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>>57214260You can retire in Vietnam with that
>still buying waifus
>Still reporting scalpers
>>57214266
>Still scanning vintage
>still buying modern
>Still eating shit
>buying pokemon cards
>>57214264Nah, I would have to sell them for that.
>>57214280Yes
>>57214284nice proxies
>>57214294
>>57214291He won't stop
>>57214260how much... or did you get in early
>>57214360Got them back in early 2020. Sad I didn't pick up a second Acerola though.
How do you afford this hobby?
what's the ugliest card you've ever seen?
>look up Skyridge card prices>my most wanted card from the set is 500 dollarsWhy
>>57214345Shit munchers unite
>>57214381which card?
>>57214378Job.
>STILL POSTING IN /TCC/
>>57214379Probably not the ugliest but still I always remember thinking this thing was just off
>still buying Engl*sh
>>57214407Looks like if Charizard was in a PS1 game.
>>57214379
>>57214397Holo Houndoom. I love how stupidly realistic it looks, it's super cheesy but kind of cool at the same time. At least the non-holo is much cheaper.
>>57214378I buy JPN singles.
>>57214416Are you only after PSA 9?
>>57214416>still buying retrougly
>>57214423Nice.
>>57214270Got 23 listings removed today
>>57214431Masaki promos are some of the ugliest and most over priced cards out there. Funny they ALL tanked in price last year and now? No one wants them kek
>>57214424I don't want it graded or anything. Is it best to just buy it in Japanese?
>>57214413the other gamecube graphics cards look pretty good. I still havn't played Colosseum tho :/
the japanese booster boxes are like 100 dollars cheaper... wtf
>>57214456It seems to be about $200 for a decent copy in English.
>>57214454Cringe take
>>57214486Half the size usually depending on set and the packs have less cards per pack Anon
>>57214379What did they mean by this
>>57214497I love that card, what are you on about?
>>57214454that alakazam is a good card tho.
>>57214501he's shitmaxxing like the larvitars in this thread||I love it, same with this stupid ass thing. they've got big "dad who can't take selfies" energy I think is really funny||
>>57214407Its face looks derpy asf
>>57214416Based Masago enjoyer. I've added a few more to the collection but still need Skyridge Houndoom and Gyarados.
>The umbreon is roughly 1/2000, a god pack is 1/10000 >At roughly $8/pack, you're gonna have to spend roughly $16,000 if you play the odds to get an umbreonObviously these are just the numbers and you can get lucky way before spending that much
>Rocket set comes out on April 18th>I will be in Osaka the following week What's the best plan here? Will I find the set in the pokemon center without any issues? No risk of being stabbed by a brown tourist? Does PC have strict restrictions on how many boxes per customer? I just want to buy one for myself.
e-Series love
Some guy spent $200 on this. Holy fuck I would probably an hero if I was him.
>>57214582Did 151 tank? Jpn is around 140$ but English should be over 200$
>>57214608He bought a fake card because 1 retard on reddit told him it was real.
>>57214280
I found my old 15+ old pokemon card collection
>>57214379Anything terra
>>57214379This card is awful. Also the Yu Nagaba's
>>57214633Did he not look at it first? Theres not even any holo on the card.
I don't think I can take this fucking hobby anymore. It's fucking ridiculous. I thought that surely Tpci wouldn't be retarded enough to bloat a set with THIRTY TWO FUCKING SIRS and not increase the pullrates to at least Crown Zenith levels, but they fucking pulled it off.I have my preorders. At this point the few hundred bucks I spent are well worth over a thousand dollars. Frankly, I came ahead with this stupid fucking set and I'm still miserable. I never wanted to flip or hoard product. I just wanted to collect. Now I have to face the reality that by even opening a couple products I'm effectively throwing away hundreds of dollars that could be spent/traded on cards I actually want. And those singles are also going to climb higher out of reach. My goal was originally to collect all the SV illustrations, but that no longer seems reasonably feasible. This fucking sucks. It's not fun at all. Even now I can't even open the goddamn sets that are already fucking out because they're being cleaned out of stores. Even distributors are fucking scalping and what is anyone supposed to do about that? Poketubers deserve to have their homes burned down.
>>57214690its grim
>>57214636
>>57214736>that Vulpix displaying her assAnd I'm not supposed to sexualize Pokemon?
>still buying vintage
>still grading cards
>>57214260EXPLODE INTO A BILLION PIECES
Do you guys buy singles or open packs
>>57214827both
>>57214827Former
>>57214508>discord spoiler Go back
>>57214690Sell the boxesBuy the singles>but I dont want to sell to other flippersGenuinely? Draw a penis on the etbs and sell them in an auction. Whoever gets them is someone that wants to open them.
>>57214279Like this?
>>57214335>>57214284Post cum
>>57214407The entire e-reader era 3DCG arts are shit like that. I don't know why they get 5BAN to do art in the 2020s when they're just as bad.
>>57214897Problem is that because of this stupid fucking scarcity, the singles will probably be retarded expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if one pc etb only managed to get me a lower-end eeveelution. And I still need all the overpriced singles from fucking Surging Sparks on top of this. I just wanted to open some packs and trade/buy somewhat reasonably priced singles.At this point it just feels like I should give up and stow away my product. If it gets printed to the ground and crashes; wonderful! I get to enjoy the hobby again. If not, I guess I just sell it and use the money to take a trip or something. Even at local tournaments the shops are limiting the packs we can get because they're running out of product altogether. Rather than the usual packs, I've started prizing out in store credit and grabbing duplicate singles because at least that way I get my money's worth and hey maybe those faggots at tcgplayer will randomly decide to pump that card in particular next. At this point it feels like enjoying pretty Pokemon pictures unwillingly roped me into playing with some cryptoshitcoin. I can only hope scalpers and investors kill each other fighting over their stupid fucking bags.
>>57214378>job>stay single>buy singles>get lucky with your one sealed box per set>don't shit your pants from foreign language cards
>>57214486Not anymore thanks to investorniggers, find me a Battle Partners box for that cheap, you can't.
>>57214279I hated this era of cards so much. That thick yellow border is so ugly
>>57214378>doctor>no children>only other active hobbies are warhammer, lifting, climbing, cycling>don't spend money on alcoholMoney I used to spend on booze, now goes into cardboard.
>caved in and bought 2 engl*sh cards because japanese or even chinese were too expensiveThese two yellow frames will stain my binder forever...
>>57214995Acetone and paint
>>57214690Just sell the boxes to some scalp fag, and use the money to buy the singles you want/get the next set
>still buying physical
>still buying
>still
>
too bad blankposting doesn't work anymore
>>57214960>>57214690I know how you feel. I just want a few cool cards and I have 2 boxes on pre-order. I normally like to rip, but PRE doesn't feel like it's worth it at all.
>>57214690Anon if you think it's bad now, imagine when the Rocket Set drops. I have a feeling that the Mega Evo Set or 30th anniversary Set will either kill off the investors or the regular consumer fan base in one way or another
How the fuck is anyone suppose to compete at tournaments when cards are becoming impossible to find?
>>57215036Hopefully it's regular consumers that die off first. When it ends up investorniggers circlejerking, they'll realise that they're only selling to each other and hoarding for each other.That should, hopefully lead to a crash that destroys LGS and other businesses and bring us back to fans being the only peolpe who care. Not casuals or investniggers
>>57215038regular exes are like 30 cents, dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bUL4aXIJE>watching cute girl open pokemon cards so you can feel satisfied without spending moneyso ez
>>57215069>adam''s appleEvery fucking time
>>57215069>not donating to qt3.14 and letting her open more packs so you can feel satisfied in making her happy :3c
>>57215086nice try, if it was a trap I would have already wasted ton of semen on her but it's not true
>>57214379Anything rainbow and 3D like this Sorry but there is no way anyone seriously likes this, it's so fucking ugly
>>57215092>I'm going to trap anons by telling them it isn't a trap
>>57215097Poketroon here/ I like rainbows
>>57215038playing the game will be fine. most of the popular cards in the current format were from shrouded fable. prismatic evolution has only a couple new playable cards and those will might be like a 5 cent common at most.
I prefer reverse holos to holos
>>57215038The only case when a meta card was really hard to find was early zard when the normal ex was like 20 dollars. But they reprinted it asap.
>>57214379Any card from Himeno from BW and onwards. The illustrations look so flat and boring.
>>57215164At least it's no rainbow
>>57214690Just take the Digimon pill, Bandai QC is great and the artwork is fantastic.
>>57214582Holy shit they do SV fakes? That's insane
>>57214379>>57215164And this one is my least favorite supporter card. DeviantArt tier shading and proportions. Eyes too big. It makes me sick looking at it.
>>57215197The Skyridge version is miles better
>>57215197>>57215204what a bad opinion
>>57215204>>57215197Both of these look ass
>>57215174Too bad they don't print enough, fucking impossible to get new sets without pre-ordering in the UK.
>>57215178How do you tell? What are the signs for you, could it not be a bad camera?
>>57215218just google charizard 151, you will see right away
>>57215231I'm blind
>>57214582LOLWhat a fucking retard
>>57215237obviously a real picture of the card u dumbutt
>>57215240>>57214582Looks the same to me wtf?
>>57215240Well, ok, yeah.I mean I saw the color differences but thought that was the camera
Gonna head to my LCS and buy a bunch of cheap singles to fill in my Base Set collection. The only holos I know they don't have that I still need are Blastoise, Venusaur, Zapdos, and Chansey. What's a good price for a Blastoise that you plan on sleeving and sticking into a binder?
>>57215245800 dollars support local business bigot
>>57215243main things to look out for are the text and object alignment. In this case it seems it is okay as they must have printed an image like the one you posted, but the key difference in these cases is the texture on the card. All secret illustration cards have texture (basic illustration rares like picrel don't, note the 1 star v 2 stars in zard) so you can easily tell by this.
>>57215241Look at the white borders of the text. On the fake card they don’t have the same thickness on the letters. It looks like the black letters are slightly moved to the left.
is a booster box worth it for 130 dollars
>>57215216True, no wonder I didn't have any cards newer than BT05 in my collection until this month. Earlier Chaos Cards were doing BT15 boxes for £23, I literally managed to make back my money plus some for 2 boxes. Ordered some Jap stuff from nin-nin too using loyalty points. Funnily enough back in 2016-2017 NNG used to have a huge inventory of old sealed Pokemon products plus new XY and SV stuff for really cheap and there never used to be stock issues, but ever since the shitshow with SV 151 they have slowly stopped stocking any new SV products other than sleeves and deck boxes. The latest booster boxes you can get on their site are Mask of Change/Twilight Masquerade JP.
Ok I'm gonna go open a little bit of crown zenith, wish me luck, be back soon
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/s/3CiePwDgFLI dont know why you would ever ”invest” in pokemon cards when you just instead drop the money on nvidia stocks
>>57215299could instead*
>>57215299What if Nvidia stops climbing
>>57215311way less likely than a childrens card game…
Will the next gimmick for the games and tcg be Pokémon shoes? You can equip different brands of shoes on your pokemon that cause different effects to happen. Some Pokémon have special forms when they wear specific brands.
>>57215313we got megas, gigas and terasnow we get petaspetamorphing sounds about right
>>57215241the holofoil is clearly fucked
From what set onwards did EN packs become unweighable by the way?
>>57215337if i remember right it was Sun and Moon that started fucking the pack weights with code cards
>>57214283When cards are in stock the local kids walk to Walmart for packs. They open them and throw everything rare and below into the woods. I go on runs and pick them all up. True story.
>>57215243Another thing to look at besides the textureless holofoil is the "ex": the legit one has a thicker black stroke inside the external white storke, which actually covers the holes in the "e".
>>57215237>soulless corporate flat artNormiezard fans will eat any slop
>>57215313Celio in France already dipped into pokemon clothing:https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/01/celio-x-pokemon-tcg-clothing-line-launched-in-franceSoon you will see people stabbing each other at stores to finish their blanket master set.
>>57215455That's one of the best looking 'zards since the V sleeping 'zard and the vs-venusaur and vs-mewtwo 'zards. Death to terazards and vmaxzards.
Option A>Give into scalpers demandsOption B>No life it, and spend way too much time trying to fight for productOption C>Buy foreign cards that are cheaper, but ultimately will be less valuable in the western marketOption DGet into a new TCG. And people get mad here when you bring up any of these topics.
>Stop looking up the number, stop better educating yourself on financial decisions. just shut up and buy the 2k Umbreon that has over 19k in pop for a 10 grade. don't question reality, just consoom.Im not the bad guy. im just not stupid.
>nicely building my personal collection binder>no one to show it to IRLYou are my only pokefriends /tcc/
>>57215486Do you think there are 19000 people out there who are interested in buying a 2k Umbreon pokemon card?
>>57215474>ANo. Just buy singles.>BOnly worth it if you live next to a pokemon center or if you are a spoiled NEET.>C>less valuable in the western marketOh it's the engl*shill brown spammer again, kys not everyone buys pokemon cards to resell them.>DShit option and opinion.
>>57215468Well I agree with you there it's way way better than those. But it doesn't compare to the other starters in 151 imo.
>>57215474>ultimately will be less valuable in the western marketwhy the ever living fuck would i give a shit about that?
I want Japanese art quality but EN names and textActually scratch thatGive me Japanese art and NO text other than the name, nothing on the bottom at all. That would be absolute kino.
buying a booster box and opening a single booster by day is satisfying
>>57215496(1/2)I think people are batshit insane if they think a card that has over 19k population is valued at 2k.for example, Michael Jordans fleer rookie card is one of the most valuable cards in basketball. there are more expensive ones, but the rookie card, for a lot is the end all be all of basketball cards. Out of 25k copies graded in PSA. only a mere 326 copies of the card exist. Much like Charizard, the shadowless copy in a PSA 10, there are only 58 copies in the world. These are great starting points in understanding why some cards are so expensive. People wonder why people collect cards and why they fetch so much value. for its just a piece of paper with some ink on it. But in Europe stamp collecting is a hobby. Some stamps can go upwards of 7 figures easily. But why? why is a silly little piece of paper with Ink on it worth so much damn money? well to answer that question you must realize something about stamps, much like collecting cards is that they offer a limited print run. The most expensive stamps that are worth millions are stamps that are in either "Mint" or "Near Mint" condition. for a silly little piece of paper with ink on it surviving that long, is worth the price you pay. for you are not only just buying a super rare stamp. but you are ultimately buying the right to preserve history. for there may only be less than 100 copies of a 100-year-old stamp in the world.
>>57215558(2/2)there is something that all these things have in common. even though they are silly little piece of paper with ink on them. they represent a period of history that people which to preserve. they also show that population count of cards or stamps is important in valuing the price of an object of history. now when I see a card with a 19k population asking price of 2k dollars. knowing everything I know about what the long-term market dictates is that if its rarer the better. people are dumb for expecting this much for a card so overprinted and over graded. and I will fight you tooth and nail on this issue. I don't even care to ever own a copy of the card. at first, I wanted to raise awareness to help bring down pricing so maybe one day I could obtain it. but I have followed this stupid movement for so long that even I question the legitimacy of owning a card like this. since there will be so many of them in the world, is it even worth it in a collection like my own. where I have some cards that have less than 100 copies in a PSA 10. But I am almost certain at this point, so jaded over this issue, that if I were give a copy of this card LITERALLY for free, I would turn my nose up at it. It's not my fault I have a bullshit detector that's working properly, and you don't. you literal newfag.
>>57215038Art rares still have their regular card counterparts that go for super cheap
>>57215509Dunno, Blastoise in the abyss is good but his pose is a bid odd. Venusaur won the 151bowl imo
>>57215558>>57215562You have been spamming this shit nonstop since yesterday, no one in this thread cares about the PSA10 population of Umbreon. Let it go. Go back to /r/pokeinvesting you nigger.
I hope many of you aren't gonna pay scalper pricing for Pokémon products.We need to freeze them out and let the monthly credit card interest compile. We need the interest to eat away at their profits. Distribution is also favoring online rip & shippers who scam all day long. Making product harder and harder to find in stores at msrp.If you haven't already boycott rip & ships. You don't want this becoming the dominant method of purchasing cards. We absolutely need to leave people holding the bag. Prismatic is the perfect opportunity due to shit pull rates, no one will want to spend $20-$25 a pack for 50 cents worth of cards.Journey Together set looks like absolute ass, it's the perfect set up. They think it'll be good but it's a mid set that's not even a special set.
>>57215598so, this is TCC where we are allowed to discuss all thing pokemon card related. what gives you the right to say whatever the hell you want, and im all of a sudden the one who cant?
>>57215599I still have no clue how rip and ship even became a thing let alone be a popular thing
>>57215558Like most Pokémon cards that hit high ceilings they aren't worth their weight based on any real metrics. It's an product of no one wanting to be left holding the bag. Someone who bought it for 2k isn't gonna sell it for less.
>>57215610well, I'm not going to support the bullshit, I'm not going to drink the Kool aid. and I will call out the stupidity when I see it.
>>57215608It's just easy access gambling. The high risk low reward, which makes people with a brain in their head say oh this is a rip off. Makes other people want to do it more.They don't even have the thought that shit can all be resealed without anyway of telling since it's on stream... Heck all the packs could even be metal detected for the hits.
I swear to God, just because you say it's expensive and rare, doesn't make it that way.
>>57215599>Journey Together set looks like absolute assIf you're a fake fan who hates the trainers maybe. But yeah, fuck these overinflated prices, I'm not paying them. I'll try to get a pre-order of the regular ETB for myself and wait for Battle Partners t get reprinted into the ground.
>>57215615And just because it's expensive and rare doesn't mean it looks good or desirable to have in your binderSee: Rainbow shit
>>57215337XY Breakpoint
>>57215615All you have to do is look at cards with equal difficulty of being pulled and similar or smaller population to quickly realize it's not based solely on stats.Desirability is also a major factor.It's also easy to manipulate the pokemon market with minimal capital.You just have to buy out a card, and any others that pop up. And relist one at a time at the price you want. Maybe buy it a couple times at that amount with a second account. (You'll have to pay the transaction fees, but you'll make up the costs later). And there you go you've established most recent solds to be high and created scarcity. You think streamers making 10k profit don't have money to do this? They go on eBay and TCG player and calculate market buy out vs resale all the time and that's when you see a random shit card moon for no reason. They've chilled out on it as of late, but it used to happen like every week.
>>57215617Hop is gay as shit dude.There's like four trainers so far, that's ass.It's the perfect set to leave them holding the bag.
>>57215629A rainbow rare Charizard GX has less than 1k in a PSA 10 pop count. the asking price for such a card is around 2500-3000 dollars. There may be more of them in the world but I feel that the pricing of such a card is worth it in the long run. since as of now only 822 copies of the card exist in a PSA 10. VS 19k copies of a card "Valued" at 2k.
If you buy from scalpers or streamers you're apart of the problem.You enabled this hobby to get like this, you are the cash cows making these scum bags rich.You have to walk away to correct the market and fuck these guys over.If you're a willful participant, then the hobby deserves to be like this.
>>57215665To me those cards aren't worth a fucking penny, because I don't want them, therefore I'll never purchase them. I think the people who buy them are retarded for wanting it that badly.
>>57215558>I think people are batshit insane if they think a card that has over 19k population is valued at 2k. We're in a bubble. People aren't thinking rationally.
>>57215651>Hop is gay as shit dude.Correct, but luckily he's not the only featured trainer in the set.
>But but but but but>The rule of supply and demand. we have been over this. there are always active listings of the card on eBay. there are 19k in active population. today there are easily 100 copies in a 10 offered on eBay. tomorrow, the same thing, a week, a month, a year, 5 years from now there will always be active listings on this card. because the population for the card is so high. im sure that there are some sellers that have another 5-10 copies ready to relist whenever their listing is sold. do you think that a guy with 5-10 copies of the same card with a 19k population is "rare" and worth it? I think its literally a scam.
>>57215683The card isn't liquid enough, the average person can't afford to buy it, therefore if it isn't easily resold it's worthless.
>>57215695I could buy it today. I could bought it yesterday when it was 700 dollars a copy. I wont pay the price because i know better. not because im financially not able to. im just morally not capable of. like i said. im just not dumb enough to drink the kool aid.
>>57215683I would easily bet about 80% of the psa 10's are owned by only like 20 people
I like Espeon more.
>>57215710Possibly. this could all be a distribution issue. if we know that 19k copies of the card exist NOW. just think about all the copies of the card that are sitting, waiting to be graded. maybe some people won't pay the 300-dollar price to grade a card that is only valued at 2k. maybe some people know that it's not really worth it, since the card is like mosquitos at a swamp. LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. so, there could be another 10k, 20k copies of the card that is out there, maybe more. but that could easily add an additional 10k to the population count. there is also TONS of people with sealed booster boxes of Evolving Skies. I have seen some people with hundreds of boxes of Evolving Skies. that may just be one guy. but if there's one guy doing this, thinking it's a wise investment. there has to be more. there could be upwards of 10k, 50k, 100k booster boxes of evolving skies just sitting there, people unaware of the over population of this card. I see it all the time pop up as something people pull almost daily on reddit. the reason why people don't want to listen, is because they don't want to admit them have been duped. they don't want to admit that their shit don't STANK. and that maybe I'm right. there is just something wrong with the world. and i am pointing to all the signs that say apocalypse is coming for the people are too stupid to see it even if they have a time machine.
I like Leafeon more.
>you must choose the cards for your collection based on their PSA10 pop for a better resell value in the long run!In case you were wondering why everyone ITT is calling you a brown niggerfaggot.
>>57215737Wait until you discover people using lasers to remove whitening. And most of these tens are actually altered but grading companies can't tell.
>>57215677Fucking based.
i just like opening packs
>>57215753this
buy ACTUAL rare cards and dont be fooled by obvious scams.
>i'm so sad that I have to sale my personal collection of unopened product
>>57215756How about I get the cards I actually LIKE, you soulless subhuman nigger?
Umbreon being a valuable card is a perfect example of racism and discrimination being a massive problem in the hobby. The card is heavily celebrated because it's Japanese name is blacky. So racists think this is funny to pump a pokemon with non-obvious racial connotations connected it, to dog whistle to their fellow racists for a laugh. They then raise the price and dangle it in front of underprivileged people to laugh at them more as people of color are often under earning due to systemic racism.
>>57215765>investing on pokemon cards while clearly not having money for it… just buy stocks ffs
>>57215770>The mean guy on the internet showed be a bunch of numbers and told me my toys are not valuable and im stupid.
>>57215737I will try not to be rude, but I still don't see the point of your walls of text. Yes moonbreon is overpriced. Yes moonbreon is overhyped. Yes moonbreon PSA10 is not as rare as a vintage charizard PSA8 and its value is artificially inflated by FOMO and poketubers. Yes the new terashit sunbreon is following the same trend.So? Everyone here knows that. No one here will buy any umbreon for 2k$. No one here will buy a "better deal" with a low population and a potentially better resell value for 2k$ either. People will buy the 20$ CHR umbreon if they want an affordable and nice art umbreon, or they won't buy any umbreon at all if they feel it's overpriced. Maybe people will spend 2k$ to buy a personal chase card that will be slabbed and kept on display at home because they actually like collecting, and not reselling.I don't understand if you are just pissed at the umbreon phenomenon or you are actually giving us lessons on how to spend our money wisely. In the second case, you are overestimating yourself.
>>57215779>The mean guy on the internet showed be a bunch of numbers and told me my toys are not valuable and he thinks I careFixed
>>57215774>Pic rel is racists seeing this post for the first time and emptying their bank accounts for 2k to buy a moonbeeon on eBay.
>>57215789you can try and shut me up. but try deleting PSA pop report. I am just stating what is there.
>>57215809We know you keep cracking and resubmitting the same moonbeeon to make the pop look higher.
So far this thread feels like number autists failing to understand why collector autists would want to keep the things they buy when they can sell it for bigger number.
>>57215665I was just talking about my own taste.They look worse than any shitty 3 cent card to me because that rainbow shit makes me vomit.
>>57215820>number autistsLiterally just one sperg.
I like rainbowsI hate society made them gay
>>57215835The rainbow effect is whatever, but the card art itself is just an ugly 3D render on a blank background.
>>57215820Even if you collect it's worth talking about card fundamentals since some will crash a lot harder than others in the upcoming pullback.
>>57215925Okay you do that.
>still buying real cards
The moment all these investors stop wanting to hold it'll become a real race down to the bottom
>>57215959why'd they have to use that font though, it's terrible
>>57215835Anon I don't care about the "gay" thing, that's not even on my mind.I just find these ugly as shit, an actual sore to look at. Not to mention it's zero effort and lazy. Modern IRs or SIRs are so much better it's not even funny.
>>57215959This
>>57215979the fact that rainbows and golds are just the same as full art cards but "prettier" sucks balls, they even managed to do the same in pocket
>>57215979
>>57215965You can force the not wanting to hold month by month by not buying. Within their first interest payment on their credit cards they'll wanna move product faster.
>>57215982God damn that card is dirty. Would love to see some full arts like this.
>>57215986all it's missing is a pack of pokenots
Pulled this at my card store along with the Vibrava. They also got a Felt Hat Pikachu in, but it was 300 dollars.
Total lizard death
HOLY SHIT
>>57216252Are they retarded?
>>57216254>112 bidsSome people are, yeah.
>>57216252We are reaching baseball card levels of retardation. The new rocket set and the rumored ZA mega sets will be scorched earth.
>>57216252>investortards buying their own cards with dupe accounts to create fake demand and hypeCan't believe people fall for this.
>>57216252lol no way
>>57216252welcome to the shill bidding era of pokemon
>>57215487same. I need to make a light box to take quality pics of my cards to post here. I also want to decorate a shadow box to display my favorite cards.
>>57216252>All of the listings don't actually depict the card.>None of them have it on hand.>It's people creating a fake pre-launch value of the card before they hit the market.>They do this so they can rip their entire cases and make profit still>The only people winning are people with distro.>Distro is compromised now.
>>57216252I TRY TO WARN PEOPLE OF WEAPONS OF MASS RETARDATION. I REALLY DO. BUT I CANT WAIT FOR THIS TO COME. I REALLY WANT TO WATCH THE DUMBASSES THROW THEIR MONEY AWAY AT BAD LONG TERM INVESTMENTS. BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP. WERE ABOUT TO WITNESS GREATNESS OF MIDWITS 2.0
>SUPPLY AND DEMANDok but there isnt a supply yet?
Just watched a Pokemon Knowledge recorded Livestream.Detailing how Rattle's discord has it set up for botting notifications when product drops and how to bot your purchases and use a VPN to make multiple purchases. These guys are shameless.
>>57216411>Distro is compromised now.>Now
>>57216442Grown men robbing an entire generation of children of their play toys.
I know this market is retarded but I can't help feeling the fomo. Damn all I want is to open one booster box or a couple of ETBs for the dopamine and then buy the singles I want cheap afterwards like I used to.
>>57216442Is that why I can never get a Journey Together ETB from Best Buy even though I have tracker notifications set up? I tap as soon as I see it, but they're always sold out.
Correlation isn't causation but if you look at the rise of botting discords along side the immediate selling out of products.These guys are literally becoming scalpers and scammers. They've put their thumb so heavily on the market that it dictates who gets the product and subsequently who determines the secondary market pricing. As only those with the product get to determine that.
>>57216442which livestream? i am CLEARLY a collector of "the wrong mindset full of lies and decit". so naturally as an evil informant of the pokemon collecting world i want to know where us bad goys and evil doers meet to plot how were going to swindle people of their shekels?
It's simple. I just won't buy at these prices. >b-but you're missing out on the heckin' MOONbreonSorry but I'm just not going to do it.
PokéTubers are an absolute cancer, they all inevitably end up selling product and compromise and justify their actions.
>>57216472Discord proving once again that it is a net negative on society. If only the US government would ban it too along with TikTok.
Just start reporting people to revenue agencies for audit. Make them feel the stress of rinsing people and robbing kids. These fucks deserve it. If they're gonna put stress on the consumer, fuck em' put that stress right back on these scalpers, pumpers, and streamers.
>be poketubers>pretend to have "hot takes" and "controversial opinions">are basically as scripted as project mockingbird. >they all release the same video topic within the same 24 hours>this is a serious threat to our democracy. i hate (((them)))
Poketuber with rocket symbol as logo.Pretends to be a good guyIs actually leading a team Rocket organization of sniping pokemon listings.Will undoubtedly open a thousand packs on stream on launch and still cry about having no money. Meanwhile you'll be able to open nothing. Even acquiring product is becoming syndicated. Wow.>Every one here report every single poketuber who is using the word Pokemon in their name to pokemon for copy right infringement and anyone using their logos.Fuck these guys.
>PRISMATIC EVOLUTIONS UMBREON
>>57216252fucking hell, sometimes i'm thankful flareon is my favorite evolution
>ruins you're hobby and some kids childhood
>TFW "unique" Pokémon card art pieces have become as bland and unoriginal as 5ban.
>>57216552Looks evil. I’m sure that half of the posters here are better looking
we're experiencing the Pokémon card renaissance where we get good piece of card art, but it's ending up overprinted, overpopulated, over graded and just as bland and generic as the previously "bat art 5ban". but all is good says the poketuber and the face of the organization. OBEY.
>>57214270i reseal collection boxes to sell to scalpers beacuse they will hold them long enough for buyer protection to wear out.enjoy my cum and piss filled resealed packs
Ok guys listen, for obvious reasons I can't disclose my name, but I'll let you know I'm a very wealthy person, I'm the current President of a huge NATO country, so I can count on all the taxpayers' money to execute my plan: I will buy every single umbreon card I see on any auction on any website from now on, until I possess the whole population of umbreon cards in all languages. Then I will livestream myself at the White House cumming on every single card.This will fix the market. Trust me, and God.
>>57215474>Get into a new TCG.And where are you going to go, Yugioh? Magic?Those are your only choices that you can count on to still be around in 10 years. Lorcana won't make it till 2030. One Piece will dry up within 5 years of the end and- huh, maybe One Piece will last 10 more years.....
>>57216552I can fix her (him?)
>>57216607You should back your currency on the moonbreon cards because they're so valuable.
>>57216607When the eventual collapse happens of the Moonbreon card. i will get one for cheap. not to hold. but i will make a video of me destroying it. drilling through the case straight through the card. smacking around with a sledge and other forms of desecration to what people called the "God card".
>>57216580>where we get good piece of card artGood>overprintedGreat, lower prices>overpopulatedGreat, lower prices>over gradedDon't care>as bland and generic as the previously "bat art 5ban"Modern AR/SAR make good binders, just ignore the chase cards keeping other retards distracted
>>57216453millennials entering their boomer era
>>57216655I havent bought pokemon cards in like. maybe the last 6 months. which was like 3 packs. then before that its been like a year. I been dumping my money into another TCG. but i cannot speak the name, because its like Voldemort here.
>>57216620Nta but I really enjoy Magic and YGO’s artworks. A shame I don’t know much about the universe unlike Pokémon where I have a childhood connexion with the creatures.I did watch a few opening vids of that LOTR Magic extension, I should get a few singles if they’re affordable.
>>57216631It's incredibly difficult to collapse. For every holder that runs into financial problems, they will just liquidate at 60-80% market value to another vendor. It kind of becomes a shell shuffle game, especially since you have new vendors entering the marketing taking on these risks as well. It sits on stock as inventory almost indefinitely for some of these people. Once it becomes a shuffle item it's kind of stuck in that cloud. If pokemon decides to reprint it, as an insert and it's completely the exact same as the one that's pulled from packs, that would tank the market on it.I honestly think Pokemon should do this to scare off the investor market.
>>57216667I'm not buying a single official pokemon thing until it crashes. What's currently going on is fucked. The fact kids can't go to the store and buy a $4 pack of pokemon cardboard because grown men hoard it and manipulate the prices is just wrong.
>>57216697These fucking neckbeard discord losers robbing an entire generation of kids of their childhood. Just watch these YouTubers they look sloppy and disgusting. All disheveled and shit and they're playing with pokemon cards and making YouTube videos. Absolutely pathetic.
>>57216683Time makes fools of us all.
>>57216671>A shame I don’t know much about the universeWell, yu-gi-oh is making a card lore anime this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Cs7AKk5b8
>>57216706I hope parents don't let their kids watch pokemon YouTubers. They completely strip pokemon of it's fun and teach kids you should only care about "chase" cards. Fuck the actual pokemon right? We only care about MONEY, kids. What's the ROI? show me the Charizard Umbreon.
>FELT HAT RAINBOW GAY PRIDE CHONKACHU CHASE CARDS IN MY HAPPY MEALS.
>>57216733And basically none of them do giveaways or anything. So the kids watching don't get shit either.
>>57215558>>57215562>People jealous that [their favorite pokemon] isn't as popular as Umbreon and wish [their favorite pokemon] had a super expensive cardIt's simple economics. Supply and demand.
>>57216731>not replicating Takahashi’s artstyleYawn
>putting expensive cards in your binder
>>57216767yeah lemme just>inner sleeve>regular sleeve>outer sleeve>top loader>top loader binder>glass display case>locked warehouse>fenced private land
>>57216767But having rare cards in your binder is the most soulful and based way to display them.
>>57216767need a pricepoint if you're going to throw out this platitude
>>57216832Deep…
>>57216832WTF this true bros??? They print the same number of moonbreon and common bidoof cards?
>>57216550Same. Opened Terastal Fes, got my Flareon ex, that's all I need. Spent £50 on it, the card is worth about the same, I don't see how it could have been any better.
Kicking myself for not buying the CZ etb and 2 SV tins at costco a few weeks ago. I'm such a retard.
>>57216497I miss 2010 when it wa a million random Pokemon fan channels and a few big guys like Primetime, those times were much more fun. I think I'm done with SV era shit in English, learning moonrunes is paying dividends now.
>>57216841wait until you learn about paper currency
>>57215598>spamming this shit nonstopstop overreacting, nigger. this shit is relevant and informative. half the people here couldn't effort post this well.
Hearing word that the same groups who orchestrated the last jp fa supporter pump are starting to make noise again. Be ready and dont overpay for anything.
>>57216985>Gem 10 GOONzma
should I sell my stocks to buy pokemon cards?
cute booster art
>>57216985God I hope they do another Jessie with massive tits in the next Rocket set.
>>57216985Why the fuck is that Acerola in CGC?
>>57217068cosmog bros...
>>57216985lol even at current prices most JP graded girls are way out of my price range
>>57216985I kneel
>>57216167>the weak should fear the strong
>>57217058no, but ask /biz/
>>57217102you mean NEBBY
>>57217068Maybe if you beg a streamer or YouTuber they'll send you an empty wrapper for a decent price.
>>57217058I actually been planning on dumping money in Gold and Silver next.
>>57217185I'm gonna get an ETB anyway so no thanks.
......and im gonna dump my money in the new MetaZoo set when they announce preorders.
>>57216985Ye, looks like its gonna be a turbulent year for Pokemon.
>>57216832I wonder what it would be like to work there.Could you get discounted packs?
Trvth Nvke: most regular holos look infinitely better than gaudy full arts
why the fuck is ultra prism shit so expensive to buy when the only good card in it is lillie
>>57217283it makes more sense to compare full arts to Topsun cards than holos
>>57217286Because they could have Lillie inside
>>57217286just her her single bro unless you want to end up with dusk mane trash
>>57216767Meh
>>57217068That's my wife!
>>57217519NGL these all look like forgeries.
>>57217529You have a cute wife.
>>57217519I'll never get over the legendary collection reverse holos looking like those bootleg stickers every corner store had
WOOOOOOOO REDDITOR SCORES BIG AND PULLS A 10 THOUSAND DOLLAR UMBREON CARDERINO.
>>57217585you're mad
>>57217548>>57217577I keep the bootlegs and damaged cards on the back page
>>57217637most my shit is not graded.
>>57217585how many packs did he open for that?Isn't the hitrate ass?
>>57217661anyone can win the lottery it doesn't make the odds good
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>>57217641bro what happened to that exeggute did you wipe ur ass with it lmao
>>57217678Water damage
>>57217519I will never stop kicking myself for giving that stupid neighbor kid my Rayquaza ex because I "grew out" of Pokemon cards.
