(Video) Person stabbed after two cut line for Pokémon cards in Bay Area: PD
(Video) Person stabbed after two cut line for Pokémon cards in Bay Area: PD
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I've got a GameStop subscription which gives you a $5 a month coupon. I would almost always use it to pick up Pokemon cards. I haven't been able to find any cards for a number of months now and decided to ask an employee about it.
Apparently the cards are no longer being sent out in the volumes that they used to. Instead of getting weekly shipments, they might get a monthly shipment (not as many boxes) and it's a little random.
He mentioned that people would somehow find out that a shipment was on its way and wait overnight just to be able to buy them up in the morning.
Some employees are even being stalked just so that they can figure out when these shipments are coming.
What is wrong with these people?
the scalping is insane, i visit the pokebeach forum regularly, and they were posting fights, and scalping issues for a while now. it pushed out true collectors from the game altogether, and POKEMON TCPi/tcp jp isnt really do much to stop it. one of the solutions is increase the pull rates of rare cards, to diminish the value of the cards, so that scalpers wont see a point in doing it, or print out so much that it achieves the same thing.
i exclusively only play the online game, which is free, and basically try out all or most of the cards, it is mildy grindy though.
Welcome to capitalism.
Imo, any card game with "card rarity" is a scam. It takes all the skill out of the game and replaces it with privilege. Im all for deck building and complex card mechanics, but why why WHY would you ever made some cards less common? It's pure greed and monetization, and that permanently turned me off of all similar media.
Pokemon center needs to limit purchases on their website, which they have done, but the big box retailers need to do it too. Target, Game Stop. Even this little vending machines need some sort of system to limit purchases.
It’s ridiculous. People should just stop buying things second hand. Only buy direct from retailer and then no more scalping. I stopped collecting cuz of scalping and difficulty finding decently priced product.