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Due to declining attendance, the Van Gogh Museum launched a limited-edition merch collab with Pokemon, hoping Pokemania would reignite public interest. The usual hypebeast scalpers promptly descen... (news.artnet.com)

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Well, you vote with your wallet. And as I said, I don't blame consumers solely for this. But if there is no demand people would also exploit it less, it is a vicious circle.

I mean in this case we are talking about pokemon merch, you could just do without this for a while until they made more. But still there are people who are going to buy these from the scalpers. And yes, they are part of the problem.