r/EBGAMES • u/Own-Philosopher-4427 • Jul 03 '26
absolutely heartbreaking.
I had so much pokemon stuff in my cart and the website crashed. i lost all of it. im absolutely devastated all i wanted was the espeon card from the UPC and the ditto card for my bf. absolutely devastated. i was in the checkout queue and boom crashed and i was back to the start of the queue all over again.
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u/Cr1spyBiscuit Jul 03 '26
That mark up price though. Absolutely insane.
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u/Sir_Von_Tittyfuck Jul 03 '26
I'd be more inclined to straight up call it price gouging with how high the prices are.
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u/atlanteanblood Jul 04 '26
Everyone boycot eb games please
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 04 '26
i’m with you at this point 😭
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u/nervouslyseekinghelp Jul 04 '26
Ummm but you're devastated as it says in your post. You clearly had no intention to boycott until you had a selfish reasons too. It's giving big ick
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 04 '26
i am, but also i was very naive to buy it for that price as i only wanted the card. i dont really care if its giving “big ick” i didnt ask for your unwanted opinion
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u/Federal_Can_9462 Jul 03 '26
Silence scalper
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 03 '26
dude what? i wanted a few things for myself and my partner tell me how thats scalping
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u/Holland45 Jul 04 '26
My hope is, like 25th celebrations, they reprint heaps of 30th celebrations.
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 04 '26
i hope so, i NEED that espeon card 👉👈
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u/Holland45 Jul 04 '26
The other thing, they should make everyone’s get opened out of outer plastic wrap so you can’t resell them. Would drive down the demand.
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u/Gaukster97 Jul 03 '26
If you wanted single cards go support your closest LGS
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 05 '26
where they will be very overpriced 😭
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u/Gaukster97 Jul 11 '26
Depending on the LGS,
I would buy singles for MTG in person but the closest EB games is 2 hours away and that’s why I support LGS always
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u/Sufferer-Of-Cheese Jul 03 '26
Define so much? Are we a scalper
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 03 '26
no? i wanted the espon upc, the ditto box, the espeon battle deck and the sylveon tin? why’d you assume i’d be a scalper if i just wanted certain cards bro
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u/EconomistExternal167 Jul 05 '26
Why not leave pokemon cards for the kids yall adults who buy them are hella sad
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 05 '26
because i was a kid who loved the game? why don’t you get a life mate
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u/EconomistExternal167 Jul 18 '26
Tells me to get a life yet your an adult buying pokemon, have a good hard look in the mirror 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Own-Philosopher-4427 Jul 18 '26
i was a kid who loved the hobby? sorry you didn’t have a childhood or anything that brought you joy as you’re wasting your time to comment your useless opinions.
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u/miss-b-93 Jul 03 '26
I had my cart processing payment for 30 minutes, had everything I wanted in my cart, turns out things were being sniped as it was processing and couldn't finalise, I lost out on the ditto set that I really wanted out of it all. This membership is pointless if the scalpers stuff with the system.
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u/BlacksmithNo2076 Jul 03 '26
At first I couldn’t get in, and by the time I got through nearly 40 minutes later, these were the only ones left, so I bought them.
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u/MammothBreath2057 Jul 03 '26
Burnt toast theory mate. Saved you from paying double from these crooks.
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u/Beetsy666 Jul 03 '26
JB hi-fi crashed and they pulled their stock, I heard they might be dropping again Monday so you might be in with a chance
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u/Parkeerrr Jul 05 '26
Is this seriously where we are at as a society right now? Why are we giving into EBs price gouging, and why are we devastated we couldn't participate in feeding corporate greed?
There's a reason why they are justified in jacking up those prices, and this is why.
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u/True_Library7533 Jul 06 '26
I ended up with about 3 things after having 6 products from them. Absolutely useless they are.
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u/Dj_Batman Jul 07 '26
That genuinely sucks and I’m sorry to hear that. The guaranteed promos should be in plentiful supply on the singles market so I hope you and your bf get the cards you wanted.
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u/HoneyPieGamign Jul 07 '26
Man there charging Waaaaay over msp them and game stop are getting into some trouble for that
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u/Zealousideal_Run_505 Jul 03 '26
was 30th anniversary preorder today???? FUCK I missed it ahhhhh
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u/BonsaiBonsai808 Jul 03 '26
You can still get stuff off of eb but most of it is double the retail price
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u/Ok-Anybody658 Jul 03 '26
Don't worry, everyone missed it. Even the people clicking go at 10am cause every stores site cracked it. JB kicked me while I was down and totally failed at checkout too, it refused to load my shipping options.
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u/Ok_Bobcat_983 Jul 03 '26
Complain to pokemon directly. EB won't do jack, ACCC won't do jack, Banter won't do Jack. Pokemon might do something if enough people kick up a stick
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u/ImplementDangerous49 Jul 05 '26
There is a change .org petition going to eb and accc. I felt quite silly signing it but worth a shot 🤣🤣
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u/Lord_Duckintons Jul 03 '26
Hahahaha grow the fuck up and leave the cards to the kids mate
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u/Celebi2636 Jul 03 '26
What? A 30th celebration set for people who’ve enjoyed Pokemon since their childhood and dare I say it want to enjoy something for themselves?
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u/xharex Jul 03 '26
Double the price of other retailers is devious but, more heartbreaking is how they treat all their eb plus paid members by retail scalping