I only invest in one thing: Fun

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The Pokemon Card Hobby Is In Trouble...

>still buying physical

I only invest for one thing: Profit.

>TPC still haven't released CARs (Cunny Art Rares)

bruh whats the point of opening my ETB when I'm not guaranteed a SIR

>>57231631
>What's the point in opening packs unless I'm guaranteed excatly what I want?
Just buy singles, you nigger

>>57231631
To rip packs and admire the art.

>>57231631
Only the PC ETBs are worth opening because of the PC promo card. If you just want to open packs, you are better off buying something else, or just getting the singles. The PC ETBs also come with 11 packs instead of 9.

>>57231648
>opening PC ETBs when they're hot stock

>>57231660
I've opened every PC ETB I've ever bought

>>57231660
He was asking about guaranteed SIRs though. But yeah, if you want to invest, sealed product rarely loses value, it usually just goes up if you sit on it long enough.

>most in demand set in Japan is waifu set
>most in demand set in America is dog fucker set
What does this mean?

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I have Friday off, and i don't know what to do. there is a LGS that will have stock and only allows 1 item of each thing per person. there is another LGS that focuses on baseball cards but also has Pokemon as well. i don't think it would be worth it to drive to each fucking big store like Best Buy too. fuck

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>>57231673
As a waifu fag I'm glad it is that way.

>>57231684
why don't you, uh, phone them

>>57231660
That's why you buy more than one

>>57231684
Just wait around the corner and mug somt fatties. You've got a day to get some ski masks

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>this schizo who keeps trying to get us to commit armed robbery

Is there any chance stuff will go online on the day of release?

>>57231728
>>57231193

>>57231730
it will, but you have to camp all day and beat the bots.

>>57231730
Yes, but you better be on the ball and checkout in less than 30 seconds or else the bots will scoop them up.

Am gonna start collecting waifu cards, I don't care about the pokemon, what am in for?

>>57231673
White women.

>>57231673
>>57231767

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemoncards/comments/1i1ztve/my_hits_from_174_prismatic_evo_boosters/

yeah... im thinking im just gonna buy Japanese. fuck that shit

>>57231785
Each JP box had a guaranteed SIR, plus you could get double SIR, Masterball and God Pack.
We just get the balls or nothing, what a fucking joke.

>>57231730
yeah but can you beat out a bot is the real question

lmao invoosters and scalpers gonna get fucked

shitty pull rates and excess supply coming real soon

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Did you preorder your singles bros?

>>57231763
Unless its Lillie, you should be fine.

>>57231616
Unironically wish posting this soifag was bannable
It's just mindless spam for clicks

>>57231728
I unironically hope Jamal-Anon tries that for real and get's a hot slug to the gut in the middle of a cold walmart parking lot

>>57231907
>CAD
What's that in real money?

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>>57231785
This is so god damn funny

>>57231631
Packs and boxes will always have a negative value. If you just want a specific SIR, then just buy it. Opening packs only works for people who are getting packs under MSRP. The most economical way to get cards is to meet up with scalpers and rob them.

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>>57231992
>and get's a hot slug to the gut in the middle of a cold walmart parking lot
>He thinks fatass scalpers have the reflex time to defend themselves

>>57231907
The audacity of these street shitting jeets

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>>57231907
>Preordering
>Preordering Singles
>Preordering Singles from Canadian Jeets

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Anyone else chasing based TYME full art in Prismatics? Need to pair her with my Ryme I think a sequential PSA 10 would be goated.

>>57231673
It's more of a confluence of events. Pokemon TCG Pocket just came out, a bunch of retards think this is gonna be Evolving Skies 2 because Pokemon won't just reprint a bunch of card to meet demand not knowing that's exactly what they'll do, and they're gonna get their assholes torn into.

>>57232212
So a break is basically
>I have a Booster Box
>I sell "slots"
>You buy a slot, say fire and Electric
>Now when slots are sold then I stream and open booster box
>Any pulls of those types you paid for slots of you are credited
>Say I did 151 Box
>And pull Charizard Norma, Alt Full Art Charizard AND Alt Full Art Zapdos
>You get those and any other Electric and Fire rare pulls + Some bulk


Logan Paul is a cringelord rugpuller and con artist
But he apparently had like 1-2 SEALED Shadowless 1st Ed Base Set boxes
And he sold slots for packs

So people paid literal thousands for slots
But his slots he sold were a full Pack
So some guy paid a couple thousand+ and got like 4 packs apparently
I THINK he pulled the Blastoise and a Mewtow Holo Rare
So of course he got em graded and I think I heard he sold one off for like 10k+

>>57232258
Oh. Seems like a weird variant of Rip and Ship.

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>still grading cards

Kill Eevee

>>57232258
That's not how it works, it's based off the energy card inside the pack.
If you buy the fire energy slot, any packs with a fire energy you get all the hits from that pack.

>>57232354
That's wild and I've never seen or heard of that

I realized I don't really want PE. I just gave into the hype. JT though I definitely want the Lillie cards.

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>still buying vintage

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NEED this card
Hoping to pick up ETB and Eevee binder set from the local shop, usually good about stocking a wall of boxes and boosters

>>57232496
Why haven't you bought it already? It's only going to go up in price from now on

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>>57232496

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>>57232510
I only buy singles english and PSA graded
>>57232511
rude but made me lol

Besides TCGPlayer, Ebay and Mercari
Good spots for Singles?
Cardmarket is really cluttered to navigate and figure out

>>57232586
>singles english
My condolences

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I love Ririe

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>>57232681
>still buying waifus

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>>57232994
She's so pretty

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>>57232994

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>still buying modern

>>57233062
that apple candy is disgusting

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>>57231717
XY secrets are the best, I pulled every version of Gyarados from Breakpoint except this card REEEEEEEEE

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>>57231717
>>57233236
It's a top tier card.

>>57233257
>>57231717
Wtf I literally just ordered this card too GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

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>>57233326
Do people really do this?

>>57232212
A box break is when a person gets money from other people to open a box live and each person that gave money has a pack assigned according to how much money he gave. It's a way to open packs from vintage boxes for "cheaper" and avoid untrustworthy loose packs. Also faggots feels like they're part of a family and love to see their favourite influencer open their packs live while saying their name.

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not a waifu collector, but the Welder is the coolest waifu by a mile.

>>57231631
>>57231637
Finally asking the right quesitons.
TPC owes me SIRs.

>>57231685
I can't stand that ugly whore.

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I bought this
(it wasn't ¥5000)

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>>57233340

>>57231728
>>57231992
Someone should make a movie out of this. It would be incredibly kino.

>>57232594
Cardmarket is the best by far. You have so much protection and assistance.
>cluttered
lol tcg and ebay look like scamsites from the 00s compared to cardmarket.

>>57233347
(it was ¥20000)

>>57233389
I'm going to cum tribute it
(when I can explain it to my boyfriend)

Pokemon center japan have been severely limiting how much we can buy. Just a couple weeks ago I can order up to 5 booster boxes, but now its only 1.
Same for the loose packs. Used to be up to 29 packs, but now it was limited to just 15 per order.

Shit is crazy yo.

If you have preordered Prismatic Evolutions below market price and don't accept to cover the difference, stores will open your ETBs before shipping it to you lol.

Why is Pokemon tcg filled with the scum of the earth? I have never seen this much vitriol and greed in Magic.
You chose to sell a product at a certain price, no one forced you. Honor the sale/contract.

>>57233414
>stores will open your ETBs before shipping it to you
where did you get this from?

>>57233447
PokeNE talked about it the other day and now I got a video recommended about it that was citing the place doing it.

>>57233414
>I have never seen this much vitriol and greed in Magic.
Lol how long have you been around for?
Modern Masters 2015 was scalped to fuck

>>57233471
High price is a completely different thing from what happens in Pokemon. All the scamming, all the pump and dump etc.
High price is just the natural result of demand and offer.

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>>57233414
>trusting local scam stores
lol
lmao even
People already memory holed this, but back when the Van Gogh pikachu was a thing, initially tpci distributed it as a promo to local store to avoid brownoids destroying the museum. Take a wild guess at what the local stores did... yep, they pocketed everything and flipped them on ebay. They even defended this by saying "bro how am I supposed to just hand over this 100$ card to kids for free!! you can't expect us to... not be niggers! it's their fault this happened". It got so fucking bad that tpci pulled it back and gave the pikachus to supermarkets only. They like to pretend they're better than that but they are literally no different from scalpers if you give them the chance.

>>57233336
Retards mostly. But for real it's usually middle class or objectively poor people with bad judgement and/or bad influences, guy was probably told or saw that there's a boom in Pokemon's popularity, took out a small business loan on his credit card and then got royally fucked. At least discuss this stuff with your wife too, guy has basically destroyed his family's future over a bad investment.
Unironically it's seeing this shit which has finally made me get over my singles phobia and just buy the cards I like now.

>>57233475
He's not wrong.
It's easy for you to pretend you have the moral highground when your livelihood isn't correlated with how much money you make from selling Pokemon cards.
How much do you buy from your LGS? That is the reason they follow the market price and not msrp. Following msrp is dumb.

>>57233343
Me neither but I liked when she was an expensive card in English, I pulled two.

>>57233475
Your posting this as if it made him look bad but it actually makes him sound reasonable and makes you seem like a lunatic.

Scalper: It's not my fault I'm a nigger, that's easy money!
/tcc/: Hello, human resources?!
LGS: It's not my fault I'm a nigger, that's easy money!
/tcc/: aww, you're so sweet!

Scalping is not wrong.
It's easy for you to pretend you have the moral highground when your livelihood isn't correlated with how much money you make from selling Pokemon cards. Following msrp is dumb.

>>57233507
>>57233513
You sound unhinged.

>>57233518
I accept your concession.

>>57233519
You never had an argument, unlike me.

very gay that the fairy type is not included in tcg

>>57233513
>>57233490
>all these projection

Holy shit, not everybody is a piece of shit like you.

>>57233547
Uhhh yes it is

>>57233542
Your "argument" was "I literally can't stop being a nigger, so it's ok to scalp".

>>57233556
Okay then open an LGS and sell everything at msrp. When you do that I will bow down to you. In the meantime you're only a retard on 4chan that doesn't understand economics and spergs out because he cannot buy cardboard for pennies.

>I struggle to make money so it's ok if I'm a scummy piece of shit
holy lmfaooooooooooooooooooooooo

Scamming is not wrong, sirs.
It's easy for you to pretend you have the moral highground when your livelihood isn't correlated with how much money you make from gift cards from 80 year old grandpas.

>>57233566
>>57233569
I guess when your iq is low that's what you'll get out of it.
Keep losing and stay mad.

>>57233567
Why don't you post the name of your LGS store champ? You do own one right?

>>57233575
if you have no choice but to scam to survive you might as well kill yourself desu, you are of no use to society or the species

>>57233580
No, I don't, so I don't condemn them. You're the one condemning them.
Do you even logic?

>>57233575
On is a scam, the other is selling cardboard above msrp.
If you can't see the difference your iq is very low.

>>57233584
>can't even follow your argument
And you're the one calling out my logic?

>>57233578
*yawn*
Any arguments, buddy? Why is it not ok when scalpers do it but it is suddenly ok when LGS do it? Both of their livelihood depends on it, after all.

>>57232496
>>57233062
Man they really knew what they were doing with these two cards, huh

>>57233588
I am literally wasting my time trying to have a dialogue with monkeys, it seems.
I just explained to you why what you said is stupid. You are saying they are doing something wrong, not me. So I told you to put yourself in their shoes and do something different, to which you replied that I should do it... it makes no logical sense because I understand why they do it and would probably do the same thing, you are the one that has to prove you would act differently when your livelihood in on the line.
>>57233591
Selling cards at whatever price is never wrong. If you don't want them then don't buy them.

Whatever, it's all a giant waste of time. You're all a bunch of spoiled manchildren that call everyone who disagrees with you "scalpers" as if that was an argument.
Keep seething.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4h5J2Lztw4

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scalper hogs product and sells it at 3x msrp
>this is bad!!
LGS hogs product and sells it at 3x msrp
>erm, you see... this is ok... these businesses struggle to make ends meet... the law of economics!... I'd like to see you open a LGS... n-not that I'm a seething LGS owner myself or anything... how is this different from scalpers you ask? well, uhhhhh...umm... YOU'RE ALL STUPID!!

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SHE IS FUCKING TEN YEARS OLD YOU SICK FUCK

>>57233625
Both are okay. Can't you read?
If the prices are too high for you learn to deal with it.

>>57233634
ten years old... out of 10!

>>57233639
So you actually agreed all along with the main point that LGS owners are just as scummy as scalpers? Well, that was a waste of time.

>>57233648
No one is "scammy", that's your manchild fantasy. They just sell a product at a price.
Do you even know what a scam is? It's when you buy something and you get something else or nothing at all, when the seller misrepresents what you're going to get.

>esl lgs store owner defends scalping
lol

>>57233654
I'll save you the embarrassment and advise you reread that word carefully.

>>57233659
Whatever, call them scummy, it doesn't change anything. Don't like it, don't buy it.
You're throwing a childish tantrum about not being able to afford cardboard with pictures.

>if I call selling things at market price "scalping" then it will seem like I have the moral highground and everyone else will rally with me so I can feel better about not being able to afford it!

idk about childish tantrums bro, he's not the one still having a full melty after seeing a single post calling out LGS owners...

>>57233645
That doesn't make any sense. Atleast pedos like you get raped and killed in prison.

>if I call scalping "selling things at market price" then it will seem like I have the moral highground and everyone else will rally with me so I can feel better about doing the exact same thing scalpers do!

>>57233680
You mean the post someone else's felt compelled to post and proceed to complain about? lol zero awareness.

>if I invert what he says and have the content lose meaning in the process then I will look very smart!

I don't know why you guys are still replying to the brownoid. He literally admitted scalping is ok because "you just don't have to buy it bro".

>wait, you mean I can like... not buy the product?
>what are you, brown?

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>>57233645

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ
SWITCH 2

>>57233713
Fuck off to a relevant thread

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Tomorrow morning I will wake up at 10am, prepare my coffee, turn my PC on, and read the news about Americans shooting each other outside of Walmarts over the new Pokemon set release.
Then I will open cardmarket and order some singles from the XY era.

>>57233603
>I am literally wasting my time trying to have a dialogue with monkeys, it seems.
You seem a bit special so I'll try and keep things simple. The anon criticized the business practices of an LGS, to which you replied
>Okay then open an LGS and sell everything at msrp
Implying that the criticism is invalid unless one also owns and operates an LGS. Logically then, the inverse must be true: one cannot defend the business practices of an LGS unless one owns and operates an LGS. Seeing as how you are in this thread defending the actions of an LGS, by your logic it would mean that you are the owner/operator of an LGS. So please, go ahead and give the name of your store. Otherwise, admit that you're a hypocrite and that you lost the argument.

>>57233737
>Logically then, the inverse must be true: one cannot defend the business practices of an LGS unless one owns and operates an LGS.
It's not. The inverse is not true. Learn logic. He made the claim that what they do is wrong.
Embarrassing post.

>>57233724
u have stage 3 hiv

>>57233751
I think you're the one who needs to learn logic anon. Or maybe you just need to work on your reading comprehension. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.

>>57233793
What would even be the point of me opening an LGS when I said I understand them? I would probably behave like them because I don't pretend to have the moral superiority and if I didn't behave like them then my defense of them would have an even stronger ground.
He claims to have the moral superiority and says what they do is wrong, thus he implies he would NOT behave that way were he to open an LGS.

No bro, you need to start logic from zero, I'm afraid.

Every single grown adult in the Pokemon hobby is an absolute scumbag in some way, shape, or form.
If you rely on selling children's play things which ultimately removes those play things from the market entirely or helps attribute to a secondary market value that makes it impossible for children to afford it with their allowance. You're a scummy slime bag. Pokemon has turn into a bunch of absolute slime ball scum bags arguing over who is the bigger slime ball so they can feel better about being a scum bag. "Oh well I'm not as bad as this guy". Yes you are. Scammers, investors, streamers, PokéTubers, all absolute fucking scum bags. And when you watch PokéTubers you can kinda see how demented they are... They always have like one eye slightly above the other.. or like fat & chubby and ungroomed hair or balding. Or like this weird layer of autism blanketing their faces.

>>57233816
>If you rely on selling children's play things which ultimately removes those play things from the market entirely or helps attribute to a secondary market value that makes it impossible for children to afford it with their allowance.

pokemon company could easily fix it by having zero rare cards, but you know they won't do it right

>>57233823
Exactly this. It is and it has always been gambling. Those who deny it are delusional. Even children want to open packs for the thrill. Those same children grow up and become the "scalpers" you hate so much.
>>57233816
Have you ever thought of getting another hobby? Maybe something healthy like hiking, instead of stupid gambling cardboard?

>>57233816
Also
>it's for children!
is a stupid argument. It's for consoomer millennials who grew up with it. Children cannot buy all the product, TPC knows this very well and markets the tcg that way.

>>57233823
There shouldn't be this many grown men without ethics.
The grown men blaming the Pokemon company are scum bags, they'll continuously shift blame before looking at how retardedly gross they've become.
The level of desperatation to make a buck off pokemon, the videos they make and put out there... It's unbelievable.
I watched some hippies get banned from selling because a bunch of autistic retards in a PokéTubers discord mass reported the seller for selling drugs because they were too autistic to know about retarded ass hippy culture and how they think rocks and gem stones have magic powers and can embue cards with powers. So they thought the stupid fucking hippy was selling drugs and so they all teamed up like a bunch of know-nothing naive retards to take down the seller. You can't make this shit up, these are uneducated, inexperienced, no life grown men desperately seeking moral high ground from the peers they themselves aren't any better then.

>>57233842
The packs say for ages 6+ if you're a grown man buying toys in the kids isle that say 6+ you've lost the plot. Go buy some power tools and build a fence you loser.

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>>57233816
I'm keeping 1 sealed ETB of each set so I can give them to my son when he's older and wants to learn how to play, and one ETB for myself to open at launch to help buy more if I get a god pull.

>>57233854
is the toploader strong enough to not get pierced by cat teeth?...

>>57233813
>What would even be the point of me opening an LGS when I said I understand them?
How can you possibly understand them if you don't own/operate one yourself? That was the logic you yourself used in >>57233567 to dismiss the other anon's criticism.
>No bro, you need to start logic from zero, I'm afraid.
I understand logic perfectly fine. You seem like you need a few lessons though. It's OK, we all learn at our own pace.

>>57233848
You're in the pokemon general, retard. You lost the plot too?
The packs say 6+? So what? If anything that only comments on how scummy TPC is.
>>57233844
You're crying about people selling things at prices other people are willing to pay. Can you be more pathetic? I don't think so.
It's literally the meme
>I consent
>I consent
>I don't!

>>57233857
depends how hard it clamps down

>>57233861
There are only two options here, either you sell everything at msrp, or you sell at market price. There's nothing to understand here, that's not the point. The point is that he has no money or loans that he must repay etc. on the line and he pretends that he would sell everything at msrp.
He's the one that must substantiate this ridiculous claim.

The more you post, the more you prove you don't understand logic.

>>57231589
based

>>57233867
Kids can't go into a store and buy a pack with their weekly allowances because of demented grown men obsessing over childrens playing cards. You make me sick.

>>57233907
But they can. Just buy another set and not this one. Wait a couple months and they will be able to buy this one too.

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stop baiting and arguing about pointless shit and post cards

Grown men standing alone in the kids isle looking for pokemon cards is fucking creepy and weird.
The real adults have overlooked you fucking weirdos for too long. Previously no harm was happening, but now you're depriving an entire generation of children of things that define their childhood memories. You've twisted the hobby into something sick you demented freaks.

Do any of you even have base set or vintage cards they opened from packs when they were children?

>>57233912
The kids don't want the shitty sets or cards because all they do is watch PokéTubers and form their opinions from them. You fucking retard.

>>57233816
>Every single grown adult in the Pokemon hobby is an absolute scumbag in some way
I'm into Pokemon because my son likes it. I do enjoy it though, hence why I'm here. It's a great way to spend time with your kids imo.

>>57233928
Then fuck them, they're no better lol.
>>57233923
Get your child into healthy hobbies instead, amerilard. Bring him into the woods, teach him how to fish, go hike so he's not gonna be a sedentary lardass gurgling soda like you.

>>57233878
Since you still don't seem to understand my point after all this time, I'll ask you a simple yes/no question:
Is it possible to make valid commentary on the business practices of an LGS without owning/operating an LGS yourself?

>>57233938
>4chan incel thinking he has any authority to tell how to treat another parents child
nta but legit just fuck

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>>57233926
I have quite a few.
Unfortunately, many have been damaged, due to a mix of theft and my basement flooding in early HS where I kept many cards.
But I still have a decent chunk of old cards in decent to good condition.
I also have a Charizard in a similar condition to picrel.
Had a much younger sibling get a pack with me as a kid. Pulled that. Tried to convince them to give it to me by saying "Thats the bad Charizard, no one wants that version, so I'll take it." And instead of going the way my young brain expected, he just squeezed it hard out of anger, white knuckle balled fist. I was stunned even as a kid lol.
I have this card sitting in a sleeve now funny enough. I should have just ignored the pull as a kid and it would have been forgotten about anyway I guess. Ah well.
>>57233931
That seems to be a common reason to collect for many people if nostalgia or growing up with Pokemon isn't a factor.

>>57233912
No everything is sold out.
>>57233907
I used to take my son to target to get a pack every now and then. The Card section has been empty since mid December. I just buy him a bunch of cheap singles, but his friends who are just getting into Pokemon don't have shit for cards because their parents don't know or don't care. If the cards aren't on the shelves, most people just think "oh well."

You guys are fucked, you've pissed off normie parents.
You have no idea the impact they'll have on the hobby now.

>>57233926
I pulled a holo Raichu from the very first pack I bought. I traded it for a Tangala because I didn't know better :(

>>57233943
What are you specifically against? Hiking or not gurgling soda?
Spot the lardass.

>>57233939
Of course. Obviously not all commentaries are equals.
That was never the point of discussion, though. We were debating whether he had the moral superiority or not.

>>57233973
>That was never the point of discussion, though.
That was literally the entire point of the discussion anon.

>>57233966
>thinks you can't hike AND collect cards
Not everyone is a failed loser like you. I FUCK and collect cards. Stupid 4chan incel.

>>57233949
Grim. Buy a korean box online for cheap and gift it to the kids.

>>57233977
In fact, I do both things, retard.
You missed the point entirely.
>I fuck
Yeah, slampigs.

>>57233999
Speak to my hand, loserboy

>>57233976
You weren't even in the discussion...
Never trust people that adamantly say they would act virtuosly in a hypothetical situation, they're full of shit. You will learn this the hard way.

>>57234011
>You weren't even in the discussion
If you want to have a private discussion you should do it in private.

>>57234011
>I'm a nigger so everyone else is

>>57234011
My LGS sold the PE product he had at msrp. Keep coping.

>>57234035
That's not what I said, what I said is
>niggers pretend they would act virtuosly in a hypothetical to look good
Look at what people do, not at what people say.
If you're not selling Prismatic Evolution at msrp then shut the fuck up.
>>57234044
Okay, good for him. He probably cares more about cultivating his clients for the long term than he cares about a quick buck that will sour his usual clients.
>>57234026
You are trying to tell me what I was arguing about in the beginning.

If I wanted to get some modern cards, should I go for English or Japanese? Is there much difference in the quality of Holos? Mainly looking to pick up some vmax and black star promos.

>>57234067
Collecting? Japanese, the quality is higher and they're cheaper.
Investing? English, the demand is much higher, the value is higher, the liquidity is higher.

>>57234081
I'm just picking up some cards with artwork that I like, so investing is not a concern. what's the best place to buy Japanese singles other than tcgplayer? I live in Aus and they still refuse to ship there.

>>57234067
the texturing is far superior on the jp cards
if you live in aus i would check out ebay

>>57234088
eBay

I can't wait to get my brown hands all over the new Rirrie cards.

>>57234091
>>57234100
Thanks lads

>>57234103
So do I, so do I, brother.

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>>57233926
Yes. The vast majority of my Jungle master set is from when I was a kid. Plenty of other cards as well.
>more time has passed since I took this photo than from when this card came out to when I took this photo
Good lord...

>>57234128
I don't like aging, anon. :(
Additionally, I had master sets of base, jungle, and fossil as a kid.
Wish I still did.

>>57234128
>>57234146
I had a master set of Fossil then I sold the holos to buy Magic packs.
The only thing I regret selling is a Feraligator that my grandma bought me.
Still have a few holos, though.

>>57234103
jajaja buen post amigo :v

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>>57233926
I only have my personal pulls, from childhood to now, in my binder.

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>>57233926
About 13 pages worth

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>>57233926
I have a lot of cards but most of them are damaged because I was careless as a kid

>>57234255
That's the movie moltres, right? I don't even remember what card I got.

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>>57233926
I have a mix

>>57234275
Yes, Movie 2000

>>57234293
Was there a big card with all three? I think I might have gotten that.

>>57234265
Oh nice you're the anon from a previous thread, glad to see they're all in a binder now

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>>57234342
Yup, as part of the WB Store, while the individual Pokémon cards were from the VHS

>>57234349
yeah I decided to put them in a binder

>>57234365
Nice.
I should also have the vhs at my mom's.

To make sure I understand this correctly, in order to get every English card of an Eeveelution from Prismatic, I would need their:
>Promo
>Normal
>Holo
>Reverse holo
>Poké Ball reverse holo
>Master Ball reverse holo
>ex
>full art ex
Are there any other variants I'm missing?

>>57233340
Wtf there's a sweaty undershirt cleavage waifu card and no one told me?!? Ordering it in all languages right now

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>>57234574
You should get xir pre-op card too.

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>>57233475
>They even defended this by saying [insert something they did not remotely say]
you're mad they don't want niggers rioting in their store for free gibs. stay home, Jerome.

Just ran into an investorfag at target, would not stop bragging about his PE and 151 gets while talking about how investors are a new audience. Burn this damn hobby

>>57234752
Should have asked him what his exit strategy is and watched him flounder.

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>>57233926
I still have the fake cards my mom made for me so I wouldn't be sad about the cards I didn't have when I first started collecting

Sent 3 big hits from surging sparks that I pulled myself to get graded by PSA
They were all perfect, without blemishes
They received one 8 and two 9s. Fuck PSA lmao

>>57234942
crack em out and send em again

>>57234887
Your mom is a bad person

>>57234887
that is so cute. You have a good mom.

>>57233414
Pokemon attracts the most retarded and degenerate people and brings them all together.

My local game store closed for the day and you were only allowed in with an appointment of you had a preorder. They didn't cancel anyone, but the owner said they only got 25% of what they requested. He said they were guaranteed another full restock before April, so I wouldn't worry about it

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So i was fucking around a web store of my region called "mercado libre" and found that they already have prismatic stuff, is bullshit expensive...except the promo eeveelutions one which was just a little more expensive than the standard price so I bought it and should be arriving today. The eevee binder box is way too expensive though, i think i gonna skip it.

>>57234887
Good mom.

>>57234887
Wait, explain, how your mom made these? did she print the cards, cut them and pasted them on carton?

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>>57231562
Spent nearly £700 in the past week on singles that I haven't gotten around to getting yet because I just know this retarded market is gonna become an even bigger shitshow and they're probably the cheapest they'll ever be for a long time. It was nice a year ago, when there was plenty of product and singles were reasonably priced and you could get them at your own pace withing FOMO panicking. This didn't break the bank or anything but it still feels shitty to piss away that much in such a short amount of time.

>>57234679
He is referencing the van gogh museum in that line, retard.

>>57234887
sovl

>>57235000
to put it into perspective, in other webstore that sells pokemon stuff in my country, the eeveelutions pack is 59 local coin and the eevee binder is 129 local coin (all their stuff is sold out if you are wondering), then in "mercado libre" the eeveelutions pack i bought was 99 local coin while the eevee binder is FUCKING 250 LOCAL COIN! 40 more is much more ac ceptable than fucking 121 more.

>>57235021
yeah been doing the same, its going to get retarded

>>57235000
nice digits based MLbro
got a link? I can only see the ETBs, binder and poster collections. Or by promo EVs you mean the poster collection with the first three baby evos?

anyone noticed a flood of 0 feedback accounts shilling cards on ebay these last 2 weeks?
not sure why they have all come out the woodwork

>>57235042
>Or by promo EVs you mean the poster collection with the first three baby evos?
Yeah that one, also i literally bought the only one left in the place, but here is the link anyway.
https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.pe/MPE-697583686-pokemon-tcg-scarlet-violet-85-prismatic-evolutions-_JM

>>57235015
She must have found some surprisingly high-res images for 1999 and had them printed at Kinkos. Then she cut them and used some scrapbooking tape to attach them to basic energy cards.

>>57235048
Cute but it would have been cooler if she did like that insane russian dad and actually draw the cards.

>>57235047
>paused
I see. Thanks for the tip anyways I'll keep an eye out for more

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>>57235064
>paused
Yes, BECAUSE I BOUGHT THE ONLY ONE! IT WAS ME ANON! IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!

>>57235073
pinches peruanos
jk I love u anon

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>>57233634
>>57233645
PSA 10 out of 10

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>>57235025
no shit. his point still stands.

>>57234942
Post the card so we can judge it.

>>57234752
hope he's willing to wait a long ass time

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went to costco this morning they handed out ticketsI was like 5 people behind if I just went 20-30 minutes earlier I would have gotten blooming

frigging chinks and nafris bring their entire families with seperate memberships its insane

I feel so cucked

Lmao best buy just sold out of prismatic etbs online in like 5 minutes. I got into the queue and poof, gone.

>>57235000
>>57235034
>>57235073
It arrived, wait, wasn't this supposed to come out next week?

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>>57235480
I forgot the photo.

>>57235501
Enjoy your trainer card!

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>>57235530
Well, wasn't this card being sold for the same amount than a whole charizard EX elite trainer deck?

I don't get the fomo for prismatics anymore. I orded 2 etbs and the binder from a computer store that sells TCGs and its on back order and I couldn't care less at this point. The pulls are shit and TPC confirmed that they are going to be printing the shit out of this throughout the year. Pull rates are ass too.

The fuck are people chimping out over 151, that shits like a year old. I pre-ordered cases of the shit with 0 problems back then.

>>57235574
A significant portion of cryptobros had tuned out during its release because Obsidian Flames wasn't MOONING. Now the attention of PRE has lured them back in droves.

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ahem... FUCK Prismatic. time to rip

holy shit Espeon fusion strike alt is going for $900 PSA 10 now

holy shit I don't remeber asking

>McDonalds Pokemon card give away is due to start soon
They timed this awfully perfectly for pure catastrophe.

>>57235653
Seeing them fight over the Halloween cards would have been funnier

I just went to (You)r local store and bought up all the prismatic stock to resell at 600% profit

>>57235653
I'm convinced these last 3 months have been planned out. This seems too convient having all these consecutive highly in demand sets plus now McDonalds cards.

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I was going to drive 20 minutes to a Target that I know stocks their cards on Thursday nights but now it's starting to snow and fuck that.

>>57235680
Will they even allow you to buy them tonight? I thought they were doing a strict January 17th sell date, so i was planning on going just before work when they open.

>>57235680
but bro don't you wanna pull a master ball houndoom??

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Anons, I have a question: as prismatic evolutions is not officially out yet, what happens if i use a prismatic evolution code in live right now? does it still work? it doesn't? or I can get banned like when you got a mainline pokemon game before is official release date and you make the mistake of playing online with it?

Thankfully my favorite eveelution is Flareon and I can afford it's cards very easily.

>>57235712
>does it still work?
It tells you it isn't working yet.

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>>57235628

three boxes in... so far so good

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>>57235628
how much those 12 costed

>>57235628
yeah fuck you no wonder nobody can get any

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My second PC ETB is on the way even though I ordered each one 5 minutes apart. Part of me wants to open it, the other knows that I've used up the minimal amounts of luck I had with this and there's no way I'll get another SIR from a second box.

Might put money aside for Terastal Festival boxes since I'm going to be in Japan for a few months

>>57235733

$1020

>>57235736

live in a big US city fren. lots of places wanted my business

just bought my first _____slab___

>>57235740
What a waste of sir

>>57235811
Yep. My one chance and it's ogre

>>57235857
>Hoopa
Lame

>>57235857
>Hoopa
Cool

>>57235857
>5ban
ugly

>>57235857
>old 5ban
nice

>EX
Ew

>>57235857
>physical card
gross

>>57235857
I can't tell where the background ends and the pokemon begins

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extended art displays look pretty neat

>>57231660
unless you're buying multiple cases of these whats the point of keeping it sealed

like damn bro I would be able to sell my ETB for like $1000 in 2035!!

who fucking cares x11 your ETB is meaningless unless you buy skids full of these things and then again where are you gonna keep all this shit you'll run out of space

retards really think their sealed product is going to be worth tens of thousands like sealed WOC shit

>>57236088
t. ES boxlet

>>57236088
>trying to psych out other investors
Smart

>>57235501
>peruANO

>these salty poorfags who don't have any MOONbreons
Imagine being a """"collector"""" and missing out on THE quintessential chase card of our generation. Imagine missing out on financial freedom. Imagine missing out on guaranteed returns.

>>57236137
You know it was peruvians themselves who invented that joke, right?

>>57236169
I'm saving up for it OKAY?
I'll always wonder if there's one in my sealed booster box though

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>>57236172
>I'm saving up for it OKAY?
BRUH just BNPL that shit on a twelve month plan you'll be saving forever

Where's the best place to invest in PKMN?

>>57236179
>korean
lmao worthless

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>>57236172
>I'll always wonder if there's one in my sealed booster box though
There's one way to find out

>>57236186
Buy my $PKMN etf. You just have to wire me $10k to start. Low management fees too.

>>57236190
>opening sealed
Card have less value when they're opened

>>57236179
I could probably make a deal with my LGS owner, I know he got da big bux
>>57236190
I'll scan it once it goes above 5k

>>57236169
I have Moonbreon, and I don't really care too much about it. What is do have major regrets is never picking up Battle Day Lillie.

>>57236198
But it's fun and you could pull one of your favorite pokemon. You investors need to cut loose and let er rip once and awhile.

>>57236260
good thing ES doesn't have my favorite pokemon, I literally bought it to resell when I need money
I do really like dragonite though but already have that fucker

>>57236169
I don't like umbreon as a pokemon. Charizard being a chase, I get. But Umbreon isn't even the coolest dark type of its own gen. However, I'm glad people obsess over this shitmon because it means less people are focusing on my favorites.

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>>57235569
Those are some fine looking cards.

>>57236256
>Battle Day Lillie
what is even market price for this

like a psa 10 last sold for $14k in november I would consider paying that but then there's 2 buy now for over $100k which is retarded

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>>57236272
That does sound like a good deal. Not that I would ever in my life have that much money to spend on one card thought.

>>57236303
why do people block out the numbers on their slabs
like what is the point

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Anons, what the fuck is this shit on my Prismatic Evolution Jolteon's promo card? Look at the number 169, is crossed by some dirty line! WTF?!

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What's the deal with these pricings? I get that Groudon is a lot more popular than Sandy Shocks and the art is sick as fuck, but Shocks ex actually has some meta value and the card is twice as rare. I'd understand the Groudon still being higher but this much disparity is wild.

>>57236358
In the end popularity will always beat meta.

>>57236358
As a Magneton fan, I hate the design if Sandy Shocks. I get what they are trying to go for, but it's easily the worst looking paradox pokemon.

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>>57236327
try brushing it with a q-tip yet? I found some other marks, plus the font on the bottom center looks inconsistent, like some letters are fainter than others (maybe). could be a printing error, it is ENG after all.

>>57236327
>still buying physical
>still buying English
>still buying promos

>>57236358
meta cards are so cheap since everyone is moving them around, even SIRs. Plus comons are reprinted in future sets as well as league prize packs, so the rare ones are just slightly above meta price.
Obviously there's overlap, for example, when umbreon vmax was in the meta I don't think anyone was playing moonbreon in their deck
pop cards or collector cards will always go up since no one wants to let them go

>>57236381
I love the ponytail and punk-rock look, but everything else about it sucks

>>57236358
I remember when this card was 20 bucks. grew up in the gen 3 era and I bet there are a lot of 30+ fags like me who think this is the best legendary of all time. glad I bought it when I did

Watched a rattle video, he said children don't care what packs they open.
Think back to the viral video of the kid opening a pack on Christmas and getting rainbow Charizard.
Now, this scumbag is pretending kids don't care about pokemon cards to justify himself buyout stock on prismatic evolutions.
Poketubers and grown men are an absolute cancer on society.
Let the kids be kids you fuck bags.

>>57236272
You probably wont find it for under $20k(~3 million yen) since that is the buy price for stores in japan. And stores pay bottom of the barrel prices for inventory so in reality you wont find it for that price. Crazy that it ever sold for under that, have a link to the sold listing?

I think it’d be funny if TPC printed all the rare cards at much higher rates in the coming restocks.

>>57236497
How will I feed my family if all my shiny cardboard becomes worthless?

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>>57236480
I can't link it because it expire but just search lillie 397 to sold. It's actual $14k canadian so even less if you're American.

Who know if the seller actually honored it. That's the thing with these really expensive waifu cards they're not that liquid.

>>57236533
If it shows in the completed/sold section on ebay then the seller honored the sale.

>>57236533
Can I get a redpill on what this "Battle Day" promo was and why these cards are so expensive? there was a Guzma one too yeah?

Like surely its not JUST waifu tax ballooning this one into insanity, were they only released at one shop in bumfuck nowhere or something

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what ive been able to pull so far. have extra

>Glaceon
>Espeon
>Terrapagos
>Roaring Moon

and my Masterball Espeon and Sylveons im hoping to trade for an Umbreon

>>57236533
Daaaaaamn someone got insanely lucky, my guess is americans dont know about that card. Huge balls on the guy for auctioning it, but he probably left a good chunk of money on the table forcing a sale by auction.

>>57236358
>but Shocks ex actually has some meta value
That's a little bit of a stretch

New

>>57236625
>>57236625

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>>57233926
Lost most of mine when i went homeless in my teenage years, but i still have this Pidgeot.

>>57236466
>children don't care what packs they open
As if those fucking niggers don't intentionally target kids in their "intro to gambling" vids. Kids want the newest shit because poketubers teach them pokemon is all about greed and novelty.

>>57236584
it was a promo given out to winners before some event

lillie+promo+japanese+pre-waifu boom market=insanely expensive

>>57236662
One of the few base set cards that holds up imo

>>57235394
>bring their entire families with seperate memberships
that's not how it works
it's 1 family with 1 membership and they'll bring their fucking 8 kids into the store as long as they all look alike
Costco never imposes a 2-3 person limit, the only time they did was back in COVID which i fucking wish they brought back
t. Chicago costco shopper who fucking hates regular Costco stores