By Dexerto | Created at 2025-03-06 19:57:55 | Updated at 2025-03-07 00:24:12
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A duo of Pokemon card scalpers got into a fight as their quest to scalp em all for a quick buck turned into a physical altercation.
Pokemon card scalpers have been getting increasingly brazen in recent months having brawled in Costco, followed restockers from store-to-store, and even prompted GameStop to cease taking pre-orders.
If the lunacy wasn’t already at abnormal levels, a couple of scalpers took things up a notch after they both reportedly showed up at the same location for a 10AM restock.
Instead of just accepting whoever was first in line would get dibs in their controversial hobby, things got physical and the police even reportedly had to get involved.
Pokemon card scalpers get into physical altercation at store
In a couple of TikToks uploaded by ‘yoc9official’ a man tried to prevent him from buying up cards from a vending machine.
“10am at a restock. Just wanted to get my 151’s bro,” he captioned the video.
The first clip begins with yoc9official at the machine placing his order when the order man tries to prevent him from completing his purchase.
Although there’s no audio from the interaction, both men start exchanging words and grab onto each other in a bizarre test of strength.
“The guy trying to cut me got arrested but I didn’t press charges so he good,” Yoc9 revealked in the comments of the video, which has been viewed over 3.2M times on TikTok and another 4.9M on X.
In a second clip, the man who tried to cut in line is seen explaining his situation to a store employee. He also further explained what happened after the altercation.
“He claimed being in his car was in line… cops came got him and he fell out pretending to be hurt,” he said. “They asked me if I wanted to press charges and I said no.”
This is just the latest in a wild wave of Pokemon card shenanigans, and it doesn’t seem like there is any end in sight to this scalper situation.
