Maybe I'm idealistic. I feel the same way for 2 watches scalped as I do seeing the guy on launch day with a big pile of phones. They are both wrong.
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No actually, they are not wrong. Not even in the slightest.
You have no idea what a person buying 10 iPhones or 10 Apple Watches or 10 concert tickets is doing with those...NONE. When the iPad Mini was first released, the company my wife co-owns bought 8 of them for use by the company to better streamline various processes and, quite honestly, because they were cool things to buy to replace the need to lug around tons of laptops when they didn't really need them.
By your logic, you would have categorized them as "scalpers" and you would have been pissed because they bought 8 iPads when other people weren't able to get even one. Flawed logic if there ever was any. And so what if they decide they'd rather sell those iPads after receiving them vs. keeping them and using them? Who are you to define what a person does with their money?
You're beyond idealistic...you've got a horrible entitlement mentality. You feel that every person should have an equal chance to get a consumer product at the same price and at the same time...and that is absolutely hilarious to me. You are so detached from reality that you actually think that opposing scenarios are, by your own definition, "WRONG".
I mean why stop there? By your (lack of) logic, the person who camps out for days to get the first iPhone is "wrong" because the person who has to work those days isn't able to do the same thing. I mean it's not fair that someone is in a better situation to capitalize on a product launch when other people cannot...right?
And let me be clear here...I don't think you're being ridiculous because you don't like it when people go buy a crate full of these products to sell after the fact for a profit, and Apple has addressed that issue (as you said) by putting limitations on the number you can purchase in that regard. You're being absurd because you're calling ANY sale of the product for a higher price "scalping"...not only are you using the word incorrectly, but who are you to tell a person who buys a product for themself what they do with said product?