Why not just print enough to stop scalpers in the first place?
>>57229370scarcity generates interest
>>57229370Pokemon will realize kids are losing interest in their IP because they let it turn into a millennial gambling/shitcoin hobby. They'll eventually flood the market with all the ugly cards grown men are hoarding and this whole bubble will pop harder than btc.
Total scalper death when?
>>57229370Because then hoarders will just buy more shit, duh.Their entire damn "business" is based on grabbing everything as quickly as possible and going "Nu nu! Pay twice as much as it was in shop because it's officially unavailable right now!".Scalpers deserve death. Literal Holocaust of investooors.
>>57229499Soon, god willing. These cryptofags need to find a new thing to leech off of already
>>57229634There's dudes trying to scalp unusual types/colors of yarn.Fucking yarn.
>>57229370Because scalpers and speculators are the actual target of the TCG business.This is just them saving face.
>>57229370Nintendo has been creating artificial scarcity in order to drive sales for decades.
>>57229594A smart scalper will lower prices now to sell off their current inventory for the biggest profit. Buying everything up only works if you can buy so much that you effectively create artificial scarcity. Otherwise it's game theory. Holding out for the highest prices would require the cooperation of all scalpers and even if they were cooperating they don't know when Pokemon will stop printing which means eventually they will run out of liquid cash to buy more. Keeping your money tied up in these boxes is not a good strategy in this instance.
In 2022, it came out that a quarter of ALL POKEMON CARDS TO EVER EXIST had been printed in the last two years. So simply>TCG started in late 1996>2021-2022 printing spree to try and keep up>two years printing (x3) equals 23 years of printing priorThey'll never be able to print enough to stop this. It'll continue until this scalper bubble pops.
Why don't they just make the pull rates not suck fucking ass so you can get what you want in about 5 - 10 packs?
>>57229699nintendo has no involvement with the TCG
>>57229430I pray for that day to come
I only got back into collecting cards briefly around covid because of the Hidden Fates hype, and those scalpers ruined it. I hope they all go broke.
>>57229782>Nintendo, the company that owns The Pokemon Company, has no involvement with the TCG aspect of PokemonYou are retarded.
>>57229370How do you even stop scalpers? These subhumans completely raid a store empty the exact moment whatever product they're scalping drops
>>57229840If they are buying a large item, break the seal on purchase. That at least kneecaps a chunk of it.
>>57229370Because it's now being propped up by boomers and hedgies. Nerd collectibles are crypto for them. These retards are gonna keep spending because "BRO IT'S GONNA MOON". Then you have a slightly smarter group of people buying and selling to these retards. The answer to what is going to kill this is what happened last time to baseball cards. Nobody even talks about this much because most forgot about it and the previous generation moved on, divorce. Though more to the point, a court appointed fact finder telling enough of these people the cards are WORTHLESS. Something that these new groups of retards don't understand is nerd shit has no hard liquid value. So what will happen is the next boomer workshop once this reaches critical mass for this shit a boomer brings his accountant and you see the most passive aggressive back and forth ever.
>>57229639Unfortunately Invoosters are just retarded enough for this to be believable. Utterly gormless
guys there's an actual scalper having a melty in the tcc thread you gotta see this lmao
Just print the picture out yourself
>>57229742Sounds like they getting a shit ton of money from scalpers. They need to milk them paypigs more by tripling production
>>57229924Covid brought in younger people. It's not just boomers grabbing cards now.
>>57229862That’s evil but I love it
>>57229370That's not a solution since reprints always existed, with high and low demand expansions, only solutions now would be not selling more than 2 items per client/address to avoid scalpers, or my personal favorite: with every expansion released, post an official price list for every card. None of the single cards would be more expensive than a ETB or other sealed product so they actually can fuck speculators with that.
>>57229756Because that's their business. Its working exactly as intended. TCGs are a scam that people keep falling for.
>>57230255>post an official price list for every cardThat's retarded. They have no way to enforce that.It'd also make people see through the scam.
>>57230297>It'd also make people see through the scam.That's the point, $1500 for a piece of cardboard made for a childs game is beyond stupid.
>>57229370Why don't they just flood the market
>>57229370As a decades long mtg player, it is simply not possible. The scalpers will rise to meet supply. The supply can't go too high or it will eat into profits. People don't want to sit on pallets of product for years. There is no real solution.
>>57230331I mean the scam that is the TCG itself, not the later scam by the scalpers.>$1500 for a piece of cardboard made for a childs game is beyond stupid.That's the goal of the entire business. You just keep falling for it.
>>57230383True... but, the cardboard so shiny, with nice picture... gamble on find rare card make ape brain happy, give dopamine...
>>57230383what tcg product costs $1500?
>>57229430>Get to see Gen-Xers and Millennials rope when their "investment" goes belly upYes please
>>57229924The current Pokemon craze is zoomers who were watching their favorite streamers collect and open Pokemon merch during covid.
>>57230427Forgor picture
>>57230484A bit more than 1500.
>>57230587forgot pic
>>57230587>>57230591yeah but that's the price people gave for that card, which was meant to be a special gift or something, it's not like an official product sold by TPCi at that price
>>57230612Yeah, the altruistic innocent folks at TPC absolutely did not know about the evil meanie scalpers when they made that limited card that costed them the same to make as any other.
>>57230684so both scalpers and TPC are faggots? never denied that.
nice goalpost move
>>57229634>cryptofagsi guess you like being poor?dont forget cuck, tomorrow you start at 09 sharp.
>>57229782imagine being this guyjfc
>>57229370Because scarcity makes the cards more appealing showing an actual valueAlso youtubers have brainwashed the population believing you're gonna get millions for a CHARIZARD card
>>57230591in theory, how could you beat this card
>>57229370Inflation
>>57229370They did that for the first SV sets, along with boosting pull rates. Then subhuman mexicans and cryptocucks aka "investors" bitched and moaned that the boxes they were scalping weren't "valuable enough" so tpci took those changes back, and here we are.>but why are they listening to them??Because they buy 200x more product than the average consumer. As in, literally, they'll just hoard their entire basement full of pokemon cards. Then they flip it for 3x msrp, but the pokemon company couldn't care less about what these subhumans do with their product as long as they get their sales.
>>57229862Funny enough, shops in japan were doing this for a good chunk of time during covid.
>>57229430Could be worse, magic the gathering is currently being held hostage by its own secondary market and its nearly impossible to play the actual game. At least in pokemon the only thing that's rent seeked is the full art cards, there's still less rare versions of the same card available.
>>57229370
>>57230808In unlimited format, use a poke-power. Alternately you could do anything that doesn't modify the pokemon but the effect on your pokemon. It's a GX attack so if you stuff it once the card becomes useless.
>>57229370because that would jeopardise their ever increasing profit margins
>>57231603That umbreon card is very pretty
You pokefags are so pampered, holy shit. In YGO a meta deck can easily be worth 1k for lowest rarity and MTG is even worse. You fags can play any deck in your shitgame for 50 bucks or less.
>>57231603Imagine how much better these cards would be without all that gay Stellar Terashit.
>>57231764Unfathomably shit taste
>>57231726Imagije bragging that your preferred childrens card game costs 100x more than someone elses chidlrens card game
>>57231726bruh pokemon card collectors dont even play the gameanything that isn't a SIR/SAR is bulk garbage
>>57229924Nothing has hard value anymore outside of bullets, water, and food. The only reason we agree to trade slips of bank IOUs as 'money' is because if we don't, big scary thugs, paid with those IOUs and wielding bullets, will come and take us away.
>>57231764not wrongthe art and borders are cool. but the retarded tera hat is just dumb
>>57229370Whenever I go to any store these days, it's always pokemon tcg that empties out first, then sometimes yugioh, then magic, then whatever else is left. Just why are these people like this.
>>57231780Found the faggot.
>>57231901Turn on your monitor
>>57229370Why turbo-yid companies like TPC and Konami don't actively try to muscle in on the reseller market baffles me.
Scalper culture is unironically the worst thing to come out of the rona.
>>57231800>complaining is bragging
>>57231801Fuck collectors only real players matter and pokemon ones have it ezmode
>>57231801cards are good because of the artwork, not because of the rarity>>57232117>gatekeeping
>>57232143Yes, it's a game. It's not crypto.
>>57232178i dislike the gambling aspect as much as the next guy, i meant collecting cards of your favorites because you like the artwork or the artist
>>57230775I’m a NEET, nice try faggot. I’m sure your joke shitcoin you saw a banner on 4chinz for is gonna pay for your hair plugs in no time
>>57229370They should have printed more water type pokemon and water energies instead lmao
>>57229370I don't know if they still do, but in the first half of the 2010s, WotC printed every Magic expansion for a full year; I think other TCGs should follow suit.I believe especially that TPCi should also follow WotC's lead in requiring proof that you're a legitimate brick-and-mortar store to buy product.
>>57229370From a business perspective, it's better for them to print less and have their whole product line scalped by "people" like vid related, rather than printing 10 times that amount and having most of the product unsold. Obviously, that reflects badly on their reputation and their actual customers, but they don't give a shit, they got their money.
Dust off the old printers and just churn out first editions until they tank the market
>>57231726You're just more cucked.>>57232117Players also feed the scam anon, good cards also increase in value if they're good.
>>57233382This, doing it this way actually drives up the demand.They don't lose money by waiting a bit.
>>57233382>>57233536it's called balancing act anon, going on one extreme is internet talk
>>57233382>Obviously, that reflects badly on their reputation and their actual customersThis thread says otherwise.
>>57233576Because historically companies have cared so much about how they're viewed on 4chan?
>>57233627no
