How do we stop the scalper menace?
An economic crashIt's too late, corporations see an easy cash cow to herd in them
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purchase limits
>>98092354You can’t.Scalpers will rob the place if purchase limits become a thing.Now how long until this reaches warhammer models?And how long until drug cartels get in on the Pokémon trading card scalping craze?Seriously blood has been spilled over Pokémon cards.
The last time I stood in line overnight for something was the SNES Classic mini console. I am so glad I did too because by the time the doors were open the line was around the block and they only had 100 consoles.
>>98094590>Now how long until this reaches warhammer models?Warhammer models sold at unreasonably high prices? Never!
>>98092354Scalper! No Scalping!
simply stop buying from them. If they can't make any profit, they'll stop buying shit tons to try to flip.
>>98092354Kill them on sight. They're subhuman, so it's just hunting a dangerous animal, not murder.
>>98092354if you really wanted it you should have got there earlier and bought it first
>>98094600>The last time I stood in line overnight for somethingThis is the only real answer.
>>98094613Oddly enough I think scalpers that resort to robberies might sell at a lower price and still make good money.Not that I want to find out and certainly I don’t want to find out if it is illegal to buy stolen by robbery goods.
>>98095161They would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you knew they were stolen goods so I wouldn't worry. I used to know a guy who stole bikes, took them apart and rebuilt them into frankenstein conglomerations so they could not be identified as the bike in question. Right now hes on jail for 6 months for armed robbery. I stop associating with that crowd when I quit smoking meth.
>>98094600>SNES ClassicWas it worth camping out overnight?
>>98095209I've put at least 100 hours into the games on it so I'd say yes.
>>98092354You do what Japan does and make people open up the packs at the register, can't resell as new if it's open, at least not without taking the risk of getting caught.
>>98095238I dated a chick who used to buy tcg packs, open then on camera on YouTube and then took bids for all the rares. She made an extra $100-$120 a month doing this.
>>98094600I got my Switch 1, Switch 2, and my current GPU, the 5080, all on midnight releases. The Switch 1 and the GPU were good purchases, because on release the Switch was hard to get and the price I paid for my GPU is chump change compared to how much it cost to buy one now.I do own 2 switch 2 only games, but I could've easily gotten one on a regular day since then, there was never too much of a supply problem like with the Switch 1.
>>98094590>Now how long until this reaches warhammer modelsThey already try doing this but they're too retarded to figure out warhammer doesn't really work that wayThe only things that could realistically be scalped are commemorative miniatures and those are usually limited to 1 per customer anyway
>>98095251Cool. I'm not much of a collector in anymore, I used to be but I sold off a lot of my collections for cash during the lockdowns. I still have a bunch of rare Gen 1 pokemon cards I have been selling piecemeal.
This problem is entirely caused by the people who buy from them. If you buy from a scalper you are literally paying them to continue. If everyone stopped they would take the loss and eventually find some other grift.
>>98092354This is like throwing garbage all over your yard every night and asking how to get rid of raccoons. Scalpers are only able to exist because you retard consoomers literally cannot stop buying shit even if it's from a scalper marking it up 500%. If those guys in your pic went to the store and bought an entire cart of shit and then couldn't sell it, they'd disappear overnight.You created scalpers and as long as you continue to have no self control, they will continue to exist and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>98092354>menacet. communistScalpers are a good thing.>company is too afraid to raise prices because of bad publicity from retards who don't understand supply and demand>lets scalpers raise the price and take the blame themselvesWin-win situation.
>>98092354Just make all packs contain 1 card of high rarity every setPlayers and collectors can enjoy the cardsScalpers make no profit since everyone can just pull the chase card nowWin-Win
>>98092354Print to order or printing to meet demand. Wizards and The Pokemon Company can end it at any time.
>>98092354Destroy all artificial scarcity outright. All cards are available online from The Pokemon Company for a flat fee. Foil and other cards priced slightly higher, if necessary. Customers are allowed to select all of the exact cards they want for a deck and have it shipped right to their homes.Scalpers thrive on artificial scarcity and their ability to disrupt the normal flow of consumer purchasing, because it allows them to set prices however they see fit. If every single thing they want to price gouge on is available at all times, print on demand or equivalent, so anyone who actually wants them can just get them, then the scalper market ceases to exist.
>>98095372Actually they’re not, the long term success of console or ttrpg product relies on large scale early adoption in order to encourage secondary sales where the real money is made. The fewer initial users the less intrest there is in further model sales or game production.
>>98092354>plays a tcgLmao, in what world do you think a business that relies on artificial scarcity can do anything about this? You're fucked and the company you have given money to in the past will simply consider the scalpers money an acceptable replacement for yours.You can't do anything about it because you and your fellows are, and always will be, pay piggies exactly as dumb and as stupid as boomers putting a weeks wages into the casino twice or thrice a week.
Public lashings. Obviously for other crimes too. Also in favour of ditching lethal injection/firing squads and bringing back hangings at the same time, and doing more of them.
>>98092354Increase production.
>>98094600It wasn't overnight, but I went to the midnight release of Halo 2 as a teenager with my younger brother at the Electronics Botique in the mall.
>>98095161>>98095185Knowingly receiving stolen goods is a crime, but it's difficult to prove and usually only enforced against members of the tribe running pawn & loan places or similarly crooked auto resellers.However, if you receive stolen goods in good faith, they can still be taken from you with no remuneration, as they were never yours to begin with.
>>98095461This would never happen because the pokemon company relies on artificial scarcity to increase FOMO and hype generally. Having something rare is exciting for a kid. They want scalpers to exist, they're basically employees for marketing who pay to work for them.
>>98094590Warhammer just doesn't work that way.For example. If a mini represents something that's supposed to be pretty rare in-universe, GW will just tell you that it's rare so only use one in your army. But you can still buy the mini.For trading cards, if it's rare it's literally actually rare irl so everyone is gonna be hunting it down and upping the priceI was worried 40cucks were gonna destroy the model kits hobby when they started talking about gunpla, but honestly neither works the same way as cards
>>98095372Take my blood thiel and my son's blood too
>>98092354Taking things from other people's carts isn't a crime. Scalpers are weasels in human costumes, just take a box from their cart and go pay for it. What are they gonna do, chase after you? That'll leave their cart unattended.
>>98095217Just emulate
>>98092354Restrict market access. It's only because of ebay and other instant, online marketplaces that this culture was able to form. This was possible for 20 years before the nucleation event, but now that a hustle culture has developed it's not going to undevelop unless you make it harder for the unemployed to reach a wide and distant population of buyers.The other option is for the publishers to increase supply, but that's extremely expensive and risky, and almost guarantees losses. Whenever you shake off flipniggers with a supply flood, the excess rots on shelves and damages your product's perceived value. Also, card production is still bottlenecked by printing infrastructure, and most publishers don't operate their own printing factories.In other words, you don't stop it. Welcome to the future. Any product that is by design or by accident both desirable and limited is going to experience this. Forever.
>>98095942>just risk virusesemulation has no resale value either
>>98092354Capture them and scalp them obviously.
>>98095025>kill on sightI know of one death over Pokémon cards.How many will there be for actual change?
>>98096985Scalpers are already literally breaking into shops and doing armed robbery to clerks and and mugging people they met on ebay >>98095025Don't forget that the "investors" need to be sacrificed to an Aztec god too
>>98092354No one can stop nostalgic Old people (Age 30 to 65) from outbuying whatever target market of some merch.No nothing
>>98097032I know scalpers are doing that.I just want to know out of morbid curiosity how many deaths it will take for this problem to be properly tackled.
>>98092354>>98095025Put them in a hard labor camp where their daily meal plan looks like this>Breakfast: Ersatz coffee (25g per person) with sugar (25g), ~700g dark bread, and 50g cottage cheese.>Lunch/Dinner: Soup or dumplings with ~120g wheat flour, 500g potatoes, 40g pork fat, 30g salt, and 10g onion.>Supper: Barley groats soup with 1,000g potatoes, 15–21g pork fat, and 100g pearl barley.
>>98092354It's a bit complicated, but an essential step is the summary execution of Logan Paul.
>>98097161Agreed
>>98092389Thats already why people scalp. the wealth gap has grown to such insane proportions, that grown ass men with the brains of children have so much more money to spend then everyone else that it is more economic for a normal person to scalp toys and fist fight blacks then it is to have a real job. That economic crash is coming my friend
>>98092354Just stop buying from them?
>>98097187So scalpers believe they have no other choice to make it?Is that their justification for shit like breaking into peoples homes?
>>98095773Occasionally there are limited releases, or just volume issues on a regular release, that gives enough scarcity to allow scalpers to profitably flip 40k, but it's rare. For GWs other games I agree it basically doesn't happen.
>>98097089Frankly, that diet doesn't sound too bad. I just hope the ersatz coffee is the chicory root kind and not grund chestnut kind.And 10g onion (maybe quarter a bulb?) is just silly relative to 1500g potatoes.
Maybe GW could just stop with specials.
>>98092354>instead of waiting or moving on or just doing something else that isn't brand new I'm going to complain about it online and wish death upon those that bought firstAutism
>>98094368Age limits would help too
>>98097187Well Mike Stoklasa knows a thing or 2 about fist fighting blacks.
>>98097193Gamers don't because they either pre-order boxes or buy singles from vendors who have preordered boxes. Scalpers don't really effect the gaming economy, they just make people who actually play cardgames look bad.
>>98092354Take it out of his basket, and start recording his reaction while denying you did anything.
>>98098065Ironically Texas is trying to ban TCGs because they meet their definition of gambling.
>>98098124Is there any point in living in Texas if you're not a senile boomer?
>>98098155If you're an influencer it makes sense to move to Texas because there are more people to collaborate. Same goes for LA and Nashville.
>>98097484Not what was said
>>98097590It's approximately 3 today US dollars per day to feed an inmate of a hard labor camp in today's Belarus.There was also fasting penalty where you only got water and stale bread.Notice the 50 grams of fat to next to no protein and Vitamin A deficiency looming.But only only 13 out of 466 inmates died.
wait, you guys buy cards? we just proxy everything. why would you spend money when you don't have to?
>>98092354Move away from the TCG model and make it so players buy packaged playsets of new releases at a reasonable price.
>>98098124Texas is such a fucking shithole>>98098628And Austin is for the freaks who didn't have friends to sit with at lunch, and never got over it.
