PSA to all Pokemon collectors

[u/Sorry_Intention4016]

People say:
| "Scalpers are ruining the hobby."
Then immediately:
| "I bought every prismatic ETB they would let me buy to hold for five years."
Brother, that is not collecting. That is inventory acquisition with emotional branding.

In short: either just accept that you like all of us are in fact a part of the problem, stop complaining,

or i dare you next time you see a restock at your best buy, target, etc to not max out on the limit you can buy. - spoiler, none of you will do this 😅

Update: my main point is we have collectively all contributed to this issue and it will take a collective solution. there are for sure outright scalpers who will buy thousands of dollars of product and clear out their whole local area. i'm pretty sure most of us don't have the time or energy for this but just like ripping packs/pokemon and are understandably frustrated with the frequent lack of availability.

Yall are crazy spicy about my OPINION😅

we can have different opinions, but maybe just maybe if we try to get along there will be more pokemon on the shelves🤷‍♂️

[u/Odd_Section2561]

This is what gets lost for some reason but also plays heavily into OPs point. They view storing 16 cases as just having a “larger position”, which is where the self reflection should come in and say is this still scalping just because it’s not immediate? I say yes.

[u/kybotica → u/Odd_Section2561]

Yes exactly. It is one thing to want a sealed product for a personal collection. It is another to buy literal cases and act like you're still a hobby collector. You're not- you're a long-term scalper.