As you may have read from some of my previous posts, my TCG collecting slows down whenever I'm in Ireland due to not being able to find many places that sell the card game. The places I do find that sell them are either slightly overpriced, or EXTREMELY overpriced. In this case, this is the latter.
I took a day trip to Limerick yesterday just to browse around, and I saw that the Gamestop there was selling Pokémon TCG packs aside from some merch. Sadly I didn't end up buying anything because the prices were flat-out insulting. A booster pack of Roaring Skies was 6 euro, a deck of cards was 17 euro, and a tin of cards (the Groudon and Kyogre ones, none of the new ones) were 25 euro each. Compare this to the Tesco in Tralee where a booster pack is around 5 euro (but then you get a promo with it) or 13 euro for 3 packs and a promo.
I'm not even kidding on the prices:
This is mainly why my collecting comes to a screeching halt whilst I'm here, I'm not willing to pay that much for one single pack, or that much for a tin.
I took a day trip to Limerick yesterday just to browse around, and I saw that the Gamestop there was selling Pokémon TCG packs aside from some merch. Sadly I didn't end up buying anything because the prices were flat-out insulting. A booster pack of Roaring Skies was 6 euro, a deck of cards was 17 euro, and a tin of cards (the Groudon and Kyogre ones, none of the new ones) were 25 euro each. Compare this to the Tesco in Tralee where a booster pack is around 5 euro (but then you get a promo with it) or 13 euro for 3 packs and a promo.
I'm not even kidding on the prices:
This is mainly why my collecting comes to a screeching halt whilst I'm here, I'm not willing to pay that much for one single pack, or that much for a tin.