While not illegal, scalping can present long-term problems for markets. It tempts retailers to sell their wares illegally, and enables large-scale smuggling operations like the one Shuji Matsushita discusses in this Mobile Ojisan post.
When the gate was raised, they were quietly and orderly swallowed into the shop. After a few minutes, they emerged one by one, each of them carrying a large paper shopping bag. Sure, the Wii Fit package with its logo.
They marched to a street corner behind the shop. There, a couple of nondescript vans were parking, their rear doors flapped open. Shoppers delivered the Wii Fit package to an attendant of the van, and received some cash from him. A quick and passionless transaction.
This is something a Nintendo fan should read. Black market sales like this have always figured big in Nintendo's corporate policy, and are apparently responsible for getting 20,000 illegal Wiis into China.
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