When a Japanese woman bought a PlayStation 5 from a local seller earlier this week, something was not quite right when she received it.
Her worst fears came true after she opened the package: imagine her horror when she found two two-litre bottles of water instead of the next-generation gaming console she was promised.
While a 2L bottle of water costs roughly 150 yen, the unwitting buyer made the purchase for a whopping 65,000 yen (US$596). The retail price of a PS5 unit in Japan…