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We Bought Pokemon Cards For The First Time: Did We Win BIG?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Are you into #Pokemon? Bert is a new collector after witnessing the craze IRL! Did he pull a good card?

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0:00.0

This is The Bird Show.

0:02.3

I don't know. I think when my kids were young, I probably watched two Pokemon shows, two. That's it, two episodes.

0:09.1

I think I bought a couple of different cards for my kids at one point. Never really totally into it until yesterday.

0:16.9

So I'm in Target yesterday, right? I'm just running some errands. And I see a line start to form at the very edge of all the cashiers next to the wall where they have like baseball cards and they sell that memorabilia and all that. Right. And there's this long line starting to form. And I'm heading on over to the card section and I pass it. And I'm like, I wonder what's going on here. Of course you do. Right? I'm kind of curious, right? So I walk past this line of people to the very front of the line and I meet Ben. Hey, Ben. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. So I say to Ben, I'm like, dude, hey, I'm sorry to interrupt here, man, because he's, dude's focused, man. He's in the front of the line. He's got all these people back.

0:55.5

And I'm like, what's going on here?

0:56.9

And he explains to me that, well, you can explain it better than I can, but this was like the delivery for all the Pokemon merchandise.

1:04.0

And you never quite know when that is going to be delivered at Target.

1:07.5

Yeah, so you witnessed a Target restock.

1:11.7

That's what they would call it.

1:11.9

Okay.

1:13.9

It's a replenishment of cars.

1:15.0

It happens once a week.

1:23.6

So you go in there and this is not something that is, it's not like you can go on a Target website and say, hey.

1:25.0

Yeah, like how do you find out? Yeah, right.

1:25.8

Most of these items, they're not available online.

1:29.5

And if they are, they'll be sold out within minutes.

1:32.5

Nowadays, people are using, like, technology, which is bots to check out very, very fast.

1:38.0

It's beating, like, the normal speed.

1:39.9

So the only way to get product is to get them at the store.

1:45.7

You can get them on eBay,

1:50.2

but you're paying about three or four times the price of MSRP. So that's why people wait in line because they're getting it for the cheapest. But how do you know when the

1:54.1

shipment's coming in? You don't. It's really random. So like, there's like an underground

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