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>still grading cards
>>58726337>The romance dawn box i bought last year for 250 is now going for over a thousand
who gangsta here
>>58726384hobbies thrive when investors drive hype and interest. the reason pokemon has become so popular and has remained popular is because investors believed in the product..you profiting on the side isn't bad either. one piece will benefit from this too
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>>58726394Nigger i bought it do rip it open. My only regret is that i didn't buy another one to open while i could
>>58726389u yt on this app bro
>>58726394You’re in every thread never posting your cards you stupid money grub. Fuck off, go make a gay investors general
>>58726465I did this is it
>still buying vintage
>>58726465What's with your obsession over gays? It's strange.
>>58726389>>58726655
Sorry guys, this thing just looks like shit. Not even a good sir can salvage this
So the next couple of years are going to be sets based on the garbage ass mega evos we get now?
>>58726994What I've been saying for years. those kind of CGI cards are just pure puke.
>>58727041Yup, perfect time to catch up on older sets
Bros I just opened a japanese Terastal Festival booster and got ZERO (0) art rares. Is this possible? I got two SARs - one was a trainer the other sandy shocks - and the an ACE item thing. An RR in every pack. Was I scammed? Box wasn't sealed but I heard they strip them in Japan when you buy bulk anyway.
>>58727149Terastal Festival has no art rares you dumbass. Two SARs is extremely good.
>>58727158Oh Jesus I assumed all the non-Eeveelution stuff were regular ARs. My bad. Feels like a brutal set to rip in that case cause most of these cards are just stinky 3D garbagio.
>>58726994>3d killed the pokemon games soul>3d killed the pokemon cards soul2D is the way.
>>58727200desu ZA 3D has soul
>>58726467Based. Crier BTFO BIGGLY
When are JP cards going to boom? Why is the market still climbing for vintage?
>>58727340kill yourself
>>58727346Why are you so angy? The market hasn't reset like it did post covid boom, I still see vintage hitting recent highs (1st ed zard base is a good indicator).
>>58726337oh my god please let all the sneakerfags and investorcucks move to one piece
>>58727383They already have for sealed, vintage/promos/BL are still climbing new levels. So prices won't really come down on high demand singles and older stuf.
>>58727383Sneakerfags, cryptojews, and investorcucks are mostly millennials trying to make additional income. They aren't going anywhere, sadly.
>>58727412Not what I'm saying, retard. I'm saying that sneakerheads, cryptojews, and investorcucks are typically in their 30s and 40s, and the same audience that liked Pokémon back in the day. They're the ones who moved on when Pokémon wasn't cool any more, and have come back in because they want to make money. Lots of them also justify being in the hobby because "I've been a fan since 1996". It's always specifically, 1996, because it's the top result on Google.So long as Pokémon is profitable, these faggots aren't going anywhere. They aren't going to permanently move to One Piece since it never trended with millennials back in the day, even when 4kids dubbed it. It's much more of a GenZ thing. As soon as OP starts to cool off, they'll be back to Pokémon.
>>58727200Always, but im geniunely shocked that not even 2d can save certain mons
>>58727429And I say 1996 because these dipshits were such fairweather fans that they confuse 98-00 for 96 in some half-baked effort to prove how long they've been around for.
>>58727451Any grown adult collecting pokemon in 96-00 was severely autistic like gary king pokemon
>>58727460I'm talking people who were kids than and adults now, hence millennials. Not hyper autist adults who are now retirees in their 60s
>>58708428The set schedule has never changed interestingly enough its just that demand has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Personally the hobby will not be considered fixed until im able to just walk in a story anytime and grab an etb. Or if I can just go online without need a shitty discord ping just to buy some boxes. Ive lived through so many hypecycles and this is the only one that makes me feel grim about the future.
>>58727467Millenials are the most risk averse generation due to multiple financial crisis occurring in their lives - I can see people dumping pokemon in the oncoming years
>>58727473Based genuine fan. Anyone who complains about the release schedule either doesn't play the TCG, or hasn't been around for decades. The pace of releases has been pretty set in stone since the DPPt era, and even down to having a "Charizard" set, which I think started from XY.>Personally the hobby will not be considered fixed until im able to just walk in a story anytime and grab an etb. Or if I can just go online without need a shitty discord ping just to buy some boxes. Ive lived through so many hypecycles and this is the only one that makes me feel grim about the future.I think it's becaause it's so completely twisted now because of how much money people spend and want to make from the hobby. Even when PoGo brought some interest back in 2016, there still wasn't much/any money in the hobby because it was still 99% kids or legacy fans who never left the franchise. Even renewed interest during those hype cycles was purely for love and fun.Whereas now it's every trendhopping fuck trying to make a quick dollar and the reason why they get back into the hobby is solely to make money. There is zero passion at the moment and the amount that people are hoarding is obscene
>>58727482Here's hoping, but at the same time, it makes me wonder how many people are just going to try and sweep up at inflated prices. Like it doesn't matter if people are cashing out when there are lots of other people waitingi in the wings who are still happy to pay $1000 because it came down from $1500. Even though it should only be $100 or whatever.I don't know what it would take to genuinely bring things back to ground
>>58727500Most Millennials haven't even purchased a home yet - the time is ticking. Alternative assets are not worth it for most people after they dabble into it - fees, illiquid selling methods, random market bull and bear runs, etc.
>>58727490More so goes to show how awful society is doing economically. Gambling and making trying to make money flipping things en mass like this is a recession indicator. If you can have a chance at pulling an expensive card, people are going to chase that high. Ultimately, the bubble is going to burst because more and more people just won't be able to afford or pay for these prices anymore.
MawileGAWDS... we won...
>>58727553Well Pokemon currently isn't crashing through the floor because whales are keeping it afloat. Go on eBay and see how many grail vintage slabs are hitting new ATHs meanwhile sealed modern is sitting doing nothing because average income buyers are getting broke. Anything over $10k is continuously trending upwards nonstop. This is exactly what the Topps exec said was occurring in the sports card world.
>>58727438What I hate about new pokemons (after pokemon ruby/sapphire) is that they often didn't even bother making them at least somewhat believable as a living organism. Gen1-3 had their retarded pokemon as well, but nowadays it seems the retards who used to draw fakemons have all gotten a job at Gamefreak and only design the most retarded "cutiepatootie" "pokemon" they can. These new designs are imho so rounded and "cute" just because they don't want to put any effort into having to replicate them into a 3D asset for the games.
>>58727647alright champ back to the retirement home
>>58727647This image gets used a lot but it has the worse examples of nupokemon they could've used. All of these are perfectly believable fictional animals. The nupokemon I hate are the ones that you can never see in a natural setting. Like tell me if you can ever see an incineroar or cinderace in the wild. No, because they're either in a soccer/football stadium or a wrestling ring.
>>58727652SONNY! DID I EVER TELL YOU THAT IN MY DAYS WE HAD TO PUT MAGIKARP IN THE FIRST SLOT AND IMMEDIATELY SWAP IT TO GET THE EXPERIENCE TO EVOLVE IT INTO A GYARADOS?!?!>>58727669>perfectly believableyes, but I feel they should at least draw feets unless they are aracnids like pic rel.>incineroar or cinderaceValid point. I fucking hate anthromons. The ones like Incineroar are the worst as it's obvious it's just the fetish of some artist at Gamefreak.
>>58727647this is the most important part of the picture if gen one looked like this back in 1996 the game would have been dead on arrival the fact the mons actually looked rugged with realistic proportion is what made Pokemon so cool for children I know because I was one of them
>>58727741Pokemon forgot the "mon". Pocket Monsters, not Pocket UGUUKAWAII
>>58727704There's plenty of anthromons that look cool and still look like animals/monsters. Ones like Incin just completely overdo it that that I just can't see it as anything more than a human in a suit. Made even worse when you look at the pre-evos and theyre perfectly good looking catmons
>>58727741>1996Guy who thinks he's Japanese lmao
>>58727863pokemon red and blue came out in 1996
I was able to find some older stock black leather dragon shield binders since they are now discontinued. Compared to mine that I bought pre 2020 these ones are even better as they increased the spine gusset lenght, making the cards lay even flatter than before. They are also slightly longer.
>>58727647The zorua on the right goes hard
>>587278721998. I pre-ordered Red version. i did not receive it in 1996.
>>58727872Retard lmaohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red,_Blue,_and_Yellow
>>5872745196 and 97 had the best cards tho, anything from 98 onwards is modern slop.
>>58727875>elastic band binders
>>58728034I had a zipster back in the day and I hated it. It felt awkward when browsing and the latch broke after a while. My bookshelves have glass windows so I don't have an issue with dust.
>>58727875>dragon shieldBased. The only ones that when full won't bend the first column of cards.>>58728098Zip binders are ass.
Will front page, outer-facing, spine-adjacent cards in a zip-binder survive without getting damaged over time/through opening? Asking for a friend (they’re in booster box sleeves)
>>58728538Nothing survives over time. Embrace the transience of life. Enjoy your cards while you have them.
>>58728538is it a ring binder? If so there is a possibility as the rings can bend and ding your cards when going through them but it depends. If it's not a ring binder then they can still get somewhat bent unless the pages have enough room to properly lay flat like in dragon shield binders. Realistically no binder can truly guarantee perfect protection from bending unless you go the schizo way of using toploader binders like pic rel. For other kind of damages a doublesleeved card in any non top loading binder will be okay.
>>58727071Wouldn't be surprised if the general interest in the hobby takes a big hit if they go with this route. Or maybe I am just being a dumb boomer with different opinions.
>>58728633does this apply to vintage sets? I'm constantly wondering if I should just wait for the hype to die down to complete my sets or should I just buy what I can when I can.
>>58728610Thanks for the insight. It’s a protectX 4x4 so i don’t know if it will hold toploaders. It hasn’t bent the first cards yet, so it’s very possible i’m just being paranoid. The only thing that bugs me is that there’s a thick soft slab on the front cover, which keeps the cards in place but it might be putting pressure on my page 1 lads (who are my favorites since I wanted to frontload em)
>>58728644Not sure but I'll for sure shift rest of the modern focus I had on vintage. Cannot at least see myself buying the new sets if the big hits are going to be new megas.
>>58728708>protectX 4x4I can't find it
>>58728714I’m retarded; it’s VaultX
>>58728724I've heard of them, they are popular. Their olny issue that I can see is the short spine to page lenght and sometimes QC issues.
>still buying physical
if im just collecting some cards for the pictures, should I but the Japanese singles or nah
>>58729117Whatever is cheaper, considering Japanese, Chinese and some other asian languages such as Indonesian (but not Korean) have better textures, while for untextured cards it doesn't matter, unless you also care about grey borders vs yellow borders on older cards.
>>58729117For just the art jp singles is the qay to go. Good quality, cheaper and its the original language so it's a more valuable and easier to sell/trade if you ever decide to let it go
>open pack>no pokemon past gen 5mmm yeah>inb4 15wunner claims superiority even though he probably can't name any non starters besides gengar
>[current time, current day, current month, current year]>STILL sleeping on the best pokemon
>>58729763Prime cards are lowkey the best 3d render cards
>>58729754Anything past gen3 is temtem tier slop
>>58730337*anything past gen 2
>>58726317Found two of these slaking tins for 33 bucks at work tonight. I’m happy
>>58729763such an ugly low efford card.
Psy ai ai...
>>58730778>ugly low effort cardsvintage in a nutshell
>>58726994why wouldn't they allow more space for art if the text only takes up so little? Mega Feraligatr is needlessly fighting for space here
>>58730976That's not a vintage card, zoomer. It's the in-between from vintage to modern. The shittiest era of pokemon ever. Vintage cards had great art and sets, moderns have ok sets and great art. Middle era? Nothing.
>>58731061Vintage is ugly and I know, I collect it.
>>58730976
>>58731061Absolutely plebian take. Awful primes aside, the art window size is perfect and the regular holos are actually nice cards.
>>58729763I have one of these, sort of...
>>58731270Which sets are designed like this
>>58731336hgss era
Pic rel came in today.
>>58729763>typhloshityou lost
Post cards to piss off the impoverished zoomies.
>Get into TCC>Buy Japanese S/ARs for cheap>Think they're goated>Slowly refine taste>See really stupid looking vintage cards>Realize the old holos are cooler>There are some total meme shit trainer cards drawn by children called like Secret Fart Attack>Imakuni>Komiya vending stuff>It's all $100+Just fuck my shit up
>>58731508>posts 20 dollar modern fullart ???
>>58731539Yes. Zoomers can't even afford streaming services or a extra value slop meal. It's a $20 card or lunch for the day.
>>58731474Based Kanto Sugimori cosmo holo swirl scholar
>>58731539Those vendings are fairly cheap as well desu, you should flex your Masaki holos.
lil vro bought a piece of cardboard with some squiggly foreign writing on it
>>58731767Arita is fine too. Now I'm just missing the black star promo one.
I HATE pokemon cards
How expensive will her first Japanese SAR be?
>>58732176probably like $9. waifu cards aren't usually expensive
>>58732176Poppy's SAR is dirt cheap
I didn't learn my lesson with the Dawn SAR crashing and just bought this today. I traded for both of them so It's not that bad.
Here are all the SV era SARs I got with the 10% credit back on TCG player + 20% cash back with PayPal on black Friday. The rockets crobat isn't here yet.
>>58731772The only cool one is the gengar to be honest. I do have a nm ooyamas pikachu though, but I’ve posted it a bunch already. I’ll never buy single cards for more than 50 bucks. I bought this Komiya touch gen change! for about 300 yen
>searching for old raws on ebay that are NM trying to collect all of my favorite pokemon’s cards>almost everything has noticeably fucked up edges (at best lightly played, mostly MP though)At this point i might just crack a slab so i can put it in my binder. Trying to fill this thing with semi-decent condition cards of my favorite monI guess everyone who thought to preserve their older stuff has already graded it but its still so fucking annoying
>>58732911Cunysseur here. Poppy isn't cute plus I skipped SV. Diantha's daughter is pretty hot, and even if I end up skipping ZA, I still know her on some level as Diantha's daughter.
>>58733256>bottom right of the illusOh come on.
I don't know who this is but it's a great card and extremely cheap. I noticed raichu is in it so that anon who collects raichu better not have missed this card.
>>58733568very minor character from SV. He's one of the teachers in the academy but you can go the entire game and completely miss him
>>58733568It's a very soulful card. I remember seething when I first saw it having it wasted on a literal who character.
>>58726389ts not tuff twin.. you aint gon' make it to agartha....
I only need Clay Burst Nanjyamo to complete my collection.
Japanese Texturing Won
>>58732858Cute!!
>>58734250netanyahu's strongest soldier.
>>58733215Very nice pick ups. I can't take chuds that glaze vintage seriously when we got cards like this being printed right now.
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>>58734279I actually got some vintage too
>>58734426based non retard
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>>58734639Looks fake
>>58734768why?
>>58734639sick
>>58734639>charizard is a 5'7 manletsad!
>>58734774Wait till you see Nidoking and Nidoqueen's height. I grew up thinking they were massive. All their illustrations with Giovanni made them look like giants since they towered him and Giovanni is 2m tall.
>>58732929The scratches tho, oof. Hopefully that is not yours.
Bros ripping Terastal Festival is such a fkn waste of time you're basically only guaranteed one SAR and it's inevitably gonna be Dodengo flipping you off fuck this gay set I didn't realize it didn't have ANY ARs I just wanted a god pack ;-;
just got home posting my japan buyys, how do you order card sin your binders anons by sets, by pokemon? currently i keep all mine in boxes but want to get binders before i didnt want binders because i wanted to organise by pokemon but thought itd be annoying to have to empty pages out and re arrange things if a page gets full but i might just get some ring binders, ive read they dmaage cards but ive also seen you can get pages for them that hold toploaders>>58726317bayleef sexo>>58732858cute i love corsola
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3, i also got a galactic conquest tina but it has a big crease so ill post when ive fixed that the best i can, also got a weiss schwarz dragon maid booster box which i opened but i somehow lost all the cards on the way home kekalso to the anon who was asking about good places for his gf to get booster boxes i found a shop in aki called tcg lounge they had some really good prices on them https://maps.app.goo.gl/pdxWmK2zhbYHZufW6
>>58734770He's jealous
saw this really cool mew on ebay sold it went for like 2x normal price because its faded i assume due to the sun? looks way nicer than the purple wonder how hard it is to do this artificially with a uv lamp or soemthing https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187826847022
>>58735075>>58735093>>58735078>beyleef >cleffa>erika's maids>rockets trapJelly, I need those. Also that shedinja full art is cool. Corpish is also always neat. Great taste.>>58735216I've seen multiple people making them artificially. Just put them into a toploader and leave them in the sun for a few days during the summer.
>>58735220idek why i got the rockets trap i have it in english already but its a really cool card lol and yeah i dont really look into modern and think lots of these full arts look like shit but that one is cool theres a really nice manaphy one too i saw it slabbed fairly cheap but thought id be able to find the card and buy it by itself didnt see it in any shops after though and forgot where i saw the slab kek >Just put them into a toploader and leave them in the sun for a few days during the summer.oh cool i might do it ive been wanting to buy one for a while thought id be able to get it on the trip but they were all super overpriced must be a popular card recently. ill grab a couple at reasonable prices on mercari in jan probably will sun bleach one
>>58735230For the love of God, please use some punctuation.>I don’t even know why I got the Rocket’s Trap... I already have it in English, but it’s a really cool card. And yeah, I don’t really look into modern stuff; I think a lot of those full arts look like shit, but that one is cool. There’s a really nice Manaphy one too. I saw it slabbed for fairly cheap, but I thought I’d be able to find the raw card and buy it by itself. Didn’t see it in any shops afterward though, and I forgot where I saw the slab, kek.>Just put them into a toploader and leave them in the sun for a few days during the summer.>Oh cool, I might do it. I’ve been wanting to buy one for a while. I thought I’d be able to get it on the trip, but they were all super overpriced... Must be a popular card recently. I’ll grab a couple at reasonable prices on Mercari in January, probably will sun‑bleach one.
>>58735230do non textured full art have a flat holo or is it like the vintage holos? I recently received a scarlet and violet slowbrow and its holo was ASS
>>58735341>I recently received a scarlet and violet slowbrow and its holo was ASSforgot to mention it was used as padding for some vintage energies. I'm suspecting a card being holo isn't an indicator of anything anymore
>>58735341cute card
Any UK chads ever ordered from Pokemon Center Online from Japan? My understanding is that it's like ~25GBP for a booster on release which makes it easily the cheapest purchase even if postage is nuts.
>>58735341not sure what you mean by flat? its like the holo thats on reverse on e series but it doesnt cover the whole card only the background of the art normally>>58735428>which makes it easily the cheapest purchase even if postage is nuts.you can only buy them via lotteries im pretty sure, im in the uk and buy stuff from japan regularly, i use a proxy service though postage is normally 20-40 quid on buyee which you can use for the pokemon center. i use the buyee air delivery delivery which uses fedex or dhl parcels normally arrive in under a week. if the total value is under like 120 quid you dont need to pay import fees anymore too
>>58735480>not sure what you mean by flat?no sparkles, swirls etc. >its like the holo thats on reverse on e seriesDamn that's disappointing.
>>58734639Nice. Who makes that zard figure?
>>58735480But they'll open a lottery when the new set releases I assume? I looked into Buyee and a few others and it seems straightforward enough. Is the 120quid value purely the value of goods? Because if so it seems like you could get a few boosters in for way cheaper than what they go for on ebay.
>>58735665yeah on the value of the goods not sure if theres a set number but its somewhere around 120 prior to brexit all of my japan parcels would get held up in customs for weeks and id have to wait for a bill in the post now they dont seem to care when its under a value around there
>>58735665>But they'll open a lottery when the new set releases I assumeoh and with the lottery im pretty sure you need a japanese phone number and register for it idk if thatd work for buyee, ive only used it for plushes
>>58735661tomy
Anyone have strong opinions on Sleeves? Perfect Fit KMC feel the best to me but I find they slide around in binders too much. Ultra Pro penny sleeves ""fit"" the best with no movement in binders but they can snag the top and crease the sleeve which looks bad also the cards can move around in the sleeves more. Use case would be regular binders
>>58727704Even the hitmons are believable as real, living creatures. What made them work is that they had a resemblance to arthropods with their weird shell-like body features and not looking TOO human. I'd even argue Jynx worked since it looked like some weird blob monster with a fur coat that resembles clothing. Stuff like Cinderace and Incineroar look like individuals rather than a true species yk?
italians should be banned from cardmarket.their evaluations for the card conditions seem done by stevie wonder
>>58736116>slide around in bindersThat's more an issue of the page/binder IMHO. I double sleeve with KMC and basic Ultrapro sleeves and they "almost" never slide in my binders, and the ones I have single sleeved with KMC slide around even less. At most I might find a card that is slightly out of its pocket by a few mm, but I never had a card fully fall out. >>58736216I wholly agree.
>>58726389I might have to be now. Twice I've been harassed by women while picking up my cards from the machine. It's not my fault you went shopping bitch
>>58736226Based vintage-CHAD
Give me 1, ONE, JUAN, WON reason why I should invoost in modernshit over low pop indie TCG's again? pro tip, you cant.
>>58736946>invest
>Card signed by the dub anime VAI keep seeing this and I genuinely don't understand the appeal. I mean I don't really understand the appeal of signed cards in general, aside from maybe the artist.
>>58732176>Flop daughter of a flop mother in a flop DLCCheaper than Firebreather
What percentage of Gen 3 era raw singles on ebay are fake?Just bought a bunch that looked relatively real, but i’m just wondering how big a risk i’m taking trying to collect some of this older stuff. Anything i should look out for? Stamp quality, foils, etc?
>>58736959the only signed cards I'm interested in are those in the WC decks as they're official reprints of cards, and they're a different variant for my master sets
>wanted to make a cool page for my binder>mostly modern, 1 card has a yellow border>stands out as fucking ugly and looks very out of placeShould I bite the bullet and just get the JP version? It kind of triggers my autism since I only collect english but the yellow border really stands out of fucking place
cheap tin score. Slaking bros wwa
>>58737505First time opening scarlet and violet. Pulled one of the handful of cards I actually want. I’m happy. Thanks slaking tin
>>58735428Chances are that you aren't getting booster boxes from there. Japan heavily preferences physical Pokémon Centers and individual stores have regular lotteries for booster boxes, whereas the website basically only does one on release, and maybe a second. Occasionally cards go up for sale, but it's relatively rare and typically only loose packs And if you don't have access to a Japanese phone number, you also aren't entering the lottery.>>58735710It doesn't, you need to actually verify your phone number with an 070/080 number These proxies tend to offer you 050 VOIP numbers, which aren't allowed because Japan is pretty strict with phone numbers to prevent scamming in that you can't get typically a SIM card with voice/SMS unless you're a resident or have access to a resident.It's not like here where you can rock up to Lidl and buy a SIM card for £10 and do whatever the fuck you want with it.
>>58737204The biggest problem is that its hard to know fakes because nobody knows what the real ones look like. On the flipside nobody wants that shit so theres less fakes
>>58738065Are you retarded? Just have a real common of the same era to compare it to
I traded 4 of my more valuable cards today for an off-center M Charizard SAR
>>58738233What cards?
>still buying modern
>>58738241JP Sunbreon, Crown Zenith Mewtwo, extremely off-center Umbreon V SAR from Evolv Skies, JP M Lucario SAR
>>58738254The only card I like out of those four is the mewtwo so good deal, in my opinion. Offload as many of the chandelier heads as you can, they will not age well.
>>58738276I'm not the hugest Charizard fan, but I thought the art was really cool and I was super frustrated after buying almost $400 worth of Phantasmal shit and not getting it.
>>58735661Looks like the first zard figure there ever was. I remember seeing that in the toy store as a kid.
>>58735075>>58735078>>58735093Based whatever card is cool I buy poster
>>58737465I did it for my pika page because the CZ pika was the only one with yellow borders
>>58738254Terrible deal, Mzard will be under 300 soon
>at my 3rd binder already No one told me the ride would be this wild
>>58738377I don't understand people's fomo for cards that will not go out of print for a long time. Just a waste of money.
>>58738606Most people are new to the hobby and desperate for cards. They aren’t willing to wait because it might not be cool to show off if they waited like actual human beings. And they know they’ll move on to the next trend by then.
100 Yuka Moriis
>>58738446I've ordered 3 more binders for christmas, it started out as just looking after my Vintage cards and here we are>CurrentTeal Vault X - Vintage sets (Base/Jungle/Fossil/Team Rocket)Blue Vault X - Misc Vintage (Promos/Random Holos/Japanese/Japanese Neo set)Black Goat Armor (Master set of my fav Pokemon + Modern hits/chases/cards I like)Pink Vault X - Misc Modern (Promos/Cosmo Holos/EX/V/VStar)Gemkeeper 4 Pocket Toploader Binder (Trade Binder for taking to trade nights/conventions)>PlanningWhite Goat Armor (Planned curated spreads, pic related)Green Goat Armor (All EX/V/VStar from every set, freeing up space in my current Pink Binder)Purple Goat Armor (Misc TCG - From socialising at events/cons I've got a fair amount of nice One Piece/Digimon/Magical Girl Cards I want to keep safe)
>>58738606Most new collectors do it only to farm (You)s on Reddit, the later they post their Reddit thread, the more people have already posted the exact same thread before, the less upvotes they get.
>>58736216I saw a card listed as EX-NM with the comment "Strange card - printing error?" where the whole bottom half of the card was missing. Like brotherino that's faulty. You can't be asking full price for that card.
Cardmarket bros why does the home page say an item is going for like ~£50 and then you click it and it says the price trend is ~£60 and then you look at listings and the lowest is ~£100? Are people actually listing the product that much lower and it just sells really quick or is there some strange maths at work here. I'm also using a plugin so maybe that's changing things.
>>58738980Many reasons, such as it being a lower price in a non-english language, if you want german cards you might get a deal!
>>58738986The mere thought of buying anything not in Japanese disgusts me
>>58738995Do you live out there? Probably easier to just buy it in shops
>>58738998I live in Bongistan which is torture because card stores give you like 50% value on Japanese cards and from what I've seen have barely any stock (MAYBE a binder of overpriced IRs, no vintage, a bunch of shitty RRs). I want to try a card show but they're all 1.5 hours out of London for no reason.
>>58739045Japanese cards are just too unpopular/common to keep in stock, which is why every whatnot streamer struggles to sell IRs/full arts even for £1 each, when they're that popular a card shop buying them in is basically losing money even at 50p an IR unless its a couple of the most popular ones which do go for a bit more. But even then they're slow to sell. Which is why they're often overpriced, if you do have to suffer stocking Japanese IRs/full arts you may as well price them at £2-3 because someone who likes that card in particular will pay it because it's only an extra £1-2 and I'm here now. Even with more expensive Japanese cards like SIRs they just sell too slowly. To be honest as well I think "Japanese quality" is often overhyped, it's true the SIR's/textured cards look and feel significantly better but when you compare regular IR's side by side they're pretty meh
>>58739103People act as if it's so laborious to "keep stock." You simply fill a fucking binder. No LCS ever sort their shit, accurately price their shit, know their trade, etc. You put the cards in the binder. You could buy bulk IRs off Cardmarket and put them in a binder neatly and perhaps in some kind of order and people would obviously buy them for £1-5 a pop - it's free money. But ANY vintage Japanese card is at least £10, and I never see those at shops.
>>58739111It's not "free money" because anything unsold is a liability and Japanese cards/vintage in general are extremely slow selling because basically no one buys it compared to modern. Even English vintage moves incredibly slowly let alone Japanese. I understand it fully because I try to keep my trade binder filled with interesting cards of all eras and being honest with you 99% of people that look in the binder admire the modern cards and barely take a second glance at Vintage/Japanese. The only time people seem to show an interest is if its a Pokemon they love "oh I collect digletts and I haven't seen this one before!", otherwise they'll likely comment more on the same Gardevoir 245 line they've seen 50 times before "I love how these connect!"
>>58739045Just go on a holiday to japan
>>58738980I don't even look at "price trends" anymore, it could be that it's calibrated on less desirable languages and poor condition cards.Cardmarket orders by price anyway, so just pick the cheapest listing of your desired language and condition, possibly with pictures (don't hesitate to ask the seller, worst case they will not reply), check the seller's reviews and their other listings to see how they self-grade their other cards, and most importantly filter out UKfags with their surprise customs, and Scandinavians with their 25€ letters
>>58738980>nd then you look at listings and the lowest is ~£100?check your filters
>>58739133>vintage in general are extremely slow sellingif that's true I wish they would lower the prices ffs
>>58739267Vintage is cheap compared to modern, you can get NM copies of most hits from WOTC sets for £50 or less. Even the most famous card, base set Charizard, can be had for around £400 in Near Mint quality which hiliariously is cheaper than a lot of modern chases. Vintage pricing is largely driven by real world rarity which is why 1st Edition and "Shadowless" are insane compared to unlimited, because it directly correlates to the physical rarity of the card rather than vibes like Modern. The most expensive "Vintage" cards are really mid-era cards when the hobby wasn't as popular and when the pull rates were terrible while people still weren't indoctrinated into keeping cards in flawless condition, so again its related directly to real world scarcity. Occasionally the same "investor"/scalper/vendor/sneakerbros that inflate modern will set their eyes on certain older cards and inflate them too, looking at you Tagteams/Ancient Mew but generally you're paying for the real scarcity of what you want
this shit will never be a pokemon
>>58739376Why
>>58739288 If there’s any take home among all the shitposting in these threads about the hobby, this one is it. Ignore any modern shill that acts as though perfectly preserved modern cards are unusual when everybody has penny sleeves and top loaders ready whenever they open packs. It’s always telling when you look at the gem rates of modern vs vintage and modern cards will have >50% and vintage will be <2%
>>58739552because it make no sense. It's a stylized jewish rasta man who fell into a bucket of gold paint. and the little one, is the pokemon the little creature? the entire chest? does he have blood vessels in those coins? is random gold bullion so plentiful in nature that a bunch of pokemons can hoard it?
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>>58739567Brother have you ever seen a Pokemon before? They're all just goofy little dudes. There's one called Mr. Mime which is literally just my mom's pedophile. There's a bird and like forty dogs and an ancient golem made of dragon stuff. They have their own version of God.
>>58739581Just because he's KANTOOO it doesn't mean it's a good pokemon. But at least with MrMime you could argue he's somewhat monkey like, but that gold dude that surfs? Never will be a pokemon. >They're all just goofy little dudesHave you ever saw one before? They used, up until recently to at least be realistic within the pokemon world lore. These designs are akin to discovering the americas and catching the indians into pokeballs. >look at all those goofy little dudes with their feathers and bows. Totally a pokemon!
>>58739613>ESL>Thinks Mr. Mime is a monkey>Has KANTO image macros savedlol (kys)
>>58739724>calls others ESL (I'm not)>can't understand what people write>bitches about kantozoom zoom
>>58739729If you're not ESL then you may be functionally retarded anon because you're struggling your way through those sentences.
>>58739736So just because you can't come up with a counterargument to my point of view you just go>u didn't use enought commas!ok
Get a room you two
>>58739766You're illiterate and think Mr. Mime is a monkey - I've already won.
>>58739288>people still weren't indoctrinated into keeping cards in flawless conditionme with my 1st ed blue eyes, dark magician, exodia, god and movie cardsI regret so much playing them without sleeves
You're a faggot if you think there's supposed to be some kind of restriction as to what constitutes being a pokemon. It's been 30 years of this shit and retards are still making those kinds of posts.
>>58739983Is this a Pokemon?
>>58739830>doubles down on his shitty reading comprehensionlmao. I accept your defeat.
>>58739983when I first saw mareep on route 32 I thought wtf just a sheep? but now it's one of my fav 'monssame for skiploom line, I still remember that one patch of grass I found them both in
>>58739983The literal creators admit there are restrictions.
>>58740040Surely you can't be satisfied with a literal sheep? You MUST want an anthro gay lizard man! Or a bara muscle cat!
>>58739872Not worth anything anyway. YGO is gay
>>58740079funny enough I did choose sniper lizard as my starter. It seemed much better than bongo ape and football bunny
>>58739983Pikablu...!
>>58740109Do you have the entire set in first edition?
>>58740836No, I'm at around 60-70% completion, and of those the 1st ed are around 80%
>>58740886That's still great, I do love Gym Challenge and Heroes that's where I stopped collecting as a kid and wish I had finished those sets, goodluck with it
>>58740892Thank you, they are my absolute favorite sets, they would be perfect if they also had a Blastoise.
How quickly can humidity/dampness (in the air) affect sleeved, bindered cards (with otherwise stable conditions)?The only reasonable place to put my cards at the moment is a cool, sunlight-free cabinet in my kitchen. I live in a place with a fairly stable humidity index but the cabinet isn’t airtight. I have a few silica gel packets sitting in there but I understand they’re pretty limited in effectiveness. Should I just buy a Dehumidifier for later in the year?Also, how likely is it that my stuff gets messed with by TSA because i wanted to bring the binder with me for the holidays i might hit up some stores in my hometown[/spoilers]
>>58740996You’re doing everything weird
>>58740996I've left cards out on the side and they have curled within 2 days before, so the answer is extremely quickly. But good news, its reversible!
If a counterfeiting factory achieves perfect counterfeits of pokemon cards and prints thousands of the most expensive cards to release into the collector market, what would happen?
>>58741260I mean that'd be impossible... but assuming it does happen and the counterfeits are truly indistinguishable between originals, nothing would happen.
>>58741323>if supply for a high demand free market article is increased manyfold, nothing will happenGo to bed, morning comes early and tomorrow is a schoolday, champ.
>ask question>question gets answered>upset because you didn't get the reply you wantedWhat a strange thing to do.
>>58741350>question gets answered with the wrong answer.Actually, you know what? Yes you are right. Also in a crazy coincidence potato salad will rain from the sky. It'd be impossible, but assuming it does happen, chocolate sundaes would suddenly spawn in your shoes. Isn't that absolutely wild???
>>58741415Weird reply.
>>58741331In a market like this, unless counterfeits are made 10:1 real nothing would change
All this to say you don’t have any cards worth showing.
ascended chungus looks like a blowout. Why did they think comic book crap would be a good idea?
>>58741427Well it's what would happen because I said so.
>>58741415No, Billy, no ice cream before bed. Lights out in 5 or I'm taking your nitendo for a week.
>>58740075No they don't
>>58741452Honestly I kinda miss when our janny sat in here 24/7.....
What's the fastest way to distinguish Vintage fakes? Is there an app or anything like that? my eyes are shit
>>58742074i dunno, but dont post them here. anons here constantly reply to some idiot who posts fake every thread and they dont even realize it.
>>58742074font, spacing, feel and look of the ink/cardboard, etc. there's plenty of resources online with good pics available, I'd suggest you look for those instead as anyone here would just be parroting the first post they find online
>>58741260what would realistically happen is spam PSA with submissions to hoard 10's and sell them at the current market price.
Was about to buy some Mega Dream boxes tomorrow, but I decided to watch someone open some boxes on Youtube tonight and I found out SARs arent guaranteed for each box like they were for Terestal. Fuck that noise
>>58742587Don’t post your gay memes here. Go back cunt.
>>58742600suck my dick
>>58742607you’re not old or cool enough to post cobra memes
>>58742587You're guaranteed a MA in every box and they're the better hits in the set
>>58742739these attack rares are somehow worse than the original Pokemon M EX cards.
>>58742747Nah I have some of the original M EX cards and they were just as hit and miss as the new ones. This Froslass looks incredible, even more so in person and easily surpasses most of the originals in part because you're getting the combination of an SIR (full artwork, texture) with the attack text, the older ones that barely come out of the frame like our current EX's just leaves less room for good art, plus none of the texture you get now. I'm not saying the new ones are all strictly an upgrade, I still love some of the old M EX cards but saying they're worse is just feels wrong looking at them side by side
post came i had to get the slutty celebi after anon posted the other day>>58742600nice wish i had these
>>58727647It's so sad, that old style crabrawler could have been one of my fav pokémon.
New Japanese set looks poopoo. Dull af art rares and ANOTHER FUCKING CHARIZARD likely to be the chase card. JUST fuck my shit up.
>>58743057What would make a good set in your mind?
>>58743548NTA, but remake the Gym Heroes/Challenge in its entirety, but every single card is a full art with the original artwork extended to fit the whole card. The holo pattern should go back to cosmos with at least a swirl per card guaranteed, and the SIR be textured to japanese standards. Pull rates should be improved so no card will become a chase like that umbreon from prismatic. The border of the cards should go back to yellow. a small pulltab activated speaker should be included in every booster that once opened immediately starts blasting "KANTOOOOOOOO" until the battery runs out
>>58740971>they would be perfect if they also had a Blastoise.They had one as a secret rare.
Mail day! (on the right) as promised, Misty with visible feet for my side collection of Mistys in the most revealing languages.
>>58743894I wish, that's a proxy.
>>58742874Sexy onion
>>58743894God damn it's so beautiful. I wish someone would make it for real beside a one off. All the other versions I saw had abysmal print quality.
>>58742874that was me, i loved that simple cozy illustration.i think its one of the best celebi cards ,most of the other cards are just a zoom in on his forehead
>>58744246i really like the 4ever one
i really like this card, i showed this to my younger brother and said its the ugliest thing he ever seen.thoughts?
>>58744349I'm with your brother on this one
>>58744349Well it is ugly, but some men fuck fat women so who am I to judge
>>58744368>>58744370fair enough, i needed a reality check
>>58744349It's really fucking ugly like most of those style cards
>>58744349i like it love these older ex's ive been eyeing the lapras in this style for a while
>>58744349it just looks like an ugly fish in this picture
>>58740996> my stuff gets messed with by TSAYou're overthinking it. I've brought cards too and from my destination multiple times and they really don't care. If you're wondering what it was, it was a small 2x2 binder half filled with cards and some penny sleeves. I have only been stopped 1 time and they said "are those trading cards?" and if they could search through. Obviously I said yes then went along my way. Nothing crazy happened. Just be honest. Now I guess you might be sus if you try bringing on multiple slabs, binders, etc. But again, just be honest and you'll be good.
How is the pikastonks market going today lil timmy? are ya winning son? pic related is me, celebrating any downfalls of modernslop. as if people really care around here for a rising tides lift all ships mentality anyways. doge eat doge world baby. WOOOOOOOOO
>>58744748I just bought the illustrator rare. Instant classic
>>58744349Yeah, it's ugly as shit and now I want it.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891882/2025/12/15/collectors-beckett-psa-card-grading/ kek this along with the recent news of them grading 9s then regrading as 10 after buying from their customers is so dodgy
classichttps://youtu.be/ofHxBmBhvy8
>>58744349But is it as ugly as THIS?
>>58745767they recently bent the fuck out of two of TCA gamings card submissions and didn't take responsibilityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVo2ZRm1OManyone buys grade cards is a cuck
why is the japanese version of this card so expensive it goes for like 500+>>58745946kino>>58746209now i want a promo brick crazy how none of those are 10s although the grader was probably seething at some guy sending 50 of the same card in lol. those creases are pretty bad looks like they were leaned on over rhte edge of a table or something lol
>>58746252Aside from new sets, price relates almost entirely to population/rarity. Japanese and English cards aren't printed in the same way - the same card/art might be a promo in one set, and pullable in another; the amount of promos available might be different; etc. I don't know for that card specifically, but this usually explains it. It's fun to find Japanese cards that are more expensive that their English counterparts.
>>58746264theyre both promos japanese has a different holo texture but does look like there arent many availabe on japan selling sites so yeah probably rarer jsut found it comes from this box when it was in normal etbs in the west https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/XY_BREAK_TCG_Era_merchandise#Premium_Pok%C3%A9Kyun%E2%99%A5_Set
>>58746264just looking lots of these xy cards are way more expensive must not have been a popular set in japan https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pokemon-japanese-pokekyun-collection/m-gardevoir-ex-20
Are binders safe? I want one but currently keep my cards in toploaders in a solid box. I ordered toploader binder inserts for an a4 ring binder and they dont fix too small so id have to get non toploader binder pages. need to be for a4 as theres a bunch of nice older binders with good art on and id go insane not being able to move the pages about and having to reorganize the whole thing
>>58746415Never use ring binders for valuable cards
>>58746622i thought d ring is fine? isnt the only issue ages getting caught under the rings?
>>58738750fellow yuki moriichad
>>58746652d ring is better than normal rings as long as your pages aren't top loading, and when you turn and move them you are careful. Realistically the best binders/portfolios are sideloading ones with plently space from the space to the actual page itself to remove possible bending. Since you're going to use pages for toploaders rings aren't going to be an issue unless you're going to manhandle your binders the way a retarded child will.
>>58742874>>58744086>>58744331
>>58747110I hate the way this artist draws celebi’s arm, he did the same thing in a neo set
>tfw the new captcha
Kangashkino mail day. I was gonna open it but it’s never gonna look as good as it does in the box. Need to get a jumbo portfolio
>>58747735the celebrations one is alright
>>58747735lame that the normal sized promo isn’t lenticular too
>watching speculators pump up the price of random Sandstorm singles on ebay now that modern is crashingThis hobby ain’t for me anymore
>>58748382>caring about what cunts on twitter are doingGood. All you do is complain.
Trading Local OptionsI'm from México & was wondering how much of a good investment could be to use a local grading service, I know PSA it's the ideal for grading collective goods, but mexican custom authorities are the lamest & I'm affraid to lost my investment once PSA sends back my graded cards.
>>58748457remember to draw penises on all cards you submit to PSA to ensure high grades
>>58748457nothing will come close to PSA other than Beckett black labels.check your local Pokemon market to see the value of slabs from local grading companies.Europe has a few that do decently in their own markets but are completely irrelevant internationally.
Any good singles to invest in besides zards?I mean actual invest not pump and dump meme discord shit
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