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Did I already rant about my friend who bought $3000 of cards and they're just sitting on a table til he can onsell them for 20%+? He just said he paid something like $100 annual for an ebgames member account and he would preorder everything he could. He didn't even know the names of the box art mons
Sorry but I truly hope your friend ends up holding the bag
Likewise but sadly he can afford to take the hit, he has a regular turnover of mtg, baseball and basketball cards too, so Pokemon tcg is just a different market he's 'diversified' into
Can you ask him who the hell is buying these off of him?
Anyone who actually wants the product. Scalpers like that asshole buy literally everything, so if you want any of it you have to buy from them.
Sure, but do people want pokemon cards bad enough to pay that much?
I was lucky enough to get a big costco box that, after sales tax, cost me $72 CAD(14 packs, promo cards, etc)
The cheapest one could see for that same box on marketplace was $200. Local card shops were selling it for $300
Yes people will pay a lot
That's just straight up addiction at that point. Or it's other scalpers paying each other.
In total sales, Pokémon is as big as Star Wars and Harry Potter combined. No other media franchise is better at parting people from their money. Yes, Disney makes more money, but only because they own a ton of different brands. Individually, none of them come close to Pokémon in sales.
Yes
It sure ain't me