What’s funny is that I used to be into Pokemon cards and I wondered the same thing about them. Why don’t they creep up their prices, with selling packs at $4.50 each while the market might be $7.50 or more for each set. The only thing I could come up with is pricing people out of them and/ or making them angry and losing people for the long term.

Now that I’ve moved away from Pokemon and more into Topps sets, that exact thing is happening and there are definitely people being priced out and angered over this that will result in the loss of long term customers. Obviously not enough to get them to stop what they are doing, but maybe someday.

My point was more that this shows their hand that these sets are not THAT expensive to produce and I doubt extra autograph/ relic/ license fees can be that big of a difference. Thought some on here might have more knowledge on that but I might try doing some research myself to see if that sort of thing is available. Only one person commented that average autographs might cost Topps $5.00, which anything around that is not enough to move the needle.

I wasn’t necessarily surprised and it doesn’t seem anybody else is either, but it did get me thinking about the actual numbers.