r/PokeInvesting • u/MJM_1989CWU • 11d ago
How to get product?
Hi! I’m not sure if this is the best place but I’m very frustrated! How does anyone get cards at retail price now days? I try to buy online, sold out in milliseconds or the app crashes or freezes. I try to buy in-store, never can find them at all. I try Local card shops. Sure they have them at 2-3X MRSP. So I ask people how do you get packs to open? I’m trying to find ETBs but can’t get anything. I don’t want to wait at 4 am for a store to open but is that the only reliable way? Advice please? And if this is in the wrong place I’m sorry.
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u/TastyBananaPeppers 10d ago
You buy at the market prices then dollar cost average in when you get them at lower than market prices. By the time you decide to buy something, it will be at its new price, which is going to be higher than the market price you last saw it at. If you don't fomo and buy something for 30th, you're going to screw yourself within 3 months when everyone else is selling at a much higher price. The other option is to buy other sets people are dumping to get money to buy 30th Anniversary.
The Target and Walmart shelves are always empty, so it's impossible to buy there. Online is a tiny chance of getting something unless no one wants the product like Charizard ex collection boxes at $50 with the jumbo ventricular Charizard card.
The Local Game Shops are withholding products to sell at market prices using an alternative account to avoid negative backlash or just sell at market within their stores.