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.
>>11771637>You see it on ebay all the timeThe site doesn't even pretend to be impartial.They relentlessly shill any seller on how to lower their costs in ways that would actively actually hurt the seller (New, MOC GI Joe $14.99 auction, drop price by 40% and relist to improve sale chances).As a consumer, I appreciate grabbing something I want for $0.99, and yes, I definitely have seen things that started at $0.99 jump as high as $70+ as a recent blind bundle of accessories and wardrobe just went in an auction, but most of all that is being done by the site. >pay some absurd markup for something that's available from other sellers/storesThe auctions themselves cause this behavior, just like gambling addiction or meth addiction drives bad behavior there. I always have already checked if Amazon or WalMart or someone else has something on sale and I also always have an absolute max of what I am willing to pay/bid for shit. Have I sometimes regretted not winning something? Sure.>tl;drEBAY drives this behavior (like most modern tech bro companies - Facebook, Xshitter, Instagram, even this hell hole).At least some of us are not routinely overpaying for plastic crack.
>>11771475based take
>>11770631If i don't scalp then someone else will do it and i don't want to stand in front of an empty shelf after traveling to the store full of excitement to get the toy i have bene waiting months for to be released.
>>11775044There's nothing "based" about it. Nerdy economics 101 jargon to justify ruining the hobby, the persecution complex as if scalping is anything but a net negative on society, and that insufferably smug taunting about being "butthurt" over people not getting a toy they "don't really need" like an actual snot-nosed bully on the playground.
>>11771475That's not being a middle man, you retard. It would be like if I ordered door dash, but some retard bought all the big macs and now I have to get a big Mac from some stupid faggot.
>>11771028Its weird because being a wage slave is more consistsnt money than sitting in like for hours and hours for maybe 200$?. It's definitely a poor man's kind of investment.
>>11771475Door Dash and Uber Eats aren't new, but people using them to get coffee and a danish from a Dunkin Donuts is just absurdly stupid. Other anon is correct - they aren't middle-men.Also people don't always tip, such as tipping Lyft or Uber drivers. And you actually are stuck interacting with them in ways you don't the Door Dash and Uber Eats drivers.
Companies that feed into scalper behavior by creating artificial scarcity should also be genocided
>>11775044it's a stupid take.Marvel Legends Retro Carded, and Hasbro GI Joe Retro Cards, or SW Black Series boxes, that are showing up at Ross, that I could buy myself for $7.99 to $9.99, you're telling me it's "BASED" that I should pay someone an fee plus shipping and even more taxes (since fucking ebay charges them on their fucking fees and postage, even though USPS doesn't charge sales tax) for the privilege of paying some scalper who took everyone of all these toys just to try to resell them? These are all toys recently at Ross, either I've seen them (and don't want 'em) or I know they've been showing up at Ross and this is just some asshole that scoop them all up to try to make a few dollars, which they barely will, and sometimes simply go back to that Ross after 29 days and return the fucking shit.
>>11775900Yes, McFarlane should go out of business sooner rather than later.
>>11772100i saw stacks of these at discount stores. how are you getting scalped on a re-release 2 years later??
Every day I wake up and wish for SexyIce and its business practices of making overpriced but damn good-looking crap to be wiped off the face of the earth by the mandate of heaven being retracted like the floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam breaking wide. May the waters wipe the world clean of all those fuerdai and tuhao who flaunt their damn scalped armies of SexyIce figures
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>>11777436...I rest my case. May the waters that Yu the Great held back be let loose as he realizes his descendants have fallen into decadence and depravity the way Daji the footbinding nation-toppler led her emperor to, and scour them the way they scoured the fields of sparrows. Great Leap Forward, meet Downward Drowning Doggy-Paddle!...good quality tech, you gotta admit. Shitty business practices attached to it though. Hope the Taiwanese or Viet bootleggers manage to mass-produce cheaper copies that sell better at a fraction of the cost.Also how the HELL do these chinks make figs with obvious skull motifs without the State Administration of Press and Publication racking down on them for violating their public embargo on skulls?
>>11777436This would be based if it was SH Figurearts Metal Cooler instead.
>>11777490Or Warhammer Marines. Hell, I'd want to steal SexyIce's tech to make the most flexible but sturdy Space Marines of all time!
Maybe it white man who are problem.
>>11777490That would be like 8000 dollars worth of Coolers.
>>11770631My best friend paid over a $100 for a figure I waited a few weeks to get a pre order at msrp. The figure will be out this month and it's not a particularly rare figure, it's something you could find at Wal Mart for example. But he is my best pal here so I'm not gonna dog him out but I think it was a reckless and selfish act to not only pay a poor Chinese factory worker to STEAL A FIGURE FOR YOU but then you pay almost 3x the actual price (which is far too damn high as it is) but you sent money to a country that is out to undermine democracy as we know it. That poor man at the factory DID NOT get the money you sent him, no, in fact, that man was killed for STEALING an action figurine. But hey, you've got your Shade custom and now you've got a blood stained Starman Jack.Was it worth it my friend?
>>11777436I will fuck your mother and set your house on fire you asshole
>>11777955If it gets you off to fuck a corpse, be my guess, sweetie
>>11777946No one is best friends with JROT.If you are doing to make fun of the attention whore, try a different tack to make anons really buy any drama with Jarrett.
>>11770631Aren't scalpers just a mechanism of the free market?Everyone here gets so smug when a companies have a BBTS sale because they might have overestimated how many units they'd sell. Scalpers are just taking a risk in the same way.At least with normally toys you get a chance to pre-order, as opposite to something like band tickets or whatever where a fixed number of units are available and if you weren't in line you miss out.
>>11770919We have one at my store who's trying to file discrimination complaints against the store because he's disabled and can't queue for hours.
>>11783405>Scalpers are just taking a risk in the same way.It's one thing for some idiot with a little extra money or a credit card that isn't maxed out to go to a Ross or other clearance store and buy something they try to flip on ebay for literally a few bucks profit after paying the site fees, etc.AND some local comic shop or other place in a strip mall clearing out some Marvel Legends from a Ross next door to them, and putting them up in their shop at markups.
>>11771028Lets just say for most of them, if they put as much effort and time into scalping pokemon cards as they would into an actual real job, they wouldnt have to be selling pokemon cards for a living
>>11783405You do know Pre-orders sell out these days, right? If all the pre-orders go straight to scalpers how are customers supposed to compete?
>>11775620They literally would be middlemen there for those that "have to" get their precious Big Macs, but a better comparison would be if McDonald's wrapped 1 in 10 Big Macs in SPECIAL GOLD FOIL and 1 in 30 came with a $20 coupon, and then normie Americans HAD TO GET THEM.>>11790253The final customer is the real competition. Resellers can't sell normal Pokemon packs for a million dollars each. They can only sell them for what the customers decide to pay for them. The Pokemon company either can't keep up with insane demand or chooses to make less than what the customers want. To lower market price, customers must make the choice to buy less or pay less, or get Pokemon to make more cards. Scalpers are just a byproduct of the situation.
>>11790253Honestly haven't experienced it. I always thought pre-orders would come before manufacturing, otherwise they'd just be "orders".
I work in a toy store and we have a decently large (for us) shipment of Pokemon cards going on sale tomorrow for the new set. 75%+ of those in the queue when we open will be scalpers. I hate it.
>>11783405Scalpers are a symptom of markets failing their customers. Sure they COULD print 4x the cards they do and make more money, but that would require effort. So instead scalpers get to ask 4x the RRP.
>>11793562I thought they locked them up in vending machines? Or that's what I've seen in videos online.I don't understand anything about pokemon cards obviously.
>>11793562good luck, friend
