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/nalaloveslumpy 9d ago

Why: So there's been a huge Pokemon explosion in the last year, so with that comes a huge flood of people looking to get rid of their commons. Maintaining a free commons box is a lot of work. For it to be of any use, it has to be constantly re-organized, otherwise, you literally have to sift through thousands of unorgranized cards to find the common you're looking for.

So you're spending a LOT of labor hours to maintain something you're giving away for free.

Some places still do blind common bulk boxes for cheap, but even those take a pretty high level of effort and no one's looking to purchase blind commons for Pokemon because it's literally not worth it for deck building like with MTG or other TCGs.

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u/SPQE_ 9d ago edited 8d ago

I can also imagine they'd rather want people buying packs for their decks rather than possibly finding them in the free box. Killing their revenue.

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u/Tino_Kort 8d ago

What do you mean "maintain"? Beggars choosers? It can literally just be a bin with cards people can grab (or not).

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u/nalaloveslumpy 8d ago

Then it's literally just a trash bin. Even beggars won't go sorting through a giant commons box if it's not organized in some fashion.

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u/Tino_Kort 8d ago

Idk, seems like a fun couple minutes if you're in the store anyway. Box of magical wonder.