Pokémon scalpers saved card games. I’m not a scalper but I used to work at a card shop and played competitive legacy MTG and Yu-Gi-Oh for two decades, Pokémon vendors all started as scalpers and they offer 70%-90% on average.You want to know what mtg stores and vendors offer? 40%-60% depending on the health of the game.You want to know what yugioh vendors and stores offer? 20%-40% this is industry standard. You all are retarded autistic losers if you complain about scalpers, it’s simple supply and demand. The issue is short prints and distribution not the people buying the cards keeping the game alive while poor retards and children complain. You know who doesn’t have money? Welfare recipients (like you) and kids. Meanwhile those same scalpers offer you better pricing on cards than any other tcg in the market; and often give cards away for free to curb the scalping allegations. Only normies outside of the tcg space who collect as a casual hobby are upset for twitter and YouTube content.
>>98848273>t. nogames scalper
>>98848288Says the tranny who can’t afford his super special awesome likitung card or the pack it comes in, The fact a child can walk in, crack a 100$ card and get 90$ back while not feeling like he’s being scammed or taken advantage of is wild to me. Try and trade in your Yu-Gi-Oh sometime and tell me who’s fucking who in the ass?
>>98848273I don't care. They are faggots and them being faggots with money does not fundamentally change this fact.
>>98848394Just like you, the difference? You’re unable to profit off a children’s game and your wife resents you for it while she’s getting fucked by chad who works on the oil rig and can buy her nigger son any Pokémon product he wants.
>>98848505What an odd thing to say
>>98848517I’m sorry for you being priced out of your children’s game by people who can actually afford it. It must be hard living in student debt.
>>98848524>your children’s gameWho said I played card games?
>>98848536Why are you posting in a tcg thread? Just gay curious?
>>98848505I have gay sex with men and I can confidently say that I am less of a fucking faggot than you and your ilk. Re-evaluate yourself.
>>98848561>Why are you posting in a tcg thread?Cause scalpers are fat gaylords and it's funny to watch them foam at the mouth over cardboard.
>>98848579>>98848576For a bunch of tranny magic and Pokémon players none of you understand economics. At least the yugayoh people are inherently right wing and understands basic supply and demand as well as basic math.
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>>98848589Don't care, faggot. Yugioh is scalper-proof.
>>98848589A few pointers for the next bait thread: >Keep track of which anons you are replying to>Keep track of who each anon claims to be>Use insults relevant to who each anon claims to be>You came on too hard and too fast, it's easy to tell you're trolling (go for a slower burn next time)>Don't attack so many different groups of people at once, be more targetedHope that helps!
>>98848597Nigger won’t read the post, I sold cards to the scalpers I wasn’t a scalper myself. They kept the lights on while you fags seethed. I will buy your magic and yugioh for 40% of market value though and tell you it’s damaged when it’s lp to knock off another 10%-20%
>>98848605You're talking about economics while also talking about children's card games. Why the fuck would I read whatever stupid bullshit you're trying to force down our throats?
>>98848602I’m dead ass, the Pokémon scalpers turned vendors are the best people in this greasy ass industry and are setting higher standards for legitimate card shops. Meanwhile all these tools do is complain. The problem fundamentally is print runs and distribution. It’s not the scalpers fault it’s the Pokémon company and the regional distribution chains proving to your local card shop and big box retailers. If they printed more scalpers would scalp less. They don’t want to do this however as to not over saturate the market like yugioh and magic did for short term gains as it causes long term loss of interest even if better for the community.
>>98848613It’s all economics in this business. If I could I’d buy all your shit Pokémon at 40% market value but the scalpers ruined that for me now I have to pay reasonable rates and it’s a good thing over all and all I see is people like you bitching and complaining.
>>98848626>i'm not a scalper also i treat this like a business ventureGet a job.
>>98848621>I’m dead assOh? So you're spitting pejoratives because you're legitimately angry? I thought you were trolling. What a gaylord lmfao.
>>98848636Do you even know what a LGS is? Or are you just salty you can’t find your special cards at Walmart?
>>98848638You try and price out tens of thousands of shit cards while Doritos finger diabetic liberal troons yell at you for being sold out of whatever set and are mad you won’t buy their HP Jace the mind sculptor at pre reprint rates after it lost over 80% of its value. Meanwhile rich hygienic Asian kid is here at opening dropping bands.
>>98848639Yes I know what an LGS is. I play yugioh at my locals and sometimes get sucked off by my boyfriend at the P.F.Chang's a few blocks down. Both of these things are less fucking gay than the bullshit you're trying to justify.
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>>98848650Gay faglords like you are why magic is shit and why I quit working at a card shop. At least the yugioh community regularly picks on your autistic ass and smacks your bitch ass deck from 2006 down with kewl tune, and yummy before calling you retarded.
>>98848273Offer percent of what for what? Your AI is spouting nonsense.
>>98848659Trade ins nigger, understand context. Literally what else would that mean at those rates??? You ever trade cards in to your LGS???
>>98848312Kids should be happy to crack a cool card because they play it in a deck or love the art of it. Even just because Jimmy needs that card and he'll trade his Xyz for it. Not because it's "good ROI". The fact that you are only thinking about this kids toy in terms of a commodity is what actually ruins card games. My daughter wants to play with Pokémon cards but that would mean dropping €80 on what amounts to a mediocre board game just to buy two premade decks. Not to mention I'd have to go and wait in line at the store for 3 hours with the unwashed nogames to even get a chance to buy it. I dont care about my tgc resale value. I care about the game. Because I'm not an autistic cunt.
>>98848681>I dont care about my tgc resale value. I care about the game. Because I'm not an autistic cunt.Based
>>98848663No I dont. Because I'm not a cunt who spends his days commodifying a board game for pennies. I actually play it with friends and the local community. Like one should. You buy packs because you have a gambling addiction. I buy cards because I play games. We are not the same.
>>98848693I sell packs nigger I don’t crack em.
>>98848681>>98848686>>98848693If the sets had no value none of you would buy it. The cope here is real.
>>98848704>If the sets had no value none of you would buy it.Statements that can only be thought up by the most incorrigible of nogames.
>>98848716Literally work at a LGS for more than 10 minutes. Try to sell overstock dragons maze or born of the gods packs from 2014. Oh wait you can’t. Fuck you couldn’t sell fallen empires until 2020.
>>98848725I used to work in an LGS, the only shit that didn't sell was the stuff that had zero game relevance.
>>98848731Try and sell a box of modern masters 1 or 2 then. You still can’t, great limited environment, no EV. Meanwhile BFZ sold like hotcakes. Why? Because of these gambling addicts chasing the “super special card” again the problem is the Pokémon company and distribution chains, not the Asian kid keeping your lights on. I fucking hate the gay communist cock suckers in these communities so fucking much. Gamergate ruined more than video games.
>>98848731>>98848735In 2014 you could sell them, try selling them today and see how long it takes.
>>98848696Aha, so you dont care about the health of the game. Exactly as I stated earlier. You just want whales to drop revenue into your pockets. And if the game does die due to nobody playing it, you will just move on to the next green field like locust. You are a simple parasite. You produce nothing, you play nothing. You are not part of the game. You simply play middle man for pennies with no added value.
Why do pokemon cards even have game rules on them anyways? Wouldn't they be better if they just removed all the text to leave room for the artwork? Who even plays pokemon, it's just scalpers keeping the business alive.
>>98848731What about nexus of fate? Over printed, great cards, MSRP prices, fetch lands, ugin, Tasigur, Gurmag? Oh wait that’s right no ev on investment. Good luck selling that shit.
>>98848749Yes, and the more I make man children seethe the better. I used to break kids dreams after taking their money and buying their pulls for nothing but again the Pokémon fags are changing things so much I can’t do that anymore because these kids are expecting more and more out of me due to these scalpers you hate. I used to eat my lunch on men’s and children’s tears. I do play these games I play mtg and yugioh but troons ruined mtg, thankfully the japs don’t care about glow nigger propaganda and their game is (mostly safe from liberal fags) I buy singles because I’m not a fucking idiot.
>>98848756>>98848749>>98848764Anyway all jokes aside you really think I’d make this thread if I didn’t care about the health of these games? Or are you just a casual poor fag who dabbles in the space? News flash 15$ cardboard is a luxury good. Sorry to break the news to you. You think scalpers are greasy? Bitch I’m the greasy nigga who sells to them and we’re 10x worse.
Keep giving us your money though and come back to play as opposed to developing life skills by getting a real hobby.
>>98848704The sets have value in the playing of the game. This is such an amazingly powerful mask-off moment and you don't even realize it because you are obsessed with the money. If my group of friends play an MTG draft, we just pick the cards we want to play and that fit our deck. Not the cards that are worth a lot. Because we care about playing the game with friends. Sometimes if we pull valuable cards we give them to each other because "that would be so sick in your deck". We are here for the game. Unlike you.
>>98848795Look at>>98848756 also meant fate reforged here. It’s been awhile.
>>98848795Also words of a true casual. This is why I play legacy.
>>98848778Ironic. To lament not being able to scam children out of a few bucks as easily anymore and calling others poorfags. If I sell all my thousands of mtg cards I'd probably make well over 10k. But I won't because I don't need 10k. I just want to spend my time playing games with friends.
>>98848837The entire industry is built off the backs of retards like you who don’t understand the points I’m making and children’s tears. Good times.
Anyway I’m off to bed goodnight bitches the people at /vp/ we’re infinitely less retarded than you all.
>>98848845The points you're making:>Games are not to be enjoyed>Children are to extract wealth from You need Jesus.
Damn, huge agentic energy coming from this thread.Why anons fall for bots so easily these days?
>>98848273I notice nothing in that rant mentions actually doing anything with the cards like actually playing it getting use out them. Begone, foul ghoulish capitalist. Spread your lies elsewhere.
>>98848964>we’re
>>98849117I’m a Christian and I don’t work at a card shop anymore I’m just pragmatic and not a delusional liberal mad people paying FULL MSRP for their own stock. I live in the real world.
>>98849159Commie fags don’t deserve luxury cardboard
>>98849164He also made this thread here because he was getting shit on in /vp/ as well. One can only wonder why.
>>98850787Vp actually had a real conversation unlike these autistic fags. I made the thread here as well as to spread the word because everyone needs to know. Card shops are NOT your friends we’re way worse than your average scalper. The problem is distribution and the Pokémon company any logical person understands this. And the scalpers turned vendors are genuinely kinder people than me or anyone else who worked at a cardshop because I’d buy your child’s kidney and sell it if I could. What I represent is the old industry standard and Pokémon scalpers and vendors are changing that why you cry and complain about children’s cards.
>>98850872It wasn't a compliment you dense fuck.
The real heroes are the based chinamen who sell proxies for the actual fair market price of 60 rectangles of printed cardboard
>>98850886I know, You retards are the dense ones.>>98850912Based
>>98848273FUCKING BASED
>>98850912Now we're speaking sense here. Or better yet, making you're own proxies is the way to go.
>>98850974I don't have a professional-grade printer though
Card shop owner here I read through both threads and I must say OP is 100% in the right He’s actually trying to help you all if you read past the explicit language
>>98851039Hi OP!
>>98851027>Print any old shit on very thin paper, slip it into a sleeve with a junk card. It works just fine to play with even if it looks like shit.
>>98850937>>98851039I know I am.
>>98851027It's totally worth it if you're willing to invest.https://alan-cha.github.io/silhouette-card-maker/
>>98848753>Who even plays pokemonPokemon is the only TCG that's not completely stagnant because of power creep/shit meta overall.
>>98848394People can do whatever they want with their money chud.
>>98848273I proxy everything I dont give a shit lol
>>98859120Based, I also have a proxy GF.
I came upon 3x 30th Anniv Trainer boxes.Should I sell them or get into pogeymans again (im an adult with no friends).
