2y ago

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...

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After Its Team-Up With Pokémon, Flippers Swarm the Van Gogh Museum to Snap Up Merch and ‘Pick the Gift Shop Clean’ | Artnet News

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2y ago

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 /art-world/scalpers-snap-up-coveted-pokemon-merch-at-van-gogh-museum-2369894

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I think having pikachu with only one ear may have been a missed opportunity.
What do they mean declining attendance? I was there a few weeks ago and you had to book a day or two ahead cause it was sold out when I was going just trying to walk in.
- Nothing about that in the linked article. Maybe put in to shoehorn it into the boring dystopia environment?
The only way to fight this is to radically increase supply IMHO
- Manufactured scarcity is generally stupid and anti consumer. Just make the things people want to buy and let them buy it. In this case they could easily do repeat prints until the last print doesn't sell out the same day.
  
  Conversely if people would just not buy these things off resellers at premium price, it would also stop them from doing that.
  In the end it needs to be a combination of both I guess.

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