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Houndoom poster is absolutely autistic

>>58105628
LMAO two different people sorry. I posted >>58105624

I swear Houndoom is now my least favorite Pokemon because of you faggots

>>58105718
this place ruined houndoom prime for me entirely, anytime I see him out in the wild I hear him say "still buying modern".........

How about Raichu posters?

Houndoom chads we won

Friendly reminder the actual reality of the market.
Anything beyond S&M era is fucked. Everything Before S&M era is very rare compared to the 2020-25 market.
rarest sets from before 2020 are gen 4-5. S&M is the least rare sets from pre 2020. Any real long term investability in pokemon is pre 2020 cards. S&M sets, though some being snoozers like ultra prism and crimson invasion, are going to be the cheapest to obtain. XY sets are undervalued compared to tag team sets due to the pop reports. so if you can get XY go for it. especially flashfire. if you can afford tag team sets for 10k booster boxes, i suggest going for older gen sets like gens 4-5 being that generation is far more rare than S&M. if you can afford 20k booster boxes, you should be going for gens 1-3.
this is the real long term investable market. everything else is just zoomers living on the modern era prayer, and they aint even half way there.

i just like sparkly cards

>>58105931
Wow that's very interesting.
NOT.

im just trying to collect nice cards and make beautiful and interesting pages in my binder trying my best not to buy cards at the top :(

Almost have all the Druddigon cards now

Came in the mail today!

Good news everyone,

The Pokémon Company International has had it with distributors.

They are no longer providing them with product, there all the companies they provide product to are no longer getting product either.

Big box like Costco and Sam's Club will be favored. Places like Wal-Mart usually get it from distro, so they wont be getting much either.

All of the resellers, rip & shippers, all these poketubers charging 3x msrp are getting what they deserve for anti-consumer business practices.

All of these guys who made their bag, felt like they are rich guys are no gonna be poors. Theyve been cut off.

The consumers and collectors win again fuck boys.

Lol at all the people who quit their jobs to sell fucking pokemon cards, stupid assholes.

>>58106566
large if correct

>>58106566
based and checked so true

>>58106566
just send them to Amazon and let god sort all that shit out

>>58106566
none of that is true, is it, anon?

>>58106566
I was thinking about this the other day. It all comes down to distros actively manipulating the market. But would TPCI control their own warehouses? I just dont think its feasible. TPCI would have to sue all their distros, but then no one would work with TPCI. Idk what they can really do here. I mean maybe they can straight up buy out distros like they did with printing facilities, but the same people will work at these places idk....

Someone gave this extra with a purchase, i like it is there one for Raikou, and Suicune ??? want to know what to look for

>>58106748
Mint condition

>>58107085
Yeah, they're paradox mons, that's Gouging Fire
Raging Bolt and Walking Wake are the other two

>>58107114
Thanks just picked them up glad they weren't stupid expensive

New to vintage, what's shadowless meant?

>>58105931
Nigger

>>58107175
The internal yellow frame that contains the artwork doesn't have the shadow on the right side

>>58105931
everyone point and laugh at the retard

>>58107285
Cope

>Be at post office
>Decide to check card vending machine first time
>Its all Japanese, no English
>Obsidian flames charizard booster
>Prismatic evolutions booster
>One piece
>Dragonball Z
>The reverse side of 'mystery' pokemon singles
I turned 180 degrees and walked away

>>58107401
Why would they sell Japanese cards in an English country?

>>58107449
I dunno this is Australia. I was getting Woolworths groceries online & out of curiosity searched 'Pokemon', they had like 10 different Japanese booster boxes for sale.
No english cards online or in store which is complete bullshit, guess people kept stealing them or calling up and they didn't wanna deal with it

>>58107449
>>58107480
Some ETB's too very strange

>>58107227
Is that good or bad?

>>58107782
It means their print quality wasn't up to standard so they recalibrated the next lot. But they weren't about to waste good quality cards so put it on the market thinking 'eh, nobody will know the difference'
People 20 years later noticed the difference because of grading-fags nit picking inconsequential details.

There were supposedly fewer of them printed thus making them rarer thus making them more expensive, as pricey as 1st editions.

The lighting "shading" on the card is slightly different and only an autist would care

why do people seem to universally think this is one of the best looking SV cards? such a huge pile of fiery mess all over the card

What are you retards up to. Thread seems slow for how hot the market has been

>>58106103
Good for you, bro.

How do you put cards in a binder without damaging them? Every time I'm nervous the plastic is going to scuff the edges

>>58107964
What's up with Team Rocket catching all the legendary birds? Is that in the manga or something?

>>58108116
Ripping through my 20 B&W ETBs. Already got the new zekrom + a Victini from the White flare set

>>58105724
Stop giving him attention

>>58108322
It's the plot of Pokemon Special, yes.

>>58108341
No meme frog or Zoroark IR. Still feels like i got incredibly lucky overall

Mail day

I hate the amount of fomo this hobby brings. I want a moonbreon but its freaking 1000 for an unrated one and I can just look at the chart and the price seems to be just going up and up and im scared me in 6 months will be sad with no umbreon and its price up at 1.5k

I wish this card had regular Raichu kicking Alolan Raichi's ass instead

heads up, buy any english psa 10 diamond and pearl or ex era holo/reverse under $1000. thank me later.

>>58108738
>Inferior Raichu beating superior
Not gonna happen

>>58108596
Based Nipponese vstars

>>58108750
Just bought 100 of them

>>58108630
You should be thankful the hobby itself is preventing you from wasting 1000$ on a shitty moonbreon

Oh hi!

my dream Pokemon card room :3

>>58109448
>>58109452
>>58109455
The absolute state of the average japanese collector.
Can you believe these guys, everytime they post lizardon they call it "charizard" i fucking kek, its like read the goddam card idiot. It says fucking lizardon, if you love japanese so much how come none of you idiots can even read it?
Fake ass stans, phony & fakes, 38 in a karate class? Poker please.

nocards sperging again over muh japanese names. tcgplayer and other sites say the english name next to the japanese ones and psa does the same. also who cares. i care about the art.

>>58109508
>Retarded reseller site that doesnt have japanese listings doesnt use japanese names.
Imagine my shock

>>58109508
Download a jpg and print it on canvas, oh you wont. Cuz its not just about the art you liar.

dont tell me what to call my cards or why i collect them nocards.

>still posting Psyduck

Nocards lost.

I was thinking of selling my Dark Charmeleon gold stamped W still in the original plastic packaging but upon closer inspection it's joever

>>58109676
I literally have the most cards

>>58109127
Greetings

>>58109755
So than why are you being so strange and rude? Post cards and stop telling us how to enjoy the tcg. Calm down anon.

That'll be $500

>>58109805
Pay half a thousand for this mass-produced ugly full art trainer with silver borders and shitty holo effect
>No thanks I'd rather get a complete Jungle set for that price
What you mean vintage? don't you want the SIR SAR EX GX Mega?
>I'll pass
Your loss. Those originals are going down in price, just look at the chart for this Hilda!
>No.
>walks away
"JUMBOS, GET YOUR JUMBOS!"

I exclusively collect modern Kanto in Japanese and I only use penny sleeves

>>58110065
Toploaders are like 13 bucks for 100 on amazon

>>58110136
Toploader binders are huge and heavy and the page spreads look worse when the cards are so far apart, and texture is less visible the more layers of plastic you stack on each other

>>58109805
BBWF would have been a perfect set if they just put a Rosa SAR in there.

>>58110192
You don't need a binder with toploaders. Or so I've heard.

Freaking trainer cards. Baseball cards are for people who want pictures of people. REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>58110233
But I want a binder. Do you store all your toploaders in a box against each other?

My collection's theme is super secret, no one has ever thought of this idea before, as soon as I complete it I will post it on Reddit and everyone will want to chase this collection as well, youtubers will make videos about me, vaultX will make binders with my name engraved on them, and my super secret cards will skyrocket in value, just you see.

Fucking love full art trainer cards, they look awesome.

any language besides english and japanese is meh

who else gooning to rattle's new vid here?

i only goon to pokerev ;o

I just don't get why TCPi thinks selling 10 cards per pack instead of 5 is a good idea. Don't they realize people will buy more if things are cheaper? The profit they get per pack is the same

>>58110738
Gotta bloat the packs with double the bulk so people will spend more money to have the same or lower chance for a hit. Retard will gladly pay 2-3x MSRP from scalpers anyway.

>>58110719
He's literally me

>>58110793
Don't they canonically eat Magikarp sushi in Pokemon? I remember seeing a sushi display of them in the SS Anne episode

>>58110584
Yeah. Is that bad?

>>58111487
Not from a storing pov, just seems impractical to look at your collection from time to time. Also don't toploaders scratch each other like this? The card inside is fine but it's another layer of (scratched) plastic over your card's atrwork and texture.

>>58111509
NTA but I did have my top loaders in a box for a long time. I decided to buy a toploader binder since indeed they were all scratched up

pic rel is what I bought.

>>58110708
Why do you hate freedom, commie?

>>58111615
Pokemon cards are 35pt
Your magnetic cases will be too tight.

>>58111729
fixed the order and thank you anon

>>58106673
Rudy confirmed it, and he himself has good standing with Pokemon distro for at the very least 10 years
He also confirmed the MTG favoring amazon over distros as well before it became well known too

>>58111615

Those ones suck. Get pro-mold 35 pt

>>58109490
>f you love japanese so much how come none of you idiots can even read it?
you buy pokemon cards to read the names?
interesting, I buy them to look at art

>>58111744
Pro-mold are ugly. It looks awful to have a full size sleeve inside of the magnetic case. The internal proportions are off because of the top part of a regular sleeve are longer than the card. Pro mold is only for people afraid of the decisiveness required to use a perfect fit sleeve.

>>58111779
I'd rather have ugly pro-mold than a shitty cheap looking top loader

If I buy this card am I dumb? Be honest.

>>58111833
>$2500 for an untextured chink AR during the maximum fake pump phase
What do you think

>>58111840
so I should buy 3?

>>58111851
NTA but you should buy 10 actually

>>58111833
depends how based your accepted offer is

>>58111833
:O

>>58110767
the four agreements. some of you motherfuckers need to read this.

>>58111932
Nobody needs to read it.

>>58111944
you are right. you need exercise.

>>58111920
>bald
>baseball cap
>beard
>into nerd culture
Man I hate this phenotype.

Hot take, i actually want everyone to continue to make money and have non stop profits in pokemon card collecting. go out and buy that booster box for 2x msrp. go buy that 3k moonbreon. you only live life once. go spend your money. because i already know the market is cooked and you cant save them all from their inevitable doom.

I keep all my cards in double luxury super pro vault 1337 pennysleeves and super hard gorilla dinosaur dragon strength acrylic toploaders. Then I encase them in 1 meter wide 1 meter tall acrylic cubes stored in an airconditioned room that has 3 top of the line 1000$ dust removing air purifiers running at all times because I'm not a poorfag.

>>58111787
One touch magnetic cases look better than a pro-mold, which look better than a top loader.

>>58112051
You're so right anon, what was I thinking? Taking care of cards?
Rip em up, piss on em, shit on em, draw on em
Don't matter just treat them like shit

>>58109127
The most soulless man alive shows up in the /tcc/ general!

Should I rip this DR booster bundle right now?

>>58112074
All magnetic cases that have the magnet visible look awful and look very cheap, ugly imo
Though I'm not a fan of the graphic design, at least the Charizard pc holder has something covering the magnet

>>58112107
no, you should burn it actually. every set post Paldean fates has been dogshit, though the scalpers/investors will disagree, the fact is that Scarlet Violet overall is a mediocre era that was front loaded with the cool cards and ideas

>>58112122
nocards sperging again

>>58112145
I only buy based cards

>>58105624
>>58105778
>>58106259
>>58108116
>>58108532
>>58108546
>>58108596
>>58109408
>>58109686
>>58111689
Based Cards Posters

>>58111779
Pro Mold doesn't have a visible logo on it so it wins by default for me.

>>58111740
>Rudy confirmed it
Where?

>>58112201
>Pro Mold doesn't have a visible logo on it so it wins by default for me
Who cares about logo when it has a visible magnet?
Looks cheap, like Aliexpress or Temu shit

>>58112211
on a video from 2 weeks ago

>>58112219
>magnetic cases have magnets

lol toploaders and penny sleeves. you guys are not on my level. ziploc chads we won.

>>58112211
https://youtu.be/IsseTxh6A2c?t=639
Go to 10:40
https://youtu.be/3LGipv1PedI?t=482
Here at 8 minutes

>>58112238
it.looks.bad.and.cheap
stick to toploaders, if you're going to use a case, might as well just grade it

Hello collectorsissies do you have your pikachu yet?

Finally took the ching pill.

>>58112564
>buying chinese/japanese/korean versions of faggot normie cards
scumbag

>>58112634
Why are you so upset?

>>58112673
You're an npc, buy normie tier cards in another language
You could've gotten which ever cards you wanted, but you wanted rayquaza and sylveon?
You're a faggot

Are first edition cards anything worthwhile? I found a bunch but they're all common cards

>>58112703
only the holos
regular first ed commons(in good condition) are like 1-5 dollars each, though on occasion can be like 10-20 dollars each
blaines quiz first ed for example is like 10 raw and probably 50-100 in psa 10
basically you'd need to search every single one of them on tcgplayer to see what you have

Gen wun fag seething at gen 3 GODS

>>58112713
I kinda figured that. Thanks for the insight. I doubt I have any kind of treasure here. I mostly thought it was interesting that I have these at all.

>>58112714
Ex era was unironically the best era of pokemon cards
Best pokemon selection, best art, best holos, best stamps, best promos
God tier era

>>58111833
I too have taken the ccp pill.
I bought my first Chinese card, the pikachu gengar card. Found a reputable seller on eBay who was cool with $1,750. Tell me why I’m dumb.

>>58112885
Wow what a useless character

>>58112425
What's with that ugly stamp in the middle?

Wish the sub would do something about the nocards trolls.

>>58112944
>the sub

>>58112925
Nocards sperging again

>>58112219
The magnet looks better than PSA "2 minutes in paint" labels

I bought my first metazoo box today guys.. It was only $85 AUD but should i just quit while I'm ahead? think i'll open it so I'm not tempted to dig a $1,500 hole getting each set

Don't want them to resell/flip just want to have fun breaking a cheap box & looking at artworks. It's wilderness

>>58112564
Based and chinkpilled, while Engl*shfags pay 4x for a worse texture

>>58113159
not in the slightest
but even if that was the case, so what?
looking better than psa isn't a big accomplishment anyway and you shouldn't use that as a standard to begin with

>>58112696
>You can't collect these cards because I say they are too mainstream and we don't like mainstream things on 4chan! Oh, but if you buy them it must be in the mainstream language because it has the highest market value
I tried to flesh out exactly how retarded you sound

>>58113187
>I wanted this card but because it's too expensive I settled for a cheaper version in a language I don't read and have no real attachment to because it's not my true card of choice
This is how retarded you sound

>>58113219
>I wanted this card but because it's too expensive in the "market-approved" language (that is not even the original language) I got a better deal in a language I don't care to read, but it has the same artwork and a better texture for 1/4th of the price.
I can go on all day
>B-but you must read the-
No.

Flavor text is nice but it aint worth it.
I only want the cards i grew up with in English and that's not many, just 151 from jungle etc.

Don't even remember if they had 1st ed stamps neither do my bros, they were thrown out by mum so no way of ever knowing. It's honestly a good thing since unlimited is 1/3 of the cost

>>58113341
This is a hobby, a luxury, not a necessity
Why would you settle for something you don't truly want?
It makes no sense for a hobby.
It would be one thing if you needed something for school or work but you couldn't afford so you got something as consolation instead, but this is for cardboard.
At this point, why even buy the card?

Pēnhuǒlóng card

>>58113494
>You must want the cards I tell you, and in the language I tell you, for the reasons I decided for you
I'll tell you a secret: I'm not from an English speaking country, so your beloved language, that is apparently essential to enjoy a card, is actually 4th on my priority list. I do have English cards in my collection, but I'd rather have the Japanese versions.

All the scalping and reselling and such is so vile.

Just pulled, neat card

>>58113720
I was going to try being a scummy scalper but I can't help myself from ripping so I guess I'm just a collector now

>>58113754
uhhhuhh! plapras!!!

>>58113936
Where's the Rowlet?

>>58113936
The small silver tumor on Egg's neck between PERTUMBUHAN and MERUPAKAN of course

>>58113936
taekwondo is such a beatiful language

>eBay burgerchu order gets cancelled
>check seller's feedback
>his seller percentage is getting raped hard
Shouldn't have jumped the gun, kek

I'm so fucking sick of waiting for reprints, bros.

>>58114322
What cards are you looking for?

>>58114202
>buying burgerchu on ebay instead of from a trusted vendor of japanese products

>reported the third seller of a fake pikachu+gengar in a week
They even post the photos of their obvious fakes, and yet people pay 1800€ for them
>>58114322
I'm sick of retards blindly buying anything without any self control and without any basic knowledge about what a fucking pokemon card should even look like.

>>58114333
Like what? Amiami? It's not on there

I'll be in Tokyo at the end of october, is there any juicy jap-only promotion in that period? Should I bring a knife/gun?

>>58114389
trusted vendor means any online seller website that is reputable and consistently has no real issues
Hell even the basic ones like sakura, lucky, or cats are reputable, their only problem is they have slow as hell shipping times and every in their community is gay or trans

>>58114678
I never heard of those

I've got to stop buying packs. Too many cards I don't fucking care about.

>>58114828
Sell them at a card show.

Normalfags are going crazy for the bubble mew which is one of the most meh artworks of the modern era. Meanwhile the best modern mew artwork is a fucking 10$ AR from Vstar universe.

>>58114840
Could probably just sell them on eBay in a $10 bundle honestly. I'd rather just give away all the Pokemon cards I don't give a shit about to kids or something.

>>58114202
its been 6 days and mine hasnt been sent yet, debating with myself if I should just ask to cancel that shit or what

>Sorry guys the markets crashing, because of reprints. You are not rich like me. Sorry poors you lost.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh help!!!!

>>58115301
>Tomorrow: POKEMON CARD PRICES KEEP RISING I TOLD YOU

I RABBU RABBU RABBU RIRRIE!!!!

>>58115301
He has to stand in line at costco now to get product. His distro got cut off from the pokemon company therefore he cant get anything from distro.
Reprints will precent him from offloading a lot at a profit for the moment.

>>58115552
Woody Allen

Keep pumping this card faggots. I traded for it and kind of regretted it but if it hits $100 soon I'll be happy.

>>58115552
Based rirrie bro

Any discords links here? Preferably ones that also allow other tcg's.

>>58113975
Exeggutor ate him

Is Ethan's Adventure the only fullart card with Pichu?

Burgerchu $50 minimum by the end of the week trust the plan

>>58114852
Bubble Mew is an Alternative art work to Mew ex from 151, no shit everyone wants it. Also its in the Chinese 151 set.

Bubble Mew sucks dick.

>>58111986
a fool and their money.
>>58111740
Rudy's a faggot so it doesn't matter, he's no different than that pokerev faggot or that frosted caribou slut.

>>58114678
>every in their community is gay or trans
that's literally every hobby that isn't manly or outdoors.

>>58116384
>he's no different than that pokerev
explain?
Rudy doesn't scam with shitty mystery packs and all his sales are at market, so how is the same?
>frosted caribou
she doesn't even sell product

>>58115191
>>58114202
you deserve to be ripped off for being a retard and giving in to fomo.
>>58114366
that's like 90% of the hobby now. if it's not scalpoids, it's retards buying stuff out to try to beat them. if it's not those retards, it's the ones who are buying into whatever hyped card a guy on x with an NFT avatar is trying to hype up.

>>58116397
NTA but women don't belong in this hobby, they need to go back to the kitchen.

>>58116401
You're a stupid faggot. There is no fomo, it's a promo card and people like the way it looks, that simple.
That's literally how the hobby is supposed to work, you buy cards you want.
If they paid a shit ton of money sure, but the mcdonalds pack cost is like $20 including shipping, and for 2 promos?
Sounds good to me

>>58116408
there is fomo, you vantablack nigger. people wouldn't be buying from shitty ebay sellers if there wasn't so much.

>>58116411
That's not what fomo means retard, that's just people being cheap and not doing due diligence
That's like saying because someone saw a booster box priced at $100 and bought it only for it to scam, that's fomo
The only people who got their orders cancelled are people who bought from untrustworthy/new sellers
No one else had a problem getting it for a good price
Learn what words mean dipshit

>>58115766
discord is for pedophiles.

>>58115766
No.

>>58116404
>>58116419
baste

>>58112425
just got one tonight in spanish
anyone know how much I can sell it for? I'm not into this lil fatso

God I hate 151 faggots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AfWkKGudmc

>>58116397
Commiebou went after King Gary because money is le bad.

>>58116533
based
pokemon is about liking the cards, not scamming other people

The entire purpose of being a Pokemon YouTuber is to extract as much money out of ypur audience as possible. They all do it, even if some arent so blatant.

They could set their YouTube settings to be unmonetized, but they would never.
There's always a link or discount code, theres always a like follow subscribe business model. Theres always an affiliate or friend who rips & ships, an ebay store, a web store, something.

Theres always something, even the biggest virtue signaling phonies like rattle is just doing it for money. He refuses to get a real job like the rest of them and wants to get paid to talk about pokemon or dis people. For him he gets alot of scammers which is good but on a slow week he'll go after innocent people, wont give all information, and he'll do harm to people for the fuck of it if he sees fit because the clicks and views.

Everyone just needs to stop watching pokemon youtubers and tell these clowns to get jobs

>>58116246
>Its a mew
>Its a SIR
>Rattata, Bellsprout, Diglett, and Poliwag cameos
>Its in China's 151 set
I think its kino

>>58116523
Buy an ad

>>58117212
>chyna
I am vomit

>>58117204
this but also stop thinking and talking about them

>>58117212
>Its in China's 151 set
Qrd? I thought china 151 didn't even have the regular SAR but only the overpriced 4 Pikachu AR?

>>58117204
I wouldn't even know of their existence without this thread. Must be a zoomer thing

>>58117557
How can you be a collector if you don't watch YouTube videos every day telling you what to collect?

Everyone rightfully says jap texture > eng texture, but in the XY era it was the exact opposite. What happened?

Do Latios and Latias... You know...

Last call for the moon, in 3 days it'll break 1k€ and in 2 weeks it will be the new moonbreon. Trust me I have insider info. Don't be that guy who wished he could buy at 500€ when he had the chance. Be smart.

>>58117204
>making money doing something you love is bad
you're so stupid
with the exception of the investors and people like pokerev, poketubers are opening packs regardless whether paid or not, so why would it make a difference if they were going to open packs anyway?

>>58118469
>youtubers
>capable of love/human emotion

>>58118498
not every youtuber is leonhart/pokerev/unlistedleaf/etc.
you know that right?
or are you like those boomers who think pokemon is demonic too?

ENGLISH SISTERS DON'T LOOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDjYiAk8RY

>>58118607
By the time anyone is making enough money to live on from youtube they've sold their soul. If that makes me 2025 equivalent of satanic panic boomer I can live with that

>>58118469
Very few poketubers open packs to show off the pulls and actually talk about their collections.
The other 95% are trend/algorithm chasers opening packs like machine guns without even knowing the names of the pokemon, money chasers with their big green $ numbers, wannabe stock investors with their daily wisdom pills about the "slept on" shit, scammers trying to shill their mystery boxes, and people who leech content from all the above, commenting reddit posts about the terrible state of the hobby like an echo chamber.

>>58118739
based but this is the unfortunate outcomes of a social media brain dead society watching influencers

>>58118641
b-but muh market price and resell value...

>>58118739
>Very few poketubers open packs to show off the pulls and actually talk about their collections.
That's because it would be like 2 videos. What are they going to post for the remaining 353 days of the year?

>>58118739
>Very few poketubers open packs to show off the pulls and actually talk about their collections.
That would take literally 1 video
>without even knowing the names of the pokemon
Yeah and children also open packs without knowing the names of every pokemon either, are children grifters too?

At the end of the day, you're only talking about investors but grouping pack opening in for some reason

>>58118971
>Yeah and children also open packs without knowing the names of every pokemon either, are children grifters too?
Children don't make youtube videos about their box openings, it's mostly teens to adults, and the number of videos in which you see those people enjoy opening packs is very low.

My friend is planning to take a bunch of retarded bulk slabs of non-holo cards to a card show and try to trade them to vendors.

Do vendors take shit like that usually?

>>58118055
That art sucks. The jap movie deck promos are pure sex

>>58116413
I just bought it again at the same price from someone else

>>58119232
he will get laughed at by every vendor.

>>58119232
Vendors only want highly liquid cards.
They dont want junk slabs either.
They will only want tens of easily sellable cards in demand.
They may take nines of extremely desirable cards.
And the vendor will offer 60-80% of value, even on a trade despite getting more inventory broken down into more liquid items instead one large big ticket.
Trades only benefit the trader of they bought super cheap.
The biggest hack is also be a vendor, cash only, then once you sell a ton of junk go buy stuff you like

>>58119454
I've even seen vendors refuse IRs of whatever set is in abundance at the convention.
I went to a convention during the blooming water boom.
Every vendor was selling 151 IRs
It was in such abundance that vendors refused trade on 151.
Basically vendors arent vendors.
Imagine them more as collectors or investors who are extremely picky.
I always fuck with them a bit and tell them I only buy at 80% market value

>buy all PSA 10s of a particular card on video
>rip them all, leaving my PSA 10 left
Would the card increase in value? It would theoretically be the only PSA 10, thus worth more.

>>58118469
PokeTubers refuse to contribute meaningfully to society.
Going online and begging for money is the same functional contribution to society as a guy begging on the street.
Theyre literally unemployed bums who want to make money off ripping people off with mystery packs or selling lies and fomo for clicks and views.
They have no pensions, benefits, they all have their priorities in a fucking mess.
Danny phantomp doesn't even have a ceiling in his basement, beo rather buy pokemon cards

>>58118129
I honestly believe bubble mew will go to $1,200
People love 151 and chinese 151.

>>58119494
You are literally talking about the top 20% as if that's 100%
Are you retarded or just a woman?

>>58116533
she has generic and dumbass woman opinions while also catering to faggot simps and being given support from RPC.

>scrolling down youtube shorts
>see a livestream of some pillhead looking foid opening packs of cards in the back of a car.
>some numale cuck is driving her to an LGS
>apparently her son was taken away by CPS and the state.
>apparently she lives in a hotel.
>gets money from simp audience.
>blows it on bubble mew.
>still living in a hotel room.

why is so much of the hobby so dumb and trashy?

>>58120210
GAMBLING.
ADDICTION.

>>58120210
>>58120386
Addiction to drugs too. Sad. She’s gonna trade a chase card for some meth or pills.

>>58120136
poketubers with the biggest mouths against collectors and investors also talk out the side of the their mouths on how valuable their collection is. id take what she says with a grain of salt. though i can agree with her that the modern market is too expensive, she has had some hair brain takes that the vintage market should be cheaper while taking jabs at King Gary because he is the easy target for "le greediest man in pokemon".

>>58120210
Jesus has already told us everything we need to know about money and greed.

>>58120504
i had a cousin that use to live on one of those commie farm compounds in california. nobody likes to be poor, and you will find through the fantasy of marxists that their idea of life just isnt good enough. most the time people just heed the warning and go to work to make something of themselves. there is nothing wrong with money. or you are going to end up like my cousin, 45 years old childless balding man with nothing of value because all you need is love dude.

>Stop in my local newsagents
>Rebel fucking Clash packs in 2025
How odd

>>58120998
Neat

Hello /tcc/eddit, I'm a 35yo man and I want to start collecting, I was thinking of collecting 151 to relive my childhood. Is this a good time to start ocllecting? Where do I start?

>>58121016
You're not going to have much luck with finding 151 packs at retail, I've seen a few pop up recently but it's rare. You could certainly buy singles, maybe if there's some specific Pokemon you like you could collect specific cards for them for example instead of just sticking to 151. Websites like Pokecollector have a good list of cards to look at, so see what you like.
>Is this a good time to start ocllecting?
I don't think there's been a good time to start since Covid.
>Where do I start?
Have a look at the FAQ in the OP. Get yourself some decent protective sleeves and a binder for your good cards, you don't need to sleeve commons unless you want to display them in the binder. When buying cards a good ballpark for value is to check recently sold listings on eBay. Make sure you look carefully at cards you buy, look up how to identify fakes (shouldn't be a big problem buying from professional sellers but worth it if you're ever looking on things like Facebook Marketplace).

>>58121015
Ninetales can shapeshift?

>>58121052
Apparently.

lmao

Can someone buy me this?

>>58121058
I hate if I will miss out on it going up to 2k or something silly but it's hard to justify buying a 2024 card that doesnt even look anything special for 500+

>>58121090
post adress and ill send them to you

>>58121090
Sent :)

>>58121110
Prismatic umbreon is a 2025 card worth 800 just because of the moonbreon pumping.
Chink gengar pikachu came out yesterday and it's 2k.
It's just mindless hype + people tying to exploit it for money + buyers regretting having already paid that high. Anything still in print is a scam.

>>58118971
Kids have an excuse for their ignorance, which is that they're literally too young and still inexperienced, adults on the other hand don't.

>>58121163
yeah probably, prismatic umbreon is one I kind of still am thinking to buy in japanese since its a card thats actually kinda cool

>>58121126
123 fake street

>>58120540
Okay boomer tell me how the Epstein files are fake too while you’re at it and tell everyone how amazing Vintage is too

>>58119183
That's grim.

>>58121090
How good do you look in a skirt?

Now that the sandstorm has subsided was it worth the hype?

>>58113857
Based

>>58121090
These aren't even expensive, certainly not enough to beg in every single thread.

Buy your Umbreons yet?

>>58121658
I will get the moonbreon when it inevitably crashes to 200 dollars in a PSA 10.

$1,215,000…

>>58121658
>aquapolis umbreon
Hey i have that in pristine condition somewhere

>>58121741
My friend has a lot of them in pristine condition.

>>58121658
Got you covered bro

Do you have a point where a card needs to go to PSA for grading? just sent the XYPromo's and RC's off because the thought of them getting damaged in my binder was freaking me out.

>>58121295
There's hundreds of sellers on ebay and other sites selling it for 25$ and undercutting each other by cents. Once the first wave of brainless cattle has done their fomo purchase, it will drop to 10-15$ tops

>>58121896
>getting damaged in my binder
Do you have sex with your binder?

>>58121921
I wouldn't spend this much money on something i'm not having sex with.

Every time I spend 50-100$ for a single I feel guilty, then I remember people spend 100-200$ for a box and most of the time they don't even pull a SIR.

>>58118905
Surge is based though, unlike all the literal who loli trainers people collect

>>58122265
I posted surge. i like the card too. when I post like that it's not to troll the card.

Trainers with their Pokemon are kino cards

>>58122498
yes

Ready to rip some packs?

first pack only has 3 cards but I pulled a holo dedenne nice

second had no holos but I got a typhlosion, venusaur and dialga

meh shoes better

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>>58123499
What even are these things?

I ruv you Rirrie

I ruv you Hirda

>>58121056
This Pokemon card was so fucking based

>>58121725
How much was the torchic

>>58124024
$1200000

>>58124034
Link? That’s so weird, I remember them going for 40K for a PSA10

I have a deck of old untouched cards in a tin that’s sealed away in a safe up in my attic. What are the chances that the cards are good enough to send to psa for a 10? Or should I invest in a microscope and investigate before sending them in?

>>58124048
no the complete psa 10 gold star set sold for $1,215,000. idk why that anon trolled you.

>local TCG shop doesn't even want free donations
It's so over...

>>58124015
That's Touko you're talking about

How the fuck has Japan not gotten this card yet? Yes I missed the boat on it but it's literally inspired by Japanese art and you're telling me they're not getting it?

Are trade ups a thing or YouTube clickbait? Is it possible for me to trade up from a card that costs $1? Please respond

>>58112425
I actually just went 5-0 at my League with Joltik Box

>>58124418
fuck off beggar

>>58124418
Nah it's a thing for kids to do and it's not fun anymore because it's so popular because of YouTube

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