You can buy trading cards in lots of stores. Pokémon, soccer and so on. It's hard to draw a line without banning those as well.

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Ekaros 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So much that could be done with those. Mandating age checks. Covering at least 80% of them with warnings about gambling. Maybe plain packaging and only allowing them from behind counter or unmarked automated systems. Treat them as tobacco products.

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sidewndr46 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

OK, we mandate age checks. But what is the minimum age? Am I in trouble if I make a straw purchase of that product for someone else?

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thaumasiotes 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can just ban them. Pass a law that says if someone buys an item the identity of which is undisclosed, and they're not happy with it, they're entitled to a full refund.

	▲	lostmsu 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hm, my phone's IMEI doesn't end in 00000

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hkt 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pokémon can probably have it's immense (and insane) secondary market attributed to its gambling-esque qualities. It'd be perfectly fine if people could play with decks they chose and cards were sold at a uniform price, provided the game itself is balanced - which is to say gambling elements in these things are probably by design.