Xbox series x price gouging at big name retailer

Direct Distributor is the vendor working with Wal-Mart.com to sell the Xbox Series X which is the either a distributor that sells the product them selves after buying all products out of the market and the marks the product up for profit or acts as a portal for others to resell.

It is actually legal to price gouge unless during a crisis such as with fuel during an evacuation for some natural disaster. This did start during the Covid 19 crisis when everyone was forced to be home so there is a possibility that it could apply but its up to a lawyer to look in to it and take action against it. Sadly the people selling them are probably from China or some other country that is well known for fraud and scams and nothing will happen.

Best you can do is Not buy them till the price goes down to normal prices.

That's from a third party seller on Walmart, not Walmart themselves. That's why the prices are different. Unfortunately resellers are charging outrageous prices since the consoles are hard to come by.

Ultimately they can charge whatever people are willing to buy consoles at. When they first came out, they were selling on a certain auction site for £1000, sometimes more....these days they are generally selling at nearer the £500-600 mark as people aren't willing to pay scalper/gouger prices.

I'm with you 100% in agreement. I'm consistently checking availability for the Series X through Microsoft.com and many other retailers. Wal-Mart is shown through "Check Availability" link on Microsoft as having stock but charging $819.99USD for the StandAlone Xbox Series X console with controller package, over $300 over the actual retail price of $499.99USD! I call [mod removed] that a retailer 99.9% of the time is usually the place you go for cheaper prices is price gouging at scumbag Scalper level, let alone why the [mod removed] is Microsoft allowing such a major retail chain to do such? I myself also have been a Xbox live Gold subscriber for over a decade. I am taking part in the Xbox Insiders program for the series X|S and sadly haven't made the drawings for few rounds now but do still have hope. Yes I can get a Series S console currently but as I have games on disk I play as well as DVD/Blu-Ray movies I watch on my system, going all digital would be redundant and extremely costly. I get I should of pre-ordered but my financies were strapped being used for travel costs among other required bills as my father was in declining health and hospitalized unfortunately becoming fatality ill, passing week before Xmas, so aside from a financial situation getting a new console at the time wasn't top priority, and no I'm not looking for sympathy or pity, so please don't. Not trying to sound like a Dbag either.

I'm just truly hoping that either the chip shortage gets resolved fast or maybe Microsoft can find a way to deter or minimize scalper purchases so those whom are simply looking to get a console for sincere personal or family use can have a better chance. Or hell Microsoft, limit or cutoff the restocking of the [mod removed] retailers price gouging the [mod removed] out of people and increase unit numbers to retailers selling the console at proper retail price and have them institute a policy limiting purchase and way to keep track.

Some of us like myself wouldn't even be in this predicament but my console is on its last leg being a pre-owned Day 1 Xbox One & considering production for the Xbox One, One S & X have since ceased making purchase for those consoles slim for new or garnering via second hand purchase, I myself see it illogical to purchase a pre-owned previous gen console for 1/2-3/4 price of the a new gen New console. I know I'm gonna be severely irritated, that's putting it mildly, if my console dies and I'm stuck either waiting who knows how long to purchase a Series X all while paid for Gold subscription gets no use or in order to not waste said gold subscription & still play forced to buy a pre-owned "previous" gen system thus spending extra money or money I then won't have for a Series X, I'm sure many would feel the same.

If you don't trust the retailers, you'll never get an Xbox series x anytime soon.

I stay in the UK and one of those retailers has the Xbox series s and x available but you have to take it with Xbox all access to pay the console off over 2 years.

This retailer is the probably the only one autherised by Microsoft to sell the Xbox series s/x via Xbox all access in the UK.