Paper Gastronomer EditionPrevious Thread: >>56917253FAQ: https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca
First for just buy what you like
what's the name of the next set coming (I don't know if it's before or after prismatic evolution) there's 2 mons on the boxI think 1 had snorlax and pika another had ttar and someone else
>still buying physical
>still buying vintage
won an auction for 20 loose booster packs, I know I know, that's risky. But it had a lot of sets I've never opened and the seller looked honest so I took the risk. I paid 126$ after shipping and tax, here were my hits. Did I win?
Is it truly a "master set" if you don't have every language print of each card?
>>56941826>gomeh, but nice>OBF poppysame as above>swellownot sure about these ones>mewtwoquite good, gratz, this is half what you paid approx>gaybreonnice, but pretty cheap
YWNOAM
>>56941826The Mewtwo and Hyper rare Umbreon cover what you paid and some more, the rest is meh
>>56941826What were the packs
>>56941925based on his hits>Pokemon Go>Obsidian Flames>Roaring Skies>Shining Legends>Evolving Skiessurely there's more though as these 5 shouldn't cost that much
>>56941925brilliant stars, chilling reign, astral radiance, evolving skies x2, stellar crown, twilight masquerade, pogo, OBF, shining fates, SV base, Paradox Rift, CZ, Roaring Skies, Paldean Fates, Fusion Strike, Shining Legends, Temporal Forces, 151>>56941985i paid like 70% of market for the packs i calculated it when I won the auction.
>>56941689Think they'll triple dip on these two when they start up the owner's pokemon sets next year?
>>56942078acerola is so hot
>>56942053those are pretty nice expansions, most have cards used in the current metaif you plan on selling check out https://www.justinbasil.com/guide/appendix2 for any good cards you pulled so you can sell to players or a store
>>56942120I'll probably sell the Mewtwo since I'm not personally a Mewtwo fan and it has sold for up to 230$ in the last month. I might sell the Umbreon since I am not a huge RR fan. I'd sell the professor but I don't think anyone would buy lol. Poppy SIR is my favorite hit, I was actually trying to get that card. This version isn't perfect though sadly so it'll have to be upgraded in the future. Swellow is cool, I've never had a half art before so I'll hold on to it. Overall I just had a lot of fun opening though and very pleasantly i pulled more than the value of the packs.
>still grading cards
Tick tock esse, time to sell your stock or forfeit your goods
Bought a Paradox Rift ETB. No good waifus, waifumons or Garchomp but at least got Aegislash, Hoopa, Iron Moth and Iron Valiant plus Jirachi and PalkiaSo like, do I sell the cards I don't like?
>>56942458Imagine if all spics were obsessed with Pokemon or Dragon Ball cards instead of drugs and crime
I buy booster packs with cool art work and never open them
>>56941826god I want that mewtwo so much
>>56943226how much
Just pulled these from a Japanese 151 pack
Whoops posted >>56943847 in a dead thread. You fellers have an idea? Not sure where else to ask
>>56943517Nice full squadI want to pick up the Palkia and Arceus someday
>>56942956Dragon Ball belongs to Latinos.
>>56943957Latinx are based. They made trump president. I would still kick half of them out, but the cool ones can stay
>>56942088True>>56942116I pulled this randomly and didn't even know it was one of the more valued cards of the set, its cool though
>>56943856yeah nintendo doesn't use that old art in most western merch because its not soulless DEI slop
So what happened with that celestial turtle and that ugly green ape? Do cards even exist for them?
>>56944275whATA ARE ypu ta;kng about
>>56944275disgusting backdrop
>>56944285>OH MY GOD YEAH HES MEXICAN
>>56944275pretty birb>greenif you mean ponpon you better apologize right the fuck nowif you mean zarude yeah fuck that ugly bastard
I'm the consumerI demand good cardsPikachu isn't goodEevee isn't goodTeam rocket is not good
>>56941842That's part of the ultra elite set desu
>>56943073what the hell, you must be rich
super electric breaker box, let's try
>25th anniversary gen2 celebration on pokecenter>absolutely nothing for TCGit's so johtover............
>>56945310well i got the FA janine, and the ceruledge was my chaseso pretty good
>still buying engl*sh
>>56945403Damn, I'll be opening a box of the set tomorrow. I feel like you stole my Janine.
>>56945403Nice pulls all around anon, good stuff
>>56945642sorry if so! good luck anon
>still buying modern
>>56945394>Pocketshit made a gajillion dollars in three weeksExtremely grim and depressing
>ze plan is simple>we doomp ze cards > then when ze maket collapse we buy it back
>>56945487It's another "different = better" episode
>almost 18k in slabs aloneFeels good man.
>>56946720blindbro...
Unironically the Reshiram on the left is better since the subtleness makes less of a distracting background. Brighter doesn’t always equal better.
I have a fuck ton of pre 2020 cards to grade but since the current market only values post 2020 cards I’m going to wait to grade them.
>>56946793I own many of the same cards in both english and japanese. They are just different from each other. If you like one more, cool, but that doesn't make something better than the other.
That and PSA fucked me out of 10k in potential value. Not even going try to regrade. Not really worth it.
How much is he up(down) I assume he stopped posting because he couldn’t stand watching his collection collapse in value.
>>56946914How is a washed out foil better in any conceivable way
>>56947259Can’t read Japanese, automatically minus points, not an eastern market. I don’t make the rules I just know better.
>>56946720The difference there is that the Jap one is better, yes.
>>56947303>changes the topic to market valueconcession accepted
>>56947379im up big on english market. how is your japanese collection fairing in the west?
Man old cards really have gone up in price the last few years huh?I never thought I had anything worth money but I have a fair amount of cards that are probably 10-20+ dollars. Shame I had awful luck with holo foils. Or with finding 1st edition packs.Not planning on selling, but it was a nice surprise when I was transferring some stuff from an old binder.
Please stop telling people Japanese textures are more detailed. Collectors already ruined the Japanese waifu card market. Don't let them ruin everything else too. It's rare to find things that are better and actually cheaper.
are japanese card buyers even up in the western market?
>>56947758waifu cards they're down, but the prices are still higher than they were before because people will only take so much of a loss, and now some stuff is eternally gatekept (such as extra battle day full arts)
>>56947758I'm in the west and Japanese cards make my PP up.
>>56947775im sure since they are limited there numbers are low pop. but im always weary over the market stability. i also have limited run cards from metazoo 1/70. basically forever cards in my collection.
in fact i think i have like 15-20 cards that have less than 500 copies from metazoo. should have been there during the dip.
>>56947787i'm just mad at how many lillies are in the hands of people who bought them for 40K for speculating and will not sell for any less than 100K. Like shut up, you lost, okay? Put the price where it belongs, which is more like 18K. I swear to god one day I will get my hands on exba lillie and I will hot glue her and post it here. It will be my ultimate triumph over investors who ruined the prices of the cards of my jappa loli waifus.
>>56947832im good. i dont need a japanese low pop card. in fact i have 26 right now, some 1/70, some 1/120, others 1/300, 1/500. i was thinking about aquiring more. but redundancy is the name of the game. i have to ask myself>will i really benefit buying duplicates or not? you can have all the japanese low pop cards. the markets too expensive for my taste. especially since i picked them up on average for 100 bucks a pop each. i must say they will only climb in value because of the rarity.
>>56947392They're in my personal collection, I'm no sellcuck, for any language.
>>56947845i want to cum inside lillie's 11 year old cunny i need that card
>>56947732Japanese went up before and came back down to Earth once investorcucks lost interest. Worst case scenario there's the S-Chinese version, which is thankfully still obscure in the West.
>>56947832>which is more like 18K.>implying you could afford that either
buy whatever cards you want. im just not buying jap crap. i got a bunch of serialized Wolverine cards as well. been collecting those, just wanted a change up and try something new. got a sketch card. 1/1. pretty cool stuff.
>>56947889i could afford that in like 2-3 years. i know how to save money. I've made purchases like half of that in a year and a half. I just don't have a retard six figure job.
>>56941689What days do the vending machines restock, typically? I want to get 151 for the first time but only vending machines carry it any more
>>56947787>metazoo
>>56947910yeah, all they have to do is move the printers from china to America, and they will be completely USA made TCG. written in english too. you know western market benefits.
>>56947910in fact MetaZoo did a collaboration with Hello Kitty. only released in North America. im sure the pipeline of super rare, super unique cards can interest japanese buyers to buy english.
Hello Kitty Sanrio in a PSA 10 fetches 400ish bucks. but in the long run maybe some six figure giga autist japanese woman would spend a lot to aquire it. who knows. only available at SDCC
>>56947832Fellow Lilliebro, I remeber early when I saw the card going below 1k and thinking to myself that I'd snag it when the price dipped a little more but that day never came. Many people lament never getting in early on crypto or stocks or whatever, but never owning a Battle Day Lillie is my one and truest regret.
i might pick it up myself. but i never really liked spending a fuck ton on cards. just some here and there. its at least something i think about. i have a fuckton of hellokittyxmetazoo stuff so. just waiting to uno reverse the pipeline.
>>56947991i wasn't card collecting when it released I was just playing the vidya gaems. so i can't blame myself for like gambling on price lowering or something I just didn't know it existed.
>>56948052Same here pretty much, now I'm in the process of gambling for the T-Chinese version of it as the second best thing.
i know how smpratte and eliteforums have monopolized the japanese pipeline. luckily im not into japanese cards anyways. but im sure there are women in japan with a big hello kitty collection that would pay whatever to add a piece to her collection.
>>56948100yeah I might end up buying the T-chinese to hold me over but on that card I guess I really one day want the real one. And then I want to cum on it.
>>56948052Fair enough, I guess I only have myself to blame for my retardation. I was able to snag the Friends in Alola card as a consolation at least.
there is a mothman x kuromi secret rare card, serialized 1/131. had to pull it from the boxes. guy wants 25k for it in a PSA 10, but there is one for 3k for a PSA 9. i might try to pull it myself. but id rather sit and wait on my product.
>>56948145I just got that one in s-chinese, I could've afforded the japanese version if I bought nothing else pokemon for this month but I didn't want to do that. It's a really great card, depicting the same night as extra battle day lillie is, but nothing can top the exact moment being depicted in extra battle day lillie...
Wait, am I in the PTCG thread on the Pokemon board, or have I wandered into a MetaZoo thread on /tg/? Who is this schizo talking to himself?
So, when a seller filters the number like this, it's basically a red flag, right?
no this is a TCC thread. trading card collector.you looking for plebbit down the street.
>>56948167Yeah, I don't get it either, didn't that literal who game die this year or some shit? What relevance does it have here or in general?
>>56948178Check the name of the board you're posting on, retarded nigger.
>>56948187no the former VP of pokemon bought it. he was the VP for WOTC for like 6 years, then when TCPi opened up, he moved over there and retired i think 2022. so basically the guy who bought it help run pokemon card distribution in north america for almost its entire run. pretty interesting story. he said that they are going to to a revamp and wants to start fresh with a new base set. coming 2025 i think.
>>56948174I wouldn't risk it personally. I use those numbers to verify if its even a real PSA slab to begin with before buying.
>>56948190Rayquaza, rayquaza rayquaza. ray ray quaza quaza.
e4 users get so mad when you dont wanna buy thier japanese cards.
make a Jirachi Ex with good art please and thank you
>>56948259this isnt a draw request thread.
>>56948276I'm asking the pokemon company itself idiot
>>56948285well then email them or something. this isnt a wishing well.
>>56948290yeah I forgot, this is a thread to talk about garbage japanese cards and complain about scalpers, fuck talking about the cards you like or want to see. Tongue my anus moron
>>56948174i've heard of people doing it to not get scammers numbers to use but i think that's retarded and there is almost always a card available at same price without them blurred so i don't chance it.
>>56948314tell e4 i said hi.
One fag's having a meltie and spamming this thread, SAD.
people mad at cultural spill over but never question why japanese cards get shilled so hard here despite it being an english market and western website.
>>56948366This is a weeb site talking about a Japanese franchise, why wouldn't there be a focus, especially since a lot of the product is jp exclusive.
>noooo the topic of card colleting isnt going my way>buy japanese cards.
>>56948383they're just mad that they overpaid for a worse product and need to justify it.
e4 spillover.
>>56948366>JP shilled so hardIsn't it basically one guy who makes a few posts per thread?
>>56948420>E4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. The "E" stands for entertainment and the channel is primarily aimed at the 16–34 age groupWhat does this have to do with Pokemon?
anyways i cant wait until they deport illegals, they are scalping the western market. japanese shills would just say im a hater. but thats because they are just in it for themselves. take it with a grain of salt next time. i will too.
>>56948413this, absolutely fuming>Verification not required.
>>56948442i love japanese cards AND i hate illegals.
>>56948454i love being a westerner and getting pokemon cards. i dont think the pokemon company cares about scalping so i find new routes. and i will not buy japanese product. and if they dont like it they can suck an eggroll.
>>56948464the only thing I think is superior on the western side is the pack opening experience. opening JP packs sucks ass. but most cards look better in japanese or have a better non-localized name in japanese or don't have yellow borders ruining them in japanese. I still want brownoid scalpers to get btfo'd.
>>56948476thats a more reasonable conversation than this retard. >>56947832>>56947867and im the one ruining the thread.
>>56948490/vp/ stands for very pedo
>>56948499apparently.
whats with all the womenshit cards? when will pokemon stop making charizard into a tranny and sell us cards for men?
>>56946793know what, I'm collecting jp cards from now on
men who unironically buy clearly womenshit cards, also sit down when they pee.
What is womanshit exactly?
Speaking of riri. I couldn't bring myself to open these 2 boxes so I took the easy way out and just bought her like the slut she is. She's not japanese but she will do for now.
cards?
>>56948638look we all dont have gender dysphoria.
>>56948643Love dat old texture they used to do for English.
>>56948643good restraint.
>>56948651ESL babble
>>56948665put down the dress son and buy some pokeMAN cards.
>>56948643She is beautiful but please don't call my wife a slut, she is pure and lovely.
>>56948681Excuse me but she if my wife and I can call her what I want. Plus, she can be pure, lovely, and a slut all at once.
>>56948702
>>56948778>>56948702Release those cards frim their cages.
>>56948790bindercuck seethe.
>>56948574not sure what you mean by this. this series is all about tyranitars and charizards anyway, waifushit is a relatively new meme to the TCG
>>56948778Inshallah one day I'll have this Kyogre card
Topload or nothing.
>>56948778Bruh I havent even seen this cards before, these are sick. Ordering PSA10 asap
I have so much good shit i could grade. too bad the market undervalues it, so no motivation.
>>56948643That's not even the expensive one though, is it?
>>56948898I know buts that's the one I wanted and was trying to pull.
>>56948644Are the JP 151 starter cards like that a decent price?I was wanting to do a full dex with as many art/special art cards as possible and right out of the gate it's a dick punch in prices.
>>56948906Based honestly I like it better too.
>>56948876Why do old full arts look so much better than the soulless slop we get now?
I have like 250 cards set aside to grade.
Got this from the pokemoncenter. The plastic not covering the whole thing makes it look repacked.
>>56948930They are simply 0 effort. Full arts used to be the main pulls for sets during BW and XY. Now they're just mandatory filler and all the rage are illustration cards.
>>56948907The ARs are cheap, the SARs not so much, but still cheaper than their English counterparts.
>>56948932all tins have a thicker plastic "tube wrap" instead of being fully sealed in thin plastic
>>56948930thats funny because when i use to post these here years ago people would complain how its modernshit and how the art isnt as good, and to buy the new shit because the new art is better.
I dont buy new shit. i just buy whats cheap and thats a card game that people dont want talked about here.
>>56948643>those thighs >that armpitLusamine raised a SLUT!
Man, pre arceus SS era was pretty shit.>>56948964Good to know.
>>56949000>Darkness Ablazemy condolences
>>56949000checked>vvpray to arceus you get that gaychu
>>56948930More dynamic posing and camera angles, plus better color choices for backgrounds.
better than the japanese cards that are always shilled here.
I still have a fuckton of modern to grade. as well. but nothing too major.
>>56949127Do you grade for reselling or because you like slabs?
>>56949150I grade to maximize the value of my cards. people cannot deny the value of a card when its been graded and certified.
>>56949181Fair enough
>>56949127>>56949150in fact if you are new here, i posted a single pack of cards and asked /tcc to bless it. i waited an hour and no one did. so i opened it and pulled the leafeon Vmax, sent it in, got a 10. now i bring up this story to rub it in their faces. turned 25 bucks into 400 dollar card. Arceus blesses my pulls when no one else would because they are all cunts.
>>56949000Uh at least Kingdra is cool
>>56949059Yes people should STFU about their ching chong nipponese folded 10,000 times cardboard and continue to be absolute faggots about buying as much of the superior western cards as possible and not ruin two fucking markets.
>>56949198I kind of dig that Rhyperior art. Eske Yoshinob huh?
>>56949263Oh nvm he has a LOT of soulless slop
>>56949269Wait hold on seeing some good soul I was too quick, all the items made my eyes cloud over
>i dont like them putting rainbows on the cards, they turn the freakin' collectors gay.
>>56949296HUMINA HUMINA HUMINA AWOOOGA
>>56949296I want to slurp soup from her navel
>gold outline
>>56945958>people pay real money to open virtual booster packs to collect virtual bulkGrim and depressing.
>>56950170can't wait to sell all my free pulls when trades come out
>>56950177Wdym exactly?
Should I buy cards? If so what packs?
>>56950258nomodern to open, vintage to keep sealedbut don't buy packs, buy singles
When can I safely buy SSP singles? Surely they will have a predictable dip when it's a good time to buy, right? I want to collect all the hits from this set.
Whats the best way to get tons of Crown Zenith at the best price right now?
>>56950205i am predicting people with pay you to trade them cards they want in TCG pocket. idgaf abt the app but i'm doing all my free pulls anticipating that.
>>56948778Just bought these on ebay after seeing them, never saw them but I love them.Damn these little faggots are rare in english though, I settled with loose jap ones for about $230.
>>56950688They were from a smaller subset. TCPi fucking sucked at producing good quality cards. i personally pulled all 3 of these, and the damage on them for the grade is factory damage. basically if you were to pull one that would be a PSA 10. you were lucky. the factory was shitting out 7's and 8's all day.
>>56950688thats the real reason why a PSA 10 of one of these is over 1k all day. they are rare.
it's pretty upsetting when there are cards known to just be damaged out of the factory lol.
>>569507172015 was a different time. its a shame honestly. everything has also changed with time. including PSA standards. i double check what i send in on whats on ebay. and cards on ebay that are better grades are just as much damaged as my cards.part of the reason i dont wanna grade my cards. there gonna fuck mine over if there is the smallest white chip in one corner.
>>56950286Why would you do that? See>>56945487
She cute
I hate how so many of the non-full art ex cards are just a lame shot of the Pokemon in a close dynamic shot. Some of the older ones were like that as well, maybe it's nostalgia talking, but it makes regular ex cards in the newer sets just kind of "whatever" to pull.
putting together a master set is so much hard work. . . I meant to open some packs today, but some other things, in addition to working on filling out my master set, got in the way. I am so tired. I need sleep -- I am downtrodden. I must recuperate energy and go to bed, so I can be refreshed and get back to putting the set together tomorrow
