Momentan öffnen verrückte Pokémon-Fans die Ladenläden, während sie nach neuen Sammelkarten eilen
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15704023/Pokemon-Sports-Direct-shutters-trading-cards.html
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Momentan öffnen verrückte Pokémon-Fans die Ladenläden, während sie nach neuen Sammelkarten eilen
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15704023/Pokemon-Sports-Direct-shutters-trading-cards.html
Von pppppppppppppppppd
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>crazed Pokémon fans
Looks more like a bunch of adult scalpers to me
i’d bet most of them barely know pokemon, they’re just grifterbros
Man, I got into the cards again around the launch of 151, just buying some packs here and there. Scratched a fun itch.
And it feels like it coincided perfectly with the scalpers coming along and just absolutely destroying it as a cool little hobby.
Would they fuck be buying anything other than a new shutter.
Sports Direct/Game announcing a national restock on their social media for a bank holiday was a poor move – there were other shops (where there were queues rather than mobs) that didn’t have any of the stock advertised.
This doesn’t excuse the behaviour of these “entrepreneurs” who couldn’t tell you anything beyond Pikachu, Gengar and Charizard mean stonks of course.
I kinda want the market for these to completely fail and then all become worthless – I hate how this has become a greedy business model from grifters rather than the fun it was intended for :/
Those aren’t fans, those are scalpers frothing at the mouth at profit.
Scalpers have become such a problem for so many hobbyists.
Not into Pokémon myself but I enjoy fine press books. These are limited editions from a handful of small publishers, usually costing about £200 and up. Scalpers have been all over it for the last few years but titles often selling out in seconds and immediately listed for sale on eBay, even before the books have been dispatched.
I take a bit of joy when they misjudge a book’s popularity and can’t sell it. Arseholes.
Never understood the big problem with scalping luxury items. It’s on the company for not putting the price of the product at market equilibrium in the first place. That way, scalpers would never be able to make a profit and wouldn’t exist. I know the counter argument, that artificially increases demand. This doesn’t hold water though because without scalping, if a product is below market equilibrium, then it becomes a lottery over who gets the item or not, or it becomes a game of who’s the best scavenger hunter.
They’re luxury items. We are surrounded by entertainment. I’m so so sorry you couldn’t buy some Pokémon cards at RRP for the first 2 weeks of release. Life must be so hard for you. It’s not like there are over 10,000 unique Pokémon cards already in circulation to play with.
All scalping does is allow the people who are willing to pay market equilibrium for the product an opportunity to buy the product. That doesn’t sound so bad to me.
Are these guys ripping packs hoping for a big hit or are they hoping to sit on the stock until they gain value?
I hate this grift culture. All it does is punish genuine fans.
Fans wouldn’t force entry. Look at any gaming midnight launch of a game, people are patient and chill. These are cunts hoping to earn money off a game targeted for children.
What is funny is most probably paid by card so if they wanted they could link CCTV footage of the people breaking the shutter with credit card information….
Artificial scarcity. At any point they could increase supply, the cost for a retail pack would barely be touched.
They aren’t made with some super rare material that is hard to get.
Only pathetic weirdos buy pokemon cards its literally designed to get kids into gambling
And they say wrestling fans are crazy.
Ok, we are. But this is fucking ridiculous!!!
If I were the owner, I would tell them all to fuck off and make it online only for Pokémon cards as a response for this.
One day someone will have to tell me wtf a Pokémon is. It’s a card? A game?
This is disgusting. I collect Pokémon cards and I’d hate people to think I’m one of these fucking morons.
Low life scalpers, making a living scamming children and taking advantage of people with a simple hobby. Under my law they’d see a few years
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Can we make it clear these people aren’t Pokémon fans? Or if they are, their love for Pokémon has long been surpassed by their love for exploiting kids and real fans for some easy money
“Fans” no. These are adult benefit scroungers who scalp product to resell it a double to the Pokemon pack opening addicts
Is this why, when I go to work on a Friday, there’s a queue of lads outside Smyths at 7am every week?
They’re not Pokémon fans. They’re scalpers. Unfortunately Pokémon cards have become a commodity now. Scalpers clear the stock out within hours of it being released to control the market.
I’m impressed that they all managed to have the same hairstyle and colour. Do blondes and gingers not like pokemon?
not even about collecting anymore its just purely hold and flip dickheads
literally all of them are scalpers who don’t love the game and have no joy in their souls.
they’re just ruining the game and the trading aspect for children and people who actually love pokemon and I hate them for that. (I don’t even play or collect these days)