[0:00] Anyone remember from back in the day
[0:01] that whole thing about yelling fire in a
[0:03] crowded area being like a big no no
[0:05] because of you know how dangerous it can
[0:07] be to do something like that? Well, I
[0:09] think there is a word more powerful that
[0:11] instills more fear and it's Pokemon. If
[0:15] you say Pokemon in a crowded area, get
[0:17] ready for dead bodies to just start
[0:19] hitting the floor. If you covered
[0:21] yourself in raw meat and dove into the
[0:23] middle of open water in the ocean, there
[0:26] would be less sharks that eat you alive
[0:28] than had you covered yourself in Pokemon
[0:31] packs and walked into a target. You are
[0:33] just surrounded and completely devoured
[0:37] by scalpers. Like it's it's piranhas
[0:40] that just attack you from out of
[0:42] nowhere. If they smell that you have a
[0:44] Pokemon pack nearby, it's like a Looney
[0:48] Tune scene where they come in and just
[0:49] eat all your flesh off and it's just a
[0:51] pile of bones that collapse. Now, before
[0:53] I start passionately [ __ ] and
[0:54] spitting about the terrible state of
[0:57] Pokemon and the scalpers that infest it,
[0:59] I do want to put something positive on
[1:02] your radar. Right now at Star Forge,
[1:04] we're doing our big summer sale. So, if
[1:05] you if you've been looking to upgrade
[1:06] your PC, now is the perfect time to do
[1:09] so. huge savings across the board on
[1:11] everything at Star Forge. There's a link
[1:12] in the description if you're interested.
[1:14] So, obviously, I'm going to be yapping
[1:16] about some more scalper degeneracy where
[1:18] they go out in public and fight and [ __ ]
[1:20] each other to get their hands on some of
[1:22] these cards in order to flip it online
[1:24] for a slight profit. But before doing
[1:26] that, I want to show you just how out of
[1:29] control this is across the board from
[1:31] companies as well that are trying to
[1:33] capitalize off the Pokemon hysteria. A
[1:36] new product from Pokemon here. First
[1:38] Partner Illustration Collection Series 2
[1:40] launched yesterday with an MSRP of $15.
[1:44] That means that's the price you should
[1:46] expect to pay for that product through
[1:48] retailers. It's the manufacturer
[1:49] suggested retail price. And this new
[1:53] collection here was suggested at $15.
[1:57] But as you can imagine, that's a fairy
[1:59] tale. That's a [ __ ] pipe dream. I'm
[2:01] more likely to hit a growth spurt in my
[2:03] 30s than you are to find this product
[2:05] for anywhere close to 15 clams. And it's
[2:09] not just from scalpers. If you try to go
[2:10] into a GameStop, for example, to get it,
[2:13] they are selling it for $60. That is
[2:16] shameful. That is downright
[2:17] embarrassing. GameStop is already like a
[2:19] pathetic joke that is only held up from
[2:22] theium from the community that has
[2:23] bought into the idea that they can make
[2:25] oodles of cash off of them. But the
[2:27] actual store itself is complete dog
[2:29] [ __ ] It's garbage. The only thing it's
[2:31] good for is like retro game prices or if
[2:33] you're a gambling addict and you just do
[2:35] the [ __ ] GameStop power packs for
[2:37] Pokemon cards. But they can't even do
[2:38] that competitively compared to the other
[2:41] Gamba Pokemon packs out there. The power
[2:44] packs from GameStop are far and away the
[2:46] worst value you can find. So even if you
[2:48] are just like oozing grease and like
[2:51] heavily addicted to Pokemon pack
[2:53] gambling, GameStop power packs are your
[2:55] worst [ __ ] option. They can't even be
[2:57] competitive in that space. There's still
[3:00] trash there, too. It's so cringe how bad
[3:02] GameStop is. So, now they
[3:04] unapologetically
[3:06] have these uh collection series 2 going
[3:09] up for $60 when MSRP is 15. Of course,
[3:13] they're not the only losers doing that.
[3:16] But it's not like this is across the
[3:18] board everyone's doing it because take
[3:21] for example Best Buy. They are selling
[3:23] it in MSRP $15. So it's not like So I
[3:27] don't think that argument works in
[3:29] defense of GameStop, the hiding in
[3:31] numbers like, "Oh, we're blanket
[3:33] protected because it's just common
[3:35] practice. Everyone's doing it.
[3:37] Everyone's smoking these doinks, so we
[3:39] had to smoke it, too." It's just
[3:41] extraordinarily shameless. Companies
[3:42] like GameStop that are okay, proudly
[3:45] marking up to $60 to match the standard
[3:48] scalper prices, which are right now $60.
[3:51] If you go to TCG Player, there is not a
[3:53] single listing at MSRP. And a lot of
[3:55] these come from real legitimate card
[3:57] shops that are just now all gung-ho all
[4:00] aboard the huge markup train to
[4:03] capitalize off the Pokemon hysteria
[4:05] because the simple fact is people keep
[4:08] buying it. It's MSRP of 15, but there's
[4:11] tons of people that are still buying at
[4:13] 60. Stop. Just [ __ ] stop. I promise
[4:17] you're going to be okay not just
[4:19] throwing 60 to balloons down the [ __ ]
[4:21] to get your hands on this new product
[4:23] here. You're not going to be arrested
[4:25] for refusing to pay scalper prices. It's
[4:27] not a requirement. And get this, if you
[4:30] stop buying at that price, they'll stop
[4:33] marking it up to that price. They only
[4:36] get away with doing that because they're
[4:37] people that still gluttonously just
[4:39] consume no matter how big the markup on
[4:42] this new product is. I've seen a lot of
[4:44] people discussing the GameStop inflated
[4:46] prices in particular. And I saw this
[4:49] post here about how this individual
[4:51] apparently asked the manager why they
[4:53] jacked the price up so much. And of
[4:56] course, take all this with a grain of
[4:57] salt as a [ __ ] Facebook post. This
[4:58] could have just been him in a khole and
[5:00] [ __ ] falling asleep and coming up
[5:02] with this dream. But this is something I
[5:05] have seen expressed throughout the last
[5:07] few months about certain scalpers and
[5:09] companies justifying their huge markups.
[5:12] So, according to this post, she said
[5:14] it's to keep all the resellers and
[5:16] scalpers out of the stores and buying
[5:18] and to give all the nonresellers a
[5:20] chance to buy Pokemon products, which I
[5:22] think is completely ridiculous. And as
[5:24] this post points out, so they're trying
[5:26] to give people who don't resell a chance
[5:28] to buy, but you've jacked the price up
[5:30] so much that normal people can't afford
[5:33] to buy it. It doesn't make any sense.
[5:35] Also, to go a bit deeper, if the goal
[5:37] was to get scalpers and resellers out,
[5:39] cut the plastic. Sell it MSRP, cut the
[5:42] plastic. That immediately gets rid of
[5:44] every scalper and reseller there because
[5:46] the plastic is now gone. Anyone who
[5:48] actually does want to collect the
[5:50] product or open the product doesn't care
[5:52] about the plastic being cut. It's
[5:53] something Target recently started doing
[5:55] with that viral video that popped off
[5:56] with the Target guy cutting the plastic,
[5:58] much to the chagrin of a lot of scalpers
[6:00] that were definitely watching in horror.
[6:02] That is the optimal way of handling it.
[6:04] If the goal is to get the scalpers and
[6:05] resellers out, jacking the price up to
[6:07] match scalper prices does the opposite.
[6:10] If you just want them out, cut the
[6:12] plastic. You don't hurt the normal
[6:13] customer. You only hurt the scalpers,
[6:15] which is a big W. But I think we are all
[6:17] smart enough to realize the real reason
[6:19] they have the prices through the [ __ ]
[6:21] roof out the wazoo. It's because they
[6:24] want to just continue to financially
[6:25] capitalize off people's inability to
[6:27] control their spending when it comes to
[6:29] new Pokemon product. So, they move
[6:32] product at $60. They're not going to
[6:35] drop the price down now. And the thing
[6:37] is, even if they did, they're not wrong.
[6:40] If they did sell it MSRP, it would be
[6:42] mainly scalpers and resellers gobbling
[6:44] most of it up because they are botting
[6:47] every time there's an MSRP drop for
[6:49] anything Pokemon related. They are
[6:50] camping out at the stores for 12 [ __ ]
[6:53] hours to be first in line to grab every
[6:55] single one of them that they can fit in
[6:56] their [ __ ] arms. And it, they're
[6:59] right, it would go to scalpers and
[7:01] resellers, which is why cut the plastic.
[7:04] They immediately stop. Cut the plastic
[7:06] on every Pokemon product you sell. Then
[7:08] it only ends up in the hands of people
[7:09] that actually want it instead of the
[7:11] scalpers that just look to make a quick
[7:13] buck off of it. But again, they're not
[7:16] they're not going to drop the price to
[7:17] MSRP. The point is, even if everyone was
[7:20] selling at MSRP, it would be mainly
[7:22] scalpers and resellers that continue to
[7:25] get the lion share of it because that's
[7:26] what it is right now. They are
[7:28] constantly botting. They are doing every
[7:30] underhanded tactic imaginable so they
[7:32] can have so much inventory to jack up
[7:34] the price to absurd heights. I truly
[7:36] wish that I had like a connection to a
[7:39] distributor to get wholesale product cuz
[7:41] I would just perpetually sell it MSRP
[7:42] and cut the plastic off and do
[7:44] everything I could to face [ __ ] these
[7:45] scalpers. It's just it's very rare to
[7:49] get MSRP product that isn't immediately
[7:52] gobbled up by these [ __ ] parasites,
[7:54] these disgusting worms. But anyway,
[7:57] enough ranting about the prices of
[8:00] what's happened to this hobby. A hobby
[8:01] which by the way was originally meant
[8:04] for children. Uh let's go ahead and talk
[8:06] about or show you rather a guy who
[8:09] showed off a gun at the Pokemon vending
[8:10] machine to try and intimidate a child
[8:12] while he was trying to camp it out to
[8:14] get some Pokemon product of his own.
[8:38] Misties.
[8:46] >> Oh, you get the you get the booster box
[8:48] and I'll get the
[8:49] >> I'll get the booster box.
[8:51] >> I kind of feel bad, bro.
[8:53] >> I kind of feel bad. If you guys want the
[8:55] box, we'll take the 10.
[9:02] >> Oh, there you go. Taking the box and the
[9:04] and the
[9:06] and the ETV.
[9:08] >> That's pretty cool, man. Meth out Slim
[9:10] Shady here flashing a gun at the people
[9:12] waiting at the vending machine,
[9:14] including a child. There's actually
[9:17] another kid there as well that comes in
[9:18] towards the end of the video and and he
[9:21] just flashes his gun at them. And I
[9:23] think it's blatantly obvious that he's
[9:25] doing that on purpose. Apparently, he
[9:27] had been there for quite a while and the
[9:30] others that were waiting in line were
[9:31] getting a little antsy about it. And the
[9:33] kid in that video starts heckling this
[9:36] [ __ ] loser. So, the kid wasn't even
[9:38] afraid after the guy flashed his gun at
[9:40] him, which I believe the whole purpose
[9:41] was to get everyone to pipe down. Stop,
[9:44] you know, insulting him for being such a
[9:46] loser.
[9:51] >> You guys get it, buddy. Good luck, guys.
[9:53] >> Thank you.
[10:07] >> Nothing crazy.
[10:10] >> We'll leave you guys to singles.
[10:11] >> You're good.
[10:12] >> You can hear the kid say, "I guess that
[10:14] 5hour wait paid off, huh?" to the guy
[10:16] who's now taken the walk of shame out of
[10:19] there again after he had just flashed
[10:21] his gun at a child by the way. So, two
[10:25] other people also left because this guy
[10:27] apparently was just taking an extremely
[10:28] long time to do his business here. It's
[10:32] just so pathetic, man. What an
[10:34] unbelievable loser. There's already been
[10:36] a shooting at a Pokemon vending machine.
[10:38] I covered that. So, this shit's just
[10:39] crazy that that this isn't even the
[10:41] first time about a gun being shown, at
[10:44] least not used in this case, over
[10:46] Pokemon cards at the Pokemon card
[10:48] vending machine.
[10:50] Security. Security.
[10:54] >> Relax.
[11:00] >> Little [ __ ]
[11:04] >> I can't see.
[11:08] >> Some wonderful sloppy fighting over
[11:10] Pokemon cards there. The way that
[11:12] they're just rolling around on each
[11:13] other, throwing these wet noodle
[11:15] punches. This [ __ ] looks like something
[11:16] you'd see at a Tory Bash back in the
[11:19] day. Kind of a deep cut reference, but
[11:21] that game did slap. But point is though,
[11:24] these two are now ground and pounding to
[11:26] get their hands on Pokemon cards there
[11:29] as the others look on. And one person
[11:32] there even says, "None of us should get
[11:34] cards." Yeah, you know what? Fair
[11:36] enough. The second the knuckle
[11:37] sandwiches start flying, they should
[11:39] just shut the entire [ __ ] thing down
[11:41] for the day. Absolutely. I feel bad for
[11:44] her kid though because it seems like she
[11:46] actually is there to get Pokemon product
[11:48] for her kid because at least she was
[11:50] mature enough to realize that fighting
[11:52] over Pokemon cards is pathetic and just
[11:54] disgusting. Yeah, there's so many other
[11:57] scalping fights that I could cover for
[11:59] today, but I've already been yapping a
[12:01] lot. It's It is actually happening every
[12:04] single day. It's just so [ __ ] out of
[12:06] control, man. Anyway, stop paying uh
[12:10] crazy like GameStop prices for Pokemon
[12:13] product and scalper prices for Pokemon
[12:15] product and it will stop happening. They
[12:18] they'll stop doing it. Just want to
[12:20] remind you of that. Anyway, that's
[12:22] really about it. Tip.