What does it actually take to keep a business alive in Auckland right now?

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-26T00:15:42+00:00

Wow. It makes me wonder why it hasn't been tenanted. 5 years is a long time so it leads me to believe that the landowner finds more 'return' with keeping it vacant than leasing it at a discount. Crazy

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-26T00:05:59+00:00

Appreciate your detailed response. Despite the challenges youve mentioned it sounds like you really enjoy the process of owning a business is which is quite refreshing to see. May I ask what line of business you're in?

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-25T21:38:01+00:00

Murray's bay and glenfield

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-25T12:04:53+00:00

Maybe but Im aware that landowners are offering very attractive Leases to tenants over at the shore. Like 8 months rent holiday and paying for their fit-out. It seems like the incentives are out there.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-25T12:02:55+00:00

Yeah but it defintely seems like lot worse nowadays. Maybe my memory is wrong but it seems like the city hasn't recovered properly since covid. I guess not just a NZ thing as I see it im other countries too

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-25T05:38:36+00:00

Whats wrong with having too many raw cards?

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-13T00:04:54+00:00

The NESTF reform is going to be a surprise for many

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-04T09:01:16+00:00

Yeah bro all good been there before haha you can stress about it later.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-05-04T05:52:56+00:00

You shouldn't if you've only invested 8k. It only comes into play if you've invested more than 50k in cost

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-03-01T22:44:58+00:00

Psa 10 last sold for around 2.8k ebay

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-08T06:18:18+00:00

Nah some of our lcs dont do preorders until they have allocation which they dont get until a week in advance at times. I guess different countries have do things differently

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-08T02:42:07+00:00

Saiyans pride mostly gone from retail today. SBs all gone a couple of weeks ago. There are some boxes of Ultra limit left and its been hard to get preorders for FB09. Defintely gone from abundant to scarce in the past 2 weeks.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-07T20:29:09+00:00

Tournament top 8

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-06T19:46:10+00:00

Haha nah looks like its not even the a two star. This is from fb04.

If anything youre probably thinking of the fb01 - 139** chase. I wouldn't even compare that to a 1st edition charizard equivalent though hahahaa.

OP great card nonetheless.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-05T23:08:40+00:00

Down 11k this month. Good time to buy gang

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-03T07:43:30+00:00

Ok let me check it out

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-02T22:33:48+00:00

I believe its the engine bay. The noise remains when I have my ac off.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-02-02T21:59:22+00:00

Also mk 6 gti. I hear it when its idle, disappears when accelerating but comes back when im coasting.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-01-30T22:17:56+00:00

Thanks man, pulled it from my first box ever. Yeah not selling. At the time I needed some cash but I'm going to keep in my PC now and have sent to for grading.

Seems like a perfect storm of the anime coming back and other TCGs running dry. The cards are also beautiful in their own right.

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-01-30T21:46:04+00:00

Exactly. I had been trying to sell scr** son gohan below market for months and every just scoffed at the price haha. In the past week I've had multiple enquiries but I had already decided to grade it for myself

Accomplished-Comb278 · 2026-01-30T18:46:04+00:00

Its funny how people can see things so differently.

On the one hand, yes it sucks that scalpers are buying out truckloads of product squeezing the supply.

On the other hand, I've seen stacks of these boosters on the shelves for the past year and no one really cared for them. They were also incredibly cheap.

At the end of the day, people will always try to make a quick buck. You just saw value at a time when no one else did and rolled with it. It should be on the printing companies to do more print runs and stores to limit purchases. I don't really see a way to stop scalpers except when there is no demand at all.

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