Who Needs Scalpers When GameStop Is Marking Up Pokémon Cards By More Than 300 Percent?
The retailer is charging obscene amounts for the 30th anniversary Pokémon cards.
Sam Rutherford for Engadget
The price gouging of Pokémon cards has become such a problem that last week during a shareholding meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa acknowledged that the current retail environment has led "to high-priced reselling in the market." In other words, the Pokémon trading card game (TCG) has a problem with scalping. To combat this, Nintendo says that it and The Pokémon Company will "take measures to respond to this issue." Well Furukawa-san, if you don't mind me making a suggestion, the first company that needs to be investigated for this is GameStop.
For many collectors, GameStop's practice of marking up Pokémon cards (and a ton of other TCGs) is pretty well known at this point, as the company doesn't do much to hide it. For example, an Ascended Heroes Booster Bundle costs just under...
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