The Labubu foam has exploded! Scalpers went from boasting to begging for mercy in just one day
Just a moment ago they were saying you could buy it over my dead body, and now they are crying and asking for 800 to buy a box, save the children!
The catalyst for this incident was the sudden launch of the Labubu 3.0 unlimited pre-sale by Pop Mart on June 18, which completely disrupted the second-hand market. Products that had been speculated to 57 times their original price fell back to their original price within 24 hours.
This wave of speculation has long gone beyond mere buying and selling, evolving into an international joke. In London, people fought over dolls in shopping malls, fans in Seoul queued all night causing riots, and in Bangkok, scalpers hired people to block doors, local players were so angry they called the police. The most ridiculous part is domestically, where someone spent 100,000 yuan over two years to collect hidden versions, just to show off on social media.
But let's be honest, without naive buyers desperately picking up the pieces, how could scalpers be so arrogant? Young people save money to buy plastic toys just to attach a “trendy label”, it’s no wonder they get played.
When the tide goes out, we can see who has been swimming naked, of course, it might also be that someone is still holding a pile of unsellable plastic figurines.