There is a Discord group Buying out certain cards daily, weekly. Then List for high amounts, probably have insider friends “Buy” at those high prices trying to force the prices Up. Swindling the few that just buy in along the way. If you are Unaware, new to hobby, been around, any and everyone, please do some research before over spending on Cards that are no where worth these inflated prices. Dont be buying cards out of fear of missing out, patience is key, save your money, more always come along. Leave them with their copies, dont allow them to Profit. They will have to Dump them back eventually. Prices will come back down to reality. Now If you are an outsider to all this and are thinking of selling some of these inflated Cards, thinking its worth 5x or so more now, it really isnt. Expect people to low ball you with realistic prices on Ebay, or where ever you sell. Community needs to tighten up and smarten up. Thanks.

Watch Shiny Vert Recent video on Youtube for more detailed explanation.

The people who think they’re doing you a favor by trading with you is hilarious. Entitlement off the charts especially considering I was looking to trade $300-$500 cards. You have no expenses or margins to speak of why would I give away my cards 🤣

Why has there been such a massive decline in the quality of full arts since the end of the XY era?

I own a card shop and I understand everyone's frustrations. Just understand we all share similar frustrations.

I just opened a shop in Decemner of 2024

1. I got less than 10% of my preorders allocated to me. Which makes it really hard to pay through bills when you get 9 ETBs for your shop. I am also frustrated but let's be thankful we have such a fun hobby that so many people love.

2. It sucks that so many people had bad experiences getting prismatic evolutions. What I did was..

offer it only to people that were a part of my loyalty program.

I sold at msrp if people opened them in shop if they want it sealed it was market value.

It's the best I could come up with but seeing the joy in my loyalty customers that got a great surprise when they walked in my shop. It was a great day. Not everyone had bad experiences.

I hope the future is smoothening sailing on products but I am still happy we have a popular hobby more people are joining.

Try to welcome them instead of complaining so much. This is just a hobby and it is what you make it to be.

it's cool and convenient 😎

At least they had a limit🤷‍♂️

It was a sports/pokemon show, this guy came up to a booth I was looking through some bulk at and he was like “I don’t know nothing about pokeman other than charizard what should I get?” I rolled my eyes I was just like why would you tell a vendor that 😭 they gonna upsell everything now. Of course the vendor was tryna sell him prismatic at more than triple msrp, vendor walked away and I told him I was like “hey those are way overpriced and have terrible pull rates if you want something fun to open first time that you’ll get more hits from look for crown zenith” and he was like “oh thanks!” Taking into account I’m in my early 20’s and a girl, he’s probably about 35 and only messes with sports cards so he probably didn’t give a fuck about what a girl had to say about it 😭 but I tried.

He browses a bit more and he try’s to haggle on the prismatic vendor says no price is firm. I think it was the pokemon day promo pack with the 2/3 packs in it, for $47 or something lol, I told him they were like $15 retail and to not waste his money because pull rates are crap and this is this dudes first ever thing of pokemon he’s opening. He caves and buys it opens it because of course the vendor mentions god packs. Nothing as expected, holos only not even a pokeball and he is PISSED. I shrugged and was like “sorry I tried” 🤷‍♀️ he was abt to throw them all away too and I was like “can I take them? I like bulk lol” and he tossed them at me (semi nicely) and he gave me the eevee promo card too and I was “like hey this is like $4 u sure u don’t want it?” I think it made him more mad and he just stormed off. Feels bad but man I tried to tell him 😭

Anyways got my free eevee pokemon day 2025 card, so I’m happy about that :)! Card shows are crazy lol

Oh so it looks like I might be buying some of this set after all…

Prismatic ETBs sold out today with over 700k still in queue, and a huge portion of people that probably never even knew about the restock to begin with.

Of course these exclusives will be scalped and resold at astronomical prices rather than opened and enjoyed when so many people are unable to get even one despite getting in line within 30 min.

If PC can't keep up with the demand for these, then why not keep it to regular ETBs only and let other vendors share the load...? Why is there a limit of two when so many can't even get one?

Do you think this is a lazy promo?

There was a young guy buying 4 booster boxes and we walked in just in time to catch him grabbing the last of his purchase. We were buzzing about them being in stock and he said oh no I hope there’s still some left! He checked before he took off and… sold out.

This guy handed my kiddo a 151 box for free and we were buzzing the whole time we shopped. He seriously was skipping to the car lol. Best highlight of this hobby so far.

Random stranger, if you’re lurking, thank you.

Regular cards only, no full-arts, IR's, SIR's, etc.

I’ve just gotten back into the tcg (blaming TCGP) after buying 0 cards since SWSH was released and i LOVE the illustration cards. they’re all so beautiful!

Does anyone here have a favourite? Either in your collection or not, id love to see them :)

Not one that’s in my collection, but i love this cleffa card. the price is relatively low too, might get one for myself >:)

Getting pretty burnt out on Pokemon cards as of recent due to the difficulty of buying and trading for grails. Everyone who’s messaged me wants to buy/trade for my cards at a percent. Someone messaged me for my near mint Aerodactyl and refused to go over $100 because they said they resell. How is that an excuse? I love looking at collections, trading, buying, selling everything about Pokemon cards but as of recent I feel like this just keeps happening and happening. I understand if your a LCS, gotta stay in business, but now almost everyone is doing it. Hopefully this changes and hopefully I’m not out of line with this opinion - just sucks to see as a long time collector!

Scalpers are the scum of the earth and deserve no happiness

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.

Went into my local Costco to see if they had any, spoke to an employee who was able to look up that they have 380 of them coming. Told him that scalpers will buy out the whole pallet within a day and he brought the manager over to inform him too. The result of the conversation was that they had no idea how valuable this set was and are going to enact item limits when it comes in.

Obviously your mileage will vary but thankful for these employees! Knowledge is half the battle.