Cocoa Storm EditionPrevious Thread: >>59399866FAQ: https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca
>>59409011>8Trash
>eyebrows disappear behind glassesThis fag’s card is not even worth $2 let alone $150
>>59409060All modern cards are extremely overvalued.
>>59409011great edition
>still grading cards
>still habitualposting
>still buying modern
>>59409011I will spam now two fake boxes i got. You guys should easily see why they're fake and if you don't i won't say anything
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>>59408588This is the best mew and most of the hypecattle don't even know it exists.
>buying "sealed" from resellers I don't even need to look at the pics
>>59409502Uhh, thats not the Lilly pad or Corocoro Mew though?
>>59409507Had gotten my refund all good. And got to learn the guy is a chink as well as all the neat fake parts
>>59409502doesn't even clear ancient, let alone coro or legend maker
Which Trainer classes are you hoping get cards in the future? For me, it's her and Gen 3 hex Maniac.
>>59409441I really can't tell. The only red flag to me is >>59409454 where it looks like lip has been peeled off and then glued back down.I have 2 Japanese Terastal Festival boxes like this myself and even directly comparing them i can't tell.
Some cards from the binder under my childhood bed lol
>>59409631Since it was always sealed I couldn't check if you're also right about that though looking at the lip it looked acceptable
>>59409784Si senor... me llamo Saul... me gusta el Pokemon si si... nice investment I will be rich... nice items for Hispanic flea market siii...
china parcel came hoping i can get the ponyta card
>>59409636awesome i love e series and advance
it's over bros I sold a lot of my collection for big money and am playing other tcgs now... namely OPTCG and GA... I didn't like my pokemon locals scene for a while now...
>>59409918>actually playing Pokemon
>>59409931yeah bro most of my hits were from entry packs and supporting my locals with 1 bb per set back in the day. plus the pokemon play packs. but prereleases are kinda cancer now and I just fell out of it because the people attending just want that $but like why even collect if you don't like playing
Chaos Rising pulls Remembered why I don't buy packs
When the shipping tracker says "arriving today" but the last location was seen on another continent in June....
>>59409784So that's who keeps buying those Umbreon plushes I see at Walmart.
Post real cards. This one is the only lore accurate team plasma pokemon card
Card on eBay with a PSA 10 market value around $150. Auction with no bids at the time and accepting offers so I sent $125 offer. Didn’t acknowledge it and let it expire. Ass hole. I Just won the auction for $85. What a retard.
>>59410220He won't send it
>>59410224We shall see. He has 98% positive feedback with 8400 items sold.
>>59409931Do... people not play what they collect? I have IRs and SIRs in my deck when they fit the meta. What do (you) people even do? Looking at your shiny cardboard in the binder gets boring after the 5th time doing it. Hoarding and gambling can't be the only reason to be into pokemon cards lmao...
>>59410204The only Plasma card I got my hands on was the Darkrai one back when it was worthless 2 years ago. Now it feels like Gen 5 has the most expensive cards
>>59410272People now are glazing the tag team cards, but gen 5 plasma cards are the real sleeper hit
>still buying physical
>>59410300>poocketDead game
>>59410300Digital in the only solution
>>59409441Looks ok to me broski
>>59410367And that's why there's a huge market with fake stuff
>>59410329Just randomly have PokeCenters say they're out of stock. I'm pretty sure they actually do that already
>>59410463They could sell exclusively through Pokémon center and stop giving stuff to Walmart, jewstop, and people pretending to own LGS’s
>>59410243gamblers don't want to hear that they're addicts
>>59410408I wouldn't know. I've never bought any
Am glad the Espeon and Umbreon cards from the 30th anniversary sets aren't regular pulls. Can just buy the 2 box sets, rip the packs and move on to the next thing
>>59410619I guess I like the Leafeon and Sylveon. Whatever this hat mechanic was, it looks ugly and retarded and stupid and gay. Needing 3 different energies seems unplayable but I havent played the game in 25 years so I dont know.
https://www.pkmnbindr.com/Anyone else use this website?
bought an expensive Black Bolt/White Flare box today and got one of the chases
>>59410648it's called the chandelier head mechanic. I coined the term myself
>>59410731You got watchog?
>>59410648Flareon was the only really playable one.
Speaking of Chinkino, it was mailday
>>59410651I dont really care about organizing binders. I order mine by time of acquisition so they become a timeline I can look back on.
Decent card show today. Guy had the Jirachi in the middle for $35 but he ended up doing $20 for it. It's MP but has a nice swirl on it.
>>59410957I certainly hope that wasn't 10 dollars for an amazing rare Jirachi.
This fucking card has no business being $50 when the Lillie SR is only $25.>>59411004It goes for $10 now yes. I bought it months ago for $5 though.
>>59411027bellybutton tax.
>>59411004Rarity doesnt always translate to price.
>>59411027No one is buying it for $50, lil bro. Also Abyss Eye is the latest jp set so the supply is limited right now, you would be retarded to buy right now. The price will naturally go down once more packs are opened and the new toy hype dies down
>>59410731Let me guess.The Zekrom and Reshiram ex caught your eye?
Mail day :I like it more than THAT card
Guy wanted $200 for this. It was relatively clean but fucking hell. I thought Japan hated blacks?
>>59411112Yes, but Japan loves blondes so it balances out.
Well, it arrived earlier than expected.
Can this market even crash? I'm sure that hording sealed product might but I imagine if the price of 10+ year old singles drop, people will buy them up speculating another resurgence in the future thus keeping the market afloat.I suspect the number of people will drop once the hype dies down but I cant imagine there will be a massive sell off until millennials are in their 70s and desperately trying to scrounge up some kind of retirement money when the pension system collapses.
>>59410185>when ebay says 'delivered' but theres nothing in your mailbox and it doesnt show up until the next day
>>59411173hrmm yes product content content product sealed consume the markets it's so over market newfag words dump pump chart line go up its so over speculate finance product guys i'm quiting the hobby guys sealed hobby product consume product market sealed market
>>594111732 more weeks
>>59411191This is an actually an important question because it asks how long this scalper market and overpriced cards are going to last, which I believe is going to be a long time. Sorry you're too retarded to comprehend that looking at the market directly effects your enjoyment of this hobby.
>>59411200uhh no i don't think so, mr. newfag. Associating pokémon cards like finance will always be deeply embarrassing
>>59411205*cards with finance
>>59411205Enjoy your overpriced cards then, its not going to get cheaper anytime soon. I know these are ESL hours but, Jesus, develop some reading comprehension.
>>59411088Im no newnigger. I dont have a whole lot of BBWF cards so I figured what the hell. I played BW when they first came out and Hydreigon is my favorite Pokemon. i dont have to prove anything to you poorfag losers posting obscure jap vintage cards
>>59411200Until the end of the 30th anniversary, like last time the bubble popped during the 25th anniversary with Logan Paul buying Pikachu Illustrator.Probably another influencer/celebrity doing expensive and in retrospect totally overrated bullshit. related to Pokemon cards.In the next month you should sell your collection, take profit and rebuy gradually before 2031.
>THE dragon type of gen 3you can get one of his best cards for like 5 bucksI will never understand the reseller market
>>59411214I buy cheap. You'll just continue to cry esl and not much else.
>>59411142Beysd
Do people grade their cards to make the kid's hobby look more serious business?
>>59411256That Cuthulu Omanyte is one of my favorite cards ever.
>>59411215I was only asking, jeez. Especially since I quite like Zekrom ex
>>59411266newfags are so scared of their cards that they have to keep them in a plastic prison
Speaking of plastic prisons, just bought one of these
>>59411266They get brainwashed by Youtubers into thinking that every pack fresh card will automatically become a 10 and multiply its value by 10fold, while in reality the $100k black labels sales you see nowadays for modernslop are all coordinated fake sales between investors to pump their own bags.
>>59411173It’s already starting to crash. I’m down a few thousand dollars this week
>>59411315oh my bad. I bought the Zekrom SIR and Jellicent SIR at the card shop. then I got the big box, which I pulled black Zekrom, Zorua and Alomomola from. I wish Ferrothorn had gotten an SIR.
my pulls from the gem pack 4 boosters, these cards feel really nice and have way better holos than english, the boosters are quite cool too you get 4 cards in each and theyre all reverse holos, there are some nice stamped ones too >>59409819
>>59411223based theres thousands of cheap nice old cards that people dont want to collect for some reason. good for me though
You ever miss out on buying a card when you could and now that it's kinda out of reach you really really want it and hate yourself? It just climbed too much, it's too expensive to be sensible now... I'm an idiot for not getting one when they were like 100
4th of July and you losers are on 4chan talking about Pokémon. Lmao. Losers.
>>59412231What makes you assume I'm an US lard
>>59412158I always liked the normal version more. Don't get the appeal of staring at Lugia's ass
>>594122314/7 is for normies. Real men celebrate on 6/7
>>59411411I keep mine in plastic(sleeves, not slabs) so they dont get damaged
>>59411217>5 bucks>card has stretch marks like some used up hoe
>>59412363>being purposefully obtuse
>>59411955Reverse holos use to look so good wtf happened?
>>59411955love nishida art>>59412231>t. self loathing burger
Thoughts on this nigga
>>59412710Cute, I own 3 copies of her
>>59412710I don't collect fairy cards, the pink they chose is a typical gauche modern blunder
>>59412710only good card shibuzoh has ever drawn
>>59412826weezing, pikachu, porygon, marill and sableye are good
>>59412826Why does that sound like a slur a jew would use?
>>59412933Because you've spent too much time getting groomed by 4chin
>>59413072Cool
>>59413072Looks like some rick and morty dubbernaut stuff. So epic sauce.
>>59413114>I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PAL, MORTY!>I'M PALWORLD RICK!
Paid $15 for these, did I get fucked? Bottom has a swirl but I was seeing all the holos going for atleast $10 each.
>>59413174How did you fit the sleeve in there?
Finally bought this fuckass Marill. Guy was firm at $40 but the lowest HP listing was $50 so I'm not mad at it.
>>59413229perfect fits, aka card scrapers
>>59413242nice swirl in the middle too
Didn't realize how much I would like this card before buying it. Karen is so mommy coded.
>>59413197I would say worth
>>59413280I always wondered if this was supposed to underwater.
>>59413332Female FA supporters are never a mistake
>>59413397I always thought so, it is aquapolis after all
>>59413405RIP steelix
>>59413408Rustix is new Ground/Poison type
Next up
>>59413174So you will actually sleeve cards. However...>Tornadus>look it up>$30 cardYou have some really weird priorities.
>>59413114>>59413175>zoomers
>>59413072It really does look like an American "adult" cartoon made in flash or whatever program they all use.
>>59413492post your uncollection then scrub
Total lizard death
Fucking love these bad boys. I saw a Prism Star Victini yesterday I wish I picked up.
Reminder that the language you choose for your cards is very important for the pureness and elegance of your collection.
>>59413603Based
>>59413492I'm a 36 year old zoomer, morty!
>>59413705I got you my nigga
>>59413705arr rook the same
>>59413705Gotta give credit to the Italians, that C placement around the bellybutton must have been carefully planned
>>59413824Based moor/hue coomer
>>59413705>>59413824Updated for future shitposting
>>59413271love this card so much. PEAK aesthetic
>>59414106It's only expensive bc normalfags love psyduck
Fuck me I wish I bought these. Guy sold the pair for $1500.
>>59412158I have the opposite problem. I sold my Crystal Ho-Oh during covid and now it just way too expensive to ever get back.. I was on the fence about it too back then
>>59413332I think it's stupid she's doing a martial arts pose since she's not a martial artist.
Ahhhhhhhhh my Chinese pikachu cards are dumping hard. I’m financially ruined if these don’t recover.
post the last card you sold
>>59414399How am I supposed to post something I no longer have? Anyways, it was a Moonbreon. I don't even like the Pokemon that much, much less for the 1.9k I sold it for.
>>59413705>modern>elegancegoodness gracious there's no helping some of you
>>59413705China won bigly
>>59414362Told you to invest in Indonesian Pikachus
USPS has informed me that my cards have arrived in a distribution center in the same state, same CITY as they were last seen in 8 days ago.
Volume of manga I sold for $200 last year has multiple solds at $700 this year. I'm sick to my fucking stomach.
>>59414416>he doesn't keep pics of every card he's ever hadngmiAlso, you could just use pkmncards.com or bulbapedia or something to post the card. It's not like anyone's asking you to prove it's really yours.
>>59414795Which
> some e-series cards getting reprinted in celebrationsso fucking hyped hopefully those packs dont wind up being like 100 a piece
>>59414810Sold for $400 on Mercari yesterday which I'm fine with but holy fuck. The top one is best offer so who knows how much it sold for.
>>59414819I wonder how much the singles will be.
>>59414399I had a few of these from cheap mandarake cubes
>>59414821wtf
Saw this beauty yesterday. I think I prefer her other SAR more.
>>59414821How?
>>59414864>>59414924last volume of an out of print series. The weird thing is it sold twice 6 months ago for $200. And this was earlier this year.
Can we please stop talking about a fucking manga.
>>59414932Weird fomo
>>59413866>all the alphabets lettering censored the belly button
>>59414934no
>>59414982Should have made the font smaller to only use two lines
>>59414998waifuturds are a scourge on tcc
>>59414399It was EXC conditions and the price was fair, so no regrets.
>>59414998Shit like you should not have access to a keyboard to write what your empty brain believes it has inside
>>59415017>sold a manga too early and wants to bitch about it in the POKEMON TRADING CARD COLLECTOR'S GENERAL
>>59415016>magnet cases a $30 Tornadus>leaves this unsleevedBro, what are you doing?
>>59415071Y!
>>59415042It was sleeved and toploaded.But I unsleeved it to take the pictures for the sale listing.
>>59414269That riri raw is almost 2k now. Glad I pulled her a while ago. Still need the acerola
>>59414922Both are great imo. This one has her legs.
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>>59415071It took them long enough to do a xerneas AR to accompany this. I hope Kyogre is soon.
>>59415107that's a weird looking pokemon.
>>59415153It's a manga
>>59415156
Worth anything?
>Prices somehow tripled since i bought themSometimes lucky i guess
Someone is unironically going to get killed over this 30th anniversary set. It's probably going to happen
I just placed 17 orders of cards
>>59415486When are pre-orders up?
>>59415486how about ironically killed. That would be even worse.
>>59409060>what's refraction
>>59415213Only the most degenerate furfag would like this card, so try selling it on /vp/
>>59415625same issues on the tech board /g/
>>59415213these SIRs that only present the pokemon with no interesting background are so boring
For any yuropoor don't use the belgian website catawiki. The website is not terminating seller accounts that don't send you shit or sell you fake shit
>>59415486Probably a brown on brown crime. People that shouldn’t even be buying Pokemon in the first place.
Since the janny is cool with us talking about whatever the fuck you want, doesn't have to be Pokemon or even card related, here are 2 of my Kancolle cards I got when I played the arcade game years ago.They were limited illustrations and now that the game doesn't print cards anymore they will be worth MILLIONS in a decade or so.
Iowa's Iowas.....
>>59416971Awooga
Disgusting grown woman fetish.
>>59416995Agreed. Real men collect Tylers
>>59416995Is this better?
Hey, I haven’t bought a card in a year and a half, and I checked my little card tracker app on a whim, and it turns out my collection is worth like 180% what it was when I last looked. And apparently in the last 3-6 months, a bunch of cards I own have doubled in value. What the fuck is going on and why are we having some sort of inexplicable second Covid-style boom? I want to buy some new 1st edition Neos, but everything’s suddenly ungodly expensive. Pic slightly related.
>>59417010>Tyler1 has his own cardWhat a world we live in.
>>59417023Maybe the 30th anniversary brought more people in.
>>59417024There's a whole bunch of them. He churned out like at least 1 every year back when i followed him
>>59417025>>59417023This is genuinely wild though. I bought a 1st Ed Shining Mewtwo to celebrate a promotion 3 years ago, and it’s regularly selling for 5.5x what I paid for it. My nostalgiab8 trading cards are massively “outperforming” my actual investments. Shit doesn’t make a lick of sense.
This is the next Charizard.
>>59417049They're making cards now?
>>59417052
W card
>>59417049For me it's the single-shot rifle
>>594170561500 damage sounds like a lot
>>59417049Reminds me off One piece cards for some reasonIn a good way though
>>59417053That foiling is just as cheap as the game looks.
>>59417070It looks the same as shatterfoil rares from yugioh. Chillet's texture looks like an ultimate rare but without turning the entire card into a silver mess.
>>59417072>It looks the same as shatterfoil rares from yugiohYeah, and its cheap shit that only kids think is anything special.
>>59417074Who the fuck do you think TCGs are marketed towards, genius.
>>59417077At the prices they've been marketing the products at recently, definitely not for kids.
>>59417084Parents will pay for the kids.
>>59417074Fits right in with the other trading card games then
>>59417087>>59417088I know you guys are just feigning ignorance and pretending to be retarded but kids dont play tcgs and arent the biggest market for them anymore either.
>>59417093He's a kid at heart. Look at that cute little smile.
What is going on? Why is this card selling for seven times more than it did half a year ago? What happened in January?Kicking myself for not buying that gimmicky lenticular deoxys
>>59417023Mine just dipped below 100kSELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL
>>59417124No no no no noBut I will never sell, because I love my cards.Pic related: meme graded card
>>59417132I forgot the meme grading company card
>>59414348The set that card comes from is called Matchless Fighter or Peerless Fighter so the artist sorta went that way randomly.But yeah, I rather have her do the vs sprite pose from HG/SS
>>59409011Do you fags even like trading cards or do you just use it as an "investment vessel"?
>>59417134Speaking of meme cards, did anyone exploit the D-list grading card company boom back during the pandemic? You could get reliable NM cards for a fraction of a raw “””near mint””” (no doubt covered in holofoil scratches), all because the card is encased in some no-name “slab.” I wish I bought more of these. The initial plan was to crack them open for a Neo binder, but I’m missing too many cards to do it.
>>59417142show some prices
>>59417142I still do this with cgc 8-9s it's great
>>59417141I got into the cards back in 2015 or so because I happened to notice a local shop was selling vintage card “packs” (repacked wotc stuff) for a dollar a piece. On a whim, thinking it would all be trash, I bought like ten, and inexplicably one had a base charizard in it (others had, like, fossil dragonite, base Mewtwo, etc.). I went back and bought all the rest, and when I asked the owner why he was selling them this way, he said they weren’t worth the space in the glass display. Anyway, that’s how I got back in, and ever since, I’ll buy a handful of cards for a hit of nostalgia whenever I feel like it. I’m almost entirely driven by sentiment.I do wish I “invested” more thoroughly, though, as repulsive as trading card investing is. It’s insane that some of my cards are worth 5x what they were back in January. Pic related: my dollar Charizard
>>59417160hell yeah. Not as good as that but i got a few mid era reverses and holos from dollar packs at markets around 2018
>>59417141I love Pokemon cards...
>>59417201Cool entei and espeon
>>59412812The xy fairy type and dragon Type looked better, darker. They need to bring g fairy back though, psychic doesn't look good on tbem
>>59413072Mom holy fuck energy
DR will be seen as an underrated set one day
No m*dern set will be considered underrated ever.
>>59417235>said some 20 year old when X/Y era cards were about to become collectible
>>59417241XY isn't collectable. Now be gone *nail flicks you*
Why are vintagefags so bitter? Jealousy?
>>59417285Every era has expensive cards, you goon
>>59417294That card sucks ass and I own that card.
>>59417302Why don't you sell or trade it then? It's not a cheap card
>>59417294>*eda
>>59417235>>59417302Based
>>59417208I wanted to fill a binder up with Johto Pokemon so I've been buying up all these cheap Gen 2 era ones I could find.
>>59417290I collect vint, mid and mod and modernfags are by far the most cynical of the three
>>59417302Then give it away to kids or sell it to those who passionate about it.But you won't, because its valuable and that is enough for you to keep it safe and tucked away despite the hate.
>>59417226>one of the most expensive S/V sealed set>underrated
>>59417303>>59417459Because I worked hard back then to collect all of the full art cards. I value the struggle more than the card itself, I guess. Looking at my collection now, the XY era is the one I appreciate the least.
>>59417473>worked hard to collect shit you don't wantMust have it for the sake of it syndrome
>>59417473you're stupid
XY era has the best cards and the first special illustrations, people (including myself) are just mad they didn't care in 2015 and now a lot of those cards are out of reach.
>>59417531Arita really carried the xy s&m eras on his back eh?
>>59417531funny because Secret Rare arts are much easier to get that time because a set only has 1 or two of them, meaning a very high chance of getting a specific secret rare every two boxes. i got almost every XY secret rare except Shaymin EX and the Steam Siege ones.
>>59417123I forgot that this card had a holo back. Thats so cool.
>>59414191It's not even a Psyduck card
New cards came in. I just wanted the Masaki's PC but it had to come as a set.
>>59417531*laughs in tons of xy secret rares*
>>59415284I bought that Suicune from the Pawn Stars shop as a souvenir when I was in Vegas for work. Think I spent like $300 on it. This was maybe three or four years ago, and now it’s selling for $3000. Insane
>>59409502Corocoro HikaruMyuu is objectively the best Mee
>>59411142Based vendingchad. Maybe the all-time best sets. I miss the days no one knew or cared about these and you could buy them up for like $2 each. I should have completed the set five years ago. How much does the caterpie go for now?
>>59411205Bad yuka morii collector
>>59411415I haven’t paid attention too much modern for about two years, so I completely missed there was a Coffee Boss card. Instant buy for me, thanks Anon.
>>59418016Sorry, that should read “based” not “bad”
You all have set up your Amazon auto buys for the 30th Anniversary stuff, right?
>>59418444Yes but not on my own amazon account since I won't pay for prime. I setup autobuy on my mom's account and had to make my credit card the default payment method for it, and my mom has already bought stuff without realizing she's charging me.
>>59418444no, I'll probably buy a few singles if there's any good cards.
>>59418444No need. Both my parents showed me love and affection to not need to resort to such subhuman behavoir.
>>59410131>gray bordered cardsWhy did they pick such an awful color like gray, really?Honest to god a black border would have been significantly better if they wanted to go with a different color scheme instead of yellow. It just doesn't contrast well in any way.
>>59418536Everyone knows grey is the most exciting color
>>59418536I'll take it over piss yellow
>>59418605>piss yellowLiterally just an ordinary, saturated yellow. A colour strongly associated with the franchise’s mascot (and logo) for 30 years. Far better than cheugy, soillennial, neutral grey. BOR-ING
Is there one (1) reason not to crack this open and schlapp it into my base binder right this second? It’s a 7 and it’s graded by a second-rate grading company. I have no intention of reselling, but even if I did, surely the illustrious CGC-7 is not any sort of “value add” right? A cleanish “near mint” almost certainly sells more than a MEME-7, yes?So I ask again, is there a SINGLE reason to keep him entombed?
>>59418617Free my boy
>>59418610Yellow looks better on regular cards because of the better contrast with the pastel color frame of the card for all types (except maybe normal and steel), but it looks bad on most illustration rares
Baby Pokemon cards are pricey
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hIdP8MMWULY
>>59418605Okay retard, the yellow frame is important because it sets an emotional expectation for the person viewing the cards. Take all your shit ass full arts and stick them way up your butthole if you think the Grey border is anything other than a massive srerile looking downgrade
>>59418617If you really love looking through your binder and showing it off, yeah definitely.But if not then its better off secured and safe in that slab.
the reason why cards changed to gray borders is to match it from the Japanese designs. there's no really deep meaning to it!
I will give my entire collection to any femanon who takes my virginity, any takers?
>>59418940What’s in your collection? I’ll send my wife over if you’ve got anything good
>>59418755What do ye mean?
need Jirachi gf
New>>59419049>>59419049
>>59418953Pichu, Wynaut, Bonsly etc
>>59418934And it was a retarded decision when they changed it then as it is now
