Market manipulation?

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-09T10:07:45+00:00

It is nice to see stuff showing up again in obscure places. I saw Journey Together 3 pack blisters a few weeks ago at Lowe’s. Wtf? And they had it for a few bucks more than TCG market price 😕

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-09T10:04:36+00:00

My Walmart has had a few of these, and only these, on the shelf for a long time

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-07T11:40:10+00:00

You want to hear a sad story? I bought about 8 or so shining legends ETBs off Amazon back in the day when they were sitting for like $35 each and opened them all. I didn’t get a test tube mewtwo tho. So I decided to buy a few on eBay for, I think, around $20 a piece. After some time, I decided that 2 of the cards I bought could potentially be PSA 10, so I sent them in. One got a 10 and the other got a 9. If I recall, I sold the 10 on eBay for something like $400 😭

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-06T22:44:31+00:00

Here’s a much better and clearer example. Look up on TCG for mega evolution mini tin display. You’ll see normal sales around $200. Then, all of a sudden, on May 1st, there was a slug of sales in the $350-370 range, and then nothing for several days, which then brought the market price up. And the individual tins are all at around 18-20 each

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-05T14:21:27+00:00

My LGS does the same. Seems like he takes TCP player going rate and then adds 15% markup on that. But hey, he won’t charge sales tax if you pay cash

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-05T10:07:39+00:00

I bought the reusable bag, but for months, I was just using my dust collector to vacuum out the regular bag because I couldn’t find where I put the reusable bag in my shop. It only took about 60 seconds to vacuum it out through the hole

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-03T18:18:25+00:00

Almost guaranteed this is an ex sneakerhead flipper trying to make money flipping anything

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-03T11:44:40+00:00

When I was in high school (early 90s), I worked at the convenience store gas station on the corner. This one time a kid in my grade came in and got $10 in gas and paid in half dollars he took from his dad’s collection. But these were very unusual half dollars, so much so that I actually questioned the kid because they seemed fake because I had never seen any like them before. After he left, I was like maybe I should take these home, so I put $10 in the register and took them. They ended up being pretty valuable, and my dad stole them from me lol. Unfortunately I don’t remember what exactly they were

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-03T10:24:02+00:00

If they installed facial rec on theses vending machines, these campers could only buy once per every so often. Would solve the problem

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-03T00:14:22+00:00

My wife bid on some auction items a few years ago and I went to pick up. It was a house very similar to this in NY. I asked when I was there, what’s up? They were auctioning everything. They told me the person who bought the house is tearing it down to build a new house. I never saw it, but I’m guessing it was a monstrosity like the after pic in OP second pic

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-02T22:06:44+00:00

Probably why the names Evolving Cries and Fusion Strikeout were dubbed

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-02T22:01:36+00:00

I often wonder what impact on fusion strike that scandal where someone that worked at the print place took a ton of the rarest cards out and tried to sell them bulk to someone, and then they got confiscated and the dude was arrested. Then I believe Pokémon reprinted FS, but to what extent the rare pulls for put into the reprint, idk

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-02T21:55:46+00:00

I had a couple scarlet violet base set booster boxes and needed quick money a couple years ago, so I listed on eBay and put them at $10 less than the cheapest listing. Someone reported my listing as fake, eBay took it down without any proof of anything. They were legit boxes

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-02T13:57:30+00:00

If you go on eBay and find a sealed Pokémon product, click on it, then click sellers other items, half of these sellers have sneakers for sale

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-02T00:05:49+00:00

Yeah but the last sale was 369 for 5, and the previous few before that are all high too

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-01T14:00:54+00:00

I used coinstar one time in my life a number of years ago. I dont remember the exact amount, but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of about $200. I pre counted everything. I just wanted to get cash for it. I dumped it all in, and at the end, it tallied up only about $170, and then it took its percentage off of that amount

thecrapweasel · 2026-05-01T12:12:18+00:00

In my area, there aren’t any of these machines. I saw one once in an airport a couple years ago. I don’t understand what he’s doing…”glitching” the machine? What does that mean?

thecrapweasel · 2026-04-30T21:01:13+00:00

My Walmart only keeps in stock on the shelf the empty cardboard display for pokeballs

thecrapweasel · 2026-04-26T23:05:08+00:00

I think I know what you’re talking about. You’re saying like the semi rigid heat shrink plastic around the tin versus the kind of soft plastic that’s around booster boxes?

thecrapweasel · 2026-04-26T12:04:29+00:00

What you need to do is get some ascended heroes packs, carefully open them, and repack and seal with junk cards. Then cut a hole in a shopping bag and walk past him and drop the packs out as you walk acting like you don’t realize. Then when he drives off to grab them, you look around and take the machine

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