People are out there scalping $2.89 a box Pokemon Pop-Tarts for $30, and you're still working a 9-5?!
>>738151283>>>/vp/
>>738151283Why does that pikachu look so off model
>>738151283I have enough morals and integrety to not charge more than what is due for a product
I work 2000 hours a year at $50 an hour, do you really think someone can sell 5000 of these to make up the difference?
When we were kids, the sprinkles were Pokemon shaped. Now its just an AI Pikachu on a box.
>>738151439People that are dumb enough to buy these don't deserve to have money. It's better put to use by someone else.
>>738151493>I work 2000 hours a yearliterally enslaved
>>738151503its literally just their birthday pop tarts. lazy as hell
>>738151283Vanilla cupcake doesn't sound half bad. Where are people even getting these? Walmart? Don't think I saw any at Big Y recently.
>>738151692
>>738151503>the sprinkles were Pokemon shapedunironically lost tech. modern society can no longer make new sprinkle molds. all we can do is maintain the ones we have.
Love pokemon
>>738151972I wonder if Van Gogh were alive today and you showed him this. Do you think he'd be happy or not?
if you buy $25 goyslop sugar cardboard you're fuclking retarded and deserve to be scammed
>>738152038Do he like money or saw both WW and non-white in his country?
>>738151283>poptartsDO AMERILARDS REALLY
Scalpers should be tied to the backs of cars and dragged across asphalt
>>738152139Allegedly he smelled really bad even for the time period and was very rude so he'd probably just be happy he has money I guess.
>>738151401TPC never made a Perfect Pikachu because they're too retarded to get it right.
>>738151283>>738151439>>738151546>>738151972You'd have to be an absolute fucking lowlife to scalp at all, but especially to scalp something like this. Like holy shit. Why the hell is scalping not illegal already? And the mouthbreathing retards who actually pay those inflated prices need to be shot. If there weren't faggots out there willing to cough up that money then there would be no scalping in the first place.
>>738151972I went to the pokemon center to get some card sleeves and realize it's like a store on black Friday. It's insanity. Japs can't make fun of us for this shit
>>738151493>I workI'm so sorry. Who told you exchanging time (finite) for money (infinite) was a good trade?
I am forced to do Mammon rituals, but will do no more than required for survival.
>>738151283>Take the time and risk to scalp something for an hour of minimum wage If I'm gonna stoop to scalping I'm gonna go way larger than an extra fuckin 15 bucks my guy
>>738152317>Why the hell is scalping not illegal already?Because there's no way to realistically enforce it.
>>738152317>If there weren't faggots out there willing to cough up that money then there would be no scalping in the first placebut there are, so why wouldn't you pick up something that'll net you hundreds of dollars for free?didn't even have to go to the museum, my local game store gave these out as a promo
>>738151586That's what 40 hour weeks add up to, most people in first world countries do this>>738152541I do it for the glory of israel so that I can see the third temple
>>738152317>Why the hell is scalping not illegal already?welcome to capitalism, dipshit
>>738151283I wouldn’t eat scalped pop tarts
>>738151493if you weren't a retarded wagecuck niggerbrain, you'd understand OP's point is that certain subgroups of people are susceptible to FOMO, you can sell them branded tie in products for stupid scalped prices and make bank.Though really i think it's mostly pokemon adults that are like this when it comes to gaming, almost exclusively them. GBA carts of pokemon emerald sell for hunnid's easily.without the fucking label.
I really don't see the issue with buying multiples of something to enjoy and then flip for a meager profit. The seething here seems really outsized. Like if people are buying up pallets of stock that'd be one thing but you guys act like there is an actual ethical issue around pop tarts with a slightly different boxprofiting off of nerd tulip mania is smart. Seems like a lot of poorfag seethe stemming from their own FOMO. There is no real moral or logical arguement against the common forms of scalping which is a fan buying some for himself and some to sell to make his money back and a slight profit
>>738151503We live in the ruins of a superior civilization.
>"hmmmm this limited edition pop tart is probably gonna sell out I should buy a few dozen for $100 and sell them to make $1000"There is literally nothing wrong with this
>>738151283listings don't determine actual value lmao, no one but other scalpers would buy this shit for that much
You are no longer the target audience.
>>738151972>dude, don't you want digimon to finally overtake pokemonNah, i'm good.
>>738152317It's not illegal but it's against literally every retailer's policies, but only the people stupid enough to outright say that they're scalping ever get caught. I love when customers say shit like "you have to let me buy more, this is my JOB" because it means we get to call security and get them banned from the store lmao
>>738154278>Had 2M in crypto Fake money >Switched to 2M in cardboard Still fake money
>>738154278do these people realize someone will actually have to buy these tacky pieces of cardboard off of them?
>>738151401It's not off model, it's just a different design. They use that design for marketing/merchandise purposes for whatever reason.
>>738151401There's been a weird round headed pikachu they use for random marketing for a long while now. I think he first appeared around the time of Gen 5? He was used to the dream world renders, but he's usually used for things like branded merch and collabs (like mcdonalds ones). I have no idea why they have kept an alternate version of his design around for so long now, without committing to it. It almost seems like some higher up at TPC really likes this version of the character but can only use it when they are going over Game Freak's head.
Wish US retailers did what Japanese ones do. They cut the plastic seal when you buy a box, making them impossible to resell.
>>738154504it will sell to someone else living the dream adinfitum, until eventually a streamer buys it to open it all
>>738154504Yes, and they'll pay 10x the retail price.
>>738154636Based
>>738151283everything is just fucked now. all world currencies have become monopoly money. people struggle to get by day to day. i keep waiting for the circus to stop, but things only get worse year after year. when does it get better bros? will I ever open the news and feel good about the future again?
>>738154687Do sealed products even appreciate that much aside from 1st edition of the very early sets?
>>738154658>>738154687the prices are imaginary so you'll continue buying the packs. you will end up holding the bag like beanie babies or every other artificial investment before that
>>738154278Don’t they still have to pay taxes?
>>738154250It says right there those two sold you moron
>>738154785Pokemon cards are literally an anomaly now, nothing else appreciates quite like them.Sealed product is sold with this assumption that it's going to be a winner of a box with amazing pulls, despite the statistical improbability. For other trading cards, it's often assumed a sealed box is going to be a shit pull, and they are only worth anything if they are simply an old enough set that even the guaranteed worse pulls would still be worth a bit. With Pokemon you can sell a box from earlier in the same year for multiples of what you paid, just cause the audience is that stupid.
>>738154782It only gets better if people want it to and look forward to it. Being a hopeless doomer faggot only contributes to the death spiral.
>>738154429>>738154504He could list all that shit on ebay and it would all sell. Dumping his crypto into something physical was a smart move, something you rarely see with cryptokiddies.
>>738154996That implies the people buying pokemon cards are significantly less intelligent than every other tcg. Checks out!
>>738154593>without committing to it.Seems like they were considering it since people found a model of the round head Pikachu in the Teraleak. Seems like they ultimately decided not to go through with it though since the Gen 10 Pikachu doesn't use the model.
You can thank all the immigrants coming to the West and importing their crab bucket mentality. Scamming and hustling is their nature. I'm so fucking tired of it.
>>73815128337 yr old here. I was a huge pokemon fag as kid. I had to have every piece of shit with the pokemon logo on it. Luckily by 2000 I was getting more into DBZ and pretty much quit watching the anime by season 3. Quit collecting the cards before gen 2 released and the last gane i played was stadium 2 in early 01. I loved it at the time but am glad I quit before it went to shit lol.
>everything digital will be a subscription >everything physical will be an insane speculative griftthe future will be the entire economy catering to a handful of whales whilst everyone else eats dirt and holds their bags
>>738155159for his sake I hope he'll list it in time because that pokemon gacha psychosis will dissipate overnight just as it appeared
what could TPC theoretically do that would crater the value of cards and bankrupt the lot of them?
>>738151972>Gothic warriors fight over loot sacked from the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus>Rome 410 AD
>>738151283I still have my pokemon oreos from several years ago. Has my investment matured? I was thinking of listing them for $4000 starting bid.
>>738154278>HobbyThe hobby should be playing the game not collecting unopened boxes and packs.
>>738151401>off modelNot all Pikachus look the same, you racist biggot
>>738154782I know that feel anon, way too well. I want to say thank you for posting a picture of a bunny. I will also post an OC bunny too.
>>738155447people thought it was going to end after the plandemic but it didn'tit's been 6 years anon, as long as the games and merch keeps selling this ride ain't stopping any time soon
>>738155501Print more they make enough money to make there own card printing place
>>738151283>vanilla cupcake>regular sprinkles instead of pokemon-shapedI'm so glad I switched to Nature's Valley
>>738151283>Peoplemillennials arent people
>>738151972Wasn't this supposed to be a promotional tie-in for a normal non-pokemon museum?
>>738155674I wish I could go back into collecting the cards, but it's gotten stupidly expensive, new sets released the same week have $500 cards already, some even go above $1000. There is no way I'm paying that much for a new released card, fuck off. If things keep getting worse I'll just sell my collection and never look back.
>>738155336every single one of these guys i see is a 30-40 year old white guy wearing shorts and sunglasses
>>738155501just reprint old cardsif the only difference between the original and reprint is a little mark or something then people will just buy the cheaper oneespecially if they dont make them artificially scarce
>>738155930I bought a psa 10 of this back in the day for a couple hundred. First and last big purchase. I enjoy checking in on the price every couple of months. Accelerate.
>>738154782>newslolI do more than well enough for myself so I don't bother with the news and just play video games. EZ life.
>>738156145AnonI have 30 year old pokemon cards in a box in my basement. Where do I go to check value of this shit so I can sell this crap off?I'm nearing 40 and I don't care about my past. Thankfully I never tossed this shit, just kept it in all in a nice sterilite box at my folks home until they retired 5 years ago and then I took what I could before they tossed shit and moved.
I don't care about the people that want to collect anymore.I fucking despise scalpers, and I used to feel bad for the cunts who wanted to enjoy their hobby, but at the end of the day, it's shiny cardboard.Every motherfucker who buys Pokemon cards, whether to actually keep or sell, has been suckered by The Pokemon Company into buying fucking cardboard. I know it's reductive, but go fuck yourselves anyway.
>>738151972Subhuman, uncivilized retards.
>>738151283reminds me of the concord dualsense that sold for $80 and resell on ebay for $400 now. Wish I would have bought more than two
>>738156263yeah just proxy it, who cares. does anyone even play pokemon tcg lol
>>738155501They just need to increase the chances of getting the rare cards, that is all. The problem right now is that they are so rare that scalpers just slurp it all as soon as they leave the factory, so there isn't really any incentive for them to stop their current methods. Fixing it means less sales and less money, they will never do it, shit is fucked.
>>738151401There's 3 pikachu designs, the chunky one you see on it's first card, the anime variant, and this new one, which has a defined neck for some reason.
>>738153797If it was just tulip mania for nerds I wouldnt mind. What I despise about Pokefag scalpers is that they arent just normal scalpers that scalp product and shut the fuck up about it. Theyre the kind to rob stores and shoot little girls to get their fix. They are easily worse than drug addicts.
>>738156481Tulipmania only lasted three years, this has been going on since 2020
>>738156252There are many sites, but it also depends if the card is damaged or not. You can use this one that is simple to use, then check ebay and tcgplayer for confirmation.If you are going to actually sell and want to be on the safe side, just go to a convention and sell it there, there are a lot of scammers on ebay.https://www.pokedata.io/
>>738156252It depends how many you have and what's valuable. If you want to get rid of everything fast make a spreadsheet of every card, or a photo album. Apps like TCGPlayer can be used to just scan and show a going rate for each card. Find out if there's ever a card show in your area and approach the big name vendors.
>>738152038They're not there for him.
>grifters who caused this are now trying to make manga grading a thing everything has to be a commodity to these freaks
>>738155864Not a big fan of Meatcanyon but he 100% nailed the exact look of every variant of scalper.
>>738155864It's really sad how accurate this shit is. Going to target to pick up groceries and seeing some faggot with a snapback walking around the cards or by customer service gives me such an incredible rage.
How did Pokemon obsessed manchildren get their hands on so much money that it became a lucrative meme to scalp them for everything Pokemon related?
>>738153221The thing is, the people buying them are the same people selling them, its a never-ending cycle because money only exchanges fat, greasy hands. Entry-level players of the tcg, non-autistic collectors, and people who aren't faggot "investors" have next to no access to any of the hobby unless they want to put out hundreds of dollars. I haven't been able to get packs of cards for retail prices in months.
They're not even the blue frosting ones from the 90s. They just put Pikachu on a box with no changes.
>>738156839the way these fags look and act, they're the same people that would be addicted to gas station rub-offs, which is to say they don't have the money and are probably both paycheck to paycheck and maxed out on credit cards. To do something like they're doing, you have to be a certain level of impulsive that's only found in retarded poors
>>738156252If they're "cool" or rare cards, look up what they're going for. If yours are in good condition, you have to get them graded before anyone will buy them.My father threw away my massive collection I'd spent every cent of my childhood money on, had almost all of the base set holos incl. Charizard and Mewtwo, plus a bunch of ultra-rares from gen 3/4 sets like several of those gold star ones that go for hundreds apiece now, because he had a manic episode and decided that no trace of my or my brother's childhood should be allowed in their house. Still pissed about it
>>738156839Statistical likelihood.Some millennials inevitably have more money than they know what to do with for one reason or another. It's likely they cared about Pokemon at some point.
>>738156839you sell your stuff to an """investor"" and pump and dump your way through the hobby.
>>738155864>How I'm gonna make that bread bro? How I'm gonna make that bread???Can't help to think about this shit everytime I see dudes stalking the card aisles.
>>738157148The avg IQ of the US is probably around 75 now, Western Europe is only slightly higher. You're just tired of being surrounded by literal retards all day.
>>738157003Why are there so many stories about parents throwing away their kids' belongings?
>>738157283It's super common in America for some reason.
>>738157283Parents of a certain generation do not see their children as living beings but rather a mix of pets and valuable investment asset. This continues to adulthood too.
>ruins your hobby
>>738154593Started in Gen 3 IIRC. You can see they actually used that design for the sprites in those games.
>>738156839crypto, onlyfans, enriching streamers ; the answer is always the same : developers. When you pay weirdos way too much guess what they'll do with the remaining money
>>738157283Toys used to be for children
>>738157283Jesus, how young are you? You have to throw shit out regularly, anon. People don't have unlimited space in their homes.>>738157334>>738157356Also retarded and probably underage.
>>738156606I feel like this won’t work.
>>738154593Why the fuck do fans not seem to own up to this existing? I am trying to search where it has appeared over the years and Pokemon fans treat it like it's some conspiracy theory and you're not supposed to notice. Imagine if Mario fans pretended the Super Star designs weren't a thing or something.
>>738151283>>738151972>Hear about a set of special tins coming out>My naive ass to all this walks in expecting to get just 1 for a hit of nostalgia>Sold and Cleared out>Check online Sold and Cleared out>Check Ebay: $19.99 tin of cards sold for $89.99This sucks, I hate scalpers.
>>738157283A fair number of people are not outright mentally ill but are not mentally healthy. The Internet puts you in touch with so many people that those stories are bound to crop up while, on the other hand, it's not an interesting story to say>my parents did not throw out my stuff and they are sitting there
>>738157528How about throwing out the stuff that has no sentimental value instead of something you remember your kid proudly purchasing with his own money?
>>738157551Everyone know this. There's a reason so many kantofags came together over the return of 'fat pikachu' earlier
>>738157551I thought it came around sun and moon.
all i'm getting from these threads is that these "scalpers" are just the real fans who are attracted to a meta layer of the tcg and the people seething are just secondaries bitching about barrier to entry because they vaguely remember owning a booster pack in the 90's.It's a tcg that deliberately operates off of FOMO and artificial scarcity why you think this is an ethical deliema or shouldn't be subject to marker forces when it concerns a luxury good is beyond meMy friend gives me pokemon cards sometimes. He both collects and sells and genuinely likes the hobby and the games. I just like how pretty/creative the cards look and don't care about their value. I like the smell too. That's a big part of it I think
>he's too poor to buy empty cardboard
>>738157283Consequences of people having kids because they think they're just supposed to because everyone does, instead of having kids because they actually, really, truly want kids and are willing to undertake that responsibility. It's hugely harmful for both the parent and the kids they'll end up having, to promote child having and rearing as nothing but sunshine and rainbows and meant for every single person ever, instead of the reality that it's for those who really wanna have kids and are willing to deal with both the upsides and downsides rather than hoping it would only be easy and happy times.
>>738157657Fat Pikachu is a totally different thing and is much easier to search.In fact if you try to search round headed pikachu, a lot of the results are actually fat pikachu or Sugimori's original art.
>>738156263>I fucking despise scalpers,There'd be no scalpers if there weren't retards willing to pay scalped prices. There's a huge demand ( for some fucking reason ) for Pokemon cards. Not defending the scalpers, but still.
>>738156839Most these new "pokemon collectors" are not real fans and are only doing it as an investment. They'll eventually get bored of it and sell of their collection once they believe the price has risen enough.
>>738157528>I need space>Oh I know! I'll throw out this 9x11 inch binder that's barely 2 poundsThat's some hyper levels of stupidity, I mean come on.
>>738156839I think most of them are neets who get government handouts and definitely don't have a job. They show up at stores at any time, any day of the week to hit a restock.
>>738157680>bulbasaur>gangar
>>738157528>nooo you don't understand it doesn't matter if things hold sentimental value for my kids, it doesn't matter to me and I want to make space in their old room for absolutely nothing..... but I want that space I am running out of space I can't even spare one cardboard box's worth of space and no I can't mail my kids the stuff either so they can decide for themselves what to do with their old stuff you're young and retarded if you disagreeWhy are boomers like this?
>>738157638>>738157808I'm not defending some asshole parent, I'm jut saying it makes sense to throw things away. It's retarded to be like "hurr why are they doing that??" It's like asking why people iron their clothes.
>>738157886Probably happened to them the day they turned 18 and they are bitter about it.
>>738157802>They'll eventually get bored of it and sell of their collection once they believe the price has risen enough.There's a lot of kids starting young at conventions. Im hoping one of them with a big inheritance will be my retirement.
>>738157680Having store displays, whether you paid for them or not, has got to be the most consoomer thing imaginable.
>>738151283I want the pokemon fanbase to be milked.They are stupid and faggoted.
I'm curious on how much of this shit will end up in the landfill once the craze ends. No difference from the boomers with their model trains and Harley Davidson motorcycles.
>>738158014It's business owners selling inventory to other business owners, retard...
>>738151972>i never had a childhood :(
>>738157680I worked in target during covid and we had these vinyl covers that looked like kirby that went on the big red balls outside the store, to promote some kirby gameall of them got stolen within 48 hours
>>738157897People that love their children don't do things that hurt them for no good reason.
>>738158098See like this should be a permanent range ban right here. This faggot has gotta go. This is worse than gore spam
>>738158098catholic adult-converts will post shit like this instead of donating to a church food bank
>>738158062>No difference from the boomers with their model trains and Harley Davidson motorcycles.at least those are personal projects for their own enjoyment
>>738157986Absolutely insane how much Hello Kitty makes and it's ALL just merch. It has zero platform to make people aware of the IP yet it magically just sells billions of merch anyway.
>>738158062Nah, because these have a cult following and people are buying them.
>>738154782It gets better when you stop being a pussy and just jump inThe DOW has gone up 21% in the last year. While you are here crying about shit you could have instead be investing. It is LITERALLY free money
>>738157986This chart is outdated since Pokemon is worth almost $300 billion now.
>>738158185yeah it looks cute retard. next you're gonna be amazed that people like having cats and dogs as pets with "zero platform"
>>738158185It's so big everyone just learns about it through osmosis.
>>738158082Which business is buying this?
>>738152038He would not be happy. But that would be because he is Van Gogh and it is well documented he was depressed as fuck. The Pokemon manchildren would not impact that.
>>738158373Some store who wants a little display to fill with some pokemon product retard. Shit. When was the last time you walked into the supermarket to buy tendies? You walk past row after row of containers like that. You think some asshole is paying $25 for a piece of cardboard for his own home? Jesus I know I keep using this term, but you are retarded man, like cognitively impaired. Get on disability if you aren't already
>>738157986Mario needs to get it's merch game together
>>738152038I'm guessing you tell the recycling pickup guys "I know what I have."
>>738157986What the FUCK is Anpanman?
>>738158747superhero with a pastry for a head. basically japan's winnie the pooh in terms of being the go-to licensed character for young childrens merchandise
>>738152317We need to treat scalpers like Japan does and not sell to people who can’t identify more obscure Pokemon.
Don't most people make $20 an hour? What is the point of spending gas money, shipping, tax, and time just to make $30
>>738158932The issue is retailers just don't give a fuck. They are selling out on a certain item and that is all they care about. Unless more people get shot over scalping scuffles then nothing is gonna be done about it.
>>738157357t-thanks
>>738157802>They'll eventually get bored of itIt's been going on since 2020. As long as there's money to be had, they'll never stop. I remember 10 years ago you could go into Target and there would be droves of box sets on clearance. Now you'll be lucky to find a single booster pack that's not being scalped by the store itself.
When I worked at Target, these guys would call every single day asking for cards, and I'd always tell them we had 'em, even when we were out. If they bitched, I'd say we must've just sold out.Most of these fags are in a group discord that stalks the vendors around town anyway.
>>738159141>"graded" bullshit
>>738158249That's just barely keeping up with inflation.
I'll never understand consoomers. I used to collect basketball cards, but it's literally just my favorite players growing up and a couple of role players I liked. I mean, sure I can sell them (even then I'd have to get them checked and shit) but once I got what I wanted, I was done with the "hobby" because of prices and this was like in 2009~. I blame retailers more than these sad fucks as well. A bunch of goblins that wall out kiddies who would actually care about this shit and just leave it for adults who have never purchased deodorant or tech guys who are so dry they have to buy shit instead of find a personality.
>>738159157>guy asks about pokemon cards>lead him to the sports card section
>>738151283>people put the corpo slop on a website for 30$>this means people must be buying it at that price, too!
>>738159141w speed
>>738159356Those are sold listings. As in people bought them for that price.
>>738159141you can literally buy a house with this much moneywhy is this retard allowed to manage his own assets? his money should be confiscated like with britney spears. better yet just put a bullet in his head and give the money to the state. i dont care anymore
>>738159060I guess it's a social thing at that point. Like going to a big tournament while knowing you're not a pro player. There might be secret discords and all the gay shit associated with it, like all hobbies
>>738159369One Piece is fucking garbage.
>>738159060Why do you think there are so many vids of scalpers in full panic mode to clean out the newly stocked shelves or vending machines? They are desperately trying to make a living off scalping pokemon cards but the profit margins just aren't that great. Gas + shipping fees + ebay fees + tax just to sell a limited amount of products while also competing with the thousands of other scalpers prices online.
>>738151283now show me the sold listings
>>738159425Yeah, those two. Now show the 500 other listings that are open and unsold
>>738159369>>738159432He sold the rare Pikachu card around he used to wear around his neck for 1.5 million cash right away and the broker he sold it for 16 million. He does not know how to manage his money at all
>>738159550Those are sold listings, genius.
>>738159432he's trying to replicate what he did to pokemon cards, create a new speculative market that he and his buddies at the grading companies can profit from
>>738159369>setting up a slop boxing match vendettaNigger cattle post
>>738159573*the broker he sold it to turned around and sold it for 16 million
>>738159369Speed seems like a genuinely good dude. Logan Paul is a worthless fucking NIGGER.
>>738159573You got the sales mixed up.Logan publicly bought the card for a few million and then sold it for $16 milion.But the details behind the sales are so fraudulent that Pokemon collectors don’t acknowledge them.Logan isn’t a retard, he’s making a shitload of cash with scams
>>738156518Ok so its worse. Whats the point in mentioning that? People still didnt commit murder in Tulip Mania even when a tulip could cost the price of a house.Pokefags are mentally ill.
>>738159369>bunch of obvious mistakes in his statement >probably to bait replies and spread the idea that you should start speculating on manga NOWits grifting all the way down
>>738159715>Logan isn’t a retardAnon...
>>738151283I am not a jew, I refuse to earn (((money))).
>>738154278I think if I could go back in time and change one thing I'd kill Logan Paul. I feel like his existence being erased would help push us towards the good timeline.
>>738151283>free shippingSo after the seller pays for shipping and eBay fees, they're probably getting like 20 cents on each sale.
>>738155916Yes, the Van Gogh museum in the Netherlands. Needless to say I don't think the museum will ever collaborate with Pokemon again.
>>738157897Fair enough sir, fair enough.
>>738154593I hate looking at this, lightbulb Pikachu is easily the worst variant.
>>738160035That's antiseptic
that stabbing that happened at that pokemon center in japan was crazy
>the people who actually PLAY the tcg now enjoying building any meta deck for 50$ because the market is flooded with the cheap low rarity versions of all the cards
The funny thing about the pokemon TCG is that you can buy absolute top tier decks for like $100 at the very most since the vast majority of cards are like less than a dollar. So you can have top tier players with their entire collection being worth like 1k at most while the "investors" dump hundreds of thousands in cards.
>>738159462what a lot of people ITT refuse to admit is that a lot of these scalpers ARE og fans. It's a hobby within a fanbase founded on consumerism and a extrapolation of the very thing the TCG itself is based off of. It's just sour grapes. I know people who started with green/red/blue and treat it like scratch offs yet still have a genuine appreciation for the show. The people complaining about scalpers are the ones themselves scalping. It's literally scalpers all the way down. It's not gonna be a popular thing to say but almost everyone involved in the TCG does this to some extent. A lot of the bitching is from people never involved to begin with finding it interesting from the outside but being priced out (usually by margins of a few dozen USD because they don't understand supply and demand) and getting sour grapes for their consumeristic blue balls and hiding behind moral grandstanding
>>738160447The normies must be healed by killing them with guns and knives REEEEEEEEEEEE AMAGAWD DIE NORMIESSSSS DIE CHAD DIE DIE STACY DIEEEEEEEEEEE DIE
>>738160494you are seriously overestimating the amount of people that play the pokemon tcg. the speculative market is easily 5 or 10 times larger than the legitimate enthusiasts
>>738159432Last I’d heard he was gonna try it with Yugioh, but I guess he gave up when he realized nobody actually buys much product there.
>>738151283>$30 for hours of workMan, people are fucking desparate these days
>>738160524This, but unironically.
>>738151283>People are out there scalping $2.89 a box Pokemon Pop-Tarts for $30, I have a soul.
>>738160554You can't fake a Yugioh card selling for millions.
>yugioh about to release new extremely rare full arts with big dark magician girl boobiesYugioh may finally be joining the scalping scene too
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>>738151283$20 for poptarts? wtf?
>>738159432Logan is a literal tool in every sense of the word. He has no real interests of his own. He just promotes what his handlers tell him to. Whatever his jewish overlords recently invested in is what they'll have him shill. This week it's graded shonen manga.
Someone should start jugging scalpers.
>>738160480>>738160491The even fewer people who play the online version can get the code cards for literal pennies (like seriously 1 cent each) because so many pokemon packs are being cracked.
>>738160579I know how old Catch 22 is, I was commenting on modern book covers of old classics.
>>738160698ra05 already did that in my area. everyone was sold out before the set dropped in OTS and within a week at retail stores
>>738160954Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door
Retail arbitrage is pure cancer. I used to occasionally get crazy good deals at stores but now you got people constantly scouring the stores scanning shit and looking for anything to resell.
>>738152172no, the bostom cake poptarts tastes good
>>738158932>people who can’t identify more obscure PokemonEh I can’t remember most names myself, there’s like 1,000 of these things now.
>>738159678They're both forced demons. Another nigger for zoomers to idolize
>>738158503Anon, that isnt how stores work. The vendor sends shippers out, you dont order them separately.
>>738158185Getting women into something is the biggest money printer you could possibly imagine. Just look at shit like The Sims.
>>738161243I'm a huge pokefag and even I wouldn't be able to remember the names of many middle evolutions from gen5 and up.
>>738159432he's rich as fuck and can do whatever he wants lol you are jealous as fuck
>>738160698>rare full arts with big dark magician girl boobies
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>>738151283Ok but is anyone actually buying at that price?
when covid ended they revamped ebay to send you a tax form if you made more than 500.00 so idk why people are still using it like this as a side hustle scalping stupid shit like this. i heard it was so bad that a lot of people stopped using it because in some cases if someone was even using the site casually, they wouldnt have old reciepts for shit they bought years ago to prove how little money they made even if it was someone just doing a digital garage sale.
>>738161567Image in the OP are the sold page on ebay
The average citizen can barely support themselves because the people in charge refused to properly educate their population, allowed advertisements and media to mold them into consumer cattle, and created an economy where most people are broke as shit due to the first 2 points, creating an entire economic system dedicated to scraping money away from the slightly richer (but just as stupid).99% of scalpers wouldn't be doing it if they had better wages. You should blame your government for allowing things to get like this.
The fuck is up with the pokemon hysteria? Like cards I can understand but any random ass shit branded with pokemon?
>>738160698>YGO getting scalped to the shadow real>No low rarity variant for all the relevant cardsThe worst of the two wolrds. Thanks jewart
>>738151283I mean they're trying to. People won't necessarily actually buy it
>>738161561thank
>that PSA10 card i bought 4 years ago has 10x in priceUh why are pokemon cards the new NFTs now?
>>738161685This is the unfortunate reality of the situation. People are doing this because they're desperate and no longer see a normal job as a path to a decent life so instead we get this deranged shit. Same reason you get people dumping loans into meme stocks and crypto currencies. Combine this with the average IQ dropping and things just compound and get worse.
>>738161749>Can't use asia english cards because uhh.... you can't and stop asking.
>>738160035Okay he's out and another moves in.Problem delayed by maybe a few months.
If you scalp, then I'll just defer to bootlegs or pirating. Like with Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo, you can kiss my ass if you want me to spend 500 dollars on a cartridge that square doesn't even sell anymore.
The tcg market won't crash until counterfeits are good enough that nobody can tell the difference between real and fake.
>>738162464I can download that to my phone in less than 2 seconds while sitting on the toilet at Walmart. >>738162464I bought one for $3000, and resold for a huge markup at $60,000. Mine was a mint condition first edition chrono trigger game that came with a first edition chrono cross.
>>738151283pokemon go was a mistake. introducing the franchise to onion normalfags and wahmen was the worse thing ever for the franchise. it all went downhill after that. now you get to see shit like this
>>738160698Jews and amerisharts have already ruined the ocg side of things Everyone's hunting for those fucking extended arts and fucking dark magical curtain is going for $800
>mexicans actually trying to resell poptarts at ETB pricesfucking retards need to get iced
>>738151283My salary averages out to about 56$/hr. I would have to sell 3700 of those a year to maintain my current income. I'll stick to my day job.
>>738156263>I used to feel bad for the cunts who wanted to enjoy their hobbyThe common variants of every card are dirt cheap. If you're genuinely playing the TCG just as a game, you can easily make any deck you want.
I helped my mom with her hoarding some this weekend. Some of the old weird pokemon junk stuff I had was in one of them.
>>738157662its earlier than that
>>738156839These people are comparable to disney adults. They likely are very irresponsible with the money they have or are willing to go into debt to acquire their cards.I can also see plenty of them being cryptotards who have money left over from scamming even bigger retards with NFTs or memecoins.
>>738151283No i'm a NEET
>>738167120I don’t buy that Kellogs crap. I go for the healthy food squares and rectangles.
>>738158249>BRO NOTHING IS BAD LOOK AT THE FAKE MONEY NUMBER THE LINE IS GOING UP HOW CAN YOU BE SADgdp and quality of life are not correlated
>>738151283For me, it was those bigass bulk boxes of the brown sugar/smores ones, or whatever the fuck was available at Sam's Club.Eating Pop Tarts nowadays makes me feel fucking ill though. I have no idea how the 1990s me tanked those things without even noticing.
