If you want to get on the top of the NYT Best selling book list, you buy something like 5,000 copies of your own book from Amazon. Then sit on them for a while, put a fresh slip cover on them, and re-list them. It costs relatively little (because you're buying them from yourself) and getting to the top of that list gives you a lot more sales.
It would not surprise me if a similar scheme was done with video games.
But reselling games on steam etc require the entire account to be sold which usually means you sell it for half of the price so a bit harder to recoup the costs right?
Perhaps I should have left that detail out. Reselling the book is merely a means to recoup some of the costs. Even if the books were thrown away, getting to the top of the chart is a relatively cheap way to boost real sales.
If you want to get on the top of the NYT Best selling book list, you buy something like 5,000 copies of your own book from Amazon. Then sit on them for a while, put a fresh slip cover on them, and re-list them. It costs relatively little (because you're buying them from yourself) and getting to the top of that list gives you a lot more sales.
It would not surprise me if a similar scheme was done with video games.
But reselling games on steam etc require the entire account to be sold which usually means you sell it for half of the price so a bit harder to recoup the costs right?
Perhaps I should have left that detail out. Reselling the book is merely a means to recoup some of the costs. Even if the books were thrown away, getting to the top of the chart is a relatively cheap way to boost real sales.