Exactly this. The scalpers have had practice with Pokémon and Magic cards to know how to bot scrape websites and mass buy with different accounts. However, they still need to go to the same area for the scalper to pick it up and I doubt scalpers use VPNs due to regional taxes and price conversion differences.

Exactly this. The scalpers have had practice with Pokémon and Magic cards to know how to bot scrape websites and mass buy with different accounts.