eBay said it sold an NES Classic console every 18 seconds on launch day
According to Polygon.com , eBay said it sold an NES Classic console every 18 seconds on launch-day. If there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day, that means that there are 86,400 seconds in a day. Then we need to find the ratio between total seconds and the rate at which NES Classic Editions were sold (60 divided by 18 = 3.3 repeating). 86,400 divided by 3.3 repeating = 25,920. There were 25,920 NES Classic Editions sold, on ebay , on launch-day . There were a total of 196,000 sold total in the US. That's 13.2% of the entire total successfully scalped on ebay on day-one . That's a damn travesty. I would not be surprised if the scalping-rate was as high as 99%.