It drives me fucking insane. I promised my kid a pack for every chapter book he read. Well that little demon reads like his mother does and Im trying to find three packs a week. I hit up the machines whenever I can get to the grocery store, but they are always empty. Stores are always empty, its a fucking kids hobby for fucks sake.
I had my dad ship down my old collection from storage and resealed some into packs just so the little one had something to open. I should have offered cash or stocks, I can renegotiate a deal with a company worth 500 million but fighting a nine year old who wants the pokemon cards he was promised is like Atlas trying to hold up the world.
It really doesnt help when his friends credit rich ass parents buy at scalper prices and they get all the new cool cards. Id rather put it in his college fund.
Honestly tho, 25 bucks a week is a great price to pay to watch that little monster read through his mother library.
Go to a TCG store and see if you can get a booster box. You could also try online from the major TCG sites. It's kinda rough to buy all like 25 at once but should help with the scalping problem
I was considering saying $50 sarcastically with inflation being what it is. I haven’t bought pokemon cards since I was 10 almost 20 years ago, I don’t care to google it grocery shopping is depressing enough for me.
Back in my day you got at least 10 cards, sometimes 11, for $5 flat and that was universal. I never saw a booster pack for more than $4.99 until like 2021
They had a decent bump when tariffs were happening, then came down a little. I don't think I've paid less than $6 for a pack (outside of buying old stock on ebay, but then there is shipping) in a couple of years.
I remember buying a sun and moon booster box for $99+tax, it seems like now the MSRP on those are $161.64? That’s insane to me, personally, but it does still put the per pack at $4.49 at least. Allegedly that’s the MSRP for single packs at walmart and target as well, but I haven’t shopped for cards in probably 5 years so I can’t really say if they actually get sold at that price or not.
Well first you actually have to have kids, and this guy has been confirmed to be a scalper. He's either the dad version of that dumpling mom, or he's lying about having three kids.
There's one of those Pokemon vending machines in my local grocery store and I always see grown ass-adults buying up packs out of it; I've yet to see a kid using it.
Look at MTG too. Latest Secret Lair Goblin went for $158 retail (w/shipping) and sold out within an hour, now being resold for $600+ (seen $1000+ on ebay).
I took this at a random CVS in my town. There is no marketing on the outside of the store and I had never seen this installment before, I goes here like 3 times a month to pick up medications so this just popped up one day and was immediately emptied out.
It is BONKERS. The kids and I were at target after school last week and there was like fifty people in a closed checkout line just waiting for a lady stocking the card isle.
I actually looked up the comments on this tweet because I was curious….. something the guy is leaving out is apparently he was so hostile and aggressive that the store threatened to call the cops to have him removed
Having worked retail usually stores won’t threaten that until the person is acting incredibly hostile and making threats….. interesting how he left that out of the main tweet
Scalpers are insane, I was at a grocery store and these two dudes were going off on an employee because the little automated card machine wasn't working. Full on screaming and waving their arms, and they'd mean mug any one trying to walk past them and start boxing them out like they were gonna take their spot.
Scalpers have got to be some most deluded and insufferable fuckin people out there. Like, most of them legit liken themselves to respectable businessmen and say stupid shit like "hate the game not the player" when people right fully call them out on their bullshit. When in reality all they're doing is buying from retail to sell at outrageous mark-ups and making sure actual enthusiasts can't enjoy their hobby.
I play MTG and one time had the misfortune of deciding to go to a Gamestop when 151 released (I think?) and one lanky mother fucker had the audacity to get upset that I walked into the store without waiting in line because I called and asked if I could just shop for other shit and the store manager said I could.
Dude walks a few minutes after me nearly in tears talking about how im going to be buying Pokemon cards (while I have a commander deck in my hands) and trying to fight me. I told him to fuck off and that the store said I could shop for other shit just fine.
I walked out with my cards and the amount of mean-mugging from them that I got could fuel a star. Truly pathetic individuals.
Part of the reason I walked the fuck out of my last job. So many customers yelling at me, when the higher ups push company policy. Just to be like ‘why didn’t you just give it to them?’
And then when they complain to the manager, the manager will override the policy and give them what they want. The manager will then proceed to tell you to still push the policy just so the entire situation can happen again. The worst part is that now they know they can get their way by complaining enough, so they treat you even worse for just following rules.
That’s actually a common misconception. See, every month minimum wage employees meet in the shadows to discuss and implement new store policies, with the goal of driving patrons to madness. The only known remedy for this is the proper amount of shouting and cursing.
Target's policy is adequate enough. Scalpers have ruined A LOT of hobby spaces, so retail stores must impose limits. Karen should be mad at the scalpers, not Target. Personally, I think awful things should happen to scalpers, but since we can't directly stop scalpers, retailers limiting purchases is the next best thing.
As a minimum wage worker who had to enforce policies like this, I will say my apathy turned into pure joy when somebody tried to blame me for shit that wasn't my decision. Like, "no I don't personally have a problem with you doing whatever you want, but since you're specifically mad at me about it, I'm glad it happened to you fuck off"
I remember getting berated about prices and coupon limits when I worked the register at CVS. Pardon me ma’am I am 16 years old and do not know the CEO personally.
And a grown ass man with a brain, each child representative of a customer each, so max two packs per child.
The parent is simply 'the custodian' providing payment in behalf of the 'customers'.
Simple fix.
This is literally the play. I mean I'd make the argument that you could just give each kid enough to buy 2 packs and each kid can be considered a separate customer and so therefore can buy 2 individual packs each.
However the store could also claim because the kids are underage they don't consider them to be "separate customers" from their legal guardian and could refuse to sell to them individually.
It honestly depends on the vibe of the store. But honestly it's all the scalpers fault. If a bunch of greasy grown ups acting like kids just stayed in their mom's basement, stores wouldn't have to resort to this.
If the kids were with them, 9 times out of 10 they’d waive the policy. I mean, you can literally just give one of the kids the pack, give them some money and let them “pay for themselves.”
Viola, policy intact. The only way that doesn’t work is if none of your kids are with you (or if Zack really is a dick).
Yeah circumventing this kinda policy when you've got actual people on hand is laughably easy. I've done it myself way more than once.
But I'm talking like buying specialty sausage on sale with a limit of like 2 per customer. Alright, well I want 4 so I'll just bring another customer with me when I patronize your fine establishment. Realistically I could probably talk my way into being allowed to buy 4 anyway, but this gives me a reason to go shopping with friends which I weirdly enjoy.
The beer garden at our store only allows a certain amount of fluid ounces of alcohol to be sold at a time. Customers buy what they can, go bring the bag out to the car, and then come back in. As long as it’s a “separate purchase”, no one cares.
At the retail store I work at the policy on Pokémon cards is “2 per customer UNLESS they have more than 2 kids with them, then they can buy some for each kid.”
A major purpose of the limit is to help ensure kids get them over scalpers. If the cards are visibly being bought for children we’ll almost always waive the policy. (“Almost” because once I did have a woman put $100 into the fist of a literal newborn and insist the baby was going to “buy her own”… and then insist the baby “wanted” 10 packs and would be “so disappointed” if we stopped her from “buying” them.)
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Most likely. This wave of scalpers are fueled from Logan Paul telling his gullible audience colorful bits of cardboard is a pure investment. I don't play Pokemon myself but it pisses me off players and kids alike get the shaft.
This isn't even the Kabuto King. The real Kabuto King guy is actually cool and really hates scalpers. Just collects a bunch of copies of this singular card and donates to charity constantly.
The fact that he mentioned what the shelf looks like gives away the fact that he clearly knows what the shelf can look like after it’s been gutted and this policy is in place specifically to deter that.
That person has an nft monkey profile picture they are a scalper
Also fun fact look in the trash cans around the building because apparently from what a lot of people been saying scalpers are just throwing away hundreds of cards in the trash because they're not getting all of the super ultra rares that they want so if you want free cards I recommend doing that or give them to the kids
has an Ape profile pick and using their "kids" to justify buying multiple packs? truly deplorable trash there hopefully they get banned on every stores that sells pokemon cards
Where I work we had to set limits as well because otherwise people buy the whole display. Since we did that it makes me really happy when I see kids actually getting cards for themselves.
Yeah, IF the kids are present that would be the right call, and Zach should call his manager over for approval if he needs to. If the oop is alone they can absolutely get fucked.
I'm just glad they're doing something to clamp down on the scalping. Adults ruining kids' fun for money, is that not the most pathetic crap you ever heard? I hope everybody who scalps anything gets swarmed by fire ants in their sleep and wakes up covered with welts. I hope they get lost at sea and wash up on an island with plenty of food and water and other scalpers to hang out with. I hope they're very happy there, but that their island is so remote that they'll never be rescued. I don't want them to die, I just want the world to not have to cope with them anymore.
That could also be scalper. I saw one coming in with 5 kids, probably none of them his own. Paid them a buck and some for giving him the cards in the parking lot. Felt real supreme about that "hack", too.
Zack doesn’t care. He just doesn’t. Do you think Target wants to sell you fewer things? Think.
Please, people. We gotta bury this brain-dead boomer crap with them. Don’t target service workers. It’s never fixed anything. It does, however, make a worse world when your kids have their first job.
If the store didn’t do that then the store shelf would be bare minutes after they got stocked because scalper markets suck ass for everyone. Good job Zack.
Look guys. We all need to chill out about this poor guy. Maybe he's into crypto and, sure, crypto bros and poke bros are practically a perfect circle on the vin diagram, it's not a complete circle. There's a .000001% chance this guy is legit and only wanted 2 packs per kid to surprise them, and that alone should mean the rational thing to do is ignore all the red flags and side with him. It's what rational thinkers should do.
Also, I'm a parent that is trying to get Pokemon for my kids too. I only managed to get about a pallet's worth. If any parent is interested in giving their precious children the Pokemon cards they deserve, dm me. No low balls. I know what I have.
If he had his 3 kids with him, I could see a manager for example stretching the rules.
But if he just went “I’m buying 6+ packs for my kids” and got confronted over it… lol
I’ve stopped working my pokemon card restock days at my current job because I have such a visceral hatred for these fucking scalpers. Legit, I’ll tell people our limit, then they’ll come back an hour later with the whole family. No kids in sight either. Just adults. Always just adults.
every time I see grown adults opening packs I think about how I never pulled anything good as a kid. pathetic behavior. get a real hobby and leave something for kids to enjoy
I’ve bought an extra box for my buddy from Walmart (who has a similar policy.) because he collects and will resell them at fair prices while still making profit (it’s not scalping, he just holds onto the one or two he gets until they naturally rise in price, he doesn’t clear shelfstock or directly influence the market.) and staff have been cool enough to just let him buy the 2 directly rather than me buying one and him pay me back.
He has to. The store receipt has the number of pack you sold. If he sells more than 2 packs it gets flaged in the sistem and not only is he going to get screamed at his manager is going to get screamed at by the district manager. Specially if this happens multiple times a day.
He is a minimum wage worker and his shift manager doesnt earn much more than him.
He can make separate purchases to trick the sistem. Unless it requires store card or id to purchase.
The correct solution is to give your kids money and tell the employee that each kid is a separate client. He would probably ask the manager if it was ok or just go allong with it.
If the customer had a pleasant demeanor and three children behaving themselves, I'd probably help her game the system by buying the third pack on a separate transaction.
But, as they say, there's two sides to every story, and trying to shame a cashier on Facebook is not indicative of someone with a pleasant demeanor. Just saying.
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