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I'll buy it at a high price!
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>>58551455>no edition>waifu faggotryshould've just let it die so we could make a new one again.
>>58550419This 'hobby' is beyond cooked.We need Gaben-tier market apocalypse to correct it...
>>58550419the gold one looks like a bad etsy custom. Absolute ass for the charitards to fawn over
>>58550419basedim gonna pull this one in Italian and i'm not afraid to tell that everybody
>>58550419You can get pic related for $100 if you know where to look, $200 for the inferior English version. I know the price will be going down, but I don't see it goes any lower than $400 for the gold Zard.
Has anyone used PSA vault to sell?
>still grading cards
>>58551477It's a picture of someone's card that alone makes it better than most OPs stop being a faggot.
>motherfucking mega charizard ultra inferno hyperbeam dragonforce just came out >thread archivedLmao dead hobby 2 more weeks
>>58551876There's probably like 20 people here on average
>>58551876how is the thread this dead when the hobby is bigger than ever before?
>>58551876This never happened during the Shrouded Fable days
That'll be $400 plus tax
>>58550419If I obtain a golden card, I would trade it for a Nintendo switch 2.
If I buy a complete booster display, am I guaranteed to get every card in the set at least once?
The Platinum gang is here.
>>58550398>the japanese version of this card is only worth 6 bucksholy kek
>>58552279Lol. Lmao.
>>58552505You like paying exuberant amounts of money for cards? Are you stupid?
>>58552494Something is weird about these cards...
is there a guide to collecting fake cards? i'm interested in original series and as far as i can tell everyone on aliexpress sell the same two packs - there's a base set with a 'trading cerd game' label, and an all-holo 151 pack which doesn't even pretend to be real. are there any other options or should i simply be looking for cheap singles on the second hand market?
and yeah i'm not baiting, just retarded, i'm lurking /vp/ since yesterday.
>still buying vintage
>>58550419>The SIR being more expensive then the goldWith the current hit rates and small set size you're almost guaranteed a charizard SIR every case. The gold one would be 3 times as hard lol. You get an SIR every other box.Anyone who is paying that much for an obsidian flames hit rate charizard is insane.
>>58552101>the hobbyRedditor detected.Also to answer your q. Its a reddit hobby. Bitcoin is 4chan hobby
>>58552752I bought a bunch of fake cards from many vendors. None of them look real at all. Just download the jpegs of the cards on your phone
>>58553204retards see the super cool and epic DARK CHARIZRD art and start clapping. god I hope I pull one so I can make a quick buck off of it
>>58553289>I bought a bunch of fake cards from many vendorsmay i see them
>>58553325Good question. No idea where i put them. Will look on attic later.
>opened card with scissors>clipped this guy in the process>ripped it for fun>it's literally just a stickerI've ripped many before but they all seemed to have layers. Are modern cards just stickers on cardboard now? Are we sticker collectors?
>>58553459I'm curious on how you think these cards are made and assembled.
>>58553722Layers of cardboard and foil. Not just one layer of cardboard and two stickers. Rip a vintage holo and see the difference
>>58553459That use to be a sign of fake foils. The sticker you see is textured foil laid on top of base card stock, whereas the older cards had the foil under a top layer of matte. New cards lighter, too, weighing something like 270-280gsm whereas older ones are closer to 300. Blame Millennium Print Group (MPG) and the PKMN Company for being cheap bastard and, ultimately, the retards who still support them despite it all
>>58553823Makes sense. Makes it easier to fake now also? We used to rip to check if it hard a dark layer in the middle
>>58551571>picrelso a yuka morii master set is basically unattainable, got it
>>58554886Prices have gotten out of control. The only stuff missing from my collection I can’t justify buying now are the VS cards and some pikachus. I got that jumbo for 20 bucks
>>58553204Zardfags are retarded. This happens all the time. The card is cool as fuck and I definitely want one myself but its a no brainer that its gonna drop. I personally cant wait for the english set to be out so the japanese sar can tank for me to pick it up
forever posting houndoom
post your favorite animal type mon please. if I like the cards I will buy them too so youre helping my collection. (fish, dog, cat, bird, mouse, monkey, cow etc)
>>58555293Cats. Meowth.If I don't pull him from Phantasmal I'm gonna crash out!
>still buying physical
Gonna post some of my completed pages, starting with Space
>>58555506ant
>>58555520siralso if anyone got suggestions on how to take good pics of binder pages lmk
>>58550398iris
>>58555279>>58555375based retards
>>58555564>retards (plural) It's one guy
>>58555595no its not because Im the person who posted the slab. Dont tell me things that you dont even know anything about bro.
>>58555604ok I believe you
>>58555613look at the counter i placed the slab on its the same one i ise for all the posts i make here of my cards. its usually difficult to see because i ceop the photos.
>>58555635>look at the counter i placed the slab on its the same one i use* for all the posts i make here of my cards. its usually difficult to see because i crop* the photos.
>>58555613heres another >>58555279>>58555635
>>58555279>>58555635>>58555657fuck off slabcuck
>>58555595I'm the guy that posts digital, I too have pics where you can see my porygon mat but not at home right now to send em
>>58555714not a slab cuck at all. I only own 4 slabs and 1 was a gift
Got a bunch of d&p holos for cheap nostalgia
>>58556155dppt era is so hard to find in mint condition....
>>58555714retard no cards posters are literal subhumans
Never been a sealed fag but I want to own these boxes just as art pieces. So I will just buy them without the promo
I bought this raw on ebay a few months ago for 40 bucks because I thought it looked cool.Fast forward to yesterday and while discussing tcgs with my coworkers, one Korean dude tells me he will give me a few for free because he has a whole box of them still in the promo wrapper. I will see him on Tuesday. Hope he remembers. I'm going to send them to PSA and HODL any 10s in their vault for at least a decade.
>>58556419based
I'm very confused, is Phantasmal Flames unreleased or preemptively sold out? (As per Pokemon center, anyway)
>>58556585only prerelease, all pokemon cards are effectively permanently sold out on PC
For those that managed to get phantasmal flames pre orders, whats the play? Hold or quick flip? My intuition is saying quick flip because this set has a upc, and every set so far that has had a upc release gets printed to the ground(I think)
>>58556224Ye the ones I bought are scraped up>>58556419>HODLshut the fuck up faggot, go back
>>58556585you aren't getting anything from PC if you didn't sit in the queue for hours to pre-order.
Probably the shittiest looking mur so far.
>still buying modern
>>58557215Looks coolfuck this hobbyi want gold canrd but im going to just buy Charizard with Klarna
I'm going to drive 30 min to the LGS tomorrow to look for more XY cards
>>58557500>XY cardsIs this new trendy zoomer thing?>boomoids obsessed with vintage>zoomoids with XYi can understand-zoomers were kids when XY came out
>try to get into collecting cards>literally impossible to buy packs>give upfeels good
>>58557506I am born in 1988. XY is what got me back into the series. I put over 2k hours into shiny hunting. respect your elders
>>58557522lol I'm older than you and fuck shiny hunting, who doesn't generate their mons these days
Today's stash of vending cards, a yellow label Moltres in which I can't find any damage anywhere, and as a bonus an Engl*sh prerelease Gyarados.
>previous thread didn't even hit bump limittcc bros
>>58552155Meanwhile, in Japan
>>58550398I wanted to maybe get a box for my birthday just to see if I get anything cool but everything is like 300 fucking euroscheapest I found was like 50 for an elite trainer box but those only have 8 packsis 300 normal for booster boxes?
>>5855812950 is msrp for elite trainer boxes so that's normal300 for a booster box is a lot but unfortunately some people pay that scalper price
>>58558166whats a normal price for a booster box, like 150?
>>58558204around 150 is the lowest you can get right now if you get extremely lucky.anything below 200€ is "normal"
>>58553459>>58553823what the fuck if this is true gonna rip and check this better be bs
>>58555635>>58555657I said I believe you
>>58558230Ill just go look for something else Im not paying retarded scalped pricesthanks anon
>>58553459>>58553823This was some half decent fud but too easy to check. If you're not a troll your shit is actually fake maybe
>>58558345Japanese cards don't do this>>58553823>blame millennium print groupI get your point, but they wouldn't don't Japanese cards in the first place. That all said, I'm not going to test any of my Japanese cards to see if they are like this >>58553459.
>>58553204Rarity is not all that matters, gold cards have always been undesirable regardless of rarity. When people started paying crazy amounts for the relatively common standard art rares it was clear all that matters is the art.
>>58543196These Raichu are getting out of hand.
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>>58558367Yeah, give it a few months and they'll drop significantly. Not to as low as other gold cards have been in the past, but certainly lower than they are now.>When people started paying crazy amounts for the relatively common standard art rares it was clear all that matters is the art.Just spitballing here, but I feel as though the main contributors to price are in this otder. 1) Is it Pikachu, Charizard, Gengar, Umbreon, etc. 2) Is it KANTOOOOOOOO? 3) Is it KANTOOOOOOOO? round 2. 4) Is it the next tier of fan favourites like Grenninja, Lucario, Gardevoir, etc.? 5) Is it a popular artist? 6) Is the card meme tier?Something like that..
>>58558392man I love this card design and the old art
>>58558396I'm new but in looking at modern cards the S/IRs are just objectively better than the rest. All the CGI pop-out EX stuff is hideous, gold cards are hideous, the prismatic shiny bullshit is hideous. The appeal of Pokemon is the world itself, and most of those S/IRs cards put the Pokemon they feature into the context of a world, they show the Pokemon in action, as if alive (implicit irony with it being a frozen still, I suppose). There are Pokemon I hate (the ghost hay-bale thing) which suddenly become so endearing when shown like this. A bunch of Pidoves. Tangels swinging. Cuffant spraying water. Let alone certain artworks - that one Drowsy or that one Roaring Moon - which just look amazing.
>>58558459>ghost hay-bale thingwho? the tumbleweed?
>>58558433I prefer vintage but the new stuff is so abundant and cheap it's hard to say no sometimes.
>>58558650Yea. Find it incredibly lame and yet this card is so charming.
>>58558367Its not just the rarity, its gonna be the pull rate. This thing will have close to the same odds to open as an obsidian flames charizard, and you won't see that price up there. Same with the 151 zard. Hell you dont see it with any zard atm.Its currently just people pumping it, remember the 20000 umbreon sir ebay thing?
>>58558345Thats an English card. My jap card was from booster box from the biggest retailer in my country
>>58550398Finally bit the bullet and bought that scalped to death Meowth promo that they never saw fit to release in fucking English an entire damn year later. I also got the latest Haunter now, before it goes ballistic as well.I hate this hobby btw, cannot wait to fill out my second binder and then I'll be out for good. Screw all of you losers and each one of you individually
>>58560099fuck your eyebrows too
>>58558358fair point, I forgot that nipcards still use the original printers. Odd that anons card would do that, then, since the quality issues are claimed to come from MPG. There could be something more going on, no idea. Either way, anons card is low quality for whatever reason.
>>58552494I have that electabuzz its cool
>>58560099>that scalped to death Meowth promo that they never saw fit to release in fucking English an entire damn year laterAnon...........................
anyone tried flattening cards with one of those kits i keep seeing them on youtube, i looked up the kurt kit which seems most popular but its pretty expensive was thinking of just buying the parts seperatly on amazon but idk what type of foam is used in the kit its some black stuff does this look the same? https://www.amazon.co.uk/PATIKIL-Flexible-Handcraft-Scrapbooking-Supplies/dp/B0F28JKKPT>>58556419>I'm going to send them to PSA and HODL any 10s in their vault for at least a decade.make sure you take them out of the plastic before sending to get graded otherwise they grade the plastic and not the card and theyre essentially worthless because people wont wanna gamble on them kekalso anyone know good shops to get card sin japan im going at the end of the month and want to look out for a mistys tits to get graded
>>58560952just use a book?
>>58560972well i saw on a video they got the foam damp and let the card sit in it for like 20 minutes to make it easier to get creases out, i just dug out my old card and just wanna clean them up a bit
https://youtu.be/Azp_W3u7TNg?si=oQWu-AscAEiXDw8Z&t=200 this is what hes doing
>>58560981Maybe try Foil Armor? I saw it in this video the other day: https://youtu.be/2EwGPOcbEosSkip to 1:40
>>58561007well the foam is specifically to get the card a little wet to help with getting creases out, it looks similar to that stuff i saw on amazon but i dont wanna get the wrong thing and have it like leak dye onto the card or something kek
>>58556250Yeah that's exactly what he's saying.
android https://x.com/Runto666/status/1985259598148940221even the japanese arent immune to scams! apparently Pokemon Center fukuoka recieved a whole stock of boxes with all the promo cards removed! they were all resealed in a way it's pretty much hard to tell.
kek i put everything from those kits together on amazon and it costs way more and doesnt come with whatever polishing compounds they use although those are probably sketchy anyway. tempted to buy as it seems fun to clean cards up idk i found some local company making kits cheaper than the kurt ones but they take a week to arrive. if i buy this stuff i can fuck with stuff tomorrow or the day after
I used to pick up pieces of ripped up cards and tape them back together when I was a kidI also have a dodrio card that was set on fire >>58560709pretty card
>>58561195https://x.com/NO_LIMIT_IKB/status/1985325754641703260theft at a japanese TCG store!
>>58561195>>58561297this weird culture that recently (not so recent anymore but whatever) formed around pokemon cards is genuinely so disgusting man I hate it I want my card collecting without faggots trying to take everything to resell
>>58558044Nice pickups my fellow vending connoisseur
>>58561416Love me lilac border error coro mewtwo
holy tears batman
>>58561498I have an english version of bottom right Mewtwo and its one of my favorite cards
>>58560952>good shops to get card sin japanTokyo, Osaka, or other places? I got a personal gmap for the first two>To get gradedVintage is scarce in Japan shops and the good condition cards have already been graded to resell for 100x to baka gaijins. You will probably find lightly played at best.
>>58561416Today I'm getting some of the more expensive ones that I left behind, within reasonable price (the holos are way out of reach even in jap shops)
>>58561580>please buy [wall of text to justify the nonexistent value of literal who Engl*sh VA autograph], I need moneyAlso>insufficient ink errorlmao the pathetic cope to add artificial value to a bad autograph
>>58561580>someone help me exploit this dead whore for moneygrimyou just know some misty coomer will lap it up
tag team faggots be like: yea that's worth $50
>>58562179could have posted a more ridiculous answer>yeah, that'll be 160$
>>58562203Tag team art is so fucking mediocre. The concept is cool but the artists phoned it in.
>>58562212it had those ugly borders that pulls back their appeal. they would had looked much better without it.
>>58562212
>>58562212Arita is a hack, always has been
>>58561902im going to osaka for a couple of days then tokyo for like 11 so both would be good please>Vintage is scarce in Japan shops and the good condition cards have already been graded to resell for 100x to baka gaijins. You will probably find lightly played at best.ive seen quite a few on mercari and yahoo auctions in good condition should i just order one instead?
>>58561379its not just cards its anything people think they can resell i saw a clip recently of some pokemon popup store in a mall or something, it was literally getting rushed by people grabbing to of everything to buy looked like a black friday craziness i think its evil to buy up all the stock out of greed so the people who actually want the things dont get any. seen similar vids with like cards at costco and people rushing to buy the entire pallet of them
>>58563169im still not sure if its a bubble though, maybe they should raise retail again
>>58563312https://x.com/CormickRips/status/1985538511420998119
>>58563390No one wants to see your twitter niggershit
what do you guys think of my only full art trainerthe sleeve is scratched its very very old
>>58562212Good art is reserved for secret rares. The fact that RR Gengar is $160 just because GENGARRRRRR KANTOOOOOO doesn't make it better than the other $20 RRs. Btw Gengar/mimikyu secret rare art is mediocre as well, but of course it's worth thousands.
>>58563455Would impregnate while holding hands and keeping eye contact during climax.
Bros...i think I went a bit overboard with vending cards...
>>58563755Looks well worth it.
>>58563755aaahhhaaaaaah vending kinowe got base set 2 instead of this can you fuckin believe that shit
>>58563755>>58563901Vending is awesome but don't you dare speak ill of Base2.
>this was just 100 thousand dollars pre-pandemicjesus christ!
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>>58564013holy shit I want that what set is that if I can still get packs at my local store I might buy a couple>>58563993Jesus
>>58564013>>58564208nevermind I just noticed it says 2024 FUCK!
My impulse to buy the simplified chinese card version of this grows everyday... It's much cheaper than the English ones. It only costs 1 kidney instead of 2...>>58531265>>58531272Great selection Lillie bro. The new Lillie and Acerola cards are insanely nice. I need them...>>58533256>>58540721Great haul. Need to nab that Vulpix, Meloetta and Steelix sometime myself they look fantastic. Good work acquiring the Lillie ClefairyNot sure if you're still in Japan but if you are hope you're having/had fun.>>58541610Cute waifus. The Serperior & Rosa one's art is lovely.>>58542382Cute! Do you also collect growlithes? There's that really nice Hisuian Growlithe card from Twilight Masquerade. Not sure if you have it>>58545941Impressive waifu pages. Great selection>bottom rightlewd...>>58547617That Gardevoir must've costed and arm and leg. It's an insanely pretty card though so enjoy
>>585648782/2. 4chan thought the full post was spam so had to break it up.Getting some cards through the mail soon. I'm excited>>58555252Cool theming. The clay model(?) cards are quite charming. Shame you can't finish part of it because of prices. >>58555506Really nice theme. Really lovely cards especially the Cleffa, Lunatone and Solrock>>58560709Such a cute card>>58563455It's a nice illustration of an underrated poke waifu
should I sell my graded gold star? I can't imagine prices going up anymore
>>58564912Post a pic, let's see it.
>>58564987i posted it in the discord a while back if you want to check. PSA 9 GS metagross bought for 1k
I have 10, 7, 6 and 4.
>>58565135Almost all of them lost value
I love my wives
>>58565135I pulled 3 in the prerelease, and no one wants to buy it from me :(
you guys sell cards? gay
>>58565890isn't that the whole point?
>>58565044Id say yeah go for it, metagross gold star psa 9 being valued at 5k makes no sense. The card isnt too rare so even in 5+ years there'll be multiple sitting on ebay. Most likely lower priced than it is today. I would recommend going to a local card show to get cash for it, vendors are paying market price for gold stars so youll get the entire 5k.
>>58565909Good to know. Thanks!
>>58565908I'm here to collect pretty art
>>58565919you don't have a printer?
>>58565942Don’t you have a job? Any real life skills?
>>58565942I wouldn't be able to make it look as nice and part of the novelty/value of a card is in its authenticity. I'm mostly in it for cool shiny art with texturing though but the perceived value is part of the fun. Even if the prices can be retarded
>>58565942No. >>58565973No.>>58565997This.
>>58565287always domost cards aren't going up they are going down but moonboys are still falling for coordinated discord pumps on cards you can find everywhere like that drowzee a while back
