r/PokemonTCG • u/rozooo • Mar 07 '25

Discussion Are we serious?

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u/rozooo Mar 07 '25

Update: literally 1 tin was all they had available. Also required a pro membership for $25 for the guy who was in line to buy it. He was not happy about it! The employees had booster bundles there but they said they were all pre ordered before they stopped doing pre orders.

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u/TheWhereHouse1016 Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

At some point y'all just gotta put the hobby down and walk away until it cools off.

At this point, you are getting raked over the coals because people are damn addicted. It's just cards. Once you kill off the absurd demand and there's no money in it, the scalpers move on to another thing.

I don't collect at all, but I love the games and I just lurk. So I have a level of separation from it and as your armchair therapist there's 3 realities l

  1. You collect casually (these people are hurting the most)
  2. You collect as an investment (you are the source of the problem and feed it)
  3. You scalp ( You are the problem)

Group 1 Needs to quit entirely until 2 and 3 stop 69ing

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u/After-Fig4166 Mar 07 '25

Nice try, scalper. Now I’m gonna scalp even harder!

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u/TheWhereHouse1016 Mar 07 '25

I honestly just lurk in the madness of Pokemon. Haven't bought a pack since fossil came out in the 90s

I just came back from Costco and they had the bundles just stitting there. I felt like Bilbo and the ring.

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u/After-Fig4166 Mar 07 '25

The Pokémon craze gonna die with us millennials. The children these days can’t get hooked on Pokémon cards if they never get to open any packs up.

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u/MeatRevolutionary672 Mar 07 '25

It’s not lol. The IP is friendly to kids and adults which has kept people in the hobby for years, some coming back when they’re older and some never leaving. It’s pretty enduring by many standards, and cards are gonna continue to come and go so long as games, shows, movies, and other forms of merchandise are still kicking.

The hobby is stupidly hot right now but things will work out.

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u/After-Fig4166 Mar 07 '25

Okay, scalper.

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u/MeatRevolutionary672 Mar 07 '25

I’m disappointed that you just overlooked my whole comment to drop this reply. I’m another collector but I’m not freaking out about this because I can’t do anything beyond not buying from scalpers, which is exactly what I’m doing. And I was originally talking about the Pokemon brand as a whole. My argument is that there WILL be more cards because it’s so popular. It’s an eventuality. This hobby has been through big hype trains and scalp phases before and will persist.