For those of you who didn't see this excellent article I'm copying it here
for you to see.
>    Everybody is bashing Wizards of the Coast for screwing up the card game.
>Well, open your eyes. Wizards is doing nothing of these things. Do you know
>why?... Last September Wizards of the Coast was bought for $325 Million
>smackaroos. By who, you ask?
 
>     None other then the greedy corporation known as Hasbro. Wizards didn't
>make Base Set 2. Hasbro did. Wizards may have cared about the Rocket
>misprints. But Hasbro didn't. And I'm sure Wizards didn't want Misty's
>Goldeen or Misty's Tentacool to be rares. But Hasbro did. The only reason
>Hasbro bought Wizards was for Pokemon. Period. Hasbro could care less >about
Magic. Pokemon is the big thing, so the greedy scumbags at Hasbro >bought it.
They could care less if people are happy, because they're making >money.
 
>    Now this is just a theory, but you know how misprints can gain value?
>Well, Hasbro may have caused the misprints, so people would think they >were
valuable and buy more booster packs. After a while they say that all
>misprints will not be changed. So those of you who thought that your "Made
>in 23000" Dark Arbok is worth more, I pity you, for you have been fooled.
 
>    There's only one way to fight back. Pojo-people, spread this to everyone
>you know who collects cards. I think that if we stop buying American booster
>packs for 1-2 months, Hasbro's earnings will drop substantially, causing
>them to think that Pokemon is dying down, and they might, repeat, MIGHT
>slow or even stop this insanity that they are causing. You can still buy
>Japanese booster packs, though as the scumbuckets don't have anything to do
>with Japanese Pokemon. I will not give any guarantees on this though, so if
it >doesn't work, we have two options. 1. Blame me and ban me from this
>website, or 2. Try again, but this time make it last longer.


    Alright I just have to say that this idea is great, I completely agree
with it, and I'll tell you why.  I first got annoyed with WotC when they
released base 2 (I didn't know at the time that it was Hasbro doing it).  I
got 2 packs because the guy at the store I got them from said that base 2 had
the same pokemon as base and jungle, but different graphics and attacks. 
Needless to say I was disappointed when I opened them.  I know that what the
guy at the store said wasn't said by WotC, but it was their idea to release
the set for no good reason. I was even more annoyed when I found out that
base and jungle, along with many good cards were out of print. 
    A while later I found out that team rocket and gym were coming out, and
instead of being overjoyed I was quite disappointed because I was one of the
few people in my neighborhood that had semi-accurate translations of these
cards.  When team rocket was released I was infuriated that WotC had created
theme decks and a new card, Dark Raichu.  By then I had almost stopped buying
english boosters, but was still infuriated by gym1 being called gym heroes.    
Now they've done it, now I'm really mad.  A RARE GOLDEEN?!  I'LL GIVE THEM A
RARE GOLDEEN!  This is the time to strike!  I urge you not only to boycott
WotC cards but to contact them and state our demands!  we deserve no less
than the kids in japan, and now is the time we can get what we want.  I'm
sure that after the release of gym1 we're all sufficiently infuriated to act,
and if we hurry we could get them to fix the injustices in gym2 before it's
released(oops, to late, I hear evil laughter).

    I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT CARE, AT LEAST DO IT FOR OTHERS
THAT WOULD BUY ENGLISH CARDS IF THERE WERE GOOD PACKS!!!!!

    thank you for reading this, and please support my cause
        Sincerely,
            Dan
lutra2000@aol.com