Made in Chelsea Star Taking Heat for PS5 Resell, But Now He's Denying It

Saw one episode, got the picture; bunch of entitled, shallow, narcissistic imbeciles living in a surreal bubble, completely out of touch with reality.

To be honest, I'm more disappointed with Sony for giving this idiot a ps5, lol

Can someone explain why he got it for free? I get why influencers and youtubers get it but why a Z list celebrity

What a class A a*******. He liked it enough to mark up the price for 3 times market value.

What an unecessary, self-absorbed, pathetic thing to do. Hopefully Sony choose who they send consoles to more carefully in the future.

I can think of alot of irrelevant people in this world. And the 'stars' of rubbish like made in Chelsea are high on the list.

Would be great to see the hardcore fanbase who actually care for and support the brand get more recognition in the future

@Total_Weirdo i think it more parents who have children who dont understand that the world doesn't end if they don't have the new console.

You selling to a friend for no extra profit because they cant get one is the polar opposite of what this idiot did. My friend who got one will be helping me the next time they go on sale lol tho the fact you got two ps5s makes me a little jelly lol

Doesn’t like the PS5? But then I shouldn’t be surprised at the lack of taste given the description of this show. And then selling it without doing the promotional work it was given to him for? Sony should have a clause that would allow them to charge him a fee for not honouring the spirit of his contract.

He's probably shot himself in the foot here. I think a lot of companies will have policies on resell. They can't stop influencers doing it but they'll think twice about sending him free things in the future

Maybe he sold it to pay for his next chest wax, spray tan, teeth whitening course or day out punting🤷‍♂️. Tally ho good fellows.

@Alexface My thoughts exactly.

Don't sully Kiryu's likeness with such low life!
But at the same time I could totally picture Kiryu whacking the sense out of a gang of "Chelsea goons" with a PS5... big enough for crowd control.

I don't have Instagram, so maybe that's what their tag is, but I don't think Sony themselves gave him a console. he @s "Playingstation5"...??
You'd hope he'd maybe give that £1200 to a charitable cause. But knowing those Made in Chelsea people, it's extremely doubtful.

I despise these MiC "Celebs". One got married in my little castle town in Italy and brought along the paparazzi. The locals were not happy, especially as all these random tourists swarmed afterwards just because they were there. As a result my sister, who always wanted to get married there herself, didn't because of all these MiC obsessed fans kept showing up at the church.

I'd have all reality 'stars' shot on sight...now that's a reality tv show worth watching.

And another article that never needed to see the light of day..

Wow, bet their viewer count will be halved because of this, now its down to 10

Why would Sony give him one. Some of there decisions are truly baffling. Even more than who watches that trash and gives these entitled muppets 15 minutes of fame.

Chuck all the Z list numpties onto a real life Battle Royale Island. To be honest that is something I would pay to watch.

@deathaxe They set up bots mate and they do it all for you. You pay a company a subscription for the bots. Its sickening how it works.

Of course self entitled scumbags like him wouldn't give it away for charity or whatever, ohh no.

Anything to make a quick buck. Just like his TV "career"

More disappointed in Sony for giving these so called influencers free stuff. Abhorrent, self obsessed cretins.

Sony have lost their minds. Why you giving people that don’t even want one free.

To be fair it was given to him, it's not like he went out of his way to obtain one just to sell it on for a profit. He doesn't like it enough to keep it so he sells it. And demand is high so the price is too.

I’d like to post a relevant comment, but I’ll just add this - a local charity shop has a DVD box set of this series, brand new in shrink wrap. It’s £10. It’s been there a while I think.

You may call idiot someone for overpricing, I call idiot someone who is buying overpriced. And I don't mean buying in shop even if eshops are cheaper or collectors and limited editions, but someone who really knows it is overpriced, it is common product and it is still in production. In a few months, no one cares if you had it day one, and they end up crying they paid 8 games higher price for nothing. What a stupidity...

Well, at least he stayed on brand.

I tried to watch an episode of Made in Chelsea once, but sadly I got distracted by shoving razor blades under my toenails, as it was about ten times more fun

This has to be a joke. He is a Z list "celeb", what imbecille would pay that much money for a PS5, becuse this chap was the previous owner? Anyone that dumb, deserves to be scalped, and have the console not even work.

As for "well there's a lot of demand for a PS5", he got it for free. He could sell it for £50, and still make a profit.

This is a level of scummy-ness that not even DarkSydePhill could achieve.

I have a wider issue with companies giving all these "celebrities" free stuff in the first place. Far from making me desire the product more, it actually makes me resent the manufacturer for giving into this culture of gifting stuff to people who are usually entitled and wealthy enough to purchase the products themselves.

@Alexface This guy won't even be z list the next time new consoles roll round, so he's probably not worried about that.

@UltimateOtaku91 Unfortunately you're vastly underestimating how popular these shows are in the mainstream.

Nice move Sony, giving to it to that idiot. Jeez.

I'd love a game featuring all these reality tv 'stars'. A very violent one where you can viciously murder them all.

To be fair if some random company sent me a freebie I didn’t want I’d sell it and whatever some bid highest for it is what I’d get.

This is on Sony not the only way is chelsea star.

What a piece of ***** ,maybe he shouldve given the proceeds to charity or given the ps5 to someone in need

@Stocksy he won't be short of a few quid so maybe do something good with the sought after item he didn't care for ,and it would've been the work of his agent bagging his client free s**t

What I don't understand is why would Sony send someone like that a review unit, when I'm sure many much more influential in the field of games would had given them better marketing impact.

you sure it was Sony that gave it to him?

He could have given it away to a kid, or even auctioned it off for charity. But no. Boasting about it shows he didn’t even hesitate to make a quick buck, not even like he needs it - or maybe he does, pricks like these are always up to eyeballs in debt to their dealers. And people wonder why aliens haven’t made first contact with humanity, they just have to tune into TV, see vapid pricks like this and decide to come back in another few hundred years, see if we’re all still alive and any closer to enlightenment.

@Lovespuds something tells me that for every 10 people like you, there are hundreds who are indeed influenced by such people. There is a reason the Kardashian clan still makes millions from a single Instagram post. These companies know what they're doing, I think.

@Tharsman I think he appeals to a different audience. An audience that wouldn't listen to people who actually know what they're talking about.

@Stocksy I don't know. If I were given an xbx series whatever I would sell it, but wouldn't brag about it online.

Someone tell me I'm not the only one that read this and thought this was about a completely different James Taylor?

This is why these YouTubers and Richie Riches shouldn’t be getting these systems for free. They should only be given to actual press and journalists to review. To these people, systems like this are another trinket rather than something they actually use.

Question: We all know PS5 is cheap at RRP for its components but at £1200 is it still considered cheap? Or a savvy person would sit back and logically assess that a PC of equal price is better, and either buy a PC or wait.

So how much does it cost to build a PS5 equivalent PC?

If Sony (or Microsoft, for that matter) want great publicity for new systems, why don't they search their database for, say, the 50 oldest-but-still-active accounts, and give those people a free console, instead of giving them to rich people and vapid pseudo-celebrities?

@Danloaded Influencers so-called are every bit the parasite the freeloaders in this pile of crap reality TV are.

This culture of stealing for a living is a blight on the 21st century that needs eradicating.

I find it weird that Sony would give someone like this a free PS5. They're just on some TV show.

Not really one to comment on Made in Chelsea it is I have been told just a mishmash of TOWIE Which I thought was the only way is Essex in Geordie Land I think it was last month I um realized TOWIE was in fact the only way is Essex (London Essex no London ESSEX no LONDON ESSSSEEEXXXX)...............................................back on topic well done that man James Taylor for saying "Back to the PS4 I go " He is hardly a scalper SONY gave him a PS5 as a marketing ploy well done James Taylor for not accepting the bait and made a nice little bunce......No doubt SONY did too......Getting a PS5 a year from now makes more sense.......................imma go n listen to sum Rage Against the Machine Killing in the name.

@nathanSF like this show and the kardashians, they're on because there is a market. It's not new, remember "Lifestyles of the rich and famous" then "mtv cribs" this is just an evolution of that. And the people wa th ching and asking for shows like this? Worse. And as the saying goes, "you can't spell *****, without the masses"

This guy might be a real piece of work, but he did nothing wrong. Scalpers are evil because their actions crowd out honest buyers from being able to get a good fairly; while this guy sold his PS5 at a price dramatically shaped by scalping, since it was an unsolicited freebie to begin with, he never took away the chance for somebody else to buy it at retail from the start.

If anything, this guy did a good deed, by infintessimally expanding the market supply and relatively lowering demand (that's one less £1200 mark actual scalpers will be able to profit from), and it was Sony themselves who've to blame here, by reserving stock to bribe influences with that could've otherwise been dedicated to meeting retail demand.

This guy may well not deserve to be given free stuff, but it doesn't appear to be his fault that he keeps getting handed blank checks by society.

“Reality” has always been a misnomer for many of these programmes. They depict a staged version of real life that is not representative of anyone’s reality. To see these people’s actual daily lives would probably be even more dull and vacuous than it is made out to be.

I'm sorry it's about these stupid influencers get stuff like this and about time the world took a step back and this isn't the way the world should be going down in terms of work. How Sony decided to give out these consoles to these people when it was in demand in short supply is beyond me. They had paying customers who wanted one and yet decided to give some away to idiots z list people just wow

Personally, I would not trust the word of a so-called 'influencer'.

This guy is trying now to dig himself out of the hole he's put himself in, and is just showing how full of it he is.

They will say basically anything they are either paid to or anything that will try to make them more popular.

Vacuous vampires of society who all deserve a nasty reality check.

Don't believe influencers? Fair enough, I don't believe his statement.

Made in Chelsea’s hilarious, it’s all scripted so they aren’t really as sh*t as in the program but they sure come close!

Next time any negative story is reported, it doesn't matter where it comes from, certain people will eat it up, as long as they can bash Sony.

Can't wait for the next insider giving Bloomberg another juicy story. Until then, let's look at what influencers have to say.

Do something ---> Post it to the World ---> Positive Feedback (embrace action), Negative Feedback (refuse accountability) ---> wash, rinse, repeat

Not sure I believed him in the first place but I believe even less this was a deliberate "stunt".

What an absolute tool.

Such damage control wow

Not sure how he believes this would make things better. First, lie (possibly? Who knows) to your following fanbase about being an awful person (because that makes him look cool?). Then tell them that we was messing with them and they shouldn’t trust anything he says. So yeah, let’s move along.

More like the t**t thought he would look cool and impress all his pompous chums and now hes been called out on it and had his ass fried by "normal" folk who have been struggling to find one for themselves, or even worse, a child for christmas etc hes back peddling. Deserves the flack imo

@PhhhCough Never heard of those shows you mentioned and only know the kardashians exist because of the headlines of news articles I never read - damn arts, culture and gaming keeps getting in the way of indulging in trash.

So now he's backtracking, saying it was all some kind of 'intelligent statement' and expects us to buy it? sure. he's just giving us more rope to hang him with.

So is he saying he talks cr@p on his social media thingies and its not to be believed? Then whats the point of reading anything he says. Going to have to de-list/friend/gram him now. Such a shame.

What lesson was learned here exactly? It wasn't a rumor or gossip, he posted it on his social media channel.
I think it's true that the PS5 pictured is his friend so he was just lying about getting one and wanted to seem cool because he sold it for a profit as a back alley ticket-scalper and now that it has blown up in his face he wants to turn it around as a lesson to us all to never trust what you see online, specially coming from a massive *****.

I hope if he gets one in the future he has coil whine right out of the box.

What a TNUC, why is it that surprising, going by the kind of TV programme he's 'famous' for?
He's the turd on the sole of life's shoe.

I genuinely only clicked this because I saw Real Estate Tycoon Kiryu on the picture.

Never heard of james taylor or made in chelsea. Im gonna move along before i lose brain cells by proximity lol

@hypnotoad i like the way you think!
Ive done my best to avoid all this garbage the past 25 years and haven't had any kind of cable or Anything like that. My tv is strictly for gaming and movies.

Even the rare times where i am somehow subjected to anything even ever so briefly its just... I cant even fathom what tv has become.

I hate this world lol

Serves you right indeed Push Square. 😂