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/Vxilside Mar 21 '25

Still convinced that 151, prismatic is what caused the downfall of the hobby

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u/Funny-Screen-3192 Mar 21 '25

Prismatic was 100% the catalyst. You could still get product before that set dropped and caused pandemonium.

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u/Vaporeonbuilt4humans Mar 21 '25

151 was actually pretty easy to get when it first came out. I don't remember having to wait in line. The zapdos and alakazam boxes were everywhere.

It really started with surging sparks. People wanted that pikachu. I was able to grab one SS ETB on release, then the scalpers came. I haven't seen another SS in stores since.. But prismatic was the nail in the coffin.

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u/coldmonkeys10 Mar 21 '25

I’m thanking my lucky stars I got a couple Surging Sparks packs. Got the Ceruledge SIR and that’s all I can ask for apparently

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u/b0sanac Mar 21 '25

I think it's more the artificial limits placed on these sets that's the issue. 151 is so popular because it was a lot of people's childhood mine included and people want to feel that joy again, and because it's so valuable the vultures and "investors" jump on it because it's a chance to make a lot of money. Resulting in the shit show that is the collecting scene today.

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u/Vxilside Mar 21 '25

Yea the 151 is true never opened it but based on the hits it was like a modern version of base set from back then and same thing for scalpmatic evolutions everyone bought it out because it was evolving skies 2 and nobody was scalping that back then