Pokémon is weird it’s jointly owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. You could buy Nintendo which is publicly traded but I don’t know how much of Nintendo revenue is Pokémon
@ im pretty sure TPC is a big shareholder ofNiantic not the other way around. So investing in niantic wouldn’t be investing in Pokémon. By buying Nintendo you are rewarded if Pokémon does great because it owns Pokémon
Genuinely I am sad. I logged on as soon as it dropped at 6 am. Added it to my cart then watched it crash over and over again for 2 hours. Then it sold out…
It’s just the fact that so many of the people destroying preorder chances for the rest of us have no actual interest in pokemon or the hobby in general they just want to make quick money.
I have big interest in Pokemon. I love Pokemon. What I love more than Pokemon is money to see the world and buy whatever I want haha. I just make a lot of money with something I really love. 😊
Man... This whole rant/video is spot on. It's exactly what happened and what keeps happening... It's disappointing. Casual Pokemon card collecting has devolved into something I can barely keep up with. And getting shadow-banned from the Pokemon Center was the icing on the cake for me...
@@jasonblack6930 Yeah, a lot of my friends just got back into it. Casually. Just collecting here and there. We did some rip and ships on UA-cam too. Then this all happens. Completely turned me off to it.
Today was a huge realization for me. You always hear about “scalpers” but today sitting on that website as soon as it dropped and watching the website crash over and over again, just for me to be blocked, really set it in how big of a problem this is. Pokemon and other big box stores HAVE to come up with a solution. The new ETB released today is being listed on eBay for $450, mere hours after the release happened. That’s a 1000% markup…. Which is fucking cruel. There has to be a solution. This will either be fixed or the hobby will die.
This is frankly not fun. I wasn’t able to get an order through because the site wouldn’t let me. Couldn’t get past having items in my cart to go checkout. Pokemon center even blocked me saying I was a bot. Make it make sense
With Surging Sparks, Prismatic, and now this, it will be three sets in a row where I won't be able to buy my son packs in the store. Surely after 4 sets of not being able to buy packs my kid will keep retaining interest in the hobby and not move on. Surely TPCI won't have their actual core base (kids and preteens) unable to buy product and quit the hobby.
@@oliverbicanic8517 I agree… just frustrated like the rest of us. Miraculously, through the chaos of this morning, I managed to get two PC ETB preorders. Not sure how that happened since I was dealing with a constant state of the website crash. 🤞🏻
I’m from Harlem ny seen feens my whole life they definitely smoke it all at once and live for the day . That’s what we definitely dealing with Pokémon rn I don’t think ppl really thinking about the future
I am taking a nice long break from the hobby and will just come back late 2025/early 26. When these idiots are holding huge bags on extremely sub par sets like this. The more people do this, the quicker the hobby will go back to "normal." Just waiting for these bottom feeders to crawl back under their rocks. NFL is getting back to its crazy levels of attention/hype moving into this playoff season and football cardboard is going to be next on their menu.
@@justsomedangerbigfootwithweb Gamestop and Best buy went live an hour or 2 after PC and I ordered from Best buy. Gamestop and Best buy still sleeved boosters but everything else is all gone even build and battle displays at GameStop are gone.
this is the first time i haven't been able to just pre-order a single product. this is just not fun anymore. I've been a collector (i love the artwork) for 25 years, and I also hold a few sealed products here and there. this honestly might kill it for me. i like collecting and investing, but now it feels like i can't do either one.
Feel sorry for the kids nowadays. Pokemon used to be a carefree, enjoyable hobby. Now it's all about youtubers, keeping product sealed, rip and ships, bots, scalping, wheeling and dealing. I remember being able to just open packs and trade with people. What a pathetic state it is in now.
I remember the 90s craze when it launched. it was not as peaches and roses as you say. their were markups, shortages, price gauging, and scalping. Mom and Dad just put in the work and got us some packs or booster boxes at higher prices if we were lucky.
@@kevin23 That makes sense. We didn't have much trouble finding packs felt like to me, being a casual collector back in the day. I have a solid binder from childhood. It just seems there were more innocent days for kids to discover Pokemon, nowadays kids' introductions to it seem to be through UA-cam and the like, which are generally degen mindset. People weren't buying out everything to wrack up "views"/attention opening it etc.
@@wut2404 I feel you and get your point. It's definitely different now than it was back then in terms of kids and what they watch and hear. I would only see and hear from kids at school and when I went to the mall if I was lucky I would get a pack to open.
Just a PSA from a nobody in the hobby: Please please please please do not buy risky assets with leverage unless you have capital to cover you in case this market flips on a dime. Saw too many over-eager people last cycle get absolutely burnt sitting on high-interest credit card payments due to lack of demand.
Hey watch it I just shaved it all off this morning! Also us neckbeards keep your little hobby afloat without us the company wouldn’t care about the TCG department at all! Also get your money up!
He has bought consistently when no one else wanted, so it's really not comparable. It's like blaming a prepper for hoarding supplies after a "shit hits the fan" scenario.
I legit had an PC ETB in my cart and thought "let's try to add another + a booster box for the promos / sealed collection" and suddenly everything breaks to the point that my wifi and mobile data are all blocked and now all is unavailable... Worth noting I woke up a little later like you and did not realize the set dropped.
Unfortunately the sets are way too good to slow the hobby down. The hype will slow down once a couple mid sets gets released in a row. Until then this is the norm
The sad thing is, I wouldn’t be surprised if these scumbags had absolutely 0 problems selling these at the 1000% markup they have them listed for. The people who buy these products second hand are just as much of a problem as the people selling them
I feel like instead of releasing a limited amount they should just do a limited time. So you have 24 hours to order and if you do then you will get it. All this limited stock does for tcg is make it sell faster but in the end of the day its limiting their sales. Then limiting their inventory doesn’t allow them to increase their prices it just lets scalpers do it for them which does not help.
I went to Game Stop and pre-ordered 10 booster boxes, 5% off with Pro membership on EACH box. Some people said their stores had limits to 2. Not mine :). It's also possibly been confirmed that the PC BBs will NOT have a stamped promo. It will be the same as the retail BB promo so ordering BBs from PC is not the cheapest way. GS currently is. PC ETBs, I'll pass on those for BBs any day. Oh also, you can cancel GS pre-orders so if the card leaks aren't that great, you can get out if you want to.
i was there 5 minutes before 9am ET time, just when they went live and i still couldn't order anything, the site didn't function at all, i don't know how people were able to preorder anything at all
@@asian2go96 i mean it still is fun to me i play tcgl and pocket, but ill just chill with a normal etb without sweating it too much since i don't play the actual board game in person
As much as we hate it and pissed off at the whole situation. We just have to admit the reason most people are in it is because of scarcity. With scarcity comes value. Learn from what happened to Magic when everyone had it because they printed to the ground.
PokeSama is an online shop that cancelled multiple prismatic preorders and relisted them for double the value. They essentially took money up front and used it as a loan to get more stock from the distros. Pure scum
@972CHENZO I didn't actually do anything. I have an account with them to keep track of my collection my phone just pinged and it was them just saying the set had dropped. .
Is the booster box promo confirmed stamped? In the description it says the etb has a PC stamp, but the booster box description doesn't say anything about one.
Pokemon Center makes it so easy to cancel pre-orders (when it has not yet been processed for shipping) and they don't charge until ship, so my mentality was, let me lock in 6 BB preorders and then if it comes out the promo will be in every BB, I can cancel my preorders when I have more information
I went card hunting today and found a couple of A24 pokeballs, some Stellar Crown sleeved packs and then found seven surging sparks 3 pack blisters...all at MSRP, Walmarts and Dollar General. Stuff is out there if you have the will and time to look for it. 😅
What ticks me off is up here in Canada, they are still charging tax on the PC website, even though all things Pokemon everywhere else in Canada is Tax free until Feb.15. One wonders what they are doing with all this "extra" profit they are charging inappropriately. I've sent 2 tickets over the last 2 weeks about this fact and have yet to receive an answer.
I’m curious what the breakdown of the hobby is. Like what is the percentage of players, collectors, investors, box breakers. It would be interesting to see those metrics
In my market, official products in stores never recovered from the COVID surge. At least 6 months ago you could buy singles from local vendors. With the recent craze, even those have become ridiculous. It's not being destroyed, it's already destroyed.
Never thought I'd be ccalled a bot by the pokemon company. Tried for half an hour before it blocked me. I might as well be using bots, bet those guys came out fat.
Had them in my cart, my account kept logging in and out, pages and cart wouldn’t load. Got as close as payment information, but kept crashing when I tried to finalize.😅
Booster Box description doesn't even mention that it's promo Pokemon Center stamped like how it does with PC ETBs so it might just be a regular promo LOL
You act like people who preordered can't cancel their orders at any time lmao. If it's a regular booster box, just cancel it. If it has the PC stamp, you just got some value on a free preorder gamble.
What's wrong with the regular etbs? Assuming your kids open the product, just buy the promo afterwards. Cheaper and they can still open packs. I don't see the issue?
@@kubitokuc9569 yup. that line is overused and means nothing at this point. I don't care if it's for your great grandmother.. if you're too slow to get the product, I guess it sucks to be her lol
This is the first time that I know of in the history of the hobby that a main series Pokemon set has sold out everywhere at MSRP on the day it was "announced". Not even Evolving Skies, Vivid Voltage, Surging Sparks, etc. Even Gamestop in store preorders sold out before the end of the day. The set isn't even on the level of Prismatic Evolution and I'd bet the Rocket set will be better as well. Yet this set is selling out faster then any set I've seen. If this isn't a bubble I don't know what is. This is a clear sign that Pokemon has to do something because being sold out as soon as it is announced is not good for any hobby. At this rate, the Rocket set ETBs will sell out as soon as websites put a $100 price tag on it without any picture or announcement. The FOMO is awful right now.
Managed to get a case of booster boxes and the 2 etb, good day. orders were out at 8:55 am est, it seems they have added some bot protection or new captcha also couldnt care less about the extra promo card its better than running around and trying to find product, i have more journey together than prismatic evo atm.
lol this video made me laugh. I was flipping out over the stamp myself. My kids have every stamped promo from the ETB’s and now I missed this one today. I still can’t get into the site. I was 20m late this morning and that was enough to keep me on the sidelines. Crazy it sold out and some of us couldn’t even get on. At least now my streak of every ETB is over and I won’t stress moving forward! Good luck collectors. Have a great day y’all.
Im back to Pokemon for first time since I was a teenager in 2007. I was given an ETB of 151 for Christmas and I was hooked all over again. Trying to figure out whats going on with this hobby right now (this pre-sale and prismatic prices) is absolutely insane. Hopefully I can get my hands on something close to MSRP one day. Thank you for your videos, they are very insightful and entertaining.
Yup, I have always commended pokemon for the way they take full advantage of their very popular IP. And they continue to do it with things like exclusive products from them.
2:22 What are you talking about. They do not create scarcity. They print to demand. They distribute to stores to sell at MSRP. MSRP was 3.99 a pack for 25 years & just became 4.49 a pack. They supply a product to fill a demand. They bought the printing press. They print billions or trillions of cards more than ever. Everyone wants more Pokemon cards. They can't print enough. Supply & demand. How does the world demand this many Pokemon cards is the real question. Seems like a demon ritual to me. Don't worship false idols. Anyone with half a brain got wealthy of this last 2 years congratulations. I do it not for greed but potential profit for anyone to flip for me trying to create jobs but have no overhead. I am concerned it promotes gambling in children.
I don't think the promo will be in all booster boxes. Reason being that they named them ENHANCED booster box. Could be bs, but that tells me they're exclusive.
the distributors are doing it. they are keeping product claiming they don't have enough then selling them backhand on ebay and tcg. they got mad cuz they have to sell at retail to bozo scalpers who sell instantly for 3x the price. so they said f that were just gunna send a few and sell the rest at 3x ourselves
Will not be paying those prices. If they list them at 300 and try to sell lower later on I will not support the scalper prices for a brand new set not even out ir the full set release even known. It's a shame tbh
I tried from 730 am to about 945 am. Kept getting it in my cart only to have a sleepy pikachu with an error anytime I’d try to check out. Now it’s unavailable. Incredibly disappointed.
I’m not convinced this is from Pokémon choosing to print less. I bet their card production will be up by another billion+ cards from last year when they release their numbers. They are surely working to increase their production to get closer to this surge in demand. I think they are legitimately supply constrained. They may end up way overprinting again to try to account for all the new demand, which might usher in the bear market, but they may have a different strategy this time around. Either way I am excited to watch this market evolve
The promo will be in every booster box. They are replacing regular booster boxes with “ enhanced booster boxes” so the reshiram promo will be in every booster box
Bubble is gonna pop. You're going to need someone to buy the card, and if less people get into the hobby, you'll just have a market of resellers selling to each other
That is not remotely close to what will inevitably happen. The most recent games (scarlet/violet) made record sales, not just for Pokemon but for video games as a whole. This hobby is only going to grow as kids get older, have money and want to open packs of cards. This hobby doesn't really have "less people" ever. There will be people who drop out for a while but this cycle will repeat itself every 3-5 years almost inevitably.
@@cowboy_henk Then you know its happened multiple times lol. a bubble pop doesnt mean a complete crash to worthlessness, just that the price goes way down. We've seen ptcg be super cheap then sky rocket then go back to being super cheap...
@@SUPERBUBBLEGUM13 I have seen many corrections, a price bubble is a much more extreme and volatile event which to this day I haven't seen in pokemon, unless you have some price data of an irrational parabolic spike followed by a serious gutting of prices on the secondary market at any point since 1999
First time (trying) buying from pokemon center, saw I could add to cart but figured I’d do it on my break. Was blissfully unaware of how horrible the process was. Thought I had to pay up front so waited until my break, had the option to add to cart when I looked. Break came and it’s all gone. I’m fine with waiting for release if it means I can still buy MSRP from pokemon center, is that possible?
last year of 151, surging, prismatic, and now this set, I haven’t been able to buy anything to open. This runs the risk of making me lose interest and kids and teenagers will lose interest to if all the product is with scalpers and unaffordable. They need to just print like crown zenith and let us enjoy the hobby for years before the prices begin to spike
I talked to our card vendor and yeah, he told me he doesnt get much. What he does get is usually gone by 7pm becaue he has like 10-20 people waiting for him BEFORE he even gets their. He is a cool guy so if he has a lit he makes sure everyone gets at least 1 or 2 things. Though now he told me he is gonna block his area off when he is there and only give people 1.
So does TPC disclose when sets are dropping on the site?? Or do they just quietly put them up there so that normal people have zero chance at securing product? Im not even that interested in this set, but ive pretty much lost hope on the Rocket set at this point
Brilliant business tactic on the PCI marketing department. I believe the FOMO meter is going to peak after The Glory of Team Rocket, the hobby will cool off (shake off all the Timmy’s and ten-dees), and the ramp back up on 30th Anniversary. History repeats itself, as Pokémon is emotional. Most people just remember their histories but fail to learn and apply the lessons moving forward. We have seen this back in 2021 to 2023. Here we go again soon.
missed my discord notifications, looks like it was hard even if you were one of the first people trying to check out so glad I didn't waste my time. Hopefully can grab a PC Box later near release but not the end of the world if I can't
Realistically the website got flooded by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people which would overrun most websites …. And imagine how much was purchased
I tried for 45 minutes. Got to the point where pokemon center blocked my IP address and called me a Bot…. Smh
Same pokemon in general can't handle the demand
Same here
Yup same
Glad I'm not the only one 😅 also glad pokemoncenter can differentiate bots from a human trying to just get 2 etb's...oh wait! 🤣
It happened if you were rapidly refreshing the page. It would've thought you were a bot
This is why pokemon company doesn't need a stock in the market. They create their own stock in pokemon cards and just print money endlessly.
Pokémon is weird it’s jointly owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. You could buy Nintendo which is publicly traded but I don’t know how much of Nintendo revenue is Pokémon
Pokemon is getting worse then casino's in Las Vegas
niantic is public
@ im pretty sure TPC is a big shareholder ofNiantic not the other way around. So investing in niantic wouldn’t be investing in Pokémon. By buying Nintendo you are rewarded if Pokémon does great because it owns Pokémon
@@PerfectPrinceX1 niantic is pokemon go. nothing to do with the actual pokemon company
...And they're already $500 on eBay. This practice is disgusting. Can't even collect and open product anymore without paying a 10x mark up...
It’s stupid tbh. This hobby is a cash cow for scalpers and people keep buying from them and supporting this practice
And booster box’s are £300 shit is stupid
If no one cared about card values, those ppl wouldn't exist.
Oh wait till the team rocket set drop. Oh btw they just announce a new set featuring Megas. Both of these set would overshadow Journey's imo.
My guy it’s not even out for 3 months
Genuinely I am sad. I logged on as soon as it dropped at 6 am. Added it to my cart then watched it crash over and over again for 2 hours. Then it sold out…
it dropped sooner then that...for my timezone 7:50am. I think you were 10mins late.
Did you know the new set was gonna release?
@@zonezip719I had heard around 3am that there were rumors it was dropping. Shockingly it dropped as rumored and I snagged 2 etb’s and booster boxes
@@zonezip719 I watched another youtube channel and he said be on the lookout today or tomorrow.
@@hungn4664 est ?
It’s just the fact that so many of the people destroying preorder chances for the rest of us have no actual interest in pokemon or the hobby in general they just want to make quick money.
Bingo
I have big interest in Pokemon.
I love Pokemon.
What I love more than Pokemon is money to see the world and buy whatever I want haha.
I just make a lot of money with something I really love. 😊
Man... This whole rant/video is spot on. It's exactly what happened and what keeps happening... It's disappointing. Casual Pokemon card collecting has devolved into something I can barely keep up with. And getting shadow-banned from the Pokemon Center was the icing on the cake for me...
Same bro :( Happened to all of us
I got my daughter into collecting at the peak of scalpers. Definitely taking a step back now. Just not worth it.
@@jasonblack6930 Yeah, a lot of my friends just got back into it. Casually. Just collecting here and there. We did some rip and ships on UA-cam too. Then this all happens. Completely turned me off to it.
Today was a huge realization for me. You always hear about “scalpers” but today sitting on that website as soon as it dropped and watching the website crash over and over again, just for me to be blocked, really set it in how big of a problem this is. Pokemon and other big box stores HAVE to come up with a solution. The new ETB released today is being listed on eBay for $450, mere hours after the release happened. That’s a 1000% markup…. Which is fucking cruel. There has to be a solution. This will either be fixed or the hobby will die.
Yea eventually it will just be these aholes with deep pockets scalping/trading each other sealed product.
450 isn't 1000%. Closer to 692%
This is frankly not fun. I wasn’t able to get an order through because the site wouldn’t let me. Couldn’t get past having items in my cart to go checkout. Pokemon center even blocked me saying I was a bot. Make it make sense
With Surging Sparks, Prismatic, and now this, it will be three sets in a row where I won't be able to buy my son packs in the store. Surely after 4 sets of not being able to buy packs my kid will keep retaining interest in the hobby and not move on. Surely TPCI won't have their actual core base (kids and preteens) unable to buy product and quit the hobby.
Best Buy
One step away and team rocket too. 🙂🥲
I dunno. I feel like the core base are the 90s adults that lived through the Pokemon craze
Your "parody" of trying to order PC ETB's is exactly what our house sounded like this morning lol.
It’s experiences like this that makes me want to sell all my sealed product, take my profits, and wait until the next pokemon bear market.
Honestly man it seems like the play, but I'd wait a bit, I don't think it'll slow down until the end of this era.
@@oliverbicanic8517 I agree… just frustrated like the rest of us. Miraculously, through the chaos of this morning, I managed to get two PC ETB preorders. Not sure how that happened since I was dealing with a constant state of the website crash. 🤞🏻
I've heard people say this is crackhead behaviour but I'll be honest, even crackheads don't smoke it all up in one go 🤣👍
Impressive!
I’m from Harlem ny seen feens my whole life they definitely smoke it all at once and live for the day . That’s what we definitely dealing with Pokémon rn I don’t think ppl really thinking about the future
30 seconds into PC ETBs going live and it crashed. So frustrated
I just ordered 10 ETB's and 15 sleeved boosters from Best Buy
I am taking a nice long break from the hobby and will just come back late 2025/early 26. When these idiots are holding huge bags on extremely sub par sets like this. The more people do this, the quicker the hobby will go back to "normal." Just waiting for these bottom feeders to crawl back under their rocks. NFL is getting back to its crazy levels of attention/hype moving into this playoff season and football cardboard is going to be next on their menu.
So it dropped at 8:50am est. Mine was ordered at 8:53 am.
@@Top_Loaded_JRGS77 Cap
@@justsomedangerbigfootwithweb Gamestop and Best buy went live an hour or 2 after PC and I ordered from Best buy. Gamestop and Best buy still sleeved boosters but everything else is all gone even build and battle displays at GameStop are gone.
this is the first time i haven't been able to just pre-order a single product. this is just not fun anymore. I've been a collector (i love the artwork) for 25 years, and I also hold a few sealed products here and there. this honestly might kill it for me. i like collecting and investing, but now it feels like i can't do either one.
Feel sorry for the kids nowadays. Pokemon used to be a carefree, enjoyable hobby. Now it's all about youtubers, keeping product sealed, rip and ships, bots, scalping, wheeling and dealing. I remember being able to just open packs and trade with people. What a pathetic state it is in now.
I remember the 90s craze when it launched. it was not as peaches and roses as you say. their were markups, shortages, price gauging, and scalping. Mom and Dad just put in the work and got us some packs or booster boxes at higher prices if we were lucky.
@@kevin23 That makes sense. We didn't have much trouble finding packs felt like to me, being a casual collector back in the day. I have a solid binder from childhood. It just seems there were more innocent days for kids to discover Pokemon, nowadays kids' introductions to it seem to be through UA-cam and the like, which are generally degen mindset. People weren't buying out everything to wrack up "views"/attention opening it etc.
@@wut2404 I feel you and get your point. It's definitely different now than it was back then in terms of kids and what they watch and hear. I would only see and hear from kids at school and when I went to the mall if I was lucky I would get a pack to open.
This was an absolute sh** show FOLKS!! All jokes aside. I'm kinda done with the secondary market for this hobby. The plot has been lost.
Site crashed on me lol😂 and I like to believe I showed up early to try n pre order
@@georgeallen4007 same...
@@georgeallen4007 Also blocked from refreshing...
Lmao
I had zero issues. I was actually kind of surprised how easily it went through
Just a PSA from a nobody in the hobby:
Please please please please do not buy risky assets with leverage unless you have capital to cover you in case this market flips on a dime.
Saw too many over-eager people last cycle get absolutely burnt sitting on high-interest credit card payments due to lack of demand.
Hobby is in a depressing state ngl. Lisa can't even open packs at target because neckbeards buy everything to resell to other neckbeards.
The only people that will benefit are those who have access to distribution that can flip for 3X msrp
Fedora wearing, neckbeard having, reddit atheists mods ruining the world.
Hey watch it I just shaved it all off this morning! Also us neckbeards keep your little hobby afloat without us the company wouldn’t care about the TCG department at all! Also get your money up!
@@chefsaliva5317 Hey, small PP. Karma's a bitch. Good luck.
Or because you cant afford them
I missed the preorder so screw it, I wont be a victim of FOMO - I might be passing on this set.
Website was horrible I had a order placed at 8:50 and then confirmation didnt come through until around 9:40 so I didn't know if my order got placed
At least your order went through a lot of us weren’t so lucky
lol don’t complain if you got product . A lot of people didn’t get confirmations
i find it ironic that you say pokemon investing has destroyed the hobby whilst having shelves of sealed product sitting behind you
"I am collector, I just like collecting sealed product."
He has bought consistently when no one else wanted, so it's really not comparable. It's like blaming a prepper for hoarding supplies after a "shit hits the fan" scenario.
Yeah he was buying shit when it was 80 dollars a BB. Don't cry now because you're FOMO'ing little Timmy
@@dtwduuvaaall6865 bruh what U mean I have fomo. I have 2 ETB and 2 booster boxes coming, I never miss out😁
Why can’t you get some or buy some?
I legit had an PC ETB in my cart and thought "let's try to add another + a booster box for the promos / sealed collection" and suddenly everything breaks to the point that my wifi and mobile data are all blocked and now all is unavailable... Worth noting I woke up a little later like you and did not realize the set dropped.
Lol
What u learn?
Thanks to resellers and their scumbag Bots they sold out in 5 minutes. People will revolt against this and leave them holding heavy bags 🎒
They literally did the best they could, they had a lot of measures in place to prevent bots. The demand is just too high.
We can hope. Reality is people are dumb enough and have enough money to blow that these guys will also be $300+ boxes 👌🏻
Unfortunately the sets are way too good to slow the hobby down. The hype will slow down once a couple mid sets gets released in a row. Until then this is the norm
Nobody will do shit. Bots will continue to eat. Bots can not be stopped. It’s sad but we seen this with nike and jordan shoes and nothing.
The sad thing is, I wouldn’t be surprised if these scumbags had absolutely 0 problems selling these at the 1000% markup they have them listed for. The people who buy these products second hand are just as much of a problem as the people selling them
I feel like instead of releasing a limited amount they should just do a limited time. So you have 24 hours to order and if you do then you will get it. All this limited stock does for tcg is make it sell faster but in the end of the day its limiting their sales. Then limiting their inventory doesn’t allow them to increase their prices it just lets scalpers do it for them which does not help.
I had a booster in my cart and it crashed! If they really had 20k boxes for sale which sold out in 5 minutes thats NUTS So frustrating
Woke up this morning and looked out my window. The streets were burning, just like california.
Unable to sign in many times, not able to cart, maintenance, refresh, nothing work. At the end I got blocked, not able to buy anything.
Pokémon Co has to step it up in the west. Take orders like Japan and keep everyone happy.
You must not have heard what happened with people ordering in japan. 6 hour online queues only for it to sell out anyway.
Nearly 30 years of printing sub par quality cards and americans still eating it up lol yeah.. they're milking yall HEAVY
@@謬yet market cap of American cards is much higher than Japanese.
@謬 your just lucky japan has regulations over their and America is not for the people just a place to do business for company's
No one got bamboozled. U know that u can cancel it at anytime. People only keep pre orders if they end up more valuable than 2ndary market
This is true
Son: Mommy why aren’t there any Pokémon on the shelves?
Mom: sorry honey, daddy already came this morning and did the swipe.
I went to Game Stop and pre-ordered 10 booster boxes, 5% off with Pro membership on EACH box. Some people said their stores had limits to 2. Not mine :). It's also possibly been confirmed that the PC BBs will NOT have a stamped promo. It will be the same as the retail BB promo so ordering BBs from PC is not the cheapest way. GS currently is. PC ETBs, I'll pass on those for BBs any day. Oh also, you can cancel GS pre-orders so if the card leaks aren't that great, you can get out if you want to.
I’m right there with you buddy. It’s a glitch 🤫
i was there 5 minutes before 9am ET time, just when they went live and i still couldn't order anything, the site didn't function at all, i don't know how people were able to preorder anything at all
Same. This hobby is not fun when people are like this
@@asian2go96 i mean it still is fun to me i play tcgl and pocket, but ill just chill with a normal etb without sweating it too much since i don't play the actual board game in person
It’s luck some people get in some people don’t
@skarm7780 you and I both know that’s a load of crap. People with bots clearly have an advantage.
@skarm7780 you and I both know that’s a load of $ h I t. People who use bots clearly have a major advantage
Shrouded fable worth to invest in at these dumping prices?
As much as we hate it and pissed off at the whole situation. We just have to admit the reason most people are in it is because of scarcity. With scarcity comes value. Learn from what happened to Magic when everyone had it because they printed to the ground.
PokeSama is an online shop that cancelled multiple prismatic preorders and relisted them for double the value. They essentially took money up front and used it as a loan to get more stock from the distros. Pure scum
The collector app notified me and I managed to get 2 PC ETBs 🎉
How did you get it to notify you? What'd you do to set that up, if you don't mind me asking?
Gotta check this out 2nd comment i saw that said this lol
@972CHENZO I didn't actually do anything. I have an account with them to keep track of my collection my phone just pinged and it was them just saying the set had dropped. .
What?
All u have to do is have notification turned on in the app
I hope my man is paying Rudy from alpha investments royalties, bit his entire gimmick
Is the booster box promo confirmed stamped? In the description it says the etb has a PC stamp, but the booster box description doesn't say anything about one.
I legit got upset because I thought I wasn’t going to get my mail today because Alex had me thinking it was some national holiday I didn’t know about.
Mail isn't running today
@ damn is it because the funeral?
@ToGoBox69 That was totally unintentional too. I forgot about the funeral ☠️
Pokemon Center makes it so easy to cancel pre-orders (when it has not yet been processed for shipping) and they don't charge until ship, so my mentality was, let me lock in 6 BB preorders and then if it comes out the promo will be in every BB, I can cancel my preorders when I have more information
Lets Journey Together through these turbulent times
I went card hunting today and found a couple of A24 pokeballs, some Stellar Crown sleeved packs and then found seven surging sparks 3 pack blisters...all at MSRP, Walmarts and Dollar General. Stuff is out there if you have the will and time to look for it. 😅
My man is out there pickin up the preweighed snicklefritz 💪
THE HOBBY IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What ticks me off is up here in Canada, they are still charging tax on the PC website, even though all things Pokemon everywhere else in Canada is Tax free until Feb.15. One wonders what they are doing with all this "extra" profit they are charging inappropriately. I've sent 2 tickets over the last 2 weeks about this fact and have yet to receive an answer.
I’m curious what the breakdown of the hobby is. Like what is the percentage of players, collectors, investors, box breakers. It would be interesting to see those metrics
Now they just gotta take away the box topper and claim only "1st edition" print runs will contain it
In my market, official products in stores never recovered from the COVID surge. At least 6 months ago you could buy singles from local vendors. With the recent craze, even those have become ridiculous. It's not being destroyed, it's already destroyed.
Never thought I'd be ccalled a bot by the pokemon company. Tried for half an hour before it blocked me. I might as well be using bots, bet those guys came out fat.
Had them in my cart, my account kept logging in and out, pages and cart wouldn’t load. Got as close as payment information, but kept crashing when I tried to finalize.😅
I got in, and I got out with some product! Was a pure stroke of luck to refresh the page at 14:45 CET
Booster Box description doesn't even mention that it's promo Pokemon Center stamped like how it does with PC ETBs so it might just be a regular promo LOL
You act like people who preordered can't cancel their orders at any time lmao. If it's a regular booster box, just cancel it. If it has the PC stamp, you just got some value on a free preorder gamble.
It's really disappointing. I always buy 4 PC ETBs for my kids. Not this time. Fuck this BS.
OMG the poor kids might have to settle for a REGULAR ETB 😮😮😮
What's wrong with the regular etbs? Assuming your kids open the product, just buy the promo afterwards. Cheaper and they can still open packs. I don't see the issue?
@@professoroak9721 bro is secretly investing by buying it ''for'' kids
@@kubitokuc9569 yup. that line is overused and means nothing at this point. I don't care if it's for your great grandmother.. if you're too slow to get the product, I guess it sucks to be her lol
I have kids, and please adopt them and give me those PC ETB.
This is the first time that I know of in the history of the hobby that a main series Pokemon set has sold out everywhere at MSRP on the day it was "announced". Not even Evolving Skies, Vivid Voltage, Surging Sparks, etc. Even Gamestop in store preorders sold out before the end of the day. The set isn't even on the level of Prismatic Evolution and I'd bet the Rocket set will be better as well. Yet this set is selling out faster then any set I've seen. If this isn't a bubble I don't know what is. This is a clear sign that Pokemon has to do something because being sold out as soon as it is announced is not good for any hobby. At this rate, the Rocket set ETBs will sell out as soon as websites put a $100 price tag on it without any picture or announcement. The FOMO is awful right now.
Managed to get a case of booster boxes and the 2 etb, good day. orders were out at 8:55 am est, it seems they have added some bot protection or new captcha also couldnt care less about the extra promo card its better than running around and trying to find product, i have more journey together than prismatic evo atm.
lol this video made me laugh. I was flipping out over the stamp myself. My kids have every stamped promo from the ETB’s and now I missed this one today. I still can’t get into the site. I was 20m late this morning and that was enough to keep me on the sidelines. Crazy it sold out and some of us couldn’t even get on. At least now my streak of every ETB is over and I won’t stress moving forward! Good luck collectors. Have a great day y’all.
waited an hour on pokecenter with nothing, then dropped kid off to school and was gone when i came home lol
Im back to Pokemon for first time since I was a teenager in 2007. I was given an ETB of 151 for Christmas and I was hooked all over again. Trying to figure out whats going on with this hobby right now (this pre-sale and prismatic prices) is absolutely insane. Hopefully I can get my hands on something close to MSRP one day. Thank you for your videos, they are very insightful and entertaining.
So are all those sealed product behind you not investments?
Pokémon blocked my IP so I couldn’t order lol sadness
Me too
Yeah that bot captcha was messed up lol I didn't get anything boooo
Yep me too. I am moving on til the Timmy's find something else to do.
Yeah same happened to me, so frustrating. The Timmys have ruined the hobby
Yup, I have always commended pokemon for the way they take full advantage of their very popular IP. And they continue to do it with things like exclusive products from them.
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What are you talking about. They do not create scarcity. They print to demand. They distribute to stores to sell at MSRP. MSRP was 3.99 a pack for 25 years & just became 4.49 a pack. They supply a product to fill a demand. They bought the printing press. They print billions or trillions of cards more than ever. Everyone wants more Pokemon cards. They can't print enough. Supply & demand. How does the world demand this many Pokemon cards is the real question. Seems like a demon ritual to me. Don't worship false idols. Anyone with half a brain got wealthy of this last 2 years congratulations. I do it not for greed but potential profit for anyone to flip for me trying to create jobs but have no overhead. I am concerned it promotes gambling in children.
I don't think the promo will be in all booster boxes. Reason being that they named them ENHANCED booster box. Could be bs, but that tells me they're exclusive.
Yesterday's price is NOT today's price.
I missed out entirely today but when that happens in magic I know my collection is about to leg up.
the distributors are doing it. they are keeping product claiming they don't have enough then selling them backhand on ebay and tcg. they got mad cuz they have to sell at retail to bozo scalpers who sell instantly for 3x the price. so they said f that were just gunna send a few and sell the rest at 3x ourselves
Last couple minutes are king. Truly an investor/collectors mindset. Im happy that Pokemon is creating demand and urgency. Lets go baby
Will not be paying those prices. If they list them at 300 and try to sell lower later on I will not support the scalper prices for a brand new set not even out ir the full set release even known. It's a shame tbh
When do you think GameStop Best Buy etc will have preorders up
I just left my local GameStop to preorder the set you have to go instore to do so. Got 2 boosters and ETBs.
I tried from 730 am to about 945 am. Kept getting it in my cart only to have a sleepy pikachu with an error anytime I’d try to check out. Now it’s unavailable. Incredibly disappointed.
It's infuriating we can't get one pokemon center ETB because people are getting cases and cases just to "hold on to" for value
I’m not convinced this is from Pokémon choosing to print less. I bet their card production will be up by another billion+ cards from last year when they release their numbers. They are surely working to increase their production to get closer to this surge in demand. I think they are legitimately supply constrained. They may end up way overprinting again to try to account for all the new demand, which might usher in the bear market, but they may have a different strategy this time around. Either way I am excited to watch this market evolve
The promo will be in every booster box. They are replacing regular booster boxes with “ enhanced booster boxes” so the reshiram promo will be in every booster box
Bubble is gonna pop. You're going to need someone to buy the card, and if less people get into the hobby, you'll just have a market of resellers selling to each other
Its gonna turn into the retro game market now lmao
That is not remotely close to what will inevitably happen. The most recent games (scarlet/violet) made record sales, not just for Pokemon but for video games as a whole. This hobby is only going to grow as kids get older, have money and want to open packs of cards. This hobby doesn't really have "less people" ever. There will be people who drop out for a while but this cycle will repeat itself every 3-5 years almost inevitably.
I've been hearing this for 25 years
@@cowboy_henk Then you know its happened multiple times lol. a bubble pop doesnt mean a complete crash to worthlessness, just that the price goes way down. We've seen ptcg be super cheap then sky rocket then go back to being super cheap...
@@SUPERBUBBLEGUM13 I have seen many corrections, a price bubble is a much more extreme and volatile event which to this day I haven't seen in pokemon, unless you have some price data of an irrational parabolic spike followed by a serious gutting of prices on the secondary market at any point since 1999
First time (trying) buying from pokemon center, saw I could add to cart but figured I’d do it on my break. Was blissfully unaware of how horrible the process was. Thought I had to pay up front so waited until my break, had the option to add to cart when I looked. Break came and it’s all gone. I’m fine with waiting for release if it means I can still buy MSRP from pokemon center, is that possible?
had 6 boxes. gone. had several ETBs. gone. Went to another site, got a couple ETBs in my cart. gone.
last year of 151, surging, prismatic, and now this set, I haven’t been able to buy anything to open. This runs the risk of making me lose interest and kids and teenagers will lose interest to if all the product is with scalpers and unaffordable. They need to just print like crown zenith and let us enjoy the hobby for years before the prices begin to spike
Hey Alex. New subscriber. Love the videos you are doing. Just wanted to put some positivity out there in these crazy pokemon times!
I managed to grab 2 PC ETBs.
I’m a collector foremost, but I have a very small sealed collection of ETBs - the market is going crazy right now!
The high pitch screams and nervous laughs … don’t be so sour, we all miss out sometimes, me included
There are always moves that can be made but I tend to slow down in my purchases when prices are high and sell more to take advantage of the scarcity
What sites do preorders without collection of money other then PC?
I talked to our card vendor and yeah, he told me he doesnt get much. What he does get is usually gone by 7pm becaue he has like 10-20 people waiting for him BEFORE he even gets their. He is a cool guy so if he has a lit he makes sure everyone gets at least 1 or 2 things. Though now he told me he is gonna block his area off when he is there and only give people 1.
Booster box promo's not confirmed with a stamp or even exclusive to pokemon center.
it will be even better if the promo is in the BB sealed so to get it you gotta open the Boosterbox which will kinda help keep sealed.
Will the promo be unique to pokemon center booster boxes? Or maybe just the pokémon center ones will be stamped? Does anyone know! LOL
Have they put the stamped cards in booster boxes now then ?
For a multi-billion dollar company, they can't even build a website that can handle pressure, lol.
Apparently, you've never heard of bots...
Their damn website destroyed the hobby
Loved this video so much haha! Great content brother keep it up!
im wondering what preorder prices are gonna be through other vendors/shops
was this announced beforehand or random drop?
Pokémon Strategy: Under Promise, Under Deliver. It all sales. 🎉
I had PC up on a device just randomly refreshing hoping for a Prismatic drop. Saw the new set drop and ordered a few ETBs without issue.
Ok can we all agree this is Alex's best video.
I'm literally fucking crying how hilarious this is.
I believe it was confirmed by pokebeach that the promo will be a box topper in all booster boxes. Not sure that’s 100% accurate, however.
So does TPC disclose when sets are dropping on the site?? Or do they just quietly put them up there so that normal people have zero chance at securing product? Im not even that interested in this set, but ive pretty much lost hope on the Rocket set at this point
Brilliant business tactic on the PCI marketing department. I believe the FOMO meter is going to peak after The Glory of Team Rocket, the hobby will cool off (shake off all the Timmy’s and ten-dees), and the ramp back up on 30th Anniversary. History repeats itself, as Pokémon is emotional. Most people just remember their histories but fail to learn and apply the lessons moving forward. We have seen this back in 2021 to 2023. Here we go again soon.
missed my discord notifications, looks like it was hard even if you were one of the first people trying to check out so glad I didn't waste my time. Hopefully can grab a PC Box later near release but not the end of the world if I can't
Realistically the website got flooded by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people which would overrun most websites …. And imagine how much was purchased
More bots than people
This is definitely a crazy time. I'm still waiting for my $285 TCG Collection box to go up. When you're right. you're right. Kudos buddy.