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by charcircuit 1252 days ago
>against their own interests.

Wanting an RNG / ping based system is not in everyone's interests. Plenty of people want to be able to just buy a product wherever they feel like and not have to spam refresh at specific time for a chance to get a product. Resellers offer this convince and clearly people are willing to pay for it.

It's either some consumers get a good deal while others get nothing, or all consumers pay a fair price and get it.

This isn't even getting to the higher resale price if resellers are blocked because there is less competition between resellers.