Coin Case EditionPrevious Thread: >>57184335FAQ: https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca
>>57195757Do people actually collect these coins?I used to have one or two of these small ones as a kid.I really dislike the new large plastic ones that come with some promos. I don't even know what to do with them, I just have them sitting in a jar.
Japanese promo bros, how are we feeling?
>>57195775I kept mine in a box which I couldn’t find when I started collecting again. I miss them.
Total and complete lizard death
>>57195791>expensive in english>expensive in japanese
>>57195791Sublimely, got these yesterday from Osaka's finest singleschad store.
>>57195831How much did it cost? The box I got was 70 USD,which is think is cheaper than the promos individualy off ebay
>>57195757I want a Rirrie coin.
>>57195848Does the box include all 3? I thought they were promos only in English. Anyway yes, I paid 90€ incl. shipping for all 3 singles
>>571958752 of them are ARs in stellar crown and charmander is a promo in the obshittyan flames etb
>>57195875Yes all 3 plus some other shit no one cares about
>still buying Engl*sh
>>57195912>both of them have her crotch coveredowari da...
>>57195912forgot the feet
>>57195972Koreans can enjoy some crotch shadow at the expense of almost losing the bellybutton
This pack had 6 males. Absolutely disgusting. I'll be burning them later but here are the cute girls. Bottom right is definitely the cutest.
Chinks on the other hand won the feetbowl
>>57196078Rin is cute. I don't know who any of the other thots are.
>>57196091>>57196071goddam now I need one in each language
Update for future threads
>still buying vintage
>>57196126nice, thanks
>still buying physical
And with that Pokemon revealed the pfp of millions of manchildren everywhere.
>>57196189Xbox Live default profile pics energy
>>57196126Can someone combine the cards and create a version with nothing coveres?
When do vaultx binders restock for fucks sake it's been months, are they scalping binders too now???
>>57196200Chinese card has the best of both worlds already.
I've yet to learn the difference between "good" binders and cheap ones, and no one has ever been able to provide an explanation. And yes I've asked multiple times here with no reply. I'm not talking about 3 ring binders, but equivalent cheap ones to vaultx or whatever brands, with strong pages and zippers. I don't think vaultx developed their own type of materials for use in binders and surely they use the same plastic as everyone else. Please tell me why I'm wrong, I don't want to find out years down the line my cards are ruined. I'm genuinely curious about this
>>57196189american version of the type of "cool" guy I explained in a last thread
>>57196233I've found card guardian to be comparableUnless you're looking for the set themed ones vaultx does in which case F
>>57196259Card Guardian does indeed have the orange 12 pocket binder I was checking on VaultX, but they don't seem to ship outside of US
>>57196345https://www.amazon.com/Card-Guardian-Pocket-Premium-Trading/dp/B0BW79XCNQ I got mine from here before learning they had a website, though I dunno how amazon works outside the states
>>57196248Normally in your binder you are looking for:1) no rings or at least rectangular rings with sheets that have some space between the holes and the pockets, to avoid card denting2) zip to protect against dust3) side loading to avoid losing cards if you keep the binder upside down (redundant if you keep the zip closed)4) no shit-tier plastic for the pockets (pvc free) as it deteriorates and becomes yellow over time. In any case don't put naked cards into any binder, use at minimum pvc-free penny sleeves5) solid materials for the cover without being low tier plastic/fake leather which become sticky or deteriorates over timeThe most widely used ones such as Vault X, Card Guardian, etc. just happen to check all the above boxes while being the cheapest ones in the market.
>>57195831>Osaka's finest singleschad storeWhere at?
>>57196362Thanks but form Amazon US I would spend 14$ shipping for a 28$ item despite having prime, additionally CG binders apparently have a known issue of slightly smaller pockets that fuck up penny sleeves, which are the ones I use as I don't like perfect fits.I'll just wait for a new year's VX EU restock on my country's amazon, it can't be that far away.
>>57196248When I was looking into getting my first binders often the biggest differences were a lot of the cheaper no name amazon ones were moldy or often just not well put together. Like yeah the materials might be the same overall but cheaper ones don't seal the pages as securely so the slots perforate and the like.There's another brand I was looking at that a friend reccommended [Fabmaker] that's on the lower end but they had some kind of production change where they got cheaper and shittier past like 2020 or so.Another thing i've noticed is of all the brands I've looked at, Card Guardian were the only ones I saw anyone mention hold up to actually being comnpletely stuffed with sleeved cards with no issues closing/zipping. I personally leave the very front and very back pages empty but one thing i've noticed of a lot of cheaper brands where they keep the same generally universal dimensions but stuff more pages in there.Don't really think the materials themselves are the issue, just whether or not they're put together by chinese kids yanno
>>57196398JK it was just the lowest listing I found for that set in NM condition. karateka_gamer on ebay, I checked other cards from them but they seem to be overpriced compared to other japanese shops, especially the giant ones such as cardster_tokyo.If you are from EU anyway check cardmarket first, even the best japanese ebay shops with free shipping always have higher prices 99% of the time. From them I only buy new promos before they skyrocket, or the occasional discounted bundle such as those 3 starters.
>>57196411rip, hopefully they come back aroundI may have overprepared when i got back into collection and and splurged on a bunch of shit I probably don't need, genuine question why don't you like perfect fits?The KMC condoms felt like a pain in the ass so I got those dragon shield self sealing kinds and I've been liking them for my FAs along with some generic opaque sleevesI'm realizing it does feel like overkill for stuff I'm not gonna play with, debating fishing out the personal collection from their toploaders to just get them a normal binder
the original shining card holos look much better in person i wish they revisited this holo foil type in the newer cards
>>57196453I sometimes take cards out of the binder and out of the sleeves to show/make photos/trade, and with perfect fits it's a pain, even if you are careful to avoid denting the card, it still ruins the sleeve itself much more easily than pennies, and when you put the card back you may have a scratched sleeve that makes the card seem scratched by proxy.If you plan to keep them safe in toploaders at all times, then perfect fits are better.
Do loose booster packs have worse odds of getting good cards than buying a booster box?
>>57196623if you're buying english then no it doesn't matter
>>57196623Any pack that you don't buy in person at a japanese pokemon center has been already weighted, xrayed, gammarayed, carbon-14 dated and any big hit has been teleported out of the pack with portal guns.
>>57196394>>57196424okay I see, thank you anons, that's great inputI always use penny sleeves with any binder as I feel the plastic may scratch the card, especially if dust gets into the pocket, so I think I'm covered on the pvc part since I use picrelI'll have to keep an eye out for when I fill them to max, as well as the sealing over time. For now the materials seems alright and there's no mold or anything peeling or separating. The pages are just like those double-sided single dragon shield black ones, which I've tried before and seem alright. Not sure what type of page that's called compared to the single transparent plastic ones, and they're side-loading tooI guess mine was put together by chinese teens instead of kids
>>57196450disappointing desu
You did this /tcc/...
>>57196749>using the Chinese ones and not the premium made in USA onesbro...
>>57196799Nuh uh, I have not and have no plans to buy Eeveeshit, The Set.
>>57196799lol based.
>>57196799They're going to sell them online at 3x the cost
>>57196857In a year or two you'll be able to slurp up packs below MSRP. The Umbreon or whatever the chase card is will still be pricey but singles will be cheap.
>>57195757Can it hold Jade ingots?!
Surugaya order came in
>>57196918Never bought singles from them before so I just threw this in to see their quality control and shipping. The card is actually quite nice.
>>57196814I've tried those as well, but they fit pretty much the same inside the binders
>>57196623Soft no. Technically there are no guaranteed odds on anything. However, booster boxes are loaded with a consecutive arrangement of packs from the production line, which tends to fall into a pattern that provides an average of 1 Gold/SIR per box. While it is absolutely not guaranteed and borders on superstition, a lot of people will assume that there's not another major hit after that high rarity is pulled from a box. If we're getting packs from a box at my local tourneys, it's very common for players to opt out to another set if one player pulls a big hit from the box, or to lean more towards a box that they know no one has gotten a good pull from.Comparatively sleeved boosters are more of a true random. Each and every one is a completely random pack off the line, no patterns or statistics beyond the usual pullrates. On one occasion my buddy and I both pulled the exact same SIR in the same night from sleeved packs.
How much is this case worth?
>>57196918That's a delicious looking tummy. Post the whole thing.
>>57197034>vmax pikaruined
>>57197034who cares
>>57197119Me, she spent $20K opening lucky bags yesterday and want to if she wasted her money.
>>57197193>opening lucky bags???
>>57197193the mario and luigi pikachus are worth 3k eachthe 20th anniversary pikachu are 4-5k eachrest idk she probably lost some money but not -that- much
>>57196256it says kowai onii-san. kowai means scary. its a scary guy not a cool guy.
>>57197295in freedom land you have to intimidate to be cool
>>57197034$15k ish I'd say
Do any of you guys resell Chinese proxy or "DIY" cards on eBay? I noticed they're marked up like 900 or 1000% on eBay as singles compared to Ali Express.
>want surging sparks>sold out>want prismatics>sold out>want blooming waters>sold out and people fighting in costco over itwhat is going on? we in a bubble?
>>57197727bubbles imply artificial price pump and fake demand. since people are buying at the ridiculous market prices resellers are listing, we are not in a bubble.
>>57197727>tcg app comes out>physical demand balloonswow who'd have thought
>>57197755Did you drink a lot of lead paint as a kid?
>>57197898and this is where most of the real demand is coming from.
>>57197922oh wow, thanks for the phd, now i have three.
>>57196094Rin best vocaloid, the other ones are h*man OCs for the mobile Miku game, pretty sure the pink hair one is a cross dressing dude as well.
>>57196094>>57198014>pretty sure the pink hair one is a cross dressing dude as well.Bottom right one obviously, the pit slut has visible tits.
>>57197755>bubbles imply artificial price pump and fake demandlmao, you really think this is organic? There have been repeated and observable attempts to heavily pump the market since Temporal Forces, and suddenly a set releases with multiple cards that rapidly climb into the hundreds of dollars within the first week, FAR surpassing even Moonbreon at a comparable time. Booster boxes inflate to 200 dollars LITERALLY OVERNIGHT from release. It's the most manipulated it's ever been. Sellers are pumping prices on singles to ridiculous heights. More valuable singles incentives people to open more sealed. More products sales incentives scalpers and investors to scoop as much as they can. The fact that some collectors are stupid and desperate enough to actually pay the inflated prices set by scalpers doesn't make it any less artificial.
>>57198229Your last sentence is more in line with what a "bubble" is. Artificial demand and pricing are not required. A bubble occurs when speculation causes buyers to push the price of an asset much higher than the asset's actual value. There isn't a good way to do this with pokemon cards. There isn't a great way to do it with stocks either but we can look at the total valuation in relation to the market cap and get a good idea. Pokemon is entirely speculative, so we have to look at the behaviors of participants to see if they're in line with a bubble. Are the behaviors we're seeing now sustainable? Will buyers continue to fight each other at Costco for pokemon cards? Will people keep paying $20k for "mystery boxes?" There is real demand, and people are paying the prices, but will they continue? I don't think so. Could be months, could be years. Eventually a large portion of the people that are in on the action will move on.
>>57197034Is this girl the new pumper? The last guy had black and yellow hair, think his name was hikaru like the chess player.
>>57198346moving on /=/ bubble popping though. i never said this will last forever. markets move. if things were a bubble rn then we'd have to see harsh crashes in short period of time following mass exodus of interest. that won't happen though, it will just slowly quiet down.
>opened 5 tins and a LO ETB>that's 23 packs>most valuable card was a 3 dollar reshiram cardsometimes i hate opening packs.110 dollars down the drain
>>57198479>23 packs for $110why are you complaining
>>57198472>It'll just pop slowlyok
Found an obscure website that had the arceus lunch tin for MSRP. He looks so soft. Mogs the zard imo
>>57198524what the fuck do you think popping means nigger
>>57198596https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/10/5-steps-of-a-bubble.aspJust read this and read the whole thing. There isn't necessarily a requirement that the bubble burst "rapidly," whatever that means, just that prices return to be more in line with the fundamentals or even below them. The bear market from the dotcom bubble lasted like 3 years. But that aside, your justification for it not being a bubble is based only on your own hunch that prices will decline slowly. So fucking what? As the other poster said, people are paying 3x MSRP for a chance at a fucking Eevee with jewels floating around its head because they think prices will continue to rise and they can flip it for a modest profit. How the fuck is this not a bubble? Pokemon cards are like shitcoins at this point with people paying $10k for the waifu of the week card.
>>57198645retard
Should I separate waifu trainer cards and pokemon cards into different binders? What about the pokemon cards that have waifus in them?
>still grading cards
>>57198645What waifu of the week card goes or has gone for $10k?
>still buying modern
>>57199098Not in this economy!
>>57199139Man I love the weird oppressive vibe the early EXs hadMust be the millenial in me with a big soft spot for harshly shadowed CGs. that Kabutops is fucking rad
>>57195757how much do you guys think i can make out of these pulls
>>57199184
>>57199187 ill pay you one million dollars for these cards
>>571991874 dollars
>>57199251>>57199187raboot psa10 is 50but the rest? Mmmm
>>57199258too bad its not a psa 10, judging from your photo
>>57199258thats a raw card retard
These cards are polar opposites. One has a beautiful background to distract you from the god awful face. The other has a simple background and design that makes her beautiful calm expression the star of the show.>>57198734I keep my Waifus together. From trainer galleries to the Piplup Dawn card from cosmic eclipse.
>>57195912I'm tired of seeing this enough to bite the bait, but surely people have noticed this is entirely because the English translations just adds, like, two more lines of text versus the Japanese one, right? No one actually thinks this was on purpose, right?
How do you guys keep yourselves from recklessly spending money on cards?t.spent 120 euros yesterday
>>57199664By being fucking poor
>>57199664I tell to myself that if I wait the market will surely crasht. spent 230€ yesterday
how dumb is it to buy random japanese boosters when i just want to get nice art rares?i bought two boosters and got the jasmine illustration rare so my mind tells me its easay and i should by more packs
>>57199805buy a box for the guaranteed hits
>>57199805If you really like opening packs, sure. But you can easily get a full AR for specific sets with just $20 depending on how big it is.
What grade do you guys think this would get?
>>57199927
>>57199927>>57199929>thinking about grading
grading is such an obvious grift
>>57199951That was one of my concerns, there is a grading company here in Croatia though maybe I could get it graded while being there so I don’t get fucked by shipping?
>>57199929>that back6 at most
>>57199969Still worth even being a 5 as far as I know?
Niggers? On my ETB?
FUCK INVESTORKEKS
Pack art
>>57199992>man on the etbhoping this will fend people off a little more rather than kantoooo on the boxhow likely is this to drop on pc today?
>>57199992WAIFUFAGS BTFO
GOGOGOhttps://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/100-10356Limit is two per person, managed to get one.
>>57200183thanks for the heads-up!
>>57200183aaaaaaaaaand the site has crashedthanks scalpers
>>57200183Thanks anon, preordered mine
Booster Box comes with the N's reshiram card, already placed my ETB order but trying to get one so I don't have to deal with this later
>>57200281The promo card is tempting and if this set is like any other, a box should go for over 200 eventually. Just wish all of the promos didn't have that fag on it.
>set only contains 4 SIRs and 2 golds
what the best sets to invest on
>>57200183bruh it keeps timing out
>>57200346I'll take your N promo, anon.
all sold out
>>57200281>NA panders to faggotHeh
>>57200183>jp>just buy the booster box at the minimum pack price>usa>forced to buy dice, thin tins, coins, sleeve, special set, jumbo cards etc to get their cardsAlways a cuck. Have fun getting exploited buying english set.
Why are boosters in this game such garbage, it's like 5% cards people actually want and 95% filler. You can't even use the 95% for anything, unlike other games where you'll at least want playsets of stuff, and the worthwhile stuff makes up 50% of the booster.
>>57200406Yeah it's cancer. I miss when sets were around 100 cards.
why don't these retards add server capacity
are japanese cards equivalent value to american ones?
>>57199992>N ETBFor fuck sake, i wanted waifu stuff, skip. But at least it's not that bitch of Hops, fucking annoying "persona 3/4/5 annoying first male friend" archetype which Japan loves (to bully).
>>57200183All gone :( Oh well.
I hate this """""hobby""""" nothing makes me feel so cucked than this shit
BRUH wtf do they mean by out of stock it's fucking pre-orders just fucking print what people order stop with this artificial scarcity BS I fucking hate these dirty N
>>57200420>>57200406Is there a reason why we can't go back? TPCi have shown willingness to go back on things, like going from GX and Vs to half-arts again in EXs. And surely having these massive sets just makes things more difficult for them? I think most of us would welcome 100~ card sets again. We need less fucking secret rares too, I'm sick of having more secrets than regular cards in special sets now.
>>57200624It's not even like they profit from artificial scarcity, unless it makes buyers even more rabid every time they become available again. The only logical case would be if they're limiting them so they have production time but they'd have to be printing hundreds of millions for that to be an issue.
Who here investorCHAD?
Just got some of the Booster Bundles at Gamestop.
>>57200661
>>57200714im very sorry to hear that
>>57200183Uhh I kept spam refreshing and it let me checkout so I just ordered 2 pc etbs? I feel like this is a website error because now it says sold out and I havent got an email yet but maybe they honor my order inshallah
>>57200264at this point my £90 jp box preorder on japan2uk seems like a fucking gimme
>wake up >pokemon center ETB sold out:')
>>57200730Why? I only bought three.
>>57200761i didnt even know it went live
>>57200360Lucky you, you came in at the perfect time to invest. This is a good deal:>>57200661
>>57200661>still buying sealed
>>57200281>not the lillie cardI sleep
>>57200661lol, lmao even>>57200442Was able to get the ETBs super easily. Decided to go back and get a booster box as well and the site crashed forever and once it came back up it was sold out. Cool, cool. You win some, and you lose some, all within literal minutes.
>whatnot streamer opens prismatic packs two weeks earlier than release>his pull rates are absolute, complete ass>people report his account because these pull rates can't be real, he must have resealed the packs>account gets unbanned after less than a day>he didn't reseal the packs>the pull rates are actually just that ass
Prismatic etb pre-orders lasted like a whole day wtf man
>>57199992Unova gawds, we fucking won.
>>57200902manifactured hype vs actual hyperocket will last like, 3 seconds
>still buying sealed
So is the PC ETB better than the booster box?
>>57200927pc booster comes with reshiram promo etb comes with zoroa promo
>prismatic isn't even out>investorcucks have already dropped itthey really are the cryptobros of this hobby
Throw invooster cucks into a wood chipper.
>>57200955The fact that their greasy brown little hands are going to be all over my Lillie cards sickens me.
>>57200741Japanese cards are nicer anyway
The fact that even the single packs are sold out lmao
The worst part about this is that not even japanese will be cheap because lillie is in the set
>Multiple investor niggers passionately arguing that this isn't a bubble in this very threadI hope you stupid faggots lose all your money
What if I could just like enjoy the PTCG without having to deal with stock availability for items that aren't even out yet? I would like that very much.
>>57200983This is the new normal, has been since 2016 dumbass.
>>57200989*camps all night outside of your lgs to buy their whole stock*
I didn’t realize how good things were back in the XY era. It hurts to know that when the Legends ZA extension will release I might be unable to get a single pack.
>>57200989You can buy fakes on Alibaba for like nothing.
>>57200995why do all these fuckers look the same
>>57201007NPCs do be like that
Ordered 3 cases of TPC ETBs kekTHank fuck for bots
>>57200183How tf is it gone already
>>57200902New Lillie card
I'm going to...I'm gonna INVOOOOOOOOOST
>>57200955praying to Allah that their parents/kids get cancer
>>57200894thats why i just buy singles
>being an invetecuck>not being a sealed collector chad
>>57201007physiognomy is real
Nice try goyim, but I shan't preorder without seeing the full set
>>57201034Sealed collecting is the same as investing tbf. It's denial to say otherwise. What's there to enjoy about a sealed box? Most are waiting to be resold in 20+ years time for PROOOOFIT.Nobody who collects sealed, collects sealed because they like the cards
>>57200915post the account name, i want to know what faggot listed it that high
The pokemon center ETB is a blue chip. Its way cheaper than the booster box but it has a higher moon % because of the limited quantity making the stamped promo inside extremely rare.
>>57201039>Nobody who collects sealed, collects sealed because they like the cardsTrue. I originally wanted a sealed pack of each from BRS and FST, since I started with those sets, but I ended up opening all my packs eventually kek
>>57200741They must be out of their fucking mind if they think I'll pay that much. Around £40 or fuck off.
>>57198346>Eventually a large portion of the people that are in on the action will move on.When the normal consumer gets burned throughout the rest of this year with the rocket and journey sets, we'll definitely see a massive drop in interest since at that point the only people left buying this shit is other scalpers and youtubers
I had them in my cart and my payment info clicked buy and the fucking shit crashed. I feel so fucking cucked this is the worst.
>>57201062>and the fucking shit crashed.too many bots bloated the site
>>57201062>not having botskek
>>57201060IMO 151 will be the last straw. If millenormies can't get their hands on 10 slices of nostalgia cardboard for less than $10 they will say fuck it.
>>57201039The Japanese boxes make a cool display piece imo. The English ones looks like trash in comparison. Of course this excuse falls flat for people that buy cases of this shit and shove it in a closet for years.
>>57201039how much is this shit going to be worth reallyits not going to be base set levels valuable so whats the point just buy nvda or bitcoin or something
>>57201079Doesn't matter. I can already sell for 4x MSRP. It's only going to go up
I'm more pissed off at the Pokemon center not sending out Emails that they were going to be listing this shit today
https://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/100-10356THEY'RE BACK IN STOCK GOOGOGOGOG
>>57201107>https://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/100-10356Liar
>>57201110Too slow
OMGI-IS THAT A.... HECKING MOONBREON?!?!??! I'M GONNA MOOOOOOOOOON
>>57201116>!700 for the worst eevolutionKek
