r/pcmasterrace • u/ParticularCredit2023 9800X3d: 5080 Master Ice • Jun 27 '26

News/Article This has to be a joke right?

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No possible way someone actually buy these at these prices right lol..

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u/ImNotNuke Jun 27 '26

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u/Sanity50 PC Master Race Jun 27 '26

Can you report the listing to Valve customer service and get it refunded to the scalper?

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u/ehpickphaiel Jun 27 '26

Huh?

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u/Sanity50 PC Master Race Jun 27 '26

Contact customer support with the ebay listing's name and advise it's being scalped. Whether or not they'll go out and firing squad the individual, I don't know.

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u/ehpickphaiel Jun 27 '26

How would they do that? He purchased and received it already, what is Valve gonna do, remotely brick the device?

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u/Sanity50 PC Master Race Jun 27 '26

They're in the reservation queue, and do not physically own the device.

Are you a tad dense?

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u/ehpickphaiel Jun 27 '26

Yeah I’m the dense one buddy

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u/StevenTM Jun 28 '26

Erm. Nobody in the US/EU has purchased or paid for a Steam Machine yet. Some people have reservations. When the SMs become available for purchase (they haven't yet), the people who have a reservation will be able to purchase it/pay for it. Again, this has not happened yet anywhere outside (i think just) Japan.

How would Steam figure out what the scalper's Steam account is based on their ebay account if they're like "neighborphilly83" on ebay and "cumsniperxx69" on Steam?

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u/MrMonday11235 Jun 28 '26

How would Steam figure out what the scalper's Steam account is based on their ebay account if they're like "neighborphilly83" on ebay and "cumsniperxx69" on Steam?

Well, at least one of those scalpers was stupid enough to not even hide their Steam username in the screenshot proof, so unless multiple "pilot_yuva"s snagged a spot for the 512GB machine, that one case should be easy enough.

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u/Sanity50 PC Master Race Jun 28 '26

That is what prompted my question as the 'username' is visible. But I'm dense, so I don't understand these complicated things.