Well i can understand a few going per address. I have 2 roommates in my house so I understand, plus if someone has a workplace or another house, I can see a reasonable amount. But bots get vast amount, more than the amount I showed. I have met Store owners who no problem explaining that they get bots to get them like 100 of an item. There is no way he had this many address that he could sell send to. A few sure, but not that many. Unless P.O. boxes i guess.
Unless there’s some form of response and/or secondary authentication involved with said phone number that just encourages people to put the phone numbers of random businesses and addresses.
AFAIK Pokémon Center ships to very few, if any, countries located in EU so that's technically a non-issue. There's also the idea of TPCi just applying said ID requirements to countries where scalping and near-instantaneous sellouts are a problem.
Yeah, no. I’m hearing stories of said distributors backdooring product to scalpers and even scalping the products themselves (either through giving stores less product than they are supposed to receive or, in the case of of LGSs, selling them above the usual wholesale price. Combine that with the usual horrors of scalpers cleaning out big box stores of product and tracking distributors (some of which include violating the privacy of said distributors by placing AirTags on their cars) to buy out stock the minute its put onto shelves.
For the phone number, I said verified, so a response would be necessary. I guess you could go around this by buying more phone lines, but that seems ridiculously impractical. Never underestimate scalpers though lol.
Yes, that's exactly what will happen. It'll just be a queue full of bots in line first, and real people in line 99,999 slots behind them
I agree with you, except with the individually sleeved booster packs. I think those DO serve a purpose in the product line - not just for the casual person buying a pack of 2 for their kids, but for people that want to know for sure, that they aren't buying packs from a booster box that has already been deprived of all it's "hits". I mean, I know you can't just open a booster box and know which individual packs have the hits per se, but when people open booster boxes and get all of the hits that typically come in a booster box, whatever is left over could be sold individually, whilst the seller knows they are just full of bulk cards. If the ETB 's were a lot cheaper though, I could see bypassing the individually sleeved booster packs (especially since that's just even more trash created and thrown out into the world lol). But I completely agree on your statement that there are way too many SKUs for sure.
The original intent of booster boxes was to sell only to stores and have them sell the singles, that’s why the top of the box folds back in itself, it was supposed to sit near candy and gum at checkout lines as an impulse buy. TPCi found out far more people rather just buy the whole box for themselves than a few packs from it, especially when the concept of pull rates were better understood.
