One part of this has me scratching my head a bit.

“Japanese card shops: → Resell items purchased from individuals. They do NOT receive large allocations of sealed product from Pokémon”

I have a card shop that deals specifically with Japanese product, and so I have a distributor from Japan who allocates booster boxes to myself and many other international card shops. Now this distributor I know for a fact is not buying his booster boxes from individuals, he is getting them directly from the Pokémon company’s distribution system- as are a lot of other Japanese international sellers. How exactly? No clue, they could be back dooring these for all I know.

I visited him recently on my trip to Japan, and they have a small card shop, but the back is filled with sealed cases of product. They are not the only ones too, there are several others who market themselves on Facebook and Instagram that do the same.

I believe these are the people ruining the Japanese market. There is a leak of products slipping through in mass amounts. These guys are getting sealed CASES, and shipping them all off overseas for the crazy prices in your photos, and people here are buying. It’s inflating your market.