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And I want to talk about it, actually a couple different toys that I want to talk about this happening to when I was a kid. And some thoughts on this whole trend of scalping in general. But before I do, I want to apologize. There was supposed to be a video, a prime news video going out today. I haven't literally recorded, I've had it recorded since 7.30 in the morning. I have all the footage, I have everything ready to go. I've been having some technical issues all day. I'm not even sure if this video is going to go out at the time I'm recording this. Not necessarily because I've had issues with my cameras or my microphones, it's actually just been computer related. On my laptop, I just got a brand new laptop yesterday. It was a really nice laptop with an i7, like 10, 750H and a 6 core 12 thread processor. 16 gigs of RAM running at 3200 speeds. I had obviously a 2060 in this bad boy, 4K 60 screen. It was a beast. And it was essentially going to probably become my main way to edit. Not that I'm not going to use my studio. But I was going to kind of change things up to kind of have like a live stream setup versus a editing setup. And just make things a lot easier for me. But here's the thing, that computer, the keyboard stopped working on, right? So obviously I had to return it, order a new one. Okay, fine. And the stores won't have any in stock, so I returned it. Supposedly a new one's coming tomorrow. Whatever, right? You know, why didn't you just use your normal computer that technically this video was created on? And well, my desktop computer has been blue screening for quite some time. It doesn't seem to do it while I'm live streaming anymore, but it does do it in several other cases. And it's extremely frustrating that this is happening. And every time I try to edit any video that has any fancy editing, it just can't handle it. I have repasted the CPU, tried a whole new cooler. I have reset and replaced the RAM. I've tried multiple GPUs. I don't know what's going on. I'm pretty sure the motherboard itself is having some issues based on the error codes that come up, which means the motherboard needs to be replaced. Which, as you guys might know, it's actually kind of hard to get your hands on proper motherboards, proper any computer parts right now. It's a really bad time to have technology issues, and things are all on the second hand market and really expensive. So I just, this is horrible. I feel bad about it. I don't know when the laptop's arriving tomorrow. I do have to be here all day, so I had to take off work to sign for the laptop, assuming that it even arrives. I'm really upset if it's not going to arrive tomorrow after I already took off work. So if I end up doing more streams or more simplified videos here for the next day or two, it's not because I don't want to make prime news. It's because I just can't. It just isn't working with the technology I have right now. And you might say, hey, well, before you return the laptop, why didn't you plug a keyboard into it? The USB port stopped working. Again, brand new computer. I've only ever did one single school assignment on it last night. This morning keyboard doesn't work. USB ports don't work. No, I didn't leave it plugged in overnight, so it couldn't have been from a power surge. So I don't know what happened. It sucks when we're waiting for a new one for that. And if it happens again, then clearly there is some massive design flaws. But anyways, let's get into this story. So scalpers and collectors buy up McDonald's Pokemon Happy Meals, like stealing burgers from a baby. Alright, so here's how the story goes. This is why we can't have anything nice. Kids across the US are unable to get their hands on any of the 50 Pokemon cards included in McDonald's Happy Meals this month to celebrate Pokemon's 25th anniversary, since eBay scalpers have been buying up the packs in bulk. Since some of the cards are rare holographic versions, it's not really a surprise, but it is disappointing. It's like many adults are heading to McDonald's to purchase the cards in mass without the Happy Meals themselves. Which you can do. I used to work at McDonald's. You can buy Happy Meal toys on their own. That is something that's relatively common when certain Happy Meal toys are in high demand. And some are intercepting entire boxes. That's like a big no-no to me. I'm sorry, that shouldn't even be possible of the things before they even make it to restaurants. So Jimmy Bond here puts up proof that these things are on eBay. So it says, this is not cool. Your employees are scalping these while my kids can't get them with a paid meal. Entire boxes is what you see in here. Packs. Lots of 150 seal packs. 810 bucks. We'll go on eBay here in a moment and actually assuming my computer doesn't crash and look at what they're going for right this second. So Pokemon 25th anniversary McDonald's promo booster backs. That'll be a search term we'll use here. Over on eBay, full boxes are selling for upwards of $800. And individual seal packs are selling for around $5 to $20 each. The only way that these boxes could be in the hands of sellers is either a back alley deal with an employee or an employee is the seller. Either way, it's not a great look for McDonald's. Asking people to at least donate the meals to the homeless. And this guy here, JT Valor, you know, went to McDonald's to grab some of the new Pokemon card packs since you couldn't buy the packs separately. I bought 10 Happy Meals and then he gave out the food in the homeless area. So that McDonald's wasn't allowing them to be bought separately. It's kind of up to the manager. If you only want the cards, then do the same. So that was a nice thing to see. The homeless got some food and all that on people's card hunts. For the record, we have nothing against adults buying Pokemon cards. We are in front of adults and we have to cut our sandwiches into Pikachu shapes just so we won't eat them still. It's always going to be a disappointing month for a kid who loves Pokemon. This to me is... Like this guy says, please retweet. I'm the person who buys Pokemon Happy Meals and gets 27 battleship toys and the store claims they don't have Pokemon card toys. Even when I spoke to the manager yesterday, he said he had them, the receipt even says Pokemon. Here's the thing. And I'm going to head over to eBay while I talk about this. I don't like scalping. I've never liked... Buying something for the purpose of reselling. I get that it's perfectly fine in the market. This is something, especially in the United States, that is promoted to something to do to make some extra cash at times. You know, card packs. Let's see what pops up for this. Here's one for $10.95, $45. $850 for a whole box. This is the thing that's happening. Scalping of children's McDonald's toys are happening right now. The prices on these are only going to go up and up as they're so hard to get in person. At my local McDonald's, which, let me see, we had one in Chippewa, where I'm from from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. I don't care if you guys know what town I live in. Whatever. And then there's a couple in Eau Claire next door. They don't have any of them at all. I try to get my kids some happy meals for dinner tonight, which they don't get to have that stuff very often because I'm on this healthy diet. But I'm like, you know what, hey, you got some Pokemon cards. I wasn't even getting them for myself. None of them had them. They had backup toys, Hasbro toys, a couple other type of toys, but they didn't have the Pokemon cards. And why don't they have them? Because of scalpers. I've experienced this as a kid. Once with Pokemon, actually, but we'll get to that in a moment. I actually experienced this at McDonald's with TY Baby toys. You guys remember the TY stuffed animals? Like, those were highly collectible, still highly collectible today, especially some of the older ones, the older rare ones. And they used to have many ones at Happy Meals. I like maybe got one as a kid out of like 10 Happy Meal attempts from my parents because they just didn't have any. People were buying them up. And here we are with Pokemon, one of the most popular franchises in the world. And this is happening again. And I don't feel, if you legitimately go to McDonald's and buy a Happy Meal and get the pack and buy 20 Happy Meals and get the pack, fine. What am I going to do? Tell you that you can't go there and spend your money on it. I have an issue when you see full boxes like this. Because you can't, they can't sell you full boxes. They're not allowed to. So to get a full box like this requires an employee breaking the law and basically stealing the box and selling it to somebody or selling it themselves. I mean, $950 here for this one. $900 for this one. This one's like sealed. It hasn't even been opened right fresh off the damn delivery truck. I used to work at McDonald's. I did every job you could do at McDonald's including groundskeeping for crying out loud. And yeah, I empty delivery trucks. Really want to be that hard if someone's not paying attention to slip this out the back door and get it into someone's car. It's pretty ridiculous. $880 for this one. Here's one that's a little cheaper because it might have a few less packs at $550. It just goes on and on. $975, $825, $950. It's ridiculous. And I get why it's happening because they're collectible and there's rare holographics in these. But the purpose of this promotion is Pokemon for kids. And the fact that there are thousands, millions, however many kids out there that might have been like heard about this from their friends that they will get a Happy Meal to get a pack that can't, it's disappointing. I am a gamer. I am a parent. I was a child at one point. It was disappointing when I was a kid and couldn't get my hands on the TY Babies. It's disappointing now that a promotion designed specifically for kids is being taken advantage of to the point that kids can't even get one even when their parents go to buy it the day the Happy Meals are out. I feel bad for kids. Well, what's happening when you see scalping of whole boxes like this is you are taking away someone's childhood memories. You are taking away a child who can open a pack and get super excited and maybe they ruin the cards. But you know what, that's prerogative. They're children. Maybe they don't. Maybe they hold on to the cards and they get to use them when they're older and sell them off if they ended up getting a rare holographic. Cards I got. $800 here. It just keeps going. $850. $1,100 for $150 which must be as many packs fit in a box. This is just not okay. I'm not cool with what is happening here. And we see scalping all the time. No, we've dealt with this as a switcher. I remember Super Mario 3D All Stars for like a whole day. It was really hard to find them. So yeah, that was being scalped like crazy. We've seen Switch and Scalp. Obviously we're still dealing with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X as being scalped. Scalping is very much a part of the world we're in. But I don't care so much as much about PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X as being scalped because we're talking $500 systems that clearly parents are going to have to buy for their children or buy for themselves or just adults in general. It's not really something that a kid can just go out and buy one of those systems, but a Happy Meal? But a Happy Meal. A kid can easily get $5 from their parents and get a damn Happy Meal. It's just sad. Now I did mention when I was a kid there was a Pokémon something that was really hard to get but it wasn't that like it wasn't as difficult as these Pokémon cards that they get. And that is, you guys remember anyone who's in their 30s you guys remember back when Burger King got a Pokémon promotion where you got a Pokémon with a gold-plated Pokémon card in it? I do. I have three of them. It was a little bit easier to get maybe because Burger King isn't as widely scalped as a McDonald's toy, maybe it's not as collectible but after one week they never came back again and it was supposed to be a month-long promotion. And I have found out that they were being scalped as well. They just took a little bit for the scalper market to realize these things are valuable and they had real gold-plating on them supposedly. I don't know. Someone's probably tested them, I don't know if it's actual gold or if it's fake. But if it was real gold that just makes them even more collectible. I don't like this practice. Now again, if you're going to go out and buy some packs look at this 40 bucks here for these five of them if you're going to go out and buy some happy meals and get the packs, fine. But don't do it for the purpose of scalping them. Do it because you want them. You want the pack. I understand Pokemon Trip we just had a story in Prime News yesterday about the entire base set in mint condition selling for $666,000 of those first edition Pokemon cards from back in 1999. Like I get it, there's big money in Pokemon cards collecting. But those people at least bought the cards and or opened the packs and saved the cards themselves. So they got to potentially enjoy those cards in some way or form. Looking at them bare minimum. They just go get the packs to resell them. And this is the state of the world. This is the state of a free and open market is that you're able to resell pretty much anything you buy. Anything you buy is able to be resold even if there is like even if it says this item can't be resold. You'll see some items. You can still end up reselling it. You'll see that you buy a pack of suckers from Costco or Sam's Club or something. You get this huge pack and it'll say on the label not for resale. And then you'll see people selling those over and over again. Online or sporting events from boxes that say they're not supposed to be reselling them. But they do. It happens. We all know it happens and no one really does anything about it because that's just the free and open market we're in. You can say not for resale it doesn't mean it's legally not able to be sold. And even if it did mean that, there's not enforced. I think the only time we saw scalping actually kind of getting slapped down a bit was the guy who was scalping all the hand sanitizer. I remember that back in the heart of the pandemic at the beginning when we just did not have enough supply of basics like hand sanitizer, which feels like a basic these days. It's everywhere now. It's pretty easy to get at least in my area. Maybe in your area. It's still difficult. And toilet paper. There are people hoarding all of it and selling it on eBay. And government officials and police officers stepped in and said, you can't do that. These are supplies we need to keep people healthy. It was happening with masks as well. And 95 masks for a while was happening before. Obviously production has been ramped up now that mostly we can meet demand on a lot of these products. But this is just I don't like it. I don't like this one bit. I feel bad for my kids. I feel bad for if you're a parent, your kids. I feel bad for the kids at least of America where I know for sure this is happening who, you know, just wanted to experience being a kid and getting that really cool McDonald's toy that everyone's talking about and instead have to deal with the fact that adults are taking all the packs and reselling them and kids just aren't even going to get the joy. Like if I want my kids to enjoy a pack I mean look, 14 bucks here for one. I've got three kids here so I need at least three packs. Let's see here. 20, 50 for five that's not too bad. That's not too bad. Some of the prices aren't too bad. I'll give it to some scalpers. They're not doing they're not doing too bad. This is a card sleeve. But some of them are pretty bad. It's definitely more expensive than just buying a Happy Meal. Sorry, I'm really frustrated by this story. Maybe I'm just frustrated in general. 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