suing Pokémon tcg
I'm suing Pokémon tcg for price increasing like destined rivals ETB and more😡
if you decrease i will forgive you
b
Comments
-
Well, it's your game store that pokemon are being sold at, not pokemon because the destined rivals etb is 49.99 MSRP. My game store increased etbs by 9.99, but that's the gamestores decision, not pokemon. I would suggest that you look at places like target because MOST of there items are MSRP, like etbs, booster bundles, and individual packs. Some items like the Blooming waters premium collection are not at MSRP. Please take this up with your gamestore that you get pokemon from, not directly the Pokemon Company.
2 -
Clickbait.
1 -
If we want to get technical here’s a general look at the chain of command regarding the current TCG “drought” and the problems in it:
- TPCi
TPCi altering the pull rates of chases cards mid-generation and, to even more extreme sense, set by set. The former is present when you compare the pull rates of Secret Illustrator Rares from early-era SVI sets which had a rough one-per-booster-box rate, mid-era SVI sets to one-per-three-boxes, and seems to be recovering slowly with Journey Together-onward. The latter one is seen with special sets where Prismatic Evolutions is just pointless to open while Paldean Fates is much fairer.
- Printing companies
TPCi says they’re printing cards at maximum capacity but that’s just pointless jargon especially when we’ve seen that some cards from Prismatic Evolutions have print errors that seem to hint that Millennium Print Group, if the errored cards come from their printing facility, is still printing non-Pokémon trading cards.
Distributors- Distributors
This is kind of where two of the most intense rots in the chain are located. Distributors are basically the middleman between TPCi and stores (regardless of whether or not they’re a big box store or an LCS) and they’ve been selling products above wholesale prices and/or at MSRP due to the increased demand that the TCG has been experiencing since SSP’s release. In addition to this distributors have also been getting newer clients that are strictly online-only shops or, worse yet, rip-streamers that sell and open packs on streaming websites.
- Stores
Part of me wants to consider stores an “unwilling party” to the drastic increase in prices but some are guilty of charging exorbitant prices for products too, especially if they charge “market” value for items. The good shops are either selling products at a slight bump above what they paid for ‘em or they charge MSRP for products but have a caveat like hard limits on the amount of product you can buy and/or removing the plastic wrap on products/damaging sealed boxes to prevent resale.
- Customers
And this is where the second bit of intense rot is in the current dilemma and it’s an unfortunate one at that. The rot largely comes from customers that started to come into the TCG around 2020 and were only interested in the game due to the perceived value of certain chase cards (there’s a fun theory that says TPCi altered the pull rates of Secret Illustrator Rares around Temporal Forces due to them complaining about how the value of certain SIRs dropped over time) and now the perceived value of sealed products. Oh, and the ever-present FOMO is also a driving cause of this as well.
0
