MJ Holdinga is the largest distributor of Pokemon card products in the nation. It supplies a lot of the major retail brands like Target, Walmart, and others with Pokémon products and other cards. They were under a different alias of GT Collectibles on the Walmart shop selling Pokémon products over 3 times the MSRP. I have seen then plenty of times on Walmart but never bought for them due to the crazy prices. They messed up by sharing the same addresses for both business and are now trying to cover it up.
I know this has been brought up but the word needs to continue to be spread into our community so changes can happen. The Pokémon Company does listen.
by Used-Manufacturer-13
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Submit a support ticket complaining about their practices to TPCi, that’s all we can do honestly besides refusing to buy at their outrageous prices.
Next week “TJ Holdings is to Blame”
Distribution is a Mafia
small correction Mj holding is not the distributor for target, it is excell marketing. Mj is like walmart, walgreens, cvs
Then you see fools actually buy at these prices and all you can do is shrug.
Some guy on twitter was posting how he spent $400 on 6 151 booster bundles and he “turned it into $20” with shit pulls.
Blame those people for not icing out official scalpers like MJ
I bought a stellar crown etb from gt collectibles for $45 a month back I didn’t know they were also the distributor
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Not to be the “ackshually” guy, but it’s been known for several years that GT and MJ were the same company, just search this subreddit. GT was(is) the “retail” face of MJ so if you bought from GT there was no contract obligation on price direct to the consumer, however MJ is under contract obligation with walmart to sell at a specific price (MSRP).
Just left them a review lol
Ah, lovely. A company thats proud of their reviews and work.
Blame the idiots paying these prices we got people paying 40 bucks for those boosters at Gamestop 60+ bucks from Gt Collectible and then 100 bucks from Those rip and ship streams pathetic
As pointed out, this has been a thing for awhile, I doubt TPCi will do anything about it.
We are desperate to pin the blame in one place but at the end of the day, pretty much everyone is at fault in 1 way or another. TPCi, distribution, stores, scalpers, scalpvestors, jimmy down the street buying off scalpers every week, sealed collectors (Here come the downvotes) and FOMO collectors. It all begins with TPCi at least trying to sort the mess out at a higher level than just MJ big baddie.
How are they trying to cover it up? What did they do?
I hate it to but its not illegal? Dont car dealers mark up their cars as well. And ticket master i feel like this is just the free market doing its thing. You just have to be a smart consumer. I only get products for msrp but i have to stay on top of the things which is annoying.
Just sent TPCi a ticket regarding this situation. If enough hobbyists send in, I’m sure measures can be put in place to create some space for actual collectors to acquire cards to open. Stay optimistic, scalpers can’t afford everything indefinitely if we all keep holding out.
They are definitely doing this. Last week my friend was trying to get cards at Wal-Mart and said the vendor pushed out a bunch of boxes and only emptied one, then said the rest were already spoken for and took them into the back. When my friend got the wal-mart manager to go in the back, the boxes and employee were gone.
I thought they sell fake cards they have terrible reviews
Up in Canada, look up address of Echo Brand Management distributor and zephyr online store…
This is not uncommon.
Every thing can be happening as it is, and yet the problem goes away if people would stop paying absurd prices. Who are these people paying crazy prices for sets that are months and even weeks old? Madness ha
Target is Excell.
MJ Holding also stocks Meijer.
Its only a small symptom of a large problem.
Theres no reason for mj holdings to have a bulk share of this product. That is pokemon company’s doing.
They could easily give distributors that serve local businesses the bulk of the supply and mandate that those distributors give the good products to small LGS, but they don’t.
Large companies can hold product long term so they don’t care about it getting sold for MSRP or below, they will just set it to scalper prices and forget about it like a legal price fixing scheme.
If you offered small LGS pallets of prismatic, the prices would come down instantly because those LGS would sell out, grow, buy more, sell out, grow, buy more.
Right now, even LGS has to buy from scalpers because of the current model. Its sad really.
I guess I am part of the problem considering i just purchased a few thousand $ of product from them.
I callee them
Yesterday
All we can do is make them go viral. If you’re a content creator make videos about this and speak up! If you are just a collector like me give post like these engagement and watch videos on YouTube about it. Sooner or later TPIC will have to do something. This is not a good look for them at all.
“Live: A little busy scalping product”
It really is a wild time. The guys who own my LGS said the distributors in the UK have done the exact same thing. They’ve not even been able to get english 151 & Prismatic.
Just buy singles 😊
So many sheep saying it’s okay and content with distro directly contributing to the stock and cost issues
Wow Walmart did something right. You have to list your actual corporate address to sell online there.
I once tried opening up a storefront there for my e-commerce business but since I’m a sole proprietor I didn’t want to list my home address on Walmart’s website, so I didn’t open up shop there and was frustrated with their policy….
Until now!! I now see how it provides valuable transparency.
If they’re partners with Pokémon, I don’t think pokemon will like the way this looks.
This will do absolutely nothing.