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Comment by bonestamp2 | Hacker News Reader

800 preloaded games? The disregard for copyright is embarrassingly naive... usually the idea with selling something is to come out financially ahead in the end.

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Best Buy has been selling pirate retro consoles for months, with no action taken against them.

https://m.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/300-in-1-portable-retro-m...

And, of course, Amazon and Ali Baba have been selling them for ages.

Yep, these types of Chinese preloaded consoles have been around for years now. I doubt the few thousand dollars Soulja Boy makes re-selling these will be of much interest to anyone.

My local mall had something similar for sale at a kiosk. I was shocked that nobody checks to see if what they're selling is legal. The mall is owned by Macerich a company that owns a ton of malls all over the place.

Counterfeit items aren't a new thing; these are to video games as knock-off Prada bags are to fashion.

Right, this whole thread reads like hacker news is just discovering knock-offs

It's strange to see them in "main stream" locations though

I'm sorry if my comment came off that way. I used to buy Folex watches on the street 20 years ago... so knock offs are certainly not new to me. The difference is that the sleazy guy on the street has nothing to lose while best buy, large malls, soulja boy, etc are taking a much larger risk by promoting it because they all have a lot to lose. Knock offs are not surprising -- the risk is.

The kiosk is renting from the mall owner, the mall owner has no liability about what the kiosk owner sells.

That's not being sold by Best Buy, it says "sold by CC Trading Bridge".

Regardless of what it says, that’s Best Buy’s store, Best Buy gets your money, and Best Buy gets your phone call or email if there’s a problem with the purchase. I’d call that “sold by Best Buy.”

That is certainly not the same as "sold by Best Buy". It is sold and shipped by CC Trading Bridge. IANAL, but I would suspect the fact that this is a 3rd party seller that is not even using Best Buy fulfillment centers would provide Best Buy a certain level of protection from legal ramifications. This isn't much different from EBay.

Yes, but please pay for my music ?

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