LogFAQs > #985926133

There's a lot of stakeholders in the economy on top of the potential ambiguity or nebulousness of "good" and "bad".

You might describe scalping as price discovery in action. For the supply of PKMN cards or GPUs available, the MSRPs are set lower than retailers *could* be selling them for, since there is some theoretical price range where retailers could sell out their stock without scalpers having any hope to profit because there'd be no one left on the demand curve willing to pay the scalper's margin on top of the "correct" MSRP.

But obviously, a secondhand direct reselling market after retailers is a layer of inefficiency and creates a ton of frustration for consumers who just want the product.

As for one random guy 'hustling' by scalping individual items, well it's good for him, bad for anyone else who wanted the product for what the retailer was selling it for. It'd be 'better' if he could just have a job good enough that scalping was not interesting, or if the MSRP better reflected the market value, or if supply improved such as to make scalping infeasible.