This Pokemon Video Pissed Me Off - Journey Together Rant

[@pokene_pokemon]

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[@hougen8695]

Shame im european

[@pokene_pokemon]

@@hougen8695 trust me, 2025 is the year we all wish we were European

[@hougen8695]

@@pokene_pokemon the pokemon craze isn't as terrible here as it is in places like britain or US, but even here scalpers are slowly turning up for the first time since 2021. Im afraid even europe will become a pokemon warzone sooner or later

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

@@hougen8695 I got back into Pokemon last year for the first time since 2002... Just in time to get hooked on the S&S sets as they dried up and skyrocketed in price. I am in the EU so yea english boosters already come at a premium here :(

[@krisfichtelman6123]

Step one - reduce supply to get people used to paying the higher demand price. Step 2- flood the market with supply marked at the new higher level and make millions 👀

[@samiclex6816]

People who are not even Pokémon collectors are FOMO. Was in GameStop and people are just buying whatever not Prismatic. Employee told the customer those Battle Boxes don’t have packs it just teaches you to play the game. Customer freaked out saying you just want these for yourself. He ended up buying 3 boxes 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Aldotails]

Lmao

[@kylesipsas]

Thats hilarious I would go to my manager and say I made a sale telling them the truth and they bought the unwanted crap even with me telling the truth the manager probably gave thar guy a coupon for game stop because we all know game stop nit giving raises lol

[@samiclex6816]

@ fomo is good for old inventory. Employee told me all their old stuff collecting dust also flew off the shelf lol before prismatic the shelf was full of Pokémon cards, now it’s bare like 2020 again 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@scottrulka6587]

They need to push a set back to catch up!!!!!

[@kylesipsas]

@scottrulka6587 lol that's would cost them way to much money in marketing and other stuff they just want the fomo or if it's hard they can make more money then it being available for everyone not alot of companies want to hire a full staff cause they found out since covid they can charge more and run their staff at half so they don't have to have their work force budget really low instead the high ups just pocket it and do it over and over again why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor alit of companies are doing it

[@shadowmonk36]

Being in print manufacturing for 10 years (mostly beverage labels) what we are seeing (or not seeing) on the shelves today is what was printed likely mid to late 2024. Typically, orders placed today are for projected demand in 4-8 months, and that demand is usually based on the last 12-18 months of sales. With product sitting on the shelves, demand appeared to be low. The market didn't start showing upswings until Twighlight, so why would they order a bunch of Prismatic and Journey to be printed when the market appeared uninterested? When actual demand outpaces projections, like we started seeing during Surging Sparks, companies do put in those "oh shit' orders to their partners, which they probably started putting in slightly before their announcement. Even with those orders it still takes at least a month or more for the new production to make it to the customer. It likely won't be until Q2, maybe even Q3, when the newly ordered production runs are actually seen by us. Let's just hope that they put in enough orders to not only improve availability of current product, but are able to increase availability for the rest of the planned sets this year.

[@MattsPokeMart]

I agree with this, your timeline is accurate. People who have no idea about production and logistics just assume product appears overnight on shelves..

[@hiro0078]

Thank you. Was shocked by this video on this channel. Been watching for awhile and enjoy the realistic take. However, this is so out of touch.

[@PokeBeardTCG]

My lgs showed me the numbers on what he has done with buying peoples lots and grading and reselling for 2024, and it was almost 10 times what they made selling every set release. That's the one good thing about having a lgs in this market. I also know a massive sneaker guy who only uses bots who have more 151, zenith, and Prismatic than everyone I've seen combined. Im talking thousands and thousands of boxes. He even has like 1,000 pc etbs of Prismatic somehow. Crazy times

[@atomik22]

Yeah I just recently started working part-time time at my lgs, boss man told me that they got a single etb from distro so he's just aggressively buying collections. It's the only way to make a profit when there is nothing coming from distro

[@pokepsota]

our local LCS is getting 2 blooming waters, I told him Journey will be really bad, we made a video on it on our site, check it out guys.

[@ronburgundy4743]

Absolute cap that he has 1000 PC ETBs

[@prodigal99]

This is why you don't believe everything on the internet. I'll believe it when you show some proof lmao

[@FastAligator1234]

I used to be able to go into Walmart and target literally a day or two early every new set release and get an ETB. Not how. They need to print these into the ground

[@noloveforthehaters]

Why do people think Pokemon are going to increase production? Anyone who thinks their printers aren't already running at full capacity is nuts. That press release was nothing but carefully worded lip service.

[@PokeLaneYT]

Lol because they like money they freaking love it.

[@HypnoticMonkeyCards]

I don’t know, the thing to bear in mind that there’s a lot more to this than just “turn it up to 11”. Everyone knew Sparks and Prismatic were going to be popular, but what they didn’t bargain for was the number of people new or rejoining the hobby and the general increase in demand in general. You can’t just go from printing at, I dunno 60% capacity to 100% capacity when you’re working at this scale. Global supply chains become an issue. Shipping crates of things around the world takes planning months in advance. The increase in demand for the hobby as a whole has put huge strain on existing plans, and those plans can’t be changed easily.

[@Strictlybizznesss]

Exactly, the PR stunt everyone is clutching their pearls over hoping for a magical increase in printing capacity 😂

[@TheScott2theextreme]

This happens in other industries. They do not increase production capacity unless they think the demand will keep up in the long run otherwise they will lose money and lay off employees.

[@kiaradoesart9682]

Honestly that’s where MY frustration is at- the Pokémon Company released Pokémon Pocket clearly intending for it to draw a younger/wider audience into the TCG. Why are they so unprepared for a surge in demand for the sets printed shortly after? Are their execs seriously sitting in their offices wearing Surprised Pikachu.png faces because they printed the same amount of cards on the same amount of printers but magically there seems to be a shortage of supply now? Especially when they are also clearly trying to draw back older Pokémon fans as well with sets based on OG favourites like eevee and Team Rocket. This is the most successful franchise ever, surely they hire the best business minds they can. How did they not think to secure some extra printers in case their marketing did its job??

[@dominikspangenberg9712]

As a father of a competetive junior PokemonTCG player I'm terrified of Journey Together. It's a new block which means there is rotation. That shifts the whole meta game. Availibility of Surging Sparks and Prismatic Eevolutions did not bother players - both sets have like 5 meta relevant cards together. Journey together is different. And with lot's more sealed collectors and "investors" the playable bulk cards are not as easy to get.

[@Eric-m2f3d]

This is the real issue in my opinion! Give Danny credit that he does actually care about the tcg and states that in his video, this guy (PokeNE) not so much.

[@Zirin4]

I understand if you're saying you want to pull the cards yourself for your decks that you're scared. If you are just a player though just buy singles. There are promo and base rarities for all playable singles. The allocation issues aren't a lack of product on the market, it's just more competition in stores wanting pokemon cards to sell. Unless you need to play with the SIR version of cards the playable singles prices will be fine after a week or two

[@ronburgundy4743]

Bulk cards will still be easy to get

[@cameIs]

lol

[@dominikspangenberg9712]

@a) more people buy stuff to keep seeled for investments b) collecing investors" pissed by the shit pullrates throw bulk into boxes c) product bought by the "casual" stores is not sorted because people don't care. all three lead to less playable not collectble cards on the market.

[@Pokemonman24]

Moral of the story: Brian is pissed at Pokemon, not Danny

[@ManaMochiTCG]

We're journeying together into deep pit of debt and depression with this one!!!

[@supmotto]

how do you journey into debt when there's nothing to buy?

[@ManaMochiTCG]

@@supmotto T-T

[@alysssawest]

😂

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

@@supmotto let the kid dream

[@lucianonegron5304]

I will be on that way with team rocket hajahahah

[@BloodSweatGearsGaragePTC]

Walmart, costco, and target are at top of the chain not LGS and resellers. This is artificial scarcity being perpetrated by Pokemon Company. They have also spun up several hundred vending machines run by Pokemon Company to ensure they are getting full MSRP. What everyone is really mad at is no more wholesale to the public on release.

[@TheScott2theextreme]

We are beyond fomo. Its the acceptance that we will miss out. I can see how people leave the hobby.

[@Midnight-hz3ep]

Quiet acceptance is the stage that I’m at

[@chefsaliva5317]

Let them leave. They were never true fans of the series

[@needszeebs6942]

I dont understand people leaving the hobby because you can't find the newest set within the first few weeks of release. There is 30 years of Pokemon cards you can collect and enjoy. Just collect something else while you wait for reprints

[@cirosamv2973]

Shelves are empty in most stores, opening cards isn't even an option lately anymore

[@nerdstemplar5063]

​@@chefsaliva5317because only True fans go bankrupt to buy pokemon cards, right?

[@radicalryangaming]

This is just more proof of what many of us have been saying all along. Pokemon has already been printing at 100% capacity and must have been caught off guard by this big boom in demand. It could take a year or more for Pokemon to open more printing facilities IF they even decide to do that. The lack of SV reprints, the delayed release of Shrouded Fable, the empty store shelves. There's lots of evidence in support that they have been printing at 100% for quite some time.

[@beezo-f5p]

Printing isn’t the problem the Distributors are

[@Adam-Adamson]

Allocation is down to distribution, print run is Pokemon. Pokemon have to be increasing the print run if they can they aren't stupid they are sending more product to Big Box stores than ever before, I also think distribution is keeping product back as they know prices will rise at the moment.

[@Eric-m2f3d]

This! The amount of people who have applied with distributors has increased exponentially in the past 5 years. I think Pokemon has likely allocated more to big box chains and less to distributors because of quality control.

[@InjectTheWaste]

At the same time their Print run has increase sixfold in 5 years, increasing it further is more risk, Pokemon will actually be waiting to see if the hype stays high for a few more months before commiting to more printing presses, its an expensive operation.

[@rapture724]

Hi. I have a suggestion. If you don’t get enough Journey Together. Why not raffle it. Take your huge list. Use an online randomizer to choose randomly the amount of people equal to your allocation. Then send them a special email and give them 3 days to make the order. If they don’t, then choose someone else randomly afterwards. I feel this is fare and NO ONE can complain that bots or you screwed them over.

[@luke45879]

You do realise 1 person could just make 10000 email accounts in order to increase their chances.. its essentially the same as bots

[@thatpenguindragon]

That'll still make everybody mad an incentivize bot usage even more

[@TheMule1]

Even if it was perfect, this man does not have hours to burn trying to do this time consuming idea.

[@CamLToe69]

That would take to much time

[@matsarg04]

I think they need to space out new sets more, not every two three months, say you drop a new set every six instead, youd think youd have time to print enough then.

[@rellikreed8681]

Even 3 to 4 months. Every month to month and a half is way to quick for collectors and competitors to even enjoy the set

[@gabestorey5270]

What happens when the bull run ends and they have dead sets and they print a future run into the ground and no one buys it I.E. Pokemon Go then they wait a whole 6 months to release another set. Also you forget it’s a trading card game you can’t sit six months on one game play at a time the meta has to change or the game gets boring.

[@matsarg04]

@@gabestorey5270 well at this point, that's the only logical answer, tcg gameplay may suffer, but at end of day I'm sure 90% of the community would be ok with longer time in between sets of it means actually being able to get product( and get the product at a fair price) at this rate you'll be lucky to get a new set for fair price in first six months, they a whole bunch of hype sets coming out for the next year and a half this ain't ending anytime soon.

[@matsarg04]

@@gabestorey5270 maybe six months is too long, but like someone else said, maybe 3-4 would work

[@LarryBudd]

Then theyd have to cut sets or make inflated jumbo sets it's not as simple as people make it sound

[@TheCrazyahbk]

Here’s a thought - The Pokemon company has printed the same for years. What has changed ? The amount of resellers/scalpers etc. I have been collecting since 1996. I have not seen an ETB of prismatic in any regular store since release. The only people who have seem to have it are mom and pop shops/ influencers/ scalpers / re sellers. Journey together is a prime example - simple set and bots gobbled it all up.

[@ReubenAlexader]

And mom and pop shop be charging me the secondary price, etb 140 at my local lgs

[@monkey39128]

What's changed is a massive increase in collector demand. Here in the UK everywhere had limits (usually one per person) and the ETB's are £75-80 on eBay so there's no money in scalping it. Despite that it changed nothing, it's sold out everywhere. Massive ques on release day so people could get their 1 ETB. Sure there's an increase in resellers but they're taking advantage of the problem rather than causing it. If they could cause it they'd have done it for the first half of SV.

[@MiahASMR]

My local card shop is selling market, some products are slightly above market and some are slightly below. They don't have a distributor yet so they are forced to buy in bulk from scalpers.

[@luke45879]

Thought it was pretty clear in Danny's video that it's not that PC are printing less, and that's why youre not getting as many products as previously.. its that your distributors are spreading out their product to more stores (because more stores are ordering as they know they can make money) PC are running their printers at max capacity, you're deluded if you think PC are leaving money on the table on purpose

[@PokeBowlCards]

Sure that’s part of it but no one can know if Pokemon is printing at max capacity or not. I feel like sets were getting shorter and shorter printed all through 2024 even because this recent explosion. So my money is on, NO Pokemon is NOT printing at max capacity.

[@pokene_pokemon]

A 10 piece pie divided by 10 pieces shops has the same calories as a 10 piece pie in a single pie shop - location of the slices doesn’t matter. The baker still made 10 slices

[@luke45879]

@pokene_pokemon in this instance the baker is unable to bake a larger pie, otherwise they would ($$$$) Manufacturing artificial demand is a useful tactic to ensure products sell for MSRP (i.e maximum profit margins for PC as people will buy directly from Pokemon Center) - it is not useful to artificially inflate demand to the point where people are willing to pay above MSRP as that is essentially leaving money on the table for PC

[@AndyseousOdyssey]

I’m amazed how these tcg companies and distros don’t take care of the shops. They host events , they try to keep the games alive and bring players together . I hate paying 5 k in rent and then we don’t get allocated for the good stuff .

[@izirebornizi5920]

My tin hat theory - The print run is the same size, pokemon company has sold more direct to customer via website and vending machines. They also made agreements months ago to Costco and Sam’s to clear out old inventory and this distribution is getting less and spreading it more thin due to sports card shops trying to get in

[@Techpriest]

Why Costco and others get the product is probably due to contracts made long ago, but something that contributes to that is LGS's raising prices on new releases. This happened with Lorcana back in the day and the reasoning was that big box stores would sell at or really close to MSRP while LGS's would sell at double for some items, so they went with the more assured avenue that would sell their product at a reasonable price.

[@needszeebs6942]

I think up until like 3 weeks ago supply was meeting demand. Things have been pretty slow last year, so it makes sense that demand suddenly like 50x'ing practically over night would take time to catch up with

[@mattjvictory]

Solid video, but are you sure that it's Pokemon printing less? Maybe distro accounts aren't seeing more product because distro is hijacking some of their own allocation for future use, or Pokemon is pushing more product towards the big box stores, or even allocating more product to themselves for the PC and vending units? I 100% believe that Pokemon is printing more inventory, but I think that there's some shady business happening behind the scenes limiting what distribution is giving out to their customers.

[@dynastygirl2912]

Me who's sitting on an entire case of prismatic to use as gifts for people and if there's a kid who can't get any well....like I said I have entire case. To heck with scalpers

[@ronburgundy4743]

Oh wow, you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

[@dynastygirl2912]

@ronburgundy4743 i HATE scalpers

[@Brandonhart100]

My thought is that LGS owners were not keeping to MSRP price points and TPC is allocating everything to big box with some type of MSRP agreement. Unfortunately, I don't see this changing any time soon. There's probably a lot more product out there than people think, but with everyone, including scalpers, buying at the new price point even secondary sellers will have to sell booster boxes at $200 to even break even. This is the new world we live in.

[@briandev8]

It's almost like the pokemon company had a behind the scenes deal with all of the big box stores because of that whole "reprint" last year when they sent back their overstock they were sitting on.

[@UrdethaW8s]

The problem isn't anything to do with pokemon. There is only so much someone can spend. It's actually a societal problem. The cost of rent or mortgage, the cost of electricity, the cost of gas which impacts pretty much every other good including shipping. The real wages are the issue. The dollar just doesn't go as far as it used to. Energy and real estate greed are huge factors in this issue we encounter.

[@dwarvencleric20]

Our Walmart has overflowed Digimon into the Pokemon space just to make a shelf look full

[@BoosterBrad]

My Target is actually filling Pokémon areas with toys rather than have empty shelves…

[@border056]

I'm really curious how they're spreading the distribution. My LGS got their allocation numbers this past Friday and took pre-orders on Journey Together booster boxes. They got allocated 1000 boxes.

[@kmedina419]

We see your videos. So why are you holding stock of BB. When your website has nothing available? What’s the reasoning. Not saying you’re going to fix supply but you’re not the only one out there hoarding inventory. It’s is interesting observation in a time like this.

[@unclen2479]

I don't think people truly understand how ASTRONOMICALLY high demand is right now and how powerless pokemon is when they are already printing at max capacity for all their sets in current rotation AND printing upcoming sets/products at the same time. It's definitely partially their fault because they release so many products/sets constantly as well as have a shit ton of sets to keep printing from the year prior & for the upcoming ones ahead BUT the current demand for these products is the largest pokemon/any TCG has EVER seen by literal miles.

[@Jacobey22]

Pokemon prints 2-3 sets in advance. Journey together was already finished printing when they made that announcement. Team rocket will be the first set to see adjusted print numbers

[@TheRealTommyLee]

The distributors are using this as an opportunity to spearhead a "Land & Expand" strategy. To them, with demand for Pokemon being what it is, they're going to sell all that inventory whether it's to 100 accounts or 250 accounts. They also understand that card shops can't survive on solely selling Pokemon so they're trying to bring in new accounts that will ultimately increase exposure to their other product lines (e.g. MTG). This is especially critical if TPCI is increasing allocations to big box retailers and reducing allocations to these distros. I collect Pokemon myself so I understand the frustration to an extent. This environment is all around ruthless and ultimately, loyalty to distros carries no weight. The distros have sales teams that are tasked with growth numbers so they're using this boom as an avenue to set themselves up for the medium to long term, even if it means some loyal Pokemon-heavy accounts suffer or even shutter their doors as a result.

[@cullenasaro2229]

Woah wait… a KZbinr placing the blame where it actually should be placed and not blaming other factors that have been there since the beginning???? THATS CRAZY.

[@Pikajoe76]

Im guessing the Surging Sparks reprint wont affect the prices or availability much. The booster boxes will soar after everyone realizes there in no extra supply of them.

[@schwachmatt]

I already lost hooe for Team Rocket. I'm just praying for Black and White

[@BattleDuelists]

Its not just journey together, as a new shop I find finding english product at a decent price difficult as well. No official distribution access makes it rough atleast, but according to another shop in my country that has official distribution access that it aint easy for them either.

[@skylerwheeler3974]

Hype of the dragon set. We got a latias card. Hype of a gym heros set we got journey together. When people realize that the team rocket set wont live up to the expectations built in their head of comparisons to rocket or rocket returns they will slowly fizzle out. This happens about once every 3 to 5 years. This time next year we will be back to what the hobby normally is but slightly bigger. No matter what the "investors" say. This time is in no way shape or form different. When the hype dies 90% of new people will leave and 10% will stay and keep going. Its like clockwork.

[@ronburgundy4743]

That's a massive amount of cope

[@xRacer567x]

I recently watched his video in the last couple hours as well. It just makes me feel bad for my kids trying to collect this year

[@3hirdtimesacharm]

I firmly believe distributors are holding out and being greedy. This is often not mentioned as a possible reason to the shortage of product. Not saying PokeCo is printing enough but even if they are (whatever that amount should be) I wouldn't be shocked if half the issue at least is on a distribution level too.

[@Fromholzp]

That’s hilarious, “I got prismatic at the recent Walmart restock.” I’ve checked 5-6 different Walmarts, targets and GameStop in my area on a daily basis and haven’t seen prismatic in stock once. 😂

[@SayerTCG]

Agree with you 100% that the only way out of this is printing more and more main product not just houndstone ex collection boxes. I don't really understand how more product is not reaching the market. They own Millennium print group now so it shouldn't really be that big of a hurdle. If this is some sort of strategy to keep the "hype" up, I think it's definitely outlived its usefulness cause that hype has turned into frustration and anger. There's also absolutely no reason for Pokemon to protect the "collectability" of the products. The price growth for SWSH products clearly shows that the market can handle a lot more supply while the products still retain their value or collectability. Then again Pokemons a big company and getting a big ship to turn always takes time. So I guess there's still hope that that's the case and we'll get huge amounts of product in a few months...

[@manithecomiccollector6361]

Imho Pokemon company moving away from LGS’s towards big box stores. When was the last time GameStop or Bestbuy ever offer preorders on pk booster boxes?🤔

[@Thalazon]

My local stores got nothing for prismatic. Meanwhile my LCS had over 500 items day one selling at twice MSRP limit one per person

[@arvisconti]

I don't understand why Pokemon doesn't want the money and is accepting the scalper markup on their product. It could all be theirs.

[@Smashly6712]

I think checking the big stores is where people fail to find product. Go to the small local game shops.. I've found prismatic in the smallest of holes in the wall stores and still can find it daily. But I'm also located more eastern than western US and from what I see, that's a big factor too.

[@Oohkamitama]

To the people still pre-ordering or purchasing from those shady shops: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" smh

[@stevemartinez9549]

I have to wonder if anyone is looking at the possibility that The Pokemon Company is testing a shift to being THE primary direct-to-consumer source cutting out everyone like Games-Workshop did.

[@prodigal99]

Sorry guys, I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but I fear this may be the cheapest prismatic evolutions is ever going to be.

[@ThiccShaxx]

The bots are always online.. they can detect a restock within a second and begin the checkout procedure before those 30,000 people can open their email notification

[@EeveelutionaryTree196]

The difference is the surge in demand from people who have come in from Pokémon TCG Pocket and the people who have come in from the gap year in main series game releases. Which has made Pokémon cards very liquid for more stores, which makes more stores want to get them from distributors. I seriously doubt TPC is prioritizing JTO, which is likely why the supply for that set is rather low - all their spare printers/printing time is likely going towards PRE at the moment. Maybe that's a mistake, maybe not. But it's TPC is likely firing on all cylinders because they don't want to lose out on the massive amounts of profit they're going to make off of this hype. I think it's fair to say that TPC is not blameless, but they're not entirely to blame. Also, you can't magic up 5 million cases of booster boxes in 5 seconds. It takes time to print, quality control, package, quality control, package, and ship. Everyone is partly to blame. Whether you're buying, ripping, selling, collecting, scalping, printing, assessing, or just talking about the issues. Sure, there's different degrees of blame put on each group, but the whole blame game needs to go.

[@DraculTV]

It takes some time to increase. Also where should the capacity come from in the end. Also they will prepare for 30 years next year

[@kmedina419]

Journey together has been printing for months already.

[@treeed]

This is what you call the "reality of life”. Sometimes your up sometimes your down. Some people get promotions, some get fired. Pokemon company going to do what they want to do. They are probably laughing behind their desk right now. Question is what are you going to do? Cry for views and profit! Let's go!

[@raymondschafferiii7146]

I had the same thought, if Danny is pissed the hobby is in deep trouble. I’m with you in not understanding the concept of not supporting the actual TCG. If players can’t get cards and collectors can’t get cards they will just leave. Pokemon won the MSRP battle with these moves in the fact that pretty much anyone will pay MSRP now. So Pokemon needs to take the win and start printing so people can actually buy at MSRP.

[@shea4743]

Dannys video was out of touch with reality. Him saying its mostly investor's who are upset was delussional. I just wanted 1 etb of prismatic but was lucky enough to a pack. Thats it. Thats going to a ton of different small and big stores.

[@SmrtShrX]

Buy singles & have a job 😂 Breakers (unregulated gambling) don’t help sealed product costs either & there are 5 new ones popping up daily. Pokémon is moving to more of a underage gambling model hidden beneath a card game. More organized pump & dumps to come!

[@nicholew350]

100%

[@Scharrer23]

The only thing you get wrong is the comparison to the big tournament scene. Players are rarely effected at all by this because everybody buys singles. Singles are super cheape even for expensive sets because you dont need max rarity to play. On top pokemon releases and reprints many of the meta cards in other products.In fact pokemon is probably the cheapest tcg to build a competitive deck. Many world champions winning deck you can buy under 100 usd

[@bretwentzel8824]

There is a guy in my town buying his “inventory” from all the local stores around a 20 mile radius and making it so nobody can even get product. Then he tries to claim he’s helping the locals because he has it available to buy even though it’s 2x msrp most the time if not more, and the best part is this dipshit just ends up sitting on it all because he has no customers because he’s in general a terrible person and nobody wants to buy from him and because of his personality he can’t even foster a community lol. So it’s all being bought out and sitting in 1 dudes garage. Hate this community rn

[@TCGPassion]

You nailed it on who is to blame. However, I don’t think everything is the same still. There are plenty of people who just pay attention to trends that are buying out stores just to resell. There hasn’t been a boom like this in several years. That’s the only thing you said that I think you missed slightly, but that’s just my opinion. I appreciate you putting this out though, because the more this gets exposed the better off the community will do. Pokemon will take notice to this. They may ignore it for a while, but they will have to make a change if they want to keep all of their customers.

[@matttran7161]

I'm calling BS. Production is a reactive response. They met and exeeded demand through Paradox Rift and the ungrateful community complained about easy pull rates and chased Sword and Shield instead while product sat on the shelves. This was inevitable.

[@kennethclark8957]

I know you said bots aren’t necessarily the problem but they are a significant factor too it if you’re reading this PokeNE there is one way you could cut down on them which is by forcing a captcha problem before checkout 😅 it could go a long way to fighting bots while also boosting confidence and trust with your customers! I hope you think about doing this when you release your preorder for journey together and I will definitely be checking out the Danny’s video too thanks for always thinking about consumers and the longevity of the game 😊

[@Whatsupwithjandb]

We ALL NEED TO EMAIL pokemon etc and sound out!

[@zuko7642]

That Danny video was like watching Bruce Wayne turn into Batman.

[@chuckd.68]

I can only imagine how frustrating it is to be in the “boom” time of your profession but not have any product to sell.

[@MehtaCritic]

The reason it's a boom is the reason why people don't have a lot of it to sell rn

[@KolLeviathan]

i honestly dont get why the pokemon company doesnt just print the hell out of these sets? they make the same type of money whether they "over print" or not o.O the ones making the most out of these releases are the sellers that overprice, so why not just print more and make the money directly?

[@ronburgundy4743]

No they don't. If they print too much, product sits on shelves

[@KolLeviathan]

@ronburgundy4743 normally yeah but this is pokemon, idk ? I think TPC still makes the same amount whether they sell or not since the stock sitting on shelves would then be an LGS problem to deal with

[@andyt6819]

I feel they won’t increase allocation until all the product that no one wanted on pokemon center is gone

[@EastJ22]

even if pokemon increases their prints, wont the scalpers just buy all the extra anyways? i feel like nothing will change

[@ptcgtrader9628]

I would like to buy a case and not just 1 box, that's what is getting really annoying right now with preorders

[@go123-l9o]

The same issue happened with one piece end 2023 beggining 2024 with op-05 and op-06. Bandai reprinted the hell out of the sets that needed a reprint op-1 op-2 op-5 op-6 and now we are fine in one piece. Most scalpers are left, we have players, collectors and investors only :) Hope pokemon do like bandai for the recent sets. It took bandai from december 2023 to june 2024 to get the reprint land (they didnt plan to reprint initialy but they did it since the customers hardly asked on the X account of one piece tcg. It was mandatory since it was msrp x 3 for some op boxes) + they released a special set named prb-01 on nov 2024 that reprint all needed meta cards for players and new alt art for collectors.

[@PokeRelaxing]

You mention other games and say margins suck so dealers can't look there. But when Pokemon was readily available, margins sucked there. It seems like people want BOTH (a) for Pokemon to sell at MSRP+ when they have it and (b) to be able to easily get it. You only get to pick one.

[@ItsFinigan]

Poor control of supply is killing the hobby and the brand.

[@ronburgundy4743]

Only in your brain

[@ItsFinigan]

@ ok bud

[@TheGekko]

"Just print more", "youre leaving money on the table, i dont know why"... Go look at MTG and Wizards of the Coasts strategy to not leave money on the table and what ends up happening. Pokemon company are beyond genius - They couldnt care less about pissing Danny off, the more people talk about it, the more Pokemon wins.

[@nicholew350]

Exactly.

[@PokeBowlCards]

Nah this comment is dumb. You have to meet demand with new sets. A few problems with your logic: 1. Pokemon is way more collectable that MTG whereas MTG is mostly players. 2. There is another option between short printing and printing too much. You can print to demand!!!!!!!! Good grief this is such a stupid comment. Pokemon knows the demand for their product as at an all time high and yet these well established vendors are getting less product than they did for mainline sets last year. Yeah…I’d say Pokemon is completely failing to print to demand.

[@martinallard1754]

I think Pokemon Company wanted to get the product to MSRP. But the greed might bite them in the butt. This kind of price spike will lead to a lot a people leaving the hobby

[@pokemerp]

I work with a huge group of kids and a huge group of adults. Since the holidays I have noticed none of the kids are interested in pokemon anymore but many of the adults are. Be scared this is the end.

[@ronburgundy4743]

Lmao, adults have made up the majority of Pokemon collectors for a while now

[@pokemerp]

@@ronburgundy4743 Its different right now. I was going to a really large local Pokemon store and it was about 50/50 and now it's only adults. The prismatic lines were all adults at Gamestop and at the pokemon store I mentioned. I work with a lot of kids and they all just stopped collecting. It's hard to collect when it's impossible to get the cards. They are overpriced and you cant find them. Kids are moving on to other things.

[@TiredFawx]

So many people have been gaslit into thinking that this current state in the market is okay and normal, it's actually so sad.. I do hate the culture of people rushing stores and fighting over them just to resell for 2-3x MSRP, the public greed is just as much of a problem as the low stock count coming from TPC

[@wing08888]

This is why I always said distributors need to focus on LGS's before catering to any other entities. Because they can set better market prices and product will be available more often. Rip and ships and scalpers are messing with that and now all big box stores want product. Distributors/Pokemon need to do better.

[@mikes3kgt]

Why don’t you hop onto the Graded market too?? You have the customer email list, send out an email saying “Paying X on your collection, show me what you got” you buy at 70-75% and just keep rinsing and repeating.

[@stevemoneybags9498]

My god. So many people who have been in the business or the hobby for years, somehow have no clue what the problem is. “MORE PRINTING” Wrong 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@never_wrong]

I got Journey Together preordered through a mall gift shop, so I am pretty sure the corporate shops are sucking up the allocations when sales are this easy.

[@ShinyRaequaza]

W thumbnail bait 😂 Glad I watched Danny’s video plus read your comment before I clicked this. Danny freaking cooked in that video. There is a lot going on right now, but he’s right. The people that are here for the unique 100% green times like today, won’t be here lost 30th anniversary/2027. Wait them out and everything will be fine. Glad you went into further detail on the impact of other TCGs, languages, the tariffs, etc. Also crypto dropped big time yesterday. Bitcoin dropped to 95k and XRP dropped from $3.20 to $2.15 before correcting to $2.35. I wonder if the stock market will drop today and if that has any effects on the Pokemon market?

[@juscallmeric]

I just want to rip product and complete sets and it’s not on shelves to do so. Everyone seems to have forgotten about surging sparks. There’s a lot of reprinting that needs to happen and S&V doesn’t have much time left.

[@co_snowy]

Gamestop, walmart Costco ect. Pokemon does not care about LGS at all. they wanna push big corporations its pretty clear. im sure they had a huge meeting with Gamestop & how their stores can become everyones LGS

[@Mycoldyourdone]

The amount of products GameStop, Costco, Target, Walmart and Sams Club can push…this the justice league of Big Box. RIP to the LGS Pokemon accounts.

[@spacemanstem2380]

Question for whoever reads this. Let me first caveat that I completely agree there is not enough supply. Is there a possibility that distributors are holding back inventory to potentially sell at a higher price? Are they going to trickle in product availability so they can watch how the market does?

[@maze-nc1ut]

It’s crazy how much money Pokémon leaves on the table trying to create their stupid little hype any product that has already been hyped for years

[@nickpapagiorgio2253]

Doesn't shock me. Pokémon has done this in the past, when demand is high they decrease printing, when demand is low they increase printing. Couple this with the "influencers" pushing FOMO, a crash will come. it's a cycle that happens every few years

[@TF_TV]

Where did you get that info? How do you know they slowed printing?

[@nickpapagiorgio2253]

@TF_TV it's called a trend

[@ronburgundy4743]

Massive cope

[@ronburgundy4743]

​@@TF_TVhe doesn't. He's coping massively

[@nickpapagiorgio2253]

@ronburgundy4743 is not a cope. It's a trend/cycle, whatever you want to call it. It happens every few years. Shit ain't rocket science

[@nickkampf8870]

pokemon is very likely 6 months away from actualy doing something about the supply. With manufacturing, it takes time to set this stuff up and get it going. I just hope to see this stuff actualy get to the masses at msrp in some way

[@Ned-bw5tt]

My local target has zero pokemon but plenty of Yu-Gi-Oh, lorcana, and sports cards. Crazy how low the supply is.

[@dukefan1010]

Whenever danny is pissed an upset like that you know the hobby is a mess. The guy is always a ray of positive sunlight, but seeing him like that really shows the state we are in.

[@ItsFinigan]

“Brian Pumper” is a crazy nickname iykyk 😂

[@cjkeno]

I still haven’t seen PE in the wild. And stock online gets bought out in 30 seconds. These times are surreal….

[@dejavule]

Simple answer. Pokemon wants it's control back.

[@FRoZeNShAdY]

Just made my first purchase from your store last night. You have a nice store. It'll be my first Terastal Festival box opening ever. Looking forward to an unboxing with it.

[@tophcookie7033]

I blame Costco for some of this too. They can constrain some of the buzz given all the craze has their store being raided every time. If something as big as Costco limits to 2 per or whatever most others will eventually follow

[@thelunat1c]

no way tpci pays $40 per booster box. id be surprised if cost $5 - $10 to produce booster boxes.

[@zippo8285]

He couldn't come up with content so he is complaining about someone else's complaint.

[@doomaster4]

Might be pokemon alocated too many of the printers on making the next couple of sets. Lead time to print is probably 6 months.

[@JohnnySilverhand-qz1fz]

Imagine thinking it’s pokemon when it’s clearly distributors holding stocking waiting for the rise so they can act like they hot more to sell my o you at a higher price

[@MVCollectibles]

Considering your influence on the selling community, I think people like you and Phanny drawing a line in the sand and guaranteeing that you will sell new sets at MSRP is actually setting a very good example for new/smaller businesses that may look up to you, and I'm seeing a lot of the smaller fish out there that seem to be following on taking this customer-first approach. It's just a real shame Pokemon co / distro is giving y'all the absolute shaft on product.

[@The_Screw_Up_Who_Grew_Up]

“Pokémon probably spends around $45 to make a booster box”😂😂😂.. more like $3,, this is cardboard we talking about here, they recycle the stuff for free

[@BigBry4n]

Wow. He said bots aren't a problem because its not a seller problem. Its a buyer problem. Those are not pokemon people those are scalper groups that figured out pokekon is worth botting