Mega Sol EditionPrevious Thread: >>59137213FAQ: https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca
>still grading cards
>still buying vintage
Moege bros lost
Only if Logan Paul never molested the TCG.
Daily reminder the kike that owns PSA is in the Epstein files Also Logan Paul is Jewish
https://www.pokebeach.com/2026/04/exclusive-lisias-appeal-to-release-in-chinese-starry-crystal-setLooks meh
>>59167847mail day
Should I go with the Japanese Dream League Piplup or a regular jap full art of dawn?
>>59168351sorry for my question but I'm retardedwhy 2 japanese dawn in the top row?
Ascended Heroes ETBs are skyrocketing in value, hasn't even been a month yet and market price is already $130. It doesn't make sense to rip it open anymore, just sell it and buy the singles you want. Or keep holding because it will become a $500 ETB in the next 3-4 years like what's happened to Evolving Skies, except with better pull rates, Pikachu and god packs.
>>59168356She's really cheap
>>59167864someone will Luigi him one day, one can hope
I might start collecting "Pokémon products because I have to uphold to cult personality types on a random basket weaving anime forum" again. I stopped because I became less interested as the deal ran out and my personal stock got higher and higher. but since I know enough about the TCG set lists and promo products, I feel like I should start buying out cheap promo cards and just grade them myself later down the road when all of a sudden they might be worth more than I initially paid for. Decisions decisions.
>>59168351Why not use the legends arceus bitch
>>59168380Sometimes i look at the products being bought in bulk and i wonder if all they will be good for is toilet paper
Pokemon Center Queue is up right now
>>59168626If Pokemon cards ever become worthless, it'll happen when the dollar becomes toilet paper too so you'll have bigger things to worry about when that time comes.
>>59168864>Five hour long queueSo the preorder email system isn't up yet huh
>>59168869>when the dollar becomes toilet paperI'm waiting for that since i'm yuropoor. Hoping things can finally change for the better when the dollar and everything related to it and its' people go to shit
>>59168882Still worth it :^)
>>59168882believe they said whoever gets the preorder email would be random and not guaranteed every time
>my page keeps refreshing throwing me into the back of the line each timeIt’s over before it even started
Just 3 more hours bros!
>>59168626Possibly. There's so much product out there, that it's impossible a modern set would hold value like vintage when the pop eventually comes. Definitely a strong argument that it's mostly scalpers selling to scalpers, and once the ball starts rolling sealed will be a race to the bottom.On the other hand, all the streaming pack openings and similar decreases supply in a way you didn't see in, say, Beanie Babies or 90s Comics.I wouldn't be holding sealed for 10+ years, but if you can buy at $60 and sell six months later at $120, that's just good business. And is exactly the mindset that can cause a bubble.
>58 minutes>error 15great
>>59169044Still lots of stock right now I think, this is going to be a Greninja set so it might actually be even more unpopular than Perfect Order
Mail day
>>59168626I think it's less a bubble, more akin to pre-emptive pumping. Basically modern is speedrunning the price change. It's not actually going to appreciate further than any vintage. It's just reaching high prices way earlier. People know it will go past MSRP sooner or later, so they pre-emptively grab what they can and it goes to being a rare set straight away.Evolving Skies is what, $3k for one of the most valued modern sets?? Shit is nowhere near base sets. I don't know how much was printed in comparison, but it doesn't look like a bubble, just a rush to profit.
this dogshit won't let me check out
Was only able to pre-order a booster box, the ETB was sold out already and kept on getting errors with the booster bundles. I guess I should be grateful I could get anything but the urge to say some gamer words is rising.
kek now I am back in the queue fuck this
>>59169263lucky you i'm still on error 15 for 40 minutes now
never tried buying from a pokemon center (and maybe I can't even do it from my country) but never thought it could be this bad lolit's amazing what a piece of paper can do to people
why don't you fucks just buy the jp version of the greninja set? It's not scalped to hell
>>59169288I have autism and want English cards
>>59169314Guess I'm in a better position since I learned japanese and the language used on the cards is simple enough for me to read.
>>59169042> all the streaming pack openings and similar decreases supply in a way you didn't see inYou made a great point in this. The sealed product will retain a certain price while the single product should drop price according to the printing rates>>59169187A rush for profit is like the other anon is saying with it being a race to the bottom like with the television market and now sony losing everything to tlc
Mail Day!
>>59169325I actually had the shit in my cart and niggerpokejewcenter wouldnt let me checkout and then the site broke and put ke back in the queue
Opened a box of team rocket and a shitmon ate up my sr spot >>59169288It is scalped somewhat Its like 8-10000 yen maybe less if you can catch a good seller
>>59169350well jp here is about half the price of eng so it's a good deal anyway
I got in and i can buy some stuff you guys want any? I'm not buying for myself
>>59169333Checked and Based
>>59169333I really like my bro Dragonite :)
>still buying physical
I need to choke the shit out of a Psyduck pokedoll.
>>59169355Dumbasses like you are the reason japanese cards are im such a bad place right now. Even worse than english.
>>59169442>You are the reason stuff is bad because you want to collect stuff cheaplywhat kind of retarded argument is that?
>>59169442>wtf he is participating in the hobby!?!
>>59168952>page refresh’s to 1 min wait time>must be all sold out now>get in and check etbs>all sold out>check booster boxes>the button is orange>holy shit this is it this is it>site crashes after completing my orderBros I did it, I finally got something.
I'm glad I'm not american and don't have to participate in the pokemon center retardation
>>59169187>how much was printedI saw somewhere that roughly 75 billion have been printed in total, and in 2024 they printed 11b, 10b in 2025. Roughly 2bil cards for each of the 5-6 sets each year. By comparison, each of Base Set, Jungle, and Fossil had 8-10 print runs of 60k booster boxes each, each box has a little under 400 cards - puts the "true vintage" sets at no more than 240m cards printed per set, and Base was split between shadowless, 1st edition, and unlimited.So you're looking at 10x more of the modern sets printed than the most hype original sets. Now the rarest chase cards in modern sets are far more packs per pull than a holo Charizard was in Base set, so they may well have similar starting populations, before figuring in survival to today.All I can take away from this, personally, is that anything but the rarest cards printed today won't hold any meaningful value. Those rarest ones might, but it depends on if demand is driven by "investing" and dries up if the bottom drops out, or if demand is truly "collectors" who pull population out of rotation for long stretches.
>>59169707Even Beanie Babies still has people collecting them today, Pokemon won't crash unless something even worse than the Great Depression happens.
>>59167847How do I find retail priced product in stores that isn't Perfect Order
>>59167966I should have boughteded that fucking chink arcanine 100 dollars ago.
>>59169724remember when all lgs looked like this?I rember
>>59169724Please Trump please ruin the economy. Make it even worse. Please Trump I beg of you.
>>59169895I'm afraid you will keep getting fucked in the ass. Such a shame that we keep letting this happenhttps://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2026/participants-2026
>>59169890I remember pokemon boosters for $3
Did they ever make an actual cute Psyduck card?
>still buying modern
>>59169890lmao it's actually overpriced to shit at the time, I just took that picture last year to show how awful the prices were. funny how one year later everything changed.
ok brosI got me some packs like I said I was gonna do yesterday. I opened one in the car just to see if I got something and I got a hit already...not the one I wanted but it's my first hit since I started buying pokemon cardsprobably won't get anything else from the other 9 packs but wish me luck
>>59167336So this is HP and I got fucked right?
>>59170116That card is straight up damaged and not worth anything
>>59170042I remember getting gym leader challenge and the team rocket boosters from dollar tree (for a dollar). My family was fairly poor so that was my only real source of them.>>59169724Most beanie babies are worth below msrp today. Yes, people still collect them, but that doesn't mean they're valuable outside of ones that came out in low numbers, and before the hype.
didn't get much like I saidbut I guess it wasn't that badthis was the last english poster collection they had at the shop too so I don't know when I can get more
>>59170156Still worth $90 in damaged condition. This one doesn't have a crease so it's not damaged.
>>59170193>worth $90Those horrible indents make it damaged. Good luck finding another retard to buy a damaged card for that price, im sure the guy who sold it to you was grinning ear to ear.
>>59170178dude the zoroark is a $140 SIR, the pull rates for them are around 1 in 86 packs or so you already got lucky
>>59170232I know. I didn't think I was gonna get anything else but well, you never knowI just wanted to get Lillie's Clefairy...
Indents is not damaged you turbo retard. All the other HP copies selling on ebay are over $130 and all have creases.
it was only $20, who cares
>>59170242I've seen people open those entire boxes and only get ex cards, oh man if you're new to this and chasing for a specific card you're in for a rough ride. Just sell or trade it to get what you want.
>>59170042>>59170165Meanwhile in yuropoor the first base booster was 3.5€ and your minimum wage was less than 300€
>>59170323Yeah, I just started last month and I'm aware, anon. Before I decided to get into pokemon cards, I watched a lot of videos of people opening packs and not getting anything. I know how bad rates can beI don't mind buying packs every now and then, my concern is finding them in english and I don't know for how long ascended heroes is gonna be in the shops too
>>59169890
>>59170337probably for another 2-3 months before it disappears like what happened to recently released sets. buy whatever you can right now.
>>59170116>>59170156Lol no. It's a tiny, hard to see indent, maybe 3mm long? MP. If you expect nearly pristine, fucking pay for NM.
>>59170232>>59170178Pikachu EX is the one to hold on to longer term. It'll appreciate more than the rest. Nobody gives a fuck about N or Zoarark.
Mail dayI think the cardass replica looks great
We have Kurts card cum, humidors and cigar boxes, and all forms of scratch repair, and removing full creases from cards. But I have yet to see someone offer their services in removing/healing whitening on the back of a card. That seems like the final frontier of card repair.
>>59170403that's... too soon...I even thought of doing an ascending heroes master set but there's no way I can get all those expensive cards, especially the gengar
>>59170467This must've cost an arm and a leg + two fingers
>eBay sellers cancel multiple orders >3-5 days for the refunds to go throughFUCK EBAY
>>59170749groudon girl kyun kyun
>>59170756that's team rocket, bro
Ascended hero’s or prismatic evolutions. Both ETBs are the same price right now which is crazy.
ANTI GAMBLING PSA13 BOXES OF NINJA SPINNER ONLY TO GET JACK SHIT https://youtube.com/shorts/KcLYJ82un3c
where is the best place to trade sealed items for other sealed items? Trying to avoid having to just sell and take the taxes hit. Do LGS’s do this or not typically.
>>59170824depends on what you wantI think prismatic is more difficult to find so maybe that?
Is this thread for investor chads or manchildren actually collecting cards.
>>59169449Im going to assume you're new to this and dont know any better. I just miss the days of ripping shiny treasure ex boxes for $33 like they were candy. And that was only 1.5 years ago.
>>59170837That's pretty rough>using scissorsI'll never ever understand why people do this
Why the fuck does tcgplayer collect sale taxes. So fucking gay that I’m paying taxes on items that were already taxed by the person selling it. It’s literally no different than buying from a garage sale or marketplace.
>>59171019haha the cat is funny
>investorfags shitting up the thread
ascended heroes to the moon
fuark
>>59171176>buy expensive shit>get shitwhy would anyone risk it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBmWD-4YSc
>>59171176>ProbsteinOy vey
>>59167847People always sell off the big cards and coins for nothing. Those are the best parts. How foolish....
>>59171198>scalper's face every time a Pokemon product sells for MSRP
>>59171297the absolute despair in his voice is so fucking funny to me
Last card show I went to had this lady and her husband selling some AI slop stuff. She was so fucking nice though and it made me wish she was my mother.
>>59171176Buy singles.
>>59170991>newno, I had a break of like 16 years though, half you fags weren't alive when I was collecting.
>>59170477Could you post a closeup of the holo pattern? I have an original one and I'm curious about the noticeable differences
>>59171552Are you me?
>>59171339>AI sloppa merch>Fanart cards>Cryptid CampMan I remember when the seedy underbelly of TCGs was like, cheap stickers that look like the cards.
Sat in some whatnot streams earlier and theres people slinging Indonesian and korean packs now, and people are paying english inflated prices for them. wtf is happening, people paying 10+ for 1 dollar cards on tcg, saw a dude sell a 12 dollar snorlax for 85 cause he said it was from 151. is whatnot just a money glitch for these people?
>>59172059Aggressive sales always worked
whatnot is the only reason i have a collection at all lmao>i WILL enter the giveaway>i WILL NOT bid>i WILL NOT share the live>i WILL NOT tap the screen>i WILL bookmark future streams (to repeat the cycle)
>nigger selling 151 booster bundle for 170>doesn't list that it's in chinkaneseThe power of scalping is too strong
whatnot is great if you want to see people get scammed in real time
what's a whatnot?
>>59172391ebay + twitch funded by logan paul
>>59169724Man I feel bad for today's kids and normalfag parents of today, you can't just waltz into a store and just buy a toy you like because toys are for 30yos now, the ipad roblox brainrot is ultimately cheaper in the long run so you will have to grow up like a complete retard
>>59171577
>>59172423lots of parents are paying scalper prices to buy packs for their kids, they'll be fine
>>59172560I meant the carddass replica
Mail Day.
Shitty borgors, but this is a nice holo effect
Mail dayBought my first Chinese card a masterball Umbreon and it looks like shit The holo is dull as hell As usual the English cards fucked up the holo compared to the Japanese
>>59172832Looks fake
Hows that SAR collection going? Many are saying they are the only modernslop cards worth collecting.
I just bought these on eBay. :)This was me as well:>>59169333>>59169379>>59172832
>>59173272It isn't fake at all, the seller has over 7,500 items sold and a 100% positive rating too. It's a trusted card shop on eBay.
>>59173468>>59173477Based
>>59173477slow news day huh
When the FUCK did these get so expensive?>>59173128>that playmatI know what you are
>>59173477Should have been me
>>59173468I have that V star Deoxys, I love him so much
>>59173128What's wrong with the chinkeon? Aren't they made in the same place the japanese one are?
>>59173850Based
>>59173759Nice I got like 50 of these just laying around, I’ll probably hold for 10 more years tho
>>59173759Looks like something happened last June.
How did Perrin pull this off? I thought she was a literal who.
>>59173947I think it's a Chinese exclusive It's not shiny at all, barely holographic dunno it's just really dull. It was three bucks but I was expecting it to be as shiny as a regular holographic card, kinda lame considering this is their master ball
>>59174000everyone wants a cute girl to look down at them glad i own 4
How does this make you feel?
>>59174230idk, how is it supposed to make me feel? I buy singles from cardmarket
>>59174277This. So many gambling addicts in this hobby.
How would a person go about trading 1 case of evolving skies booster boxes for 10 cases of Prismatic ETBs. Is there an online site that facilities trades like this? I don't live anywhere near a big city where I could find an LGS or person with such inventory.
>>59174230are we in a bubble or is this the new reality of pokemon?
>>59174230Is 10$ the usual price for those blisters?>>59174452It's half of a bubble
new cards arrived
>>59172560I meant the carddass replica>>59173452Errata corrige: only KANTO* SAR are worth collecting
At the rate they are pumping out sets, no ways these are being drawn by humans. Are all modern cards AI?
>>59173452I fucking love SAR trainers. Out of picrel I only have 3 of those however.
Got this two days ago
>>59173272>faking a $2 card
>>59167847guys,whats a reasonable price for this card in decent conditions (ungraded)?
>>59173468i need my weekly deoxys
5BAN GRAPHICS HATE
>>59171198>>59171297https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNUtreybeVE>>59168380This is the only reasonable take in this market. Even if you don't want to sell your cards, it's smarter to just scalp and resell so that you can reinvest to buy what you want.It's toxic, but it makes sense. I'm holding my ETBs at the moment, not with the intent of selling, but if it ever gets to the point where you can buy most of the chase cards in a set by selling one, like has happened with 151, it only makes sense. And if it crashes, I'll rip and be happy that way, regardless of outcome
Holy shit 4chan has been broken for over 12 hours the captcha is fucked todaySorry for the double post Would I be stupid for opening another 151 box? Might as well keep it sealed
>>59174901If i were you i would sell it next month
New Kanto set when????
>>59174998septmeber
