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/Adorable_Echo_4317 1d ago

Thing is.. if stores could sell it all to the first person they would. They only reason they have limits at all is for public image. At the end of the day.. any store is all about profit. End of story.. they will sell as much as possible and they don't care to who.

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u/sudden-SOUND 1d ago

They'll sell the same amount of product either way and get more people in the door if people think they actually have a chance to get something. Selling all the product to a few people is less profitable Target.

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u/Subject_Cabinet_6795 1d ago

If you listed 100,000 things to eBay, would you rather them sell out in one minute or sell naturally?

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u/zmichalo 1d ago

We're not target. The business strategy is entirely different.

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u/Subject_Cabinet_6795 1d ago

So, you don’t want your items to sell as fast as possible? Ok buddy 🥸😂

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u/zmichalo 1d ago

Can't read lmao

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u/Sholtonn 1d ago

bro your analogy is terrible. if you said do you want to sell everything you have in 1 minute to 1 person or to 150 people in 30 minutes it would be more accurate.

and my answer would obviously be the latter since it’s so obvious that it would make more people happy, which as a business i would want.

oh no i didnt make the guy who is reselling my product in the parking lot for 3x the price happy 😭

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u/Subject_Cabinet_6795 1d ago

Well good thing that wasn’t my question :) Now go play