Correct. They’re not even selling you a physical machine at that price. They’re just allegedly selling you their place in the preorder lottery for the opportunity to buy one.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be that desperate.
I’m surprised that eBay even allows them to because I think that breaks their seller guidelines. I’m pretty sure merchandise that you don’t physically have on hand You must clearly mark as I don’t have this and as a pre-order and any pre-order is required to be shipped out within 40 days of the sale happening.
I can’t imagine anyone on eBay is able to actually confirm they’ll have it in 40 days
I mean, sure. I have tons of rare knives, too. But a PC is a commodity item; it’s easily susbtituted with any other which is really the whole point of the architecture to begin with.
I think the Steam Machine is neat. I’m still not paying $3000 for one.
While Valve only officially supports 3 devices, it is possible to install its image on any PC (or just run Steam on Linux). But quite a few Steam users don’t realise that.
what??? I thought it’s not even for sale yet?
Correct. They’re not even selling you a physical machine at that price. They’re just allegedly selling you their place in the preorder lottery for the opportunity to buy one.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be that desperate.
I’m surprised that eBay even allows them to because I think that breaks their seller guidelines. I’m pretty sure merchandise that you don’t physically have on hand You must clearly mark as I don’t have this and as a pre-order and any pre-order is required to be shipped out within 40 days of the sale happening.
I can’t imagine anyone on eBay is able to actually confirm they’ll have it in 40 days
I should be shocked, but I’m not… Some people go to great lengths to get pokemon cards.
I mean, sure. I have tons of rare knives, too. But a PC is a commodity item; it’s easily susbtituted with any other which is really the whole point of the architecture to begin with.
I think the Steam Machine is neat. I’m still not paying $3000 for one.
While Valve only officially supports 3 devices, it is possible to install its image on any PC (or just run Steam on Linux). But quite a few Steam users don’t realise that.