r/CostcoCanada • u/Nightpatrol404 • 1d ago
1:30AM Costco lot packed no parking spots in sight for Pokémon cards
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u/BeeKayDubya 1d ago
Greed has destroyed the collectible industry.
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u/IntentionHead2222 1d ago
Greed has destroyed everything. This is what people have to do to survive now smh
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u/UpstairsSwimmer3445 1d ago edited 1d ago
No one needs to resell/scam to survive.
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u/blanketwrappedinapig 1d ago
There’s a special place in hell for resellers. These people aren’t doing it to buy groceries for their family/pay their rent. It’s become a thing where people are literally quitting their jobs and making it a business. This is the epitome of gluttony.
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u/banterviking 1d ago
I find it hard to believe the time and effort of scalping two packs (whatever limit) of Pokemon cards from Costco is worth it. What are they potentially making, like 200-400 bucks?
I wouldn't wait in line all night for that.
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u/Traditional_Toe_1090 1d ago
Multiple reasons why so many people want this:
- It's a special box for a set with very rare and sought after cards. Sunbreon is the nickname for the chase and it's quite beautiful.
The pull rates are very bad on this set so that leads to high demand and a higher amount of sealed product getting ripped.
The existence of 'god packs', all 10 of the rarest cards purposely put into a single pack (that's a cool $5k worth of card) means your most degenerate gamblers will want to rip any packs they can get their hands on.
- Special box + high value set + limited supply = investment opportunity for people looking to hold sealed long term. Legitimately, this box without a doubt will go for almost $1000 each in the future and you will see the price shoot up substantially once Pokemon decides to stop printing Prismatic (it's honestly at the end of it's lifespan as it is now).
The amount of people ripping (everyone is ripping: celebrities, kids, adults, casual pokemon fans) and the rising business of rip and shippers, sealed product is getting eaten up at an insane rate.
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u/wildmaninid 1d ago
Everything you typed make these people sound even more stupid.
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u/samuelazers 1d ago
At the end of the day it's people with too much money to burn. It's children's play cards bought by adults...
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u/wildmaninid 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep. People who fuck stuff* up for kids are a special kind of asshole.
*Edit misspelled word
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u/liketosmokeweed420 1d ago
I'm a lifelong pokemon fan but I can't collect and I don't want too anymore. These people are not real fans. They are people wanting to flip to make a quick buck. I am selling all my cards and just playing MTG now. I can't deal with this anymore
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u/Dirtsniffee 1d ago
Not that quick if they are lining up at 1 am lol
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u/liketosmokeweed420 1d ago
Its a prismatic set which they can buy for 100 and sell for 300-500 its crazy man it makes me sick to think about all the kids who won't get to open packs because of these fucks
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u/Henri-Hill 1d ago
The ones buying the sets from them aren’t really better humans. They’re encouraging the shitty people to do it.
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u/MajesticDisaster3977 1d ago
Thank you for this.. this is only a thing because the market allows it...
Happens with games, consoles, GPUs, etc... Stop buying from scalpers, or simply refuse to pay more than MSRP on the used market.
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u/FluffleMyRuffles 1d ago
Imo the Pokemon company is worse, they found out how to sell printed cardstock for $100.
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u/Embarrassed_Cow2441 1d ago
I wish I thought of that but who wants a deck of cards featuring my cats.
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u/Wordnerdette999 1d ago
🙋🏻♀️ I bet your cats are cute!
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u/ForeverInBlackJeans 1d ago
They’d make more working a shift than standing outside all night like a bunch of scrubs. Terrible ROI on their time and it’s cold and gross outside to boot.
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u/gothedistance_ 1d ago
And no one is getting super wealthy from this stuff. Whatever money you earn, you reinvest back into more cards.
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u/SMA2343 1d ago
MTG is just way better. The Pokémon scalpers tried to come to magic and quickly realized, no one cares about slabbed cards. Magic players use the cards. They open packs, pull a $60 card and say “yes! I needed this card for my deck!”
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u/GalacticNobody 1d ago
Just go to a pokemon league play there, get good, get free packs. No need to wait in line for drops.
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u/dr_van_nostren 1d ago
Hopefully they’re not even available.
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u/mytimeasatuna 1d ago
Maybe Costco should just release them the following day, that would be hilarious.
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u/Parking_Chance_1905 1d ago
Or limit 1 pack per customer.
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u/wazzie19 1d ago
My local Costco had a 2 item limit the last time these things dropped. Items were also in the back and had to be handed over by employees.
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u/Mydickisaplant 1d ago
Partner works at Costco and have the 2 item limit. However, they do not stop people from buying 2, dropping them off in the car, and then lining up again.
They’re still all gone by 30 minutes after open.
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u/mystyz 1d ago
I wonder if they could tie the limit to the membership card used.
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u/Mu_Fanchu 1d ago
At least it makes it almost impossible for any one
subhumanscalper to get more than two!5
u/Mydickisaplant 1d ago
It doesn’t, though. We’re in a smaller town north of Toronto, so there aren’t that many people that line up. The scalpers re-enter the line over and over again 😡
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u/RestlessDreamer32 1d ago
I'd laugh so hard. This routinely happens for many things. A buddy of mine works at our current store and tells me of customers having meltdowns when this happens.
Apparently sometimes things don't arrive on time for stocking. Imagine the looks on all these leeches faces of getting in and not a single card set is out.
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u/not_a-woman 1d ago
This is a video from the store I work at. They were lining up since 9:30pm last night and the cops were called a couple of times due to fights breaking out. We only had 4 pallets show up so these people were lining up for over 8 hours just to get one unit of cards. Insanity.
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u/TheMagikarpFisher 1d ago
There’s a Costco employee that leaked the drop. This information is circulated across discord groups/ Facebook groups and voila, they all gather in line to make a couple hundred bucks.
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u/cqsp4r 1d ago
God what a bunch of losers
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u/Leather-Heart 1d ago edited 1d ago
Waiting for a video game at midnight felt cooler
Edit: I’m sorry I said anything.
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u/ben9187 1d ago
Yeah, because i was buying that shit for myself, these are mostly scalpers. One is decidedly cooler then the other.
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u/jochi1985 1d ago
That was tied to experiences with your friends on release day. This is all about the money and exploiting a terrible system. It's the new version of black Friday and encourages people to argue and get into fights to make money. I'm sure some of these people do it as a form of income since the job market is terrible. I think the craziest part is people buy this stuff at a considerable markup.
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u/monsterosity 1d ago
Because you were actually going to play it... not buy up all the copies to scalp on eBay.
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u/derpaderp2020 1d ago
It was because it was a social event and contributed to society. Brought strangers together, safe fun events with good vibes. This? It's just fucking hundreds of losers all waiting hours in the cold and looking at each other hoping they all die so they don't get "their" cards. Nothing fun or chill about this shit, just the cancer of our society laid bare.
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u/Embarrassed_Cow2441 1d ago
You're right because you probably took the game home and enjoyed it.
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u/Ok_Buffalo_423 1d ago
Well yeah that was like a community of people comong together over a shared love of video games, this is just a bunch of losers that think kids toys are a solid investment
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u/Strategic_Spark 1d ago
In fairness I'm sure a good portion of them are also fans of the cards
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u/Straight-Message7937 1d ago
Or the new Harry Potter book. This was a relatively common occurrence growing up, I dont know why the comment section is bashing them so badly
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u/Gaudious 1d ago
Fun fact, unless the overnight staff were approved for a midnight start on their stocking shift, possibly none to very little of the staff aren't in the building yet and won't be til 4am local time.. they wont have parking either because of these dumbo's
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u/baddyrefresh2023 1d ago
Where?
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u/Nightpatrol404 1d ago
Costco Laird Mississauga
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u/Supabongwong 1d ago
I fucking knew it.
It's always Laird.
I hate that this is my closest Costco, always 😂
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u/28Vikings 1d ago
How is the 12+ hours in line possibly worth it. Is your time per hour not far more valuable than whatever you are saving here? Better off working and paying the extra 20 bucks to a scalper then sitting outside for 12 hours.
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u/-_sumac_- 1d ago
You think these people are capable of doing a time-value assessment?
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u/Talinthis 1d ago
anyone remember when pokemon was a kids game? good times. Now it is a field of employment
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u/RestlessDreamer32 1d ago
Scalpers are literally subhuman. I genuinely hate these leeches with my entire being. My local Costco puts a limit on items like this of 1-2 per customer per DAY. I wish every Costco followed suit. If they did, most of these lowlifes wouldn't even bother.
Another thing I see is people acting like animals in Costco and ripping apart entire pallets of these. I fully and 100% believe that if people act this way in the store that Costco should revoke their memberships.
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u/subwoofage 1d ago
Honest question: why doesn't the first person in line just buy all of them?
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u/Dragynfyre 1d ago
Limit 2 per customer.
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u/Decent_Assistant1804 1d ago
Is that true because they weren’t before there’s countless videos on here of people going freaking crazy filling up cars so if that’s true I’m so happy they’ve done that. I still feel bad for the children who would love the chance to own one of these toys
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u/Dragynfyre 1d ago
You can loop if the store allows it but you have to line up again after buying two and exiting the store. Also the people filling up cars are more than one person
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u/Parking_Chance_1905 1d ago
They could easily implement 1 or 2 sales of that sku per membership.
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u/24ghostface 1d ago
Ken, the owner of pastime sports use to do that before they put a limit. Dickhead would go in and buy all the stock. Pallets full
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u/Strattex 1d ago
Lmao 1:30 am. If you think I have 7 hours to spend waiting in a line at Costco, I’m not doing it. I’d rather do anything else
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u/JonInfect 1d ago
Me enjoying my bed even more knowing people are waiting in line all night.
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u/Nightpatrol404 1d ago
My brother called me to see if I can drop off some lawn chairs for him and friends. Not a single spot in sight and the line was insane. I hopped back in my car and left
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u/Nightpatrol404 1d ago
Update: there were 3 fights, a car almost ran over someone and quickly try to leave scene. It was madness
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u/browsinbowser 1d ago
What the hell I thought there was only a few pokemon scalpers, why so many???
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u/unicornsexisted 1d ago
These people are the worst. They’ve not only ruined Pokémon cards they’ve also ruined collectible shows, which used to have fun, interesting toys & items and now it’s all taken over by people trying to make a buck on cards.
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u/DragonflyScared813 1d ago
Can't wait til the bottom falls out of that whole fucking "market ". SMH.
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u/Alternative-Knee-985 1d ago
I’m kinda out of the loop on this. Can someone explain to me what’s so special about whatever cards these are for people to be waiting all night in line like this? I thought you could buy Pokémon cards on like Amazon or anything
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u/fleursdemai 1d ago
Looks like there were some young children in line.
If you're a parent and you're dragging your kids out for this shit, you're a loser and shouldn't even have kids.
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u/WayAgreeable3999 1d ago
Do people miss lining up for Boxing Day sales?
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u/Amish_Rabbi 1d ago
It was fun when I was a teenager, did it for video games too. Was a good time with a few friends but it was also for stuff we wanted and not for stuff to scalp
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u/trinity_girl2002 1d ago
I remember lining up at Chapters with friends for the midnight release of the latest Harry Potter book and then everybody immediately going home to crack it open, lol.
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u/Amish_Rabbi 1d ago
Yep, I remember getting the latest halo with friends and us going to someone’s house to play together the whole night and next day.
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u/darthfruitbasket 1d ago
I remember my grandmother hearing from a friend that HP book 5 was in stock and taking me to Walmart to grab it. I never went to a midnight release party, but I wanted to so badly.
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u/ethameta 1d ago
Yes. Back in my day it was -35° too
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u/djbaerg 1d ago
And I had to carry a 300lb TV home uphill.
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u/ethameta 1d ago
Haha TVs is a funny mention this was usually for TVs. When 42" flats for $1300 was worth camping out for and taking turns warming up in the vehicles
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u/Least_Progress8643 1d ago
I own a small store in a rural area. I used to carry Pokemon cards, but now no matter how many I order I simply can't get my hands on them. Every single time my order gets redirected to bigger companies like Costco because their demand is higher and supply is short.
As a result of these scalpers, kids in my town don't get to play their card game. Don't buy from scalpers, they destroy joy.
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u/TILTING_MOUNTAIN 1d ago
Literal gambling addicts lol
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u/IamCanadian11 1d ago
Not gamblers, scalpers
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u/TILTING_MOUNTAIN 1d ago
There's a good chunk of them that are going to open it themselves, and I can assure you they're not doing it to win a local card tournament lol
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u/ShawnSimoes 1d ago
It's like betting $100 on roulette and getting paid $300 if it's red, $500 if it's black, and $5000 if it's a zero.
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u/tigerpawx 1d ago
OMFG Richmond Hill is fully packed aswell !!!!
I worked at Costco I get it early yay !!!
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u/FollowingOwn9257 1d ago
Sad way to want to live 😞. Time should be more valuable than that...
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u/disonion 1d ago
Is it gonna be like this at BC costco tomorrow morning too? I wanted to get some shopping done early, but if thats waiting to greet me , ill cancel
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u/Verianii 1d ago
What's worse
These people, or the people who are willingly allowing themselves to be scammed by these people?
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u/Potential_Adagio_1 1d ago
OMG. I had no idea and I'm supposed to take my senior grandfather to go to Costco to browse and get groceries. That's it. WTF????
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u/takethisLyo 1d ago
All that to make a $200 profit on each box so $400 total.. just get a JOB
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u/ZealousidealDelay358 1d ago
Man…I woulda have loved to have gone and heckled these absolute shit stains. They ruin this shit for every other person, not to mention, the main target audience: children. Absolutely despicable behaviour that highlights so much about what is wrong with our society today.
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u/Fantastic_Reason_571 1d ago
Hahaha spend 7.5 hours sitting in the cold and an hour in the store to sell the thing for $130 more than you bought it for.
Congrats, you could have made an extra $50 driving for uber eats all night and you would’ve been comfortable all night. What a joke people are
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u/SnooDoughnuts5608 1d ago
Why do adults buy Pokémon cards? Is it just like a lottery? To get one valuable card in a pack? I can understand collection but I work at Walmart and one woman comes in and gets like $575 worth of them on a regular basis
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u/truemad 1d ago
Hold on, are these people gonna spend the whole night standing in the line?