{"id":453,"date":"2025-04-08T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:56:16","slug":"the-switch-2-scalpers-are-already-out-in-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/the-switch-2-scalpers-are-already-out-in-force\/","title":{"rendered":"The Switch 2 Scalpers Are Already Out In Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life, uh, finds a way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, we know that the pre-order situation for Switch 2 has been a little more complicated than perhaps Nintendo would have liked, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/nintendo-shares-plummet-in-wake-of-trump-tariff-action\">tariffs postponing the entire process<\/a> for US customers. There&#8217;s also been the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/where-to-pre-order-nintendo-switch-2\">various retailers have made pre-orders available<\/a> before the Big N&#8217;s official April 8th &#8211; April 11th pre-order dates.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and scalpers are already showing up on eBay with prices way over the RRP. The best efforts of Nintendo it seems, even limiting console pre-orders to accounts with NSO subscriptions, can&#8217;t keep this troublesome custom from taking root once again.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/the-switch-2-scalpers-are-already-out-in-force\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life, uh, finds a way. So, we know that the pre-order situation for Switch 2 has been a little more complicated than perhaps Nintendo would have liked, with tariffs postponing the entire process for US customers. There&#8217;s also been the fact that various retailers have made pre-orders available before the Big N&#8217;s official April 8th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}