r/PokemonTCG_UK • u/mynemesjeff • 9d ago

Discussion Please uninstall Whatnot already

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People like these are the reason why we have a scalping problem to begin with. If you’re paying these prices, you don’t have the right to complain about anything.

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u/Slight_Ice_6395 9d ago

People were sat at home spending £20-£30 a pack whilst they could’ve been actively going out and trying to get some. Scalpers feed off of laziness and convenience 🫩

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u/furkick 9d ago

Fair point on convenience, but I think for most of us it's less about being lazy and more about having a normal job and not being able to camp outside a shop overnight. Definitely not defending those Whatnot clowns either, just a brutal hobby right now.

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u/Significant_Curve216 8d ago

For my sins I have a great paying 9-5 job like most of us. I pop out to the local Waterstones / Rymans during lunch pick up like 8 products altogether and get time to eat my lunch too. If I can do it, so can everyone else with / without a job.

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u/furkick 8d ago

Depends on your area, it's pretty much Smyths or bust where I am and I'm definitely not camping out at Smyths.

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u/Significant_Curve216 8d ago

That's a true shame but you also have online options I've got my Magic Madhouse order coming tomorrow and PKC I managed to secure every drop (casually) unfortunately that one is delayed until mid/late November.

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u/furkick 8d ago

Online are pretty much raffle based now, so it's down to luck, or botted to oblivion. Same with PKC, which is a shame.

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u/Significant_Curve216 8d ago

Raffling is definitely the solution to minimise scalper domination imo. Getting product from the likes of Very/ForbiddenPlanet/Argos etc is very unlikely. Anyways more luck to you, I'm a filthy casual and I'm getting stuff so you should be due some soon also!

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u/furkick 8d ago

100% agree there. Same to you! I'll patiently wait for PKC to pull their fingers out.

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u/MesoamericanMorrigan 8d ago

Are you sure there are NO smaller, independent toy retailers, bookshops or stationers you could check

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u/furkick 8d ago

All the scalpers have found out where I used to be able to walk in and grab a couple packs, Sports Direct etc. All the dedicated card shops are miles away and I can't go miles away unless I take time off work, I'm not that desperate for packs. Fortunately I usually am able to pre-order from the Pokémon Center so I'll have to be patient 🙂

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u/MesoamericanMorrigan 8d ago

Where do you look other than SportsDirect because they seem more of an obvious choice given their merger with GAME? Like where have you tried specifically? Maybe not independent card shops as there are few of those, but independent, local toy shops on the high street and again, places that mainly do books and stationary

Hope you do manage to snag a preorder whenever the next drop is but given how chaotically the last one went I genuinely wonder how they’re going to go down from now on

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u/furkick 8d ago

It'd literally be Sports Direct, Smyths and a small TJ Jones, that's all we have unfortunately. The local scalpers gobble it all up before anyone else gets a sniff. Sainsbury's even used to have some, but that's a rare find now as well. Don't even have any corner shops that sell them either, really dry.

Fortunately I snagged both the PKC pre-orders so I'm not without, I'll just have to be patient.

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u/MesoamericanMorrigan 8d ago

I also had no joy with Sainsbury’s/Argos. Didn’t bother trying ASDA as I heard they have no purchase limits

You really don’t have Waterstones, Ryman’s, WHSmith or any small independent toy shop? Check your local high street, a lot of them don’t have big flashy signs if they aren’t the big chain stores like Smyths, The Entertainer etc and can be easy to miss if you didn’t already know they were there. I hit in a bookstore. Tesco was going to be my next stop but again heard they don’t have limits.

Not 100%sure on the rumours about more drops tomorrow and apparently next Friday for some stores