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The story
US prices for Pokémon Card’s 30th anniversary commemorative boxes have crashed, and reports say the scalpers behind the outcry are grumbling that they’re “considering legal action.” According to the article, they call themselves “secondary distributors” and are criticizing The Pokémon Company for not disclosing accurate print runs, pull rates, or supply volume in advance. On 5ch, posters largely welcomed the oversupply and showed little sympathy for the scalpers, though some pointed out this is a US market issue — in Japan, pull rates have stayed the same and prices have actually gone up.
The highlight of this whole saga is that the people who appear to be scalpers are whining all over the internet.
For example, some are saying things like “We’re seriously considering taking legal action against Pokémon” and “It’s outrageous that they didn’t disclose the accurate print numbers, pull rates, and how large the actual supply would be.” Notably, they never explain why Pokémon’s official channels would be obligated to disclose any of that in advance.
What’s more, they call themselves “secondary distributors” and proudly claim that “no one has supported Pokémon as much as we have — we’ve helped circulate product at a fair market price instead of an unreasonably cheap manufacturer’s suggested retail price.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Seriously, this lol
Just turn your duplicate ultra-rares into paper-cutting crafts lol
Taking a huge loss now and then is basically the whole thrill of capitalism. It'd be boring if you only ever made money.
This makes no sense
Even scalpers pay taxes, don't they
Baseless criticism isn't cool
Main taxes that apply:
Income tax (miscellaneous or business income): a progressive tax of up to 45% (up to 55% combined with resident tax) applies to resale profits (sales revenue minus cost of goods, fees, shipping, etc.).
Consumption tax: People assume "it doesn't apply to me, I'm just reselling on a flea-market app," but if your taxable sales two years prior exceeded 10 million yen, you owe consumption tax (10%) even as an individual.
So scalpers actually do pay taxes
Respect
Sounds like someone who's never had a job
I told my wife about the new Switch model.
She broke down crying on the spot.
Sorry, we can't afford luxuries anymore.
I'm about to go tell the kids that daddy's paycheck is gone, so no more toys.
Some of us make our living off the Switch. I will never forgive Nintendo.
No, you're just a scalper lol
Didn't it also include reprints of old cards?
They've got an annoying little mark stamped on them
they do take on some of the inventory risk that manufacturers and retailers would otherwise be stuck with
Scalpers don't even touch unpopular products in the first place, so calling it "taking on inventory risk" is just dumb
What is this guy even talking about
That type of scalper doesn't exist anymore
Nowadays it's all people buying up entire stocks and canceling orders last-minute, wrecking supply numbers — hated by manufacturers and retailers alike
No, you're the one who's gonna lose
And your evidence is?
Scalpers wouldn't even use Mercari in the first place — that's for small-time amateurs
Oh, my bad
I already knew income tax existed
I just wrote that assuming you didn't know it existed
Is the same thing happening in Japan too?
Unlike in the US, the pull rates here haven't changed, so there's no real chaos
If anything, single-card prices are higher now than on release day
That's a stretch, but I did see someone on X complaining about card shops selling singles they pulled in-store
Well, good thing the manufacturer supplied enough to match demand and balance it all out lol
If a card shop said this, I could understand it, giving them the benefit of the doubt
But coming from an individual scalper? What half-asleep nonsense is this
The way it's written is flat-out mocking them
It's about the US
I'm planning to hold onto it for 10 years, so just let me buy one
There's so much of it flooding the market that holding it for 10 years won't make any difference
Background and Key Points of This Topic
This topic stems from an article published on Yahoo! News, concerning what appears to be the US market for Pokémon Card 30th anniversary sets. Supply outpaced demand, causing prices to crash, and secondary sellers were reported to be considering legal action against The Pokémon Company for allegedly failing to disclose accurate print numbers or pull rates in advance. On the thread, alongside general pushback against scalping itself, replies 15, 19, 31, and 36 got into a notable back-and-forth debating whether scalpers actually pay their taxes, turning into something of a tax-law explainer battle. It’s also worth noting that Japan’s domestic single-card market is a separate matter from what this article covers — some posters (replies 82 and 125) pointed out that pull rates in Japan have stayed the same and prices have, if anything, been trending upward, so the chaos in the US and the domestic market should be read as two distinct situations.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Pokémon Card 30th Anniv. Prices Crash, Scalpers Scream in Anguish — Threatening Legal Action lolololololololololol“
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