I fan dei Pokemon, momentaneamente impazziti, forzano l’apertura delle saracinesche dei negozi mentre si precipitano dentro per comprare nuove carte collezionabili
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15704023/Pokemon-Sports-Direct-shutters-trading-cards.html
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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.