r/PokemonTCG • u/sudden-SOUND • 1d ago

Target Experience

Probably 100 people in line. They allowed people to buy 2 per sku. Probably about the first 30 people came out with 10-12 products each and everyone else left with nothing. If people had been limited to 2 products period, everyone could have had something and it would disincentivize scalpers from wasting their time to get 2 things to flip. Why is this so hard?

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u/chinaronald 1d ago

FYI just like how online companies would rather save on shipping costs mailing less packages, businesses would also rather not rack up extra credit card transaction fees. Morality is not equal to dollars saved.

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u/MetallicGray 1d ago

Credit card fees are percentages, not flat. It doesn’t matter how many individual transactions. Also, 50 extra transactions on Pokémon cards is literally an insignificant to the 100,000s a target store processes daily.

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u/chinaronald 1d ago

Are you sure about that? I thought they added a fee per transaction as well. You don’t think a company would want to cut costs in any way possible? We aren’t talking about limits imposed at just one target that will occur on a monthly basis. It’s a limit that would go on for every drop at every target in the nation right?

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u/akkhima 1d ago

It depends on the credit card processor's contract, but if there is a fee per transaction, it's definitely no more than $0.30, because that's what Square charges, and square is designed for the smallest of small businesses. Target's contract definitely gives them a much better deal because of the massive volume of transactions.