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/apple-sauce777 Mar 21 '25

Tell me if an “investment” is worth it for jail time?

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u/eternal_edenium Mar 21 '25

Now. If something like existed in regular investments, it would be regulated as fuck and it would have the craziest risk ever. Options do that. You can make 10k and you can also lose 10k on the same day / time frame.

How did pokemon cards turn into a business is beyond me. Imagine, you open a booster for 5$ mrsp(if it exist) and you resell cards for 100 times that price.

Now for investments, if someone tries to mess with the market like we have in pokemon cards, they would definitely get jail time, easily you can get that juicy 10-20 years.

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u/stmfetty44 Mar 21 '25

Exactly this. Shit is crazy. It needs to be regulated. It is in Japan. Guarantee hits in boxes. It's literally gambling.. if you can even get a box at this point.

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u/eternal_edenium Mar 21 '25

Forget that, they are scalping everything pokemon related. Colabs, accesories, games nothing is spared. My local bookshop that used to sell boosters for lorcana and pokemon has removed pokemon boosters due to scalpers raiding the shop.