Eine Gruppe von mit Fledermäusen bewaffneten Männern „streitet sich um Pokémon-Karten“ vor dem Londoner Spielzeugladen Smyths
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fight-pokemon-cards-london-smyths-store-old-kent-road-b1285886.html
Von pppppppppppppppppd
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Oh great, so all the American bullshit of grown men scalping Pokémon cards has come here too.
They clearly don’t understand the game.
The pokemon fight, the human trainers instruct. Call themselves fans…
My mate was walking past this when it happened. Apparently it’s even worse than the article states. Apparently before it kicked off they were shouting this weird spoken word rhyming shit at each other and also the group had a weird talking cat that was joining in. He said once the damage was done they were just laughing and then they took off in a hot air balloon. Really backwards sick shit if you ask me.
This shit is so funny. The whole process. Grown men fight over children’s toys (and it’s actually just a card with a cute picture on it). Then I assume they go and sell the card online at a ridiculous mark up. So some other full grown man can then own this card and what? Stare at it, gloat about owning it when it’s not really an achievement to procure the card in this manner any way, play the game? I highly doubt it’s the latter. Funny shit
Funniest thing i seen whilst shopping at costco was the massive queue for some box release with loads of people on one card getting to the front of the queue to be told by the employee it was max 2 boxes per card. Grown men huffing and stropping added 20 mins to my shopping just watching them but the costco employee was having the time of their life
Oh dear, these people people arent going to be paying my pension i guess
They wanna be the very worst, like no one ever was.
To take the cards is the real test, to scalp is the cause.
They will travel to every store, searching far and wide.
Each Pokemon card to understand the profit inside.
Scalper used Bat To The Head. Rival Scalper is paralyzed! It can’t move!
A whole group of men involved? I hope the police catch them.
I hope they catch them all!
_This_ is why the Old Kent Road is the cheapest place on the Monopoly board
I’ll just leave this here:
https://youtu.be/1oJmGLLDpp0?is=DERW6WJvuPmsDkae
This reminds me of the barber brawl that happened in the welsh valleys a few months back
Why are they always dressed like a gothy Michelin man?
There needs to be some kind of reselling law where you cant resell a brand new product within the first 12 months of its release for more than RRP. Not that exactly, but just something to stop this the same way theyre trying to stop ticket reselling.
I read „bats“ as the animal and I was astonished they’d gone full Pokémon with it.
Then I realised it was the other kind of bat and I’m very disappointed.
If you’re ever feeling shitty about your life, at least you’re not these absolute fucking losers losing their shit over a *children’s game*.
This is on the stores. If they weren’t so fucking greedy they’d cap sales to one box per person per day or whatever which would prevent scalpers coming in and loading up an entire trolley as soon as it goes on the shelf.
Stores in the US solved this problem by putting a slit with a box knife in the plastic packaging on the Pokémon sets before putting them on the shelves. Not enough that the packet could be opened / the contents viewed, but the tear in the packaging completely nullifies any re-sale value as collectors won’t touch them so they can’t then be re-listed online.
This meant the stock got left for people who actually just wanted it to play the game (because they intended to open the box anyway, so the slit in the packaging was of no detriment to them).
It’s pathetic.
Pokemon should should make more available rather than the scarcity tactic they are using, for which everyone else has to deal with the issues for.
They are profiting off other people’s costs.
Terrible title it’s called a zubat, not just a “bat”. SMH get it right
See you ban there XL-bully’s and they just pick a new weapon to use to fight with … bats 🦇.
The world gets stupider and greedier every fucking day.
Football hooligans and now this… broken Britain… broken Britain!
I too bring bats along when I visit toy stores. You never know when it’ll all kick off.
Seriously though – all toy stores should impose limits on purchasing collectables as a matter of policy to combat this nonsense.
I don’t even collect pokemon cards but fuck scalpers