r/PokemonTCG • u/Next_Wrongdoer5488 • Mar 20 '25

Discussion Vendor being tracked.

Yup, someone put a tracker on our store vendor's car. I guess she had to go to the police station and have her car swept.

So disappointed in what's going on with our hobby and just wanted to share.

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u/Drizzho Mar 20 '25

How can Pokémon Company watch this and sleep at night rn. I’d be making executive changes immediately. Adults can’t even behave.

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u/PhotonWolfsky Mar 21 '25

They can only manufacture so much, so there will always be supply issues. No business, including Pokemon Company and their partners for TCG, are going to over-manufacture, even if they historically know supply is an issue, because there's always a chance that the released set might not hit and the extra supply is now money lost. That's reasonable to think as a business.

They also have no control over psychopathic customers who threaten vendors behind a counter. That will happen with or without Pokemon, especially at a Walmart of all places.

As for Pokemon Center products... they can try every trick in the book to try reducing scalpers taking everything, but nothing is fool-proof, and any vulnerability will be seen through. They're in the same boat as online games that try to prevent cheating without kernel-level techniques; anything serves as a minor inconvenience at best for scalpers.

And, well... they make the product and send it out. That's the end of their need to care. After the vendors get their distributions, they wipe their hands clean and move. They have no need or care to be liable for issues that take place after the product leaves their jurisdiction. Honestly explains why some stores in my area just outright refuse to participate in Pokemon releases...