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> Without scalpers then a shortage means the switches are actually in the hands of gamers who got them for a reasonable price[...]

A reasonable dollar price, but an unreasonable requirement of speed and/or luck.

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But with scalpers you make the initial rush a much harder battle (you compete with scalpers now too) so more customers are losers at that stage, and then losers again if they have to be gouged by scalpers.

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