according to tcgplayer, the new set's full art Lightning cards are selling for 250 apiece, more if they're foil. I dunno how they'd get more expensive than that for cards still in print.
Target Announces "No Longer Selling Pokemon or Sports Cards In-Store"
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according to tcgplayer, the new set's full art Lightning cards are selling for 250 apiece, more if they're foil. I dunno how they'd get more expensive than that for cards still in print.
Most retailers I've seen have long stopped selling yugioh packs/boxes cuz I'm assuming a bunch of people would pull out the valuable cards and then reseal. Been pretty frustrating on top of the nonsense of GftP with what I'm assuming are people trying to cash in
Surprised Pokemon got the axe way after yugioh though
Surprised Pokemon got the axe way after yugioh though
I would I just don't have the time or space. I'm donating a bunch of stuff to Friends of the Children but they don't want my old star wars cards lol (I asked). I bet they would want my Pokemon cards, if I had any.
And if you live on the west coast, you need to make sure you're awake between 5-7am to go live :)
Yup. I remember I was so excited when my weekly allowance got high enough for me to buy two packs a week and a structure deck if I mowed my grandparents yard too. Now... It just feels and sounds like work to even get cards and it's all about the meta. Glad I ducked out them when I did.
I wouldn't blame him personally. This started because he bought a Charizard for a crazy amount of money after his dog destroyed his old one. He was a legit collector.
After him you had Logic do the same, but his reasoning is that he couldn't afford to collect Pokemon cards as a child and wanted to spend.
The issue is that people saw this money and thought they could become rich.
They recently instituted a one item per person rule that actually helped the situation and stock was staying on shelves.
However due to a couple increased violent incidents in past few days it seems they just said "fuck it we out"
I volunteer at a game store and let me tell you that Pokemon is in a pretty crazy state. I spoke with the shop owner at length about it and the stock situation is dire. He's waiting on order fulfillment from last year and he's been allocated on everything he gets. When he gets stock in, he is out in less than a day. He does hold limited product for regulars, but not whole boxes.
From a production standpoint, printers are running 24x7, but the biggest hurdle for Pokemon right now is that the printers are all in Asia. Magic has printers in the US, Asia, and Europe, so production issues are non existent, really. He's seen his latest batch of magic product come from Belgian printers, as an example. Another game that is having issues right now is Flesh and Blood because production is from Australia.
For the target scenario, I can see that it's likely two fold. One, Excel (it's supplier for TCGs) can't get enough stock in to fulfill orders for Target. Two, it's a liability thing for Target stores. Excel rep comes, doesn't stock Pokemon, customers that waited get angry and take it out on target employees. There is no winner here.
From a production standpoint, printers are running 24x7, but the biggest hurdle for Pokemon right now is that the printers are all in Asia. Magic has printers in the US, Asia, and Europe, so production issues are non existent, really. He's seen his latest batch of magic product come from Belgian printers, as an example. Another game that is having issues right now is Flesh and Blood because production is from Australia.
For the target scenario, I can see that it's likely two fold. One, Excel (it's supplier for TCGs) can't get enough stock in to fulfill orders for Target. Two, it's a liability thing for Target stores. Excel rep comes, doesn't stock Pokemon, customers that waited get angry and take it out on target employees. There is no winner here.
Well, I'm sure Target was relying on employees for queue management. They'll hire extra security for black friday, but Target didn't want to hire extra security every day.
We sell them at my job, and if we do not immediately secure the Pokemon cards as soon as they come in, then people will steal them.
Don't know shit about magic, but if the yugioh and pokemon cards are from old sets and are in good condition and have a 1st edition stamp, then your odds are really good.
So is it just all Pokemon cards that are sought after or is it a specific series that has people going nuts?
I won't be surprised if other stores follow suit soon.
I wonder how much my old baseball cards that were certainly overproduced might be worth these days.
I wonder how much my old baseball cards that were certainly overproduced might be worth these days.
I think the stories reached their natural end after people started bringing guns to buy fucking trading cards.
No, they already put a limit, but there was an incident at a Target a few days back where some dude was jumped by four dudes for his cards in a Target parking lot and he pulled a gun out on them. Target said they were going to reevaluate afterwards and this is the result.
Pokemon TCG community concerned after Target scalping turns violent - Inven Global
I hate that I can't enjoy this hobby anymore. Can't find Pokémon shit for nothing and Digimon is being sold at absurd prices at my card shops.
It's anything really aside from commons and shit.
Depends on what you have, but probably not much.
I remember in the late 80s/early 90s hockey and baseball cards were all the rage. Fueled by even older cards going for such a high value, everyone jumped in (myself included). *If* I could find cards in stores, I would buy the entire box and ask if they have sealed boxes they would sell me. I was 15 and spent all my part time job money on this.
If I could find a rookie card of someone having a breakout season, I would buy it.
A few years ago when we moved, i found them. Cards in great shape, cases of cards still sealed. Price tags still ok them.
They are worth exactly what I paid for them at the time, which isn't much when you factor in 30 years of inflation
Certain sets with highly desired cards are extremely hard to find for msrp. The recent set with shiny pokemon (rare alternate color variants) Shining Fates is impossible to find on the shelves. Other product is easier to get (like the most recent set Battle Styles.
Demand is insane right now. There's a lot of people making money by just opening packs on camera and a lot of people are trying to get in on it. And I can imagine companies are hesitant to open the floodgates by increasing how much they print because a) this is clearly a bubble and they don't want to deal with huge amounts of unsold stock when it ends and b) all the hype is increasing sales and they don't want to kill it completely.
This is sad and funny to me. I feel bad for people, mostly the kids, who just wanna buy packs to open. But I'm laughing at all those scalpers who now have to deal with bots.
Yikes
But right to do because people are ruthless at line ups on Friday morning and starting fights and shit
But right to do because people are ruthless at line ups on Friday morning and starting fights and shit
For anyone confused about this, I work at a major retailer and it's really bad guys. Some of the people who scalp are really, really nasty. Props to Target for this move. It's just not fair to the employees at all to have to deal with these man babies.
I mean, who's buying this stuff second hand anyways?
I have a bunch of old Pokemon Cards just sitting in boxes. If someone wants to take them off my hands for a hundy have at it. But I just checked on eBay and they're not exactly exploding in value. I don't get it.
I have a bunch of old Pokemon Cards just sitting in boxes. If someone wants to take them off my hands for a hundy have at it. But I just checked on eBay and they're not exactly exploding in value. I don't get it.
Shadowless Charizard card selling for $300k. Compound this with influencers buying tons of packs to find valuable singles and now everyone is looking for Pikachu's next golden ticket.
My daughter got into Pokemon in late 2019 and it used to be so easy to buy random packs or decks and we had a lot of fun learning to play together. Good thing she has sizable collection cause the only cards she's got in the last year were three in a box of cereal the other week.
I hate the world we live in. It's fucking insane. My kid was jazzed to get a pack with my Happy Meal at MCD, only to find out people are hoarding them from there too. Nothing like seeing a 4 year old crushed because some adults are pricks.
If people can make believe digital coins are worth billions I fully believe in your MTG cards. At least those are cool to look at.
Yup happened a few days ago at a target in Milwaukee. Some guy cut in front of ppl and they jumped him. Someone pulled a gun out and shot it in the air smh.
People don't realise they're being fucking hustled by influencers on this shit with stuff like the 300k charizards. Yeah one sold at that price. they're not exactly fucking moving at 300k. Most go at 600 audish. which is already fucking stupid.