12/12/2023 0 Comments Target online sports cardsBut even knowing that - and knowing the time the restocker usually shows up - was pointless, as flippers would camp out and line up, waiting for the cards to hit the shelves… and then they’d pounce.Įventually, Target began instituting policies to limit the bulk buying - hanging signs saying that purchases would be limited to three items, and eventually one, per customer - but even that was circumvented, as stories of people bringing friends, kids or even paying homeless people to buy the packs were passed around Twitter.Ī few weeks ago, standing in line for checkout, someone behind me asked an associate if they sold baseball cards. I never thought I’d know so much about the intricacies of card restocking - a third party vendor handles it, not Target employees. Related: Target halts in-store sales of MLB, NFL, NBA, Pokemon cards starting Friday Some tweets shared inside tips (e.g., and paraphrasing - “my local Target restocks on Thursday morning, but can be as late as 2”), but a subset of people had become professional Target trading card speculators and those of us who just liked to grab a pack of anything on the way out were left with nothing but a sea of Trolls plush mini-tins and TeenyMates from which to choose instead. Or regular Joe collectors, snapping pics of ransacked shelves. Card Purchaser retweeted people bragging as they walked out of Target with a cart full of Prizm Draft boxes. But if you follow Card Purchaser on Twitter (and anyone who likes cards should do this), you knew back in April or May that shelves were being wiped out as the card industry boomed and speculators went to annoying lengths to get retail boxes of cards - which they’d either flip, break, or just generally hoard. It’s a pandemic, so going to Target was already a little weird. But the past year has been ridiculous (I chronicled a sliver of it in a story about WNBA trading cards earlier this year).
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