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

0:00 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.

0:50 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.

1:36 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

3:06 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.

3:53 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

5:27 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.

6:37 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.

7:23 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.

8:32 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.

10:06 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.