Everything is bad for the US. Its a good thing the whole world is not the US. Here in Iraq Pokemon cards are very expensive. I will have to give up eating for a week to buy one of these but I plan to take out a loan and buy 100 of them and make bank.
Wow at 80 dollars this is a steal! Where I live Sun and Moon boosters are $10 and Darkness Ablaze is $15. Im going to buy 1000s of these and resell them for a profit.
The rest of the set will be dirt cheap since the value of the Charizards will suppress everything else.
And its not really the scalpers fault. Every fall set's average booster pack value is around 7-8 dollars on the secondary market. MSRP is an outddated concept.
I dont really like these trends with Charizards. There will be a point to where these things will be worthless since they wont be special anymore. Every year we seem to be getting some secret rare Charizard and if every single year this happens I see some serious inflation with it. I feel bad...