What do they mean declining attendance? I was there a few weeks ago and you had to book a day or two ahead cause it was sold out when I was going just trying to walk in.
Nothing about that in the linked article. Maybe put in to shoehorn it into the boring dystopia environment?
I think having pikachu with only one ear may have been a missed opportunity.
The only way to fight this is to radically increase supply IMHO
Manufactured scarcity is generally stupid and anti consumer. Just make the things people want to buy and let them buy it. In this case they could easily do repeat prints until the last print doesn’t sell out the same day.
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People are only buying off resellers because of the lack of supply. Supply is the issue. Each individual person has their own idea of what the merch is worth and what they are willing to pay. IMHO you can’t blame consumers nor treat them as a monolith.
With the company committing to making more that should help reduce the demand side pressure. Just look at Lorcana, Disney said they are reprinting the first chapter and that the reprint will not be discernable from the original print. Prices have already started shrinking on eBay as a result.
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