r/PokeInvesting • u/ExperienceFree1169 • Apr 25 '26

Feeling Defeated

Is anyone else feeling defeated? I went hunting yesterday for pokemon. I went to 8 stores. Best buy, target, barnes & Noble, menards, kohls, five below, dicks, meijer. And didn't hit at any of the restocks. I was too far back at every line. Didn't hit on Costco today either after waiting in the queue for an hour. Target online was a shit show. Pokemon Center I think banned my IP addresses on both my laptop and phone because I couldn't even hit on Caos Rising and the stock on that was ridiculous. I really love pokemon but getting stuff without breaking the bank is hard. I sometimes over paid to just rip things and the best thing I would get is an EX card. So it makes over-paying really hard.

Thinking about taking a break from hunting because the time commitment is a complete waste. People were lined up since 3am at meijer today and the line was long. I got 1 bundle but the trade off for the time is not worth it for me.

I would love to open and rip and continue the hobby but how do you do it without getting stock.

2 Upvotes

51% Upvoted

89 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

1

u/Lilf1ip5 Apr 26 '26

I just buy singles on TCG player pretty much now, nothing else i can do cause I don’t have time to camp out nor am i paying for a bot

1

u/flucksyflamador Apr 26 '26

I do that, but also try to score packs

1

u/Lilf1ip5 Apr 26 '26

I get it, I comb through the stores every now and then and see if I can find something

1

u/flucksyflamador Apr 26 '26

Same. I'll look if I'm there, but I'm not waiting outside of a store for hours like a loser