Pokémon fans almost missed the upcoming TCG set Phantasmal Flames. Scalpers found an early way into the set's pre-order pages, which were supposed to go live later this Wednesday. They used bots to buy over 42,000 products, causing the collection to sell out before real players could even see them listed in the Pokémon Center online store.
PokeTCGAlerts on X shared a Discord screenshot of an alleged scalper server. At least two users were bragging about their bot buying all that Pokémon product. "This is OUR holiday season, let the criers cry and whiners whine, they can go tell their moms what happened today and break their monitors while we reap the profits," one of the scalpers wrote after bragging about causing Phantasmal Flames to go out of stock.
