i mean what the hell. they have been coming out with some pretty cool ones but it seems to me the scalpers are gloming onto them and effing with the prices

i first noticed it with the clear one, not the one that we got in the US there was a japanese released clear one a year or two ago that i really liked but once it came out they jacked the price way up to import and sell them over here. My ma got a deal on one directly from japan (i.e. not scalper price but a bit over MSRP) and gave it to me for X-Mas. And yes it is a little different from the one we got here in the states. i got this shortly after it came out before i got my PS4

Then there was the 20th anniversary controller same deal instant scalp major high prices unless you get used and abused and even then its still a touch more than new.

then there was the 500 Millionth, i didnt know this was a thing untill i saw in at a fred meyer right before thanks giving. thinking it was to go on sale for black friday i didnt buy it then and i was kind of kicking my self untill some one popped up on amazon last week with a new one at MSRP so i got it. By this time i had my PS4, i got it monday after black friday.

now theres the berry blue controller, and holy crap. my wife said she liked it and i told her to get it even though at the time we were still hunting for a PS4 i was going to get one come hell or high water, but she didnt and we've been looking all over. I *think* i just managed to snag one on best buy's web site open box but for $52 in "excellent condition". i had an old link directly to the product page and today it said "This item is no longer available. But don’t go! We have similar items in stock." but it listed the open box one still so i tried it out. worst comes to worst they ship me the wrong thing and i return it to the store.

side note, if any one else is in the same boat there are open box ones listed on that page still but now for MSRP new. still cheaper than amazon plus the ability to return a bit easier instead of trying to ship it back to some crummy reseller:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-du...?skuId=6293727

any way its just my rant. its not like any of these are "rare" at all. at most the 500 million controller might be uncommon but i am pretty sure i saw literally hundreds of berry blue controllers in my little town on black friday
people just piss me off any more i guess.