So I wanted to get some more information about this release. The release recently and not the one that happened 2 years ago with the kids event. I know this release was given away after spending 15 pounds or more at any GAME store in the UK, but I am getting some information that they have run through their stock in about 4 days. I have contacted other Ebay sellers and the consensus is that they are out of this print of pikachu on the ball. This is surprising to me since these give-aways (in the USA anyway) usually have enough supply for weeks and maybe a month before running out. Kind of unusual for a release now a days anyway.
Has anyone else heard about anything like this for this promotion?
they were giving out 2 per order when I think the intention was to give 1. Youâd buy the âblister pack + free Pikachu promoâ item and another free promo would be added to cart. This doesnât really make sense when you think about it, but they were honouring the orders. So I think people got twice as many promos as they should have.
Because of the above reason, buying the blister packs was an insanely good value, with no order limits. If you dumped the 4 packs as an art set on auction youâd probably get like ÂŁ10 after fees, so youâre looking at ÂŁ5 for an extremely popular and liquid card thatâs selling in droves for ÂŁ15-20 right now. Itâs a no brainer. With GAME having no order limits and making it really easy to checkout, people were placing tons of orders. Why would you not do 20-30 orders when itâs the easiest flip ever?
I also heard about a bug with preorders, where youâd place a preorder then cancel immediately and theyd just send you the promo. Iâm not in any big stonk discords so if I heard about this then Iâm sure hundreds have. A friend of mine used this to get 100 pikachus himself, so even though I havenât seen the bug in action myself, I believe itâs real.
I mean⊠just look at Special Delivery Charizard⊠How many listings were of that card? And what price point is it at now? Not 2 cents Iâll tell you lol. It just comes down to Supply/Demand of a card. Yes there is a good bit of it out there⊠but what is the demand like? Exclusive UK Art with Pikachu playing soccer which was sold for 4 days. My bet is that this has long term opportunity.
But is there really a buyer for that? I donât really understand picking petals with this kind of stuff. ESPECIALLY with 99% of collectors will take this card and grade it outside of the plastic. I see this as completely worthless information in terms of Value. There is NO WAY the average buyer/collector is going to value the white blank card behind their Pikachu on the Ball.
I could be wrong, but I see this as the aftermath of people trying to justify their 2K purchase of a card that was later released and valued at $20
