>"sorry kid, we have no pokemon in stock, why werent you part of the queue at 7:30am on a schoolday?"
You're on the wrong site for this. You're gonna get a ton of replies defending scalping and shitting on the people who actually play card games.
>>97943425Card games are peak consumerism. The scalpers are doing him a favor
>some 30 year old in line>"I can't believe they limit us to two of them, this an outrage, some of us need more than two of them">cashier responds>"they're limited so that everyone can get one"
>>97943425Greasy NEET money spends just as well as kid money.
>>97944664No one buys digimon and yet it's still under the same 2 item limit.Because God forbid I buy 4 booster packs.
pokemon is a game from the 90s and 2000s I dont think kids give a fuck it's just man children
>>97943425The companies that make them are aware. They are not oblivious. It costs next to nothing to print packs of cards. They could simply print more to meet demand, or flood the market to make scalpers' hoards worthless.They choose not to.
>>97943425>You missed one hell of a fist fight between like 7 fat retards, though. It was awesome.
>>97943425Why doesn't whatever company that makes Pokemon cards just print more since they're so popular? Why would this company leave money on the table like this?
>>97943648Okay but what are your opinions?
>>97945050Nope, kids love it. I had a little girl show me her TERA Dark Charizard last time I was in a game store, completely unprompted. She was so proud! (kids still love Kanto, it really IS better!)Most of them don't actually play the game but they like collecting the cool monsters. It's interesting that Pokemon is kind of metamorphosing back into Topps trading cards rather than a TCG.
I actually had an interesting experience at yesterday's restock at my local Walmart today. Had to wait in line since 6am and was able to only get one AH Mega Emboar box. By the time the vendor came at 11am there were already 25 people in line and one dude who looked almost exactly like the fat comic book guy from the Simpsons came barging in front and was pissed off at everyone. He wanted an AH ETB(there were only 4) and was yelling and tried cutting in front, claiming that he wasn't a scalper like everyone else and that he deserved it more. Dude kept arguing at the cashier and security had to get involved and kick him out, he could've just waited in line and still gotten an Emboar box too since there was still enough for him yet he felt entitled to not wait and get ahead of everyone else first without lining up. Most bizarre shit I've ever seen in this hobby IRL. He screamed that we were all scalpers as I left the store, I've never seen such entitlement like that before.>>97945948Because that's what happened to Yugioh cards and now nobody gives a shit about them. The shortages are intentional, TPC won't print the shit out of them for a good financial reason.
>>97944664There that meat canyon video about about those "people"
>>97945512Only regulation could solve it, companies would never willingly devalue their own products.
>>97946119>Actually people not buying our product is good!This is the dumbest shit I've read in a collectable cardboard thread in a long time.
I came across one of those people at Walmart the other day>not really into pokemon, heard about the scalpers though>small town isn't into pokemon either, card game shelf is always full of cards>one day see a relatively normal looking dude shoveling Pokemon cards into their cart>decide I'll make small talk, ask what got them into scalping, if they make more money than just working a job, etc.>straight up tells me "fuck off unless you want to buy from me">tell them to stop acting like a nigger>they recoil in disgust and try to make a stink out of me saying the forbidden word>gets the attention of an employee>some teenager stoned out of his mind>tells the teen about my transgression>"Oh... You shouldn't do that...">looks at his cart>"We have a limit on those by the way">dude grabs a few packs out of the cart and storms off to the self checkout>teenager sadly looks at the cart and tells me "I'll have to restock that">walk away since I have no interest in pokemon cards
>>97947757If they were plentiful instead of rare they'd be perceived as being worthless instead of just actually being worthless.
>>97948022>If they were plentiful instead of rare they'd be perceived as being worthlessOnly scalpers are buying them for the "perceived value". People who actually want them want them because they like Pokemon, or they want to play the card game. Creating a scalpers market is retarded and takes money from the company that makes the cards and gives it to the fags setting packs on the second hand market.
>>97948104The ideal from the company's perspective is to produce just enough to satisfy the scalpers and not so much that it's not worth it for scalpers to buy out the entire stock.Besides, a demand so much higher than supply that it's newsworthy is free publicity and marketing.I'm sorry that it isn't as simple as you'd like it to be.
Sneaker scalping is pretty much dead these days. You know what killed it? The target audience of fucking premium sneakers actually developed common sense to not buy from scalpers. People who use those sneakers to walk will rather just buy chink copies that are improving in quality with much lower price, and sneaker collectors just decided to not buy from scalpers and do something else with their money. Card game audience has so far been incapable of doing the same.
>>97943735Get a fucking job you brownoid scalper
>>97943425>MFW Pokemon Scalpers will rob, physically fight, and even put trackers on cars to break into houses for Pokemon cards.It is just scalpers selling to other scalpers to scalp at this point I think.The Ouroboros eating itself but it is made of Pokemon cards and the dragon is a scalper.If the Pokemon bubble pops (t-two m-more w-weeks) I'd imagine that some Pokemon scalpers might unironically suicide. The number will probably be higher than anyone can anticipate. When Gabe Newell did something with virtual weapon skins that made their value go down some Chinese people died.So if governments force the Pokemon company to do something that hurts scalpers bad enough there will probably be something like this happening.Nobody should die over Pokemon cards, but I think it will be inevitable.
>>97943425There are several steps that the cardboard goes through before it reaches your grubby little hands, and in every step of the way there is someone profiting from your misery. The moment scalpers are no longer a thing, supply will go down to match the now reduced demand and keep the perceived value of the cardboard just as high as it is now, so that you can spend even more money without disrupting the jew's profit margins while thanking him for it, because at least now you're getting scammed by professionals and not just random nobodies on ebay.
>>97948246The whole idea of sneaker collecting is fucking stupid to begin with. Trading cards on the other hand are actual works of art, think of it as miniature paintings for the masses to enjoy. I know a guy who says he literally spends hours every day just staring at his collection and admiring it.
