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
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