[arthurfm]

> it was impossible to get the Series-X in the UK in the lead up to Christmas without paying scalpers

Not completely impossible. I managed to purchase an Xbox Series X directly from Amazon UK on 20th December. Amazon also had sufficient consoles in stock they were able to not run out for more than 12 hours [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/23/22852161/xbox-series-x-a...