Sometimes we just ca n’t have nice thing
A simple day after the catastrophic tone ending of the limited Van Gogh Pikachu Felt Hat plug-in , the Pokemon Company has released an official excuse for the aggravated scalper situation which go on on the Pokemon Center web site this morning .
Through its official Twitter account , the Pokemon Company apologized to its fans about the collaboration items being sold out in minutes . Fortunately , they also affirmed that they ’re already look for other ways to bring the exclusive items to their fans through the Pokemon Center stores later .
We apologize to all the fans eagerly awaiting our Pokémon Center x Van Gogh Museum vent today . Due to overwhelming need , all our product from this collection have sold out . We understand this is disappointing to many who were looking to our prescribed email and social media…pic.twitter.com/KM3ZCO1EQZ
As we noticed yesterday , the initially unequalled quislingism exhibition between Pokemon and the Van Gogh Museum , meant to celebrate the latter ’s 50th Anniversary , ended up in a stupendous mess as scalper speedily flooded the location looking to hoard the undivided promotional item : the Pikachu Felt Hat bill .
It did n’t take long until video from thousands of multitude storming through the Museum ’s doors and cause mayhem commence showing up on social spiritualist .
One of the possible reasons was a listing error in the prescribed Pokemon Center website , which led people to believe the Museum ’s version would be unique . Unfortunately , we all recognize how that ended .
The excuse was n’t that well received by fan on the political platform . While it means that everyone will eventually get easier access to the circuit card , it also means that scalpers who got their wit yesterday and managed to betray them have already profited . This direct to some discomfited and sometimes angry response .
Pokemon depicted object creatorAustin John Playsremarked the scalpers ’ videos as “ disgusting ” , as well as displaying some of the insane monetary value the scorecard have been sold for .
The videos online of the scalpers was disgusting . Almost as revolting as this.pic.twitter.com/vzEWkMl6SM
Some cards start for over $ 270 on eBay , but someone managed to deal a written matter for over $ 1.700 , which is just inconceivable .
In lodge to forestall the situation from pass again , the Van Gogh Museum has restrain its sales of Pokemon merchandise , according to a museumrepresentative in an interview with Polygon . Quoting their Word , “ From tomorrow we [ will ] fix the sales to one piece per ware per client , in our web shop class and museum store . “ .
It might be a lilliputian too late since multitude have already profited from ruining an nontextual matter exhibition , but at least it wo n’t be happening again at the Museum . But whether The Pokemon Company will take better preventive measures against that in the future is still up for debate .
