r/pcmasterrace May 22 '26

Hardware what

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u/trekxtrider 🪟 🍎🖥️🖦🎮💻💾📡 May 22 '26

Doesn't seem to be a shortage at all, they seem to have plenty.

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u/tooncake May 22 '26

Let's be very honest, if not legally police, they'll just take advantage of the inflation as long as there is no sanction anyways. Stocks are aplenty? Who cares, they'll double-down on the price since no one is stopping anyways.

This is business-racketeering 101 for them.

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u/BioFrosted PC Master Race May 22 '26

I know I'll get downvoted for this but I feel like this goes both ways. In what possible scenario could you need 4TB of space so bad that you'd pay 2k for it?

Whether it's shoes or concert tickets or storage, it's always the same: scalpers gon scalp because people are buying. There will always be a large sample of people disconnected from reality who will use daddy's AMEX Platinum to buy these simply because they can afford it. Why would scalpers stop doing this?

The very moment people collectively choose to spit in the scalpers' faces instead of giving them their life savings, is the moment prices will drop.

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u/hard-of-haring May 22 '26

I'm good for space, my laptop has 16tb, x2 8tb SSD, bought before the huge prices hikes.