i feel bad for none of yall lol its fucking funny watching and seeing how smart ppl are….. 1% of pokemon buyers make a REAL LIVING…. yall keep on burning money retards
GOOD. We need more big mainstream creators to put this on blast so the Pokemon Company, their distributors, and retailers actually feel embarrassed and pressured to change the way they run their business. It's f-ing ridiculous how the Pokemon Company keeps messing up product releases over and over and over.
Or how bout we, as the consumer, just skip the set and not purchase. Let the scalpers experience supply and demand. To put the blame on production and not the system at large at fault is unreasonable. I support the workers who design, print and package our cards. Sure, TPCI could expand and print more, but if enough of our material conditions were already met, we wouldn't be trying to "one up" each other with value of merchandise. We could actually sustain as those who love the hobby thrives, and not have to risk our productivity in favor of another's because they gouged the product we essentially create demand for, suffer
Stop blaming the companies and blame the people who buy from scalpers. I really wanted a PS5. Guess what? I just waited 2-3 years until stock came back in. Really wanted a limited edition watch. Watched until I saw a fair priced listing instead of the overinflated ones that were above retail. Scalpers suck. But guess what, retailers buy products in the hopes of selling their entire inventory for higher than they paid for the item. See the similarity? Just stop buying from scalpers. The majority go away quicker than you think.
@@CanadianEhHole Stupid argument. As long as scalpers are allowed in the free market, they will continue to profit. You didnt buy a scalped PS5? Ok....thousands already did. Who are you trying to "convince" with this? Not the scalpers. Not the people. Thats not how the market works...
Fucking tell me about it. There’s literally videos everywhere and people going home empty handed on release day, while spending hours going shop to shop hoping that there would be ANYTHING on shelves. But NOPE, not only kids, but everyone that was hoping to rip something on release day was completely locked out of that experience. It’s becoming shitty AF to say the least. 👎🏼
I got 2 of these blooming water collector boxes. The costco I went to had an employee standing by to limit people to 2 per customer. This is how it should be done. People were civil. It allows more people to get product. More stores need to set limits. Maybe not put everything out all at once. Btw, I'm a collector, not a scalper. I want 2 playsets. One for me and one for my wife. In addition, I've decided to no longer watch RUclipsrs who do mass pack openings. An ETB or 2 is fine, but hundreds of packs in a single video is kinda disgusting. Just my 2 cents.
This used to be a hobby for me, but even official stores are now raising their prices to match those on the black market. It’s absurd how is it normal to pay around 20 bucks for just one pack? This hobby was meant for kids, not for adults with big budgets. If children can no longer afford to participate, Pokémon will inevitably die out in a few years along with us. Without new people to take over the hobby, there’s no future for it. It’s heartbreaking it makes me sad, and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.
3 targets: Dry. 3 Walmarts: Dry. 2 gamestops: Both Dry. 1 local card shop: Dry. Other local card shop: Selling ETBs for $110. ICG in the mall: Selling ETBs for $110. I’m taking a break lol. Maybe working on filling some older sets with the missing cards I need.
And people are still out here defending scalpers. Everyone you call them out, someone comes to their defense. People need to change their mindset if they actually want things to change.
In the UK we queued nice and politely outside our respective stores, a man handed out tickets, we had a little chat, calmly walked inside to pay for our 1 box each and left to shouts of good luck! You guys are just fighting each other.
It's so disappointing that I've had to change the way I interact with this hobby. I prefer buying boxes and opening boxes for my collection but I'm just buying singles now bc this crap is out of control
I want 1 or 2 boxes. It looks like maybe 10-15 people can take out a pallet if they take 10. They could make 50-100 people happy if they would simply bring the Pallet to customer service behind the counter and hand out a 1-2 limit. Instead most people aren't happy.
That's what's happening now on the east coast limit of 2 each. They are changing their ways after the west coast savages couldn't behave. 10 limit was way too high to begin with they never think this through.
Local card shops need to take note. Their customers will NOT forget what they are charging when this dies down and they are crying on social media again to fill their MTG Commander night.
FACTS. If you want to charge market on freshly dropped product, I don't want to read about how tough running a shop is once the heat dies down and they are begging us for business again.
This is happening in the shops here in PA too. 2 of them in particular that I really had thought were different, unfortunately prismatic has brought their true prismatic money shaded colors out. But hey they are good dudes right because they are only selling etbs for 99.00 instead of market price. /s fucking bullshit man yall fuckers have distro with the pricing and your gunna sell way above retail. Yall done fucked up
I had to work yesterday, so missed out on getting any Prismatic anywhere in my town. I heard from a friend that our GameStop which doesn’t open until 11, had people waiting at 6 am to buy Prismatic. Our GameStop manager did deviate from the 2 per skew policy to just a 2 per, so everyone could try and get some(I had stopped by after work while I was waiting on a pizza and was chatting with him). The local LGS was essentially sold out before they opened, though our LGS did set back a case to use for prizing at locals since 90% of our local players were not able to swing by. The LGS also mentioned that out of everybody in the line all but maybe 4 or 5 people were people that have never been to the store before, so we can assume they were resellers. Even our local comic book shop, which does cards had their whole stock wiped, again by people who would never step foot in the store otherwise. It’s ridiculous a bunch of people that ruined the sneaker buying community decided to jump ship to Pokémon. As much as I want to buy singles from the set, ideally just Eri’s FA and a Raging Bolt SIR, there are barely any singles listed on tcgplayer to buy and the singles are pricey because the supply is low.
100% grown men living in their mom's basement fighting over toys... yeah they worth money but this stuff is for kids... drop the pokemon and go try to lose your virginity next
I'll never understand why these products aren't limited to 2 per person. This would make the employees lives easier also I think. It would be win-win for them.
I hate scalpers like this with every fiber of my being. I only collect to keep. Don't care how much the card is worth. The only way i'd sell my cards is if I lost my job and needed the money bad enough but I wouldn't go out and buy a shitton of boxes and hope to sell them for a profit.
Scalpers plus market manipulation and scammers are ruining this hobby, I love Pokemon but it’s already hard enough for the average collector to keep up with every new set coming out and now it’s nearly impossible to keep up with every new set unless you have more money than sense
Direct all your anger at Pokemon for not printing more. The only reason “investors” and flippers are taking an interest is because the stock is limited.
@@xboxmonkies1 true Pokémon do need to print more and that may help with the scalping problem, in my opinion there’s a difference to investing in something and scalping something though, scalpers are buying so much product way more than necessary so there’s none or nearly none left in stock than manipulate the market by slapping their own price on it and move it on as soon as possible before more of that product becomes available again or if they’re really lucky no more of that product becomes available than they are left sat on a gold mine, whereas when you invest into something you don’t manipulate the market like what we are seeing you wait until it makes a profit not force it
Today, true colors were shown by a local tcg shop. He was nothing more than a scalper that got a full pallet of prismatic, canceled pre orders to only turn around and sell for higher prices, and fucked over good customers. I was one of those customers. Disgusting behavior from everyone during these times.
I have no problem with stores selling high if they really need to but cancelling pre-orders to relist is egregious. Either sell it high in the first place or honour your pre-orders. Had they already taken payment from people? Some places use it as an interest free loan.
@@Slammindeezeproductions nah the true colors were shown by the community who has zero understanding of supply/demand and no idea how to run a business. LGS are getting cooked by having 10% of their normal allocation and in order to be able to make rent they have to charge market price to compete with online shops who have little to no overhead. Your a moron.
I'm done with the hobby. This has gotten out of control. I usually spend a few grand on pre orders for every set, but I'll never pay a dime over msrp. I don't want to be associated with these people, or judged for participating in an innocent hobby I've had since childhood. I've canceled every pre order I have outstanding, I'm done. I may be back in a few years when it's not full of chronically unemployed "hustlaz" elbowing the elderly, women and children for a few dollars. Disgusting.
I miss when i could walk into a store and not have to worry that no cards would be there. And then casually buying one booster box every now and then, knowing that the cards sets would still be there months later....
We will see Pokerev and Leonhart oppening 720 packs the next morning while we can't afford a single box or just get one. God damn, scalpers and people who put prices all the time on cards, get out of here so we can collect for fun like in elementary school time
The hobby is in shambles. You can't just walk in and buy product, big box stores are sold out, local LGS are sold out. Only option is pay double, triple MSRP for sealed stuff or buy cards individually... even then anything remotely considered a chase is hundreds of dollars from the get go and only goes up. Really hope pokemon company prints these sets to the GROUND. Normal people can buy product, collectors can buy sealed product (at a normal price) and in 5-10 years the values will still go up. There is zero reason day 1 of a product launch or pre order the entire inventory should vanish in seconds. Insane times for sure
My gf and I went out today to look for the new set and ran into a guy with a huge stack of products who was grabbing more than he could carry and leaving us with one tin of older sets. When we went to the check out he was asking if we were also streamers on whatnot.. like wtf lol. People like that suck so much
Adults ruin everything! I’m 50, and would NEVER act or do ANYTHING like this. Limits by the stores would curb a lot of this BS….. to much to ask of people, to be a human being. NOT AN ASS!
I do collect Pokémon cards, but I also sell them. I buy a couple of booster boxes here and there put them away for a few years and then sell them. Nothing too extravagant But yes, I totally agree The people buying 20 or 30 boxes are ridiculous The sad thing is I haven’t even opened one package of 151 because it’s stupidly hard to find In stores True, I could always order some online for three times the price…
As a true Pokémon collector of 12 years, I know that with this Prismatic Evolution “craze,” I will have no problem finding a pack or two to rip when I have the chance! Give it a couple of weeks, and these fake people will hopefully crawl back into whatever little holes they came out from. Personally, I think these ETB’s and first wave products are overrated due to the shit-like pull rates! The Booster Bundles are where it is going to be at for Prismatic come March! 😉
Just came back to collecting after around 2 years and I came back to this 😭😭 can’t believe a brand new set is going for over a hundred dollars for an etb . 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@OpossumBudhaha yea man it is what it is, I’ll just stick to collecting some sealed sword and shield etbs. Used to watch you all the time, great to see you still at it, love the channel man ! 🤙🏽🤙🏽
The reason a LOT of these "sneaker" buyers moved away from that market is because sellers put a "lottery" and "raffle" system with captcha's and ways to make sure you're HUMAN in place with numbers. See, they got smart and decided to stop people from buying everything up and flip it on StockX and other markets. And it looks like that is the way Pokemon is gonna have to head if they want to stop these bots and people literally creating "false scarcity" in the market.
Costco is a huge part of the problem here, they need to either ensure all stores selling this do so in an orderly manner or simply remove the product from their warehouses and sell through their website. Prismatic Evolutions is more profitable to resell, but it's consistently Costco 151 products (tins and now Blooming Waters) resulting in this bad behavior.
My LGS was amazing about Prismatic, no preoders, not internet order, 1 item that's it, only regulars knew they had it. To top it off MSRP. Owner brought so much joy to the children, yes children who got the items.
I wish the owner of the cardshop I work at did something similar... I asked so many times if we could remove the plastic removal/pack corner snipping when selling the product to sell it at msrp to make our regular kids that come in happy. He said no, and is selling it at 3x the price (the price of scalpers). It hurt my soul every time i had to tell someone the price, and apologized so much... Lots of negative reviews about it too...
I went to go pick up my P.E. Yesterday at my local store and there was a line since it’s a big thing, the guys who were standing in front of me proudly said “yeah I paid 300 for an ETB, I needed it bad but I got nothing from it.” Dude I couldn’t help but laugh
@@OpossumBud it really is, man. It will pass and everything will be great until the inevitable Japanese boom happens and everyone is freaking out about that.
Costco is 100% to blame for this. Is this what Pokemon company want? If not don’t sell to Costco and demand they bring the situation under control. It’s all very predictable the smallest care on costcos part would deal with the issue. Limit to 1 item per card. They will still sellout.
It's even more wild to think that on release day. The Pokemon Company doesn't even have their own product to sell. If you don't get the preorder, you virtually don't get anything. Its just shameful. I still managed to get 3 prismatic etbs today. Praying for a god pack!
I went to a GameStop on release day. I was there 30 minutes before opening hoping to get just something to open with the fam. The moment they opened they sold to 2 people and said they were sold out. So I decided to by a hanger pack as a consolation prize and the lady working there I over heard telling someone else that when they get the next shipment in that she will call him so he can come and get the rest of them 🤦♂️
Yep my gamestop had a couple scalpers show up for prismatic but luckily about 15 of us normies who just wanted to open some packs got there 2 hours earlier so they didn't get 💩. Unfortunately for me I was 3rd in line and when it was my turn to chose 2 products there was only 2 etbs left.... and a few binder collections... I really wanted 2 etbs but right behind me was a little old lady who said she was trying to buy an etb for her grandkids. I just couldn't do it... i wound up getting 1 etb and a binder collection and pulled absolutely nothing, no good deed I suppose 🙃
I got PTSD from working the Black Friday week. I had online orders that couldn’t be fulfilled cause I got cleaned out not even 10 minutes from opening. I’m over TCGs
I chose the wrong time to get back into the hobby. I will never buy from Scalpers on eBay or marketplace etc. The markup they charge is insane. People just need to not buy from them.
Costco must love the publicity. Otherwise they’d set a limit or organize the lines to make sure they have an employee passing out 2-5 boxes per person. It would literally take 20-25 mins to do it. Just wait till someone sues Costco after they are assaulted.
To paraphrase your golden encapsulation of the current state of Pokémon scalping - grown adults reverting to primal ways, where if they don't get enough of the 151 caribou to bring back to the cave, then a rough winter is imminent for their families - this is spot on. Thanks for always bringing things into perspective with your content. Digging the peak into your evolving collection in the background there as well.
This is why I think it will be printed to the ground. Pokemon got away with "short printing" after the first few sets of Scarlet and Violet were being treated as not that good or whatever but when the hype hits the highest the negative news is not what they want or good for their company's image. They don't want to be associated with people fighting at stores and infact last time this happened stores like Target said they would temporarily stop selling Pokemon. Which means they are forced to fix supply issues.
It's hilarious watching "collectors" whine when pokemon literally responded to "collectors" not buying and stores fire selling product at a loss less than a year ago. They did this to themselves and some how don't see it.
@@tallcatshortdog Very true. Pokemon did this on purpose due to SV being cheap for so long. But I also think when hype if fever pitch it gives an excuse to heavily print without people being down on the product as "overprinted". Technically Evolving Skies was heavily printed.
At a store , a man thought it was a good idea to take almost all the prismatic evolutions and when he got to the parking lot. He left home with nothing but a beating 😂
Makes you wonder if Costco will put limits on this shit. I’ve seen so many videos surface, there’s no way their higher ups won’t see this soon… and they’ll just stop carrying the cards. Pokemon isn’t a fart in the wind compared to the rest of the profits of what other items they sell. They won’t like this kind of publicity.
"The pokemon community" ...that phrase always makes me laugh. Ppl don't care about one another in this hobby near enough to call us a "community"... it's more like dog eat dog... especially when profit is involved 😢,..hate to say it but, truth is truth
Ya most people talk about community but really it's just "shared interest group." That is not the same as a community but people lack the experience of being a part of a real community so they think common interest or hobby is all it takes.
It’s the same as when Logan Paul was opening vintage back in 2020. People lost their minds and you saw stuff like this everywhere. This has happened before and it will die down just like it did last time.
This is why pokemon cards need to be over printed like yugioh. It's impossible for me to find anything ever and I have two kids that are also into pokemon. It's not fair to us. Then we're scalped for the products we want which is just repugnant.
I'm someone who's been collecting pokemon since it came out. I don't have any slabs yet though. Lol I also play tf outta the games. Super stoked the new Legends to drop.
@@Youzan808 literally. The megas were top tier. I also can't wait for that. I'm hoping there's enough to do on z-a cuz Arceus only took me like a week to complete
Hopefully this can create a bigger discussion not only for Pokemon Scalpers, but also scalpers in every hobby. Remember folks, "If it's not MSRP, it's not for me!"
Ok so I don’t know if Asmond actually went over why those two were fighting, but after digging around Reddit we learned that the man in the green jacket (and who got elbowed in the face) was just trying to buy 2 boxes for his son since his birthday was coming up. The dad had two of them in hand first but the dipshit sneaker idiot in the hoodie; came in and tried to yank those two boxes from his hands. Hence why the fight broke out. The idiot is from the sneaker community and in his instagram stories; before he went private; you can see he had about 8-10 Blooming Onion boxes. We’re now entering in a time that people who aren’t even in the pokemon space; trying to get cards for a quick profit. To wrap up the story; green jacket dad and stupid idiot face ended up getting one box each. But before the dumb dumb could leave; green jacket dad snapped a photo of him and posted it on Reddit. The internet did its thing and found the dumb dumb social media pages; his full name; where he worked and they even found his mom. Yes the internet went in and told his mom at what a shit son she raised. (They even sent her the video footage) Someone even shared Costco’s CEO’s email and started reporting him. It got to the point where some folks want to report him to the police and charge him with assault. Anywho..happy prismatic release day 🎉
Literally don’t get why they have to artificially create scarcity when it just leads to people being animals like this. What’s wrong with having decent pull rates and putting out PLENTY of product?
Because a bunch of massive names made such a fuss about SV era and now have backtracked so a lot of it got printed to the current demand at the time. So it looks so under-printed now compared to all the hype now.
I was at my local target and me and people in line waited for the boxes to come out, then everyone there grabbed like 4 or more of each(binder, 3pack,etc), but then the employee said limit of one of each product per customer, so the scalpers couldn't buy up everything and more people got to buy some. 😊
I do not understand these people. You make a few hundred but at the cost of looking like a moron on the internet forever. If I was selling my anonymity I'd charge way more than a few hundred.
Asmongold knows trash when he sees it, he looks at it every time he is in front of a mirror. Glad his dead mouse alarm clock woke him up in time to stream. Dude is absolutely disgusting.
When you have Asmond commenting on this shit then you KNOW people are going to talk shit to scalpers with a giant light being put right on just how shitty they are.
This is just embarrassing. Grown ass people fighting over Pokémon cards. For what? A couple of hundred dollars of profit? Mindless , savage nonsense. Truly pathetic.
This is exactly why i'm going more for Japanese sets now instead of English sets. Not saying I hate English but Japanese sets are way more available compared to English sets.
I don’t even plan on buying prismatic for a couple months from now and even then I’m just going to buy the singles I want and can afford..I stay away from all the crap that has gone on and is currently going on ..too many assholes are in our hobby
I am one of them. Got a cheap umbreon holo from a really nice dude on whatnot and he just gave it to me cheap cause he had to buy his few packs from a scalper and felt bad. He just wanted give someone a chance at a card. Dude was chill. He was new to the app and even he is really hating the atmosphere from this stuff@@OpossumBud
The thing is they are printing; it’s just folks keep buying it in large quantities. I’ve seen Costco locations give folks a slip of paper telling them how much they are allowed to get. It’s just this one wasn’t prepared and well chaos happened. After this event; Costco did impose a 2 per person limit now.
Really unfortunate that the hobby is becoming like this. I’m really hoping that future sets get printed so much to the point where people stop seeing Pokemon cards as a cash grab.
My local store (which was the only local way I could expect anything at less than 200% retail) just announced the Journey Together preorder window got cut short by a month, product is likely to be even more limited than PRE and local MSRP is going up. Sad times will probably last a fair bit longer.
I'm not gonna lie, we're getting cooked out here.
Yeah…. We are 😐
Feeling extra crispy.
i feel bad for none of yall lol its fucking funny watching and seeing how smart ppl are….. 1% of pokemon buyers make a REAL LIVING…. yall keep on burning money retards
lol prolly 40 year olds watching this 20 year olds videos for advice…. lol 20 year gap….. 😂
“We’re “ ???
People can get a part-time job and make way more money with less effort than they do from fighting over these boxes.
That’s what I’m saying they could make RUclips videos and make more
GOOD. We need more big mainstream creators to put this on blast so the Pokemon Company, their distributors, and retailers actually feel embarrassed and pressured to change the way they run their business. It's f-ing ridiculous how the Pokemon Company keeps messing up product releases over and over and over.
Or how bout we, as the consumer, just skip the set and not purchase.
Let the scalpers experience supply and demand. To put the blame on production and not the system at large at fault is unreasonable. I support the workers who design, print and package our cards. Sure, TPCI could expand and print more, but if enough of our material conditions were already met, we wouldn't be trying to "one up" each other with value of merchandise.
We could actually sustain as those who love the hobby thrives, and not have to risk our productivity in favor of another's because they gouged the product we essentially create demand for, suffer
Stop blaming the companies and blame the people who buy from scalpers. I really wanted a PS5. Guess what? I just waited 2-3 years until stock came back in.
Really wanted a limited edition watch. Watched until I saw a fair priced listing instead of the overinflated ones that were above retail.
Scalpers suck. But guess what, retailers buy products in the hopes of selling their entire inventory for higher than they paid for the item. See the similarity?
Just stop buying from scalpers. The majority go away quicker than you think.
@@CanadianEhHole Stupid argument. As long as scalpers are allowed in the free market, they will continue to profit. You didnt buy a scalped PS5? Ok....thousands already did. Who are you trying to "convince" with this? Not the scalpers. Not the people. Thats not how the market works...
Brother what are you guys talking about 😩. A mainstream influencer is what put the TCG into this in the first place, Logan Paul....
How is it pokemons fault 80% of you guys didn’t want the previous 10 sets.
Fucking tell me about it. There’s literally videos everywhere and people going home empty handed on release day, while spending hours going shop to shop hoping that there would be ANYTHING on shelves. But NOPE, not only kids, but everyone that was hoping to rip something on release day was completely locked out of that experience. It’s becoming shitty AF to say the least. 👎🏼
My girlfriend stopped buying Pokémon because of people being greedy....she only had one hobby and it’s gone ...that pisses me off.
I got 2 of these blooming water collector boxes. The costco I went to had an employee standing by to limit people to 2 per customer. This is how it should be done. People were civil. It allows more people to get product. More stores need to set limits. Maybe not put everything out all at once. Btw, I'm a collector, not a scalper. I want 2 playsets. One for me and one for my wife. In addition, I've decided to no longer watch RUclipsrs who do mass pack openings. An ETB or 2 is fine, but hundreds of packs in a single video is kinda disgusting. Just my 2 cents.
Word from the underground is that Costco will no longer sell Pokemon cards in-store. They will be online only from now on...... 🤣
This used to be a hobby for me, but even official stores are now raising their prices to match those on the black market. It’s absurd how is it normal to pay around 20 bucks for just one pack? This hobby was meant for kids, not for adults with big budgets. If children can no longer afford to participate, Pokémon will inevitably die out in a few years along with us. Without new people to take over the hobby, there’s no future for it. It’s heartbreaking it makes me sad, and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way.
3 targets: Dry. 3 Walmarts: Dry. 2 gamestops: Both Dry. 1 local card shop: Dry. Other local card shop: Selling ETBs for $110. ICG in the mall: Selling ETBs for $110.
I’m taking a break lol. Maybe working on filling some older sets with the missing cards I need.
Those card shops are scalpers if they are pricing it that high don’t support them
If you're really disgusted with scalpers STOP BUYING FROM THEM. If they think these sets are worth $10 a pack, let them keep it!
I never have.
I’m a collector and I’m sick of this it’s messed up towards to collectors and kids like come on stop buying from scalpers
fr it should be 1 or 2 per customer, save some for the kids, most of the costcos were having 10 per customer as the limit
And people are still out here defending scalpers. Everyone you call them out, someone comes to their defense. People need to change their mindset if they actually want things to change.
It’s actually a beautiful thing to witness. Degeneracy at its finest. But let’s be real, people in the Pokémon community keep them alive and well.
It’s so easy to avoid if stores just limited purchases to 1-2 a person. It’s such a joke at this point.
What’s fucking disturbing is they embrace it and are so proud. Fucking grinds my gears.
Streamers ruined gaming, and now they're ruining Pokemon.
sucks kids cant enjoy collecting it anymore....too many greedy F A T adults buying it up
In the UK we queued nice and politely outside our respective stores, a man handed out tickets, we had a little chat, calmly walked inside to pay for our 1 box each and left to shouts of good luck! You guys are just fighting each other.
Same, I'm from the UK and our Smyths were very organised and handed out tickets and limited us to 1 of each item :)
Here in the USA practices such as those are only put into effect during special sales when products are drastically marked down.
People like this is why my local stores no longer sell any cards in store.
I bet they dont even play the games -_-
It's so disappointing that I've had to change the way I interact with this hobby. I prefer buying boxes and opening boxes for my collection but I'm just buying singles now bc this crap is out of control
Pokemon 151 ❌
Pokemon 1v1 ✅
lmfaooooo
@@ma_s_v ✅😂😂😂
The biggest problem is retail companies not doing the "are you a bot" check.
I want 1 or 2 boxes. It looks like maybe 10-15 people can take out a pallet if they take 10. They could make 50-100 people happy if they would simply bring the Pallet to customer service behind the counter and hand out a 1-2 limit. Instead most people aren't happy.
That's what's happening now on the east coast limit of 2 each. They are changing their ways after the west coast savages couldn't behave. 10 limit was way too high to begin with they never think this through.
Local card shops need to take note. Their customers will NOT forget what they are charging when this dies down and they are crying on social media again to fill their MTG Commander night.
They didn’t forget during celebrations either
FACTS. If you want to charge market on freshly dropped product, I don't want to read about how tough running a shop is once the heat dies down and they are begging us for business again.
This is happening in the shops here in PA too. 2 of them in particular that I really had thought were different, unfortunately prismatic has brought their true prismatic money shaded colors out. But hey they are good dudes right because they are only selling etbs for 99.00 instead of market price. /s fucking bullshit man yall fuckers have distro with the pricing and your gunna sell way above retail. Yall done fucked up
Im sure distro is not selling them at the price they are supposed to be lol
You know its really bad when even this reaches Asmongold, he was right though the pigs were more civilized then those people his age
You mean Asmonroach 😂
@@frameanditoo real
I mean, he has been on the anti-Pokemon grind since Palworld released so its not a surprise really.
I had to work yesterday, so missed out on getting any Prismatic anywhere in my town. I heard from a friend that our GameStop which doesn’t open until 11, had people waiting at 6 am to buy Prismatic. Our GameStop manager did deviate from the 2 per skew policy to just a 2 per, so everyone could try and get some(I had stopped by after work while I was waiting on a pizza and was chatting with him). The local LGS was essentially sold out before they opened, though our LGS did set back a case to use for prizing at locals since 90% of our local players were not able to swing by. The LGS also mentioned that out of everybody in the line all but maybe 4 or 5 people were people that have never been to the store before, so we can assume they were resellers. Even our local comic book shop, which does cards had their whole stock wiped, again by people who would never step foot in the store otherwise. It’s ridiculous a bunch of people that ruined the sneaker buying community decided to jump ship to Pokémon.
As much as I want to buy singles from the set, ideally just Eri’s FA and a Raging Bolt SIR, there are barely any singles listed on tcgplayer to buy and the singles are pricey because the supply is low.
100% grown men living in their mom's basement fighting over toys... yeah they worth money but this stuff is for kids... drop the pokemon and go try to lose your virginity next
Scalpers are cringe basement dwellers who survive off of pizza pockets their mom makes them and they survive on the radiation they’re computer emits
Takes one to know one, haha😅😅😅
People used to say, "believe in the heart of the cards." Now days, the say " Believe in the price of the cards."
Yugis grandfather can agree
I'll never understand why these products aren't limited to 2 per person. This would make the employees lives easier also I think. It would be win-win for them.
I hate scalpers like this with every fiber of my being. I only collect to keep. Don't care how much the card is worth. The only way i'd sell my cards is if I lost my job and needed the money bad enough but I wouldn't go out and buy a shitton of boxes and hope to sell them for a profit.
Hitmonlee hitmonchan and Hariyama would be so proud people are swinging hands over cards. This hobby is becoming so chaotic.
Scalpers plus market manipulation and scammers are ruining this hobby, I love Pokemon but it’s already hard enough for the average collector to keep up with every new set coming out and now it’s nearly impossible to keep up with every new set unless you have more money than sense
Brick and mortar stores are the scalpers
Direct all your anger at Pokemon for not printing more.
The only reason “investors” and flippers are taking an interest is because the stock is limited.
@@xboxmonkies1 true Pokémon do need to print more and that may help with the scalping problem, in my opinion there’s a difference to investing in something and scalping something though, scalpers are buying so much product way more than necessary so there’s none or nearly none left in stock than manipulate the market by slapping their own price on it and move it on as soon as possible before more of that product becomes available again or if they’re really lucky no more of that product becomes available than they are left sat on a gold mine, whereas when you invest into something you don’t manipulate the market like what we are seeing you wait until it makes a profit not force it
Purchase limits go a long way. More companies need to follow gamestop
Pokemon community is turning to shit. People only care about money and not the art of the cards.
I'm with you Bud, it's refreshing to see someone young with a head on straight. Those people are stupid fighting over $15 profit after ebay fees
So pissed that people are ruining this hobby. I’m embarrassed to be known as a Pokemon collector now that these scalpers are doing this dumb shit.
I noticed a few other trends about the kind of people grabbing 10 packs of blooming water, but I can't say it because it's naughty
Pokémon is going to print Prismatic to the ground and I can’t wait till these scalpers to hold bags
Today, true colors were shown by a local tcg shop. He was nothing more than a scalper that got a full pallet of prismatic, canceled pre orders to only turn around and sell for higher prices, and fucked over good customers. I was one of those customers. Disgusting behavior from everyone during these times.
I have no problem with stores selling high if they really need to but cancelling pre-orders to relist is egregious. Either sell it high in the first place or honour your pre-orders. Had they already taken payment from people? Some places use it as an interest free loan.
@@Slammindeezeproductions nah the true colors were shown by the community who has zero understanding of supply/demand and no idea how to run a business. LGS are getting cooked by having 10% of their normal allocation and in order to be able to make rent they have to charge market price to compete with online shops who have little to no overhead. Your a moron.
@monkey39128 oh yeah, they held onto our money till 2 days before release, when they claimed "allocation issies"
I'm done with the hobby. This has gotten out of control. I usually spend a few grand on pre orders for every set, but I'll never pay a dime over msrp.
I don't want to be associated with these people, or judged for participating in an innocent hobby I've had since childhood.
I've canceled every pre order I have outstanding, I'm done.
I may be back in a few years when it's not full of chronically unemployed "hustlaz" elbowing the elderly, women and children for a few dollars.
Disgusting.
A few grand for each release? You are a dork just like the scalper fools. Go find a girlfriend
@@Mike-jf5ip”go find a girlfriend” go back to 2010 with that 😂😂😂
I miss when i could walk into a store and not have to worry that no cards would be there. And then casually buying one booster box every now and then, knowing that the cards sets would still be there months later....
We will see Pokerev and Leonhart oppening 720 packs the next morning while we can't afford a single box or just get one. God damn, scalpers and people who put prices all the time on cards, get out of here so we can collect for fun like in elementary school time
The hobby is in shambles. You can't just walk in and buy product, big box stores are sold out, local LGS are sold out. Only option is pay double, triple MSRP for sealed stuff or buy cards individually... even then anything remotely considered a chase is hundreds of dollars from the get go and only goes up. Really hope pokemon company prints these sets to the GROUND. Normal people can buy product, collectors can buy sealed product (at a normal price) and in 5-10 years the values will still go up. There is zero reason day 1 of a product launch or pre order the entire inventory should vanish in seconds. Insane times for sure
It’s definitely a hugely divided community right now… it’ll pass but it’ll take some time, probably a year
@@OpossumBud for sure, it'll crash... hopefully lol. It can't stay at this level forever, nothing does
When asmongold thinks something is disgusting then there is a real problem
My gf and I went out today to look for the new set and ran into a guy with a huge stack of products who was grabbing more than he could carry and leaving us with one tin of older sets. When we went to the check out he was asking if we were also streamers on whatnot.. like wtf lol. People like that suck so much
Stop crying
@ you must be a rise and “grinder” get wrecked
Adults ruin everything! I’m 50, and would NEVER act or do ANYTHING like this. Limits by the stores would curb a lot of this BS….. to much to ask of people, to be a human being. NOT AN ASS!
We need another South Park episode for this, bring back Chinpokomon!!
I do collect Pokémon cards, but I also sell them. I buy a couple of booster boxes here and there put them away for a few years and then sell them. Nothing too extravagant But yes, I totally agree The people buying 20 or 30 boxes are ridiculous The sad thing is I haven’t even opened one package of 151 because it’s stupidly hard to find In stores True, I could always order some online for three times the price…
This is absolutely ridiculous. I just want that jumbo Blastoise card from that box. Some ppl deserve to be locked up with that behavior.
As a true Pokémon collector of 12 years, I know that with this Prismatic Evolution “craze,” I will have no problem finding a pack or two to rip when I have the chance! Give it a couple of weeks, and these fake people will hopefully crawl back into whatever little holes they came out from.
Personally, I think these ETB’s and first wave products are overrated due to the shit-like pull rates! The Booster Bundles are where it is going to be at for Prismatic come March! 😉
Just came back to collecting after around 2 years and I came back to this 😭😭 can’t believe a brand new set is going for over a hundred dollars for an etb . 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I’m sorry, you came back at a rough time 😕
@@OpossumBudhaha yea man it is what it is, I’ll just stick to collecting some sealed sword and shield etbs. Used to watch you all the time, great to see you still at it, love the channel man ! 🤙🏽🤙🏽
The reason a LOT of these "sneaker" buyers moved away from that market is because sellers put a "lottery" and "raffle" system with captcha's and ways to make sure you're HUMAN in place with numbers. See, they got smart and decided to stop people from buying everything up and flip it on StockX and other markets. And it looks like that is the way Pokemon is gonna have to head if they want to stop these bots and people literally creating "false scarcity" in the market.
Japan does that and it works pretty well
Surprised they don't all go to sports cards instead. That market looks more lucrative from the outside looking in.
Scalpers aside in italy we have a case of people(thieves) stoping and stealing from trucks that were supplying prismatic evolution to stores.
Costco is a huge part of the problem here, they need to either ensure all stores selling this do so in an orderly manner or simply remove the product from their warehouses and sell through their website. Prismatic Evolutions is more profitable to resell, but it's consistently Costco 151 products (tins and now Blooming Waters) resulting in this bad behavior.
Its the people displaying the behavior and the people who support them that are the problem what are you even on.
@@zappyxp1575 Retailers need to take steps to mitigate this behavior, again, it's primarily Costco with these problems.
My LGS was amazing about Prismatic, no preoders, not internet order, 1 item that's it, only regulars knew they had it. To top it off MSRP. Owner brought so much joy to the children, yes children who got the items.
I wish the owner of the cardshop I work at did something similar... I asked so many times if we could remove the plastic removal/pack corner snipping when selling the product to sell it at msrp to make our regular kids that come in happy. He said no, and is selling it at 3x the price (the price of scalpers). It hurt my soul every time i had to tell someone the price, and apologized so much... Lots of negative reviews about it too...
I went to go pick up my P.E. Yesterday at my local store and there was a line since it’s a big thing, the guys who were standing in front of me proudly said “yeah I paid 300 for an ETB, I needed it bad but I got nothing from it.” Dude I couldn’t help but laugh
Also, love that you also made a Squid Game nod, it’s all I could think of during my video the other day.
It’s almost as dystopian as that unfortunately
@@OpossumBud it really is, man. It will pass and everything will be great until the inevitable Japanese boom happens and everyone is freaking out about that.
Our Costco had a 2 purchase limit, why are these other Costcos not getting with the program??
Pokémon needs to print these sets to oblivion, and sellers need to limit items to 1. Not 2, not 10, 1.
As a Pokémon fan, this is something I definitely wouldn't approve of. So not cool.
Costco is 100% to blame for this. Is this what Pokemon company want? If not don’t sell to Costco and demand they bring the situation under control. It’s all very predictable the smallest care on costcos part would deal with the issue. Limit to 1 item per card. They will still sellout.
It's even more wild to think that on release day. The Pokemon Company doesn't even have their own product to sell. If you don't get the preorder, you virtually don't get anything. Its just shameful. I still managed to get 3 prismatic etbs today. Praying for a god pack!
Gets 3 ETBs, still whines on Internet that he didn't get enough ... Typical timmy
I went to a GameStop on release day. I was there 30 minutes before opening hoping to get just something to open with the fam. The moment they opened they sold to 2 people and said they were sold out. So I decided to by a hanger pack as a consolation prize and the lady working there I over heard telling someone else that when they get the next shipment in that she will call him so he can come and get the rest of them 🤦♂️
Should have reported her ass
Yep my gamestop had a couple scalpers show up for prismatic but luckily about 15 of us normies who just wanted to open some packs got there 2 hours earlier so they didn't get 💩.
Unfortunately for me I was 3rd in line and when it was my turn to chose 2 products there was only 2 etbs left.... and a few binder collections... I really wanted 2 etbs but right behind me was a little old lady who said she was trying to buy an etb for her grandkids. I just couldn't do it... i wound up getting 1 etb and a binder collection and pulled absolutely nothing, no good deed I suppose 🙃
@brradv3552 props to you, fam. And don't worry, you will find more products eventually. Just release week is going to be a little insane
@noer.6954 yep. Here's to hoping this winds up like shining fates. I still see that set every now and then.
I got PTSD from working the Black Friday week. I had online orders that couldn’t be fulfilled cause I got cleaned out not even 10 minutes from opening. I’m over TCGs
This stuff has gone so far that even Asmongold is reacting to the current scalpening.
Kinda crazy
I chose the wrong time to get back into the hobby. I will never buy from Scalpers on eBay or marketplace etc. The markup they charge is insane. People just need to not buy from them.
we got grown men catching fades in costco over pokemon cards before gta6
Costco must love the publicity. Otherwise they’d set a limit or organize the lines to make sure they have an employee passing out 2-5 boxes per person. It would literally take 20-25 mins to do it. Just wait till someone sues Costco after they are assaulted.
To paraphrase your golden encapsulation of the current state of Pokémon scalping - grown adults reverting to primal ways, where if they don't get enough of the 151 caribou to bring back to the cave, then a rough winter is imminent for their families - this is spot on. Thanks for always bringing things into perspective with your content. Digging the peak into your evolving collection in the background there as well.
This is why I think it will be printed to the ground. Pokemon got away with "short printing" after the first few sets of Scarlet and Violet were being treated as not that good or whatever but when the hype hits the highest the negative news is not what they want or good for their company's image. They don't want to be associated with people fighting at stores and infact last time this happened stores like Target said they would temporarily stop selling Pokemon. Which means they are forced to fix supply issues.
It's hilarious watching "collectors" whine when pokemon literally responded to "collectors" not buying and stores fire selling product at a loss less than a year ago. They did this to themselves and some how don't see it.
@@tallcatshortdog Very true. Pokemon did this on purpose due to SV being cheap for so long. But I also think when hype if fever pitch it gives an excuse to heavily print without people being down on the product as "overprinted". Technically Evolving Skies was heavily printed.
At a store , a man thought it was a good idea to take almost all the prismatic evolutions and when he got to the parking lot. He left home with nothing but a beating 😂
Makes you wonder if Costco will put limits on this shit. I’ve seen so many videos surface, there’s no way their higher ups won’t see this soon… and they’ll just stop carrying the cards. Pokemon isn’t a fart in the wind compared to the rest of the profits of what other items they sell. They won’t like this kind of publicity.
"The pokemon community" ...that phrase always makes me laugh. Ppl don't care about one another in this hobby near enough to call us a "community"... it's more like dog eat dog... especially when profit is involved 😢,..hate to say it but, truth is truth
Some of us still care, and our ability to not buy an inflated product shows it
Ya most people talk about community but really it's just "shared interest group." That is not the same as a community but people lack the experience of being a part of a real community so they think common interest or hobby is all it takes.
Can't believe Asmon made a pokemon video. Insane timeline were living in 🙏
Was very weird to see, but with how messed up things have been I get it
@@OpossumBud absolutely 💯 it's a war scene out there
lol Asmonbold
Bet he was off down Costco as soon as he finished filming. 😂
It’s the same as when Logan Paul was opening vintage back in 2020. People lost their minds and you saw stuff like this everywhere. This has happened before and it will die down just like it did last time.
Without preorders, I would've been screwed today. No reason stores can't place limits on new releases to make it more fair for everyone!
They could but then money
Yep, same with us. Without the preorder, we wouldnt have been able to get anything either
This is why pokemon cards need to be over printed like yugioh. It's impossible for me to find anything ever and I have two kids that are also into pokemon. It's not fair to us. Then we're scalped for the products we want which is just repugnant.
I'm someone who's been collecting pokemon since it came out. I don't have any slabs yet though. Lol I also play tf outta the games. Super stoked the new Legends to drop.
@@DemonFromSunSo hyped for Legends z-a, I'll return to pokemon TCG scene when they release Mega pokemon cards again. Good times
@@Youzan808 literally. The megas were top tier. I also can't wait for that. I'm hoping there's enough to do on z-a cuz Arceus only took me like a week to complete
Hopefully this can create a bigger discussion not only for Pokemon Scalpers, but also scalpers in every hobby.
Remember folks, "If it's not MSRP, it's not for me!"
Ok so I don’t know if Asmond actually went over why those two were fighting, but after digging around Reddit we learned that the man in the green jacket (and who got elbowed in the face) was just trying to buy 2 boxes for his son since his birthday was coming up.
The dad had two of them in hand first but the dipshit sneaker idiot in the hoodie; came in and tried to yank those two boxes from his hands. Hence why the fight broke out. The idiot is from the sneaker community and in his instagram stories; before he went private; you can see he had about 8-10 Blooming Onion boxes. We’re now entering in a time that people who aren’t even in the pokemon space; trying to get cards for a quick profit.
To wrap up the story; green jacket dad and stupid idiot face ended up getting one box each. But before the dumb dumb could leave; green jacket dad snapped a photo of him and posted it on Reddit. The internet did its thing and found the dumb dumb social media pages; his full name; where he worked and they even found his mom. Yes the internet went in and told his mom at what a shit son she raised. (They even sent her the video footage) Someone even shared Costco’s CEO’s email and started reporting him. It got to the point where some folks want to report him to the police and charge him with assault.
Anywho..happy prismatic release day 🎉
Literally don’t get why they have to artificially create scarcity when it just leads to people being animals like this. What’s wrong with having decent pull rates and putting out PLENTY of product?
🤷🏽♂️
You mean like Obsidian Flames and S&V base that almost everybody hated
Because a bunch of massive names made such a fuss about SV era and now have backtracked so a lot of it got printed to the current demand at the time. So it looks so under-printed now compared to all the hype now.
I was at my local target and me and people in line waited for the boxes to come out, then everyone there grabbed like 4 or more of each(binder, 3pack,etc), but then the employee said limit of one of each product per customer, so the scalpers couldn't buy up everything and more people got to buy some. 😊
One of the rare instances where it feels better being a ygo player.
I do not understand these people. You make a few hundred but at the cost of looking like a moron on the internet forever. If I was selling my anonymity I'd charge way more than a few hundred.
Most of them will make $180 profit…. And that’s it
Exactly, you don’t see successful dudes with good jobs doing swine activity like this
Asmongold knows trash when he sees it, he looks at it every time he is in front of a mirror. Glad his dead mouse alarm clock woke him up in time to stream. Dude is absolutely disgusting.
He saw the trash that is the Pokémon reselling too
Totally agree, he said "Lies Of P" was 🗑️! Then immediately flipped when he saw 🤑
Someone doesn't like asmom cause he has different views right?
When you have Asmond commenting on this shit then you KNOW people are going to talk shit to scalpers with a giant light being put right on just how shitty they are.
He went pretty heavy in scalpers too, I agreed with a lot of it
As long as this kinda stupidity is gonna happen, I'll be here waiting for an Opossum video to come out about it LOL 😅
This is just embarrassing. Grown ass people fighting over Pokémon cards. For what? A couple of hundred dollars of profit? Mindless , savage nonsense. Truly pathetic.
I was literally waiting for you to make this vid
lol
Sorry for the wait
@@OpossumBud All Good G
Dude if anyone in my family did this… I’d be so ashamed. Fuck the hobby right now, time to take a break, I’ll just buy more when the reprint comes.
This is exactly why i'm going more for Japanese sets now instead of English sets. Not saying I hate English but Japanese sets are way more available compared to English sets.
Costco corporate told all stores to limit 2. Will help some but still Pokemon Co is wild for under printing with the amount of revenue.
I don’t even plan on buying prismatic for a couple months from now and even then I’m just going to buy the singles I want and can afford..I stay away from all the crap that has gone on and is currently going on ..too many assholes are in our hobby
Yup. And people aren’t paying the scalpers prices. We’re done with the bullshit.
A lot of people I saw are straight up not paying and I love to see it 👍🏽
I am one of them. Got a cheap umbreon holo from a really nice dude on whatnot and he just gave it to me cheap cause he had to buy his few packs from a scalper and felt bad. He just wanted give someone a chance at a card. Dude was chill. He was new to the app and even he is really hating the atmosphere from this stuff@@OpossumBud
Fighting over cards is wild
Couldn’t be me
It’s the retailers fault for not limiting product, and more importantly, it’s Pokemon’s fault for not printing nearly enough.
The thing is they are printing; it’s just folks keep buying it in large quantities. I’ve seen Costco locations give folks a slip of paper telling them how much they are allowed to get. It’s just this one wasn’t prepared and well chaos happened.
After this event; Costco did impose a 2 per person limit now.
Really unfortunate that the hobby is becoming like this. I’m really hoping that future sets get printed so much to the point where people stop seeing Pokemon cards as a cash grab.
It’ll crash in about a year and some time 👀
My local store (which was the only local way I could expect anything at less than 200% retail) just announced the Journey Together preorder window got cut short by a month, product is likely to be even more limited than PRE and local MSRP is going up.
Sad times will probably last a fair bit longer.
Never thought I'd see Asmon on this channel or in Pokemon 😂
This is why people look at you crazy when you say you collect Pokemon
Yeah…. I know 😐
Pokemon loves scalpers just like nvidia does it rises the prices and demand for their product. Trust me they love it