Linus argues that requiring a membership to purchase a hot item like the PS5 is a legitimate, though not ideal, business model that is not inherently illegal.

“I'm going to play devil's advocate here and I'm going to say it's not that crazy okay why I'm going to say it's not that crazy because they are far from the only retailer to require some kind of membership in order to get access to I mean buy the product at all let alone buy the product at you know ”

Luke believes that retailers should not be implementing exclusive membership access to purchase limited stock items, as it creates poor brand sentiment.

“I don't think it should be the retailer I don't think it should be anyone and I think that results in it should be the scalper if I'm being fair”