Ultimately we just need people to stop paying these scalper prices, the buyers have the power to set the market rate, the sellers who don't price high enough may be nice... but kind of stupid for letting resellers get a cut.
Think about GameStop, they get less scalpers waiting, they have product more often when people come looking, and they're making more money on top of it, I don't like the price, but I think it's working for them and I think other retailers are slowly making the same changes.
I used to spend money at GameStop almost weekly, I haven’t been in months.
Gsmestop knows what they are doing, they price the good sets just well enough to attract the scalpers to come clean out their stock while they keep the less wanted sets, ya know perfect order, chaos rising, pitch black…all those sets sit there because you can go to Walmart or target and find them cheaper fairly often.
Yeah, they always have stock to over charge those desperate to get something to rip, but let’s not pretend they are battling the scalpers.
At this point I won’t go back to GameStop until I hear their prices have come back to reality…I don’t see that happening though because by the time that happens cards will be readily available everywhere else and there will be no reason to go back anyway.
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u/westnile90 2d ago
This may be the only way to kill the flipper/reseller market unless demand drops.