If it sells, they will continue their crappy quality games. Just pointing that out
My school was more yu-gi-ooooohhhhhh!
Weird, is no problem here at all or for me in general ? It isn’t that hard to just order it.
As to your first point, I believe that you just described an incentive to print more. You stated that they could print more and make more money because people would buy it either way. That assessment directly shows incentive to print more.
I like your reasoning here, however I believe an increase in stock would still be highly profitable due to just how bad it is right now. A year ago, my locals sold all their stock of packs every time. Today, they still sell all their stock, but because they have way less, they have to sell it for twice the price. We have dozens of locals who want to buy cards, but can't because they are either sold out or marked up. The mark-up doesn't help Pokemon, as distributor prices stay the same, and people are left not wanting to buy cards. Even scalpers get harmed by this because if the stores already mark up prices, then they make less money back when reselling too. Packs still run out just as fast as a year ago, but everyone has to pay double.
As for this statement, printing more and more product takes both time and money, which is often underestimated on how much power that takes. It's not as simple as snapping your finger and everything gets printed within a few months, there's a whole process known as "Print to table" (trademark pending.) Also stopping speculative buying and scalping, while having long term success, actually hurts pokemon more, as the buyouts become more scarce and more pokemon sets and product continues to sit there. Now this is NOT me defending scalping, this is me saying that scalping, while horrible, is a apart of why pokemon is doing more successful now. Scalpers, Investors, Influencers and Streamers make up quite a big chunk of sales (excluding brick and mortar, online shops, and retail stores) while Loyal fans make up a smaller majority.
Read a bit deeper and your point that stopping scalping hurts pokemon more is fair, but because I believe this company will be around for decades more, they have a strong incentive for long term methods of making money. Scalpers just ain't it forever.
And scalpers reading this should join me and stop scalping as well!
I just think there are so many other things to buy for $329.99 instead of the Iono figure. It doesn't light up or do anything extraordinary, to me it feels no different than the Skyla or Elesa figures that released prior (for maybe around $120 each)... I'm sure Iono also fails to ever sell out for good reason. I can't be the only one thinking "I just don't see the value for that cost."
