McDonald's Pokémon TCG promotion in Japan ends in chaos with scalpers leaving wasted food

[Redaktion]

Scalpers continue to find ways to spoil the fun for collectors of Pokémon cards. Another promotion went awry when resellers hoarded McDonald's Happy Meals. Per-customer limits did not prevent depleted quantities of limited-edition packs or wasted food.

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To be honest, I don't get people. The meal costs 3.50, you sell the card for 13, minus shipping your profit is 9. But that isn't that much money in profit. If you go that far you are better off taking the food with you and putting it in the fridge.

If anything, it likely collectors themselves throwing out the food since they don't lack money.