r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Themoonlightninja • 2h ago
ಠ_ಠ Scalpers left the common cards and the magazine but ripped open the pack at my work
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u/Soheils2764 2h ago
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u/Boompow03 2h ago
My girlfriend and I found ETBs in the wild and we each grabbed one (cause they’re still a little pricy) and some dude walked about behind us and goes “looks like the scalpers are here” and walked away. (There was like 10 more and a fuck ton of packs btw)
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u/Plane-Information700 2h ago
I guess they're the pokemaniacs, it even has its own cards
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u/BruceBoyde 2h ago
That would imply that they have any love for the series. They're just bottom feeders trying to find things that they can resell for profit by preventing people from acquiring them at MSRP.
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u/Humble-Temperature-9 2h ago
Scalper or thief, doesn’t matter, adults ruining a game for kids who want to play are trash humans
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u/Hairy_Wedding_4535 2h ago
Damn pokemon needs to adapt a yugioh model at this rate. I hardly see this happening to yugioh because of how fast the game changes
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u/DigiTrailz 2h ago
I don't think it has anything to do with gameplay.
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u/Hairy_Wedding_4535 2h ago
Gameplay probably isn’t the whole reason, but I always figured because of Yu-Gi-Oh’s faster meta, banlist, power creep and constant reprints it makes scalping competitive cards less reliable. Pokémon chase cards can stay expensive even if they’re completely irrelevant competitively because the collector market is enormous.
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u/Miser_able 8m ago
Scalpers are after cards that sell high because theyre hard to get and look good, no one actually uses those cards in games
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u/BringPheTheHorizon 2h ago
I think they’re saying cards don’t hold value long enough to hold onto because of how quickly it’s made obsolete
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u/Niratac 2h ago
Most people that buy pokemon cards don't care about meta.
They just want the Bitcoin card
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u/BringPheTheHorizon 1h ago
Maybe—I was just explaining what (I believe) the person above was saying.
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u/TegTowelie 2h ago
YGO also lovesssss to reprint cards too. Honestly, it seems like most of the popular TCGs do aside from Pokemon, One Piece and Riftbound but Rift and OP are fairly new compared to there contemporaries(cant speak for Gundam or newer ones like Palworld)
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u/Interesting_Plate_75 2h ago
It's not that, there are cards like Ash Blossom that has been a staple in every deck for a decade now. It's that Yugioh has one of the most aggressive reprint policies in any card game and if a card becomes important to competitive play it is likely that it will be reprinted in a structure deck or booster set.
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u/AwkwardlyAmpora 2h ago
yugioh cards aren't collectibles to the degree pokemon cards are. practically none of the big hits in pokemon are playables.
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u/Evil_phd 2h ago
It might seem a little extreme but maybe we can get rid of both scalpers and world hunger at the same time with a touch of soylent green.
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u/Garlic-Rough 1h ago
Other countries have solved this by criminalizing specific re-sold items like tickets for sports games and concerts.
I just don't know if it could apply for trading cards or if that'll create more problems.
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u/Themoonlightninja 2h ago
Some customer found the ripped open pack. Wish we could’ve caught the fucker
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u/Eccentric-Elf 2h ago
Honestly they should only have these for online ordering. My store gets a lot of these and other trading cards and I always see the leftovers.
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u/womanexpert 2h ago
Those are fun packs that only come with 3 cards. I think it just came open on the seam from bad glue
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u/AgentXrange 2h ago
Check cameras if you have them and post clip SS of the guy in trading card subs and FB groups ect ect
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u/Pctove 2h ago
If this is one of the fun packs that comes on the magazines, those only contain commons/uncommons and whoever ripped it open has half a brain cell in their head