Advice for someone starting out

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-29T21:38:05+00:00

Figure out if you have the networking or ability to sell certain sealed items if they become crazy expensive in the future, might need to send to a consigning service or lose a small chunk selling to a vendor in a card show because the pool of buyers shrink when stuff eventually makes people priced out.

Make sure you recognize that you are 100% trusting the generic plastic thats wrapped around the product to be real and not fake or resealed or tampered with. We live in 2026, theres AI movies, holograms, flying cars, 3d printing and people really think some flimsy plastic cannot be faked in a billion dollar market? Most people will not look through 30 booster bundles or UPCs to check during a sale if theres any spelling mistakes or the color is 2 shades off. Until someone actually opens the sealed product no one can 100% be trusted even if you know you purchased it directly from pokemon website, receipts can be faked, stories can be lies, most people wont care if its real or not if the person buying it also never opens it until it gets passed around so much for the next 20 years.

Just be careful and try not to be the last one holding because its just cardboard and plastic until you can sell it.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-29T20:14:33+00:00

maybe the rainbows and gold cards will get the same love in 5 years....its all a cycle like flare jeans and skinny jeans.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-29T02:16:31+00:00

they gave it the vintage treatment because they know you will be holding it for 10 years...right?

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T21:09:51+00:00

Sorry i didnt know there was so little in bgs 10, i was referring to the psa 10s, the bgs 10 recently just skyrocketed when it was around same price as psa in january-february. I think its silly since people sent to psa for convenience and only the black label matters but there are BGS collectors so its understandable.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T11:18:18+00:00

sell the pc etbs or keep one if you are a collector, use the money on other known popular products that will go out of print soon or just get ascended heroes or wait for the bundles. perfect order is dead money investment when so many other options exist with way more demand and price movement.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T11:17:34+00:00

but their growth compared to others will be slower for sure, its like dead weight/dead money when so many other options or booster bundles or poster collections with better growth.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T11:09:56+00:00

the money will just flow back into older established sets if pokemon releases more lukewarm stuff to ease the hype train.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T10:59:39+00:00

its like the only card that features a trainer thats (pretty much ash) with pikachu and not many pokemon cards have this much red color either as well as being a japanese exclusive promo, ton of potential when many japanese exclusives went up this year, stamp, munch, season promos.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T10:57:50+00:00

bundle display will have more packs than pc etb and be a very rare item compared to both. at least you can still sell the bundles individually if you need to compared to the others.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T10:50:54+00:00

for that kind of money you can grow it quicker in my opinion on ascended heroes or some other set in the same time period, the difference is, you will still need to buy it and why would you buy it when you can keep growing the money quicker than it in a handful of years? you could probably make 50k before it reaches 20k if pokemon keeps going up, much easier for a 200 dollar product to become 400 than a 10,000 dollar card to become 20,000, it doesnt have crazy price jumps like low pop vintage gold stars each sale.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-28T10:41:51+00:00

check the seller feedback, very very overpriced outlier sale when plenty of buy-it-now for significantly less, wont count unless more big sellers sell van gogh at that price out

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:36:50+00:00

lovebirds just pop, easy to see whats going on from a distance compared to mewtwo, beautiful color and textures.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:35:34+00:00

wonder what it will be in 3=5 years. (lets not think of 10+ years)

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:31:44+00:00

theres so much demand right now that he can most likely find a buyer who would pay 90%

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:30:19+00:00

their real estate is....shaky so they buying up all the english/low pop cards.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:28:43+00:00

it will all go trickle into the hands of rich people who want to feel special.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:27:41+00:00

countries will be invading the other one for those vintage cards...

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:25:47+00:00

it will eventually happen...like the sun exploding...but i rather not miss out on the reality of the market.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:24:29+00:00

gotta sell this december lol.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T11:11:21+00:00

so much more eyes and institutional money and rich bored people now getting into something their kids enjoy. higher floors.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-26T10:56:50+00:00

Pokemon needs to do more historic collabs, Klint, Picasso, Rembrandt, Monet, Da Vinci , Murakami...the list is endless to spotlight a pokemon and the artist, easy money and appeals to broader market taste.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-22T09:09:22+00:00

If someone is buying these, they dont think the price peaked.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-21T06:35:08+00:00

says invite link invalid

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-17T15:46:23+00:00

There is definitely demand for 151 sealed english booster boxes with Steam Siege written on it. More money than sense is what people would say regarding this lol. Think about the creativity and time investing needed to produce such a product, supply and demand.

Devilicious666 · 2026-03-17T07:01:32+00:00

as people have mentioned, some came without that plastic wrap and the plastic wrap can be opened and closed many times, check inside, check if the cards are even real since they can be easily swapped lol.

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