Why so expensive?

[donavannj]

Collector's Cache overcharges by ridiculous sums.

 

[Rocket_Executive]

You could get the set on ebay right now for $300 if you wanted to. For $800 I would expect to be able to get something a heck of a lot rarer than just a complete English set.

 

[SmashBrony]

When I feel like it, I'll head over to Collector's cacthe to check prices.

 

[The Nightmare]

Why is Australia selling card packs for $7 when in the USA they're being sold for like $3?

The US dollar and the AUS dollar are equal-ish so I cant really see a reason why they're so expensive here

Over here It's way expensive it cost for one pack $12.00 and for a giant pack is cost $20.00!, I thought australia was cheap?

 

[LAF]

Where do you live? And what is a giant pack? Theme deck?

 

[donavannj]

Those sound like the prices for theme decks and the big bonus boxes that have special items such as jumbo cards and figurines included in addition to 4 or 5 boosters here in the States.

 

[LAF]

You Americans get all the luck. Here you'll get either a booster, a theme deck w/ a booster (or without), and sometimes I'll see those 3 packs with a promo card and a coin.

I was amazed when I saw the B/W preview tins in a shop last Friday. I bought one of each :P

 

[donavannj]

Well, America's where all the money is, so we're more likely to see the stuff.

And I saw the three theme decks for the B/W set last night and bought all three. I already had bought myself the tins.

 

[LAF]

:( I don't think that's been released here yet.

What are they like? I don't play the vidya games so I don't know the pokemon too well, but I'm pretty disappointed with the names out of the preview tins

 

[donavannj]

The card designs are very different, but after removing the nostalgia associated with the names of previous generations (and that's the only way to look at this generation's names with a fair light), these names are better this generation than in any previous generation. Of course, that's after removing the nostalgia, which a lot of people on this forums have issues removing.

 

[LAF]

My only gripe with the names is that they don't seem very creative, at all :(

 

[donavannj]

Well, if you look at all the names for previous gens, they are just as creative as Gen V's names are. The only difference is that the older gens have a "nostalgia value" to them.

 

[LAF]

Well as I said, I'm going by the starters and preview pack. I actually think that there has been less and less creativity with every new generation, and that's not just nostalgia.

But the preview pack? Pidove (pigeon/dove), Sandile (desert crocodile), Lillipup (little pup), Patrat (another rat??), and Purrloin (yet another cat)

It's entirely possible that these are the "animal" names that are seen in the previous generations, and it just happens that those are the ones chosen. But that's why I'm not too keen on them.

I'll still collect them, and maybe I'll grow to like the names, we'll have to see :)

 

[Rocket_Executive]

I don't know Donavannj, some of these names are going to be downright embarassing to say outloud to other people. I do think you're right that it's all about the nostalgia factor, when you say 'charizard!' out in public people generally don't think too much of it because everyone knows that name, first gen pokemon have this pseudo-vintage coolness now. But imagine me going around using names like sawk, throh, trubbish, vanillish, klinklang, etc. I would prefer them all to have kept their Japanese names, at least you don't sound rediculous saying them.
Regarding the lack of creativity via mashing words together, let's not forget gen I:
squirt turtle, war turtle, blast tortoise, bulb dinosaur, ivy dinosaur, venus (flytrap) dinosaur, magic carp, etc? Plus the ones which were just variations on their literal description like caterpie, pidgey, rattata, spearow, etc.
I guess what I'm saying is, the names always sound bad when you are trying to Anglicise them via word-mashing, and they should just keep the Japanese names. Pikachu, zorua, these names are fine; trubbish?? Ugh.

 

[Scottjwilson87]

They are getting expensive in England aswell, i paid £3.99 over here the other day for a black and white booster which is about $7

 

[Kikaito plush]

Here in scotland boosters are about 4 quid and theme decks over a tenner.

I stopped buying them when the jacked up the price

 

[AyameHikaru]

And they wouldn't be a dollar apiece in Japan because they use the yen as their currency, not the dollar. ;) They also have to fund the R&D largely on sales from inside Japan, and the cards are quite expensive to print.

Actually, packs in Japan right now are 158 yen... That makes them about $1.90....

:P But their packs only have 5 cards, so it doesn't exactly count.

 

[donavannj]

Actually, packs in Japan right now are 158 yen... That makes them about $1.90....

:P But their packs only have 5 cards, so it doesn't exactly count.

Then we double that size and we'd have an amount close to what the US packs cost. So they don't really pay any less than America does.

 

[kelario26]

Why is Australia selling card packs for $7 when in the USA they're being sold for like $3?

The US dollar and the AUS dollar are equal-ish so I cant really see a reason why they're so expensive here

Almost definitely shipping costs.

 

[Shining Raichu]

I'm in Australia and I actually don't think $7 is that much for a booster pack, I'll happily pay it. But I bought six BW booster packs the other day and they were $6, so I'm even happier still.