>>58842790They are printing more. They've been printing at maximum capacity for over a year now. They literally can't print any more than they are currently printing.
It doesn't matter because, like you see in your own photo, a single scalper can and will buy out an entire shipment if allowed.
It's like how ticketmaster execs bragged about having a single customer scalp over two million tickets through a 12 month period.
Any online stock is bought out by an army of bots.
Any physical stock is bought out by these guys because the employees selling this shit aren't paid a livable wage and are easily bought and paid for. Dropping an expected restock time into a discord channel can pay for your kids medical bill.
The issue is that there are just too many people with "fuck you" levels of money who are buying out scalpers' entire inventory at inflated prices just because they can. Because, to them, dropping tens of thousands of dollars weekly on their hobby is somehow cost effective, since it's cheaper than other rich people hobbies. Why buy another yacht when you can spend a few months drowning in nostalgia?
The other issue is the card game supports it becoming a rich person's hobby through its rarity set distribution. They are dedicating almost one third of each set entirely to secret rares, with specific chase cards being so shorted they take multiple cases to actually pull. If you want to catch 'em all, you need to open thousands of packs each set by design.
