Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, recently addressed the scalping issue with Pokémon cards in a Nintendo Shareholders Meeting:
"With respect to the Pokémon Trading Card Game offered by The Pokémon Company... we are aware of instances where limited-quantity cards are purchased in large volume, leading to high-priced reselling in the market.
In response, The Pokémon Company is taking various measures, including made-to-order sales and agreements with marketplace operators. For online priority drawings for certain products, I understand that The Pokémon Company also plans to use an account verification method that utilizes My Number Cards [Japan’s official government-issued ID cards]... We believe that The Pokémon Company will continue to take measures to respond to this issue."
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@PokeTCGAlerts But seriously....this should be illegal. Like...I dont see how Pokemon themselves are ok with this. Its extremely rude to the customers/collectors. I honestly could see them doing like $300-$350...and even that would suck. But $600?!
@PokeTCGAlerts This is so fucking rude of them. Setting the market price right off the rip like that....they can kindly fuck off. My son wants to rip one of these...but at this point there is no point in ripping. If you can even get one...you keep sealed. This is so sad.
@RippinandSippin WTF, I jumped in immediately when it went live....my queue got stuck at 22 minutes and never changed. Then....it finally let me in when all was sold out. Seems a lot of people hit today though
@switchstock What is happening? I was at 30 min, then back to to 5 hours....then just now I got back down to 1 minute....screen refreshed...I assumed I was getting in....then slapped with the Captcha AGAIN. Now at 2 hours. Lol cant make this up. 📷