Pokémon collectors who snagged the 30th Anniversary card set over the last week have been delighted to discover the collection’s incredible pull rates. Illustration cards are seemingly hiding in every Pokémon box out there, which is a great thing for fans who have spent the last year getting snubbed by miserly sets like Ascended Heroes. Yet as true Pokémon fans cheer, another Pokémon community is in the middle of a generational tantrum: resellers.
A wide range of posts hailing from unknown Discord servers have gone viral over the last few days, each one more ridiculous than the last.
“I am pissed,” reads one recent unsourced Discord post. “I paid a bunch of local homeless people … to wait in line for the 30th drop. Guaranteed them 50% of profits on all sales or 200 cash per Elite Trainer Box they got … I am losing about $150 per ETB at current prices.”
Another oft-cited Discord post begins, “I am seriously considering taking legal action against Pokémon. It’s disgusting that they didn’t share print numbers, pull rates, and how big the supply truly is … honestly, this could be a RICO violation if we find that they purposefully did this.”
Polygon cannot verify if these viral Pokémon posts are authentic. However, as a reporter who is a part of many Pokémon restock Discord servers, they’re consistent with sentiments from multiple resellers. Over the last few days, I’ve witnessed a number of angry people regretting their 30th Anniversary purchases. In one instance, I watched a man spend hours on a Discord server describing how he had been excited about the set until he pulled a Gengar Prime Classic Collection card.
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