I think one of the major issues is most local card shops are very much used to riding the up and down trends of TCGs. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but when the last sets flopped (relative to the past couple years) card shops mostly decided to not stock nearly as much product of the newer stuff (bt16 included). On top of that, with One Piece blowing up, card shops have to make the decision of what game to stock more of. They don't have infinite capital to just stock as much of whatever they want, so of course they sway to what's trending. At least in my local area, it's basically impossible to find the newer packs let alone box sets.
The recent sets are expensive bc there’s less product. Simple answer really. Almost zero bt16 was distributed. No sets make it to big box stores and my lgs got like 6 boxes. Better secrets drive boxes to be opened and you wouldn’t be seeing $20 supers
@@jkromes20 i think we agree essentially that the much better SECs and low supply created the new prices. And yeah I can agree that if we boil it down to a sentence then yeah I’d say supply is the issue since as with most tcgs if they overprint it to oblivion even SECs wouldn’t be as valuable however a huge reason for the low stock imo was previous sets having bad secret rares making them hard to sell/very close to distribution and thus not really worth opening anywhere near as much as these new ones so stores wouldn’t order as much so the few stock that was out there for such hype sets like BT16 or EX06 sold out much quicker making supply run out almost immediately making it 130-140$. At least from the couple people at some LGSs I talked to locally and one online that’s what I mainly gathered that they got around the same amount it’s just that they don’t really get a lot of Digimon since usually it doesn’t sell too well so it’s not as worth it I do live in a big city but still of course that could also be dependent on the area.
I think one of the major issues is most local card shops are very much used to riding the up and down trends of TCGs. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but when the last sets flopped (relative to the past couple years) card shops mostly decided to not stock nearly as much product of the newer stuff (bt16 included). On top of that, with One Piece blowing up, card shops have to make the decision of what game to stock more of. They don't have infinite capital to just stock as much of whatever they want, so of course they sway to what's trending. At least in my local area, it's basically impossible to find the newer packs let alone box sets.
The recent sets are expensive bc there’s less product. Simple answer really. Almost zero bt16 was distributed. No sets make it to big box stores and my lgs got like 6 boxes. Better secrets drive boxes to be opened and you wouldn’t be seeing $20 supers
@@jkromes20 i think we agree essentially that the much better SECs and low supply created the new prices. And yeah I can agree that if we boil it down to a sentence then yeah I’d say supply is the issue since as with most tcgs if they overprint it to oblivion even SECs wouldn’t be as valuable however a huge reason for the low stock imo was previous sets having bad secret rares making them hard to sell/very close to distribution and thus not really worth opening anywhere near as much as these new ones so stores wouldn’t order as much so the few stock that was out there for such hype sets like BT16 or EX06 sold out much quicker making supply run out almost immediately making it 130-140$. At least from the couple people at some LGSs I talked to locally and one online that’s what I mainly gathered that they got around the same amount it’s just that they don’t really get a lot of Digimon since usually it doesn’t sell too well so it’s not as worth it I do live in a big city but still of course that could also be dependent on the area.