According to a photo posted on Twitter/X from an undisclosed Target location, the retail giant is apparently telling customers it will no longer sell to “resellers.” This is the text on the sign: Target no longer sells to resellers. This ensures all guests have a fair opportunity to purchase products and helps us remain competitive. …
I was perusing Twitter yesterday when the algorithm fed me a tweet from a Pokémon idiot to the retail big-box store Target. It contained a photo taken at a Target customer service desk showing an associate buying two Pokémon Elite Trainer Boxes (ETBs). The Pokémon idiot, POV rips, told Target that the employee who bought …
The following tweet appeared in my Twitter feed yesterday: Pokémon has a gambling problem. Where there’s gambling, there are people drawn to it because they’re people with an addiction. Too many people use opening packs as a way of getting the dopamine fix they crave. They’ll literally pay thousands of dollars to pull a card …
I was listening to YouTube videos yesterday while straightening up the garage. A video appeared in my feed from Poke Office, a channel focused on collecting, investing, vending, and other business topics related to Pokémon. In the video, the host discussed obtaining a wholesale card distributor to supply sealed Pokémon products, which can then be …
I was scrolling through a Pokémon collectors group on Facebook yesterday. It’s a private group dedicated to Pokémon collectors who live in Maryland. A thread caught my eye because it involves Hagerstown, the city in Maryland where I live. It begins with this: The person who posted this angry screed was hurt because the person …
There’s a person on the Internet who goes by the name of Rattle Pokémon. He’s carved out a niche for himself as the Pokémon fraud investigator. Rattle Pokémon is a cross between Rorschach and Barney Fife, only with a French-Canadian accent. Almost every video he posts on YouTube deals with someone he deems to be …