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    To prevent foreign scalpers, the Pokemon Company may require buyers of exclusive merchandise to enter their unique Japanese national MyNumber ID
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    To prevent foreign scalpers, the Pokemon Company may require buyers of exclusive merchandise to enter their unique Japanese national MyNumber ID

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    1. rei0 on

      I don’t know if this will solve the problem, but scalpers are scum. Like video game cheaters, they ruin hobbies that should bring joy into people’s lives, and they are only doing it for profit or their own amusement. Trash human beings.

    2. ragequitteroffureh on

      Does anyone else remember when MyNumber first started, and when receiving their card at the ward office the nice man saying that it was very important to keep this information very secret, and not to share it with random fucking people?

      What the fuck is going on?

      What possible justification is there to collect people’s unique identifications for a fucking children’s game?

      I mean shit, I don’t know whether Game freak are the same company who makes this card game, but they were pissing info leaks like a fucking lawn sprinkler just a few months ago. Why the fucking fuckity fuck would anyone trust them with their sensitive private information that would be a bit of a fucking fucker if no WHEN it gets pissed all over the place? It makes no sense.

      Holy shit, my nostrils are flaring so fucking hard right now it feels like I’m losing my fucking mind.

      Also, this jar of crazy pills has run out 🙁

    3. Eddie_skis on

      There are plenty of domestic scalpers with my number cards. Just look at basically anything sold on Mercari. If it’s “in demand” in any way someone will try to make a profit, no matter how small.
      I’ve seen single rolls of Costco kitchen paper being sold online. We remember the mask scalping in 2020/2021 and the latest shitshow that was McDonald’s Pokémon happy set.

    4. scheppend on

      Read the article. What a rubbish title for this post. That stuff about foreigners comes from a comment on Twitter from some random person. You’re making it sound like it’s something that the Pokemon Company said.

      This system is to combat scalpers, regardless of nationality. Tying it to mynumber means they can limit the amount of sales to a single individual.

    7. niceaphextwins on

      Ok but the people scalping them are usually just putting them in expensive gacha machines Claw machines or selling as nationals