Pokemon Center Singapore and Pokemon Vending Machines Implement New Anti-Scalping Techniques for TCG Purchases!

[Bionicleforever12]

Its crazy pokemon tcg collectors are all of a sudden card printing and allocation experts and understand the logistics of printing and shipping millions of more cards than they originally planned to in a matter of months. Its totally not people who don't know what they're talking about and not just giving surface-level takes yelling "fix this alr pokemon!" in 100 different ways.

 

[The Binder Guy]

i don't need to, i already know what jamboree is

Wow, what a remarkably bone-headed decision to make. The video also goes into detail on how the TCG was horribly mishandled by WOTC during its inception. For example, here's a transcript from the video at the 26:38 mark regarding Wizards using its own magazines to pump up the prices of singles which also boosted the prices of sealed products.

And don't forget, Wizards had various internal mechanisms to remind people that these things were worth money. They were commodities first.

Peter Whitley described that the Price Codex in the back of The Duelist was to do just that.

Peter Whitley: "There was a lot of stuff around that Pokémon craze that Wizards was really quick to pump. Really quick to [think] like '-bleep- yeah! This is a money train!' The prices in The Duelist was a way of reminding people that there's like value in the cards. That they should buy the cards because... to remind them that they appreciate in time or that they might get their chase card or they, you know... the Charizard. And Wizards loved that. Right? Because why wouldn't they?"

So while Nintendo was suffering, Wizards, they were draining the franchise.

Notice anything familiar there? The current plague of investors are using similar tactics to the ones WOTC used when the Pokémon TCG started out.

Oh, and earlier in the video they also mention that foil/holo cards (the fact that one wasn't guaranteed in a pack) were basically used to help pump up the chase factor of the early TCG. I don't think I need to remind folks that were seeing the same thing happen to Illustrator Rares and Secret Illustrator Rares, especially when TPCi mucked about with the pull rates when a certain group complained about how easy it was to pull a Secret Illustrator Rare in early SV sets and how that "harmed" their value in the short term. Now we're seeing certain SIRs demand triple-digit pricing right out of the door and said prices sticking even though more product is opened the longer a set stays in-print.

Its crazy pokemon tcg collectors are all of a sudden card printing and allocation experts and understand the logistics of printing and shipping millions of more cards than they originally planned to in a matter of months. Its totally not people who don't know what they're talking about and not just giving surface-level takes yelling "fix this alr pokemon!" in 100 different ways.

The problem is that TPCi has a bad habit of not learning anything from these problems and, in the case they actually do learn something, letting those solutions to said problems stick around long-term.

 

[LOTTEN]

Wow, what a remarkably bone-headed decision to make. The video also goes into detail on how the TCG was horribly mishandled by WOTC during its inception. For example, here's a transcript from the video at the 26:38 mark regarding Wizards using its own magazines to pump up the prices of singles which also boosted the prices of sealed products.

Notice anything familiar there? The current plague of investors are using similar tactics to the ones WOTC used when the Pokémon TCG started out.

Oh, and earlier in the video they also mention that foil/holo cards (the fact that one wasn't guaranteed in a pack) were basically used to help pump up the chase factor of the early TCG. I don't think I need to remind folks that were seeing the same thing happen to Illustrator Rares and Secret Illustrator Rares, especially when TPCi mucked about with the pull rates when a certain group complained about how easy it was to pull a Secret Illustrator Rare in early SV sets and how that "harmed" their value in the short term. Now we're seeing certain SIRs demand triple-digit pricing right out of the door and said prices sticking even though more product is opened the longer a set stays in-print.

The problem is that TPCi has a bad habit of not learning anything from these problems and, in the case they actually do learn something, letting those solutions to said problems stick around long-term.

monkey d luffy here with the reach