WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.879 up on I'm pulling up some images here. So the 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:13.779 rise of collecting shit and the scalper market. 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.260 So yesterday the special edition kpop dolls, 00:00:18.379 --> 00:00:22.280 which is a three piece set that went on pre sell, 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:25.660 which is a little weird because it's going to 00:00:25.660 --> 00:00:30.989 ship after Christmas. Odd. this three piece doll 00:00:30.989 --> 00:00:35.570 set is $150. I met now yesterday it did sell 00:00:35.570 --> 00:00:39.429 out in about an hour. However, it does look like 00:00:39.429 --> 00:00:40.869 on their website, they're going to do another 00:00:40.869 --> 00:00:45.369 pre sell tomorrow question mark. But yeah, this 00:00:45.369 --> 00:00:49.570 is a $150 doll set shipping after Christmas. 00:00:50.750 --> 00:00:53.490 I don't understand the market behind that k pops 00:00:53.490 --> 00:00:58.380 hot right now Christmas is coming. Why are you 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:03.259 not shipping to Christmas? But don't worry. Another 00:01:03.259 --> 00:01:06.400 drop tomorrow. If you miss this one, it was sold 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.280 out within the first hour yesterday. So make 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:14.159 sure that you jump on this and preorder your 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:18.099 $150 doll set within the first 10 minutes of 00:01:18.099 --> 00:01:22.620 the sale. Now, the next one next one is cool. 00:01:23.019 --> 00:01:26.159 The next one is a Ninja Turtle. This one is sick. 00:01:26.489 --> 00:01:29.829 I love this one. I think this one looks badass. 00:01:29.909 --> 00:01:34.709 It does. This is a limited edition Ninja Turtle. 00:01:36.549 --> 00:01:39.409 I don't know. This this looks sick. It looks 00:01:39.409 --> 00:01:41.209 like they have different heads for different 00:01:41.209 --> 00:01:47.829 emotions. The only issue is that it is $250. 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:53.209 So maybe if you have a kid under the age of 35, 00:01:53.349 --> 00:01:56.370 do not buy it for them. They're going to wreck 00:01:56.370 --> 00:02:02.150 it. We're also in 2026 getting an awesome Legend 00:02:02.150 --> 00:02:04.790 of Zelda Lego set that's going to just break 00:02:04.790 --> 00:02:09.349 everyone's piggy bank. I think. Because there 00:02:09.349 --> 00:02:15.009 there was a story done of. Like people breaking 00:02:15.009 --> 00:02:17.810 into Lego stores and just stealing Legos or toy 00:02:17.810 --> 00:02:19.909 stores and just stealing Legos. This is going 00:02:19.909 --> 00:02:23.650 to be the number one thing on. people's list 00:02:23.650 --> 00:02:28.629 to steal this time. So anyways, 2026, no money 00:02:28.629 --> 00:02:34.250 for us whatsoever. And even look at that. That's 00:02:34.250 --> 00:02:38.909 so sick. I like this. Even in the realm of food, 00:02:39.650 --> 00:02:43.409 the scalpers are getting us going back to K -pop 00:02:43.409 --> 00:02:47.069 Demon Hunters. They also released character themed 00:02:47.069 --> 00:02:51.110 ramen. Because if you watch the movie, each one 00:02:51.110 --> 00:02:55.389 of them has their own ramen that they eat. Really, 00:02:55.490 --> 00:02:59.830 really cool. What a great concept. Yeah, you 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:02.689 can't buy it anywhere. I can't find it. No one 00:03:02.689 --> 00:03:06.729 can find it because scalpers like take it. And 00:03:06.729 --> 00:03:09.669 this one, don't worry, you can also just buy 00:03:09.669 --> 00:03:14.909 the ramen on eBay. So for about 50 bucks, you 00:03:14.909 --> 00:03:19.960 can buy your own K -pop Demon Hunter ramen. Sweet 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:24.800 sick. And yeah, this is something that I wanted 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:30.340 to chat about. So. I'm sure we have all seen 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:37.360 the videos of. You know. Grumpy Scrooge right 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:42.219 in stores camping out for Pokemon cards and as 00:03:42.219 --> 00:03:46.990 like a little Timmy's crying some. 40 year old 00:03:46.990 --> 00:03:49.449 man is buying all the Pokemon cards so that he 00:03:49.449 --> 00:03:52.509 can sell it on eBay for like 10 times the cost. 00:03:53.629 --> 00:03:57.349 And I know it happens with magic cards, right? 00:03:59.189 --> 00:04:03.610 We are even in even in covid times, people do 00:04:03.610 --> 00:04:07.689 a toilet paper, which is just insane. But we 00:04:07.689 --> 00:04:11.810 are living in such a weird time where to be a 00:04:11.810 --> 00:04:14.939 collector. Yeah. Right. You either have to like 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:20.360 the K -pop dolls, right? You either had to be 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.180 on the alert knowing the dolls were going to 00:04:23.180 --> 00:04:27.500 drop and be committed to buying those dolls the 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:31.920 second it opened up to buy. Same with Magic the 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:38.300 Gathering, the secret lair sets, right? Or. You're 00:04:38.300 --> 00:04:40.839 you know, you're going to have to pay like almost 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:45.560 double. off eBay or some other site. Or you just 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:52.220 don't get it. And that. This sucks and. I know, 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:54.519 for instance, like the K -pop dolls they they 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.680 did, you know, you can't buy more than three, 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.519 like per address or whatever. There's ways around 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.920 that. Yeah, exactly. So Alex, how do we fix this 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.199 issue in our in our society? So it depends on 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:10.129 the product. right and so so i'm going to put 00:05:10.129 --> 00:05:13.709 magic to the side i've already i their biggest 00:05:13.709 --> 00:05:16.629 issue really has been with the scalpers has been 00:05:16.629 --> 00:05:19.029 like the the the limited sets and stuff like 00:05:19.029 --> 00:05:21.410 that i'm going to put that aside for a minute 00:05:21.410 --> 00:05:27.569 same thing with pokemon um for stuff like this 00:05:27.569 --> 00:05:29.990 i mean the fact of the matter is is that you 00:05:29.990 --> 00:05:35.639 make it uh pod right anything like this, the 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:38.160 way that you beat the scalpers is you don't limit 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:42.899 the market, right? What scalpers need to have 00:05:42.899 --> 00:05:49.939 is they need it to have limitation, right? That's 00:05:49.939 --> 00:05:54.240 the only way this works, right? If Mattel came 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:57.959 out and said tomorrow, look, we're going to manufacture 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:01.040 as many of these as people order, the scalpers 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:06.000 will stop buying them. They just will. They just 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:14.399 will. That's the number one way to do it. If 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.959 they just go print on demand and we're going 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:19.500 to manufacture as much as we need to manufacture 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:21.779 to make sure everybody who really, really wants 00:06:21.779 --> 00:06:25.839 one gets one, that would be that. Yes, I also 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:27.680 know about POD. Thanks for throwing that in the 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:36.300 chat. Anyway, That's the simplest way to do it. 00:06:37.699 --> 00:06:40.660 The issue here is that the corporations have 00:06:40.660 --> 00:06:46.399 no incentive to do so. If they say, look, we're 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:51.560 only making this many and screw it, they've made 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:53.920 their money. They're done. They've gotten what 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:58.600 they wanted out of the transaction. And I hate 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.089 to say it, but consumers don't change their behavior 00:07:02.089 --> 00:07:05.370 on stuff like this. Like the Ninja Turtle one 00:07:05.370 --> 00:07:08.290 I don't think is going to go crazy with the scalping. 00:07:09.750 --> 00:07:12.649 The K -Pop Demon Hunter's one I could see. The 00:07:12.649 --> 00:07:16.949 LEGO ones I could see if they make those limited 00:07:16.949 --> 00:07:22.629 edition, right? LEGO typically doesn't do that. 00:07:23.310 --> 00:07:26.750 They don't do it very often. But LEGO just charges 00:07:26.750 --> 00:07:31.050 you a shit ton for their LEGOs. That great Deku 00:07:31.050 --> 00:07:35.230 tree is a $300 set, right? Yeah, we're just gonna 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:40.089 charge you a lot of money. Okay? And good for 00:07:40.089 --> 00:07:44.810 Lego, right? The kpop demon hunter stuff doesn't 00:07:44.810 --> 00:07:48.730 surprise me because it's so hot right now Right 00:07:48.730 --> 00:07:53.350 Again, it's the simplest ways to just be like 00:07:53.350 --> 00:07:55.629 look we're gonna manufacture as much as we need 00:07:55.629 --> 00:07:57.689 because we want to make sure the fans get it 00:07:59.349 --> 00:08:02.730 They can do other stuff on their back end. The 00:08:02.730 --> 00:08:04.329 problem that a lot of these companies have, even 00:08:04.329 --> 00:08:05.990 the ones that do want to kind of fight scalpers, 00:08:06.629 --> 00:08:08.850 and Wizards had this problem, Pokemons had this 00:08:08.850 --> 00:08:15.970 problem too, is you have to be, you have to harden 00:08:15.970 --> 00:08:18.949 your website against it, right? There's certain 00:08:18.949 --> 00:08:21.689 stuff that you've got to code in there to make 00:08:21.689 --> 00:08:26.680 sure that the scalpers have a harder time using 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:29.939 bot farms to just buy up everything. Right. Because 00:08:29.939 --> 00:08:32.259 these scholars don't want to buy two. Right. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:33.980 They don't make any money that way. They need 00:08:33.980 --> 00:08:38.379 to buy 50 of them before you do. Right. It's 00:08:38.379 --> 00:08:42.960 it's scale. And so that's that. For the ramen, 00:08:43.059 --> 00:08:44.879 I put this in the YouTube chat. I'm glad it was 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:48.259 Shin Ramyeon. Right. Because that's specifically 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:51.019 is a Korean brand. It's a Korean staple food. 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:54.899 I'm glad they did Shin as the thing that's very 00:08:54.899 --> 00:09:00.799 fitting for kpop Excuse me I don't know Jay. 00:09:00.820 --> 00:09:05.620 What do you think? I mean like Is it is it is 00:09:05.620 --> 00:09:08.179 it as simple as I put it or do you think it's 00:09:08.179 --> 00:09:13.700 more complicated? No, I mean Yeah, I I don't 00:09:13.700 --> 00:09:15.980 think corporations are gonna do anything. They're 00:09:15.980 --> 00:09:18.960 they're making money. They're getting paid And 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.440 or the majority of them at least aren't going 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:27.279 to care, right? Who cares if? Little girls don't 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:29.200 get dolls for Christmas. Well, I'm sorry. They're 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:30.820 not getting dolls for Christmas. Anyways, they're 00:09:30.820 --> 00:09:32.840 shipping after Christmas would that's a different 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:38.360 topic, but Yeah, the only other option is just 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.279 not to buy it right just to burn the scalpers 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:47.740 but The stuff is cool that they buy. Yeah. And 00:09:47.740 --> 00:09:49.559 a lot of it, like I was reading an article, I 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:51.919 guess a lot of them moved off shoes. Shoes used 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:55.299 to be the big one. Right. That market's kind 00:09:55.299 --> 00:09:58.840 of collapsed. Right. So now they're looking for 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.759 the next market. Right. For a while there was 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:06.019 graphics cards. Right. Remember? Oh, God. Yeah. 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:08.600 Remember the great graphics card shortages right 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:13.840 around covid and during the whole Crypto mining 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:17.159 fiasco, right? When everybody was buying every 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:22.100 graphics card under the sun. Yeah, it's it's 00:10:22.100 --> 00:10:24.139 they're going to move around. They're going to 00:10:24.139 --> 00:10:25.840 move to wherever they think they can make the 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:31.419 most money, the the quickest. So take that for 00:10:31.419 --> 00:10:38.220 what it's worth. Anyway, what do you guys think? 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:40.960 Do you hate the scalpers as much as we do? Is 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.620 there anything that you've been trying to get 00:10:42.620 --> 00:10:45.580 lately that scalpers have made difficult for 00:10:45.580 --> 00:10:49.159 your life? Let us know down in the comments below.