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It's like buying stocks and moaning when they go down. (Except eviller, of course.)

My honest reaction

“i called a bunch of local stores and suggested they increase the prices so people will buy the sets elsewhere” why isn’t this quote from an onion article 😭

“What am I going to tell my wife?”!!!!

OH MY GOD I AM FEASTING

I feel sorry for her, I have no sympathy for person who maxed out three cards.

I need to find out where those scumbgs gather to cry. And not just those dealing in TCG. I can't get enough of it. 😍

I am a small business owner. My business is stealing kids lunch money. I need a bailout!

Same, man, feels great to see the scalpers take a gut punch

"We out here doing Pokemon the favor of telling kids to give up on the hobby if they can't afford scalpers prices, and if they have the ingratitude to turn around and sell those kids cards at the regular price anyway."

These nasty underpants gnomes are right that SCALPERS --> ??? --> Pokemon Increases Profits, but they're too stupid to realize that ??? = Pokemon prints more cards so they don't lose a single customer to scalpers' prices.

I'd love to see them go to court and some ruling sets precedent to ruin the scalper market

Pokemon Center kiosks: because what grocery stores were missing was a PVP area.

This is beautiful. I used to collect Pokémon cards, not so much anymore but scalpers were and are the worst. So seeing these nutters crash out? Beautiful. I'd still buy a solo card here and there for my collection though. Bc I'm an Iono fan girl. But screw scalpers prices.

Love to see it Pokemon cards should be about getting the ones you think are cool, or the ones with the beautiful art that makes you stop flipping pages. It should not be about profit margins.

I have a 9 year old and 6 niblings. I once went driving around to 4 stores trying to buy a last minute bday gift but every store was sold out due to these bloodsuckers. The final store was a small game shop that hid a few packs to sell to kids. Warms my heart to see the scalpers suffer.

I have to believe that these are all comments from people who are making fun of scalpers, or I might crack

This is too good I can't believe it. My favourite is the guy saying scalpers do more for Pokémon than anyone because the retail price is too low

"I've been nothing but loyal to this brand for 8 months!!" "I maxed out 3 credit cards... what am I going to tell my wife?" "This is just like communism!!" Inject this into my veins

Whenever I see scalpers and resellers crying about a crackdown, this is all that plays in my head. Beautiful. youtu.be/r92hykpvZRw?...

Obviously my every sympathy is with the clearly honourable fellow talking about NFTs. *suppressed chortle*

…these scalpers are MENTAL, wtf tf u mean “they’ll thank me for buying 3x the price”, and where the fuck does their arrogance come from????? what?????????

Like all parasites, they literally think they belong. As if anyone, ever , would want them around jacking prices.

The "they're selling more sets so they neglect the people who actually make this make money" is sending me

"I, Important Grown Nobody, am the Added Value of Pokemon The Card Game"

As if threatening legal action towards TPC over how they choose to sell their cards wasn't moronic enough, that Reggie numbskull actually signed an NDA before asking if anyone else wanted in on the lawsuit. The idiot got his case thrown out and the whole server nuked because of it.

The audacity of people who try to flip a children's cardgame. Them not realizing how openly theyve admitted to racketeering. Like I hate nintendo, but if they wanted to, they could easily sue for this and drown these scalpers in court fees.

Rent seekers have such a sense of entitlement and are so deluded about the fact that they provide exactly zero value to anyone.

"I've been nothing but loyal to this brand for over 8 months" bruh 😅

Ohhhhh this made my heart grow three sizes.

I'm happy they are mad, b/c their whining is apparently bad enough that Best Buy changed their phone service menu to pre-empt questions abt Pokemon cards, so I have to wait even longer on hold. Some of us are trying to get work done and could give a fuck about colorful cardboard, you utter infants.

someone flunked their high school Econ class

Also: 'I'm telling stores to sell at $200 so I can make more sells by selling at $175' really makes you look like a stand-up guy and not oozing puss.

It’s always nice when scalpers/flippers get wrecked. Especially when they’re ruining things for kids by buying up all the parts for a kids game.

I think ccgs are an inherently evil product that only exists to create whales, but! This is very funny and I hope that one guy's wife leaves them.

Absolute cinema

Mmm delicious scalper tears

"when I was launching NFTs and crypto projects" LMAO

“What am I going to tell my wife?!” lol. Lmao even.

It’s pretty cool that Pokemon company found a way to stymie the scalpers

Oh my god. I’m in awe of their ability to believe they have the moral high ground when that is so obviously not the case.

Delicious scalper tears. Fuck them.

Yes, but when you behave to buy from them if you are rude they jack up the price. They cannot handle being treated as the parasites they are.

I was in japan in may and the sheer number of reseller stores was insane, unopened packs on sale for 20,000 yen and yet in the actual pokemon store in osaka I could buy 2 packs for 100 yen each. The pokemon store itself had more visible security present than the airport which is a concerning thing

These people line their pockets by making the mundane joys in our lives, toys for children even, impossible to attain. Them making no money is a good start, but they deserve worse than net zero. It may seem a stupid thing to become the joker over, but their attitude is The Problem in this world.

"I've been nothing but loyal to this brand for the past 8 months"

"SeCoNdArY sElLeRs", is an interesting enough way to try and wash "scalpers and speculators" that the Sterling fan in me can already hear Steph saying it.

This reminds me of all the guys who tried to haggle with me on choice issues when I worked at a comic shop. “I can’t make a profit at that price!?!” You can’t make a profit? We have overhead because we’re a store. We make a profit or die. I’m sorry you won’t make enough “profit” selling on ebay.

Yeah, I know. It's insane how scalpers have convinced themselves that they're providing a "service" when they're doing the equivalent of blocking a major street and asking residents to pay a toll.

It's like when landlords go to city council and call themselves "mom and pop housing providers."

Drinking these people's tears ROFL

Pokemon company- "Everyone loves our kids game, let's celebrate making it to 30 years with a cool but affordable product with enough supply everyone can get it 🥳☺️🥳" Scalpers- "Why the fuck can't I keep seeling things at 5x the MSRP during the release period? I put 3 mortgages on my house for this!"

I am loving them eating all of the shit. Go broke assholes. Don’t stop until you have eaten every shit that exists in the galaxy.

"Secondary distributors" lol fucking assholes

I wish all scalpers a very happy bankruptcy.

Won't someone think of the poor scalpers ruining collectibles and fandom for everyone???

this makes me so happy seeing scalpers upset. play shitty games, win shitty prices

I totally think they do like to pretend their that. Reminds me a lot of comics, where theirs a lot of people who collect as a hair-brained investment scheme vs. people who collect because they want to read and story or personally have a copy of something that means something to them

I hope pokemon makes them suffer more. I love how these losers see themselves as business owners when all they’re doing is scalping on eBay. The actual small businesses are the LCS that suffer cause yall keep hoarding product.

"I've been nothing but loyal to this brand for over 8 months."

New "all my apes gone" just dropped

Wizard's Soul [2013]

To be fair, if you don't count PokémonGo the cards have brought in about twice as much money as the video games. About tied if you do. And all of that is dwarfed by merch sales.

He's been buying out Walmart since way back in the before times of this january.

“I’ve been nothing but loyal to this brand for 8 months” is a helluva quote

Man, they are a bunch of sad, miserable, greedy dorks. I love to see them having the day they deserve to have.

"loyal to the brand for 8 months" is frying me

Holy shit these are maybe some of the worst people alive??

These mediocre fucking men, racking up massive debts that will directly impact their families. Fuck the lot if them, I hope their families cut them off entirely.

“Us secondary distributors” FUUUUUUUUCK OFFFFFF

As someone not into card collecting this is like staring at frenzy inducing enemies in elden ring lol

BUT DARLING I’VE BEEN LOYAL TO THIS BRAND FOR OVER EIGHT MONTHS WHERE ARE YOU GOING

"secondary distributor" is a real funny way of saying "parasite actively working to artificially skew supply and profit off of other people's misfortune"

"Ensure their business makes money" lmao these scalpers really are too stupid to get a real job arent they

Tbh this just makes me wanna buy the set. Nice work Pokémon good on ya

the very last ss calling pokemon communist...fucking petite bourgeois asshole.

"tHeRES nO vALuE," the parasite cries while watching a child, a collector, a TCG player be very happy that they got their favorite pokemon or the rare card they'll cherish or a card they need to make their deck work

If you cannot afford it you do not deserve it! (talking about kids game cards!) 🤦‍♀️ Fk scalpers.

While this stuff *does* make me very happy to see, I still can't find a box for anything near retail. I'm not going to buckle down and pay much more than MSRP, but I sure do wish scalper bros would give up sooner.

Scalpers whining cos they can't scalp children's cards due to oversupply

die "small businesses" that scalp

Maybe they should get jobs about it

love that they're calling themselves "Secondary Distributers" no mate, rip off merchant. As many scalpers said when they were buying up all the stock everywhere. Dunno why they're so mad bro

"Secondary distributors" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I meant *Pokemon did something. It’s too early lol

{Olwen} As a primarily tabletop gamer who cares about Pokemon as basically the only video game I do, and has both past exomemories and current experiences with poverty: FUCK YES. Can we somehow rig it so that it makes scalpers literally catch fire, too?

Fucking parasites

The “I’ve been a loyal supporter for several months“ one got the biggest laugh outta me. SOOO daft

Lmao get rekt

"I am thinking about suing the pokemon company for making it impossible for me to sell product at 200%MSRP"

I would be happy to say some stuff to d00mers face, reach out if you're reading this homeboy

That last one is something special.

What kind of insane bullshit is the guy threatening legal action for reselling shit. holy mental breakdown batman

No they have no shame

I'm so sorry to inform you, these people are actually that delusional

It's not unlikely that these are _all_ troll posts.

I KNOW!

Also: Scalpers' tears are delicious to me.

It's like how hecklers think they "help" comedians.

I love the transition from “they’re doing a RICO” to “I’m doing a RICO of my own wanna join in?”

In fact, this whole thing might be a *great* example of the distinction between good middlemen (the various retail stores are quote-unquote good here), and bad middlemen (the people I am currently laughing at). I wonder if there's an interesting economics paper that could be written from this...

My sister and her husband do a side-hustle selling cards (used to do a lot of cons, ages ago) and I sure HOPE they aren't being like this

Oh, no, it absolutely *does* hurt the Pokemon company. This is an artificially-constrained solution, which can help in terms of publicity, but after that, you end up with the end-users ("the players") being upset and frustrated, which can turn them off long-term.

I lost it at the last guy going “I’ve been nothing but loyal for 8 months!” Like I’m wheezing

The absolute balls to call themselves "secondary distributors".