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    “The Glory of Team Rocket” Secret Rares Revealed!

    Eek this set is a letdown considering the top tier pocket art they’re putting out
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    GameStop Now Selling Pokemon TCG Products Above MSRP Upon Release

    My name ain't 'Giovanni4Lyfe' for nothing 😈
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    GameStop Now Selling Pokemon TCG Products Above MSRP Upon Release

    I think TPCI is printing 24/7...it's just still not enough. They have a lot of sets to print, though...they're not going to reprint every past SV set in favor of future ones.
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    GameStop Now Selling Pokemon TCG Products Above MSRP Upon Release

    This is an insane take, lmao. CHILL. It's shiny cardboard. TPCI has been doing this for nearly 30 years, the pull rates are by design and this is a hobby built on gambling and manufactured scarcity. The reality is, a LOT of people want these cards and there isn't enough to go around. Stores and...
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    GameStop Now Selling Pokemon TCG Products Above MSRP Upon Release

    The root cause is certainly not scalpers. The root cause is a huge surge in organic demand from Pokemon, and not enough product to go around. This has happened many times throughout the past 25+ years of the TCG. There are many factors that go into the surge in demand, but scalpers are merely a...
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    GameStop Now Selling Pokemon TCG Products Above MSRP Upon Release

    This thing probably won't dip below $200 market price, ever. F*** GameStop, though. Horrible company.
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    Millions of Dollars of Prototype Pokemon Cards May Be Forgeries, Retired Creatures Employee Involved

    Literally could be said about anything lmao
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    Discussion Anyone else getting kind of worn out from the recent bump in popularity of Pokemon?

    This is nothing new (even the horrid "scalpers"!), this video from 1999 has a shop owner talking about how pack rpices tripled over a three week period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgBw0BPHKEo
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    Millions of Dollars of Prototype Pokemon Cards May Be Forgeries, Retired Creatures Employee Involved

    Diversification is the key - if you are just burning money on cardboard without any return, that's on you.
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    Millions of Dollars of Prototype Pokemon Cards May Be Forgeries, Retired Creatures Employee Involved

    Few would care about Pokemon if nothing was valuable...you've got a Timmy mindset.
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    Millions of Dollars of Prototype Pokemon Cards May Be Forgeries, Retired Creatures Employee Involved

    what a toxic take
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    Pokemon Japan Increasing Supply of Booster Boxes, Reprint of “Pokemon Card 151” Coming in May!

    Agreed there needs to be a balance!!
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    Pokemon Japan Increasing Supply of Booster Boxes, Reprint of “Pokemon Card 151” Coming in May!

    Luckily, TPCI has a bunch of smart people who know that if they overprint to the point where nothing has value, the TCG will die. People like you misunderstand how the economics work. Actual "collectors" come in all varieties and MANY of them care that things like their 1st Edition Charizards...
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    Pokemon Japan Increasing Supply of Booster Boxes, Reprint of “Pokemon Card 151” Coming in May!

    If sets have no value, why rip packs? Better to buy singles as is, but especially so if everything is worthless. It sets off a death spiral where less and less people buy new sealed product, shops can't afford to keep buying from distributors, and the market stagnates.
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    Pokemon Japan Increasing Supply of Booster Boxes, Reprint of “Pokemon Card 151” Coming in May!

    Not really going for a "counter", but thanks for telling me what I think, I guess? ? ANYWAY, overprinting cards to the point that nothing is rare in a card game that makes rarity a key component would also not be sustainable.
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