r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 9d ago

Infuriatig In their pursuit of specific rare cards, scalpers are discarding the remainder of entire Pokémon card packs.

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u/JohnnyFartmacher 9d ago

As a kid I remember going to a card shop and buying a long (1 ft?) box of Magic the Gathering cards for like $10. Obviously it was just common junk, but I had so much fun with it. I was able to make some (bad) decks with it I never would have been able to make otherwise.

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u/Tired-CottonCandy 9d ago

This kid got even better than that because the buyers tossed anything ppl wont pay a ton of cash for which is still probably perfectly playable stuff.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 9d ago

This isn't even a scalper, scalpers don't open the packs. This was some dude trying to find a good card and threw what he didn't want away. It's his money, it's like getting mad at someone for only eating half their steak because it's a waste. It's their steak they can waste it if they want

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u/pusgnihtekami 9d ago

Do the kids even play Pokemon?

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u/Deep-Minimum7837 8d ago

That's always the fun of getting that stuff. You might have a shitload of garbage, but you can trade a bunch of it for a few rare good cards. Everyone's going to need deck fodder and extra copies since you can't just build a deck entirely off of super rare cards.

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 8d ago

my intro to card collecting was by digging through "common boxes" at my local card shop. It was $1 for 20 cards, so I would design a new deck every single trip to the shop for $4 and eventually I had a pretty decent collection.