Summary
A person claiming to be a Walmart employee has reported that someone returned more than 40Pokemon Trading Card Gameboxes to their store, all of which have since been resold. ThePokemon Trading Card Gameboxes were from the Journey Together set and were all sealed in plastic, but there is concern from the collectible card game’s community that someone may have opened, inspected, and potentially replaced the contents before resealing and returning them.
Pokemon TCG’s Journey Together setwas originally released in Japan on January 24 and made its English-language debut in Europe and North America on March 28. Introducing more than 180 new cards to the one-on-one tabletop card battler, this set puts a strong emphasis on the connection between Pokemon and their trainers.
According to one person, who claims to be a Walmart employee and posts on Reddit under the username PossibilityMundane, a branch of the store recently accepted a return of more than 40 sealed boxes of the Journey Together set and resold all of them within a span of 24 hours. Accepting returns of trading cards goes against the store’s policy, and the alleged employee noted that store management reminded other employees of that policy after the returns had already been accepted. While hard to confirm, this story carries a possibility ofPokemon Trading Card Gamescalping, with many people responding to the original post assuming that the original purchaser had resealed the boxes with plastic after rifling through their contents in a search for high-value cards.
Potential Scalper Returns a Ton of Pokemon TCG Cards to Walmart
Journey Together cards featuringmonsters fromPokemon Scarlet and Violetmay not be as popular in the trading card game’s community as some other recent releases, but they can still be quite valuable, with cards like Lillie’s Clefairy EX selling online at an estimated value of more than $180. Other high-value cards in the set include Salamence EX, N’s Zoroark EX, and Iono’s Bellibolt EX, which sell for estimated values in the $80 to $110 range.
If true, this could be the second documented case of an attempted card scalping operation at a major retail store in as many weeks. Near the end of April, news surfaced of aPokemon TCGscalper stash discovered at a Target store. In that case, unopened packs of Journey Together cards were discovered concealed in a for-sale wooden crate in the store’s home goods section rather than their usual place in the store. Fortunately, the person reporting that story stated the card packs were quickly snatched up by individual fans and parents of fans of the card game rather than ending up with a scalper.
Pokemon TCG
Pokemon TCG (Trading Card Game) is a collectible and strategy based card game based on Nintendo’s Pokemon franchise. Two players face off against one another, battling one Pokemon at a time and attempting to knock them out to claim one of six prize cards. The cards have also become highly collectible with some in particular selling for thousands of dollars.
