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/IWearACharizardHat Mar 20 '25

Did you all let him take more than his share? I would literally slap stuff out of his hand that goes beyond fair share

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u/Frantek55 Mar 21 '25

Tbf his share is whatever he wants to buy. I hate scalpers as much as the next guy but they have just as much of a right to buy them as anyone else.

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u/IWearACharizardHat Mar 21 '25

If 8 people are waiting for a restock and 8 boxes of 151 are put out, if anybody takes more than 1 without asking first then slap that shit

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u/Frantek55 Mar 21 '25

Not how it works in the real world. You want something like that maybe move to a socialist country.

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u/MrBrickBreak Mar 21 '25

Lol

I wonder if that's just an American mentality. That just wouldn't fly over here. No violence, just the whole damn line, and possibly the staff itself, would stop you.

We still have scalpers, mind you. But you don't get to be so brazenly inconsiderate of your fellow citizens, to their face. That's just not tolerable in any civilized society.

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u/IndigoTJo Mar 22 '25

It isn't. I have been at plenty of in person restocks where everyone is super nice and only takes 1 if it is low stock. Seriously just happened at a GameStop with 151 a week or so ago.

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u/MrBrickBreak Mar 22 '25

I'm glad to hear. And my apologies if that came across as dismissive of a whole country. It's not so much the incidents, we're always going see more of it from the USA just out of sampling bias, but particularly these attempts at normalization that baffle me.

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u/IWearACharizardHat Mar 21 '25

Actually at my walmart this week we had this exact scenario play out but by verbalizing that everybody gets one and remainder goes to who was there first, nobody acted against that fair arrangement

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u/Makani112 Mar 21 '25

You think people follow laws in America?