Scalpers are provoking scarcity in McDonald’s happy meals Pokémon cards
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As part of a new promotion, Mcdonald’s is having Pokémon trading card games in their happy meals box sets, but kids have been unable to get their hands on any of the 50 Pokémon cards included in McDonald's Happy Meals this month to celebrate Pokémon's 25th anniversary, since eBay scalpers have been buying up the packs in bulk. Since some of the cards are rare holographic versions, they are highly coveted among collectors.
It seems like many adults are heading to McDonald's to try and purchase the cards en masse without the Happy Meals themselves - something that is relatively common when certain Happy Meal - and some are intercepting entire boxes of the things before they even make it to restaurants.
Full boxes are selling for upwards of $800 and individual sealed packs are selling for around $5 to $20 each.
Demand is such that McDonald’s and the Pokémon company have warned some restaurants not to sell just the freebies without the purchasing of a happy meal and to limit the amount of meals you can buy per person.
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