{"id":461,"date":"2025-03-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:40","slug":"pokemon-center-singapore-sticks-its-middle-finger-up-to-tcg-scalpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/pokemon-center-singapore-sticks-its-middle-finger-up-to-tcg-scalpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Center Singapore Sticks Its Middle Finger Up To TCG Scalpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Store will remove plastic wrapping at point of sale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For as long as <strong>Pok\u00e9mon TCG<\/strong> (Trading Card Game) has been a thing, scalping has been an ongoing issue. If you&#8217;re somehow unaware at this point as to what the practice entails, it essentially sees certain consumers purchasing products at retail price before selling them on at huge mark-ups. It&#8217;s not limited to Pok\u00e9mon TCG, by any means, but it&#8217;s a problem that&#8217;s been getting exponentially worse over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement from Pok\u00e9mon Center Singapore thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/pokemon-centers-wage-war-on-tcg-scalpers-by-removing-plastic-packaging-from-new-boxes\/\">VGC<\/a>), the store has confirmed that it will be removing the plastic wrapping from Pok\u00e9mon TCG products at the point of sale from 13th March 2025 onwards. The move has been standard practice in Japan for a while at this point, but this marks the first instance that the change has been utilised in another region.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/pokemon-center-singapore-sticks-its-middle-finger-up-to-tcg-scalpers\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store will remove plastic wrapping at point of sale. For as long as Pok\u00e9mon TCG (Trading Card Game) has been a thing, scalping has been an ongoing issue. If you&#8217;re somehow unaware at this point as to what the practice entails, it essentially sees certain consumers purchasing products at retail price before selling them on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}