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GRTV News - Scalpers go crazy for Pokémon cards at Van Gogh museum
Scalpers have been flocking to the famed museum to snag rare cards and to re-sell them at extortionate prices.
Audio transcription
"Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of GRTV news. It's a new week and I figured we'd kick things off by talking about a really bizarre story that broke last week actually. Recently the Pokemon Company had decided or made an announcement that it was going to be collaborating with the Witzer Van Gogh museum in the Netherlands. Quite an unusual collaboration, but then again the Pokemon Company does do a lot of really peculiar collaborations because of its sheer size, right? You know, Pokemon is the biggest sort of franchise out there. But yeah, this collaboration was announced and it led many people to think, you know, what's this going to be? Last week it went, you know, it actually launched, it actually launched and went live. And as part of this collaboration, they were giving away these exclusive Pokemon cards. And as you can probably tell where this is leading, there has been a huge amount of scalping taking place for people taking these cards and looking to resell them at a massive increase in price. So with that being the case, let's take a look at what's happening. Scalpers go crazy for Pokemon cards at Van Gogh museum. People are going rabid for Pikachu wearing a funny little hat. Iron people. Scalpers are willing to go to major lengths to get their hands on limited edition or high ticket items. But few things create scalper rampages quite like Pokemon merchandise. We reported in the last, in the past, sorry, that some exclusive merch would be coming to celebrate a collaboration between Pokemon and the Van Gogh museum. Now we have footage from the museum where scalpers have been rushing to bulk buy cards with Pikachu wearing a hat. It got so bad that the museum has had to change its policy regarding purchases of the items. It'll only allow one of each unique item for ticket holders. I mean, you can't just sweep the whole place. I'm not going to play the video here, but if you want to check it out, it's embedded into this piece here. What's weird about this is that the Van Gogh collaboration isn't running for a few days and it will be available until the 7th of January. The special Pikachu card coming with each valid purchase on the Pokemon center website. But as always, scalpers are going to scalp. Just make sure you don't fall into their trap and buy one of their cars on eBay. So yes, scalpers are buying these cards and reselling them at extortionate prices. It is literally just a picture. Essentially it's like a portrait of Van Gogh, except it's Pikachu instead of the artist himself. And he's wearing, Pikachu is wearing a sort of top hat. It's a very interesting card, but is it worth paying all the money that these scalpers are going to charge for it? No. If you can't get there for yourself, don't buy one of these cards for the ridiculous amounts of money these people are selling them for, because it just encourages them. But yeah, no doubt there'll be, we'll see a drop in scalping as it goes on, because as Alex puts the news piece there, the collaboration is running until early in the new year. So there's plenty of time to get your hands on these cards and there's plenty, there should be plenty of them going around, so it shouldn't hopefully be that much of a massive sort of issue in regard to scalpers. But as we know more, be sure to keep yourself updated and otherwise we'll be back now tomorrow for the next GRTV News of the Week. So until then, hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday and we'll see you all on the next one. Take care, everyone."
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