Even more than that, people who buy from scalpers should be genocided.
>>11770631What figure made you post this anon?
>>11770631There is a bit of arrogance from people who think they deserve a profit for doing you the favor of denying you the chance to buy at retail prices.
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>>11770631I was in Target yesterday and there was the huge line at the front of the store. I thought they were doordashers waiting to pick up orders or something and it turned out they were Pokémon card scalpers waiting for the cards to be put out. I overheard them talking about figure scalping while I was on the way out.
>>11770892pokemon card scalpers are genuinely lowlifes, ever since my store implemented a hard 2-per-customer limit I've had so many dudebros get into shouting matches about how we're denying them of their "lottery tickets."
>>11770631this except frogposters
>>11770892>>11770919Out of all the types of scalpers, Pokemon scalpers are the absolute lowest. They basically learned why gold and diamonds are so expensive now, and copied the formula.
>>11770675his cyberfrog finally fell completely apart and now he has nothing to cry himself to sleep with
>>11770631True
>>11770631I wageslaved at retail (target) for like a month or 2 and literally every week or so there would be a huge herd of soilennials sitting around and shaking with excitement. Some of them tried to follow me into the backrooms.How profitable is this business?
>>11771028>buy pack of Pokemon cards for $5>sell each card for $5 through $1,000+
>>11771028With all the running around and waiting in lines for hours paired with stores having limits on things for purchase combined with spending time on making secondhand sales through either FB marketplace or taking percentage hits off eBay and card websites, you can expect between $30-40 an hour generally in profit. The problem is that your hours and money are dictated by sporadic drops, releases, and store availabilities and if you're not plugged into exactly what and where to be it's very easy to spend a lot of time waiting just to miss out. So it's more than minimum wage, and you don't have a "boss" but you're still on someone else's schedule.
>>11771028There's no place to sit at Target. I'm going to your grandmother you lied on the internet you FAT fibber.
>>11771028Did you ever see any of those hilarious fights when the scalpers start wrasslin and swinging wildly? I really wish I could see scalpers battle in person but I am not American.
>>11771029>sell each card for $5 through $1,000+>he unironically thinks real people are buying and scalpers are actually making a big profit
>>11771028>>11771194He is probably a fat stupid fuck if he couldn't last even two bare months working as a wage slave for Target, of all places.But some of the Starbucks areas in the mid-size stores, and some of the changing room areas in the larger stores, plus the snack/coffee areas in those stores, all definitely have seating - it might not be a lot - certainly not enough for some "huge herd" of soi anything to sit down, but they also definitely do have plenty of floor they could sit down in.
>>11770631meh, i can mostly get what i want at reasonable prices, just gotta be patient and network a little, why is the world so full of whiners these days?
Basic supply and demand economics makes people butthurt. People have no problem paying a middleman corporation like Doordash and also tipping the driver, but how dare some guy gets anything for helping you get your rare toy which you don't really need.
Aren't there already enough cheap Pokemon cards floating around to play the game or whatever? It's herd mentality attaching extra importance to these pieces of cardboard and to Stanley cups. Scalpers are just a byproduct of irrational normie demands. It's a bit similar to hate for onlyfans, which wouldn't exist without guys obsessed with that content.
>>11770919>I've had so many dudebros get into shouting matches about how we're denying them of their "lottery tickets."top kek, keep at em anon
>>11771479I think scalpers tend to ruin it for anybody who wants to play with the new cards when they come out, and some literally just throw away all the play cards after tearing through the packs looking for the rare ones rich idiots pay thousands for. I’d just wait if I still played, but has to be really annoying.
>>11771395>why is /toys/ so full of whiners
My only tool for combatting scalpers is an old-school trick of being a "card-bender" with bending one corner of a figure's cardback. It doesn't diminish the overall package nor the toy itself, but does plenty to fuck with scalpers looking for perfect mint stuff to scalp. I still remember approx 25 years ago on a forum with scalpers saying "THAT'S ILLEGAL! IF I CATCH YOU THEN I'M TELLING!"They really hate card-benders, so if you see a figure that's potential scalper material, bend a corner of the package.
>>11771626I don't feel like this does much anymore. Sure there's a few autismos who still look for mint on card shit they'll never open, but for anything that's scalped these days it's generally an issue of just pure availability period, not availability with a perfect card. No one is worried about what the boxes of Pokemon cards look like, or the boxes of those squishy toys that are being scalped, or to focus on something more in our lane that I am aware of, Star Wars Micro Galaxy chase and rares- I have literally never seen one in a store, and if I came across the royal gaurd tie fighter or something else cool, I certainly wouldn't give a shit about a corner being bent on the card. This is a retarded boomer thing that is dying out, there's now even more products but with many having such terrible availability that a minor card variation or a box misprint or a folded cardback all have negligible effect on the market good or bad. It's all just "can I find this fucking thing at all?"
>>11770631>Even more than that, people who buy from scalpers should be genocided.They're the bigger problem and the only reason so many scalpers exist nowadays. Ultra Impulse keks who need to have the items NOW and can't be bothered to wait or shop around, even when it's a readily available item. You see it on ebay all the time where someone will pay some absurd markup for something that's available from other sellers/stores for more reasonable prices. Even some stores themselves have started to charge more than MSRP for items because they know collectors are easy marks.
>>11770675Not him but I don't appreciate the recent Rayquaza by Jazwares, not exactly a high-end collectable and re-released earlier this year, being sold out instantly and sold for $70+ on the aftermarket. I shudder to think about how much of a shitshow we're going to have to deal with should Blokees finally enter US retail.
>>11772100That's strange. Rayquazas stuck around longer than the Beast trio, then id see it at Ross next to Zapdos last holiday
>>11772100Rayquaza was available online from Target for a while from what I remember. At least the first release was. Maybe the rerelease was a smaller quantity?
>>11772100>>11772130>>11772232I literally just ended up buying this on ebay today for my kid because we just beat Omega Ruby and he's obsessed with Reyquaza. Not the first time I'm doing this, fucking stupid that Pokemon shit is so much on the aftermarket, I'm just trying to get my kid some cool toys to play with ffs
>>11772100>I shudder to think about how much of a shitshow we're going to have to deal with should Blokees finally enter US retail.Too late.The Bald Billionaire has a Blokees storefront just like the one Hasbro has for Marvel Legends and GI Joe, or McFarlane has for DC and Mattel will sure have for DC, and they have for their other lines.Walmart is already a global partner for Blokees and is selling out their shit like the Jurassic Park Teraventures eggs.
