A UK retailer by the name of Very.com has cancelled around 1000 orders placed by a scalper group after they boasted about in in social media, also Very.com stated that they had to cancel other peoples orders in resolving this issue.
My thoughts
I feel this is a massive win but is realistically only a small step in combating the plight of people using bots and large groups to collectively gather large amounts of stock of an item. Though this really is not a new phenomena with a combination of many new and great hardware releases the demand for products has been very high as its also covered much more actively by media outlets as areas like gaming and PC hardware become more relevant to culture and media. So its great this has been caught and end of lesson is don't facilitate their activates as it will attract more to do as they are doing if it works. (the AMD reddit has an amusing post about what 'not' to do with scalpers).
Sources
https://news.sky.com/story/online-retailer-very-cancels-orders-placed-by-scalpers-for-over-1-000-consoles-12147197
https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/online-retailer-cancels-1000-next-gen-orders-placed-by-scalpers/#:~:text=UK retailer Very has canceled,very well known online retailer."