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The main reason we didn't have scalpers was that there was no way to sell these games on.
There were no online auctions until the tail end of the 90s, and even then virtually nobody trusted them. There was no digital payment - you had to send cash, cheque or postal order in an envelope. There was no Facebook. Essentially there was no way to sell to a large audience.
Usa over there? ;-)
Here we had reliable money transfers through the banking system (very affordable, provable) for decades earlier, and it was made accessible online in the 80s, long before the www was invented.
UK 🙂
Heck, that would have been tons easier! I remember the dread of seeing the seller say they don't accept cheques, and having to hoof down to the Post Office to pick up those stupid Postal Orders.
The closest things we had back then was USENET (which required you to already have a connection to a provider that hosted a server) and BBS's (which required you to dial in to connect to a local server, which proabably did not have its own USENET connection). I suppose there was also Compuserve, and QuantumLink/AOL, but they were metered dial-in providers, and when they finally connected to USENET, they ruined it.
There was no concept of a device that was always connected to the Internet in the 80s for most users. Most home computers were islands. Maybe if you were on a University campus you might have access to a computer with that permanent wired connection, but that was about it.
My kids have grown up in a world where everyone is connected, all the time. We'll see what they do with it.
I knew people who used "finger" on unix like systems for same purpose as people use a "status" today (ok without pictures because of low bandwidth)