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This is the fault of scalpers...both online and businesses that scalp them from local walmarts and targets to resell in their own small card shops to resell at 3x the price. if people didn't suck there wouldn't be a problem. But honestly, I just bought some non-official ones of etsy and called it a day.
Amiibo cards can also be used in Happy Home Paradise. You can use them to design vacation homes for specific characters. For example, I’ve seen people design home for Jack,
Nintendo messed up hard with the AC cards in general. There's a reason the homemade amiibo market is do big-- prople judt want the villagers for their game and don't care (or don't know) and end up buying homemade cards or coins. And for the people who have none in stores or the cards didn't even get released in their country, they really only have the one option.
Series 1-5 didn't fly off the shelves really. Happy home designer didn't even have an English guide for the longest time. It wasn't until they released the new leaf update that they sold out.
@@sfooshy4517 5 is the series that just came out. You're thinking on 1-4. And debatably Welcome Amiibo (the vans), Sanrio was another thing altogether that had a more complicated release. But you're right in that the initial release of the cards wasn't as hectic. You could find packs in discount stores like Five Below because the demand for the cards (and figures) was so low. And cards weren't that expensive on the resale market. But you have to remember that was years after New Lesf came out, the cards were mostly made for a soin-off game, and the demand wasn't nearly as high as it got with New Horizons. When New Horizons came out the cards still in stores were gone very quickly because so many people were playing the game. The cards all went up in price across the board, not just popular characters. And thst demand is still there. People want them and can't grt them. Of course an alternative is going to pop up. The same thing happens when a game is taken off a storefront-- everyone just goes for the pirate alternative. If you can't find the official product, but there is a large selection of people making functionally identical ones themselves, well the sales show what happens. Tl;dr-- comparing the demand of the OG cars release to the demand present now (with how many people play New Horizons and the modern social community) doesn't make any sense. It's two completely different environments.
Not to mention scalpers. It's becoming increasingly frustrating for people that ACTUALLY want something to get it, instead they get snatched up to sit in a store room until they get sold to someone else. And if they're releasing to only one store you can pretty much forget it.
@@kurisu7885 It really doesn't help that Nintendo releases stuff on Fridays. If you work and can't grt to a store until later in the day (basically not opening) then you've already lost the chance. These cards were worse than even the eRly amiibo since a lot of stores had either really limited preorders online or none at all. Basically a release designed for scalping .
You are spot on on your analysis. I already have all 24 villager cards and only 10 of the specials. I'm at the point where any pack I buy will have at most one card that I don't have. I'm about to trade Gulliver for Savannah. After that, I'll only have one duplicate special card left to trade. (Summer Tom Nook)
Yeah I work at Target and its tough because even when we get these in its only 18, and thats been happening like once every few weeks. we had to start hiding them at the electronics registers so scalpers cant grab a ton and just go to self checkout
Answer me this, I’ve called my local target about if they had any in stock today and they said no they weren’t in stock and that he was sure they wouldn’t be getting anymore in because he was pretty sure that these were a one time thing
@@thecrazydisneyparksfanatic921 They are not a one time thing. The person either knew and was discouraging coming back often or didn’t know. Most stores get them on different days so ask when shipments comes in. Most keep them in the back until someone’s asks.
@@thecrazydisneyparksfanatic921 I just got 2 cards today. A target 23 minutes away from me had limited stock. I called and the guy told me he couldn't put any on hold for me, couldn't tell me how much were left, so I hurried over there. Asked for the cards, he told me there was a 2 pack buy limit and he went in the back to get them for me. He said he just got them in stock today. A few days ago the location said they had limited stock, so today would be a restock day
@@Bloodborne900 I’ve called them today twice, both times everything seemed so muffled where I couldn’t hardly hear what they were saying part of the time, both times I’ve not got clear answers
What I want from Nintendo is a way to buy the whole set, there are way too little people collecting and training these card around here so exchanging duplicate is not possible, and I want them all :(
As much as I wanted the amiibo cards, I can’t find a single pack here in the UK not to mention we only get 3 in a pack. It doesn’t seem worth the hassle.
I’m not sure if they’re still in stock but the GAME website is selling some. Unfortunately you can only buy one pack and the shipping is more than double the price of the cards
@@hulkchao6230 I remember seeing them but being put off by the single pack limit and the postage. I ended up buying a homemade card of a villager I wanted instead. :p
I will send you Roswell for free I don’t think ACNH is as popular in my town. The local Target keeps them behind the counter and you gotta ask for it.( 3per visit)So maybe ppl who play and know to ask get to buy them which is cool.
I just imported a mini plastic nfc card set of all of the animal crossing cards from china for $150 for 500+ cards that are the size of nintendo switch game carts.
I’ve only seen Animal Crossing amiibo cards in real life, once-in an out-of-the-way rural mall that had all the sets except 5, and I was only allowed to buy one pack of each. And that was last week (and not a single one of the villagers I really wanted)
i’m glad you’re bringing this up :’) in my experience, i was lucky to get 6 packs in canada and i only missed cephalobot for villagers but it was super easy to trade for him. ofc, i am struggling to trade for the spc i want and i’m always tempted to buy from traders/try to find a pack again but i really don’t wanna deal w dupe villagers and selling TT it’s been hard..
You guys are lucky. Scalpers have made impossible to get any of the cards in my area. The ONLY place is on eBay with ransom-like pricing. I've been trying for almost a year now to get any of the cards.
I live in Japan and a few weeks ago my wife went to a nearby electronics store and found a pack of the Sanrio cards and bought it for me. We went back to the store the next day for something else and they had just received about 20 packs or so of series 5. They were limited to 5 packs per customer, but the clerks let my wife and I buy 5 packs each. I was shocked that they let us both buy 5 packs (10 packs in total for 330 yen each!). I have been opening a pack a day and it's been a lot of fun. I know how lucky I am because these cards are almost impossible to find anywhere at normal prices.
The only way to get a complete set really is to buy the booster box, also in Australia we only get three cards in a set and that means we get way too many of the special cards. I wish they'd reprint the ones that came for New Leaf's Welcome Amiibo update but it seems most of those villagers are included in other series. What's weirder is that they didn't make new albums.
Wait can you explain that more for me? I live in Australia and am looking to start buying some of these. Also, is series 5 the only series compatible with switch/new horizon, because that's the only ac I have
@@martingapkovski1339 boxes of the packs have a guaranteed set so like buying them randomly means you're quite unlikely to complete it, all the cards are compatible with new horizons
This is what i did for all the series so far i just bought sealed japanese booster boxes, each one contained a complete set and then the rest were doubles. With only 25 packs in a booster box this time & 24 of the cards in series 5 been SP's it's gonna be pretty tight for seeing if series 5 will grant a full set from a booster box means you are only allowed one double of any SP card for the chance of a full set.
I ended up getting 10 packs. Sold my extras on eBay and turned around and bought the rest of the set. So overall 10 packs scored me the entire set. Worked out great, honestly.
I have been collecting Amiibo cards for AC since the first pack, it used to be so much fun. I was even part of a small tumblr page that was hosting trades between folks, and mailing amiibo cards to people all over the country, a great way to get rid of spares. The last two sets of cards I haven't even seen on store shelves, and the competition to buy them all and resell the "good" ones is just insane. I miss the days where you could just trade cards with a stranger for only the cost of a stamp and an envelope. Maybe eventually I will get a hold of some of the new AC shiny cardboard, I just like to collect them so I don't see any reason for the extraordinary prices. I actually wish there was more amiibo functionality in the game (and across the nintendo catalogue in general), but i'm very glad to see the Happy Home Designer addition to New Horizons since that is where you'll get bang for your buck as far as use out of the cards.
I managed to secure 2 packs of the series 5 amiibo cards and got both Sasha and Raymond. Didn’t get Shino, but I’m content with what I got. My SPs were Flick and Sable, guess I’m lucky.
I never jumped into the Amiibo cards bandwagon, I only got a few when they were part of preorders or were included with the game, but never got out of my way to buy these random booster packs. Collecting Amiibo figures alone are enough of a nightmare for me. I did buy the Sanrio ones when they restocked only because they were specific villagers for all the packs and not random.
At least you guys are able to get them, in Mexico we didn't even got the chance to buy them. I brought all of the cards from AliExpress (of course they are not official) but that's the only way to get them for me.
Zion’s collectorship speaks to my soul. Series 5 was limited 1 per customer here also and quickly sold out. I was able to put in an order at Best Buy for 1 pack only for it to get lost in the mail. The post office… lost it.
I'm all for legally purchasing products and I have a bunch of amiibo figurines myself. Amiibo cards are different though. Plenty of them never got a reprint/print until recently and then there is this whole gambling aspect to card packs that I don't want to support. They have designed the concept of getting the villagers you want in the game in such a random and tedious way that the only way to actual get the villagers you want is by buying the cards or via the AC black market (nookazon). I've been creating my own AC amiibo coins for a while now (just for myself, not selling anything) and I don't feel bad about it. The entire concept of the amiibo cards is just too scummy for me.
There should be more regulations regarding physical random collectibles like these card packs. Digital ones like loot boxes are now more regulated in the industry, and I hope physical ones can be the same as well.
Sadly when they announced the new set I knew it was just going to become scalper food. This scalping boom is so out of hand. On one hand retailers have been trying online at least like 1 per customer or only can be added to a certain size purchase but at the same time that still makes it hard for collectors to buy them easily so it’s still not ideal.
As a collector of sports cards boy do I know this pain. A subset will have 50 cards and the main set will have 150. And there are multiple subsets. Collecting a master set requires a fortune
In most other countries we get 1 special and 2 villagers, 3 total. This means in the older sets the special villagers are so plentiful they're worth 5 for 1 normal sometimes more With the new series however the specials are pretty much just as rare, but at least our odds are a little better than America
I've only been able to get one pack of the new series (from Amazon). Apparently you can get another pack from Amazon if it's been 10 days since you last bought one but I was unable to for some reason. My 8 year old niece and 5 year old niece love Animal Crossing (they both have their own Switch and AC is the only game that they really understand how to play by themselves) so I've been trying to pick up packs for them. I got them a few packs from the first 2 series, the Sanrio pack, and the one I got from series 5. I like to let them open them and ask if I can keep a card/use it to get the villager if I like one of them. It's a fun thing to do with them but it's a pain that they're so hard to get now. They still like looking at the new cards and thinking about who they would want in their village but it's a bummer that it's something we're unable to do often because of the lack of supply/limits when you do find packs somewhere (though I also agree that a pack limit is infinitely better than letting one person buy out a places entire stock). It doesn't affect me too much since I'm not playing AC anymore and I'm pretty content with my villagers but I wish I could give more cards to my nieces who love the game still
I've never seen these cards physically in any store I've been to. Granted in the pandemic hellscape that is 2020 to now I haven't visited many stores in my area to properly look for them. I'd imagine that the reason why Nintendo has supply issues with the AC cards now is because they overproduced the Animal Crossing amiibo figurines from several years ago and didn't want to make the same mistake again.
I bought a japanese box with 25 packs (3 cards each) and had the luck to pull the 48 cards within 24 packs. Three cards per package is better because one can pull out the special cards easily
I really do not know why Nintendo does not just put these back into production. If they did they would make so much money. I wish I could have some series 5 cards but so far no luck.
I couldnt find a single pack within 150 miles of my home. (Nearly 250 Km). And I started collecting the Series 2, 3, and 4 all through the restock a few months ago. This wasn't fully by choice, I literally couldn't find ANY of the Series 2, 3, or 4, or the RV cards, when they all released years ago. And those RV cards? Those are outrageous in price. Found out that the sealed packs, sealed meaning you don't even know what you are getting, goes for about $50/card inside the pack. EU Versions of the sealed pack go for $150 and the US version goes for $250. Mostly because there are cards that are going for $80+ because the RV cards were released without much warning, for a DLC most were not fully interested in, and the cards were of course short supplied. I am just at the point I wish Nintendo would allow us to order directly from them. Just "How many packs do you want?" and swipe my credit card. I could easily see myself securing 15+ packs of Series 5 and then just trading online for the ones I need rather than spending the $150 in gas just trying to find the stupid things.
Trading card things are artificial scarcity. The manufacturers have whole freedom to decide the quantity and rate for each card, and they can manipulate the market by deliberately making some cards out of print, or mass produce a type of card that was originally rare. Unfortunately physical collectible cards are not well regulated in many countries (the digital collectibles, aka. loot boxes, are regulated only recently). I hope this will really change in the future.
I've only been able to snag a single pack from Amazon. I'd like to get more, but yeah. Question though... Can that binder you have be bought online anywhere?
The rest of the world only gets 3 card packs (2 villagers and a special character). At least with this distribution, you don’t have an extra 96+ cards (assuming you can work out trades and don’t need to buy extra packs). It is frustrating- the whole 1 pack from Amazon thing was like, what even is the point, but then I had my coworkers all order a pack for me.
In Aus we get 4 (3 villagers and 1 SP) in a pack so we could pre-order 5 from EB. So far I had a few doubles (nephew wants them, not to use but to keep so I'm good with that) but I have gotten Shino, Tiansheng, Dom (have a plush of him), Sherb, Raymond and the robot otco (the name escapes me but my other nephew let me use the card to add him to my island). I'm happy with what I have BUT I also think they need to rework it IF they do another set of cards. On a side note it's nice to see if I sell some of my SP cards I can get a bit of money 😁
Forget the SP distribution, I haven’t found them anywhere here in canada, nothing on Amazon, nothing at Gamestop… and nothing since they initially came out and stores have no idea when or if they’ll get more
In Canada at least the cards were so rare finding them in stores back when they first came out like 7 years ago. No one wanted them but they literally sold out instantly and never got restocked.
Oh wow. When you were about to list your ebay example I was thinking “please say Flick, please say Flick”…I got one pack near release and my special card was Flick. I got 4 of the DLC villagers including Shino, plus Raymond. And Flick. Pretty good for 1 pack. $35 isn’t enough for me to contribute to scalper crunch however so glad you didn’t tempt me by revealing it was selling for like $100 or something. Do kinda wish I could time travel with my Raymond card to launch when everyone was going crazy trying to get Raymond. Honestly if packs were easy to get the amount of rare cards wouldn’t bother me but here we are. Funny to think something that was in bargain bins with Amiibo Festival just a few years ago is now a huge deal-wish I had bought some packs back then.
Nintendo Series 1-4: "we aint gonna make any new villagers anytime soon" nintendo series 5: "haha jk everyone gets a card and an alternate outfit card. remix time babyyyy"
Not to be that person but I bought a box of 25 booster packs (I’m Australian so ours are only 3 cards per pack), I opened the first 24 and never got a duplicate SP villager so I kept that final booster pack unopened :’) it seems series 5 is much better over here since it’s 1 SP card per 2 villagers. Series 1-4 sucked though, SP cards from those sets over here are basically worthless
I’ve opened 16 packs and have 2 full sets of the villagers and only 11 unique SPs. I really dislike the ratio of SP to villager cards this time around.
Over here in Australia there’s actually only THREE cards per packet, two standard & one special. If you were able to magically alter the contents of each packet so long as that ratio of 2:1 was maintained, you’d still wind up with 24 spare standard Villager cards. You’d be looking at a cost of $118.8 here in Australia just to make that happen. And on top of that you’ve got to actually go out & buy them whilst restricted by a purchase limit of 5 per person per day, and then you ALSO need to hope that your local EB Games store has resupplied their stock since they’ve disabled the home delivery option for the cards. Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t think much of this math works out in the consumer’s favour at all.
I managed to get one pack ONE, and now everywhere is saying they’re sold out, I’ve checked. I went to to stores, they said they were out, I checked online, out, I’ve called in some stores, also out, I’ve called my only target (an hour away mind you) said they’re out in store and are pretty sure these are a one time only thing, checked GameStop Walmart BestBuy and their online stores too, nothing
Yup, the AC Amiibo card trading group I am in is full of people looking for the SP cards. Nintendo really did not think before they did this release! The EU and Jpn packs are a bit better with three cards in a pack and 1 SP card per pack so I will likely just import the last few SP cards I need if NA doesn't reprint these (they never reprinted the RV set but Sanrio got reprinted so who knows).
A sealed box almost guarantees a full set with the Australian release. The Australian packs come with 3 commons and 1 rare though, so I'm not sure if the US boxes are the same.
Nintendo wont produce 'more stock' ever again I imagine. I get the feeling its a company culture at this point, since Miyamoto and a bunch of unsold radar scope units.
The packs shouldn't be randomized. They should have a couple numbered packs with designated characters in each. There should also be digital dlc for this crap too because nobody wants to deal with buying physical loot boxes to substitute a feature that should've just been part of the game.
The American/Canadian amiibo collectors did get screwed with this gen of amiibo cards, i'm not gonna lie... But i have to be honest, it was nice for the EU/JP folks to FINALLY have a better chance at getting a full collection with their 3 card packs. I was able to complete my collection within a week or so of my packs arriving, thanks to a couple of friends and their pulls from their packs, we all managed to complete ours pretty quickly. I hope the amiibo stock improves over there as soon as possible for you guys though, we know that feeling of being screwed over with cards for years, it's not nice.
I got *ahem* a Jack Sparrow set of 50 villagers for $100. Considering it had super popular ones like Ankha, Marshal, Goldie, Maple, Zucker, Lucky, Coco, Diana, Bob, Stitches, Punchy, Molly, Pietro and others I can't remember off the top of my head, it was very well worth it.
Yeah I want to best buy i couldn't find them ( Animal crossing amibo cards ) they told me go online . I try walmart they didn't have them . Nintendo really mess up .
Here in Spain it's hard to find them and it's not worth it because there are only three cards per packet. 😭😭 Luckily i think that the big boxes of packets comes with the complete serie.
It could be worse, here in the UK we get 3 cards per pack, I bought 2 packs, got who I got and I’m over it, in all honesty it’s better and more fulfilling to find them on islands because you beat the transaction wall, but if you are only wanting npc characters, well you should be used too the grind by now really, it’s how it’s always been, just try and have fun, no shame in throwing in the towel because it’s very expensive
My wife collects these. I was only able to find one pack of series 5 for her. She was very disappointed with what she opened from her single pack. I want to get her more packs for Christmas but I can't find them anymore and they are $25 a pack on Amazon 😖
I was able to get a total of 5 packs across 2 separate Target online orders at like 6-7am. Had to turn on stock notifications and even then the chances of getting any were pretty slim even if you click the notification and try to buy immediately. Probably tried at least 7 times with only 2 successful orders. Oh and you have to have an order total of $35 to be able to place the order even though you can’t buy $35 worth of cards at a time. I was also able to order a single pack on Amazon, had it shipped to my parents house because I recently moved and hadn’t updated my address so I told them to save it for me for Christmas.
I’ve only found 3 packs of series 5 so far, so I haven’t noticed much in terms of distribution trends. Today I managed to nah four more online, so if they actually show up I’ll have to see how the spread goes.
I've always seen villager amiibos much more expensive than the sp cards. Both for the new and previous characters. For example, I've seen Erik for almost 100 dollars recently. Then there was the whole Raymond incidents pre-series 5 amiibos release, someone buying him for over $500 from someone's island when he was moving out. I do agree the distribution from Nintendo is inconsistent.I think they see doing that as curbing scalpers, but it backfires. Its not Nintendo not producing enough amiibos, they're drip feeding their stock over time. They still have older series 1-4 stock and was giving some away when series 5 released for people who bought series 5 packs directly from Nintendo. Also more Sanrio packs were slowly being put out in stores since the initial 'sold out' release earlier this year.
I had no idea about the 24/48 ratio, that was the thing i feared the most happening and it did, that's terrible, and add to that how hard is to buy all this stuff.
The odds of you pulling each unique SP card, no duplicates, with only buying 24 packs is roughly 5E-10, or a likelihood of 0.00000005%. That's some Dream level luck
As usual, it seems that scooping up an entire booster box is the most annoying, most expensive, and kinda most efficient option. And as usual, that's not exactly possible to do at your typical Target or Walmart (they're not gonna let you buy an entire box of packs...). It's no different from Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragonball, etc.
i got 14 packs, 14 Special cards, not one duplicate....still need 10 more and 2 villagers... they should have turned 8 of those SP cards into 8 more new villagers
We only get 3 per pack, and even though they shouldn't cost more than 5 euros or so, they're only selling them for around 15 euros even on legit online stores. It's really meh at this point, honestly.
i'm from the uk and having the three card packs I'm struggling to complete the villager set i have nearly half the the specials i bought 12 packs and didn't get a special double but i got 7 villager doubles and I'm now waiting for them to come back into stock so i can hopefully complete the set I've collected nearly all series 1-4 i didn't get a chance to open the RV packs.
I'm collecting a full English and Japanese set, the Japanese set was so easy to get a full set. But the US English versions are a pain because getting the regular villagers is so easy and the sp ones are hard to get.
I just imported a mini plastic nfc card set of all of the animal crossing cards from china for $150 for 500+ cards that are the size of nintendo switch game carts.
My dream card was Raymond so I opened to packs and got him in the first one (I'm in the UK we only get 3 cards per pack 2 villagers and 1 special card)
At this point after ordering three packs from Amazon and missing some of the new villagers, I just bought some custom amiibo coins from Etsy lol most of the third party ones I have work so I don't mind, but rip to anyone still trying to get their favorites
