Accounts should be verified and limited on how much they can purchase. Right now we’ve got a bunch of degenerates using bots buying ALL of the cards, reselling them for 2-3x their face value, preventing anyone who actually gives a damn about the cards from being able to buy them. I’m done with this hobby.
bro I'm so glad you said it. people, UA-camrs, always bitchin about trainers, but they're the first ones to say I got mine, hope you guys got yours. lmfao
I'm sorry buds. 😢 I have been blocked before randomly by Pokémon Centre just logging on at home on WiFi for no good reason. I switched to mobile data and got in no problem. It's super aggravating.
Even here in Europe websites are down to huge demand. I went to the Pokemon center and got the blocked message as an European. On the long run this will kill the Pokemon game. There are only scalpers, flippers. This castle will collapse eventually. It is unsustainable.
Dude's saying exactly what I've been saying and thinking the past 4 years. I've been blocked so many times I eventually just gave up and never use their website
Pokémon doesn't need to care about its website because no matter what, all their product gets sold. Unfortunate honestly but that's how she goes these days.
Hes not wrong…. That company making billions and we cant get a stable site for high traffic? Even i tried a few times today and i couldnt get past the cart. I gave up and returned to my original 2025 plan… grade as many cards as I can, cause I have a lot… until this chaos levels out.
Their broken ass site buckled immediately from all of the scalpers and bots. It was absolutely bullshit. I tried from 5:30am pst to 7am with no luck. I'm contemplating stepping away after this. It reminded me of the Van Gough Pikachu fiasco and how poorly they handled that.
Bought my daughter a Pokémon Center (Centre) ETB this morning. Glad I was able to get her one. She loves Lillie & Iono, so she is excited. 😊 I didn't have an issue with the Canadian site thankfully.
I just subbed too, it's refreshing to hear someone actually speak their mind about a "kids" product that is being absolutely destroyed by scalpers. I remember buying cards as a kid. I could buy 1,000 packs if i had the money. Now that i actually have the money, i can't buy a single thing for retail price because of these bots. And now that you're officially a bot becaused you clicked 3 times in 45 seconds, you're at fault too. Haha
My daughter and I got back into collecting several months ago and within just the past couple months it’s gotten so crazy. It’s went from being able to go to target and Walmart and actually have choices to not having any product available within an hour after restock. Kinda ruins the hobby for us, may just buy singles from now on, which is smarter but I like ripping packs and so does my daughter.
I didn't get blocked from the website, but I sure did get blocked from being able to pre-order anything after everything got instantly sold out!😂😡 This is gonna be an extremely frustrating year as a collector. At least for me personally. In a perfect world, I'd win the lottery and be able to get any set I want.😒
Hopefully people are correct about this being unsustainable so we see some changes. Actually so stressful trying to buy anything, having to follow multiple twitter accounts and discords, only to still get beat by actual bots. It's tough when my kids ask why we can never buy the newly released sets. Ain't no way I'm gonna buy at above MSRP from the scalping scumbags.
With each passing day, I'm more and more thankful that Mrs. Lechonkamania was able to secure us 2 PC ETBs for Prismatic Evolutions. It will be the first PC ETB that we've ever got/opened, and by the looks of it they will be the last we get for quite some time ahead.. All this stuff is crazy discouraging, and we are but humble Lechonk collectors, we just want a few packs to open together for fun, not build a investment or a super expensive collection.. Sad days in the Pokémon kingdom..
Well, to be fair, it's still about the Pokémon, not that much about trainers, right? In Hop's Zacian's card, people are excited for Zacian, not for Hop, right? Maybe Iono is an exeption. Without the Pokémon on it, the excitement would be so much lower I think. It is frustrating to get blocked. Over here in Europe, the Majority of webshops haven't even put pre-orders on yet. Heck, for us to get PC ETB's it's a nightmare now, as we don't even have a Pokémon Center over here... I was able to buy 3 booster boxes for an average of €137 per box, so I'm pretty happy about that...
As a fan whose been in this hobby since 2016 (now bout to turn 19 years old), it sucks how much hate is given to modern sets since the XY era because they don’t have a major chase card that is worth hundreds of dollars. Sets like XY Break Point, Sword and Shield Astral Radiance, and especially Scarlet and Violet Temporal Forces are left forgotten due to the reasoning that these sets don’t have “expensive chase cards” and don’t feature “very popular Pokemon” like Rayquaza, Snorlax, or another Charizard. Each of these sets feature gorgeous artworks like the secret rare Gyarados EX, Alternate Art Hisuian Lilligant V, and SIR Iron Crown ex. Yet are not beloved by most people due to how “cheep” they are compared to cards like the Alternative Art Umbreon Vmax and the SIR Tera Pikachu ex.
They blocked you from even logging in 💀💀💀💀💀 Send them an email and tell them you want to buy stellar crown booster boxes for $161 they’ll unblock you right away
This is just straight up embarrassing. Billion dollar multi-media franchise, btw. I'm not going to sit here and act like YGO doesn't have its issues, Konami is pretty terrible in a lot of aspects, but I'm very glad my TCG of choice isn't going through this particular problem. Hopefully you get unblocked quickly and they can avoid this kinda BS in the future, your title is spot on. I would be mad enough to walk away from the game if this sorta thing happened to me just because I was trying to buy some sealed product from their site. I left MtG over less and haven't looked back 🤷♂
Yep the site was shit yesterday, I was away from my computer so had to try and order on my phone and it just kept going round in circles asking for verification codes from my bank, eventually I gave up before the bank put a stop on my credit card. Was an utter shitshow.
I feel so bad for any long term collectors just wanting pc etbs for sets. Imagine not being able to get something you've been able to get for years because people bot and wanna make $200
It seems that only businesses are willing to pay those high prices, not the average collector. The current market is likely to deter the average collector, leaving many scalpers stuck with unsold inventory when the bubble eventually bursts.
Man, so many people said this set was going to be mid because of the trainers. I guess I have to take another break again. Trainers with their Pokémon helps bring the world to life for me, hopefully things will come to some sort of balance in the future.
The pokemon company needs to fix their website before they release product. Its completely unprofessional on their end. Aftetall, they have billions to fix it. Many companies have had an efficient website for less.
They really pissed me off too. I had a case of prismatic evolutions pre ordered the day it was available and now they can’t find my pre order at all but all the sets before never an issue.
I did same thing, just tried to log in and got blocked. I wish Pokémon just open the flood gates and dumps every and print like crazy. Cuz if our “Pokemon resellers” are willing to clean off shelf’s let them get stuck holding the bag. I hope they pull a pokemon xy evolutions on the “Pokemon resellers”
@OpossumBud it's like pokemon center welcomes bots/scalpers but legit collectors like me and you get shafted and blocked. Usually no longer then a day from my past experiences.
I didn't try this go around but I am not surprised to hear how many people ran into this issue and regular people being seen as bots. How are the bots able to get around this better than regular people lol. I heard people like Rob Burns have the same issues even on the phone. And yes, I agree, I think we'll exceed the last boom.
I hate non allocation order screens. Like I understand they don't know how much they'll have at launch, But I like where if I have two in my cart I have a timer that those two are mine until I either leave or finish my checkout. I hate getting to the "place my order" button screen and get an error. I couldn't order booster bundles when that notice went out. I got an error after filling out all my information. Gave up. Got the notice for the PC ETB, That one went right through.
Pokémon is loving the boom and will do anything to encourage this boom stays and goes hard. When a company like pokemon keeps its website exactly the way it has been for a while, it’s intentional. They do not care, they want more money 💴 and it’s going to get worse 😢
I had the same thought as you regarding the concept of trainer pokemon coming back, why would people care if they dont care about trainers in every other set? dont think ive seen any reasoning for it that makes sense
I’ve been blocked since surging sparks. And NO I wasn’t crazy refreshing, I literally signed on and got blocked. Ever since then I’ve had to do my PC pre orders on my work laptop. But hey actual bots don’t get blocked which is hilarious
If a set most people didn’t really care about does this to the pokemon center website…I literally DREAD what it will be like for the Rocket set 🥺. Good luck collectors. Hopefully they fix their website by then.
I remember this same exact thing happening back in 2021 with Shining Fates where the PC website would immediately ban you for fucking adding anything to a cart. It’s cool four years later PC has learned absolutely nothing.
Maybe one day Pokemon Company will learn to print to demand 👍 I don’t think it’s a radical take or takes an educated individual to realize that if you’re selling out in literally an hour you’re simply not running your business correctly.
Yeah wasn't able to get anything either. I was just getting all the errors. I sent massive emails to the pkn company and I totally reemed them out in the emails hahaha
If the community can detach itself from the "need" for that pokemon center stamp, the scalpers would lose. If pokemon is going to let bots scoop up the preorders, then make yourself ok with not having that one little stamp. The rest of the product should be easy to find. Just preorder in person with GameStop, your local lgs, ect.
@OpossumBud not to mention Legends ZA and Switch 2 also dropping this year i rly hope we see these sets get printed like shining fates/vivid voltage. It's really the only time things have been close to as insane as they are right now...
I think the youtubers that have actual people and connections within the Pokemon Company should go as a group and acknowledge the problem with this directly. UA-camrs with millions of followers should have some weight with their words to this situation. It's complete shit, what should have happened perhaps is releasing 1 type of product per day or week. Random days and times. Or even better is to post 1 product at several different points through out the day. Give your actual fans a chance to enjoy the exclusives. That way everyone has a chance to get something. I just want a PC ETB for fucks sake.
I always found the trainer hate insane when they are integral to the entire franchise whether it be in the games or anime and im glad someone else can point out the hypocrisy in the community
Yeah, I used to try getting products from new sets via the pokemon center (or any online store) but its been near impossible. Most of the time I don't even know pre orders are live until it's too late, and by "too late" I mean literally a few minutes after they go up... 🙃 I've skipped many sets entirely because I refuse to pay the absurd prices from resellers. I don't care what anyone says, brand new products should NOT be double or triple price the second they release.
Exactly, even the most dedicated people who have notificcations on for restocks still have to be act as soon as they heart a beep and check to see if its the restock notification, and even then, its a matter of minute to get to checking out, if the website doesn't crash. I was on top of things like that in the past, and its just not worth it. I see lots of people just shrugging and moving on to other interests again. Nobody wants to pay triple retail price for this stuff. And I think enough people are getting burned right now to turn many off pokemon cards for good. Then when the money isn't flowing anymore, all the scalpers botting websites move on to something else that makes easy money. And same for the shoe boys who seem to be incapable of NOT scamming people. What a shameful mess we find ourselves in.
I have zero interest in Pokémon at this stage of life, and I don't care about profiting. Ripping packs, etc. Your channel and opinions on what's happening in this scene are hands down the funniest/best.
Honestly, I think some of it is bots but so much of it is discords and private chats sharing links as soon as it's live. I'm in two that popped a link up immediately as soon as it's published. Managed to get two ETBs and a enhanced booster box
Someones discord raid botted the whole Pokémon Centre release. The site got glitchy because of traffic, they need to dedicate more servers to it at launches. The reason you got banned is because all the botting programs are coded to look human, so humans actually get tangled into the botting block net.
@@OpossumBud the first few get by until the patterns get to similar then they ban all similar patterns. Some botting programs will create waves that get outsiders banned to remove competition as well.
@EtherealPhantasm it wont be necessarily about the money. It has to be relatively affordable. The point of it would be verification of one person, one account, one address. Ask for a social security if they have to lol figure it out pokemon
"rules for thee not for me" around trainer stuff is absolutely funny as hell and makes zero sense but ultimately proves the hypocrisy and entitlement in the community
make sure to head to your gamestops if you want to preorder them IN STORE. Thank me later & dont forget to CALL AHEAD to make sure that they have it...
It is worse than the pandemic for modern product. Vivid Voltage and Darkness Ablaze booster boxes were never going for $300 a booster box on set annoucement day...
People are fuckin high, over 150$ for a etb of a set that’s not out and then shadow release another under whelming set and sells out in a hour. I’m done
Duuude I said the same thing! As a trainer collector and a watcher who has actively watched poketubers for years… I can def say I was blown away by how crazy the hype was for a TRAINER set all of a sudden! So many folks I’ve watched say such negative things about trainers are literally the ones who have bought cases and what not. And then the site itself acting up like that? Insane! Luckily I was able to get a booster box and etb before all of that started happening, but my heart hurts for all the collectors who got shoved out. Stay strong guys and don’t fomo. Don’t let the flippers/scalpers win!
Hahaha this is exactly what I needed to hear, I wanted to hear some anger and some venting! This is all the shit I was saying to my wife as her eyes glazed over earlier 😜
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.
Same. I just wanted to buy 1 as a birthday gift for myself to open and got blocked. It let me get as far as to the actual checkout then kicked me. And blocked me. And I don’t even know how to use a bot or any of that. Sucks. It’s discouraging and I might just say fk Pokémon all together and find something else to do.
I got an ad for caviar, that’s how expensive Pokémon is getting 😅
Bro 😂
Accounts should be verified and limited on how much they can purchase. Right now we’ve got a bunch of degenerates using bots buying ALL of the cards, reselling them for 2-3x their face value, preventing anyone who actually gives a damn about the cards from being able to buy them. I’m done with this hobby.
I love this community. Pure entertainment.
It’s always something
Deadass
bro I'm so glad you said it. people, UA-camrs, always bitchin about trainers, but they're the first ones to say I got mine, hope you guys got yours. lmfao
Oh yeah I’ll always call that out. I get so much crap for collecting trainers til they want them too
@@OpossumBudshit makes you feel insane. keep being you brother, I love it!
getting blocked for trying to sign in is diabolical
They hate me lol
@@OpossumBud ily 🧸
Typical pokemon center smh
I was blocked just trying to log in also. I sent messages and complaints to PC but I am sure does nothing.
I'm sorry buds. 😢 I have been blocked before randomly by Pokémon Centre just logging on at home on WiFi for no good reason. I switched to mobile data and got in no problem. It's super aggravating.
Even here in Europe websites are down to huge demand. I went to the Pokemon center and got the blocked message as an European. On the long run this will kill the Pokemon game. There are only scalpers, flippers. This castle will collapse eventually. It is unsustainable.
Dude's saying exactly what I've been saying and thinking the past 4 years. I've been blocked so many times I eventually just gave up and never use their website
They cannot tell bots from people. At all
"Hello welcome to Pokemon how can I not help you."
😂
Heyyy how's it going 404 error virgin gang?
What’s up homie!
I just want my electric trainers. Guess I’ll just by singles for a year instead of opening packs.
Let’s be singles together
@@OpossumBud 👀 I won’t tell Virginia if you don’t tell Lori.
@@026Gonzo 🤣
Pokémon doesn't need to care about its website because no matter what, all their product gets sold. Unfortunate honestly but that's how she goes these days.
Hes not wrong…. That company making billions and we cant get a stable site for high traffic? Even i tried a few times today and i couldnt get past the cart. I gave up and returned to my original 2025 plan… grade as many cards as I can, cause I have a lot… until this chaos levels out.
Pokémon is a cesspool right now.
It’s struggling around here man 😐
@OpossumBud yeah.. Prismatic, this set, and then team rocket. Normal people may not get to enjoy much this year
I got blocked saying “there maybe a robot on this network”? ?!? So shocking that bots are buying while every normal person is being called a bot
I was extremely frustrated too and it was therapeutic to watch this rant 😂
Here for you homie 🙏🏽
Their broken ass site buckled immediately from all of the scalpers and bots. It was absolutely bullshit. I tried from 5:30am pst to 7am with no luck. I'm contemplating stepping away after this. It reminded me of the Van Gough Pikachu fiasco and how poorly they handled that.
The fact a computer is accusing you of being a computer for acting too computer like while letting actual bots through is fucking wild.😂
Yeah… I felt betrayed 🤖
Bought my daughter a Pokémon Center (Centre) ETB this morning. Glad I was able to get her one. She loves Lillie & Iono, so she is excited. 😊 I didn't have an issue with the Canadian site thankfully.
Glad you could get one as well 👍🏽
The Pokémon Center completely mishandled this. I’m extremely pissed about this.
I just subbed too, it's refreshing to hear someone actually speak their mind about a "kids" product that is being absolutely destroyed by scalpers.
I remember buying cards as a kid. I could buy 1,000 packs if i had the money. Now that i actually have the money, i can't buy a single thing for retail price because of these bots. And now that you're officially a bot becaused you clicked 3 times in 45 seconds, you're at fault too. Haha
Crazy how to actual bots are able to go through but the people can't💀
it really is an insanely frustrating time to be into the hobby… and uh I just came back after 20 years.
Pokemon is truly dropping the ball for its community. Do better Pokemon.
Reseller W this time unfortunately 😐
Yup I got blocked and got zero ETBs this morning....
The blocking is what gets me
Feel all of this. I am furious. Been in the hobby for 26 years. Never known it being anything near this bad. It's no longer fun.
My daughter and I got back into collecting several months ago and within just the past couple months it’s gotten so crazy. It’s went from being able to go to target and Walmart and actually have choices to not having any product available within an hour after restock. Kinda ruins the hobby for us, may just buy singles from now on, which is smarter but I like ripping packs and so does my daughter.
I didn't get blocked from the website, but I sure did get blocked from being able to pre-order anything after everything got instantly sold out!😂😡 This is gonna be an extremely frustrating year as a collector. At least for me personally. In a perfect world, I'd win the lottery and be able to get any set I want.😒
Hopefully people are correct about this being unsustainable so we see some changes. Actually so stressful trying to buy anything, having to follow multiple twitter accounts and discords, only to still get beat by actual bots. It's tough when my kids ask why we can never buy the newly released sets. Ain't no way I'm gonna buy at above MSRP from the scalping scumbags.
With each passing day, I'm more and more thankful that Mrs. Lechonkamania was able to secure us 2 PC ETBs for Prismatic Evolutions. It will be the first PC ETB that we've ever got/opened, and by the looks of it they will be the last we get for quite some time ahead..
All this stuff is crazy discouraging, and we are but humble Lechonk collectors, we just want a few packs to open together for fun, not build a investment or a super expensive collection..
Sad days in the Pokémon kingdom..
She’s a good Lechonk. Glad to hear it homie!
I was just saying like “all of a sudden everyone likes trainers again?” lol
It’s so true though
Well, to be fair, it's still about the Pokémon, not that much about trainers, right? In Hop's Zacian's card, people are excited for Zacian, not for Hop, right? Maybe Iono is an exeption. Without the Pokémon on it, the excitement would be so much lower I think.
It is frustrating to get blocked. Over here in Europe, the Majority of webshops haven't even put pre-orders on yet.
Heck, for us to get PC ETB's it's a nightmare now, as we don't even have a Pokémon Center over here...
I was able to buy 3 booster boxes for an average of €137 per box, so I'm pretty happy about that...
At some point we got to start putting blame on pokemon company for so many things they do wrong not just scalpers
As a fan whose been in this hobby since 2016 (now bout to turn 19 years old), it sucks how much hate is given to modern sets since the XY era because they don’t have a major chase card that is worth hundreds of dollars. Sets like XY Break Point, Sword and Shield Astral Radiance, and especially Scarlet and Violet Temporal Forces are left forgotten due to the reasoning that these sets don’t have “expensive chase cards” and don’t feature “very popular Pokemon” like Rayquaza, Snorlax, or another Charizard. Each of these sets feature gorgeous artworks like the secret rare Gyarados EX, Alternate Art Hisuian Lilligant V, and SIR Iron Crown ex. Yet are not beloved by most people due to how “cheep” they are compared to cards like the Alternative Art Umbreon Vmax and the SIR Tera Pikachu ex.
Sorry, Alt arts get all the love. XY has a lot of great cards too
"Umbreon is going to 4k" you heard it here first!
It’s already there
They blocked you from even logging in 💀💀💀💀💀 Send them an email and tell them you want to buy stellar crown booster boxes for $161 they’ll unblock you right away
I had no idea that Opossum Bud is nothing more than a simulation. AI is incredible
🤖
This whole debacle was annoying as shit.
That aside, this was a textbook, A+ rant. I could run through a brick wall right now
This is just straight up embarrassing. Billion dollar multi-media franchise, btw.
I'm not going to sit here and act like YGO doesn't have its issues, Konami is pretty terrible in a lot of aspects, but I'm very glad my TCG of choice isn't going through this particular problem. Hopefully you get unblocked quickly and they can avoid this kinda BS in the future, your title is spot on. I would be mad enough to walk away from the game if this sorta thing happened to me just because I was trying to buy some sealed product from their site. I left MtG over less and haven't looked back 🤷♂
Like bro… it can’t even tell people from bots
I 100% agree. They have a system to ask if your not a bot yet they block you. Clear out history and cache should work.
Yep the site was shit yesterday, I was away from my computer so had to try and order on my phone and it just kept going round in circles asking for verification codes from my bank, eventually I gave up before the bank put a stop on my credit card. Was an utter shitshow.
I collect trainers. I love them and not just the "waifus"
I miss the days when you could go down to the local game store and pick up a booster box...
The good ol days
You clicked 2 times? Wow get a life bro damn
For real homie I’m so lame 😂
@@OpossumBudhow shameless can you be 😔🤣
I feel so bad for any long term collectors just wanting pc etbs for sets. Imagine not being able to get something you've been able to get for years because people bot and wanna make $200
Pokémon center *exclusive* elite trainer box
Pokemon center customer service and website is too dog for how much money they're making.
Insert Elmo preaching while background is in fire meme.
😂
It seems that only businesses are willing to pay those high prices, not the average collector. The current market is likely to deter the average collector, leaving many scalpers stuck with unsold inventory when the bubble eventually bursts.
Average people usually can’t pay those prices, or cannot afford to prioritize that over bills and family. Shame
This shit is unacceptable! IVE never been block by the site before and today all of a sudden Pokémon center block me ... smh
The blocking is insane
Man, so many people said this set was going to be mid because of the trainers. I guess I have to take another break again. Trainers with their Pokémon helps bring the world to life for me, hopefully things will come to some sort of balance in the future.
Yeah, and look how fast they swapped with a little money dangled in front of them
The pokemon company needs to fix their website before they release product. Its completely unprofessional on their end. Aftetall, they have billions to fix it. Many companies have had an efficient website for less.
They really pissed me off too. I had a case of prismatic evolutions pre ordered the day it was available and now they can’t find my pre order at all but all the sets before never an issue.
I love how you swear and show actual RAW emotion.. never sell out and be “family friendly”
I did same thing, just tried to log in and got blocked. I wish Pokémon just open the flood gates and dumps every and print like crazy. Cuz if our “Pokemon resellers” are willing to clean off shelf’s let them get stuck holding the bag. I hope they pull a pokemon xy evolutions on the “Pokemon resellers”
It’s insane how many people had this happen to them
I was blocked every pre order in 2020 and 2021. Since then was ok but yea it's back lol. Time to sit out of collecting until this settles down.
I’ll be taking a seat next to ya for the Pokémon center apparently… I’m still blocked
@OpossumBud it's like pokemon center welcomes bots/scalpers but legit collectors like me and you get shafted and blocked. Usually no longer then a day from my past experiences.
starting to think i got lucky on prismatic and will have NO CHANCE at team rocket.
I didn't try this go around but I am not surprised to hear how many people ran into this issue and regular people being seen as bots. How are the bots able to get around this better than regular people lol. I heard people like Rob Burns have the same issues even on the phone. And yes, I agree, I think we'll exceed the last boom.
Pokemon right now is more stressful than work and 2 kids combined
Twice as stressful
I hate non allocation order screens. Like I understand they don't know how much they'll have at launch, But I like where if I have two in my cart I have a timer that those two are mine until I either leave or finish my checkout. I hate getting to the "place my order" button screen and get an error. I couldn't order booster bundles when that notice went out. I got an error after filling out all my information. Gave up. Got the notice for the PC ETB, That one went right through.
The products weren’t even available to Australians on the Australian PC website. So…
You should have seen how hard I was shaking when they made me do a captcha
Pokémon is loving the boom and will do anything to encourage this boom stays and goes hard. When a company like pokemon keeps its website exactly the way it has been for a while, it’s intentional. They do not care, they want more money 💴 and it’s going to get worse 😢
The Pokémon company might be the cheapest billion dollar company. Terrible customer service horrible packaging and now this.
Oh yeah I’ve seen pops absolutely wrecked by their shipping
They need introduce the lottery system
I had the same thought as you regarding the concept of trainer pokemon coming back, why would people care if they dont care about trainers in every other set? dont think ive seen any reasoning for it that makes sense
only reason people are buying up the set is money making fomo.
I’ve been blocked since surging sparks. And NO I wasn’t crazy refreshing, I literally signed on and got blocked. Ever since then I’ve had to do my PC pre orders on my work laptop. But hey actual bots don’t get blocked which is hilarious
If a set most people didn’t really care about does this to the pokemon center website…I literally DREAD what it will be like for the Rocket set 🥺. Good luck collectors. Hopefully they fix their website by then.
I remember this same exact thing happening back in 2021 with Shining Fates where the PC website would immediately ban you for fucking adding anything to a cart. It’s cool four years later PC has learned absolutely nothing.
And four years later they still won’t learn
Maybe one day Pokemon Company will learn to print to demand 👍
I don’t think it’s a radical take or takes an educated individual to realize that if you’re selling out in literally an hour you’re simply not running your business correctly.
Yeah wasn't able to get anything either. I was just getting all the errors. I sent massive emails to the pkn company and I totally reemed them out in the emails hahaha
Sorry to hear man
If the community can detach itself from the "need" for that pokemon center stamp, the scalpers would lose. If pokemon is going to let bots scoop up the preorders, then make yourself ok with not having that one little stamp. The rest of the product should be easy to find. Just preorder in person with GameStop, your local lgs, ect.
100% bots my friend. This hobby is a dumpster fire right now.
The bots won 🤖
The website must be ran by the team that builds their videogames.
pokemon will fix it and then 30th anniversary hype will hit and we'll be stuck again 😭😭😭
True 30th is around the corner
@OpossumBud not to mention Legends ZA and Switch 2 also dropping this year i rly hope we see these sets get printed like shining fates/vivid voltage. It's really the only time things have been close to as insane as they are right now...
I tried. My boyfriend tried. A friend, she tried. She got blocked. We just couldn’t get anything 🥺
I think the youtubers that have actual people and connections within the Pokemon Company should go as a group and acknowledge the problem with this directly. UA-camrs with millions of followers should have some weight with their words to this situation. It's complete shit, what should have happened perhaps is releasing 1 type of product per day or week. Random days and times. Or even better is to post 1 product at several different points through out the day. Give your actual fans a chance to enjoy the exclusives. That way everyone has a chance to get something. I just want a PC ETB for fucks sake.
I always found the trainer hate insane when they are integral to the entire franchise whether it be in the games or anime and im glad someone else can point out the hypocrisy in the community
Yeah people pick and choose. They have price tags not opinions
I was at work and put two ETB’s in my cart. Went out to my truck to get my card info.. and was blocked🤣
😐 damn dude
Yeah, I used to try getting products from new sets via the pokemon center (or any online store) but its been near impossible. Most of the time I don't even know pre orders are live until it's too late, and by "too late" I mean literally a few minutes after they go up... 🙃
I've skipped many sets entirely because I refuse to pay the absurd prices from resellers. I don't care what anyone says, brand new products should NOT be double or triple price the second they release.
Exactly, even the most dedicated people who have notificcations on for restocks still have to be act as soon as they heart a beep and check to see if its the restock notification, and even then, its a matter of minute to get to checking out, if the website doesn't crash. I was on top of things like that in the past, and its just not worth it. I see lots of people just shrugging and moving on to other interests again. Nobody wants to pay triple retail price for this stuff. And I think enough people are getting burned right now to turn many off pokemon cards for good. Then when the money isn't flowing anymore, all the scalpers botting websites move on to something else that makes easy money. And same for the shoe boys who seem to be incapable of NOT scamming people. What a shameful mess we find ourselves in.
I have zero interest in Pokémon at this stage of life, and I don't care about profiting. Ripping packs, etc. Your channel and opinions on what's happening in this scene are hands down the funniest/best.
Honestly, I think some of it is bots but so much of it is discords and private chats sharing links as soon as it's live. I'm in two that popped a link up immediately as soon as it's published. Managed to get two ETBs and a enhanced booster box
Someones discord raid botted the whole Pokémon Centre release.
The site got glitchy because of traffic, they need to dedicate more servers to it at launches.
The reason you got banned is because all the botting programs are coded to look human, so humans actually get tangled into the botting block net.
Oh yeah I’m sure multiple discords with bots did, bet they got orders too
@@OpossumBud the first few get by until the patterns get to similar then they ban all similar patterns. Some botting programs will create waves that get outsiders banned to remove competition as well.
Subbed for the rage. Eloquently said
Appreciate that 🙏🏽
I was also blocked as a bot for "searching too fast"
Unfortunately pokemon center needs subscription/membership. Screw the bots.
Then the subscriptions would be botted
With the amount of $ scalpers make they can afford it, the irony😅
@EtherealPhantasm it wont be necessarily about the money. It has to be relatively affordable. The point of it would be verification of one person, one account, one address. Ask for a social security if they have to lol figure it out pokemon
Bots are getting all the product while humans are getting blocked for trying to refresh the page too fast 😂
"rules for thee not for me" around trainer stuff is absolutely funny as hell and makes zero sense but ultimately proves the hypocrisy and entitlement in the community
make sure to head to your gamestops if you want to preorder them IN STORE. Thank me later & dont forget to CALL AHEAD to make sure that they have it...
There will be chances such as GameStop and others, just keep an ear to the ground
@@OpossumBud they had a limit of two etbs & booster boxes for the preorder.. had to do both for the PC and 1 of each to rip
When they said we’d be fighting robots in the future I didn’t think this is what they meant
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It is worse than the pandemic for modern product. Vivid Voltage and Darkness Ablaze booster boxes were never going for $300 a booster box on set annoucement day...
People are fuckin high, over 150$ for a etb of a set that’s not out and then shadow release another under whelming set and sells out in a hour. I’m done
Duuude I said the same thing! As a trainer collector and a watcher who has actively watched poketubers for years… I can def say I was blown away by how crazy the hype was for a TRAINER set all of a sudden! So many folks I’ve watched say such negative things about trainers are literally the ones who have bought cases and what not. And then the site itself acting up like that? Insane! Luckily I was able to get a booster box and etb before all of that started happening, but my heart hurts for all the collectors who got shoved out. Stay strong guys and don’t fomo. Don’t let the flippers/scalpers win!
Hahaha this is exactly what I needed to hear, I wanted to hear some anger and some venting!
This is all the shit I was saying to my wife as her eyes glazed over earlier 😜
I’m glad I could channel some anger for you 👍🏽
This used to happen ALL the time back in 2020 and 2021 especially when the Celebrations ETB was restocked.
It’s very 4 years ago feeling
Same problem here today! Said I'm a bot because I was faster than a human! Wasn't anything fast about it. BLOCKED... oof
Yup you’re too fast at clicking you robot you
I feel that Pokémon center needs to have a queue honestly
I am agree on your views bud, this take on Pokemon Center always bugged me. And i cant even buy a single order from the website itself.
I teach 183 9th graders the subject of world geography, and the most stressful part of my day was trying to order 1 ETB
Dude it’s rough around here you ain’t wrong
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 can testify that the website was working for about 8 minutes after the release. It went to crap afterwards
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Same. I just wanted to buy 1 as a birthday gift for myself to open and got blocked. It let me get as far as to the actual checkout then kicked me. And blocked me. And I don’t even know how to use a bot or any of that. Sucks. It’s discouraging and I might just say fk Pokémon all together and find something else to do.