SEE PINNED COMMENT FIRST - This Pokemon Video Pissed Me Off - Journey Together Rant
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- NOTE - It was a little unclear to me, but Danny provided clarification below that the numbers in his video are for EXAMPLE ONLY. He does not have the exact numbers yet. This makes me VERY happy I didn't share his numbers in this video, anyway watch his video and keep that in mind while you watch mine - thanks friends.
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NOTE - It was a little unclear to me, but Danny provided clarification below that the numbers in his video are for EXAMPLE ONLY. He does not have the exact numbers yet. This makes me VERY happy I didn't share his numbers in this video, anyway watch his video and keep that in mind while you watch mine - thanks friends.
Danny video ua-cam.com/video/fyH3rZJPLe0/v-deo.htmlsi=GuoSfeT5svPQOpU1
Moral of the story: Brian is pissed at Pokemon, not Danny
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Brian is a justice n3rd like that
I think a lot of people came to confirm this lmao
He had to clickbait his own fans to get them to watch this crap
@@marcburch2633 who hurt you lol
People who are not even Pokémon collectors are FOMO. Was in GameStop and people are just buying whatever not Prismatic. Employee told the customer those Battle Boxes don’t have packs it just teaches you to play the game. Customer freaked out saying you just want these for yourself. He ended up buying 3 boxes 😂🤦🏻♂️
Lmao
Thats hilarious I would go to my manager and say I made a sale telling them the truth and they bought the unwanted crap even with me telling the truth the manager probably gave thar guy a coupon for game stop because we all know game stop nit giving raises lol
@ fomo is good for old inventory. Employee told me all their old stuff collecting dust also flew off the shelf lol before prismatic the shelf was full of Pokémon cards, now it’s bare like 2020 again 🤦🏻♂️
They need to push a set back to catch up!!!!!
@scottrulka6587 lol that's would cost them way to much money in marketing and other stuff they just want the fomo or if it's hard they can make more money then it being available for everyone not alot of companies want to hire a full staff cause they found out since covid they can charge more and run their staff at half so they don't have to have their work force budget really low instead the high ups just pocket it and do it over and over again why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor alit of companies are doing it
We are beyond fomo. Its the acceptance that we will miss out. I can see how people leave the hobby.
Quiet acceptance is the stage that I’m at
Let them leave. They were never true fans of the series
I dont understand people leaving the hobby because you can't find the newest set within the first few weeks of release. There is 30 years of Pokemon cards you can collect and enjoy. Just collect something else while you wait for reprints
Shelves are empty in most stores, opening cards isn't even an option lately anymore
@@chefsaliva5317because only True fans go bankrupt to buy pokemon cards, right?
We're journeying together into deep pit of debt and depression with this one!!!
how do you journey into debt when there's nothing to buy?
@@supmotto T-T
😂
@@supmotto let the kid dream
I will be on that way with team rocket hajahahah
Being in print manufacturing for 10 years (mostly beverage labels) what we are seeing (or not seeing) on the shelves today is what was printed likely mid to late 2024. Typically, orders placed today are for projected demand in 4-8 months, and that demand is usually based on the last 12-18 months of sales. With product sitting on the shelves, demand appeared to be low. The market didn't start showing upswings until Twighlight, so why would they order a bunch of Prismatic and Journey to be printed when the market appeared uninterested?
When actual demand outpaces projections, like we started seeing during Surging Sparks, companies do put in those "oh shit' orders to their partners, which they probably started putting in slightly before their announcement. Even with those orders it still takes at least a month or more for the new production to make it to the customer. It likely won't be until Q2, maybe even Q3, when the newly ordered production runs are actually seen by us.
Let's just hope that they put in enough orders to not only improve availability of current product, but are able to increase availability for the rest of the planned sets this year.
I agree with this, your timeline is accurate. People who have no idea about production and logistics just assume product appears overnight on shelves..
Thank you. Was shocked by this video on this channel. Been watching for awhile and enjoy the realistic take. However, this is so out of touch.
In a few months, the market will get flooded by Surging Sparks, Prismatic Evolutions, and Journey Together. Team Rocket set will definitely be printed to insanity as well. This is giving me Deja Vu to 2020 with Champion’s Path, Vivid Voltage, and Shining Fates. The situation isn’t exactly parallel, but the market sentiment is similar enough and TPC is going to do the exact same thing
They are not stupid. New expansion introduces and pushes new pokemon nobody knows or really cares about. Then they introduce all these futuristic versions of pokemon. Then next two sets have not more than 1-2 chase cards. Lots of good IR's throught every S& V set but people want expensive chases in a set and if you pull a nice $8 dollar iR nice but not enough to push a set. T hey have witnessed 151 gain lots of traction and always sells out right away so they should have known a PIKachu set with a latios SIR followed by eeveelution set would have insane demand compared to the first 6-7 sets of sets.,
This.
6 to 8 months ago when they were planning how much of this to print Scarlet and Violet wasn’t exactly flying off the shelves. The amount that Danny is getting relative to, for instance, stellar crown, is logical if viewed through the lens of the summer of 2024.
14:07 i think the reason theyre allocating to big places like amazon and costco is because they take massive quantities and they're more consistent. I used to work for a distributor that was basically almost kept alive by amazon. The distributor had a huge problem with getting the usual vendors to pay for their orders unless they were pre-orders so product would just get stuck all packaged up not being allocated to vendors that would have actually paid. I know of a couple other distributors that had amazon as one of their biggest customers. Amazon is incredibly strict with their orders (because they can be) and if you don't give them everything they ordered there are actual consequences.
Hey guys, we’re super envious of how far ahead you get your allocations over in the States!
Over here in Europe the situation is a whole different story - our EU distributor (yes, the monopolistic one 😅) only gave us the Prismatic allocation just one week before delivery, and for the Surprise Boxes and mini Tiny we still haven’t received any allocations, only word that they’re about 4 weeks delayed.
We can’t even take pre-orders now, because we don’t want to end up in the same nightmare we had with 1st wave of Prismatic (where we got one of the worst-case scenarios, like 1/5 of what we expected, plus ongoing delays).
It's nightmare..
As a father of a competetive junior PokemonTCG player I'm terrified of Journey Together. It's a new block which means there is rotation. That shifts the whole meta game. Availibility of Surging Sparks and Prismatic Eevolutions did not bother players - both sets have like 5 meta relevant cards together. Journey together is different. And with lot's more sealed collectors and "investors" the playable bulk cards are not as easy to get.
This is the real issue in my opinion! Give Danny credit that he does actually care about the tcg and states that in his video, this guy (PokeNE) not so much.
I understand if you're saying you want to pull the cards yourself for your decks that you're scared. If you are just a player though just buy singles. There are promo and base rarities for all playable singles. The allocation issues aren't a lack of product on the market, it's just more competition in stores wanting pokemon cards to sell. Unless you need to play with the SIR version of cards the playable singles prices will be fine after a week or two
Bulk cards will still be easy to get
lol
@a) more people buy stuff to keep seeled for investments
b) collecing investors" pissed by the shit pullrates throw bulk into boxes
c) product bought by the "casual" stores is not sorted because people don't care.
all three lead to less playable not collectble cards on the market.
Printing isn’t the problem the Distributors are
My lgs showed me the numbers on what he has done with buying peoples lots and grading and reselling for 2024, and it was almost 10 times what they made selling every set release. That's the one good thing about having a lgs in this market. I also know a massive sneaker guy who only uses bots who have more 151, zenith, and Prismatic than everyone I've seen combined. Im talking thousands and thousands of boxes. He even has like 1,000 pc etbs of Prismatic somehow. Crazy times
Yeah I just recently started working part-time time at my lgs, boss man told me that they got a single etb from distro so he's just aggressively buying collections. It's the only way to make a profit when there is nothing coming from distro
our local LCS is getting 2 blooming waters, I told him Journey will be really bad, we made a video on it on our site, check it out guys.
Absolute cap that he has 1000 PC ETBs
This is why you don't believe everything on the internet. I'll believe it when you show some proof lmao
I used to be able to go into Walmart and target literally a day or two early every new set release and get an ETB. Not how. They need to print these into the ground
So, I have a harsh-ish take on this: Since Pokemon is one of the only TCG's that DOES NOT require a buyer to have a brick-and-mortar shop (with play space not just retail. Like to carry MtG, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc you have to have dedicated space for at least 8 people to play. Supposed to. I'm sure there are exceptions out there. Especially grandfathered in accounts pre-covid era.) in order to purchase from distros, this is why we see the shortages and abysmal allocations we see. I know you're an online seller and I'm not throwing shade at you for that but if everyone and their brother has access to Pokemon product by simply getting a business license and getting accepted by a distro, with the amount of Pokemon "shops" that have sprung up, even abysmal allocations eat into legitimate(?) allocations.
100's, if not 1000's, of pop up Pokemon stores have popped up and even if each of those new shops are only allocated 1 or 2 cases....well, you see where I'm going with that hopefully.
Walmart, costco, and target are at top of the chain not LGS and resellers. This is artificial scarcity being perpetrated by Pokemon Company. They have also spun up several hundred vending machines run by Pokemon Company to ensure they are getting full MSRP. What everyone is really mad at is no more wholesale to the public on release.
I doubt any sensible person is upset that stuff isn't wholesale at release. People upset because they can't find stuff anywhere. That Prismatic ETBs are selling for $120+ from third parties. Finding them in stores is near impossible. That Terastral BBs are floating around $100 for what should be a $60ish box.
There is a supply issue. Is TPC intentionally creating scarcity? I don't know. I'm not an insider to know. But they definitely seem to constantly underestimate how much demand a set will create. And in some cases, over estimate what will be also.
I have been able to purchase multiple case at MSRP without issue. The pokemon company has been printing larger quantities every consecutive year, and has just recently run into an issue. The big box store get restocked every week as does the vending machines. They are not worried about LGS or rip n shippers as they make more off of big box stores. This is FOMO run rampant and Pokemon taking the opportunity to increase their profit margins. No stuff sitting on shelves is the goal of every company so they never have to discount their product. Once the next set releases you will find all the prismatic you ever wanted. The real problem is people paying over MSRP instead of being patient or putting in the work to find product.
Pokémon doesn’t want the market saturated. They want people to beg for MSRP! Because last year no one would have ever paid MSRP for any product.
but why now? why didn't they do this in sword/shield?
@@ImQuirklessthey did, with Shining Fates
@ timing! They only raised MSRP at the start of S & V.
Why do people think Pokemon are going to increase production? Anyone who thinks their printers aren't already running at full capacity is nuts. That press release was nothing but carefully worded lip service.
Lol because they like money they freaking love it.
I don’t know, the thing to bear in mind that there’s a lot more to this than just “turn it up to 11”.
Everyone knew Sparks and Prismatic were going to be popular, but what they didn’t bargain for was the number of people new or rejoining the hobby and the general increase in demand in general. You can’t just go from printing at, I dunno 60% capacity to 100% capacity when you’re working at this scale. Global supply chains become an issue. Shipping crates of things around the world takes planning months in advance. The increase in demand for the hobby as a whole has put huge strain on existing plans, and those plans can’t be changed easily.
Exactly, the PR stunt everyone is clutching their pearls over hoping for a magical increase in printing capacity 😂
This happens in other industries. They do not increase production capacity unless they think the demand will keep up in the long run otherwise they will lose money and lay off employees.
Honestly that’s where MY frustration is at- the Pokémon Company released Pokémon Pocket clearly intending for it to draw a younger/wider audience into the TCG. Why are they so unprepared for a surge in demand for the sets printed shortly after? Are their execs seriously sitting in their offices wearing Surprised Pikachu.png faces because they printed the same amount of cards on the same amount of printers but magically there seems to be a shortage of supply now? Especially when they are also clearly trying to draw back older Pokémon fans as well with sets based on OG favourites like eevee and Team Rocket. This is the most successful franchise ever, surely they hire the best business minds they can. How did they not think to secure some extra printers in case their marketing did its job??
Hi. I have a suggestion. If you don’t get enough Journey Together. Why not raffle it. Take your huge list. Use an online randomizer to choose randomly the amount of people equal to your allocation. Then send them a special email and give them 3 days to make the order. If they don’t, then choose someone else randomly afterwards. I feel this is fare and NO ONE can complain that bots or you screwed them over.
You do realise 1 person could just make 10000 email accounts in order to increase their chances.. its essentially the same as bots
That'll still make everybody mad an incentivize bot usage even more
Even if it was perfect, this man does not have hours to burn trying to do this time consuming idea.
That would take to much time
Sounds like a lot of WORK
I think we're all feeling the heat, I just want to have fun and it's been hard to get anything to open and when there's a specific card I want to buy, it's more than my portion of rent where I live. I've switched to vintage which is crazy to say, but it's actually cheaper than modern and it makes me sad.
Allocation is down to distribution, print run is Pokemon. Pokemon have to be increasing the print run if they can they aren't stupid they are sending more product to Big Box stores than ever before, I also think distribution is keeping product back as they know prices will rise at the moment.
This! The amount of people who have applied with distributors has increased exponentially in the past 5 years. I think Pokemon has likely allocated more to big box chains and less to distributors because of quality control.
At the same time their Print run has increase sixfold in 5 years, increasing it further is more risk, Pokemon will actually be waiting to see if the hype stays high for a few more months before commiting to more printing presses, its an expensive operation.
This is just more proof of what many of us have been saying all along. Pokemon has already been printing at 100% capacity and must have been caught off guard by this big boom in demand. It could take a year or more for Pokemon to open more printing facilities IF they even decide to do that. The lack of SV reprints, the delayed release of Shrouded Fable, the empty store shelves. There's lots of evidence in support that they have been printing at 100% for quite some time.
I think they need to space out new sets more, not every two three months, say you drop a new set every six instead, youd think youd have time to print enough then.
Even 3 to 4 months. Every month to month and a half is way to quick for collectors and competitors to even enjoy the set
What happens when the bull run ends and they have dead sets and they print a future run into the ground and no one buys it I.E. Pokemon Go then they wait a whole 6 months to release another set. Also you forget it’s a trading card game you can’t sit six months on one game play at a time the meta has to change or the game gets boring.
@@gabestorey5270 well at this point, that's the only logical answer, tcg gameplay may suffer, but at end of day I'm sure 90% of the community would be ok with longer time in between sets of it means actually being able to get product( and get the product at a fair price) at this rate you'll be lucky to get a new set for fair price in first six months, they a whole bunch of hype sets coming out for the next year and a half this ain't ending anytime soon.
@@gabestorey5270 maybe six months is too long, but like someone else said, maybe 3-4 would work
Then theyd have to cut sets or make inflated jumbo sets it's not as simple as people make it sound
I appreciate the transparency you give us.
The problem I keep being told is that card stores around me all price based off their distributors prices. My question is do distributors really get free reign on what they sell the product for? Are they completely unregulated and not bound by anything when it comes to price gouging
I must be missing something here, love you, Brian, btw!
What is the issue for stores? You guys do 60% of the work and make 400% more margin selling at MSRP, this is how the market should work, isn't it? Don't you want these higher margins? As long as we're at MSRP, that's fair for both the consumer and the store, right?
Are you upset for the consumer who's finally forced to pay MSRP instead of the wildly underpriced $95-$110 a booster box? Or are you upset that you are getting half the allocation you used to get on a booster box set, but making 5x the margin? I'm not trying to start crap, I'm legitimately wondering what is so wrong here to cause such rants from you and Fanny. I know there's a shortage of product, but at least stores are making good margins again, and Journey Together pre orders seem to be more plentiful than Prismatic. Stores need to be selling at MSRP after the Prismatic drought, so I'm glad you guys finally get to make some money.
The demand is just too high right now. The Pokemon Company needs to open a new printing facility or expand their current one, that's the only solution, but by the time that happens, this bull market will have cooled off and we will have fallen back closer to the previous norm, but never again will you see a booster box selling for below $100.
Here’s some reference numbers. For prismatic most stores at my level would get 3000 ETBS. Maybe make $10 a piece back in 2023… that’s 30K
Now, stores at my level MIGHT get 300 boxes. At msrp we’re making $20 profit… do the math
Pokemon isn't known for reinvesting the money they make. GameFreak is a big example with the shallow writing and effort. They try to do the bare minimum without causing issues to their profits they pocket most of it and it shows.
That’s hilarious, “I got prismatic at the recent Walmart restock.” I’ve checked 5-6 different Walmarts, targets and GameStop in my area on a daily basis and haven’t seen prismatic in stock once. 😂
Me too but its crazy some people know the inside people at Walmart or the distributor that stocks for big box stores and back door it so u never even see it hit the shelves I feel that happens more than we like to believe
I’m amazed how these tcg companies and distros don’t take care of the shops. They host events , they try to keep the games alive and bring players together . I hate paying 5 k in rent and then we don’t get allocated for the good stuff .
Everyone is the problem.. not something y'all want to hear. But it's the truth.
Big box stores are 100 percent getting the bulk of the inventory, LCS are just not a priority to pokemon it's not pokemons responsibility to keep these businesses in business they have to diversify and adapt just like any other business. At the end of the day pokemon is going to do what is best for pokemon. I seriously doubt they want to kill the boom by printing everything to the ground and be stuck with inventory for long periods of time like with sword and shield.
Solid video, but are you sure that it's Pokemon printing less? Maybe distro accounts aren't seeing more product because distro is hijacking some of their own allocation for future use, or Pokemon is pushing more product towards the big box stores, or even allocating more product to themselves for the PC and vending units? I 100% believe that Pokemon is printing more inventory, but I think that there's some shady business happening behind the scenes limiting what distribution is giving out to their customers.
Here in the uk, not seen any pokemon 151 booster bundles on suppliers lists... but amazon seem to be offering invites to purchase them. Small lgs that's just opened here and I just can't get the stock to make everyone happy locally 😢
Woah wait… a UA-camr placing the blame where it actually should be placed and not blaming other factors that have been there since the beginning???? THATS CRAZY.
Are the preorders sold out on your site
My stores in philly are bone dry. My job doesn't afford me the time to stand in line the morning of restocks, so shelves are empty when I get there. I can tell those restocks are miniscule because Lorcana has been spread to take up half of the pokemon product space (in some cases ALL). We have many walmarts and targets. I spent a weekend hunting, and when I tell you the shelves were bare, the only thing I found was 1 tera powers at a target, and some MJ Holdings 20+1 packs at every walmart. They went from 2 sections per store to wasteland once prismatic was announced. I've heard people say surging sparks started this mess, but that's not true. It sat on shelves all the way through early December. Everything got wiped out with the Christmas rush, but Never returned.
Thought it was pretty clear in Danny's video that it's not that PC are printing less, and that's why youre not getting as many products as previously.. its that your distributors are spreading out their product to more stores (because more stores are ordering as they know they can make money)
PC are running their printers at max capacity, you're deluded if you think PC are leaving money on the table on purpose
Sure that’s part of it but no one can know if Pokemon is printing at max capacity or not. I feel like sets were getting shorter and shorter printed all through 2024 even because this recent explosion. So my money is on, NO Pokemon is NOT printing at max capacity.
A 10 piece pie divided by 10 pieces shops has the same calories as a 10 piece pie in a single pie shop - location of the slices doesn’t matter. The baker still made 10 slices
@pokene_pokemon in this instance the baker is unable to bake a larger pie, otherwise they would ($$$$)
Manufacturing artificial demand is a useful tactic to ensure products sell for MSRP (i.e maximum profit margins for PC as people will buy directly from Pokemon Center) - it is not useful to artificially inflate demand to the point where people are willing to pay above MSRP as that is essentially leaving money on the table for PC
@@luke45879except TPC already got paid for the product when it went out. They "don't care" what the product price is after they get paid. They made their money already. If a distributor sells the product they bought from TPC for more than they paid to get it, that's just profit for them. That extra doesn't go back to TPC.
Is it a shortage of printing or is it a huge print run with the vast majority of product going to big box retailers?
I don't think people truly understand how ASTRONOMICALLY high demand is right now and how powerless pokemon is when they are already printing at max capacity for all their sets in current rotation AND printing upcoming sets/products at the same time. It's definitely partially their fault because they release so many products/sets constantly as well as have a shit ton of sets to keep printing from the year prior & for the upcoming ones ahead BUT the current demand for these products is the largest pokemon/any TCG has EVER seen by literal miles.
I have to wonder if anyone is looking at the possibility that The Pokemon Company is testing a shift to being THE primary direct-to-consumer source cutting out everyone like Games-Workshop did.
If pokemon decides to make more product, wouldn't they also need to implement more raw materials needed too, and wouldnt the cost also increase with the raw materials as well, like the printing ink, cardboard for the cards, plastic as well and even metal for tins? Even if they do end up printing more product, I feel like they still have to pay for using more raw materials, which then turns to msrp increasing a bit, making the consumer to pay for it.
My local card shop is selling market, some products are slightly above market and some are slightly below. They don't have a distributor yet so they are forced to buy in bulk from scalpers.
pokemon needs to make pokemon center as a nation wide store like a walmart or target. they have the money, and the clout. I always wondered where all the pokemon centers were and why pokemon hasn't made them.
The difference is the surge in demand from people who have come in from Pokémon TCG Pocket and the people who have come in from the gap year in main series game releases. Which has made Pokémon cards very liquid for more stores, which makes more stores want to get them from distributors.
I seriously doubt TPC is prioritizing JTO, which is likely why the supply for that set is rather low - all their spare printers/printing time is likely going towards PRE at the moment. Maybe that's a mistake, maybe not. But it's TPC is likely firing on all cylinders because they don't want to lose out on the massive amounts of profit they're going to make off of this hype. I think it's fair to say that TPC is not blameless, but they're not entirely to blame.
Also, you can't magic up 5 million cases of booster boxes in 5 seconds. It takes time to print, quality control, package, quality control, package, and ship.
Everyone is partly to blame. Whether you're buying, ripping, selling, collecting, scalping, printing, assessing, or just talking about the issues. Sure, there's different degrees of blame put on each group, but the whole blame game needs to go.
Is printing more enough? I think there are scalpers and wannabe scalpers out there with a massive collective capacity to buy up at MSRP. We need some massive reforming policies to the way high demand products are distributed. If some manner of ID verification has to happen or a lottery system, then so be it. There needs to be a solution out there that involves more than just printing more.
Here’s a thought - The Pokemon company has printed the same for years.
What has changed ? The amount of resellers/scalpers etc.
I have been collecting since 1996.
I have not seen an ETB of prismatic in any regular store since release.
The only people who have seem to have it are mom and pop shops/ influencers/ scalpers / re sellers.
Journey together is a prime example - simple set and bots gobbled it all up.
And mom and pop shop be charging me the secondary price, etb 140 at my local lgs
What's changed is a massive increase in collector demand. Here in the UK everywhere had limits (usually one per person) and the ETB's are £75-80 on eBay so there's no money in scalping it. Despite that it changed nothing, it's sold out everywhere. Massive ques on release day so people could get their 1 ETB. Sure there's an increase in resellers but they're taking advantage of the problem rather than causing it. If they could cause it they'd have done it for the first half of SV.
Watching through all your content Brian as I learn to build a business in Pokemon. My goal is to bring good prices to consumers with reasonable margins, but watching the current craze it makes it tough to do the right thing. Good job.
As someone that spends all day on said discords when im at work, I hate it.
I'm constantly caught between "It is what it is" and "Why is it like this"
The difference is MJ and Franklin are pulling more of the print. The sneaker heads and the sports card shops are dipping in.
The distributors are using this as an opportunity to spearhead a "Land & Expand" strategy. To them, with demand for Pokemon being what it is, they're going to sell all that inventory whether it's to 100 accounts or 250 accounts. They also understand that card shops can't survive on solely selling Pokemon so they're trying to bring in new accounts that will ultimately increase exposure to their other product lines (e.g. MTG). This is especially critical if TPCI is increasing allocations to big box retailers and reducing allocations to these distros. I collect Pokemon myself so I understand the frustration to an extent. This environment is all around ruthless and ultimately, loyalty to distros carries no weight. The distros have sales teams that are tasked with growth numbers so they're using this boom as an avenue to set themselves up for the medium to long term, even if it means some loyal Pokemon-heavy accounts suffer or even shutter their doors as a result.
Danny’s point about people with no track record getting product over people like him is so valid. Giving a new shop or flipper product at the expense of long running stores is ridiculous.
He doesn’t have a brick and mortar. He’s Lucky he gets what he does. Physical stores should always come before an online seller, streamer, UA-camr.
He couldn't come up with content so he is complaining about someone else's complaint.
I think up until like 3 weeks ago supply was meeting demand. Things have been pretty slow last year, so it makes sense that demand suddenly like 50x'ing practically over night would take time to catch up with
Gamestop, Best Buy, and other large box stores selling booster boxes + all the other products can't really help LGS allocation
Imho Pokemon company moving away from LGS’s towards big box stores. When was the last time GameStop or Bestbuy ever offer preorders on pk booster boxes?🤔
Even though I’m aware there’s still some sets that are at msrp I’m afraid that the days of getting new sets at msrp are coming to an end 3.99 or 4.99 packs are gonna be remembered
ranting about a rant for rants sake is rancid
My conspiracy theory here is that Pokemon won't print more because they don't need to. The hype and scarcity in the secondary market is keeping interest in the primary market high, and cards are flying off the shelves. Pokemon is likely able to charge more to distributors (increasing their margins per product), and are also able to get rid of less desirable collection sets. Heck, even Shrouded Fable is flying off the shelves! If I thought of Pokemon as strictly money in money out, seems like they're in a pretty great spot right now and have little to no reason to mess with it.
4:21 there is nothing different? …. Unless you see there is x3 people now inside the hobby ..
As someone that wants to collect and is just back into the hobby I'm thankful for the big box stores getting product. They are the only way I've managed to get msrp product. I've never found a smaller store with stock at msrp, just not available for me. So if i didn't catch the random target/amazon/walmart drops I wouldn't be getting any packs to rip. It would be nice if the smaller stores got more and i could actually buy from them when available though
These are printed likely at least 6 months in advance if not more so when things slow down because of a less popular set or especially 2 in a row they reduce printing. It is a massive effort setting up these printers so going back after the fact is a huge undertaking. I used to manage a grocery store and I can tell you that right now, in the back rooms of the medium to larger stores Halloween items are coming in. Not Pokémon stuff but it's the same thing: companies speculate and sometimes make mistakes.
Of course Danny is getting more than you, he has a much bigger business than you and about 5 times the subscribers.
The people saying that you’re trying to invoke whatever are rolling their eyes while you’re rolling up your sleeves. Everybody does one or the other. Not both. Only one of those has a positive outcome.
Customers: Hurr durr, I'm going to Buy Pokemon cards at MSRP price!
UA-camrs and Scalpers:
🖕 I'm going to skyrocket the prices and tell you you're too Poor and Are disgusting to even afford Pokemon cards
I'm calling BS. Production is a reactive response. They met and exeeded demand through Paradox Rift and the ungrateful community complained about easy pull rates and chased Sword and Shield instead while product sat on the shelves. This was inevitable.
We desparately need a brand new video on how to create a 7 figure buisness from pokemon! Or better yet, an entire series on how to become a musician with 1/2 size instruments! Have a funderful one trick pony 2025!
The only thing you get wrong is the comparison to the big tournament scene. Players are rarely effected at all by this because everybody buys singles. Singles are super cheape even for expensive sets because you dont need max rarity to play. On top pokemon releases and reprints many of the meta cards in other products.In fact pokemon is probably the cheapest tcg to build a competitive deck. Many world champions winning deck you can buy under 100 usd
I think checking the big stores is where people fail to find product. Go to the small local game shops.. I've found prismatic in the smallest of holes in the wall stores and still can find it daily. But I'm also located more eastern than western US and from what I see, that's a big factor too.
Danny’s video was great, he’s expressing the frustration we all are feeling. It’s all caused by fomo from UA-camrs, followed by scalpers and resellers scooping everything else up and selling it 3X msrp. Pokemon is in a bad place right now for regular collectors.
I really appreciate you drawing attention to this misplaced blame. Hearing people call everyone and everything a scalper while Pokemon gives into the worst responses to late stage capitalism is so annoying.
This is why I always said distributors need to focus on LGS's before catering to any other entities. Because they can set better market prices and product will be available more often. Rip and ships and scalpers are messing with that and now all big box stores want product. Distributors/Pokemon need to do better.
Personally thought that was Danny's best video and this was great to watch to back things up 🔥
When Danny gets emotional and frustrated, you know it's real. Appreciate the raw content. Keep doing your thing.
Its not just journey together, as a new shop I find finding english product at a decent price difficult as well. No official distribution access makes it rough atleast, but according to another shop in my country that has official distribution access that it aint easy for them either.
My local LGS has said that they will not be selling Journey Together. There was a fight there over Prismatic and they just can't do it for safety reasons. It's just so sad to hear.
Danny definitely channeled his inner you in his video. I like it when he gets firey
It takes some time to increase. Also where should the capacity come from in the end. Also they will prepare for 30 years next year
Journey together has been printing for months already.
The problem isn't anything to do with pokemon. There is only so much someone can spend. It's actually a societal problem. The cost of rent or mortgage, the cost of electricity, the cost of gas which impacts pretty much every other good including shipping. The real wages are the issue. The dollar just doesn't go as far as it used to. Energy and real estate greed are huge factors in this issue we encounter.
Hey, Im from Puerto Rico, and tried ordering from your website but you dont ship here. TCG is starting to explode here and we would like to buy from your shop…
My worry is Pokemon became too long term focused and it's hurting them in 2025. They often plan sets 1-2 years in advance of their launch and WHAT IF ..... the bear market of 2023 scared them and so they pulled back on printing numbers like 18 months ago. All these premium sets are getting short printed because they were ordered a while ago. I think Pokemon needs to have the flexibility to ramp up production. when needed. That, or they need to slow down on their release schedule and focus more on printing existing sets.
i managed to get one prismatic etb from the pokemon center preordered pretty early.... hoping to be open some later. i havent seen any prismatic on my local walmart shelves at all
The fact random ass big box stores are getting allocations and so much allocations at the expense of the true pokemon ecosystem is insane to me. All this chaos has made me look away for Pokemon recently.
I recently watched his video in the last couple hours as well. It just makes me feel bad for my kids trying to collect this year
Agree with you 100% that the only way out of this is printing more and more main product not just houndstone ex collection boxes. I don't really understand how more product is not reaching the market. They own Millennium print group now so it shouldn't really be that big of a hurdle. If this is some sort of strategy to keep the "hype" up, I think it's definitely outlived its usefulness cause that hype has turned into frustration and anger. There's also absolutely no reason for Pokemon to protect the "collectability" of the products. The price growth for SWSH products clearly shows that the market can handle a lot more supply while the products still retain their value or collectability.
Then again Pokemons a big company and getting a big ship to turn always takes time. So I guess there's still hope that that's the case and we'll get huge amounts of product in a few months...
Those numbers are the first wave or 2. They will definitely print more. FOMO shouldn't exist with Pokemon anymore because they reprint popular sets to the moon. All you need is patience and to be aware when the reprints come. Not sure about LCS's but retail stores will definitely get more.
My tin hat theory - The print run is the same size, pokemon company has sold more direct to customer via website and vending machines. They also made agreements months ago to Costco and Sam’s to clear out old inventory and this distribution is getting less and spreading it more thin due to sports card shops trying to get in
"A Phanny rant" I'm sorry but if you're british there's no way you're reading that without laughing.
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Glad I watched Danny’s video plus read your comment before I clicked this. Danny freaking cooked in that video. There is a lot going on right now, but he’s right.
The people that are here for the unique 100% green times like today, won’t be here lost 30th anniversary/2027. Wait them out and everything will be fine.
Glad you went into further detail on the impact of other TCGs, languages, the tariffs, etc.
Also crypto dropped big time yesterday. Bitcoin dropped to 95k and XRP dropped from $3.20 to $2.15 before correcting to $2.35. I wonder if the stock market will drop today and if that has any effects on the Pokemon market?
Sorry guys, I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but I fear this may be the cheapest prismatic evolutions is ever going to be.
It's almost like the pokemon company had a behind the scenes deal with all of the big box stores because of that whole "reprint" last year when they sent back their overstock they were sitting on.
So you touched on this and so did Danny but I think its worth talking about more: there is no reason that Menards, Dicks, Scheels, and Ace Hardware, etc should be getting Pokemon cards. This creates a number of problems but my biggest takeaway from that is all that product is taken away from LGS. Even if it is just ETBs or tins or whatnot. I think any LGS would be happy with any product right now.
One other thing, is Pokemon is going to give this much product to big box retailers than Target cant be dropping product during the night. Like its not that hard haha. At least Walmart drops in the morning or evening but Target drops it all at 3am. Give general consumers a chance; regulate your product a bit. Obvi Target does this for some reason but Pokemon should at least step in and say hey, lets try and release at X time even if it is 7am or 10pm when the site might have less users.
Lot to digest, you hear the pain in Danny's voice and even him swearing which is unheard of; I feel for him. Great video as always, look forward to more
What's crazy is our local hardware store is selling Pokémon cards. I feel bad for our lgs who gets almost nothing.
RIP Pokemon. Really wish I could love this hobby but I’m not going to stretch my funds on this anymore. It’s tiring to find “the deals”. It’s like a full time job.
Pokemon company are punks.
Also appreciate that you just spit facts.
We see your videos. So why are you holding stock of BB. When your website has nothing available? What’s the reasoning. Not saying you’re going to fix supply but you’re not the only one out there hoarding inventory. It’s is interesting observation in a time like this.
I think it's a good time for your big beard arc to begin. Ketchumallcollectibles thinks he's got the game dominated but I think you could move into the space and have great success
Rumor is they are trying to push the sale of Pokemon cards away from LGS and towards GameStop where they can run tourneys and have a better handle on numbers.
I'm really curious how they're spreading the distribution. My LGS got their allocation numbers this past Friday and took pre-orders on Journey Together booster boxes. They got allocated 1000 boxes.
Hype of the dragon set. We got a latias card. Hype of a gym heros set we got journey together. When people realize that the team rocket set wont live up to the expectations built in their head of comparisons to rocket or rocket returns they will slowly fizzle out. This happens about once every 3 to 5 years. This time next year we will be back to what the hobby normally is but slightly bigger. No matter what the "investors" say. This time is in no way shape or form different. When the hype dies 90% of new people will leave and 10% will stay and keep going. Its like clockwork.
That's a massive amount of cope
Buy singles & have a job 😂
Breakers (unregulated gambling) don’t help sealed product costs either & there are 5 new ones popping up daily. Pokémon is moving to more of a underage gambling model hidden beneath a card game. More organized pump & dumps to come!
100%
Me who's sitting on an entire case of prismatic to use as gifts for people and if there's a kid who can't get any well....like I said I have entire case. To heck with scalpers
Oh wow, you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
@ronburgundy4743 i HATE scalpers
I know you said bots aren’t necessarily the problem but they are a significant factor too it if you’re reading this PokeNE there is one way you could cut down on them which is by forcing a captcha problem before checkout 😅 it could go a long way to fighting bots while also boosting confidence and trust with your customers! I hope you think about doing this when you release your preorder for journey together and I will definitely be checking out the Danny’s video too thanks for always thinking about consumers and the longevity of the game 😊
You nailed it on who is to blame. However, I don’t think everything is the same still. There are plenty of people who just pay attention to trends that are buying out stores just to resell. There hasn’t been a boom like this in several years. That’s the only thing you said that I think you missed slightly, but that’s just my opinion. I appreciate you putting this out though, because the more this gets exposed the better off the community will do. Pokemon will take notice to this. They may ignore it for a while, but they will have to make a change if they want to keep all of their customers.
You mention other games and say margins suck so dealers can't look there. But when Pokemon was readily available, margins sucked there. It seems like people want BOTH (a) for Pokemon to sell at MSRP+ when they have it and (b) to be able to easily get it. You only get to pick one.
Here in Australia the normal price of any pack from any set is between $7-$10
Im guessing the Surging Sparks reprint wont affect the prices or availability much. The booster boxes will soar after everyone realizes there in no extra supply of them.