Yahoo Autos Scalpers Have Come For The Honda Motocompacto
Honda’s classic Motocompo is beloved by car journalists, JDM enthusiasts, and anyone else with an affinity for weird transportation. When its successor, the Motocompacto, was released, we all rejoiced — finally, a tiny little fold-up scooter for the modern era. Plenty of us Jalops even considered getting one for ourselves.
But then, the market hit. Like the PlayStation 5 and Nvidia 3090 before it, the Motocompacto has been besieged by scalpers — resellers listing the scooters on Facebook Marketplace for hundreds more than their MSRP from Honda. Every week, as I search for the web’s Dopest Cars, I see posting after posting for Motocompactos, all with a healthy profit margin baked in for the seller.
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Normally scalpers show up when an item is in short supply, artificially constraining that supply further to eke some profit out, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Are they just hoping people don’t know how to get their hands on a Motocompacto for MSRP, that the buy-online-pick-up-in-dealer process is too complicated? Are they relying on those early reports of canceled orders and low production, hoping that people aren’t up to date on the more stable supply chain we have today? It seems only one thing is for sure: I want one so so bad and Rory won’t let me expense it.
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