Pokemon Card Insanity at New Levels of Degeneracy - Blooming Waters
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Pokemon Card Scalpers Reach New Levels of Degeneracy with Prismatic Evolutions and Blooming Waters
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It’s even worse when children are involved. Remembered seeing someone trying to snatch one from a kids arms until everyone else started calling the dude out for it.
Wow
I don't think a child has played pokemon in the last 2 years... no shot they can find any relevant product, and no shot their parents know or do early releases.
@@Hephaestus_Godexcept it 100 does happen and pokemon is undoubtedly one of the most popular pop culture things in history
And scalpers were shoving kids down from what I was told which is ASSAULT so in other words, the scalpers are criminals just I said they were!!!
@@chaudspieler who the name from the instagram getting blurr?
I just picked up two boxes locally (limit) last week in NJ. Pallets were behind the registers and formed a different line from regular shoppers. You paid first, then received your boxes. Glad they did it this way.
Yea, so glad they didn't wait til the actual release date 🙄
That is awesome!
1 per customer fixes that problem
No way bro cmon… 2 per customer… Please???
No limit 4 life
So greedy, don't you have any control?
1 per scalper.
Target is gonna be doing limits again and I’m all for it.
Brutal. My costco's here had a 2 box per person limit and were personally handing them out. All 3 stores had stock for about 1.5 days. Me and the girls ripped 4 boxes, and both of them hit God packs. Great memories and no chaos.
My sams club started locking up the heavy hitters collections and sea and sky boxes - kudos to them
Wow
they still have sea and sky?
@@gglunchie nah but when they did they locked it up and/or kept it in a back room
Amen to them. That saved others from a lot of stress
@@gglunchie they did until yesterday afternoon they sold out online.
At this point some of the blame lies on Costco for not having a better system when they knew from the Canadian releases what it was going to be like.
I agree
Feels like all of the blame. The product is street dated and they are blatantly ignoring. On top of that, they clearly release stock dates somewhere because how would people even know?
as an employee, there was a mass email sent, that this 151 set will be the last set to be released in any warehouse, from now on all the new poke sets will be online thing, which is worse now, cause its scalper galore online,
That's very sad news. Makes product way more expensive and hard to get.
Does Costco not communicate internally?? Especially after the early drop in Canada, they did nothing different. Sure some stores took measures to avoid this, but many other did not and allowed all this to happen
I do not know lol
thank you for keeping us all updated. this has been my childhood hobby. i just like looking at cool cards and people like this make me so sad
"We're getting them for our friends!"
Those are $60 a piece so they're spending $600 just to give them to their friends out of the goodness of their hearts? Wow they sure are nice.
My brother doesn't have a Costco card. I got some for him my nephew and myself. I'm still trying to master the set. But these people are insane!
It really is insane. I started collecting last year and Pokémon card collecting becomes much more competitive, like a race to be won. It’s harder to get in person and online, especially when they become very expensive. I can’t and don’t want to collect them by set. That’s why I’m collecting cards from different sets whenever they’re out. It’s easier to collect by rarity for the long-run and it’s less expensive to do if you know what you want and bought at certain frequencies.
I honestly think there should be some law and order designed specifically for Pokémon cards. It’s literally its own global community.
The new meta is steal them out of his GFs cart while he’s running back for more cards
lol. That one guy was about to try lol
Flip the cart, start a frenzy. What’s he gonna do? Apparently money gain is money gain is all the rules we have. Hate these people.
How do these people even find out when these stores release these products early? There are always lines and it baffles me how so many people know, especially the scalpers
Yea. Gotta be tips.
From what i see if u have a costco memebership u can log in into your account and check what is in stock before hand.
The scalping group in my area are on a friend basis with MJ holdings and the third parties that stock the stores. It's such trash. I know who they are and none of them have jobs or aren't going anywhere in life. I honestly borderline feel bad for how pathetic their lives are.
I've heard a couple of different UA-camrs say when the restocks are now. No idea where they get there information from.
As much as I love collecting pokemon cards since I got back into the hobby last year, the scalpers is what makes the hobby less fun. What also annoys me that these stores like Costco don’t have securities or even have a limit per person rule. Why can’t they just do that???
And I even feel horrible for the kids who want Pokemon cards too, these scalpers are so selfish they won’t leave anything for actual collectors. I even saw this one video that took place in target where this kid was about to get cards and yet these scalpers blocked his way so they can take every single product.
And let’s not forget that these scalpers are so selfish and greedy that they only buy these products just so they can resell them for very higher prices.
And it’s gonna get way more worse once the team rocket and the trainer sets come out. I’m excited for those sets but with these annoying scalpers, it’s gonna be hard to look for them.
I jacked a scalpers cart from his partner who was on their phone and turned their back and I took their cart and went to checkout and had an associate watch me checkout so no one would come up and try to take it and after I sold them to people who didn’t get any 👍
can't wait until the bubble pops. I really would like to get a binder, but I'm not willing to pay 20+ dollars for it. I'll stick to collecting my older sets for now. Only 16 left for my Pokémon Go set. =)
I have never seen any 151 in any store to this day because of things like this. I think its partly due to living in a populated area my metro area has 2.5m people, since I had friends who said they could just walk in a Target or Best Buy and they would have pokemon cards who live in other cities that are not as populated. My costco app said blooming waters was in stock at my store but when I got there there was no sign of it.
Same boat. I've never even seen a 151 pack in person.
@@Rafael-LOP22 who the name from the instagram getting blurr?
Geez it gets worse every day. If blooming waters and prismatic evolutions are always scalped, I’m fine saving my money. Pathetic 😂
Yeah I feel you
@@DrApplesauceTwo I appreciate you constantly talking about this issue. Maybe it will help some people grow up
Store fault, they should cut the purchase one box per customer. If you show up at the cashier with 10 boxes will automatically turn them down and only one box allowed
I can’t agree more
0:28
The guy in the Hat is playing the Victim saying the guy in the Green Jacket stole from him but in the video you will see the GJ had two in his procession first
On Reddit I found out the Hat Guy got his Costco Membership revoked and the Police were notified
I see this behavior on the Discovery Channel or National Geographic. The only difference is that these animals are wearing clothes and speak a language.
I think you should have to name 20 randomised pokemon from the pokedex to be able to buy product 😂 Guarantee you no one in these videos could name even 5 of the Gen 1 pokemon.
Apparently these stupid things are coming to the UK soon. I hope the retailers learned from the American situation. Just about everywhere in the UK had buying limits on Prismatic so hopefully it'll be the same with this.
4:21 bro cant live without pokemon cards
So glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s alpha/beta magic cards for days and all the shadowless 1st edition a kid could ask for. Kids these days can’t even buy a pack of cards because adults want to flip the cards like a bunch of scumbags.
It won't last. We've been through so many of these stupid booms now. Eventually it burns out and things calm down.
I agree with waiting for the chaos to end. There are a lot of small sellers and small UA-camrs who have stuff for sale. The issue is, everyone wants to only buy from rich big companies and UA-camrs. The issue is though that ends up increasing the price of these trading cards, because it causes the big companies and UA-camrs to buy more than their need.
Dude with the camera: Why you carjacking me???
Carjacker: Money gain is money gain.
Lmaoooo
A few people should have just taken them out of his cart😂
Everyone forgets the inherit mischievous nature of Pokemon. Were all nothing but team grunts getting ours!!!
bro thank GOD my target and costco isn't like this bro
this is horrible behaviour from EVERYONE. and the company isn’t doing anything by limiting.
Theirs a line at my local McDonald’s now. It’s crazy. I got two blooming waters preordered at GameStop. I’m not paying a steep price knowing I might get cards I already have.
Also I had a cousin have a costco do a ticket system where you write down your info and how many you want then they fill your cart. It's WAYYYY calmer that way
That is really wrong to do that to people who are already trying to get their money worth
There was a reddit post on R/PokemonTCG that a local card was broken into
I'm waiting until it calms down before I go in because this is crazy
Should have took some from his cart. What’s he gunna do? Nothing. And if he does, good. Then neither one of us are getting boxes. That’s still a win.
Its sad that some of these kids will never get to see a pokemon etb at its market price
There is no such thing as a “nice” scalper
I am a Pokémon card collecter, lego collecter, and a fan of pro-wrestling and I am embarrassed to be a part of each and everyone one of them.
Oh man
You your body on the line for content is crazy.
When I saw the thumbnail I was thinking I haven't seen this one yet 🤔
Im honestly glad there isn’t a Costco near me if i saw this stuff id loose my mind. 😅
How is scalping legal. Plus I feel sorry for the employees who have to deal with this kind of behavior
Other Costcos won’t even let customer even think about entering before they scan their membership
We have 3 Costco here, and the ones here you must have a memebership to get a ticket to get 2 (limit). Very organized and i was able to get 2 despite being behind 100 people. Oh btw saw a guy with like 10 boxes because he brought his families to buy it too smh. 😅
Oh and some Costco employees are shady, they saved some for their buddies or someone they know because i know someone that know someone worked at that Costco saying they their manager were saving it for the kids. I'm like what kid has a membership card? What kid is shopping at Costco? What kid know what they have in stock? Real sus.
Worst part about it all is these losers will make some money and they'll be back to do it again the next time there's a deal to be made. Im also guessing Costco will "forget" and there will be no limits.
I really don't like scalpers. That being said, the people who are paying scalper prices to these scalpers are partially to blame for this behavior as well. All I can do is hope pokemon print and restock prismatic evolutions like they did crown zenith.
As a casual player and collector, I find these clips to be funny. As much as I like watching people make asses out of themselves, it kinda sucks that people like me are gonna be sidelined from the TCG until the hype dies down. And given the sets are about to come out later this year...2025 might be a bloodbath 0.o
I want prismatic evolutions so bad but pokemon said they are printing more so ima wait
Yep
1:37 Rookie scalper.
I’m all for people trying to make money but annoys me since I’m a collector and opening packs with my kids creates good memories
I’m about to start setting up meets with these scalpers and pay them retail for the items and tell them to keep it pushing lol
My kiddo just started playing the card game and it’s almost impossible to find any cards right now . Poor timing I guess :0
Dang that sucks for your kid :v
Maybe you could check out other card games in the meantime? There's Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, One Piece, Magic the Gathering, Disney, Dragon Ball etc... Just until this mess gets sorted out properly
I love Pokemon TCG, but fortunately, I never got into the collection part of it and only bought the code cards to play the online version. So, I never had to deal with scalpers. Sucks that everyone else has to go thru it to enjoy collecting.
The Pokémon fandom is supposed to be such a great community but I’ve been back for 2 months and all I see is terrible behavior.. I really been turned off by it after the actual release of prismatic evolutions.
The whole release has been rough
Its a good fandom its just that there are a lot of bad eggs looking to sell things that should be readily available for a stupidly high price. Most people arent scalpers in the TCG part of the community, they just wanna rip some packs. Scalpers are a small but controlling force within the TCG community
shame for the stores ignoring this issue, ( just limit the items purchased by scalpers :( )
It's already deplorable to be a scalper, but to be a crappy scalper is even worse. The margin on these isn't even that good.
Costco just doesn't seem to care about this happening.
No Essentials or Supreme in sight, Lmao. Way to stereotype Applesauce
This is reminding me of Black Friday back in the old days
yea, I'm just waiting for more reprints. Not worth all the chaos when the pull rates are not even the best!
I went to 5 targets in one day. Not a single Prismatic or Surging pack lol
Idk he should be happy he gave him one . I don’t like this either but he didn’t have to give him any.
What kills me is the return on this isnt even that insane, okay so you spent 60+ tax on this, to chuck it up on ebay for 120, pay nearly 20% in fees and shipping, so you did all this for what, $30 profit per box? Only winner here is eBay getting to collect fees on these outrageous mark ups, the scalpers arent making much, the end buyers are forced to way overpay if they really want it... its just such a shitty situation
It's such a huge box as well. I guess they could break it down but generally even the investor channels warn against buying huge boxes. 100% not worth it. There's easier and more ethical ways to make money.
Its 45 in store but yeah insane.
@@bjthompson3490 is it? I was just going on best buys pre-order price, figured that would be the price across the board that's my bad
I kinda wanted one of these, but the box is so big i dont have the shelf space, lol. Im out. I'll just watch you guys eat each other over them. That's good enough for me.
IMO it’s so big it’s only good for opening
Better luck next time😂
Glad you're not taking part in this either Dr. A.
I have way better things to do than wait in line for multiple hours to fight other adults for cards. Pass.
I’m happy some of the costcos are putting limits. As long as they do it properly and put limits on those purchasing with their membership it will work. If Albertsons/safeway can put limits on chicken breast when it’s 2.67 per lb, I’m sure Costco can figure it out too.
Good point!
Embarrassing 🤮
These people ruin it for people trying to have fun for the game. 100% these are all scalpers
Likely
Just the thought of one day your kids see you doing this
I wear essential hoodies and supreme hats and me and my daughter are collectors lol
Scalping is an international contact sport get down or laydown
No one is about it bunch of introvert. But if you say so. Ive handled 3 different scalpers already.
This THIS is why im out of the hobby. Scalpers and resellers ruined it for me.
Sad
There's many other shows and card games you can look into and have fun with
Ita crazy cause on fb people are literally validating the scalpers behaviors with shit like "gotta respect the hustle"
No, no the hell i don't. Its disgusting amd suuuper immature especially being an adult WHO RECORDED HIMSELF WHILE DOING IT. Shame him and shame him hard
I would also like to add, theres a guy trying to sell 2 CASES of the McDonalds Pokemom set for 1500$
McDonald’s vid coming tomorrow lol
You couldn't pay me to go to a mcdonalds.
Simple solution: limit it to online orders and 2 per address per week or something. If in person, 2 boxes per person. This behaviour is pathetic.
These people are the antichrist of Pokemon collectors.
My son and I are done with pokemon. Its getting to be way to expensive. Scalpers are ruining this hobby.
There's other shows and card games you can check out with your kid. Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, Dragon Ball. There's also that Disney card game with the Disney characters... Try those out and you might be surprised. It's okay if you both like Pokemon but maybe try some other things so you aren't trapped into only being into one thing and have other options to choose from to play with
Can you imagine if this was food?
That costco new exactly what was going on, that pallet was pretty conveniently close to the door.
i just hope i can get a couple online. this is madness
The stores need to make lines. People are not gonna be nice or think of others. They are all selfish and it's disgusting. Morals and consciousness don't exist anymore. It's so fking sad 😂
The greed is wild lol
Love Your Username LoL Never imagined i would find someone with the same one as my steam account/Other Socials. If it's not too much to ask where did you get the inspiration for yours?
They have to enforce the rule one per person and no more than that and if anyone tried to cut on line they are forced to walk to the back of the line. It's because these people are getting away with this behavior with no consequences they keep doing it
Cut in line"
Blooming waters seems like an endless product not sure if 151 is going to hold it value with the amount of boxes that were printed
It does seem like there’s going to be a lot of it
Lmao! This mofo said "money gain is money gain". Wow. People never fail to surprise me. I hope the people in community just stop buying from these scumbags. We need to do our part.
It won’t stop sadly
Ahh the daily dose of Pokemon UFC videos 😅
Hahahha
I know. I keep waiting for someone to throw a piledriver or something. lol
I need that shirt u got where'd u get it lol
From a booth in artists alley years ago
@DrApplesauceTwo damn oh well lol
Bro these people make me embarrassed to be part of the pokemon community, and like if costco dosent want this to happen MAKE A FREAKING 2 limit or something!!
The guy bought 10 boxes for $44.99 . The total is $449.00. Why ?
2025 American Black Friday came early
Pokewars 2025 are crazy
I refuse to buy anything over msrp. So scalpers will not get any money from me. I am patient and will wait. I waited for sea and sky at Sam's Club and was able to buy as much I wanted eventually.
these are Canada right?
No. US
Man. I’m just quitting. I just won’t open nothing. Just sucks cuz if no one buys it at the high price I can’t get the singles for my deck lmao
You can get singles for your deck lol. There’s like one good playable card in This set and it’s a common
You can't get the singles rn, these scalpers are selling those for $20 or more
There's always other card games to get into like Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Magic the Gathering, One Piece, Disney etc. Maybe check those out because history is repeating itself with these scalpers and the Pokemon cards
Fight fight fight.
😂😂😂
I'll just go to card conventions where its civilized and have security. Ill pay top dollar or haggle for raw and slabs I actually want.
Yea limits and i hope nobody buys from scalpers
We didn’t do this with I was 8 😅 in the Base Set Era
This isn’t the hobby I know & loved
The Greed ruined it
Worse then children 👍🏻
Limit them to 2 per person
These stores are just as much to blame
All for 💰 💰 💰
This is going out of control! Like really?!
Really really lol
Department stores all need to do a limit
Yep. They’ll still sell out.
the cringe is killing me as I watch this