It would be like a whole horde of zombies charging at you as you're standing in front of the mystery box unarmed waiting for the weapons to finish scrambling in CoD
You know how at the supermarket they put the milk and eggs at the furtherest point from the door? Costco should do the same with the Pokemon. Maybe set up hurdles and traps along the way to impede the mob. Then when they get to the register hit them with, "Sorry, limit of one per customer per day, we'll just take these off your hands and put them out later." just to watch them cry.
Put em behind the counter with the liquor and cigs.. if they get uppity, cashier can revoke the sale.. if they can do it for cigs and booze.. why not tcgs?
bro said " I fought for those boxes" like he literally just did the greatest thing known to man. Greatest moment from that guys entire pathetic existence, doing a goddam battle royale for some pokemon boxes is wild. Imagine a random 5 year old just wanting one box.
Scalpers get around this by just paying multiple different people to buy the products for them, and going to as many different stores as possible. My target had a ONE per person policy back in 2022. It was still empty 99.9% of the time cause of scalpers.
Preferable for fairness to children and fans of the game? Certainly! Necessary for survival like water or food? Not exactly. Don't get me wrong, it sucks people are like this and I'd like them to somehow choke on all their ill gotten gains. It's just not as bad as what doomsday preppers can be like.
My local comic book store sells these types of boxes and the owner who runs it has a strict policy of one per customer, though if someone is a known collector or a regular parent that he knows is getting for their kids he makes exceptions. If someone is obviously a scalper he just permabans them from his store outright, the dude has a wall of shame that’s been tripled in size since the quarantine caused a scalp-splosion in the trading card scene.
The stores are doing the same. lmao. They are buying from distro to sell at a higher price, and competing with other stores for stock. I just find it funny that some store owners act like they are above reselling. Scalping is one thing sure, but most business are literally resellers themselves.
I hate scalpers so much. I remember South Park had their 2 day concert, and even before the first day was over, posters that sold for like $50 were being sold for hundreds more. People ruin everything
It’s so bad Pokemon themselves have come out and apologized for not meeting demand and are apparently printing as many new packs of the set as their machines will allow to hopefully meet demand. I wish the scalpers a very forced to take a loss after the reprints come out.
I hope they print it to oblivion so the value drops insanely and they are all sitting on worthless product. Hey maybe I'll even buy some then, not bought cards in years but this set does look pretty cool.
scalpers gonna cause some of these sets to be worthless for a long time. and like if you're not in it for the value then woop dee doo ig. but jfc this has gotten ridiculous
It largely depends on whether the general audience is willing to wait. If the general population is willing to wait for a restock or at least until the release of the next set, the scalpers will lose out.
went in to my Costco yesterday expecting to find an empty ripped apart pallet but to my surprise they had blooming waters off the main floor with two workers guarding it, limit of 2 per customer, checking people out for it on a private register. Nice to see somebody actually do something about the scalping
Yeah my nephew works at target, he told me they held prismatic somewhere in the back, you had to ask for it and I think they limited people. He bought one and pulled the glaceon ex art rare, super happy for him, we laugh at the scalpers.
Do not buy from scalpers, simple as that. I remember this dude got mad he didn’t predict the boxes he scalped correctly and tried to return them to GameStop and GameStop rejected it. Love to see it ❤😂
Retail outlets are resellers themselves with more connections. The scalpers are the little guys. How's about we all just stop being so infatuated with gambling on shiny cardboard?
@@jeff330 Have nintendo C&D these card graders. The cards are meant to be played. Not hoarded. This shit wouldn't have become out of hand if the graders didn't start doing Pokemon, YGO, MTG.
Not a Pokémon collector myself, but an action figure collector. A few years ago, Target had there own exclusives of Star Wars: The Clone Wars figures, my dad was kind enough to go a Target that was a little farther from where we lived because it was confirmed they were there. Thankfully, our Target at least, knew the value of these figures and put them behind the customer help desk and also limited each customer to two copies of the same character. Scalping has always been such a pain in any collector’s rear end and this just makes me so sad for actual Pokémon collectors. I understand how this feels and it makes me so mad.
I know a few card stores were charging market price for sealed boxes and MSRP for boxes with broken seals to try and stop scalpers. As well as a 1 per customer limit
I work at a Sam's Club, we're going to be having them back in soon. I'll be telling my managers to put a limit of 1 box per membership and show them this. Trust me, they don't want to deal with the fighting it will cause if they leave it as a Free-for-All.
Might as well inform them right away in my state of ohio im not gonna say where but already 2 ppl dead at a certain store they got stomped and trampled on its honestly disgusting.
My mother runs a board game shop and I've caught snippets of her recounting tales of male Karens getting mad over the phone that they can't preorder like ten boxes of the latest Pokemon TCG release, there is a 1-2 box per person limit. The literal children who go there for the weekly tournament club are more mature than these grown ass men
That's cause the grown men that like this stuff are spoiled mamas boys who never grew up. They play games all day, live in filth, and are entitled to everything. When they dont get their way they throw a tantrum like they do with mom...still.
Tell your mother to buy a firearm to protect her store, she doesnt need to take attitude from someone else in her own store. Perfectly legal to threaten someone in your own store
@@Ron_Burgundy1009 internet? This is purely greedy shady business my guy. Like Nesquik buying all the water in an African nation and reselling it to them for a higher price kind of business. Merchants throughout history have done this kind of things, taking advantage of goods that sell for high
Yesterday, took my 10 year old son to get one of the new packs. He’s been talking about it for weeks. Our local comic book store sold out in 20 minutes. We went at 3 when school got out. My son was in tears. He couldn’t understand why people would buy so many at once and not give him a chance to have just a single pack. Gave us an opportunity to have a lengthy discussion about what kind of people we want to be. I was so bummed for him.
@@SierraAppa my sister makes $1 booster packs when she goes to her shows specifically for the kids, it's upsetting kids are getting shoved out of the hobby, but Friday we were out at six am getting ready to go hunting to beat the scalpers, it's so bad that GameStop put the stuff behind the counter I was lucky to get what I got
Man I'm so sorry, I hate that for both of you. I hope that sometime in the near future the stores near you will actually have them in stock when you go so that he can get a pack. Good on you though for using the crappy situation as an opportunity to talk about how there are entitled people out there that only care about themselves and how people like that take advantage of the demand for a product just to make money (though I'm sure none of that is going to help him really feel better as to why he couldn't get the Pokemon cards he's been wanting, and that's totally understandable, it's just at least good to have that conversation anyways). And it's very good that you talked about how important it is not to become that type of person (because if you think about it, entitlement and selfishness is the root cause of just about every wrongdoing ever done by one person to another person). And really, at the end of the day, sometimes people just suck. (Sorry for the long winded response, I let myself get carried away a bit.)
Yeah it’s messed up the packages with the one binder and one pack are all looted through at my target and only the binders are left because they have cheap plastic boxes
Bad timing to look for Pokemon cards for your kids, a new major release dropped yesterday, definitely no chance you're going to find anything until their next restock.
My brother went to Costco and got two, one for him and got one for me, I had no idea this was even out at Costco, I did pull a Charmander Art Rare so I am very happy.
Ya i didnt know either. I showed up to get grocies and seen they had the pika and snorlax squishmellow. Grabbed a pika no snorlax then next week they had 1 snkrlax so i got that. Might check for these since i got a near complete 151 set
Brawling for something you're passionate for is one thing, even if sometimes sad, but brawling for something someone else is passionate for because you want to deplete their supply and meet the demand at a steep mark up is a new level of pathetic.
@@NukeCaulfield It’s not though . It’s Pokémon cards. Do you need to suck the joy out of every single aspect of life by turning everything into a competitive stock market? Are you that much of a soulless goblin? Are you Mr. Krabs?
For Alien Romulus, I waited hours for the Alien head popcorn bucket. It was one per person and the lady in front of me was going ballistic saying “I have two kids so we can get three!” and the cashier was calling her bs. The manager waved me over to another line and like five people tried to cut in front of me but he told them I was first. Love that popcorn bucket so much. Got the sick ass cup too. Shout out to that theater staff.
jesus, i remember seeing the cups for rite here rite now being sold for $100 on ebay.. they were $12 each in the theater local to me and maybe on the bands official website. so lucky i got one and the bucket.
This is why Japan works on a lottery system. Scalpers here are terrible. Whether it's pokemon, concert tickets, etc., Japan tends to hold a lottery where people are randomly chosen to have a chance to buy the said product. And even then they're limited to 1-2 products. It's annoying, but this new pokemon drop sort of showed me why they do what they do. One shop even put a sign that says they will only sell the Terra Festa Pokemon Box to kids. (But you know some scalpers probably sent their kids in) These guys are the worst, and this probably has be on of the worst scalper brawls I've seen yet.
@@DrawinskyMoonPerhaps, but at least SOME regular consumers and children get to buy it, as opposed to the system we have here where FEW to NO regular consumers get it. Although, I hate to break it, but such systems aren't going to happen in America. Walmart Target and other big box retail stores don't care about consumers because even if every Pokémon fan stops shopping there, there are enough regular people who will go for groceries and such. So why waste the time implementing a system for a minority of shoppers? I could see it happen with specialty shops, but the only nation wide TCG store I know is some specific GameStop's and they're desperate for money. They're not going to risk losing scalper dollars for goodwill.
@@ArsonRaboot idk what you're talking about and i havent bought pokemon cards for 20+ years but i do buy MTG and they do presales online. this guarantees people get boxes and it even gives WotC an idea of how many sheets/cards need to be printed ahead of time. honestly not sure why pokemon doesnt do this but it's hilarious seeing scenes like this play out when like i said buying product online is so simple and fool proof, and it's also 20% cheaper than if you wait for it to actually release.
That is literally the worse thing todo, and ads more value and incentive to scalpers to flood the polling with their tickets making it pay to win, making it even harder to get a product as a average Jo shmo.
6:25 the lady saying no running is like the teachers in elementary school telling the kids not to run its pathetic that these people are acting like elementary schoolers
@speedreaper666 It's called liability? Stores have the obligation to ensure a safe environment. If you're already scum to be a scalper, you're scum enough to file a frivolous lawsuit.
As someone who was collecting Pokémon cards as a kid and can finally fully get into it as an adult because I now have access to money, I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to try and get your hands on just 1 pack of a new release. It is almost impossible unless you are willing to hand over at least the price of a ps5 to get your hands on a booster box. Absolutely soul crushing.
Not a Pokémon collector, but a hockey and baseball card collector. Feel like we have that same issue. Upper deck charging double the usual price for a hobby box because of one hyped rookie, topps doing the same, and 6-7 figure bounties for one card. It’s really unfortunate where the hobby is going
So real. I collected when I was younger and got back in with 151. It’s so difficult to get ahold of anything now. It’s crazy and ruins the fun of the hobby. STOP BUYING FROM RESALE
It’s honestly sad to see this happen. It’s like genuinely watching vultures swoop down and fight. Scalpers are genuinely awful people and no one use the excuse of “they need to feed their family” if they can buy that many Pokémon card boxes I’m sure you can squeak out a meal or two
MORE than just a meal or two, i went to buy a single little trainer box which cost me 60$, with the amount of those huge boxes they buy im sure they could feed a whole village. Theyre greedy bastards that cant let children & teens enjoy collecting cards and thats coming from a 16 yr old 😐
Fighting is uncivilized but being first in the race is fair. It's funny how scalpers are so bad but getting kids into gambling for cardboard is considered okay. They could easily buy singles for a heck of a lot cheaper but they wouldn't get that rush. I think society should check its priorities because if we put half as much effort as we do collecting or selling cardboard into something that actually mattered the world would be a lot better place.
@@jeff330 they took down my other reply but whatever if your issue is gambling go protest about closing down casinos instead of kids being into collecting pokémon cards, it was never this deep until scalpers came into play
@@Idkwhatthisaccountislol I'm not going to protest you can do what you want. I'm just calling it like it is. If kids want to collect they could buy singles for much cheaper than gambling, and this isn't a kids game anymore most of the people who collect are adults. If you want to play you don't need to be buying these packs. Decks aren't expensive to make and you don't need expensive alt art cards to build them.
Imagine saving up allowance and doing well on your math test to get off school at 3pm and go to the store with your mom and to see 20 grown ass men who have plenty of ways to make money, taking the pokemon cards. It’s not business, it’s villainy.
Yeah I even saw someone on reddit trying to defend scalpers saying that they don't have a stable source of income so they rely on scalping to make ends meet. It made me roll my eyes.
A kids being stuck at school until 3 is life🤷♂️ it sucks,but it is what it is. I missed out on plenty as a kid because of it. Its childhood naivety that makes them expect a product thats this popular to still be in stock. Like expecting there to be unsold consoles on boxing day….. kid, you’d be lucky if they weren’t all bought before Christmas while they were on sale….. High hopes make broken dreams. As a parent, you should’ve prepared them to meet disappointment. Instead you probably hyped them up and told them to work extra hard at school and then promised them if they did they’d get this new set……. Essentially lying to your kid. Honesty goes a long way.
@nicks4802 stop what's wrong with you LMAOOOOO why are you making it a literal child's fault omg it's the fault of these loser grown ass men not some 10 yr old who wants his cool pokemone stuff. Ur a miserable person pls
@@nicks4802 people shouldn't have to prepare their kids for a world where grown ass men fight each other over a kids card game. You're holding actual children to a higher standard than these man-children lol
earlier today my boyfriend actually had to deal with this shit for hours on end, kids making messes of the store, and many "adults" fighting for a pack or several at times. what got me the most was how an old lady was trying to buy some packs for her grandkids and two grown ass adults yanked them out of her hands and kinda shoved her over, thankfully she was okay and those pieces of shit are blacklisted now. but like what is wrong with someone to be THAT careless and selfish for something as stupid as some pokemon cards ?
Usually they bundle tins from old sets together for some decent deals. Tins iirc are like 15 or 20$ each, but theyll sometimes pair 2 tins + something else together for like 25 or 30$.
How I was I suppose to know Costco sells Pokemon cards? If any fighting was gonna happen at Costco it would be fighting for the last Costco hot dog or pizza slice, not Pokemon cards.
I went to a Meijer in Indiana, and the whole process was very respectful. A small line formed behind the card section where a woman worked on stocking the supply, and when it was time for people to grab their stuff, everyone didn’t grab more than one of any one thing before getting back in line. There were 11 ETBs and 10 people waiting, so we all got really lucky, especially considering it wasn’t super early in the day. I think we were all grateful that the process went as smoothly as it did, and I’m glad things aren’t as bad as this video all across the board.
I worked in a gas station when those Slime Licker candies were viral. We'd order 5 boxes, and within an hour, they would all be gone. Adults would buy a case of 12 and sell individuals online for $60. I had to put limits on how many people could buy because I'd have little kids coming for the next week asking me if we have any left because everywhere is sold out. It was a sad situation.
Costco limits items to one per customer all the time. My warehouse has done it for Pokemon cards multiple times it needs to be standard procedure company wide at this point. Corporate recently told employees we aren’t allowed to purchase them. We aren’t allowed to buy items before they are on the floor and the store is open, but we’ve never been denied access to a product we sell before.
I went yesterday with my friend to our local card shop an hour before they opened, since they said they would be getting in a good bit of stock for Prismatic Evolutions. There were only 4 people ahead of us, and right before they opened, the line turned into I'd guess around 40 people. The store has a 1 of each item limit, and I spoke to a few people in front and behind us and everyone was incredibly nice. Some had gotten into it recently because they liked doing it with their kids, some just enjoy the chase of a certain card they wanted, and one lady said she hadn't gotten anything since the 90's and wanted to jump back in, and I explained some of the new cards to her. I got exactly what I wanted and most people did too. Idk I just had a really nice time, and wanted to describe my positive experience since as of late the worst of the community has really been making the rounds. My experience is how I think most of the genuine fans are, but I think most people know that already. People who use them as an investment and don't actually even enjoy Pokémon really ruin things. As the Twitter TCG account posted, hopefully the increase in prints and newness wears off, and some things can return to normal!
@ohnosmoarlulcatz Me and my family joke about this specific card store and call it " The Dirty Recliner, " because they have a really good selection of cards that keeps me coming back, but it's a really trashy, hole in the wall kind of place. They have random food wrappers and boxes scattered behind the counter and have made a little path where they walk on top. And there's the dirty recliner in the back where the owner lady eats her food and it's covered in stains and crumbs. How I've never seen a bug is beyond me
This! GO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GAME STORES. Most of the ones I see are placing limits and being very transparent about when they're getting it and how much they're getting. avoid the retail stores and just go support your local stores. that's the way to enjoy any TCG but particularly anything that's overly hyped like this.
They're stupid people. They're doing stupid things with their money thinking they'll make it big. But they won't. Pokémon made a statement to up production of this set, so everyone will wait for the market to correct, don't buy any scalped product. Then when they realise no one's buying their stuff they'll drop it under MRP just to try to get their money back. They're not long term investors, they ain't got the patience to store this bulk safely for decades just in case the seal product becomes valuable which it won't. They get what they deserve.
Every LGS in my area was selling prismatic for Market price, reaaaally dissapointed. Definitely sad they didnt even give options to buy at msrp but have it pre opened
I’m finally an adult making 6 figures, just got back into Pokémon collecting since as a kid I loved Pokémon but my parents only ever gave in to buying me a total of 10 packs over the course of my childhood. I went to 3 Targets, GameStops, and BestBuys each yesterday and got nothing. I refuse to give a single dollar to scalpers, I’d rather stop collecting.
The best thing to do is develop a relationship with a local card shop. They will usually have preorders, and my shop only changes their pricing when their suppliers increase their prices.
Make friends with your nearest tabletop store. Maybe show interest in entering a low tournament or two to show you like the game and aren't out for profits. Some scalpers will try and enter major ones for rare card prizes but many stores require a history of playing at the store.
same bro I already get a little second hand embarrassment just being an adult buying them at the store lmao. I'd rather just not bother, they will never be something I need that bad.
We need more people like you in the world. Yes we would like to collect if we can, but grown adult people beating each other up for kids trading cards is something dumber than what the kids would do for cards, WTF is wrong with the world. That's not to say that adults do not like Pokemon but god dam. Honestly good on you bro. That pack you did not bye hopefully goes towards some kid who is coming home from school and not some reseller.
Keep the product locked up. Only hand 1 out per customer at the register. Make customers go to the counter and request to purchase it and they only get to buy one.
@@ngf5077 You've responded with this copy and pasted statement a few times now. But you're clearly not understanding what the comments are saying. They're not talking about the resellers selling their product. They're talking about Costco limiting it to 1 box per customer, which would reduce the amount that resellers are able to buy.
I’d just pay some junkie a couple bucks to to get them in my place. Now im not a scalper personally but if the market did become less saturated like that, thats definitely the way I’d make sure the bag was secure if I needed a play like that.
As an actual fan of Pokemon, I remember when I first started playing 10 years ago and the card aisle was an all you can eat buffet, with some product staying on shelves for a couple years due to so few people actually playing the game. Just yesterday, my local Walmart was trashed with scalpers opening sealed products trying to steal booster packs.
That’s a disgusting level of consumerism. What’s so different about this one? Why is it special I haven’t seen anything about any other boxes like this
We have the same 10 people doing this shit for Hot Wheels at my workplace and threatening to shoot one another, sneaking in through employee entrances, etc. It's super pathetic.
@NF_Spotifyyy unfortunately this new set got a lot of hype, so resellers caught on that they could probably resell them for a high margin with how in-demand they are
Do you work in a large population area? My store has stock, but the population is low so its just a matter of "not enough people to have one that cares"
@@djan0889 I’m not sure what the lottery system is, but we only gave two items per person. We had like thirty people in the store, which is insane when you remember it’s a Gamestop 😭😭
The saddest part to me is the fact they pride themselves for it, do they go home and reflect on their embarrassing behavior and think about how they may have ruined some kids day who was waiting for those cards? No, they have too much of a adrenaline rush because of how much their about to charge for the sh!t, already got the stuff listed before even unpacking, honestly so depressing,
This is why I steered away from collecting as a whole. It's become a pathethic game of who can scalp for the highest amount on third party website/app because people don't give a flying fuck about actually collecting the product and trying to use this in order to have a big pay day. Greed has beyond fucked our soceity.
As someone who is a serious collector when it comes to Pokemon. this is a serious problem those who actually want the product to enjoy can’t get it without way overpaying, and trust me so many kids literally couldn’t get any for Christmas. which is so sad when I was a kid that’s all I wanted and it’s just to expensive for at this point for people who are not like well off. I’ve been collecting my whole life but in the last few years started putting real money into it and it’s crazy how much it costs to even be a casual collector.
@ nah my collection is worth thousands just because of how well I take care of the cards and how long I’ve been collecting I just wish it was more accessible for other people who want to take part in the hobby
I remember when the black friday started, me and my cousin went just to enjoy the chaos. Before the store opened offically, an employee craked open the entrance and screamed "DON'T RUN AND WATCH OUT FOR THE KIDS". Back to subject, I find it amazing that us human, manage to create this much value for a piece of cardboard
It’s a spiral of expecting the next person in the cycle to value it at that price, everyone understands it’s just cardboard but buys it at that price because someone else will likely buy it off of them later for a higher price with the same intent
I read a comment somewhere that if we as a society had better economy and far relaxing environment this wouldn't be the case. Life sucks rn for a lot of people and this is the result!
Just don't buy from scalpers. People have no self-control. Scalpers scalp because they are rewarded for doing it. Nobody 'needs' what scalpers sell, they just 'want' it.
Reselling in a country like the US will never be banned. Even if buying and reselling new products would be banned, they would find a way to circumvent it. Like pop the seal open and sell it as used near untouched. Said it before and will say it again, if roaches want to make money, roaches will find a way.
Thing is it’s hard to tell the difference between someone just selling a product they don’t want anymore and a scalper. They just need to limit it 1 per person in the shop. Honestly don’t know why Pokémon doesn’t enforce this on retailers
@@HoltonStudios It's not hard at all lmao Someone selling something they don't want any more isn't gonna charge you a 2x, 2x, 5x retail mark-up, you rube.
@@Hafaechaes Pokemon tends to not overprint product though. I know theyre intending to print more but that takes time and will most likely not be enough.
Imagine a parent trying to get some Pokemon cards for their kid’s birthday only to get pushed by some scalpers who take all that stuff like if it was the last remaining food on earth.
This was ridiculous. Costco needs to put that stuff behind the counter or someplace more secure than that, so everybody gets a chance to get the cards, not just scalpers. Even better than that, make it available online only and not have the stampede. Limit of 2, no exceptions.
There really is no “behind the counter” or someplace else, costco is a big warehouse and there is no back for them to put stuff. But they still could have put the stock on the top of the massive shelves and require a worker to retrieve.
certain products (eevee-related and etc) on pokemon center website sell out instantly as well. Online doesn't stop scalpers unfortunately. If anything it makes their job of buying everything up easier.
Blows my mind that these stores aren’t severely limiting how many a customer can buy. That would put and end to all this embarrassing behavior by these “adults”.
Just don't buy from scalpers. People have no self-control. Scalpers scalp because they are rewarded for doing it. Nobody 'needs' what scalpers sell, they just 'want' it.
Of course right after he showed the clip of them grabbing the boxes I get a “we’re gonna see how many Pokémon cards I can get with 100$ on this app” ad 😂
@@returnedtomonkey8886 Look who just got elected.. The son of the largest scumsucking landlord of NYC, who also got into legal trouble for being discriminatory against minorities renting their properties (as the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in terms of being racist douches) and both got fined..
@@returnedtomonkey8886Companies in recent years have been manufacturing less of certain products, thus causing an increase in demand. This creates more scalpers. Combine this with social media and the internet, and there you have it. Nothing to do with a “failing society”. People aren’t going crazy like this over regular Pokémon cards. This was a miscalculated release, where the supply could not keep up with the demand. Black Friday was crazier back in the day than it is now. Customers were causing stampedes in the 1950s.
The worst part about it is that the profit margins for these scalpers is only a few bucks. All the time they spend waiting in line, running and fighting for a box, just to make a profit that barely covers shipping and other expenditures. It's so ridiculous and senseless, thank god Pokemon announced official mass reprints for active products, including the most sought after ones.
Not defending them, because f scalpers, but if you had the option of waking up at 7am taking a short drive to run 100 feet for $500 any given day, would you do that instead of working a normal job? They're not getting $20 per hour. They're getting a few hundred dollars for a few minutes. Back when the PS5s dropped, people made literally hundreds of thousands of dollars with minimal effort. It shouldn't be allowed. Stores should do more to prevent it. But as long as they can, there's absolutely a reason people do it.
@ “past that”? Also that was at time stamp 0:15. I am aware of the overblown fad of Pokémon, but had to ask my wife about what evolving meant. So cringe.
@@SBDave-t9xmaybe not the kid part. But the video shows they guy in green with 2 boxes in arm then hat douch takes them, reddit is 100% on green coat guys side. So no idea what ba you’re talking about.
@@SBDave-t9x guy in green had the boxes first, there were multiple videos/pov's, guy in hat shoved multiple people and was seen taking both boxes directly from the guy in green
I've seen it first hand. Not to this degree of insanity, but when I was working at Walmart a group would routinely stand by the shelf and wait for someone to come stock the cards. And they would wait hours. I also heard of people being caught in the stockroom looking for them, and even someone sneaking into the store before opening just to get an edge over others.
There is a special place in hell for scalpers. They just suck the fun out of whatever hobby they think they can make a profit from. Edit: replies is full of the same guy defending the act of scalping. trying to have an argument with him is pointless, he has already made up his mind. check replies at your own risk.
There's literally nothing wrong with scalping. There's nothing with reselling what YOU bought. Edit: If you're gonna reply, at least try to give your OBJECTIVE opinion. Say something that actually makes sense. Here's why I personally think there's nothing wrong with scalping: It is a relatively harmless hustle that doesn't directly affect anybody. Scalping isn't morally wrong because scalping itself isn't causing any problems. Stores naturally run out of stock whether it's due to a scalper, or regular costumer both lead the the inability to obtain certain goods(if you cant afford it). Using "it prevents others from getting it" makes zero sense. If a regular customer buys something, someone else can't get it if you are scalping, another person is still able to obtain the item. They just need to pay more money.
Stores need to start limiting this stuff. People also need to just stop buying from scalpers. If there werent a profit to be made, then this wouldn't be happening.
I don't think I've ever bought a "Card Pack" in real life, besides that time when I was a kid and wanted some cards to fool around with. The main issue people are THIS crazy is because of those perceived "ultra ghost rares" or however they're called. These people are willing to spend 10,000$ to buy a single card and it's insane. I would publicly humiliate someone if they tried bragging about their 10k$ pokemon card to me.
they were limiting them, you can even hear in the video the costco employees trying to tell them there was a limit per person but people were grabbing the whole stack anyways, probably had someone re-stacking them on a pallet by the register after ringing out up to the limit and putting them right back for people to not listen again :/
They aren't asking that question. They know what they're doing. If they wanted this to stop, they could just stop printing SIR cars and other ultra rare versions of cards. Just have base level playable versions of each card.
A lot of my friends (note we are ages 26 to 40) have quit entirely the last 2 years. It's become ridiculous. I used to collect cards of a few Pokemon I like- as well as sleeves and a few other things- but some of the cards now are reselling more than I'm willing to pay. I'm lucky to be born in the 80's and have the first few original sets that came out or I'd be out of luck on everything. These poor new collectors will have a hard time getting those and the new sets complete.
Bought 100 evolving skies packs for $4.99 over time. Kept them in my personal collection and just found out they sold for $25-30 and sold all of them. Made over $3k
I work for a big retailer in Australia and it was the exact same here, except our store offers click and collect (opens at 5-6am when the store opens at 7) so the 200 people lined up outside for opening didn’t even get any as it had already sold out that morning 😂 people camping overnight to scalp people for nothing.
capitalism. The word you are looking for is "capitalism" in its late stages. If you didn't mind the "gig ecoomy" you should not mind this. Charlie has you paying his bills. These people have to pay their own.
@@Polit_Burro the same knife that slices food to feed families also holds the potential to end said family. We consider these things a threat because of their destructive potential.
It isn’t just Pokémon cards, if you’re a kid that likes legos sets… you’re in for some depressing news. You ain’t getting the sets you want until you have double your money and a full time job.
Scalpers have always been around but it sort of feels like they came into prominence during COVID. My favorite part was when they horded toilet paper and hand sanitizer, but a few weeks into Covid supplies of those items returned to normal and they were stuck with garages full of the stuff. Even better, was when one tried to return it to Walmart, and they said nope.
Some grow up, very few though. These people are just shamefully degenerate and its created an ecosystem where if you want to enjoy anything then either you fight like they do or pay triple the price. Id personally just laugh at these clowns and pray for their downfall. I started collecting in october to reignite some passion from my own childhood but the prices really have doubled since them.
@@RedArrow808 I mean its understandable to think that as a kid. I always looked up to my mother and dad and the grown ups around me looked pretty mature to me when i was little.
It’s so sad for the ones who have kids or the ones genuinely in it for the hobby. I work at wal mart and my store manager put in for us to stop selling cards because we would have a bunch of grown men ambush the poor card vendor and clear her out before she could put out the product
Pokémon constantly says they’re going to print more to help, as if scalpers will not just buy more. If they truly wanted to fix it, they’d put a limit on them like 1 per customer per day. But they won’t.
its not up to the pokémon company to set a limit per customer, but to the store managers. and these guys mostly dont care because well the cards selling out = money
I mean, the scalpers don't have infinite money. Eventually they can't keep buying all the reprints, all while the value of what they do have drops due to all the reprinting.
Increasing the supply will help to some degree. Maybe people get it from the store and don't buy from them, whether or not they buy more. It depends, but supply helps sometimes. Example: scalpers who bought PS5 Pros to flip had trouble selling them because the supply was actually enough to meet demand, so they had to keep the lowering their prices until they were taking losses just to get rid of them
I can only imagine the Costco manager's shock when they expected small children fawning over the cards, and got fully-grown adults reenacting a zombie outbreak.
2020: Amazon forest fire, war for toilet paper 2025: LA forest fire, war for pokemon cards Also both years started on a Thursday I see a pattern here, and i dont like it
One solution some card stores have come up with for Prismatic Evolutions is unsealing product to deter scalpers/resellers for the sake of local players/collectors.
The actual pokemon tcg community, the players, are actually really wholesome. Many times at my locals people give eachother cards to help out with decks.
9:40 the thing is that when people look at the mirror they dont reflect to change, they reflect to accept who they become, it just gets worse from there
they do this where I live, anywhere that has pokemon cards they are either in a glass case or behind the cashier like packs of cigarettes in a corner store LMAO
ive seen videos of people literally running into Costco and throwing the entire cardboard pop up display into their cart to buy all 20-40 boxes of pokemon cards… like what the hell how these corporations dont have item limits knowing these items will sell out within the day is beyond me. grabbing 2-3 boxes is one thing, but literally hoarding tens of them just to resell is completely uncalled for. they are literally breaking the display as they snatch boxes from one another 😂 insanity.
@@Deadweight45because if people kill each other over pokemon cards, it creates a bad look on the company for not having some sort of anti scalping system.
@HappyIsaac0420 Obviously, it doesn't. Scalping has been a disease for decades, yet people still go to Costco and Walmart. Scalpers make them boatloads of money, and people don't care enough to make the corporation care.
imagine a 5 year old was looking through for a box, turns around to see the pokémon military charging at him
Maybe this is why there are very few adults in pokemon games, they ripped each other apart try to capture and sell the pokemon😂
That happened to me when Sword and shield came out 😭 (I was 15 but I was still a freaking kid)
It would be like a whole horde of zombies charging at you as you're standing in front of the mystery box unarmed waiting for the weapons to finish scrambling in CoD
team rocket
Life comes at you fast, gotta keep your head on a swivel.
You know how at the supermarket they put the milk and eggs at the furtherest point from the door? Costco should do the same with the Pokemon. Maybe set up hurdles and traps along the way to impede the mob. Then when they get to the register hit them with, "Sorry, limit of one per customer per day, we'll just take these off your hands and put them out later." just to watch them cry.
Should they booby trap it with laser alarms and land mines and other explosives to make things more interesting?
Honestly, this sounds amazing
I would go to the store just to watch this happen
Pre mop the floor prior to opening the store
Put em behind the counter with the liquor and cigs.. if they get uppity, cashier can revoke the sale.. if they can do it for cigs and booze.. why not tcgs?
bro said " I fought for those boxes" like he literally just did the greatest thing known to man.
Greatest moment from that guys entire pathetic existence, doing a goddam battle royale for some pokemon boxes is wild.
Imagine a random 5 year old just wanting one box.
embarrassing 😂
Steve from Minecraft:
Gotta do what you can to make money bro, it doesn’t matter how greedy you are
@@Us3r739 oh it matters
@@Us3r739Chinese psyop bot:
Costco managers were told by corporate that it's limited to 2 per customer now
Not a bad limit, it should be 2 per membership cardholder so mf dont bring friends families to create a loophole.
That is why a limit of 1 or 2 per person, especially on high demand products like Pokemon cards is very much necessary.
@@RGC_animation resellers are not going limit sales lol. They are happy to move as much merchandise as possible
@@ngf5077 He meant the stores needs to put limits, not the scalpers.
im pretty sure its a 5 only policy from the stores
Scalpers get around this by just paying multiple different people to buy the products for them, and going to as many different stores as possible. My target had a ONE per person policy back in 2022. It was still empty 99.9% of the time cause of scalpers.
Preferable for fairness to children and fans of the game? Certainly!
Necessary for survival like water or food? Not exactly.
Don't get me wrong, it sucks people are like this and I'd like them to somehow choke on all their ill gotten gains. It's just not as bad as what doomsday preppers can be like.
My local comic book store sells these types of boxes and the owner who runs it has a strict policy of one per customer, though if someone is a known collector or a regular parent that he knows is getting for their kids he makes exceptions.
If someone is obviously a scalper he just permabans them from his store outright, the dude has a wall of shame that’s been tripled in size since the quarantine caused a scalp-splosion in the trading card scene.
Thats exactly how it should be its cards lol that you collect not fkn Money scheming crap i hate scalpers and i hate poeple selling cards for money
hell yeah. W store owner
Whats the stores name and location this guy sounds like a champ
The stores are doing the same. lmao. They are buying from distro to sell at a higher price, and competing with other stores for stock. I just find it funny that some store owners act like they are above reselling. Scalping is one thing sure, but most business are literally resellers themselves.
What a saint
Solution: Limit one per customer. Customers may buy a 2nd product if they can pass 5 rounds of "Who's that Pokemon?"
No gen 1
Fr @@Blank85289
Pokemon ultimate handbook sales 📈📈📈
IT'S PIKACHU!!
@@LunarBloodRose27 It’s Clefairy!
I hate scalpers so much. I remember South Park had their 2 day concert, and even before the first day was over, posters that sold for like $50 were being sold for hundreds more. People ruin everything
It’s so bad Pokemon themselves have come out and apologized for not meeting demand and are apparently printing as many new packs of the set as their machines will allow to hopefully meet demand. I wish the scalpers a very forced to take a loss after the reprints come out.
That's been the excuse forever by these clowns and yet they keep doing this again and again. I've heard this a dozen times now.
Its not about meeting demand. It doesn't matter if the scalpers keep taking all the products from the shelves.
I hope they print it to oblivion so the value drops insanely and they are all sitting on worthless product.
Hey maybe I'll even buy some then, not bought cards in years but this set does look pretty cool.
scalpers gonna cause some of these sets to be worthless for a long time. and like if you're not in it for the value then woop dee doo ig. but jfc this has gotten ridiculous
It largely depends on whether the general audience is willing to wait. If the general population is willing to wait for a restock or at least until the release of the next set, the scalpers will lose out.
went in to my Costco yesterday expecting to find an empty ripped apart pallet but to my surprise they had blooming waters off the main floor with two workers guarding it, limit of 2 per customer, checking people out for it on a private register. Nice to see somebody actually do something about the scalping
Not all stores will have this kind of foresight
My god your store has the smartest manager in the whole corporation
Yeah my nephew works at target, he told me they held prismatic somewhere in the back, you had to ask for it and I think they limited people.
He bought one and pulled the glaceon ex art rare, super happy for him, we laugh at the scalpers.
@@LordTreekoso awesome for your nephew he deserves jt
@@krystalslearninglibrary108 idk about DESERVES it 😂 bro has better luck than me
Do not buy from scalpers, simple as that. I remember this dude got mad he didn’t predict the boxes he scalped correctly and tried to return them to GameStop and GameStop rejected it. Love to see it ❤😂
How do I buy directly from the manufacturer?
My only option is eBay (reseller) or local target (reseller)
@@ngf5077visit the website and order a box. Might take a few days since it is a Japan based product, but thats probably your best option.
Retail outlets are resellers themselves with more connections. The scalpers are the little guys. How's about we all just stop being so infatuated with gambling on shiny cardboard?
@@jeff330 I don’t even collect. I just watch people act like savages
@@jeff330 Have nintendo C&D these card graders. The cards are meant to be played. Not hoarded. This shit wouldn't have become out of hand if the graders didn't start doing Pokemon, YGO, MTG.
Not a Pokémon collector myself, but an action figure collector. A few years ago, Target had there own exclusives of Star Wars: The Clone Wars figures, my dad was kind enough to go a Target that was a little farther from where we lived because it was confirmed they were there. Thankfully, our Target at least, knew the value of these figures and put them behind the customer help desk and also limited each customer to two copies of the same character. Scalping has always been such a pain in any collector’s rear end and this just makes me so sad for actual Pokémon collectors. I understand how this feels and it makes me so mad.
The closest we’ll ever get to old Black Friday
We should be so lucky :'y
You forgetting the stanely cup craze?
We're getting closer to actual Hunger Games though. So there's that.
Fr cause they fight for the boxes and launching themselves for them too
The closest we get to be Black
How do we stop the resellers? Limit: 1 per customer
Or even 3!
I know a few card stores were charging market price for sealed boxes and MSRP for boxes with broken seals to try and stop scalpers. As well as a 1 per customer limit
Real collectors/players won't mind because we buy singles online anyway and packs for fun
and stop buying them off ebay unless its as close to original price
That's bullshit, I go like once a year to the store to buy like 10 or so pokemon and yugioh card packs😩
I work at a Sam's Club, we're going to be having them back in soon. I'll be telling my managers to put a limit of 1 box per membership and show them this. Trust me, they don't want to deal with the fighting it will cause if they leave it as a Free-for-All.
Might as well inform them right away in my state of ohio im not gonna say where but already 2 ppl dead at a certain store they got stomped and trampled on its honestly disgusting.
Is it all of them or just your local one?
@@Josh-tm8qj d-tier rage bait.. how is that main character syndrome?
@@kwonhosookie I'm not telling you! It is somehow but I'm going to keep it a secret!
@@Twist52 local however i will say my state just not what store or what city im in. Its just crazy ppl adults willing to k!ll eachother over cardboard
I worked the day Costco had Pokémon cards, mfs waiting to since 7am. Costco opens 9:30
Is there a reason why there's a limit of 10 of these boxes instead of 2? Shits ridiculous I stg..
My mother runs a board game shop and I've caught snippets of her recounting tales of male Karens getting mad over the phone that they can't preorder like ten boxes of the latest Pokemon TCG release, there is a 1-2 box per person limit. The literal children who go there for the weekly tournament club are more mature than these grown ass men
Man, Id love to do what she does, but I would so stoop down to their level, and yell at them back with some heavy choice words. Bless your mom.
That's cause the grown men that like this stuff are spoiled mamas boys who never grew up. They play games all day, live in filth, and are entitled to everything. When they dont get their way they throw a tantrum like they do with mom...still.
Tell your mother to buy a firearm to protect her store, she doesnt need to take attitude from someone else in her own store. Perfectly legal to threaten someone in your own store
Man Internet ruined everything😢
@@Ron_Burgundy1009 internet? This is purely greedy shady business my guy. Like Nesquik buying all the water in an African nation and reselling it to them for a higher price kind of business. Merchants throughout history have done this kind of things, taking advantage of goods that sell for high
Yesterday, took my 10 year old son to get one of the new packs. He’s been talking about it for weeks. Our local comic book store sold out in 20 minutes. We went at 3 when school got out. My son was in tears. He couldn’t understand why people would buy so many at once and not give him a chance to have just a single pack. Gave us an opportunity to have a lengthy discussion about what kind of people we want to be. I was so bummed for him.
@@SierraAppa my sister makes $1 booster packs when she goes to her shows specifically for the kids, it's upsetting kids are getting shoved out of the hobby, but Friday we were out at six am getting ready to go hunting to beat the scalpers, it's so bad that GameStop put the stuff behind the counter I was lucky to get what I got
Man I'm so sorry, I hate that for both of you. I hope that sometime in the near future the stores near you will actually have them in stock when you go so that he can get a pack. Good on you though for using the crappy situation as an opportunity to talk about how there are entitled people out there that only care about themselves and how people like that take advantage of the demand for a product just to make money (though I'm sure none of that is going to help him really feel better as to why he couldn't get the Pokemon cards he's been wanting, and that's totally understandable, it's just at least good to have that conversation anyways). And it's very good that you talked about how important it is not to become that type of person (because if you think about it, entitlement and selfishness is the root cause of just about every wrongdoing ever done by one person to another person). And really, at the end of the day, sometimes people just suck. (Sorry for the long winded response, I let myself get carried away a bit.)
I got 20 packs if you would like to buy 1 for $120-$150.
@@SierraAppa I wish I could mail him my double cards, kids deserve fun things too
@@Stepdad19bruh
Was literally at Walmart today to pick up a pack for my kids and Walmart was sold out. Like shelves and shit cleared
Yeah it’s messed up the packages with the one binder and one pack are all looted through at my target and only the binders are left because they have cheap plastic boxes
I meant to say they take the packs out of the binders because of the crappy oackaging
How do they do this in store with out someone catching them
Almost need to lock them up lol
Bad timing to look for Pokemon cards for your kids, a new major release dropped yesterday, definitely no chance you're going to find anything until their next restock.
My brother went to Costco and got two, one for him and got one for me, I had no idea this was even out at Costco, I did pull a Charmander Art Rare so I am very happy.
Ya i didnt know either. I showed up to get grocies and seen they had the pika and snorlax squishmellow. Grabbed a pika no snorlax then next week they had 1 snkrlax so i got that. Might check for these since i got a near complete 151 set
Brawling for something you're passionate for is one thing, even if sometimes sad, but brawling for something someone else is passionate for because you want to deplete their supply and meet the demand at a steep mark up is a new level of pathetic.
Passionate about exploiting others love for a hobby,
Buy low sell high baby
It's simple economics.
@@NukeCaulfield
It’s not though . It’s Pokémon cards.
Do you need to suck the joy out of every single aspect of life by turning everything into a competitive stock market? Are you that much of a soulless goblin? Are you Mr. Krabs?
@@NukeCaulfield I found one of the scalpers!
For Alien Romulus, I waited hours for the Alien head popcorn bucket. It was one per person and the lady in front of me was going ballistic saying “I have two kids so we can get three!” and the cashier was calling her bs. The manager waved me over to another line and like five people tried to cut in front of me but he told them I was first. Love that popcorn bucket so much. Got the sick ass cup too. Shout out to that theater staff.
jesus, i remember seeing the cups for rite here rite now being sold for $100 on ebay.. they were $12 each in the theater local to me and maybe on the bands official website. so lucky i got one and the bucket.
you need two for when one of them is getting cleaned you can use the other
Awe man! That’s why I couldn’t find any when I went to see the movie! So sad :( me and my dad are big alien fans!!
My problem is my theater sold all the buckets and cups WEEKS before the movie. I hate that shit.
Same, my gf got on board w me and we were excited for date night. It got scalped, at all our local theatres @ParuPParuu
This is why Japan works on a lottery system.
Scalpers here are terrible. Whether it's pokemon, concert tickets, etc.,
Japan tends to hold a lottery where people are randomly chosen to have a chance to buy the said product. And even then they're limited to 1-2 products.
It's annoying, but this new pokemon drop sort of showed me why they do what they do.
One shop even put a sign that says they will only sell the Terra Festa Pokemon Box to kids. (But you know some scalpers probably sent their kids in)
These guys are the worst, and this probably has be on of the worst scalper brawls I've seen yet.
That just makes scarcity even worse. The scalpers would just sell the item for triple online for the convenience alone.
@@DrawinskyMoonPerhaps, but at least SOME regular consumers and children get to buy it, as opposed to the system we have here where FEW to NO regular consumers get it.
Although, I hate to break it, but such systems aren't going to happen in America. Walmart Target and other big box retail stores don't care about consumers because even if every Pokémon fan stops shopping there, there are enough regular people who will go for groceries and such. So why waste the time implementing a system for a minority of shoppers? I could see it happen with specialty shops, but the only nation wide TCG store I know is some specific GameStop's and they're desperate for money. They're not going to risk losing scalper dollars for goodwill.
That would be fun ngl a lottery?
@@ArsonRaboot idk what you're talking about and i havent bought pokemon cards for 20+ years but i do buy MTG and they do presales online. this guarantees people get boxes and it even gives WotC an idea of how many sheets/cards need to be printed ahead of time. honestly not sure why pokemon doesnt do this but it's hilarious seeing scenes like this play out when like i said buying product online is so simple and fool proof, and it's also 20% cheaper than if you wait for it to actually release.
That is literally the worse thing todo, and ads more value and incentive to scalpers to flood the polling with their tickets making it pay to win, making it even harder to get a product as a average Jo shmo.
Just imagine a child minding his own business making his way towards the Pokemon section and he turns to a hoard of adults running his direction
6:25 the lady saying no running is like the teachers in elementary school telling the kids not to run its pathetic that these people are acting like elementary schoolers
That's exactly what I was thinking too lol
Over pokemon cards too
Listen to how Proud he sounded when he Said he fought for them lol, its like he was stating he was at the Alamo.
I mean if you're that worried about someone running you're probably a Karen anyway
@speedreaper666 It's called liability? Stores have the obligation to ensure a safe environment. If you're already scum to be a scalper, you're scum enough to file a frivolous lawsuit.
As someone who was collecting Pokémon cards as a kid and can finally fully get into it as an adult because I now have access to money, I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to try and get your hands on just 1 pack of a new release. It is almost impossible unless you are willing to hand over at least the price of a ps5 to get your hands on a booster box. Absolutely soul crushing.
Not a Pokémon collector, but a hockey and baseball card collector. Feel like we have that same issue. Upper deck charging double the usual price for a hobby box because of one hyped rookie, topps doing the same, and 6-7 figure bounties for one card. It’s really unfortunate where the hobby is going
^^^ exactly my experience
This is why I stopped collecting 4 years ago, I wanna start again but to get anything I want id have to sell my legs
So real. I collected when I was younger and got back in with 151. It’s so difficult to get ahold of anything now. It’s crazy and ruins the fun of the hobby. STOP BUYING FROM RESALE
It really is
It’s honestly sad to see this happen. It’s like genuinely watching vultures swoop down and fight. Scalpers are genuinely awful people and no one use the excuse of “they need to feed their family” if they can buy that many Pokémon card boxes I’m sure you can squeak out a meal or two
MORE than just a meal or two, i went to buy a single little trainer box which cost me 60$, with the amount of those huge boxes they buy im sure they could feed a whole village. Theyre greedy bastards that cant let children & teens enjoy collecting cards and thats coming from a 16 yr old 😐
Fighting is uncivilized but being first in the race is fair. It's funny how scalpers are so bad but getting kids into gambling for cardboard is considered okay. They could easily buy singles for a heck of a lot cheaper but they wouldn't get that rush. I think society should check its priorities because if we put half as much effort as we do collecting or selling cardboard into something that actually mattered the world would be a lot better place.
@@jeff330 if your issue is gambling then close down the fucking casinos instead of collectable cards
@@jeff330 they took down my other reply but whatever if your issue is gambling go protest about closing down casinos instead of kids being into collecting pokémon cards, it was never this deep until scalpers came into play
@@Idkwhatthisaccountislol I'm not going to protest you can do what you want. I'm just calling it like it is. If kids want to collect they could buy singles for much cheaper than gambling, and this isn't a kids game anymore most of the people who collect are adults. If you want to play you don't need to be buying these packs. Decks aren't expensive to make and you don't need expensive alt art cards to build them.
5:22 what a sad world we live in, truly.
Imagine saving up allowance and doing well on your math test to get off school at 3pm and go to the store with your mom and to see 20 grown ass men who have plenty of ways to make money, taking the pokemon cards.
It’s not business, it’s villainy.
Yeah I even saw someone on reddit trying to defend scalpers saying that they don't have a stable source of income so they rely on scalping to make ends meet. It made me roll my eyes.
A kids being stuck at school until 3 is life🤷♂️ it sucks,but it is what it is.
I missed out on plenty as a kid because of it.
Its childhood naivety that makes them expect a product thats this popular to still be in stock.
Like expecting there to be unsold consoles on boxing day….. kid, you’d be lucky if they weren’t all bought before Christmas while they were on sale…..
High hopes make broken dreams.
As a parent, you should’ve prepared them to meet disappointment.
Instead you probably hyped them up and told them to work extra hard at school and then promised them if they did they’d get this new set……. Essentially lying to your kid.
Honesty goes a long way.
@nicks4802 stop what's wrong with you LMAOOOOO why are you making it a literal child's fault omg it's the fault of these loser grown ass men not some 10 yr old who wants his cool pokemone stuff. Ur a miserable person pls
@@nicks4802you desperately need to get laid
@@nicks4802 people shouldn't have to prepare their kids for a world where grown ass men fight each other over a kids card game. You're holding actual children to a higher standard than these man-children lol
earlier today my boyfriend actually had to deal with this shit for hours on end, kids making messes of the store, and many "adults" fighting for a pack or several at times. what got me the most was how an old lady was trying to buy some packs for her grandkids and two grown ass adults yanked them out of her hands and kinda shoved her over, thankfully she was okay and those pieces of shit are blacklisted now. but like what is wrong with someone to be THAT careless and selfish for something as stupid as some pokemon cards ?
Money, it's not about the pokemon cards it's about selling them for profits. Profits profits profits, capitalism on display.
i work at gamestop and yeah same shit
These Scalpers Deserve to be in squid games, but instead of money they can play for Pokemon Cards
thats taking way past careless and selfish that is assault.
😂😂 ripped it out of her hand .. that must of been funny
Now Costco has felt the disgusting wrath of scalpers. Also, Costco sells Pokemon cards?
I guess now I know why I've never seen them there.
what doesn't costco sell
Usually they bundle tins from old sets together for some decent deals. Tins iirc are like 15 or 20$ each, but theyll sometimes pair 2 tins + something else together for like 25 or 30$.
How I was I suppose to know Costco sells Pokemon cards? If any fighting was gonna happen at Costco it would be fighting for the last Costco hot dog or pizza slice, not Pokemon cards.
"Now"
I went to a Meijer in Indiana, and the whole process was very respectful. A small line formed behind the card section where a woman worked on stocking the supply, and when it was time for people to grab their stuff, everyone didn’t grab more than one of any one thing before getting back in line. There were 11 ETBs and 10 people waiting, so we all got really lucky, especially considering it wasn’t super early in the day. I think we were all grateful that the process went as smoothly as it did, and I’m glad things aren’t as bad as this video all across the board.
I worked in a gas station when those Slime Licker candies were viral. We'd order 5 boxes, and within an hour, they would all be gone. Adults would buy a case of 12 and sell individuals online for $60. I had to put limits on how many people could buy because I'd have little kids coming for the next week asking me if we have any left because everywhere is sold out. It was a sad situation.
Greed has no limits.
Over candy is crazy
Pokemon company should see these videos and then immediately print them nonstop to devalue it. It’s the only way to stop scalpers
Nah they want money
They literally did
Unfortunately they sell these in bulk for this very reason I'm sure.
This is what they want honestly when it comes to gatcha cards and such
@@thatoneguy779 wouldn't they sell more sets then?
Wouldn't make sense for them to devalue their own product? They should just put in a 1or2 boxes per person limit.
Can we just all agree scalpers are the absolute worst
I'm dreading trying to get a Switch 2.
@@randall517 scalpers are gonna have a field day when the Switch 2 releases and you know there’s gonna be a fight for the Switch 2 in stores
I hate lego scalpers. Mfs have no imagination and only care about money and IPs
I disagree
@@randall517 I didn’t even think of that 😳
Costco limits items to one per customer all the time. My warehouse has done it for Pokemon cards multiple times it needs to be standard procedure company wide at this point. Corporate recently told employees we aren’t allowed to purchase them. We aren’t allowed to buy items before they are on the floor and the store is open, but we’ve never been denied access to a product we sell before.
This shit reminds me of when Willy Wonka was announcing the five Golden Tickets to his factory, and people were cleaning the store of Wonka bars
Oh my god I loved that Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory movie
And scalpers are just like the 4 bad kids and their parents
@@arrownautLuckily we got ourselves a Charlie Bucket who’s a saint, and will point out all their dumbassery
I went yesterday with my friend to our local card shop an hour before they opened, since they said they would be getting in a good bit of stock for Prismatic Evolutions. There were only 4 people ahead of us, and right before they opened, the line turned into I'd guess around 40 people. The store has a 1 of each item limit, and I spoke to a few people in front and behind us and everyone was incredibly nice. Some had gotten into it recently because they liked doing it with their kids, some just enjoy the chase of a certain card they wanted, and one lady said she hadn't gotten anything since the 90's and wanted to jump back in, and I explained some of the new cards to her. I got exactly what I wanted and most people did too.
Idk I just had a really nice time, and wanted to describe my positive experience since as of late the worst of the community has really been making the rounds. My experience is how I think most of the genuine fans are, but I think most people know that already. People who use them as an investment and don't actually even enjoy Pokémon really ruin things. As the Twitter TCG account posted, hopefully the increase in prints and newness wears off, and some things can return to normal!
Local card stores usually keep their stock behind the counter and are much better at enforcing rules outside of the player stank.
@ohnosmoarlulcatz Me and my family joke about this specific card store and call it " The Dirty Recliner, " because they have a really good selection of cards that keeps me coming back, but it's a really trashy, hole in the wall kind of place. They have random food wrappers and boxes scattered behind the counter and have made a little path where they walk on top. And there's the dirty recliner in the back where the owner lady eats her food and it's covered in stains and crumbs. How I've never seen a bug is beyond me
This! GO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GAME STORES. Most of the ones I see are placing limits and being very transparent about when they're getting it and how much they're getting. avoid the retail stores and just go support your local stores. that's the way to enjoy any TCG but particularly anything that's overly hyped like this.
They're stupid people. They're doing stupid things with their money thinking they'll make it big. But they won't. Pokémon made a statement to up production of this set, so everyone will wait for the market to correct, don't buy any scalped product. Then when they realise no one's buying their stuff they'll drop it under MRP just to try to get their money back. They're not long term investors, they ain't got the patience to store this bulk safely for decades just in case the seal product becomes valuable which it won't. They get what they deserve.
Every LGS in my area was selling prismatic for Market price, reaaaally dissapointed. Definitely sad they didnt even give options to buy at msrp but have it pre opened
Imagine you’re on your deathbed watching your life flash before your eyes and you remember fighting some Reddit mods over Pokémon cards in Costco
"Ah, that was a great day. I fought so hard. I regret nothing. It was for a good cause" (probably)
This is actually 10 times more tame than I expected. Which makes this kinda funny especially your commentary on it.
I’m finally an adult making 6 figures, just got back into Pokémon collecting since as a kid I loved Pokémon but my parents only ever gave in to buying me a total of 10 packs over the course of my childhood. I went to 3 Targets, GameStops, and BestBuys each yesterday and got nothing. I refuse to give a single dollar to scalpers, I’d rather stop collecting.
The best thing to do is develop a relationship with a local card shop. They will usually have preorders, and my shop only changes their pricing when their suppliers increase their prices.
Same, I’ve completely lost interest in them and JDM cars now that people ruined them
Make friends with your nearest tabletop store. Maybe show interest in entering a low tournament or two to show you like the game and aren't out for profits. Some scalpers will try and enter major ones for rare card prizes but many stores require a history of playing at the store.
same bro I already get a little second hand embarrassment just being an adult buying them at the store lmao. I'd rather just not bother, they will never be something I need that bad.
We need more people like you in the world. Yes we would like to collect if we can, but grown adult people beating each other up for kids trading cards is something dumber than what the kids would do for cards, WTF is wrong with the world. That's not to say that adults do not like Pokemon but god dam. Honestly good on you bro. That pack you did not bye hopefully goes towards some kid who is coming home from school and not some reseller.
Keep the product locked up. Only hand 1 out per customer at the register. Make customers go to the counter and request to purchase it and they only get to buy one.
@@DocSunshine I don’t think resellers are going to limit sales to 1 per customer. That want to move as much product as possible
lol tbh i usually buy like 2 or 3 to make sure I get which one I want
@@ngf5077 You've responded with this copy and pasted statement a few times now. But you're clearly not understanding what the comments are saying. They're not talking about the resellers selling their product. They're talking about Costco limiting it to 1 box per customer, which would reduce the amount that resellers are able to buy.
I’d just pay some junkie a couple bucks to to get them in my place. Now im not a scalper personally but if the market did become less saturated like that, thats definitely the way I’d make sure the bag was secure if I needed a play like that.
@@tinyrodent2821 Costco doesn’t manufacture the cards. Costco scalps by purchasing then raising the price and reselling
As an actual fan of Pokemon, I remember when I first started playing 10 years ago and the card aisle was an all you can eat buffet, with some product staying on shelves for a couple years due to so few people actually playing the game. Just yesterday, my local Walmart was trashed with scalpers opening sealed products trying to steal booster packs.
That’s a disgusting level of consumerism. What’s so different about this one? Why is it special I haven’t seen anything about any other boxes like this
@@NF_Spotifyyy it's a rare card i think that is really worth a lot if you get it.
I feel genuinely bad bro, I mean I’ve only seen good from Pokemon fans but then again, every fandom has the weirdos and the sweaty guys
We have the same 10 people doing this shit for Hot Wheels at my workplace and threatening to shoot one another, sneaking in through employee entrances, etc. It's super pathetic.
@NF_Spotifyyy unfortunately this new set got a lot of hype, so resellers caught on that they could probably resell them for a high margin with how in-demand they are
I love Pokemon cards just as much as the next guy but you will never catch me doing this shit lmao. This is why I do all my shopping online
Bro, how do they look the cashier in the eyes? I'd feel like a complete fuckup in life doing that
That's their superpower, living without shame
They self checkout
There’s a thing called self checkout
@@pandaketamine then you have to look yourself in the eyes 👁️ 👄 👁️
I work at Gamestop, and whenever we opened our store the day this released we sold out in TEN. MINUTES. Seriously insane.
you guys need to implement lottery system. Everyone deserve to buy stuff. Not those lifeless losers.
Do you work in a large population area? My store has stock, but the population is low so its just a matter of "not enough people to have one that cares"
Probably the only sales GameStop made that day
@@djan0889 I’m not sure what the lottery system is, but we only gave two items per person. We had like thirty people in the store, which is insane when you remember it’s a Gamestop 😭😭
Bro these are grown ass men doing this that’s so embarrassing dude wtf
Insanely embarrassing. They have not a soul in their lives to shame them so they’ll keep going.
Reddit Society
The saddest part to me is the fact they pride themselves for it, do they go home and reflect on their embarrassing behavior and think about how they may have ruined some kids day who was waiting for those cards? No, they have too much of a adrenaline rush because of how much their about to charge for the sh!t, already got the stuff listed before even unpacking, honestly so depressing,
This is why I steered away from collecting as a whole. It's become a pathethic game of who can scalp for the highest amount on third party website/app because people don't give a flying fuck about actually collecting the product and trying to use this in order to have a big pay day.
Greed has beyond fucked our soceity.
It's ridiculous..do men not have morals?! I'm broke af but I'd never do this shìt.. in just a drunk mathematics master
This is actually entertaining. I enjoyed the commentary. It was better than just watching the video alone. 😂
As someone who is a serious collector when it comes to Pokemon. this is a serious problem those who actually want the product to enjoy can’t get it without way overpaying, and trust me so many kids literally couldn’t get any for Christmas. which is so sad when I was a kid that’s all I wanted and it’s just to expensive for at this point for people who are not like well off. I’ve been collecting my whole life but in the last few years started putting real money into it and it’s crazy how much it costs to even be a casual collector.
You can buy a printer and make your own cards at home.
@ nah my collection is worth thousands just because of how well I take care of the cards and how long I’ve been collecting I just wish it was more accessible for other people who want to take part in the hobby
You realize you’re exactly part of the problem then? Once people stop putting so much money into this, they’ll go back to being a kids game.
Nah, it's not a serious problem at all.
@@ngf5077 Can't use em in tournaments and they aren't worth shit.
I remember when the black friday started, me and my cousin went just to enjoy the chaos. Before the store opened offically, an employee craked open the entrance and screamed "DON'T RUN AND WATCH OUT FOR THE KIDS".
Back to subject, I find it amazing that us human, manage to create this much value for a piece of cardboard
It’s a spiral of expecting the next person in the cycle to value it at that price, everyone understands it’s just cardboard but buys it at that price because someone else will likely buy it off of them later for a higher price with the same intent
I read a comment somewhere that if we as a society had better economy and far relaxing environment this wouldn't be the case. Life sucks rn for a lot of people and this is the result!
We literally trade pieces of paper for goods and services.
Its valued off gambling^^ unfortunately even more normalized than ever before now.
I'm an 80's baby and used to drive by people camping out days before Best Buy black Friday.
I’ve said it once and I’ve said it many other times: SCALPING SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.
Just don't buy from scalpers. People have no self-control. Scalpers scalp because they are rewarded for doing it. Nobody 'needs' what scalpers sell, they just 'want' it.
I think we all 100% agree... Literally by the definition makes everybody's lives more miserable and less accessible
Reselling in a country like the US will never be banned. Even if buying and reselling new products would be banned, they would find a way to circumvent it. Like pop the seal open and sell it as used near untouched.
Said it before and will say it again, if roaches want to make money, roaches will find a way.
Thing is it’s hard to tell the difference between someone just selling a product they don’t want anymore and a scalper. They just need to limit it 1 per person in the shop. Honestly don’t know why Pokémon doesn’t enforce this on retailers
@@HoltonStudios It's not hard at all lmao Someone selling something they don't want any more isn't gonna charge you a 2x, 2x, 5x retail mark-up, you rube.
"one more for my girlfriend" "No. we also got it for our friends" --- i swear if they are all scalpers and lying, im losing it
1:05 "Its like a swarm of mosquitoes fighting over a peice of corn in a pile of dog shit."
😂 Thats needlessly graphic lmao
Charlie is truly a poet😂
For once, a corny joke made me laugh. Thank you, Charles🌽
It's an accurate comparison though
Scrolled way too far to find this comment 😆 I was unaware that mosquitos were interested in corn also.
I was unaware dogs ate corn 😂
My kid was sad about this yesterday, but even at his tender age, he knows these people are scumbags that ruin everything.
Those people are the lowest of the low
Poor guy :(
Unfortunately scalping is going to always happen with how greedy people are. Even at the expense of literal children.
In my country its illegal to scalp, im surprised it is allowed in USA
No, it's not always going to happen. Scalpers create a bubble that can burst with enough supply.
I think it’s out of necessity at this point.
@@Hafaechaes Pokemon tends to not overprint product though. I know theyre intending to print more but that takes time and will most likely not be enough.
@@hanniaedithmartinezadame794how do you ban scalping? Im curious
Imagine a parent trying to get some Pokemon cards for their kid’s birthday only to get pushed by some scalpers who take all that stuff like if it was the last remaining food on earth.
I saw a video were a grandma came up to get a box, I was like "pleave don't hurt the granny"
This was ridiculous.
Costco needs to put that stuff behind the counter or someplace more secure than that, so everybody gets a chance to get the cards, not just scalpers.
Even better than that, make it available online only and not have the stampede.
Limit of 2, no exceptions.
Online is the worst cause there is no way to stop people from making multiple accounts
WoTC wouldn't benefit from nightly news scenes showing how much market interest there is in their artificially-created shortages LOL
Gonna be hilarious in a couple weeks when Pokémon prints millions of new packs and these losers can’t unload huge numbers of Pokémon boxes lol
There really is no “behind the counter” or someplace else, costco is a big warehouse and there is no back for them to put stuff. But they still could have put the stock on the top of the massive shelves and require a worker to retrieve.
certain products (eevee-related and etc) on pokemon center website sell out instantly as well. Online doesn't stop scalpers unfortunately. If anything it makes their job of buying everything up easier.
Blows my mind that these stores aren’t severely limiting how many a customer can buy. That would put and end to all this embarrassing behavior by these “adults”.
Product is selling they dont care
Limits are crazy hahah they’re still taking my money but I at least want 10 of each
Just don't buy from scalpers. People have no self-control. Scalpers scalp because they are rewarded for doing it. Nobody 'needs' what scalpers sell, they just 'want' it.
9:06 that elbow was NASTY
Imagine beating up someone for pokemon
Look, it’s the peanut guy
why you here? go make another tsb vid bro
Bro posted a 9 minute timestamp and the videos been out only for around 6
I didnt expect you here tbh, but i suppose this situation is a battleground so you do fit.
Of course right after he showed the clip of them grabbing the boxes I get a “we’re gonna see how many Pokémon cards I can get with 100$ on this app” ad 😂
This is everywhere. Card games, Lego, transformers. This is rampant everywhere.
People taking all the joy out of everything
@bonjouritsready iirc Excesive greed is the sign of a colapsing society.
Can it collapse faster? Cause it's gonna get worse before it gets better
@@returnedtomonkey8886 Look who just got elected.. The son of the largest scumsucking landlord of NYC, who also got into legal trouble for being discriminatory against minorities renting their properties (as the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in terms of being racist douches) and both got fined..
@@returnedtomonkey8886Companies in recent years have been manufacturing less of certain products, thus causing an increase in demand. This creates more scalpers. Combine this with social media and the internet, and there you have it. Nothing to do with a “failing society”. People aren’t going crazy like this over regular Pokémon cards. This was a miscalculated release, where the supply could not keep up with the demand.
Black Friday was crazier back in the day than it is now. Customers were causing stampedes in the 1950s.
The worst part about it is that the profit margins for these scalpers is only a few bucks. All the time they spend waiting in line, running and fighting for a box, just to make a profit that barely covers shipping and other expenditures. It's so ridiculous and senseless, thank god Pokemon announced official mass reprints for active products, including the most sought after ones.
That’s the part that gets me. Doing all this for then equivalent of a high schoolers paycheck, in the best case scenario.
Exactly. After fees, these goobers are making like $20-30 per box.
@@justinmyser they retail for around the same amount, 200% value is pretty good.
They don't value their time, they've never had a job.
Not defending them, because f scalpers, but if you had the option of waking up at 7am taking a short drive to run 100 feet for $500 any given day, would you do that instead of working a normal job? They're not getting $20 per hour. They're getting a few hundred dollars for a few minutes.
Back when the PS5s dropped, people made literally hundreds of thousands of dollars with minimal effort. It shouldn't be allowed. Stores should do more to prevent it. But as long as they can, there's absolutely a reason people do it.
0:14 pun intended?
That was alliteration but pun fits the device.
Legendary comment boys
@@recompostionno. He says " we havent evolved passed that..." slowahh
@ “past that”?
Also that was at time stamp 0:15.
I am aware of the overblown fad of Pokémon, but had to ask my wife about what evolving meant. So cringe.
@@recompostion dude you literally dont know grammer...no...stop
Imagine what these retail stores think when they see 20+ grown men barrel toward the display put up for school kids.
On reddit. The guy in the green that got elbowed wanted to get the cards for his kids. The guy in the hat swiped it from him to scalp.
nobody actually believes the guy in the green. "For my kids" is just a convenient scapegoat when you're being an asshole
@@SBDave-t9xmaybe not the kid part. But the video shows they guy in green with 2 boxes in arm then hat douch takes them, reddit is 100% on green coat guys side. So no idea what ba you’re talking about.
@@jaredS_Eh and even if he is lying, 2 boxes doesn't seem unreasonable and literally snatching them out of his hands is wrong no matter what
@@SBDave-t9x guy in green had the boxes first, there were multiple videos/pov's, guy in hat shoved multiple people and was seen taking both boxes directly from the guy in green
@@Fireball006ya it’s a bad look when he’s draped in supreme being all fake tough. Hypebeast and now moving over to scalp pokemon
I've seen it first hand. Not to this degree of insanity, but when I was working at Walmart a group would routinely stand by the shelf and wait for someone to come stock the cards. And they would wait hours. I also heard of people being caught in the stockroom looking for them, and even someone sneaking into the store before opening just to get an edge over others.
Same but now my walmart doesnt sell them anymore
My walmart stopped selling them after a fist fight.
Mine stopped because a gun was pulled.
I gotta know the story here if there is one@@drd675
6:48 thought i hear star lords ult for a second
Leeeeeegeeeeeendaaaaaarrryyyyy
PTSD
😂😂😂
Penguinzo was like how do they not go home and look in the mirror and say wtf am I doing I need to make a change had me rolling dying laughing 😂😂😂
There is a special place in hell for scalpers. They just suck the fun out of whatever hobby they think they can make a profit from.
Edit: replies is full of the same guy defending the act of scalping. trying to have an argument with him is pointless, he has already made up his mind. check replies at your own risk.
Capitalism at work. It doesn't care about you.
There's literally nothing wrong with scalping. There's nothing with reselling what YOU bought.
Edit: If you're gonna reply, at least try to give your OBJECTIVE opinion. Say something that actually makes sense.
Here's why I personally think there's nothing wrong with scalping:
It is a relatively harmless hustle that doesn't directly affect anybody. Scalping isn't morally wrong because scalping itself isn't causing any problems. Stores naturally run out of stock whether it's due to a scalper, or regular costumer both lead the the inability to obtain certain goods(if you cant afford it). Using "it prevents others from getting it" makes zero sense. If a regular customer buys something, someone else can't get it if you are scalping, another person is still able to obtain the item. They just need to pay more money.
Capitalism baby!!! Profits over fun is the motto!
@@dreamslayer7502 Imagine defending scalpers. So fucking sad.
@dreamslayer7502 you should try sewer slide. Nobody will miss you :)
Stores need to start limiting this stuff. People also need to just stop buying from scalpers. If there werent a profit to be made, then this wouldn't be happening.
Capitalism strikes again.
I don't think I've ever bought a "Card Pack" in real life, besides that time when I was a kid and wanted some cards to fool around with. The main issue people are THIS crazy is because of those perceived "ultra ghost rares" or however they're called. These people are willing to spend 10,000$ to buy a single card and it's insane. I would publicly humiliate someone if they tried bragging about their 10k$ pokemon card to me.
they were limiting them, you can even hear in the video the costco employees trying to tell them there was a limit per person but people were grabbing the whole stack anyways, probably had someone re-stacking them on a pallet by the register after ringing out up to the limit and putting them right back for people to not listen again :/
“Why is our game dying? Why can’t we get more kids to play and keep the spirit alive?”
These people, probably
They aren't asking that question. They know what they're doing. If they wanted this to stop, they could just stop printing SIR cars and other ultra rare versions of cards. Just have base level playable versions of each card.
A lot of my friends (note we are ages 26 to 40) have quit entirely the last 2 years. It's become ridiculous. I used to collect cards of a few Pokemon I like- as well as sleeves and a few other things- but some of the cards now are reselling more than I'm willing to pay. I'm lucky to be born in the 80's and have the first few original sets that came out or I'd be out of luck on everything. These poor new collectors will have a hard time getting those and the new sets complete.
tsk...tsk...Like Disney adult but somehow worse.
They don't even play the game. They just sell it because they heard it was profitable. I bet these losers don't even know who Charizard is.
@kl1n1kalAnd then they sell it to people who also don’t play the game and will just open the packs so they can sell what they pull:
Bought 100 evolving skies packs for $4.99 over time. Kept them in my personal collection and just found out they sold for $25-30 and sold all of them. Made over $3k
I work for a big retailer in Australia and it was the exact same here, except our store offers click and collect (opens at 5-6am when the store opens at 7) so the 200 people lined up outside for opening didn’t even get any as it had already sold out that morning 😂 people camping overnight to scalp people for nothing.
id say this story had a happy ending if i didnt have a suspicion that the online shoppers are also just scalpers
This makes me proud to be Australian.
Was this big W? Or Target or Kmart🤣
Damn it’s just like toilet paper all over again 😂
id rather the people in person get the product than the online scalpers, like at least they put in actual effort
Online scalpers scalping real scalpers, what a war your retailer has begun XD
The greatest threat to humanity is humanity itself.
capitalism. The word you are looking for is "capitalism" in its late stages. If you didn't mind the "gig ecoomy" you should not mind this. Charlie has you paying his bills. These people have to pay their own.
@@Polit_Burroa concept invented by humanity...
@@Polit_Burro yea aliens invented the concept
@@sugon_deez Charity is also a concept invented by Humanity, so.....
@@Polit_Burro the same knife that slices food to feed families also holds the potential to end said family. We consider these things a threat because of their destructive potential.
Adults fighting over Pokémon cards is just recess with credit cards-gotta catch 'em all, even if it’s a black eye 😭
Surprised they didn’t do Pokémon battles
This comment needs to be rewarded. 😭 Right on! 💯
Black eye 😂😂😂
It isn’t just Pokémon cards, if you’re a kid that likes legos sets… you’re in for some depressing news. You ain’t getting the sets you want until you have double your money and a full time job.
4:08 nah, this Guy WAS the Bully, and He never grew Up beyond that
No he’s a geek bro idk about him being a bully
“Bullied people bully others”
☠️
True
He weren’t no bully ahahaha wrestling over Pokémon cards he the dude hiding in the liabary away from the bullies
The heavy breathing got me laughing so hard at 5:00 😭😭😭
If those people are fighting over the 151 Pokémon TCG sets then imagine what would happen during an apocalypse
Yeah, I gave up on people during that whole console thing back in 2020
All imma say is Walmart is mine hahah I ain’t letting nobody take my stuff
Starve or get clapped by someone for their shoes. They're all winded after running 200 yards.
They'd go full coward.
I remember the local card shop I go to had half his stock of 151 robbed from him by a delivery driver. That was hundreds worth of packs and sets GONE.
Scalpers have always been around but it sort of feels like they came into prominence during COVID. My favorite part was when they horded toilet paper and hand sanitizer, but a few weeks into Covid supplies of those items returned to normal and they were stuck with garages full of the stuff. Even better, was when one tried to return it to Walmart, and they said nope.
The greatest war in history, the war to end all wars
greater than the war i had taking a shit in the toilet yesterday
World War III: Pokémon cards
Lmao I agree 😂
greater than the war i had on the toilet yesterday
Oof if they mess with dragon ball fans cooked
As a kid I thought that adults are the most responsible and respectful people in the world. What a lie that was, in truth adults are just bigger kids.
Some grow up, very few though. These people are just shamefully degenerate and its created an ecosystem where if you want to enjoy anything then either you fight like they do or pay triple the price. Id personally just laugh at these clowns and pray for their downfall. I started collecting in october to reignite some passion from my own childhood but the prices really have doubled since them.
They didn't grow up
What kind of ultrasheltered kid would possibly think that?
@@RedArrow808 I mean its understandable to think that as a kid. I always looked up to my mother and dad and the grown ups around me looked pretty mature to me when i was little.
@@RedArrow808 "ultrasheltered kid" proving his point doesn't help your case 🙃
It’s so sad for the ones who have kids or the ones genuinely in it for the hobby. I work at wal mart and my store manager put in for us to stop selling cards because we would have a bunch of grown men ambush the poor card vendor and clear her out before she could put out the product
Yep. Seen it happen time after time in person. It’s actually vile
Bro went home and told his body pillow waifu he fought to the end for the pokemon boxes lmao
Pokémon constantly says they’re going to print more to help, as if scalpers will not just buy more. If they truly wanted to fix it, they’d put a limit on them like 1 per customer per day. But they won’t.
its not up to the pokémon company to set a limit per customer, but to the store managers. and these guys mostly dont care because well the cards selling out = money
Well im pretty sure thats how they got rid of scalpers in Japan by reprinting the set then its not worth as much but the fans can have them
I mean, the scalpers don't have infinite money. Eventually they can't keep buying all the reprints, all while the value of what they do have drops due to all the reprinting.
Increasing the supply will help to some degree. Maybe people get it from the store and don't buy from them, whether or not they buy more. It depends, but supply helps sometimes. Example: scalpers who bought PS5 Pros to flip had trouble selling them because the supply was actually enough to meet demand, so they had to keep the lowering their prices until they were taking losses just to get rid of them
These Scalpers Deserve to be in squid games, but instead of money they can play for Pokemon Cards
7:08 "Oh, tha-that's about ten" LOOOOOOOOOOL
Died at that broo 😂😂
I can only imagine the Costco manager's shock when they expected small children fawning over the cards, and got fully-grown adults reenacting a zombie outbreak.
these scalpers should be made to play squid games for their pokemon cards 😂
@@DaMuss-e2w Season 3! 🤣
I wish they would come out with tons more copies, to short squeeze these scalpers.
2020: Amazon forest fire, war for toilet paper
2025: LA forest fire, war for pokemon cards
Also both years started on a Thursday
I see a pattern here, and i dont like it
It’s also been 5 years since 2020
Again, it’s also a WTF year (year started with Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.) just like 2020
Here comes the bird flu!
as they say, history Repeats
2020/2021 was also one of the biggest scalper years for Pokemon/Yugioh cards its not changed
1:28 No honor nor Respect just pulling the boxes out of another's hands.
Recording like it’s a war footage archive but it’s just some overgrown kids fighting over sm Pokémon cards 😂😂
Theyre fighting for potential money
I’m glad I quit my addiction when I did. Cardboard is too expensive now
People fighting over toilet paper is infinitely less pathetic than fighting over Pokémon cards.
How so? I wipe my ass with both
People actually threw hands over tp though.
@@Retro-Iron11 That's a hell-ton of work, dawg!
Remember when we used to run for Playstations as kids? Now we run for Pokemon cards to pay the rent... (I don't. Just saying).
These are grown men and women that are fighting over Trading Cards. I mean how do you not feel ashamed doing this?
One solution some card stores have come up with for Prismatic Evolutions is unsealing product to deter scalpers/resellers for the sake of local players/collectors.
The actual pokemon tcg community, the players, are actually really wholesome. Many times at my locals people give eachother cards to help out with decks.
9:40 the thing is that when people look at the mirror they dont reflect to change, they reflect to accept who they become, it just gets worse from there
they should start locking up pokemon cards and require the assistance of a employee to then give out 1 per customer
they do this where I live, anywhere that has pokemon cards they are either in a glass case or behind the cashier like packs of cigarettes in a corner store LMAO
@@under_the_rex_hood7609 This should be a case everywhere in the US. Limit 1 or 2 per customer.
ive seen videos of people literally running into Costco and throwing the entire cardboard pop up display into their cart to buy all 20-40 boxes of pokemon cards… like what the hell how these corporations dont have item limits knowing these items will sell out within the day is beyond me.
grabbing 2-3 boxes is one thing, but literally hoarding tens of them just to resell is completely uncalled for. they are literally breaking the display as they snatch boxes from one another 😂 insanity.
@@Deadweight45because if people kill each other over pokemon cards, it creates a bad look on the company for not having some sort of anti scalping system.
@HappyIsaac0420 Obviously, it doesn't. Scalping has been a disease for decades, yet people still go to Costco and Walmart. Scalpers make them boatloads of money, and people don't care enough to make the corporation care.
The Costco I shop at had a limit of 2 when I was there at opening time yesterday (Friday) morning.
From Stanley Cups to Pokemon cards.🤣🤣