Once you go Japanese you cant go back.
I now have 5 Japanese maples in my landscape
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When the sun hits the leaves just right, the holo sings
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“Just print more” is not a reliable solution.
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What does work then
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I haven’t gotten that far yet
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It is reliable if they printed to demand. There is nothing stopping TPCi from building more print facilities, or just focus on booster boxes and booster bundles instead of clunky packaging.
The product sells itself, no need to have a 2’ x 1’ box to sell 6 packs and a ton of plastic
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I agree. It’s ridiculous how much packaging there is for 8 or 10 booster packs. Just sell bundles.
Sure it is. Or do print-to-order preorders on the Pokemon Center. I’ve never understood why they don’t do this. I should be able to order 100 booster boxes if I want to. Make it prepaid, nonrefundable, then print to order. Seems simple enough to me. I don’t know why preorders can “sell out”.
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unpop op. 
In seriousness, the way to kill scalping would be to unchain the randomness, and just print the chase cards to demand. But it would also hurt the collector side, as my unpop op is at hand:
A large majority of modern collectors right now are NOT collectors but investors. If the prices dipped, they’d dip too. 
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“Just print A LOT more” is the solution. 
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I have to push back on that a tad. TPCi’s production schedule is based on forecasted demand two years in advance. We all know demand for cards can fluctuate wildly in that timeframe. Print facilities aren’t built overnight.
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If there is money left on the table due to lack of supply, there are faster timelines that could be met with enough money
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What are you talking about? It is the only solution. If you can’t change demand, you change what you can, which is supply.
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One other solution is to change price, but I don’t think anyone wants that.
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I don’t think changing price would decrease demand. We’re already seeing boxes at $200, $400 at release. Clearly, MSRP isn’t the problem.
Of course. It’s possible that the money required for a faster timeline is greater than the money left on the table.
I’m not saying it’s a good solution, but increasing prices almost always lowers demand. I think there would be plenty of people turned off from a large MSRP increase. I know it’s different, but look at what happened with Pokemon TCG Classic at a $400 MSRP. Pretty sure you can get it for less than half that at Sam’s Club still.
Maybe choose a different example? Decks with known set lists operate differently than booster boxes because BBs offer the chance to gamble on a chase card
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I am convinced that Pokemon could release a booster box at $500 in 2025 and it would sell instantly. The only people who suffer from increased MSRP are the end consumers. Scalpers are going to scalp because it’s the profit margin that they care about the most. Higher MSRP can lead to higher profit margins on desirable products like booster boxes.
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I agree with this. It would have to be some crazy ultra high class set though. Maybe something like a set where 1 out of 8192 arts of each pokemon are shiny.
Seems like Black Bolt White Flare is going to be a pretty big special set, but if you are telling me Pokemon could release a booster box of it at $500 and sell out immediately with scalpers profiting even more from it, then I would definitely disagree.
Yes, I do think that this would happen. Look at the MTG 30th Anniversary box. It sold out at $1,000 for four packs of proxy Alpha-ish playing cards. That demand was mostly from scalpers. I can’t imagine what it would have looked like if the product was actually good and collectors desired it (e.g., Black Bolt / White Flare).