GTA 6 Pre-Orders Are Already Being Scalped For Ridiculous Prices
The countdown really is on to the release of GTA 6, as with less than five months left to go, Rockstar has opened pre-orders for its long-awaited juggernaut. Those pre-orders are still available pretty much everywhere, but that hasn't stopped scalpers from trying to take advantage of a situation that doesn't currently exist.
GTA 6 Pre-Orders Listed For Upwards Of $200
It seems the first thing a lot of people did after securing their GTA 6 pre-order was rush to eBay in an attempt to resell that pre-order to someone else for an inflated price. There are several of them, with the most expensive demanding that potential buyers fork over $199 with an additional $24 for postage, bringing the total up to $225.
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Posts By Josh CoulsonThe $225 listings appear to be the standard edition, too, so not even the $100 ultimate edition for that inflated price. There's one for the PS5 version of the game, and a second for the Xbox Series X|S edition, both listed by the same scalper. The silver lining is that neither listing appears to have any bids on them yet.
Other scalpers are trying to sell their pre-ordered copies of GTA 6 for almost as much. Another pair of listings from the same seller has standard editions of the game listed for $170 with an extra $28.55 thrown on top for postage, and a similarly priced PS5 copy is listed for $174 with slightly less being asked of a buyer for postage. How kind.
Having scrolled through all of the listings by scalpers trying to make money from reselling GTA 6 pre-orders, the good news is that not a single one has any bids. There's a chance that some have been sold as customers have opted to "buy it now", but considering the circumstances, that seems highly unlikely.
Why Would You Pay $200 For An $80 Game That's Available Everywhere?
That's because GTA 6 pre-orders are not only in stock everywhere, but that is unlikely to change, even when we get closer to November 19. Digital pre-orders won't sell out, because they can't, and even the physical version of the game is just a code in a box. That presumably means Rockstar can make as many as it needs since it doesn't have to worry about the discs.
Would you look at that? Turns out there's at least one good thing about physical copies of GTA 6 being codes in boxes.
As for why someone would buy a copy of something that's almost certainly never going to sell out in an attempt to resell it for a profit, I can think of two reasons. Either they don't know what they're doing, or they're banking on people going straight to eBay on the assumption that copies of GTA 6 would have certainly sold out almost immediately. They briefly did on Amazon, although in reality that's just something Amazon does, presumably to ease traffic, when a big new release is available on its platform, and it almost certainly never actually sold out at all.
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Get the newsletter for clear, focused coverage of GTA 6 pre-orders, scalper tactics and marketplace developments — analysis and context to help you spot overpriced listings and make informed buying or reselling choices. Get Updates By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime.Every copy of GTA 6 currently being resold on eBay is a code in a box. It's already unlikely that any of the scalpers trying to take advantage of people are going to be able to offload them, but their odds will decrease even further if the reports that a disc version of GTA 6 will replace the codes in boxes before the end of the year are true.
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