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GameStop Wants To Sell You Random Pokémon Cards For $5,000 A Pop

Kotaku·Rebekah Valentine·6 months ago
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As GameStop tries to buy eBay with $56 billion of fictional money , it’s also putting a lot of effort into pump its own profits by price-gouging customers on collectibles like trading cards . Today, the retailer came up with a brand new way to do that: selling single, randomized, PSA-graded Pokémon cards for $5,000 a pop.

This unhinged behavior went live on GameStop’s website today as part of its “Power Packs” program. Power Packs have been live for several months now as part of a collaboration with card-grading site PSA, allowing customers to spend a flat amount of money to “rip” a digital card pack that has a single PSA-graded sports or Pokémon card in it.…

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