EU investigate Topps :: News

Reported by Psythor on Thu Jun 19 22:04:48 2003
Last updated by Psythor on Thu Jun 19 22:04:48 2003
Section: Trading Card Game

The European Commission, the European Union wide body who do things to do with laws and business are seeing if Topps have been taking part in "anti-competitive practices". Oo-er.

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"Topps", the company who distribute all the Pokémon cards and stickers all over Europe, allegedly... its very complicated, so here's a quote from Amelia Torres, who is a spokeswoman for the Commission.

"We came to the preliminary conclusion that Topps had elaborated a very far-reaching strategy designed to prevent imports of those products from countries where the prices are low into countries where the prices are higher,".

What this comes down to is that it costs two and a half times as much to buy the same Pokémon cards in Finland, than in Portugal. Tsk.

PUK will have more on this story should it develop into the last surviving dinosaur, that hatches from an egg in 1980's America, after being found underground by some kids.