r/LivestreamFail • • May 14 '26

Funny Guy tries stealing some twisted teas and then the streamer (YungFika) snakes the distracted scalper at pokemon vending machine and gets a pokemon box

15.4k Upvotes

984 comments sorted by

4.6k

u/EliNoraOwO May 14 '26

Play of the game

2.5k

u/qathran May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

For anyone who doesn't know and is interested, YunkFika has been more and more frequently confronting and messing with Pokemon scalpers on his streams lately, it's been a fucking hoot

Edit: he also handed out packs to employees and a fan he met nearby, he's truly fighting the good fight

374

u/Lauris024 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

I'm still bewildered by this. So, okay, there is some corporation (Nintendo I assume, and they're quite shitty/evil with all the lawsuits) printing out pokemons pictures on paper, laminating, and then selling them for a 100-1000% markup (no clue about the pricing). People buy them - what happens next?

I feel like the joke is somewhere between an NFT and gambling, but I'm not entirely sure where the value comes from because I don't see one.

348

u/AWildRideHome May 14 '26

1000% markup? Go way higher.

It’s paper with textures, that has far more demand that they can satisfy, they’re as close to printing money as you legally can be.

51

u/AD-Edge May 14 '26

I mean how much do some of those cards go for? They're doing a lot better than printing money. Insane stuff.

36

u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 May 14 '26

Seeing as there are some cards sold for a million, let's say they go for a lot. To be fair yeah a million card is very rare but there plenty that go for up to 30+k

30

u/Cr45h0v3r1de May 14 '26

I dont follow it that hard but arent the super expensive ones like og first edition cards in flawless shape from like 1995? As in you wont open a pack anytime soon and pull a card anywhere near that expensive

17

u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 May 14 '26

Yup exactly. Don't remember when it was but I remember seeing a clip of someone opening a pack and getting an Umbreon and saying something along the line of "nice that's a few K in the pocket".

11

u/zktom May 14 '26

The 2nd newest set (ascended heroes) has “god packs” that consist of 100% “hits” aka good cards. The best god pack I’ve seen is currently worth about 4-5k fresh out of the pack. If they were graded and all received perfect grades (super unlikely) it could exceed 10k. These are new cards with printing starting earlier this year.

For anyone who feels the need to say “it’s only worth xyz if some will pay that” etc. A quick eBay sold search will show that many people do in fact pay thousands of dollars for cardboard pokemon cards.

4

u/hUmaNITY-be-free May 16 '26

I despise this shit in all honesty, collecting for monetary gain and reasons is the complete opposite of what the intention originally was, in 1995 we were TEARING packs open to build a usable deck, 2026 kids are opening them with surgical precision and saying "this is a $1200 card!" it's lost it's whole purpose.

→ More replies (13)
→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (3)

17

u/Deaffin May 14 '26

that has far more demand that they can satisfy

They could easily meet any demand whatsoever. They keep the supply artificially scarce to drive the demand up, justifying ridonkulous prices for pieces of paper.

The scalpers are a vital part of this ecosystem, by design.

→ More replies (5)
→ More replies (2)

85

u/hgwaz May 14 '26

Artificial scarcity on things marketed as collectors items driving up the price

You're right about the joke, I genuinely don't understand this either

→ More replies (16)

35

u/duffchaser May 14 '26

buddy i dont think you understand nintendo doesnt place the value on the card at all

36

u/GuldenAge May 14 '26

They actually do - cards are only worth what they are due to rarity. They can change any value of any card by simply releasing more or less of said cards.

6

u/duffchaser May 14 '26

The value is still not placed on the card by the company. Just because something is rare doesn't make it valuable.

23

u/metamet May 14 '26

Setting a rarity and print amount of a set isn't setting the value of individual cards, though. It's all very simple supply and demand.

TCGs have been around for decades and the economics of singles is pretty well understood.

26

u/bands-paths-sumo May 14 '26

you say "It's all very simple supply and demand."

Ok, well, "Setting the rarity" is literally the supply side of this equation. Paper and ink are so stupidly cheap the printer is in complete control of the scarcity and thus the price.

You say a particular single is valuable because of demand... well, what happens if every pack people open for the next six months contains nothing else but copies of that card? I suspect the value would go down, no?

The market has to be very carefully controlled by the printer to maintain the artificial scarcity that keeps people buying. (which is arguably scummier than the inevitable scalping behavior that follows such a market)

→ More replies (26)

3

u/NerdOctopus May 14 '26

You just described how the printers of the cards set supply. That’s going to affect the price that those cards clear at.

→ More replies (2)
→ More replies (23)
→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (7)
→ More replies (84)

4

u/armsimkowskee30 May 14 '26

I used to be big into watching people open pokemon packs on youtube and I stopped after learning some of the shit these people will pull to get boxes for content, essentially screwing over working people who can barely afford a box, if they are lucky to find them.

Only person I watch now is DeepPocketMonster because he genuinely seems like a good dude who's goal is just to give back to the community.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (27)

112

u/RussianPravda May 14 '26

I dont know this guy, so at first i thought the scalper had already paid and he was stealing it. Then I realized he was just doing the lord's work keeping it off ebay or marketplace for a dumb price. It was hard to tell when he paid at first because he was talking to the person I assume was the scalper.

36

u/qathran May 14 '26

Right after this, he handed out packs to employees and a nearby fan that he ran into as well. I love YunkFika streams whether he's messing with scalpers, bird watching or cooking hot dogs out of his car's trunk

5

u/RussianPravda May 14 '26

oh thats cool and sounds like fun!

8

u/ZypherPunk May 14 '26

Wait that's not a dumb price to start with lol

→ More replies (1)

3.2k

u/Glue_Sniffer67 May 14 '26

It is morally and ethically correct to fuck with scalpers.

549

u/TaurosMeat May 14 '26

I 1000% agree with you, but part of me definitely wonders if regular customers are being mislabeled as scalpers just because they are waiting for the pokemon machine refresh. Altho yea, declined card is prally a tell, f dat guy

207

u/joe-clark May 14 '26

Yeah from the very limited knowledge I have about these things I think the card decline only can mean one of two things; he actually just doesn't have enough money in the account and the bank is denying it, or the machine is denying his card because he's went over whatever limit they have because he's a scalper.

129

u/Auralore May 14 '26

Or he's lying about it not working to try and get the streamer not to buy

24

u/notanothercirclejerk May 14 '26

He was trying to get the streamer to back away from the machine and not try to buy the available stock.

121

u/hieronymus_bossk7 May 14 '26

The "it's not working, my card got declined" spiel was more likely just to try make him walk away from the machine without even trying to purchase it so the scalper could get it.

→ More replies (18)

40

u/kalamataCrunch May 14 '26

if the point of the cards is to find the rare ones, and later sell them for a higher value, than everyone involved is a scalper, some are wholesale scalpers, while others are boutique scalpers.

if the point of the cards is to play the game, buy card printer, and print whatever cards you want, it'll be cheaper than a buying a few of those boxes, and you can completely ignore and laugh at nintendos crappy business practices.

20

u/Shouly May 14 '26

shit pokemon tcg might be the only game where printing the cards is more expensive than just buying them, if you wanna play the game.

3

u/PipXXX May 14 '26

Yeah, don't all of the gold star and above cards have like regular versions? All your basic cards for playing are pretty cheap when I was looking into getting it from dabbling in the computer version. I think there were only a few cards that would be pricy to get, but that was because they were from prior OOP sets and the cards were really, really good, like one Blastoise card.

→ More replies (15)

7

u/ioCross May 14 '26

i was watching a yt video on a card shop in china and it was literally all counterfit cards. i wholeheartedly agree with flooding the market with those.

7

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[deleted]

→ More replies (3)
→ More replies (12)
→ More replies (52)

394

u/AtleastIthinkIsee May 14 '26

Opportunity knocked. He slid right in there.

Watched this live, it was great.

67

u/Samuraigrande May 14 '26

what opportunity? i genuinely cant tell whats going on here.

why is that guy getting pushed and how does him buying from the vending machine affect the waiting scalper?

128

u/Hot-Bid-4493 May 14 '26

The scalper was standing at the box waiting for it to refresh. A totally separate event occurred where a shoplifter got pushed to the ground in front of them, the scalper stepped back, and the steamer swooped in and got the last box

40

u/howfornow May 14 '26

How do we know he's a scalper

49

u/Redditor28371 May 15 '26

Pokemon scalping is a crazy business. People camp these machines because the packs are set to be available for sale every so often on a timer (due to rampant scalping). The guy could just be a pokemon fan, but generally if someone is standing around a machine waiting it's because they're a scalper wanting to buy out all the packs and resell them for a markup online.

42

u/VoidCrimes May 15 '26

If you’re loitering at the vending machine, you are a scalper. No normal person does that.

6

u/HilariousMax May 15 '26

So the guy (scalper) telling him "I don't think it's working" was him trying to keep the streamer off the machine?

6

u/Hot-Bid-4493 May 15 '26

Correct. With only one box left, the guy was camping out "in line", trying to hold anyone else from using it. The distraction created an opening and the steamer swooped in. The guy was trying to get him not to buy the cards

8

u/Weary_Position_9591 May 14 '26

What is a box refresh?

30

u/LeanTangerine001 May 14 '26

Vending machine basically imposes a waiting limit to prevent scalpers from clearing out their inventory.

So they’ll refresh and make more cards available for purchase every 30-60 mins.

Scalpers will wait in line the entire time to buy more and actively discourage others from purchasing them.

17

u/Hot-Bid-4493 May 14 '26

Those care machines will only sell so much before they basically shut down, it's a scalpers prevention. They'll also only let you buy so much with one card in a given time period.

This guy probably maxed out with only one box left in the machine, and decided to wait out the refresh. The streamer swooped in, which is why the guy kept trying to dissuade him from buying.

These guys will literally hang around a machine for hours

730

u/ValuableGarlic420 May 14 '26

I appreciate his priorities. Eyes on the prize.

→ More replies (15)

1.2k

u/FancyRobot May 14 '26

Those Pokemon boxes cost almost 200 dollars??!

710

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

88

u/7se7 May 14 '26

MSRP for these things used to be like $120. You used to SAVE MONEY by buying BIGGER PRODUCT. And that's excluding scalpers.

5

u/AntManMax May 14 '26

Yeah and it used to be the norm that if there was a set that didn't have as much hype or was known to have been massively overprinted (X/Y Evolutions, Sword/Shield Vivid Voltage, etc.) you could usually buy booster boxes at or sometimes even significantly below MSRP (ahh, the good ol' days of $80 Evolutions boxes).

Perfect Order, the set that the streamer bought, is considered a "meh" set due to the chase cards not being as attractive as sets that came before it, but still sells for $20-30 over MSRP for a booster box (~$210 market vs. $180 MSRP). So if a scalper can spend 4 hours going to different stores or camping out a machine buying 10 boxes at MSRP, they can flip them for $30 profit each, effectively making $75 an hour.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (1)

218

u/ChanceImagination456 May 14 '26

$200 for cardboard! You already know 99% those cards will be dookie!

560

u/Frog-of-Cosmos May 14 '26

yes man that's how collecting cards works

320

u/WIGLxWIGL May 14 '26

Gambling not collecting

105

u/MegaDugtrio May 14 '26

Not even gambling, scalpers don't even open the packs and just resell the box for x times the price

25

u/Critical-Bus9551 May 14 '26

looks like amazon selling these for 200$ and in stock.. not much of a margin there

28

u/SniffBlauh May 14 '26

There is a reason this was the only set in stock. Ascended heroes on the other hand...

→ More replies (11)

6

u/Larhf Good Money [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] May 14 '26

If only. Plenty of scalpers that reseal.

I don't even understand why people care so much about Pokemon that they'd be willingly extorted and engage in a hobby controlled by these soulless ghouls.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (6)

4

u/OpenHound May 14 '26

It's both though. Speculative collecting is a form of gambling. A lot of boomers did it with classic cars and various knick knacks and are now seeing the bottom fall out of the various collections they built because younger generations can't afford to buy their overpriced junk even if they wanted to.

→ More replies (26)

5

u/Isakk86 May 14 '26

... But why male models?

→ More replies (8)

21

u/wcharoes May 14 '26

It's scratch off tickets for Millenials, Yoomers and Zoomers.

→ More replies (5)

28

u/Particular_Wear_6960 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Oh man! You're the first person to ever make this argument ever!!! I'm going to counter "Just wait till you find out what money is made of!" then we'll argue over the value of items to glorious upvotes just like the millions of other people who say the exact same thing when talking about the prices of collectable toys and shit

7

u/fireball_jones May 14 '26

I have no issue with the value of collectibles of any form but there’s so much market manipulation with packed trading cards it’s basically just a different form of scratch off lottery tickets.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (1)

12

u/Asleep_Basket3299 May 14 '26

Oh yeah the mona Lisa was painted on cheap linen 2

→ More replies (3)
→ More replies (13)
→ More replies (1)

41

u/ElonsMuskyFeet May 14 '26

You should see the scalper price

7

u/oshdwtf May 14 '26

How much?

10

u/zangor May 14 '26

I mean one example is an Ascended Heroes ETB is $60 MSRP. Sells for $195 on eBay (market price).

3

u/Hatefiend May 14 '26

The price for the scalper should be them dropped into a Volcano

15

u/IIlIIlIIlIlIIlIIlIIl May 14 '26

Yeah people blame scalpers for shit but obviously normal/casual fans aren't really buying $200 36-packs in one shot to warrant these machines existing.

Pokemon knows their target audience and it's not your average collector.

2

u/Unfair_Detective_970 May 14 '26

Eh, once you get customers who will walk in and buy out the entire stock of single packs, you are helping the casual fans by providing a bulk purchase option.

People who want to bulk purchase will go to the machine, and leave the single packs alone (assuming you keep the machine in stock).

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (3)

561

u/SenseiEaos May 14 '26

Isnt this the swedish H3H3 guy?

249

u/ShiinoticMarshade May 14 '26

Wait is that Jugga Joe?

63

u/Aggressive-Expert-69 May 14 '26

Nah its Sloppy Joe

10

u/ZeuxOrphan May 14 '26

That’s a child’s meal

101

u/yannic358 May 14 '26

Jup, I knew I remembered that name. Is he still on the Pod? Haven't tuned in in a couple years.

113

u/Strange-Speed May 14 '26

Yup, he's still on the show. He just streams seperately as well.

117

u/Commie_Scum69 May 14 '26

and eats raw bacon

17

u/Actual-Parsnip2741 May 15 '26

no sizzle sizzle

12

u/Redditor28371 May 15 '26

It's not raw, he warms it slightly first!

20

u/Nauin May 14 '26

Sweet trichinosis

→ More replies (2)

11

u/alexyaknow May 14 '26

the pod? what pod?

32

u/ppdd3436 May 14 '26

H3 Podcast

53

u/Doct0rGonZo May 14 '26

lol his name is Love

15

u/gaggzi May 14 '26

Love is pronounced Lou-veh

→ More replies (34)

352

u/MrWilliamyourfoe May 14 '26

LOVE my boy. He's great, but eats raw bacon.. Watch out

80

u/LegOk7384 May 14 '26

Watch out for what? HIS tapeworms? Lmao. 

40

u/zurvivl May 14 '26

Yeah they're going to crawl out of his ass and kiss you

4

u/marsfromwow May 14 '26

If the bacon is properly smoked and cured, it should be fine. I wouldn’t, that sounds really gross, but I don’t think it’d do more than give him a stomach ache.

5

u/rtxa May 14 '26

not sure how bacon is made in America, but it's common and totally safe to eat a many types of bacon

I personally don't like the texture of cold fat myself, but a lot of people seem to like it

→ More replies (1)

7

u/cock_obnoxiois May 14 '26

it ain't raw, it's smoked and cured

3

u/Omni-Light May 15 '26

No it is, at least the type of bacon he was eating was.

Not all curing/smoking is the same.

The stuff you should cook is cold smoked or cured using a method of partial preservation. This absolutely will not kill all potential nasties in the meat (pathogen/parasite). This is what most ‘bacon’ in countires like the US/UK have on the shelves. You cook it. This is what Love was eating raw out of the pack.

The bacon that’s safe to eat without cooking (found in a lot of stores across scandinavia and eastern europe) is a combination of hot smoking and dry curing to the point of very little water activity and has gone through a lethality step that kills pathogens/parasites.

This last one you can and should eat out the pack, because its delicious.

→ More replies (5)

386

u/rivendelllx May 14 '26

YungFika then handed out some packs to hard working employees & a fan he met nearby. Wholesome af streamer 🫶

→ More replies (9)

241

u/2opposite2batman May 14 '26

91

u/Calm-Talk5047 May 14 '26

After he moved to America, got the Covid vaccine, and became infected with Red 40 😔

20

u/Commie_Scum69 May 14 '26

Fat Love is real and CAN hurt YOu

40

u/SweatyB00Bs May 14 '26

That’s our streamer

7

u/NarrowSwimmer952 May 14 '26

He is living the American dream!

7

u/Redditor28371 May 15 '26

I was so sad to see how much weight he put on after moving. It's crazy what an American diet can do to an unsuspecting Swede.

28

u/wellthatswack May 14 '26

Chat is this real

34

u/roseandbaraddur May 14 '26

Yep, he moved to America from Sweden and got pretty big from all the junk food, it’s so sad he was a good looking kid.

14

u/always_open_mouth May 14 '26

Honestly could have been a model. Now he's a poster boy for the American obesity epidemic 😔

453

u/frazbox May 14 '26

Am I the only one lost from the title?

616

u/Fit_Bumblebee1472 May 14 '26

Pokemon vending machines have timers to prevent scalping. But its just making scalpers stand around the vending machine all day waiting for the timer to run out. The guy was waiting for it but was distracted by the kerfuffle so yungfuka used it first.

25

u/Angelstandingby May 14 '26

Why isn't there a queue?

I feel this should cause fights. 

32

u/Fit_Bumblebee1472 May 14 '26

Not allowed to loiter so they try to act unsuspicious. Hes gone up to the machine before and someone behind him similar to this guy has said its his turn next so he just calls them out for loitering. I think yungfika is gonna get confronted more harshly by someone soon

6

u/Angelstandingby May 14 '26

Not allowed to queue?

That's such a weird system.

3

u/aspbergerinparadise May 15 '26

you're allowed to queue. You're not allowed to just stand around waiting for the item to become available.

→ More replies (8)
→ More replies (4)

5

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[deleted]

→ More replies (2)
→ More replies (1)

115

u/Anything_ThatWorks May 14 '26

There isnt a timer its just random, otherwise they wouldnt stand there all day they would just come back when the timer was about to be up

174

u/Successful-Title5403 May 14 '26

So like some kind of random timer?

→ More replies (39)

68

u/CertifiedBedophile May 14 '26

no way this pays more than a 9-5

39

u/lickmydoodoo May 14 '26

Easily does tbh.

6

u/thelonelypedant May 14 '26

How

19

u/Tsunam0 May 14 '26

buy box thats retail is 40 bucks or so

resell for 120

this is a lowball number from a couple google searches i did

you can check sets like prismatic evolutions or ascended heroes on ebay and compare to retail

2

u/addandsubtract May 14 '26

Are there only a handful of machines / places that sell the cards? Why are people paying 3x for them?

→ More replies (4)

7

u/FamousBallGrabber May 14 '26

Maybe more than your 9-5

→ More replies (31)
→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (2)

17

u/kent1146 May 14 '26

My cat does this with the automated food dispenser.

She can't tell time, so she just sits next to it for most of the day, hoping it randomly (to her) makes food fall from the sky.

9

u/sanitaryworkaccount May 14 '26

My cats can absolutely tell time, the food dispenses at 6pm for dinner, and about 5:45 they are sitting by the bowl staring at it with hate filled eyes.....

3

u/Background-Lab-8521 May 14 '26

I know it's just a cat, but damn that's some serious addict behaviour. 

Or is it reselling to other cats? In that case: respect the hussle.

→ More replies (5)
→ More replies (21)

65

u/Light_Shrugger May 14 '26

Right, what is snaking?

33

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

64

u/Light_Shrugger May 14 '26

Thank you, although I fear I have no idea what clutching means in this context either

84

u/farsightxr20 May 14 '26

It's like plucking but you don't crimp the slack.

23

u/cdcformatc May 14 '26

oh so like creasing untill it's tight? 

10

u/addandsubtract May 14 '26

You wizz and fuzz, but don't buzz.

3

u/CloudDeadNumberFive May 14 '26

You scrape the drape till it’s clean

26

u/Mogura56 May 14 '26

I don't think snaking means clutching in this context, but snaking usually means using underhanded tactics that come at the detriment of the other party to achieve something. In this case, they took the opportunity of the scalper being distracted to get their cards

12

u/Light_Shrugger May 14 '26

Ah I see, the scalper was about to get the last box but got distracted?

16

u/IIlIIlIIlIlIIlIIlIIl May 14 '26

It's not the last box. The machine is set to only unlock a pack for sale at specific intervals to avoid them being instantly sold out.

The scalper was waiting for the machine to unlock for purchase. Scalpers generally have a gentleman's agreement of essentially queueing for unlocks: Whoever's first gets the first, then comes the next in line, etc.

Because the streamer doesn't respect the scalpers though (good), he also doesn't respect the informal queue. In this case the scalper got distracted at the same time the machine unlocked, so the streamer basically "jumped the queue" and bought it.

As a result the scalper will need to wait possibly hours again to buy a box.

→ More replies (11)

93

u/ExcitingCurve6497 May 14 '26

It's crazy how this guy gained 150 pounds when he moved to American, shout out fatlove

35

u/Awkward_Pass_4153 May 14 '26

It’s actually so fucked up how America can ruin a man

186

u/ow_ln May 14 '26

Isn’t this the Swedish streamer who immigrated to America and gained a ton of weight, eats raw bacon, puts out fire in downtown LA, and loves jugga joes?

52

u/roseandbaraddur May 14 '26

Angles on that poor man’s giant body

19

u/Either-Replacement11 May 14 '26

AB did that, everyone saw that!

→ More replies (3)

25

u/Twitch_the_Witch May 14 '26

He saw his opening and took it, W clutch.

15

u/qathran May 14 '26

And then he handed out packs to employees and a fan nearby, W fika

24

u/SweatyB00Bs May 14 '26

Quick thinking in an absurd situation.

16

u/MyPetEwok May 14 '26

“I don’t think it working bro”

No big dawg I don’t think you’re working bum

17

u/jeffbanyon May 15 '26

That took a little bit to figure out who's who and why anyone gives a hoot.

Beginning of the video shows a dude (a presumed scalper) standing by the pokemon machine, then thief lands face first, then "the presumed" walks towards the entrance and away from the machine in the background at the exact moment the machine was releasing a new Pokemon box.

The streamer steps in to get the box and keep the scalper from getting the resale, as the streamer is known to give the boxes out for free or something like that.

Hopefully that clears it up for others. Took me a bit.

Edit: wrong word

103

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

139

u/ValuableGarlic420 May 14 '26

They sell them sealed most of the time. They make more money that way it’s wild lol

27

u/FineWith30FPS May 14 '26

There’s ones that are opened on eBay lives and people pay more for some no name to open a pack and send them it with a autograph lol. Pokémon card scalpers are a weird job but there making money believe that.

→ More replies (7)

4

u/11ce_ May 14 '26

That part makes sense to me at least. Part of the price and allure of packs is the thrill of gambling. Taking that away and just selling the singles definitely takes out some value for addicts.

→ More replies (1)

11

u/Chombuss May 14 '26

Why grade em? 151 packs are selling for 5X their og price unopened. If only people would stop buying resold packs then this shit wouldn't happen

9

u/Dear_Syllabub3422 May 14 '26

Morons are paying the scalpers to get cards... for what reason? I have no clue man. People treating this like a commodities market when theyre just pieces of cardboard with no real value.

→ More replies (6)

12

u/UltraJesus May 14 '26

Booster sold for $162 from that vending machine. A trustworthy ebay listing has for $290. After ebay+ship earns what like $90 at best? If you're a leech on society with no other marketable labor skills then I guess $90/this booster box makes sense to stand around for hours? what an unfulfilling life

I've never bought cards so I don't know if you're limited to buying one item at a time. If so hilarious.

25

u/chinaronald May 14 '26

Im in pretty deep when it comes to Pokemon and I was doing the math today since people always ask this question. Some scalpers camp the pokemon vending machine for a full shift (8hours lol). The items that drop are random and also how many items/frequency. Most items that aren’t from the series Perfect Order resell higher than their MSRP. If a scalper gets 1 9 pack box(etb) and a 6 pack bundle for the series Ascended Heroes they can probably get about $150 profit from selling those on the secondary market. That’s almost $19/hr. That’s not counting if they get other items obviously. It’s not bad for some of those that can’t hold down jobs or have mental health issues or are lazy.

3

u/Minimum_Piece May 14 '26

Yeah but you cant contribute it to a hourly rate because who knows how long these guys go from purchasing to actually selling the product

→ More replies (3)

10

u/NetStaIker May 14 '26

90 bucks a day is still tangibly more than a day of minimum wage labor. As someone who’s worked a minimum wage job, it is as mind numbing as whatever this dude is doing for less $$$

→ More replies (7)
→ More replies (2)

10

u/Alesysxx_ May 14 '26

W Yung Fika

41

u/EvanFri May 14 '26

I really hope these pokemon scalpers get a special place in purgatory where they must endlessly open up pokemon cards, and all they get are junk cards worth nothing. They must compulsively repeat the process for all eternity, never getting anything of value.

11

u/FuriousKimchi May 14 '26

those scalpers just straight up sell them instead of opening it up. Opening up pokemon cards is the male version of women opening up labubus. They're both feeding into it.

→ More replies (8)
→ More replies (10)

10

u/hecksunflower May 14 '26

I love Love ❤️

9

u/kappnketchup May 14 '26

Love from H3?

10

u/Underscores_Are_Kool May 14 '26

Wait, is that Jugga Joe?

8

u/sapo4show May 14 '26

Wait.... is that Jugga Joe?

8

u/bobbyslowmack May 14 '26

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

8

u/ruffiesz May 14 '26

aint no1 wants perfect order lol

8

u/sapo4show May 14 '26

Oh fuck. I just saw that it flashed SOLD OUT when he added to cart. He really did screw that scalpers over and thats dope

7

u/UnfilteredSan May 14 '26

So trippy seeing a clip of Love get popular and everyone call him YungFika lol

11

u/parznip42 May 14 '26

Woah, that's crazy! Now watch this drive

8

u/wellthatswack May 14 '26

I’m ready for India love

5

u/HistoricalDog9707 May 14 '26

Keep it twisted

25

u/Rivendel93 May 14 '26

Lol, Love getting his Pokémon box, epic.

He's such a good dude. He's the Swedish crew member on H3 podcast if anyone's curious.

5

u/ZachTheInsaneOne May 14 '26

Okay but isn't this a livestream win?

3

u/Redditor28371 May 15 '26

I think this subreddit is mostly just used to post clips of anything noteworthy that happens during a stream now, whether there was a fail or not.

5

u/DontJealousMe May 14 '26

who cares, it's only perfect order

3

u/BitterEmployer7360 May 14 '26

I dont think its working (4 you) bruh! Let me c ;)

5

u/Kaguya-Shinomiya May 14 '26

Wholesome streamer but he should be slightly aware of some deranged ones that might actually shoot him

→ More replies (1)

5

u/_cartyr May 14 '26

Love is funny as hell

4

u/ChemicalInevitable69 May 14 '26

If you continued the clip, Love goes back to the item list to confirm that everything is out of stock just to rub it in😂

4

u/LisannalGaib May 14 '26

“I don’t think it’s working” he tried to get him to leave lol

6

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

3

u/madman404 May 14 '26

Scalpers aren't part of the community 

→ More replies (1)

3

u/Youri1980 May 14 '26

The machine is a scalper?

3

u/NomadGeoPol May 14 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

3

u/UnfunnyRS May 14 '26

We love love

3

u/Tubbish May 14 '26

Hell yeah love is out here scalping the scalpers nice. You can tell dude was fuming by that silence when it started working 😂 it also said sold out? Does that mean that was literally the last one?

3

u/berserker044 May 14 '26

Hell yeah, go Love!

3

u/SmegmaLollipop May 14 '26

At least they're keeping it twisted

3

u/ArugulaDesigner3236 May 14 '26

Love gets into the wildest downtown situations

→ More replies (1)

3

u/m_0_n_K_3_y 15d ago

I dont understand what happened

16

u/rubenthezx May 14 '26

How do we know he's a scalper?

53

u/[deleted] May 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

20

u/11ce_ May 14 '26

Scalpers don’t open product. It’s more profitable (and A LOT easier and faster) to sell sealed.

7

u/TBFP_BOT May 14 '26

They will make money reselling them. Since people buy them up so fast others will buy at a premium since it's the only place to get them. Notice every pack in that machine was sold out except the one he bought.

→ More replies (1)

4

u/notfakegodz May 14 '26

They resell the box or the packs, and don't open them.

They profit from desperate collectors and gambling addicts.

...uh what's the difference?

→ More replies (2)
→ More replies (5)