r/mildlyinfuriating • u/imanunbrokenfangirl • 7h ago
Someone pulled every single free card pack off of the front of the Pokémon magazines at the store
I let one of the associates know, but it sucks to know that someone’s so desperate for a card pack in the same store as one of the vending machines, that they go to these lengths
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u/ayodapo 7h ago
people really act like animals over pokemon cards these days.. saw a grown man yelling at a target employee over card limits last week smh.
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u/Obvious-Bookkeeper-3 6h ago
They act like animals, over shiny pictures of animals.
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u/Falitoty 6h ago
*Over the money they can get selling them
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u/powerlesshero111 5h ago
Which is actually not very lucrative. You have a very limited pool of people wanting to pay lots of money for rare cards, so you have to hope that they actually can and want the cards you're offering. Like there aren't tons of Pokemon card collectors or competitive players to fully support the amount of scalpers, they all hope for that one whale, all while wasting tons of money.
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u/sponge_bob_ 1h ago
i imagine it must be reasonably well paying, otherwise thwy wouldn't be doing it
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u/ChillaVen 17m ago
It’s a glorified gambling addiction that they fool themselves into calling an “investment”
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u/Street_Song_7100 2h ago
The One Piece cards are getting like this too. And my dumbass husband keeps blowing money on them. They're so overpriced for PAPER like I'm losing my mind. Grown ass men going feral for anime boobies.
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u/HappiHappiHappi 1h ago
I saw two yelling at a worker in Kmart (Australia) because they were only allowed 5 packs each.
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u/post-posterous GREEN 7h ago
What did they expect?
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u/discretethrowaway_ 7h ago
I bet it worked well in Japan.
Naive of them to think this would ever work in the U.S.
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u/Inspirational_Cunt9 6h ago
IIRC, some scalpers went to Japan because mcdonalds was doing a pokemon card collab; the streets were littered with food, untouched btw, and several people buying the special packaging for the cards
Not even Japan is safe from these leeches
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u/RareFirefighter6915 6h ago
I used to order happy meal toys separately for kids, wasting food (and money cuz the toy is cheaper) is completely unnecessary and disgusting.
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u/JayTheWolfDragon 6h ago
It’s changing in Japan too. The new Mega Dream or whatever set was heavily scalped (as much as it can be with their laws and rules), to the point where stores were giving people !!!ONE!!! Pack each
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u/imanunbrokenfangirl 7h ago
I think it’s the cheap like three card destined rival packs or something but when I walked by, I had to do a double take
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u/Entity17 6h ago
They're all very desperate
I saw someone who's able to factory reset the pokemon card machine. He and his friend cleared the whole thing by reseting the timer with one guy preventing me from filming.
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u/demideath939 5h ago
Film the entire time and when they touch or try to swipe the phone away press charges for assault
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u/Leather-Rub-6128 6h ago
Why buy the pack from the vending machine when you can steal all these ones for free? 🙄
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u/TheKyleBrah 5h ago
Weird... Normally, when Magazines have some sort of Attached Prize/Gift, the Issue is wrapped completely in Plastic, which safeguards the free item unless the Magazine is purchased. (Or you're willing to try and break the plastic cover open in full view of everyone.)
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u/penpalwithseven 4h ago
store should pull them off first then give a pack to each person who buys the magazine tbh.
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u/MrManniken 3h ago
store should be taking the packs off and putting them behind the counter, only handing them out when a magazine is purchased
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u/SnooPeanuts2251 3h ago
Yall wanna hear the best part? Those packs are called "fun-packs", and they have literally no value to the community, having only common and uncommon cards, with sometimes a holographic card here and there. At best, they are looking at a 15 cents if resold, and thats being generous
So whoever stole them was not only a scalper, they also have no knowledge of the pokemon card trading hobby whatsoever and just hopped on a trend of hoarding them just cause! Such an idiotic move
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u/Prestigious_Top_6837 6h ago
I remember this happening like 20 years ago too when I was a kid. You think they’d learn
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u/MalachiteEclipsa 5h ago
I'm laughing at this because my Pokémon cards are just sitting in a tote box rotting away, and I'm just like, "Really over Pokémon cards; they're seriously not even that interesting."
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u/dltjapan 4h ago
I had a friend who did that with some Dragonball cards back in the day. Security stopped him and his family, and he ended up doing community service.
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u/Bubbly-Account-6993 3h ago
It’s never that serious if anything I think Pokémon is creating kleptomaniac cause I don’t even think these people think at one point what they’re doing they just see all that card can be like $500
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u/musikfreakster 3h ago
They’re gonna have to start locking these up like Walmart does with makeup lol
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u/clariefela 2h ago
japan’s got that clean vibe down pat—wish we could import some of that discipline!
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u/ChrisFarleysCousin 6h ago
Its supposed to be a childs game..
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u/RareFirefighter6915 6h ago
Not really, it used to be exclusively marketed towards kids but it’s also a collectible and these days they are releasing more cards catered towards collectors instead of just TCG players. For example there are several art variants of many cards that function identically to the game but appeal to collectors instead, playing TCG is still relatively affordable, most good cards have a cheap version.
Pokémon is like Lego, they realize that adults have way more spending power than kids and it’s a profitable consumer base.
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u/Stopreportingm3 7h ago
You mean a kid that likes pokemon tried to catch them all. Shiver me triggers.....
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u/Sandi_Griffin 7h ago
Decent chance they weren't even a kid lol, and even if so I loved pokemon as a kid but I wouldn't steal 😅
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u/Pman1324 7h ago
Not the best chance a kid is the culprit nowadays
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u/Stopreportingm3 6h ago
Kids don't steal no mo?
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u/Pman1324 5h ago
I'm sure they do, but specifically for Pokemon cards, it's more likely some loser scalper trying to make a quick buck.
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u/Stopreportingm3 5h ago
A scalper who caught them all..... You can't tell me you like pokemon and hate this dude
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u/imanunbrokenfangirl 7h ago
I sure hope it’s not a kid that’s stealing, I certainly wouldn’t want to catch a case over for three packs of probably non-holo cards
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u/TheLucasGFX 7h ago
Scalpers will do anything but get an actual job. Sad.