Scalpers Are Eating GOOD This Season: The Rest of Us? Not So Much - Error Code Show

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up on I'm pulling up some images here. So the

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rise of collecting shit and the scalper market.

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So yesterday the special edition kpop dolls,

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which is a three piece set that went on pre sell,

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which is a little weird because it's going to

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ship after Christmas. Odd. this three piece doll

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set is $150. I met now yesterday it did sell

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out in about an hour. However, it does look like

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on their website, they're going to do another

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pre sell tomorrow question mark. But yeah, this

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is a $150 doll set shipping after Christmas.

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I don't understand the market behind that k pops

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hot right now Christmas is coming. Why are you

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not shipping to Christmas? But don't worry. Another

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drop tomorrow. If you miss this one, it was sold

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out within the first hour yesterday. So make

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sure that you jump on this and preorder your

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$150 doll set within the first 10 minutes of

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the sale. Now, the next one next one is cool.

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The next one is a Ninja Turtle. This one is sick.

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I love this one. I think this one looks badass.

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It does. This is a limited edition Ninja Turtle.

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I don't know. This this looks sick. It looks

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like they have different heads for different

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emotions. The only issue is that it is $250.

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So maybe if you have a kid under the age of 35,

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do not buy it for them. They're going to wreck

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it. We're also in 2026 getting an awesome Legend

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of Zelda Lego set that's going to just break

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everyone's piggy bank. I think. Because there

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there was a story done of. Like people breaking

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into Lego stores and just stealing Legos or toy

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stores and just stealing Legos. This is going

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to be the number one thing on. people's list

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to steal this time. So anyways, 2026, no money

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for us whatsoever. And even look at that. That's

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so sick. I like this. Even in the realm of food,

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the scalpers are getting us going back to K -pop

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Demon Hunters. They also released character themed

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ramen. Because if you watch the movie, each one

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of them has their own ramen that they eat. Really,

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really cool. What a great concept. Yeah, you

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can't buy it anywhere. I can't find it. No one

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can find it because scalpers like take it. And

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this one, don't worry, you can also just buy

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the ramen on eBay. So for about 50 bucks, you

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can buy your own K -pop Demon Hunter ramen. Sweet

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sick. And yeah, this is something that I wanted

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to chat about. So. I'm sure we have all seen

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the videos of. You know. Grumpy Scrooge right

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in stores camping out for Pokemon cards and as

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like a little Timmy's crying some. 40 year old

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man is buying all the Pokemon cards so that he

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can sell it on eBay for like 10 times the cost.

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And I know it happens with magic cards, right?

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We are even in even in covid times, people do

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a toilet paper, which is just insane. But we

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are living in such a weird time where to be a

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collector. Yeah. Right. You either have to like

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the K -pop dolls, right? You either had to be

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on the alert knowing the dolls were going to

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drop and be committed to buying those dolls the

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second it opened up to buy. Same with Magic the

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Gathering, the secret lair sets, right? Or. You're

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you know, you're going to have to pay like almost

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double. off eBay or some other site. Or you just

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don't get it. And that. This sucks and. I know,

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for instance, like the K -pop dolls they they

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did, you know, you can't buy more than three,

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like per address or whatever. There's ways around

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that. Yeah, exactly. So Alex, how do we fix this

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issue in our in our society? So it depends on

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the product. right and so so i'm going to put

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magic to the side i've already i their biggest

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issue really has been with the scalpers has been

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like the the the limited sets and stuff like

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that i'm going to put that aside for a minute

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same thing with pokemon um for stuff like this

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i mean the fact of the matter is is that you

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make it uh pod right anything like this, the

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way that you beat the scalpers is you don't limit

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the market, right? What scalpers need to have

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is they need it to have limitation, right? That's

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the only way this works, right? If Mattel came

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out and said tomorrow, look, we're going to manufacture

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as many of these as people order, the scalpers

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will stop buying them. They just will. They just

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will. That's the number one way to do it. If

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they just go print on demand and we're going

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to manufacture as much as we need to manufacture

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to make sure everybody who really, really wants

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one gets one, that would be that. Yes, I also

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know about POD. Thanks for throwing that in the

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chat. Anyway, That's the simplest way to do it.

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The issue here is that the corporations have

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no incentive to do so. If they say, look, we're

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only making this many and screw it, they've made

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their money. They're done. They've gotten what

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they wanted out of the transaction. And I hate

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to say it, but consumers don't change their behavior

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on stuff like this. Like the Ninja Turtle one

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I don't think is going to go crazy with the scalping.

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The K -Pop Demon Hunter's one I could see. The

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LEGO ones I could see if they make those limited

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edition, right? LEGO typically doesn't do that.

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They don't do it very often. But LEGO just charges

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you a shit ton for their LEGOs. That great Deku

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tree is a $300 set, right? Yeah, we're just gonna

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charge you a lot of money. Okay? And good for

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Lego, right? The kpop demon hunter stuff doesn't

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surprise me because it's so hot right now Right

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Again, it's the simplest ways to just be like

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look we're gonna manufacture as much as we need

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because we want to make sure the fans get it

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They can do other stuff on their back end. The

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problem that a lot of these companies have, even

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the ones that do want to kind of fight scalpers,

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and Wizards had this problem, Pokemons had this

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problem too, is you have to be, you have to harden

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your website against it, right? There's certain

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stuff that you've got to code in there to make

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sure that the scalpers have a harder time using

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bot farms to just buy up everything. Right. Because

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these scholars don't want to buy two. Right.

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They don't make any money that way. They need

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to buy 50 of them before you do. Right. It's

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it's scale. And so that's that. For the ramen,

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I put this in the YouTube chat. I'm glad it was

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Shin Ramyeon. Right. Because that's specifically

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is a Korean brand. It's a Korean staple food.

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I'm glad they did Shin as the thing that's very

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fitting for kpop Excuse me I don't know Jay.

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What do you think? I mean like Is it is it is

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it as simple as I put it or do you think it's

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more complicated? No, I mean Yeah, I I don't

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think corporations are gonna do anything. They're

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they're making money. They're getting paid And

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or the majority of them at least aren't going

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to care, right? Who cares if? Little girls don't

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get dolls for Christmas. Well, I'm sorry. They're

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not getting dolls for Christmas. Anyways, they're

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shipping after Christmas would that's a different

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topic, but Yeah, the only other option is just

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not to buy it right just to burn the scalpers

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but The stuff is cool that they buy. Yeah. And

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a lot of it, like I was reading an article, I

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guess a lot of them moved off shoes. Shoes used

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to be the big one. Right. That market's kind

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of collapsed. Right. So now they're looking for

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the next market. Right. For a while there was

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graphics cards. Right. Remember? Oh, God. Yeah.

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Remember the great graphics card shortages right

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around covid and during the whole Crypto mining

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fiasco, right? When everybody was buying every

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graphics card under the sun. Yeah, it's it's

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they're going to move around. They're going to

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move to wherever they think they can make the

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most money, the the quickest. So take that for

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what it's worth. Anyway, what do you guys think?

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Do you hate the scalpers as much as we do? Is

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there anything that you've been trying to get

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lately that scalpers have made difficult for

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your life? Let us know down in the comments below.