This is an insane take, lmao. CHILL. It's shiny cardboard. TPCI has been doing this for nearly 30 years, the pull rates are by design and this is a hobby built on gambling and manufactured scarcity. The reality is, a LOT of people want these cards and there isn't enough to go around. Stores and online shops should have limits, but beyond that there's not much you can do other than let the market, market.
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I think TPCI is printing 24/7...it's just still not enough. They have a lot of sets to print, though...they're not going to reprint every past SV set in favor of future ones.
Discord groups buying out certain Secret Illustrator Rare cards and holding them until they're reach and stay a certain value, it's been going on since Temporal Forces and most recently happened to PRE's SIR Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex.I second that, I loved the mystery meat comparisonWho are the short-term investors, are they the youtubers and scalpers?
YouTubers and scalpers also fall under this, especially when they tell players and collectors who are absolutely ticked with how this situation is being handled to step aside and let the problem continue.
... you know what? Taking your past posts into account alongside you mentioning "gambling and manufactured scarcity" (especially that second part) here makes me think you're either a TCG investor yourself or you somehow benefit from the radioactive landfill that is the current state of the TCG.
MPG operates 24/7. Tpci probably just regular business hours. Gamestop is scummy and will just become a pokemon store that tries to be a lcs, remember when they over did it with funko?
I remember a ripshipper about year ago saying these were the good days. The days of half off pokemon subsidized by tiktok. It seems businesses cant keep up with the times and/or out of touch. Why create all this hype to not satiate the demand?
I predict a collapse of pokemon cards like baseball cards in the 80s. Because by then, they'll be enough goddamn pokemon cards for your unborn unborns. It's going to get worse before it gets better and getting better or worse means different things to different people.
I remember a ripshipper about year ago saying these were the good days. The days of half off pokemon subsidized by tiktok. It seems businesses cant keep up with the times and/or out of touch. Why create all this hype to not satiate the demand?
I predict a collapse of pokemon cards like baseball cards in the 80s. Because by then, they'll be enough goddamn pokemon cards for your unborn unborns. It's going to get worse before it gets better and getting better or worse means different things to different people.
At this point the 30th anniversary will be a major shit show, they are just preparing us now for the major let down
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i meant reprints. there’s gonna be massive waves of reprints in the coming months. if people can be patient they will be fine. i agree though that TPCi has been super negligent in their handling of big set releases