Is Pokemon scalping a legitimate /biz/ practice that makes money?
I don't get the point of flipping physical goods. There's man hours, storamge slippage, commissions if you're not selling in person, and risk of someone hurting you. If you already had the good by happenstance, sure
Collectibles are a dog shit long term investment
>>61653040>pokemon team up booster box 80x in 7 years>pokemon evolving skies box 20x in 5 years>pokemon 151 pc etb 10x in 2 yearsshow me how you've outperformed that "dog shit"
>>61653052once gen z grows up pokemon is going to zero
Notice how they're all brown? That should give an answer to your question.
>>61653086Nigger I'm almost 27 and gen Z (but my last time of splurging on Pokemon cards probably four years ago)
>>61653102thanks for proving my point zoomie
>>61653086how grown up? 10 years from now? 20 years?
>>61653123We're never growing up
>>61653102kek, you nigger brain
this shit will unironically replace cash in the post-national world welcome to the future
>>61653052BTC
>>61652958I have never seen a kid,.or anyone, play actual pokemon cards since 2002.The only time I hear about them is when some grifters try to sell them to other grifters.Who's the end consumer? Who goes out and buys this stuff? Millennial neck beards?
>>61653266It's just a very obvious game of musical chairs. A lot of dorks are going to end up bagholding pallets of worthless junk at some point
>>61653086I literally just got back into Pokemon last year after a 15 year hiatus of caring for it and I’m almost 30 now.
>>61653266Card players have always been a minority of buyers. Pokemon is a franchise that is built on synergy between different media types. Its the same with old American cartoons like Transformers where the cartoons are effectively toy commercials and then you got movies and video games. The card game then allows people who enjoyed those things to buy a collectible item to get all their favorite characters. Its the same way sports cards works. If the NBA and NFL cards were just made up characters, nobody would give a shit just like nobody would give a shit about Pokemon cards if every card was a pokemon invented for the card game.
>>61652958> sad pathetic virgins picturedwhat the fuck is wrong with people? a childrens card game is not an investment.
>>61653024I learned this the hard way. There's definitely money to be made scalping sealed Pokemon but it is such a pain in the ass liquidating your inventory. I went overboard buying sealed in 2025 then I realized that having to find space in your house for all the garbage and meeting with people to sell or dealing with ebay/taxes is not worth it.I stopped buying sealed Pokemon and just buy the waifu cards which is what I was doing before all this FOMO.
>>61653024Nigger I sell work boots and ink on Ebay, some othe discontinued things from the outlets in Orlando, like Yeti colors that are no longer made, or Disney store stuff from 60% off to what ever price I make them. Its a fun hobby I then use the extra 10K a year to buy shit coins
>>61653487I flip on ebay, but not stupid shit like this I would be embarrassed to be scene with this But a discontinued pair of Red Wing boots or some star wars shit for 70% off from Target is fair game. These guys in OPs pic look like sad homosexuals no woman wants to be around this
>>61653251well no actually btc has only performed that from 2009-2017, after that is dogshitpokemon will continue to go up, can you honestly say the same about btc doing another 10x in 5 years? $1 million by end of 2030?
>>61652958Yeah, neckbearding has been a thing for the last 20 years. Find some item that is in short supply, and every couch potato on the internet suddenly starts going to Wal-Mart at 6am to buy the store's entire stock out before anyone else can get any, thus creating an even worse artificial "shortage", then sells the items on Craigslist or Ebay for a 100% markup.
i know someone who works in a group and does it full time. most of them are fat and live with their parents, take that how you may.Can work is a different statement than often works.
>>61652958The normie faggots who buy this plastic pop culture crap deserve to get ripped off.
>>61653052Bitcoin up 311X in 11 years.
>>61653862>well no actually btc has only performed that from 2009-2017, after that is dogshitsee >>61653925The bottom in 2019 was around $3000, and you could have made a 40X at the ATH last November. You could also have dogpiled in at $4000 in March 2020 and made a 30X.
>>61653932price isnt $120k tho?so your 24-32x is good but my 20x is dogshit?
>>61653862For that matter if this:>>61653052>>pokemon 151 pc etb 10x in 2 yearsis your benchmark, BTC spent most of 2018-2019 below $6000 and you could have easily 10X'ed or 11X'ed it by holding from then through the peaks in 2021.
>>61653990No, I'm just pointing out that you're an asshole.
>>61653925>Plasma Storm Elite Trainer Box up 250x in 12 yearskek you almost got me there anon pokemon such "dogshit"
Card I bought a couple years ago for $95 is now well over $1000. Pretty stupid. Whole collection is now over 35k. I'd sell it but there's no reason to not think it won't keep going up for now.
>>61654113based
>>61653506Still a cute idea>>61653526Based
>>61653353Gee thanks chatgpt>>61652958How do you even scalp a pokemon? Poor thing
>>61654651>Gee thanks chatgptno problem 10 dollars have been charged to your account for the service
I want to fuck Gardevoir so bad m80sIt's like fucking an Asari but it's also bestiality, and she'd be literally my property.This is so hot.
It's a good side hustle but if you want to seriously make money you have to dedicate your life to it. Profit is directly tied to how many man hours you put into it. Searching through ebay auctions sniping cards for profits, going to card shows and haggling people in person to get the best deal. Yes there is money to be made obviously but if you are only looking to put in a couple hours a week, you are better off just either 1. ripping packs and praying for big hits. or 2. buying sealed boxes and forgetting about them for years. If you are trying to have a huge inventory selling a bunch of singles regardless of their price sure you will still make great money but 1. you probably don't even have enough space for thousands of cards. and 2. it's a lot of fucking effort.
>>61652958Only for chinks
>>61653086that's the exact opposite of collectibles' life cycle retard. Grown up zoomies finally get access to extra capital to spend + nostalgia kicking in hard.
>>61653353Well TCG meant to be played are being played. MTG has the value of it's cards tied 1:1 to their playability/power, at least for the recent/semi recent stuff. Vintage/RL/old foils/misprints are another story, that's where the investment money is going, alongside sealed boxes for the whales.Pokemon is special in that sense it larps at a playable game but it's absolute dogshit to the point of unplayable, so it's 100% hoarders nostafags.
>>61653052It's a bubble. Take your winnings and exit, only go back to the casino with some chump change as a fun hobby.But it's a bubble. Any force of the needs heirarchy will crash the collectibles market. With Pokemon and Sports there's more speculators in the market than actual consumers, so they have larger bubbles.But still a bubble set to pop. So make your money and get out of that, at least to the point you've recouped your losses.
>>61654827As a professional scalper i can only agree with all you said.Only detail i often forget about myself sadly, is it's better to focus on high end stuff rather than ending up buried under an ocean of low value crap. Yes the risk is higher, but it's SO much less work.I can spend a week full time sending $4 cards i make $2 off each, and then sell a $4,000 high end card i make only $1,000 off - so 25% margin instead of %50 -, but it's still the equivalent of x250 crappy cards getting shipped.Thing is you risk to sit on some big chunk of capital for a long time if the liquidity is really low. At least low value crap moves rapidly, and if it fails it hasn't been to capital intensive, even if you took x300 copies at $1 and it's not selling, that's no big deal.So it's really a balance, but if i was more intelligent and less of a pennypincher, i'd abandon the low value crap and fully focus on big targets.
>>61655567>But still a bubble set to pop. So make your money and get out of that, at least to the point you've recouped your losses.I've heard this shit since legit 2010. Doesn't matter if it's a bubble, a bubble that big always pops up once the generation dies and the next one try to mass dump.Pokemon will be at it's highest when zoomies will be 80yo and start to croak en masse. Then it will go below zero, crash to levels never seen since stamps collecting.Stamps were at their highest when silent gen reached 80yo. 10 years later it was absolutely worthless, you can now find on ebay collections who were worth $80,000 at their high for 3 bux.
>>61655597That'd be nice, but I got a feeling when the global economy eats shit because nobody holds banks accountable and shit dominos pieces of cardboard will be treated as exactly that.But fuck me if the bubble keeps goong, or a correction is minimal, I've got stacks of boxes I got for my son and I to play woth should he ever show interest. Instead... he likes sports, throwing rocks at other rocks, exploring the outdoors, meeting girls... so I don't know if it'll ever happen.But hey, I guess I'm hedged in either case. Good luck to you.
>>61654113Good thing you kept your secret card top secret you wouldn't want someone finding out what your secret investment card is
>>61655555sad but i think i have to check em quintz myself
>>61652958I was at Walmart a couple weeks ago and there was a full thing of Destined Rivals packs, thought about buying them to resell but couldn't bring myself to be one of those faggot losers you always see in videos online buying up all the Pokemon cards to make like $100These people genuinely add no value at all whatsoever
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>>61655542I don't believe other generations will have nostalgia for Pokemon the way we (millennials) did. Nothing can compare to that 1997-2001 time periodAm I supposed to believe kids are going to grow up and be nostalgic for Pokemon Sword? Yeah fucking right
