Gotta buy ’em all: Pokemon card game is under threat from scalpers, fans say [Video]

Looking to buy Pokemon cards? Good luck. 

“It’s rough right now,” said Jake Wagman, a 23-year-old Pokemon card collector in Toronto. “I blinked and product is impossible to find. It’s unavailable.”

Wagman used to be able to walk into a big box store or hobby shop and buy a handful of packs of his favourite cards with ease. 

But over the past few months, thanks to a boom in interest, the Pokemon Trading Card Game hobby has been plagued by scalpers emptying store shelves, then asking for double and triple the price on the resale market like on eBay.

“All of a sudden people are just like seeing Pokemon, like the Pokemon brand, and they’re buying a product and they don’t even know what they’re buying because they think it’ll be valuable,” said Wagman.

“It’s to make like, you know, 50 bucks here or 20 bucks there. And it’s frankly ruining it for the people that actually …