TL;DR McDonald’s Japan has indefinitely postponed the release of One Piece Card Game Happy Meals, scheduled for August 29th. The postponement is due to concerns about scalpers, who caused issues during the previous Pokémon Happy Meal promotion, including litter and tense atmospheres. The official One Piece Card Game account also announced the postponement, leaving the future of the promotion uncertain.
by SkyInJapan
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Good on them
The easy solution is allowing ala carte purchases to reduce food waste, limit one purchase per customer (kid) per day to prevent hording, and only permit purchases at the shops (no online orders).
Is it going to start a hunt for the one piece?
Create a ridiculous large number of cards that will be distributed all month long to devalue the card and make it less enticing for scalpers. There is a correlation between rarity and value when it comes to collectables.
Limited edition Pokemon cards across three days was obviously going to be a disaster.
Imagine wasting food over a piece of cardboard
The five piece happy meals are still available though, right?
You get what you get.
If they really wanted to do this, the solution is easy: one card per customer, checked by the mcdonald app. creating tons of accounts is way more annoying than just showing up. cards are available only in store. done.
happy meals still have the toy as usual, card is obtained with any menu purchase (normal sized).
NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon cards get scalped for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of yens a pop during the 2020-2022 period > nothing done
McDonald toys get scalped > REAL SHIT
I am Jacks shocked Pikachu face.
Just limit it to in-store purchases, one per child (who has to be present) Who cares if that annoys adult collectors. The promotion isn’t for them
They will go through with it again and the same thing will happen again. In the end they make record sales off of this, and profit above all.
I’m not saying these won’t get scalped at all due to recent baseball craze, however unless these cards have a McDonald’s logo on it, I highly doubt they are getting scalped. The 7/11 promos sat in store forever, these will sit as well.
Nintendo tried solving this scalping problem by limiting orders to people with long-lived accounts in good standing. I wonder if that would work here, depending on how they define good standing.
Scalpers have absolutely wrecked card games.
Every hobby scalpers touch rots.
It’s most likely the reason the BTS McDonalds promotion isn’t happening in Japan.
Why don’t they just sell the toys for $4 each instead of only including them with the purchase of a $5 meal?
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