ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME GAMESTOP??If I'm not stealing and paying for my items, what I do in your store is not your fucking business!
>>726773710>my itemsThey're not your items until you buy them. You can't just do whatever the fuck you want with merchandise that you haven't paid for yet.
>>726773710GAMESTOP ARE YOU PROSTITUTE???? YOU HAVE TAKING ALL MY CARDS!!
>>726773710At this point, every single store that sells Pokemon TCG should keep them under lock and only take them out after the customer has paid, PTCG scalpers are on a whole different level of shameless and they should be treated like the subhumans they are.
i'm gonna trade in my scale for some packs
>>726773710It is their business to be all up in your business.
>>726773710I am against this, because?
Didn't they start adding junk cards to the packs so you can't weigh them anyway?
>>726773710I can only imagine what level of special ed freako you need to be to get permabanned from gamestop. I don't even think cwc managed to do that back in the day.
https://old.reddit.com/r/OnePieceTCG/comments/1oxgf04/caught_a_dude_weighing_packs_today_shame_on_him/google search took me to plebbit
i dont play card games what are they weighing packs for?
they are charging like double msrp for cards now so they really don't have a leg to stand on
>>726774718extra shiny foil? Maybe some of the cards have a framed certificate of autenticity attached with duct tape?
>>726774718Some high rarity cards can be like a tiny bit heavier than regular ones due to the foil, so scalpers weight packs to identify which ones have a higher chance of having rare cards. This also helps increase the value of older packs not in circulation anymore, since those can go for hundreds a piece, so putting a "heavy" label on them helps them bump the prices even more.It's just subhuman behavior.
They like they Pokémons bbw
>wassup anon lil nigga, I heard you was out with a scale flippin packs n shiet, you on that come up?>I'm sorry no, you misunderstand, it's much gayer than you can imagine.
Oh boy it's that time again, GME threads on /v/ is usually before a dump then a pump, guess in time for the earnings. I'm ready
>>726775350
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
>>726774427Pretty much. They added different weigh code cards and I think every deck has a guaranteed holo now. Weighing only makes sense for old packs.
>>726773710>thief threatens sensible people: we will ban you for life from our stores if you dont let yourselves get robbedHeh
>>726773710can someone explain what the purpose of weighing packs is?
>>726775792You are paying for paper, you are getting robbed regardles. Just print them :)
>>726773710That seems extremely racist...
>>726775792They're offering the cards, you can just say no
is weighing packs the coin clipping of the 21st century?
>>726775906you can figure out what's in packs by weighing them because some rarities are lighter than others due to different foil. you use a scale to weigh every pack to see what packs have the best stuff, then only buy those packs and leave the shitty packs for everyone else
>>726773710weighing a card pack isnt scalpingbuy packs and then standing outside the store selling the packs for extra money cause they claim it has a foil in it would be scalping
>>726773710What the hell does weighing them do?
It should be one per person everywhere.
>>726773710NOOOOOO NOT MY HECKIN CHARIZARDINO CARDSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
>>726773710I welcome the banning of scalpers but why are they weighing card packs with scales?
Kinda fucked how tcgs are more about scalping vs collecting and playing like it use to.
>>726775016why not just add some clear coat to the pack edges to bump up that weight
>>726776351They saw some fag weighing the One Piece card packs which could be weighted. And everyone thought it was Pokemon TCG as thats the only TCG to exist right?Pokemon packs havent been weighable for a long long time.
When, why, and how did fucking Pokémon cards become a gambling spectator casino market?
>>726776756Is weighing card packs supposed to indicate an extra, special card in there or something?>>726776801Blame COVID and Jake Paul for ruining the market.
>>726776801One of the Paul fags paid a substantial amount for a PSA base set 1st edition Holo Charizard and ever since then it's all been investorfags shitting up the scene.
>>726776801americans obsessed with nigger rich hustle culture
>>726776856Weighing packs is supposed to indicate a holo card/hit
Why did Logan Paul selling Charizard for a million spawn people without jobs to buy packs to resell them?
>>726777079>cards sell for decent prices>here comes a richfag who pays a literal fortune for LE EPIC PSA 10 FIRST EDITION FIRST EVERY CHARIZARDINO>creates a butterfly effect where that instantly inflates every single FIRST EDITION FIRST EVERY CHARIZARDINO's price>and any other CHARIZARDINO from later packs>and then it extends to other popular Pokemon>and then it extends to Pokemon full arts>and then it extends to trainer full arts>then to secret rares>then you have people literally fist fighting at Costco to get as many boxes as they can fit in their carts>no amount of extra printing can stop these subhumans from playing stock market with children's cards
>>726777079because capitalism is fake
I could have sworn that Yugioh solved the weighing problem like 20 years ago. Why is Pokemon behind the times?
>>726777412Because soitendo enjoys the chaos.Walshart and target don't sell individual boosters of yugioh products, you have to buy the entire box. Locals DO sell individual boosters, but if you tried weighing the packs there, you would get punched in the face by the owner.
>>726777079>>726777270It's another scam like "graded" vintage game cartridges. Some genius spreads word that there are people out there willing to pay stupid amounts of money for old ass games. Retards eat it up and "invest" in old ass games and pay to have the cartridges graded by the same people who spread the rumors.This time they just got some social media faggot to kickstart things.
>>726777530I've bought yugioh boosters from target before.
>knife fifhting people in walmart parking lot over pokemon cardsJust get a real job, dude.
>Recently started working for first time a couple months back as a cashier at Target>New Pokémon set comes out>Scalpers, guys that are fat, saying they've gone all throughout my city buying packs up and their trunk is full>Next set, have guys come up to the register with multiple packs>Tell them only 2 per person and you'll have to wait 24 hours to buy again>Guy leaves register, see he comes back with his mother but his mother is the one buying the packs with her card even though I know damn well it's going to him>See Mexican guy come to register to buy packs>See him again and I thought he looked familiar>Call TL over for the situation>Scalper was honest but really upset and said next time I'll go to a different register or lie to you>Be told I can't sell the same DPCI pack to a person>Every fucking pack has a different DPCIMeanwhile I just see people buy MtG and sports cards.
>>726777530>you have to buy the entire boxNo? At least I don't remember that being true. Then again, I don't see boster packs sitting in a box anymore.
>>726777564I remember hearing a story about an LGS going to a card show and having a bunch of different card game stuff for sale, they primarily do MTGA ton of pokemon buyers/flippers asked him why they never grade the higher-end cards and the LGS said that most players buy those cards to play them. Its a stark difference from the people who buy pokemon cards at those high prices vs other TCGs that buy those cards at high prices.
>>726777629>>726777770No you haven't, if target does sell individual boosters they keep them near the cash register, not because they fear manchildren weighing the packs to scalp, but because yugioh is very popular amongst spics and niggers, and you can never relax around them.
>>726776865wow, if i couldn't hate them more, i do now. >>726777270all you would need to do to kill the market is somehow get some of those rare cards and sell them for nothing
>See some fag on YouTube opening packs>Btw guys I only do this for collecting>Puts the price of PSA 10 every single pullSure bro.
>>726777680you should befriend some local aspiring astronauts and have them rob those faggots with trunk fulls of stuffi bet you the cops would laugh it off too
>>726776190I think you can weigh the card packs and foils/bonus cards slightly increase the weight, so if you have packs that are heavier there is a chance they are better.
>>726777079>Low IQ people watch someone like Jake Paul>Wow he's making so much money off this! Just ignore that 99% of YouTube "influencer" content is faked and just used for clicks and sponsorship deals>I should scalp cards!!Look at any video of the biggest scalpers and they are literally wiggers or "hustle culture" low IQs.
>>726777680imagine giving a flying fuck about your cashier job beyond staring at cute girls
>>726773710Scalping is against the law>but muh paying customeryou know pokemon cards are going to sell out anyway, plus companies that make products have contracts with retailers that must be followed, if they don't want one person to buy 100 boxes of cards that's what the retailer has to enforce or else the company won't put their product there anymore.
>>726777680>Guy leaves register, see he comes back with his mother but his mother is the one buying the packs with her cardlmao, that's Ms. Cartman tier
>>726778489There's been a bunch of lady's looking extremely lewd that I try my absolute hardest not to stare, only taking quick glances and trying my hardest to focus on their faces.It's hard not to take a peek when their tits or asses are huge or I see their nips poking out.
>>726778538how is weighing a card pack with a scale scalping?
>>726778717The best part was the guy looked exactly like a wigger. I can't remember if he sounded like one as well.
>>726778756Because why the absolute fuck would you bring a scale to measure a booster packs weight?
>>726778816they should be a consistent weight, what if you purchased a pack that was missing a card or two?
PSA graded stuff was only meant for Baseball and sports cards. It was basically to preserve 80+ year old cards at the time.Now everything gets graded. We saw scams like VHS and game grading, but the worse one I can think of is comic books. So many people value key comics now based on what a "slabbed" (graded) comic sells for. I get a grades card. You encase it in plastic and you can see the art or graphic on each side or the players record. But once you grade a comic you have no access to the interior art or story anymore. You have a nice cover on the front and a fucking ad on the back. And it's just shitty seeing "hustlers" from covid era on YouTube buying up collections of comics and then grading specific issues. But it's satisfying seeing retards admit that they bought/collected the entire run of a series and cannot actually read the important key issues when the go through their run again.
>>726778861>>726778756Retard. Scales are an intent to scalp. You're not buying a booster pack in the hopes that you get some awesome rare for your playing deck. You are weighing to find money cards to sell and leaving the store with non money cards.
>>726778996>intent to scalpso a pre-crime?
>>726773710stores are private property. they have the right to deny any foreign items into their store, including scales.
>>726778861>what if you purchased a pack that was missing a card or twoStop trying to find loopholes
>>726777680>Target>guys that are fat>comes back with his motherFunnily enough, My brother had to go to target a while back with my mom so he could get his girlfriend pokemon cards for her birthday.
>>726778061>you should befriend some local aspiring astronautsCan any Americans translate this for me?
>>726773710Can they afford to ban people in 2025? They kind of need the money. It's not 2014 any more and there is not a Gamestop every 2 miles.
If I can't buy them at Market value then I don't buy them at all.Simple as.But being in Japan everyone operates on a one per person deal anyways.
>>726778897Re-prints solved that problem decades ago.The "first appearance of" issues get a new printing every couple of years as a means to entice new generations of readers and fans to any given character, and full runs are printed as graphic novels, omnibus printings, or self encapsulated minis regularly.The "story" is always preserved and made available for anyone who wants it, and that's even before considerations like digital and all the apps for that now.Grading a key book has way different variables now than just whether or not you "lose access to the story".
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>>726777680I hate target.I collect Magic and One Piece cards and they still told me the limit was two.The Magic Cards I can maybe understand because some of the universes beyond sets but...I'm one of like 2000 fucking people on Earth who buys One Piece cards. Nobody is scalping One Piece cards. Fuck off Target.>>726778897Nah. Covid didn't do this to Comic Books. Comic Books collectors became retarded in the early 90's when old issues started selling for a lot of money, because most people in the 1940's and 50's would casually toss their comic books in the trash when they were done. So a good condition copy of first character appearances were actually rare.Then the big 2 saw this shit and started pumping out variant covers out the ass and scamming their own reader base with promises that these would all be worth something someday.You can blame Covid era Youtubers for a lot of stupid shit. But comic grading fuckery is a cancer that's been growing out of control since The Death of Superman.
>>726779946>Fuck off TargetYou can blame scalpers altogether.
>>726779747Danke, anon.
>>726779118People also have the right to buy things for whatever reason they want, resale included.
>>726773710The solution is simple: end the jewish predatory scam known as TCGs. Outlaw gacha booster packs, only sell packs and individual cards clearly disclosing exactly what cards are included.
>>726779946For some reason comics getting that kind of popularity, and things like Wizard Magazine printing price listings in every issue caused a weird effect where half the population of spergs in the nation now think ANYTHING remotely hobby related might be worth money and they hoard that shit like fucking mad. Comics, figures, games, model kits, cards, anything nerd media related in any fucking way. They will snatch that shit and assume somehow this will be the thing that makes them millions somehow. They made mini consoles fucking impossible to get for like 3 years because of that shit.
>>726773710Oh I'm sorry I just thought we lived in a free market capitalist society that meant I could buy whatever the fuck i damn well please if I had the money to afford it. Guess I was wrong again....
>>726779946I think the grading glazing you're referring to is more an unintended consequence of LCBS self-promotion getting out of hand than anything else.A few things:"The Death of Superman" was an arc from 1992. The original book came pre-packaged in an all black poly bag, so you couldn't actually see the book inside, let alone have any idea of what condition it was in. The polybag itself has become iconic, and you can't get the book graded while it is still packaged in the polybag. Collectors keep it polybagged, and then place that on some acid free boards, into a mylar or mylite bag, and then into a toploader.2) CGC, the fundamental go-to for comic book grading, was only founded in 2000, and it took about 7-8 to reeeeeeally find its footing and to truly be adopted by the general public as the authority for graded books. This coincided around the time of the real estate housing bubble bursting and a lot of investors in the market had to diversify as fast as possible, or make the bleeding stop by letting go of other hard assets at the time to pay debts or get liquid quickly.3) The very first MCU movie (Iron Man 1) came out in 2008. As a tie-in, or rather a self flagellating means of boosting business and visibility, local comic book stores pumped out as much merch at the time as they could. My own LCBS rented space INSIDE THE THEATRE to sell Iron Man t-shirts and figures and graphic novels during the release. First appearance of Iron Man in CGC (and several other key books) were on framed stands to show off the character so non-fans could enjoy the Easter eggs of the movie by having some quick frame of reference.Slabbed books always have their ups and downs, it's own unique volatility, but it almost always comes down to whether a character has a movie or a cameo coming out soon that boosts the price, or whether a character "dies" or does something villainous that tanks the price.
>>726774427And they started selling individual packs inside of additional packaging and calling them "blister packs", which skews their weight. Or selling them in 2 or 3 pskcs of packs that usually include a promo card, and/or a plastic coin.What most people don't know is that the coloured coins have varying densities and sizes. Which again, skews the weight.
Do grown adults really camp the Pokemon card aisles while sitting in chairs, waiting for the associates to bring out cards?
Aside from altering the weight of each card somehow, how about sprinkling in some of those moisture absorption pellets into each packet before sealing? The cards remain extra fresh and the random amount of grains that get in should be more than enough to skew weighting, unless they were autistic enough to feel and count each and every one with their fingers and estimate their total extra weight.
>>726780702yeah you were wrong
>>726780651It's not just nerd stuff, all collectables are a self fulfilling circle to some degree.My old man told me about how coin collection was a big thing when he was a kid and that sounded exactly like 90s era comics, 'experts' publishing books of values and everyone buying the lists that said theirs were the valuable one.
What weighers and scalers as a whole don't seem to grasp is twofold;1) every pack has a foil in them now, SPECIFICALLY as a 'fuck you' to these sorts of peopleand2) there's no guarantee that the foil, or any card in the pack is any good, or of any desirability/playability/value.Most scalpers want to make a quick flip, the pokemon market specifically is collectors doing long gambles. Buying a sealed pack that's 25 years old for an amount of money that's in the hundreds GUARANTEES that only 1-3 cards in mint condition with a perfect grade (and PSA charges you a percentage of the value of THAT card in THAT grade) will recoup your costs. So for all the fucks that buy a shadowless, first edition, sealed, base set, heavy, Booster pack of pokemon cards for $1000 are really only hoping to get Charizard in mint condition. Any other pull is a net loss.
>>726781071Nah that's the casuals, the real deals happen in the stock room or loading dock.
>>726781737Every generation has that thing. For my grandfather it was stamps and coins. For my father it was comic books and matchbox cars. For my generation it's magic cards and cryptofaggots. My kid sister was teenie beenie babies and furbies and tickle me elmo and tomagatchi. Now it's labubu.
>>726781938I've seen a few god pack openings on YouTube shorts. I know full well that you're exactly right. It's extremely clear when "oops, this pack was supposed to be my 'employee purchase' for the month" slips past quality control and gets handed to a friend of a friend to someone who works at the factory.
>>726781938>>726782173The kids call that a "god pack". https://youtube.com/shorts/j3OIdQ5WxBkTotal value at the time: $16,849.76 USD
>>726776669TCG companies aren't always fully aware of every tactic scalpers use. And at the end of the day a sale is a sale so they're not that concerned with it anyway.
>>726777564no different than the vintage comic boom of the 90s, or baseball cards, or postage stamp collecting, or rare mintage coins. Just this time it's millennials.
>>726783098Coins are based. Fuck Pokemon TCG.
>>726783098Devil's Advocate: This is a little different as the social media and immediacy we have now does feed the hype and drive the prices a lot more making it it's own special thing.You didn't have as much transparency and third party vicarious involvement in previous collectable fads.
>>726782974>they're not that concerned with it anyway.Yes they are you stupid nigger. What happens when people stop buying packs because they never get anything good anymore?
Why dont gamestop just weigh the packs themselves and charge more to buy them accordingly?
>>726781045Blister packs have always existed, bud
>>726784191what would be the point? you may as well just buy singles
gacha is good if Nintendo does it
>>726773710No it isn't. If you don't like it, make your own store.
>>726784315Rent free
>>726777079Coupled what others replied with by saying Covid was a factor. These scalpers were trying to find get rich quick shit while the job market was fucked in more ways than one. Hell, these are the same fuckers that tried to buy up and flip toilet paper.
How does one keep collectards out of their hobby?
I don't understand how pokemon cards are "scalped". Who the hell is trying to buy pokemon cards such that they can be "scalped" to?
>>726781071Working retail at Target, I get adults at least three times per week asking where the Pokemon cards are and/or when the vendor (Target gets their cards via a third party) is going to come. The only ones with the vendor's schedule is the store owner, yet we've had people trying to see which vehicle is the vendors, driving around to the back of the store and shit.
>>726785415"Investors"It's like houses, but for poor people.
>>726773986Sadly, it's just whats going to happen when you either have the chance of pulling a 100 (sometimes even 500 or 1000) dollar card or a <25 cents holo card. This is ESPECIALLY the case if there are godpacks. That's why they need to up the hit rates so more people are getting these overhyped/overpriced cards. Don't get me wrong, these cards are beautiful, but these prices and these odds (1/100 and 1/1000 packs to get some of the highest rarity cards) are ridiculous.
>>726773986My store tried doing that, we kept all Pokemon TCG stuff behind the front desk, but for some reason (possibly a safety concern) they stopped doing that, and now only have two purchase limit in place. But of course, that doesn't stop people from waiting like a couple of minutes and going to a different checkout to buy more.
