up on I'm pulling up some images here. So the
rise of collecting shit and the scalper market.
So yesterday the special edition kpop dolls,
which is a three piece set that went on pre sell,
which is a little weird because it's going to
ship after Christmas. Odd. this three piece doll
set is $150. I met now yesterday it did sell
out in about an hour. However, it does look like
on their website, they're going to do another
pre sell tomorrow question mark. But yeah, this
is a $150 doll set shipping after Christmas.
I don't understand the market behind that k pops
hot right now Christmas is coming. Why are you
not shipping to Christmas? But don't worry. Another
drop tomorrow. If you miss this one, it was sold
out within the first hour yesterday. So make
sure that you jump on this and preorder your
$150 doll set within the first 10 minutes of
the sale. Now, the next one next one is cool.
The next one is a Ninja Turtle. This one is sick.
I love this one. I think this one looks badass.
It does. This is a limited edition Ninja Turtle.
I don't know. This this looks sick. It looks
like they have different heads for different
emotions. The only issue is that it is $250.
So maybe if you have a kid under the age of 35,
do not buy it for them. They're going to wreck
it. We're also in 2026 getting an awesome Legend
of Zelda Lego set that's going to just break
everyone's piggy bank. I think. Because there
there was a story done of. Like people breaking
into Lego stores and just stealing Legos or toy
stores and just stealing Legos. This is going
to be the number one thing on. people's list
to steal this time. So anyways, 2026, no money
for us whatsoever. And even look at that. That's
so sick. I like this. Even in the realm of food,
the scalpers are getting us going back to K -pop
Demon Hunters. They also released character themed
ramen. Because if you watch the movie, each one
of them has their own ramen that they eat. Really,
really cool. What a great concept. Yeah, you
can't buy it anywhere. I can't find it. No one
can find it because scalpers like take it. And
this one, don't worry, you can also just buy
the ramen on eBay. So for about 50 bucks, you
can buy your own K -pop Demon Hunter ramen. Sweet
sick. And yeah, this is something that I wanted
to chat about. So. I'm sure we have all seen
the videos of. You know. Grumpy Scrooge right
in stores camping out for Pokemon cards and as
like a little Timmy's crying some. 40 year old
man is buying all the Pokemon cards so that he
can sell it on eBay for like 10 times the cost.
And I know it happens with magic cards, right?
We are even in even in covid times, people do
a toilet paper, which is just insane. But we
are living in such a weird time where to be a
collector. Yeah. Right. You either have to like
the K -pop dolls, right? You either had to be
on the alert knowing the dolls were going to
drop and be committed to buying those dolls the
second it opened up to buy. Same with Magic the
Gathering, the secret lair sets, right? Or. You're
you know, you're going to have to pay like almost
double. off eBay or some other site. Or you just
don't get it. And that. This sucks and. I know,
for instance, like the K -pop dolls they they
did, you know, you can't buy more than three,
like per address or whatever. There's ways around
that. Yeah, exactly. So Alex, how do we fix this
issue in our in our society? So it depends on
the product. right and so so i'm going to put
magic to the side i've already i their biggest
issue really has been with the scalpers has been
like the the the limited sets and stuff like
that i'm going to put that aside for a minute
same thing with pokemon um for stuff like this
i mean the fact of the matter is is that you
make it uh pod right anything like this, the
way that you beat the scalpers is you don't limit
the market, right? What scalpers need to have
is they need it to have limitation, right? That's
the only way this works, right? If Mattel came
out and said tomorrow, look, we're going to manufacture
as many of these as people order, the scalpers
will stop buying them. They just will. They just
will. That's the number one way to do it. If
they just go print on demand and we're going
to manufacture as much as we need to manufacture
to make sure everybody who really, really wants
one gets one, that would be that. Yes, I also
know about POD. Thanks for throwing that in the
chat. Anyway, That's the simplest way to do it.
The issue here is that the corporations have
no incentive to do so. If they say, look, we're
only making this many and screw it, they've made
their money. They're done. They've gotten what
they wanted out of the transaction. And I hate
to say it, but consumers don't change their behavior
on stuff like this. Like the Ninja Turtle one
I don't think is going to go crazy with the scalping.
The K -Pop Demon Hunter's one I could see. The
LEGO ones I could see if they make those limited
edition, right? LEGO typically doesn't do that.
They don't do it very often. But LEGO just charges
you a shit ton for their LEGOs. That great Deku
tree is a $300 set, right? Yeah, we're just gonna
charge you a lot of money. Okay? And good for
Lego, right? The kpop demon hunter stuff doesn't
surprise me because it's so hot right now Right
Again, it's the simplest ways to just be like
look we're gonna manufacture as much as we need
because we want to make sure the fans get it
They can do other stuff on their back end. The
problem that a lot of these companies have, even
the ones that do want to kind of fight scalpers,
and Wizards had this problem, Pokemons had this
problem too, is you have to be, you have to harden
your website against it, right? There's certain
stuff that you've got to code in there to make
sure that the scalpers have a harder time using
bot farms to just buy up everything. Right. Because
these scholars don't want to buy two. Right.
They don't make any money that way. They need
to buy 50 of them before you do. Right. It's
it's scale. And so that's that. For the ramen,
I put this in the YouTube chat. I'm glad it was
Shin Ramyeon. Right. Because that's specifically
is a Korean brand. It's a Korean staple food.
I'm glad they did Shin as the thing that's very
fitting for kpop Excuse me I don't know Jay.
What do you think? I mean like Is it is it is
it as simple as I put it or do you think it's
more complicated? No, I mean Yeah, I I don't
think corporations are gonna do anything. They're
they're making money. They're getting paid And
or the majority of them at least aren't going
to care, right? Who cares if? Little girls don't
get dolls for Christmas. Well, I'm sorry. They're
not getting dolls for Christmas. Anyways, they're
shipping after Christmas would that's a different
topic, but Yeah, the only other option is just
not to buy it right just to burn the scalpers
but The stuff is cool that they buy. Yeah. And
a lot of it, like I was reading an article, I
guess a lot of them moved off shoes. Shoes used
to be the big one. Right. That market's kind
of collapsed. Right. So now they're looking for
the next market. Right. For a while there was
graphics cards. Right. Remember? Oh, God. Yeah.
Remember the great graphics card shortages right
around covid and during the whole Crypto mining
fiasco, right? When everybody was buying every
graphics card under the sun. Yeah, it's it's
they're going to move around. They're going to
move to wherever they think they can make the
most money, the the quickest. So take that for
what it's worth. Anyway, what do you guys think?
Do you hate the scalpers as much as we do? Is
there anything that you've been trying to get
lately that scalpers have made difficult for
your life? Let us know down in the comments below.