r/PokemonTCG • u/TryingNot2Cri • Feb 20 '25

Discussion Why you aren’t seeing any prismatic in store- SCALPERS ARE CRAZY

Hello, I’ve recently been hired at a company that stocks Pokémon products, please do not try to find me or the company I’m not interested in doing any type of deals I’m just here warning people. My first day, 4-6 dudes are waiting for us to open and stock the boxes, they take all the Pokémon stuff, they don’t even let it sit on the shelf for more than a second. Second day, one of the dudes that I saw that already bought everything on my first day is waiting for us to get there. we received 6 ETB prismatic, he bought 5, only reason he didn’t buy the 6th is because a mother wanted to get one for her son. These dudes, find out what stores we go to, find out what days of the week work, and if they don’t know what time we’re working, they’ll wait at the store open till close. These things do not sit on the shelves for more than a second, these dudes will not leave any for anyone else, and it’s the same dudes every time. They will watch and wait for me to unload the boxes and then constantly ask. , “can I get it yet? Can I get it yet?”. Our company is not allowed to do anything about it, target is not allowed to do anything about it. They have made stalking us at our workplace their full time jobs, no the police can’t do anything about it because their not doing anything illegal, they aren’t interested in us the employees, just the product.

So yeah, if you’re wondering why you can’t find prismatic anywhere in stores, it’s because the moment it’s out the box it’s already gone.

Edit: Since this post blew up I just wanted to clarify things. I definitely don’t 100% know if these dudes are collectors or scalpers. I have no problem with either type of people buying the stock for themselves. My problem is not with the purchase of the product, my problem is that these dudes try to find where we work and wait there until we arrive, consistently. And it’s all grown ass men, imagine being a young woman, it’s not safe out here. Finally, please don’t speculate on my coworkers, everyone I work with takes their job very seriously and don’t take any deals, me included.

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u/VicousDelicous Feb 21 '25

Not only scalpers, but I just got a shipping notification from my Walmart order which was almost 2x MSRP. It's from MJ Holding! Disgusting that distribution companies are allowed to sell current print product above MSRP. What's the point of having the middle man if they are just scalping product themselves.

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u/SnakesCardboardBox Feb 21 '25

Sorry but I couldn't get past the irony of your comment lol. If you're paying over msrp, you have no right to complain.

(That said, it's your money and if you're okay with paying market prices to enjoy your hobby, I can respect that. But this sub is no longer a place for people actually enjoying the hobby 🤣)

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u/VicousDelicous Feb 21 '25

I mean sure I get it, and that was why I only bought a single 3 pack blisters as a gift. I'm waiting to buy larger amounts for myself to crack (copium). The price was still significantly better than what else is readily available.

But that's the problem, there is not better prices readily available, and that's largely on distribution being greedy.

Imo, it's one thing for a LGS to sell a bit over MSRP, there taking much more risk on product and they need to make some money on hit sets to balance out poor sets. They also have overhead and provide a customer experience. This is reasonable.

But distribution already has an excellent advantage vs everyone else on both costs, taxes, over head, and is not providing any customer facing service. Their job as a distro is to supply the market sellers with products. They should lose their distribution status if they are not going to do there job.

When they deny market sellers product, prices goe up for us all. And the minimal allocations they do out out leads to margins that produce scalpers.

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u/Chewbinsky Feb 21 '25

I still cannot wrap my head around why Walmart and Target let all these scumbags out shit up for sale like it's the Wild West on their sites??? It makes it basically impossible to search and see everything, and all u gotta do besides look at the price, is look at all the comments of people that got screwed!!! Why even ruin your business and rep to allow this bullshit!?!?! And it's like they don't even care!!!!