I hate your flavor of the month buzzword. Everything isn't the fault of muh scalpurz.
>>59240033Dude looks like he skipped out ofvhis son's soccer game to scalp cards
>>59240047It's the streamers as well
I love scalpers. They BTFO consoombrain millennials like OP who want to consoom product
>>59240033How is he scalping? He's standing at a vending machine which asked if he wants more time.
>>59240047i havent been able to buy standard random booster packs from meijer to open for fun on christmas for two years
>>59240078Are you stupid? I find them all the time at my local HEB. I don’t even like pokemans cards but I pick them up for my little sister.
>>59240077The context of the photo had the guy buy it all out, presumably to resell later.
>>59240102lol do you think i go stand in the card aisle looking at the yugioh section (which has also been largely cleaned out) wondering why there are no pokemon cards in september? maybe the infection just hasnt spread far enough south to plague people who shop at an HEB
>>59240033wow, you hate capitalism? then maybe you are a communist
>>59240033If you guys hate scalpers then why do you buy from them? Literally the scalping problem would all go away instantly if you all just stopped buying from them. You deserve this because you lack the self control to stop yourself from consooming impulsively.
scalpers are retarded, just open a card shop dumbass. are you stupid? LOL
>>59240102I can't find shit aside from binders or deck boxes
>>59240049You mean >His wifes son's
>>59240121I don't hate capitalism. I just hate people who exploit others by buying everything out. In addition to getting violent.>>59240122I don't buy from scalpers. It's retards on Reddit who do.
>>59240136His wife's boyfriend's son
Do none of you realize how insanely profitable scalping is for so little profit? Just one Ascended Heroes ETB alone is already worth 3x the retail price. There's a reason why people are willing to stand for hours to get something from them.
>>59240146>profitwho cares about the money they make, theyre just soulless parasites, husks of human beings
>>59240165Wow you sound mad. This is a capitalist country, if you don’t like it then leave.
the pokemon company already does presales, theres no reason for them to be sold out before they even printit's completely contrived and controlled by them and tacitly endorsed
>>59240170creating an artificial supply shortage by buying off retailers to flip on the secondary market is a bastardization of capitalism. anyone who sees that as some sort of respectable business practice is pathetic and coping over their inability or cowardice over starting an actual business
>>59240170Found the parasite
>>59240047>>59240102Actual scalper trying to run damage control on this fucking board are you kidding me
>>59240078
>>59240300what the fuck is that brick of cat food she's holding
>>59240146In other words it's worth retail but unemployed milennials think it's better to scam zoomers?
they need to do what japan started doing and start quizzing people on pokemon shit, and if they get any questions wrong then any pokemon merch sale is denied
>>59240033I'd do print on demand. Basically someone orders an etb, if there's any left, they mail it out, otherwise they print one first.I'd enforce limits on all websites so that the factories don't get overwhelmed.Stores should offer bonuses for employees who enforce store limits.Additionally, require basic Pokémon trivia to order from Pokémon Center.
>>59240170No one should be forced to buy from a third party shady dealer for three times the retail price.
>>59240170Antisocial degenerate filth.
>>59240047>>59240102Go eat a 12 gauge shotgun shell you scalper fuck. I hope the market crashes and you wind up broke on the street and die starving you insufferable subhuman filth.
>>59240033This is why no one takes this series serious anymore, that and the shit games the past 12 years
>>59240408scalping is a scheme as old as time itself, as long as there's some limited commodity that people want, you can be sure as hell some faggot will be there to buy it all out and resell it at a premium. back in the day, it used to be shit like concert and various other event tickets, but things like pokemon cards are much easier to get ahold of a surplus of
>>59240047>flavor of the monthkill yourself scalpernigger
>>59240047>I hate your flavor of the month buzzwordI'm so glad people stopped calling them "investors". TCGs were a big part of my life in the 2010s but things had been getting progressively worse until covid when shit just hit the fan.
>>59240365boomers scammed us. it's only right we scam zoomies
>>59240413Don’t they usually get robbed by other lowlifes pretty often too?>tfw Pokemon scalpers are going to start getting killed over this soon
>>59240047Actual retard.
>>59240370Or just limit purchase of anything beyond individual booster packs to one-a-customer. But go find a shop, chain or outlet that'll actually do such a thing (GRORIOUS CAPITARISM!)
>>59240300he would have typed meijers if he was a real machigander
This is why I'm done with card games in general. It's already a pretty costly hobby and now you have grifters and scalpers making getting the latest sets a hassle. Of course you have assfaggots saying >but now you can buy cards to build a deck for very cheap! If it comes down to it I can just print the cards myself for even cheaper, and no one will give a shit. This is the stupidest excuse ever, these people are leeches and they'll only have themself to blame when no one wants to buy their truckloads of cards and boosters after the fad blows over
literally me :3
>>59240033Why are MIDlennials like this?
/vp/ can't be so fucking contrarian that they defend scalping.
>>59240047>the month??? This has been a consistent problem since covid lockdowns.
>>59240146It's only "worth" that much if you find a sucker that will buy it from you.If I say "no, suck my dick" you still need to find a guy that will buy it from you.
>>59240033What am I looking at?
>>59240949I definitely have more disdain for braindead manchild consumers who NEED to buy overpriced brand bullshit than the people who are trying to scam them.
>>59240718Wouldn't be surprised?>>59240510Then the zoomers scam gen alpha?
>>59240510>boomers scammed usHow? Be specific
>>59240413Doesn't matter, scalpers have always been sub-human filth and deserve to be gunned down against a wall alongside the corpo CEOs that empower them.
>>59240033At this point Pokémon is just consumerism. The cards are literally just different poses of the same Pokémons with nothing special added to them.
Just wake up earlier or play a real game like Yugioh lol
>>59240146>how insanely profitable scalping is for so little profit?ESL nigger
Scalping cards wouldn't be profitable if all these fake fan "collectors" stopped buying this shit on ebay for 3x the price.
They're stealing the display boards from Target and listing them on Facebook marketplace for a grand each.Why the police can't investigate selling stolen property is beyond me. These items are not for sale yet they're being flipped for $900
How hard could it be to print more cardboard
>>59243841Why are retards buying it for a month's rent?
>>59243845Because they think they'll be able to sell it for two months rent.
>>59240121If we lived under a truly Capitalist system, these people wouldn’t be scalping on ebay while they’re cashing welfare checks on the side. If I were President these people would be forced at gunpoint into a labor camp if they decided they wanted to do stuff like this instead of work a full-time job.
>>59243887You people are insane. Why do you act like flipping Pokemon cards makes you worthy of punishment?
>>59243938the good is already being brought to market by retailers at an appropriate price the consumer will pay but then retards cut in to create artificial scarcity and lock the actual target audience out. theres literally nothing respectable about flipping pokemon cards like a bunch of crack addicts its nigger behavior
>>59240949There's a sucker born every minute. If some faggot retard will buy this box for three times what I paid for it, then I'm robbing myself not capitalizing on it. Talk to me when money isn't needed to buy food and keep a roof over my head.
