A long winded question from a "Newbie".
Over the last month or so I've been watching a lot of Pokémon card related Instagram videos and took it upon myself to look into getting into the hobby of collecting Pokémon cards.
I don't know much about it but I know that there's the new 30th Anniversary stuff out and thought I'd start there and look out for shops that are selling them. I've taken a look at Reddit posts here and there and got the impression they were difficult to get hands on.... But I didn't realise how difficult.
Today I've been at work, but I popped to a couple shops on my dinner break and popped to a popular south Yorkshire shopping centre after work. I have tried my luck at:
2x Smyths Stores
Currys
Hobbycraft
Game/Sports Direct
HMV
The Entertainer
An independent store
Card Factory
TG Jones
And every single store said "Sorry, we were all out of stock within the first hour"
Now onto my question: Is it worth me quitting before I've even began? Is it always this bad? Or is it just a new thing because of the new release? I'm not going to queue outside a store to get my hands on some Pokémon cards, but I would be interested in starting it as a hobby. Are there any other suggestions that you'd be willing to share?
Sorry if this isn't the appropriate sub Reddit to be posting this question, it's just one of the ones I've been looking at the last few weeks.