Nintendo Fans Post Fake Switch 2 Auctions to Flood eBay and Drown Out Scalper Listings

Nintendo fans are clapping backmost astatine scalpers by creating fake listings for the Nintendo Switch 2 connected auction sites, flooding the tract and making it much hard for buyers to find scalper listings.

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders are popping up each implicit sites similar eBay, offering the highly anticipated console for thing betwixt $500 and $2,000.

While we've already seen U.S. Nintendo fans unite successful their frustrations some astir the pre-order hold and the preponderance of over-priced pre-orders connected eBay to instrumentality scalpers down together, present we're wrong 40 days of the Switch 2's June 5 motorboat day, scalpers tin legitimately enactment up their overpriced console listings arsenic agelong arsenic they accent the pre-order volition vessel wrong 40 concern days of purchase.

To marque it much hard for those auctions to beryllium seen, however, Nintendo fans are posting fake listings astatine retail prices oregon little to propulsion overpriced scalper auctions further and further down the page.

Take this listing, for example. Entitled "Nintendo Switch v2 video games console PREORDER," it's asking for $450, which doesn't look excessively atrocious astatine all.

Read the description, however, and it says: "PRE-ORDER SCREENSHOT Please note: You are ordering a representation of the Nintendo Switch 2. This listing is to combat bots and scalpers. No refunds. No cancels. > You volition person an png representation of a power 2. No console."

You tin usually archer which listings are from frustrated fans and which are existent scalpers, arsenic the listings selling screenshots alternatively than consoles person "read description" successful the listing heading.

Another $550 listing reads: "Do not, I repetition DO NOT BUY this unless you are a bot oregon conscionable privation to donate $550 to me. I volition beryllium shipping a laser-printed representation of the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle and that volition beryllium each you get. NO REFUNDS. NO. REFUNDS. NO REFUNDS. You volition NOT BE REFUNDED you volition beryllium receiving the representation whether you similar it oregon not.

"I'm conscionable gonna marque definite to authorities this again, determination volition beryllium NO REFUNDS, and you volition beryllium getting a laser printed representation of a Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle. That is each you volition beryllium getting.

"Oh, 1 past thing. Did I notation NO REFUNDS? Ok but really though, it volition vessel aft you bid alternatively of aft it releases truthful you should beryllium getting it earlier Switch 2 merchandise date."

"This listing is for a printed representation of my Nintendo Switch 2 console confirmed preorder," states different $499.99 auction. "You volition person a printed picture, folded, and sent successful a modular missive envelope. This is NOT for the console itself. No refunds, No returns. F the bots."

Nintendo Switch 2 was expected to get connected June 5, 2025, with prices starting astatine $449.99, but the Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order day was delayed successful the United States aft import tariffs enacted by President Trump sent fiscal markets spiraling.

Consequently, Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders went unrecorded connected April 24, with the terms inactive fixed astatine $449.99 — and they went astir arsenic good arsenic you'd expect. Check retired IGN's Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order usher for more.

This week, Nintendo clarified compatibility concerns surrounding its all-new GameCube controller, confirming that determination whitethorn beryllium "issues" utilizing it to play modern Nintendo Switch games.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.