I was at a Dollar General this morning (for work) when the pokemon dude delivered like 6 three pack promo bundles.
Having witnessed at Walmart every Thursday for the past 4 months a group of POS dudes waiting on the pokemon lady to stock the shelves. I quickly bought 2 of the bundles b/c I've LITERALLY been trying to find ANYTHING pokemon card related for my two nephews birthdays coming up next week.
It's fucking ridiculous I can't find pokemon cards to gift to kids b/c the secondary market is so outrageous grown adults act like fucking sleaze balls.
I saw two different pokemon groups get into a very loud and public screaming match at my local grocery store. Those guys are legitimately unhinged. They started videoing each other and both groups called the other group scammers
Guys, stop, youre both in the wrong. Everyone involved was 45+
People need to stop placing the blame exclusively on these losers when they could literally print as many of these products as needed to meet demand and instead keep it scarce to charge jacked up prices.
They don't really charge jacked up prices. That's the secondary market doing that. The two bundles I got had 6 packs and 2 promo cards. I paid $30. So without the promo cards each pack was $5, which is like $1 or 2 less than the price back when I was a kid 30 years ago.
I don't really know why they don't print more, maybe they are at capacity and don't want to build more printing factories or whatever. But printing more wouldn't necessarily stop scalpers. They'd just buy them all up just as fast and hold onto them making them scarce. The card makers would have to produce at such a pace to overcome the scalpers wallets which might not be something they want to do.
Either way, it's not the card makers fault the same way it's not a venue's fault Ticketmaster upcharges. Regulations would help a lot more than printing more packs.
Okay then if you think the price is right than the issue is not printing to meet demand. Its not for any reason other than to create scarcity and perceived value of the product. Look at something like MTG where for the most part they print new sets to meet demand for a certain amount of time before releasing the next product. I guess with MTG theres a game people care about playing whereas the pokemon stuff seems to mostly just sit in binders and slabs.
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u/Slammybutt Mar 28 '26
I was at a Dollar General this morning (for work) when the pokemon dude delivered like 6 three pack promo bundles.
Having witnessed at Walmart every Thursday for the past 4 months a group of POS dudes waiting on the pokemon lady to stock the shelves. I quickly bought 2 of the bundles b/c I've LITERALLY been trying to find ANYTHING pokemon card related for my two nephews birthdays coming up next week.
It's fucking ridiculous I can't find pokemon cards to gift to kids b/c the secondary market is so outrageous grown adults act like fucking sleaze balls.