20 Million PS5 Scalper Bot Attempts Were Blocked By Walmart In Just 30 Minutes

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[CIPHER]
- Brandon Hann
- WECKmaster329
[BIG BOSS]
- callmevocal
- Charlie Galvin
- CommittedHall
- Jonathan Ball
[BOSS]
- Devon B
- Gerardo Andrade
- Joe Hunt
- Matthew Szalkiewicz
- Michael Redmond
- Peter Vrba
- Shepard Gaming
- Simon S
- Time Dragonlord
[LEGENDARY]
- BattleBladeWar
- JT
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- Theron Webb
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[YongYea]

That's over 11, 000 attempts per second.

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TOP PATRONS
[CIPHER]
- Brandon Hann
[BIG BOSS]
- callmevocal
- Charlie Galvin
- CommittedHall
- Jonathan Ball
[BOSS]
- Devon B
- Gerardo Andrade
- Joe Hunt
- Matthew Szalkiewicz
- Michael Redmond
- Peter Vrba
- Shepard Gaming
- Simon S
- Time Dragonlord
[LEGENDARY]
- BattleBladeWar
- JT
- Mark Taylor
- Theron Webb
- Yue

[chaz.]

As a Walmart employee, this frustrates me so much. The website desperately needs captcha.

[Archangelm]

I love how it's Walmart of all retailers that is the first to step up. The world is upside down.

[Doom_Guy__]

PS5 scalpers are getting denied? Best birthday gift ever.

[Shishomuru]

"Some of us are struggling, were doing this to put food on the table!"

- Some scalper who doesn't have the money for food but has the money to buy 20 PS5's

[BarokaiRein]

If nobody was stupid enough to buy from them they'd just be left with sheds full of PS5s nobody wants to buy from them and they'd just go broke.

[dyea_b_tis]

Scalpers: Let’s commit another round of scalping PS5s!

Walmart: *reverse card*

[rickyredbeard]

Who thought of all places, we'd be thanking walmart for looking out for the average consumer.

[Offroader]

Scalpers are the middle finger to customers everywhere, and how they treat scalping like a legit business sickens me. I'm glad people are doing something about this.

[FletcherReedsRandomness]

I like how they refer to scalper bots as “Grinch Bots”.

[gerrion]

For those unaware, 20 million in thirty minutes equal to over eleven thousand attempts *per second* . Most people would finish an attempt in around a minute, while the bots would have gotten over 60k.

Trully crazy...

[YZYGWD]

About fucking time they are doing something about it

[SimilakChild]

Really surprised Walmart could do this but Amazon can't.

[ShirmaAkayaku]

When Sony and Microsoft realize they're having issues selling software on the systems, that's when law makers will get involved.

[Excalibur-Sonic]

20mill in a human never had a f*cking change to beat that.

[Joey-semk]

Can't imagine Sony and Microsoft won't start taking (possibly legal) actions soon either.

While the scalpers are paying for the consoles, the consoles aren't being used, meaning no games and subscriptions are being bought.

[Simon-xilb]

stop buying from scalpers and they'll lose a shitton of money. seriously, people, stop.

[RealCoolstriker]

To quote internet historian:
“Price gauging illegal. Me angry.”

[michaelirwin]

Scalping itself isn't the issue that got Governments involved... it's the lack of all that taxable income.

[stoutalarm]

Scalpers: grabs most of the consoles and sells them at a really high price

Me: guess I’ll get one after covid in an actual store

Scalpers: YoU WeReNt SoPpOssED To Do ThAt