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What is the grey market?
| Idk where people are getting these cheaper codes for Nintendo Online, and I spent a whole 5 minutes looking. But the 'grey market' refers to 3rd party sites that sell codes for software. Usually sites like Kinguin selling steam game codes. Or Windows activation codes for reasonable prices. .
They are...probably legal but how the codes are obtained is the sketchy part. Lots of money to be made stealing credit card info and buying a bunch of codes to dump for cheap on these sites.
| Ahh okay thank you guys
| >>959492 for example eneba
basically imagine something as second hand
allkeyshop is good grey market comparator
| Something you can try but may not work is setting your eShop to like mexico and buying stuff from there just have to make sure it's got English still
I got Miku with the launch dlc thing for $60 when it was like 80-90 for both on the US store
That's not grey market though that's abusing regional pricing
| >>959754 but there is no difference usually, because most prices in grey market sites are usually defined by bundle, discounts websites or regional pricing, just these websites are kind of centralization of it where are resellers who buy it, add income fee, some fee take platform and than are also seperately transactions free (paying by card, vat etc.)
| Eat shit you poor's :D
| >>959782 difference being you're buying a key that's definitely legit as opposed to one potentially bought by a stolen credit card
| I'd argue that piracy is more moral than the grey market
| >>960012 funnily enough when Hotline Miami was banned in Australia they told fans to pirate their games because it hurt them less than key resellers
| >>960014 actually they're right in the case where someone uses a stolen card which is an issue on platforms like g2a etc
When the card owner realizes it was stolen they'll charge back everything and if bought directly the publisher then has to pay the charge back fees as well as returning the money and being out one key for their game
Pirates often buy later but g2a kid already owns the game so they're sol for getting money from that sale
| I believe Ubisoft or something when they were charge backed invalidated the keys and caused a shit storm for themselves because "I bought that key go after them not me" even though that's not how it works it's up to the consumer to go after the party who sold it to them
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| I've heard people in the gaming community talking about buying switch online memberships from the gray market? Where can I find it cus I'm poor