across any title(s).

I'm pretty sure 100% of real customers would hit each of those and nearly 0% of scalpers.

curiously, I'm not claiming anything, I was simply asking which you have provided the answer to, there's no real evidence that they are scalpers. Thank you.

So I checked this out, because a few people have said there are a ton of listings on ebay.

On ebay.de, searching for "Steam Controller 2026" in the EU there are three results, along with a bunch of old controllers and unrelated stuff. ebay.com has less than 20 results (plus a bunch of unrelated stuff again).

Where do people see all these?

Just searching for "Steam Controller," not changing any other filters I get 500+ results and 2k+ results, but almost all of these are the old controllers, other 3rd party controllers, Steam Links, accessories, etc. Do people just take those numbers and think there really are so many scalpers?

thanks man, take some getting used to with these instances, got confused a lot lol