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Scalpers Rake in $43M by Selling PS5s, New Graphics Cards on eBay – PCMag

A data engineer created a computer script to track sales of new consoles, GPUs, and CPUs on eBay, and estimates that scalpers have pocketed over $43 million in…

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Scalpers on eBay may have collectively earned over $43 million in profit by reselling new PlayStation 5 consoles and next-generation PC graphics cards to desperate consumers.  
The estimate comes from a Chicago data engineer named Michael Driscoll, who created a computer script to track eBay sales and plot them on a graph. On Monday, he told PCMag the findings show scalpers have made an estimated $92 million in sales and $43.7 million in profit since September by hawking 14 different…

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