{"id":19468,"date":"2023-06-13T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=19468"},"modified":"2023-07-07T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:14:25","slug":"20230613-19468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230613-19468\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon collaborates with marketplace app to put an end to Pok\u00e9mon Card Game speculation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Mercari announced on June 13 that they have signed a comprehensive joint agreement to ensure safe and secure transactions of Pok\u00e9mon-related products on the Mercari marketplace app.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mercari is a company that operates the Japanese marketplace app called Mercari, which allows users to sell and buy used items. On the other hand, The Pok\u00e9mon Company develops Pok\u00e9mon related projects and is responsible for producing and managing the licensing of IP works. According to the announcement, the two companies have signed a mutual agreement on marketplace co-creation (Source<\/a>, in Japanese).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main focus of the agreement appears to be the Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game<\/strong>, as the scalping of Pok\u00e9mon cards has been a major issue in Japan recently. The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Mercari will apparently engage in a regular exchange of information about products and releases in advance and will work closely together in order to build an environment where users can avoid misinformation and conduct transactions safely. They will implement notifications for users at the time around the release of new products and other measures to prevent infringement of rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, The Pok\u00e9mon Company will provide information and images of new products to Mercari, while also issuing warnings to users on their website, increasing <\/s>\u00a0production of the Pok\u00e9mon cards themselves, and improving sales methods. On the other hand, based on the information provided by Pok\u00e9mon, Mercari will issue notifications about new products on the Mercari application and official blog. In addition, \u00a0Mercari will remove specific product listings which were agreed upon with The Pok\u00e9mon Company and violate the terms of use of the application.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the Mercari marketplace app boasts a large user-base, it has dealt with the issue of users reselling items at unfairly high prices on several occasions. Mercari has been a major platform for activities such as expensive resale of video game consoles and speculative purchases and sales of Pok\u00e9mon Card Game cards. When the new expansion pack for Pok\u00e9mon Card Game Scarlet & Violet was released in April, expensive resale of rare cards was discovered once again on Mercari. But now, Mercari and The Pok\u00e9mon Company have made it clear that they will mutually take full-fledged measures to prevent such situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Pok\u00e9mon Card Game Scarlet & Violet Enhanced Expansion Pack “Pokemon Card 151” is scheduled for release on June 16. This product is attracting attention for the fact that it will be sold using a made-to-order system. The Pok\u00e9mon Company has issued a statement regarding this product, stating that \u201cPok\u00e9mon will firmly decline the purchase of products for resale or other commercial purposes.\u201d Orders for the product will be accepted from June 15, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. JST until June 21, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. JST.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n





Written by. Amber V based on the\u00a0original Japanese article<\/a>\u00a0(original article\u2019s publication date: 2023-06-13 13:39\u00a0JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to increasing cases of scalping of Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game cards in Japan, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has signed an agreement with Mercari, a marketplace app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":19470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-19468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nPok\u00e9mon collaborates with marketplace app to put an end to Pok\u00e9mon Card Game speculation\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Due to increasing cases of scalping of Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game cards in Japan, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has signed an agreement with Mercari, a marketplace app.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230613-19468\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pok\u00e9mon collaborates with marketplace app to put an end to Pok\u00e9mon Card Game speculation\u00a0 - 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