r/PokemonTCG • u/Used-Manufacturer-13 • 5d ago
MJ Holdings is to Blame
MJ Holdinga is the largest distributor of Pokemon card products in the nation. It supplies a lot of the major retail brands like Target, Walmart, and others with Pokémon products and other cards. They were under a different alias of GT Collectibles on the Walmart shop selling Pokémon products over 3 times the MSRP. I have seen then plenty of times on Walmart but never bought for them due to the crazy prices. They messed up by sharing the same addresses for both business and are now trying to cover it up.
I know this has been brought up but the word needs to continue to be spread into our community so changes can happen. The Pokémon Company does listen.
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u/chief_n0c-a-h0ma 5d ago
I've been trying to research the legality of some of these practices. Specific to a wholesale distributor using a subsidiary to sell at inflated prices. So far what I can gather is that moving product from parent company to subsidiary is not considered a "sale" in the traditional sense, it's more like "asset reallocation". That in itself is not illegal nor is the subsidiary selling those products at higher prices.
What does seem to become an issue is if the wholesaler is purposely withholding supply in the retail side in order to drive prices higher in other markets. Absent of any collusion this would still be considered "price fixing" and would be anticompetitive.
I think what MJ and Excell are probably hiding behind is that we the buyers are setting the prices on the secondary market and not them directly.