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Purchase can be just a 1 cent game, and free games you add to your library might count, that's the definition of an alt account.
Sure, you could just buy a 1 cent game... However the date is in the past. So a scalper would have needed to set up a lot of accounts in advance even before the controller itself was released, and then have purchased something on all those accounts... To me this seems like a very reasonable way to distinguish legitimate players from the scalpers.
Plus, if there's a hundred reserved controllers all going to the same address that's a pretty big red flag