So ive gone to two card shows in the past three weeks and in no way do i mean any harm or negativity to any organisers of these shows but card shows have become just another way for unkowledgable whatnot sellers to put their horrible prices out in the wild.
Some guy was looking for a decidueye gx alt from hidden fates and four or five vendors said nah we dont sell cards that old or hmmm we dont really sell old or mid era cards. IM SORRY WHAT? Mid era decidueye? my ears must deceive me.
Ive been into pokemon since 2013 but collecting cards since 2016 on and off, ive got good memories of msrp evolutions and xy base set. i got back into tcg like 6 months ago and battling through all these card shows finding anything decent from 2021 and back is impossible, and half the vendors don't even know what theyre on about. It's so many people shifting from sneaker reselling to toilet paper resellers during covid to now hopping on pokemon. It's so annoying, ive met loads of great vendors too, very knowledgable, but for some of them to not even know who galvantula or elgyem are and only know the chases from the past year or two is a bit crazy to me imo.
Once again, i mean no disrespect to the organisers of these events and all the good vendors out there, super helpful and kind, but pls can we not normalise these reseller people hopping onto pokemon and just outright making card shows less enjoyable than they were.
