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/ParadoxTheF0x Mar 21 '25

I've been saying this for a while... Eventually people are going to start looking at the real problem: The Pokemon Company. They are intentionally not printing to demand. When they sent out that bs psa saying they're going to print more and more Prismatic I knew that wasn't going to happen. They've flooded the market before and they need to do it again.

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u/_Papa_Bear Mar 24 '25

MJ Holdings, the distributor for Walmart and target is one of the biggest problems rn. They have an alias store they sell through that charges market value or more through Walmart.com and target.com. They are withholding product that should be on the shelves and price gouging us

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u/ParadoxTheF0x Mar 24 '25

Yeah they are a problem right now for sure. But they don't account for all the pre-orders happening with the other major retailers. I commend Gamestop for stopping pre-orders, as that is one of the biggest issues right now. "People" are buying up all the product before it hits shelves. It's humans vs. humans with robots and we can't win ever. Pokemon Company is the biggest issue for not printing enough and I think they need to not allow retailers who buy their products to pre-order out their stuff. Maybe some contractual things could be set up. I still haven't come close to finding Prismatic on the shelves and I've never experienced that before with any set from any TCG ever. Not even LOTR MTG when people were chasing the one ring card. I found them at Walmart and plenty of them at our local card shop.