After a Manhattan store was invaded by three crooks who robbed over $100,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon merchandise Jan. 15, a Dyker Heights card shop owner is taking precautions so that it doesn\u2019t happen to him.<\/p>\n
Erik Feuer, owner of E and J Boutique, 6906 Fort Hamilton Pkwy., said they will not accept trade-ins for any Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not okay. Our hearts go out to them and their business, and their customers were affected,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible. It gets out of control, and it really needs to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cE and J will no longer be taking trade-ins for cash or credit of Pok\u00e9mon cards. If in the future things become safer and the Pok\u00e9mon atmosphere becomes less violent, then we may reconsider that. But at least until further notice moving forward, there are no more Pok\u00e9mon trade-ins at the store. It\u2019s for the safety of myself, my wife, my employees, my customers, and my business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Its sports cards trade-in practices will remain the same. They will also still sell sealed Pok\u00e9mon merchandise.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Masked suspects entered Pok\u00e9 Court in the Meatpacking District, where around 40 people gathered for an event at 6:45 p.m. According to ABC 7, one suspect had a gun, while others used hammers to smash the glass covering the displays inside the shop.<\/p>\n
To add to safety, Feuer also said his store will have a buzzer installed outside the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to keep you safe as well and the entire collecting community safe,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is a decision [my wife and store co-owner] Jessie that I had to come to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a Manhattan store was invaded by three crooks who robbed over $100,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon merchandise Jan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-102958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}