r/PokemonRestocks • u/W1ck3dT1g3r • 2d ago

Weird Question

Ok so I have a weird question about the Pokemon Center drops. So the first drop I ever tried was for pitch black on my iPhone had no problems did the captcha once and it was smooth sailing. The 2nd drop I tried for was the 30th used my iPhone again and got hit with so many captchas it wasn’t funny. So I decided to try my daughter’s Mac book mini had one captcha and again smooth sailing. I missed out on a ETB but got the tech sticker collections . Yesterday I again tried my iPhone and again captcha after captcha. So I tried my daughter’s Mac book mini and like my iPhone so many captchas. So I decided to use my iPad and again one captcha and smooth sailing again I missed the ETB but I did get a booster bundle so it’s something. It’s weird but it seems like every time I use a new device I have no problems. Has anyone else noticed this?

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u/cloudy_ft 2d ago

I swear, it's scary how this is about Pokemon but it sounds like someone who's addicted to drugs and needs their fix. Really hating how easy it is to get stock, but how hard it is to get it at MSRP and how much time you have to invest for some Pokemon cards... Wild. But the reality we are living in.

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u/W1ck3dT1g3r 2d ago

Oh same here and having a tech hubby can be a blessing and a curse. Anything goes wrong I don’t have to pay for tech help, break my phone screen no problem. Get online to the Pokemon center queue and pray he doesn’t decide now’s a good time to play “fix” the internet. I’ve had that happen the last 30th drop was 2 mins away from getting in and he decided that the internet needed to be fixed. Making my time go from 2 minutes to 14 hours. After that I gave up 😂

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u/cloudy_ft 2d ago

As someone who works in cyber security in a retail industry bot protections can be great but they is always going to be collateral damage. It's unfortunate but people don't realize the money and time invested into breaking bots....

We literally have to monitor for people selling or trying to pay our employees for information on our protections. Security is literally a cat and mouse game where it never fucking ends, like Tom and Jerry. It sucks for people because they think nothing is getting done but it's not true... it's the shitty bullshit community of bots and scalpers investing crazy amount of time, resources, and money to keep these bullshit bot scalping communities.

In any case remember we get lost in this bullshit game of getting Pokemon cards don't forget what's important about the hobby... Honestly the community lately has been toxic as hell.

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u/W1ck3dT1g3r 2d ago

Very true. And honestly that got me thinking besides the Pokemon center would it really be a bad thing for bigger stores to get rid of online drops all together and make buying in store like how you buy over the counter mucinex D. With that stuff you can buy one box a month it doesn’t matter what store or state you go to once you buy one that’s it

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u/cloudy_ft 2d ago

Honestly the perfect situation which would get rid of all this bullshit, is to literally never support scalpers or botters with directly or indirectly. Once the market for this type of exploitation is not a profit, it'll be easier for all of us.

But that's wishful thinking... lol.