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I feel like it's as they say in Sweden, "bara för att du kan betyder det inte att du borde". Or in English, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should". That summarizes this post pretty well.
 
I agree that scalping as a concept is just how basic economics works. Have a popular product with loads of demand but very little supply? The price will skyrocket, since who doesn't like making money?
 
However, the issue comes with how scalpers operate. Using things like bots just screws everyone else over. When I log into BestBuy at 6:00 AM, I expect to have an equal chance at getting whatever product is being released as everyone else. Sure, you now have 500 RTX 3080s. Nice, now what happens is the company has to put in place "1 per address" type policies, so if someone theoretically wanted to get one as a gift for a friend if they were so lucky to buy one? Sorry, someone else got greedy and now you have to pay the price, literally and figuratively.
 
Scalping, as a whole, is just a mess of scummy ethics. Generally, the people who support scalping are scalpers themselves, since they're literally the only ones who profit from it. If people just wait, scalpers lose all motivation and move on. But, by purchasing from scalpers, they're only given ample opportunity to keep taking advantage of people's hobbies and the things they enjoy simply for financial gain.
 
At the end of the day, it's your money. Spend it on whatever you want, we ultimately cannot stop you. Not sure what you seek to accomplish in a tech forum saying you support the very thing that's the bane of our existence, but you do you. Just try putting yourself in other people's shoes and realize how sucky it is for them, and rethink the whole idea.

Yep gotta love capitalism. Screw other people over in the name of profit because who cares about other people. It's why tickets to live events have been basically impossible to sell at a reasonable price. I'm sorry but scalpers provide little value to society other than inflated prices on scarce products. Sure the only person that really benefits from scalpers is the rich who can afford the price hike as it ensures they is stock left that they cN buy even if it is an inflated one. Me I prefer when it was first come first serve and you just had to be lucky to get a product rather than people cheating the system with bots. 

you simply wipe the linux partition(s) and put back windows' bootloader (or if you were smart, you never touched said bootloader in the first place) with some form of recovery media.

looks like a web page from 2005

How is this different from a regular DAC and AMP combo?