As an Eeveelution fan, this hurts me.

That's so messed up lol.

Whether it’s a side set or not we won’t ever see any. The surging sparks shit was only available at launch, haven’t seen it since

I completely agree with you Steve. I love gaming and have been playing since I was 4 and am now 45. I only buy what i like. I love Mario Odyssey on the switch cause it's just fun. So many people get caught up in getting a complete collection (phoenix) and don't care about the games. The whole point of gaming is to just have fun and enjoy yourself.

idk how pokemon could fix this. have u seen some of the xy era sets lately? primal clash exploded that its not even worth the price tag in general. meme siege is another one. that sets trash. distributors have always been a problem even when i was playing yugioh and getting certain big time sets was horrid for stores to get. always the distributors but then u check tcg player and see one lister with 100 plus of each product. i believe theres some back door crap going on that the pokemon company needs to investigate because this will hurt the health of the card game and people tryin to get cards. flexing rarity will always be a thing but people dont understand that doing that and its happened when i was at a tournament in arizona. people flex high rarity and then in the parking lot get held up at gunpoint. the fact this card board is hitting levels beyond the base set charizard is mind boggling. i like vintage more than modern and honestly ill stick to hunting down the ones i want for my display. but the modern cards are nowhere near worth it. everybody needs everything graded and make that money, its awful. what pokemon could do is print the hell out of the last 2 years of sets in mass and watch the market come to an absolute end. and they will make their money regardless if secondary crashes.

A giant wall of games is years and years of buying things. Like 1 game every two months or so since you were a child. It's never worth going into debt for video games.

Boosters boxes in general are just impossible with this series. Try and collect for any older set in the SV era, let alone a new one with recency hype surrounding it.. The booster boxes are just priced gauged to hell and back. I got back into Pokemon Cards back in like October, and I'd love to get at least one Twilight Masquerade booster box. Simply Impossible without over-paying. I understand it's an older set, but it's not THAT old that where I just punished for missing out THAT quickly.

Hey Steve quick question. Have you ever considered leaving the pokemon card game and hobby? Because to me if you can’t get the cards without paying an arm and leg if we all leave the hobby these resellers won’t make any money

I saw an eevee set, my kids fav, was coming out just before her bday. I thought that was perfect timing. I couldn't get it. With the pull rates and prices, its not for kids anymore. I got the Japanese set. And Im glad I did because its climbing up in price too, with people unable to afford or cant find the product.

Brother I think it might be time to down size

Calling them people is kind of generous

Also lets call out the LCS's who are canceling pre-orders then turning around and selling it for $150+ per ETB. There is even a store who is only selling the ETB's opened kinda like GS selling a used game as brand new

It's the youtube so called influencers mostly to blame

I can't buy them anymore tbh. We have a ton we havent even gone through, and they keep making new ones too fast 😂.

Sue was over 20k total in debt

8:25 the store i have been getting reliable booster boxes from is also limiting it to 1 per household. due to scalpers buying in huge bulk.

been a fan of pokemon since the original. recently wanted to get back into collecting the cards, decided id rather just collect a booster box from each set because otherwise it gets way to expensive. made a effort to buy a box from each set since Scarlet and violet base set. found a reliable local store for sealed product. annnd surging sparks is the first set i could not get, and everybody is selling them for over 200 bucks (my store usually charges 90-100 bucks at launch for comparison). i cant imagine the people wanting to get all the cards from packs alone. its ridiculous. also why do they release a new set every month! can we get some breathing room pokemon! end rant.

There's this really cool trick that my friend showed me that works every time. It's called don't buy it if it's too expensive. Crazy how easy that works huh? We're adults here. Stop crying over pokemon. You'll be able to get them later.

Great video. So glad you finally covered the trading card industry. The sports card market got ruined by resellers, flippers, KZbin influencers. Well now they are jumping ship as they aren’t making the money they were because basically it’s resellers selling to resellers. They are moving onto Pokemon. I really cannot stand Pokerev I doubt he even watched Pokemon growing up. You think the gaming market was bad, trading cards is worst.

Everyone's to blame for this mess we are in. We all play a part, big or small. It all adds up to this mess.

Pokemon short prints people everywhere are balling their eyes out 😂

Dude doesn’t understand loss leaders? I mean..

Doesn't bode well for the economy if grown ass men are turning to scalping pokemon cards to make a living

Wow, while watching the beginning of this I immediately thought “Sue should really hear this” and lo and behold, you brought her up.

I thought about getting into Pokémon, Nevermind

Lol your not doing it right. Maybe talk to someone about impulse control.

Retro games and video games, in general, are not selling virtually anymore. I keep seeing video game stores in my area turn to tcg stores because of F***** POKEMON. Now resellers found a new venture bravo.. hate them all

100% agree! Dude and gals need to grow up 😂 give actual kids a chance to enjoy the hobby, so glad i grew up in the 90s 😅

forgot icy hot evelution. lol Artifical shortages really kill this stuff. Joe shmoe can't camp out to get the stuff a soon as it hits the shelf and ends up just giving up on the hobby because they can't afford the inflated prices.

Its so easy and tempting to get into debt i use to run it up and not have a care in the world. Nowadays i have none and feel more in control of having to work and can afford a lot more due to not paying out everything at the end of the month. Great video Steve

Bro your definition of poor is wild. I had no console handheld or otherwise until i finally earned enough money doing paper runs as a 12 year old to buy a used previous gen console (at the time) from a garage sale and then i found a tv thrown out in the trash lol

Another reason why these youtubers show big expensive hauls and items is because they get a tax writeoff on those items if they're in a video.

So many dope games you showed here... saints row is super dope and i still play desert strike

The bad economy is to blame as well. Once we start drilling again and become energy independent, production costs will drop and make people not as desperate. I imagine retro gaming and vinyl will drop as well.

Who cares. Are Pokeman cards a necessity? Do we really need them? No. Just stop buying the Pokemans. You are just as greedy making these bullshit videos. No normal person cares about this 😢

Hey steve, love seeing the pokemon content as well as the regular video game scalpers/flippers. At the end of the day these people are two sides of the same coin. Absolutely ridiculous.

Somebody get this guy the hater of the year award

I wish we could go back to pre Covid for Pokemon tcg. I remember stores couldn’t even give away xy evolutions. I blame Jake Paul and all the other influencers who jumped on the bandwagon.

Heckin Steve! I love your content. Will you please react to “Nostalgia Nomics” video calling Pokémon investments, I hate everything he stands for. It’s titled “TIME TO SELL your Pokémon investments?!!!”

I wouldn’t say it’s Milestone or Credit One that’s the problem. Afterall they take people with insanely high risk so naturally they need to charge higher rates. Those higher rates are not people being victimized in any way. They’re simply paying the consequences of not tending to ones credit score and financial discipline.

Wow I’m glad your videos popped up on my recommended before any of these dirt bags did, cause I hadn’t heard of any of these people. Even the guy who offered $40 instead of $20, sorry but F that guy too haha. It was just sinister the way he holds up Zelda Twilight Princess for the camera (worth $216 CDN right now, CIB) just to show what he’s taking from those poor people. I shouldn’t be embarrassed but I’ve got scabies before and yeah you don’t just walk out of the house and go “think I got just it”. These people and their demeanours take all the fun out of something that’s literally created for fun. Older lady did have a great butt though haha 🤭

Sell your collections. It’s the dopamine hit of each purchase we’re addicted to. Stuff sat on shelves doesn’t do anything for me.

Playing the TCG was really one of my favorite ways to unwind after a stressful week. Now the greed has killed it for me and many others while also pricing us out of some fuckin cardboard. What a world we live in

It’s worse with digital purchases. At least you can SEE you’ve bought stuff.

I don't blame scalpers. They are a symptom of the problem. People that buy from scalpers are the real issue. Has some backbone and be a adult. If it's sold out. Don't buy it. Let the scalpers eat it.

Thanks for the video, as someone who got into video game collecting and has never sold anything I can relate to your opinions here. This is such a cool culture that gets ruined by a few, which shouldn’t surprise me anywhere money is involved. As I was (half) watching/preparing food in the kitchen as I do, I had 2 little fantasies: 1) I badly wished that the people holding the garage sale would’ve actually known the value of the video game stuff and then laughed at her $30 offer. And then when she said “okay how about $50” or $100, they’d go “no way, you just tried to buy that in bad faith. I’ll sell it for 30% of price charting value and give someone a good deal but it’s not going to be you. Please get off my lawn.” 2) I show up, offer then much more and tell them that they’re getting ripped off by this person. Either way, if the person needed to be that way, fine but don’t tell the internet about it haha that just lacks self-awareness and makes these people respond to criticism like it’s all unwarranted.

Glad you making a video about this. More youtubers are doing it. Wanted to pre order the newest set coming out in March but guess what it’s sold out and selling for ebay 3-4x Let’s hope pokemon picks this up and start printing more and more like 2022

i also reecomend getting a Sega genesis and the megasd its a cartridge that plays 32x games and sega cd games \

i got two genseisis and a 32x and and a sega cd

KZbin boxing match : Heckin vs Pokerev with Philly flipper as ring girl - use his ears to hang the signs on