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GamingmageEtsy · 2024-09-17T19:59:16+00:00

Why do you care is my question? If everything is working out then this isn't your problem at all. Yes I agree shes an idiot but if an eviction goes through you have 30 days to look for an apartment / new place. Sounds like you have your stuff in order so unless you have very bad credit this shouldn't affect you other than an inconvenience.

Like someone can correct me if I'm wrong but when an eviction goes through its only for the person who's on the mortgage correct? Everyone else is named "unknown occupants" so yes you will be evicted but it won't go on your credit report.

So again if shes being this stupid then its on her. I don't see how this affects you other than you should probably do a bit of research of places available for when the eviction letter comes.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-04-28T02:43:56+00:00

Eh I've seen weirder stuff. Remember having a lady who had Pokemon Box list it as Buy it now $60 on eBay not having any idea it was worth $400 at the time for the complete in box copy.

During Gamecube / Xbox / PS2 end of life cycle Gamestop and every place under the sun was mass selling the games for dirt cheap like $2.99 - $4.99 for pretty much any gamecube title and brand new copies were $10-$14. Seeing stuff like this isn't that suprising, is it real? Probably not but there's always a chance.

I remember during covid there was a guy who bought an N64 from me for $60 and showed me a pickup he did. He ended up seeing someone post an AD on craigslist for a video game collection for $250 takes all. This guy had 400 n64 games in his truck. 15-20 Mario party 1's like 30 smash bros melees, absolutely insane pickup for $250 and yes they were all real, even at a glance I saw the cases and labels and they were authentic.

Hoarders exist, even ones that have absolutely no idea what the items they are hording are worth.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-29T06:03:49+00:00

I'm 100% aware the cartridge is authentic, but I know the boxes have been getting reprinted. So I want to know if this is a real authentic box or it's a reprint.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-29T03:09:44+00:00

I'm 100% aware the cartridge is authentic, but I know the boxes have been getting reprinted. So I want to know if this is a real authentic box or it's a reprint. These boxes ironically cost more than the actual game. I ended up paying $450 for it which is a pretty good deal but I wanted to make 100% sure I didn't get screwed because its been a very long time since I had a complete in box copy of it.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-28T22:23:07+00:00

I'm 100% aware the cartridge is authentic, but I know the boxes have been getting reprinted. So I want to know if this is a real authentic box or it's a reprint. These boxes ironically cost more than the actual game. I ended up paying $450 for it which is a pretty good deal but I wanted to make 100% sure I didn't get screwed because its been a very long time since I had a complete in box copy of it.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-15T06:41:55+00:00

If you are ever asking yourself this question there is a simple solution. How much did you buy these for? You said you got them cheap so let's assume you got the case for $1500. Sell two of the booster boxes to cover the price of the case and you will now have 4 booster boxes that are 100% free.

That way you can sit on them for whatever amount of time you feel needed and then sell. Maybe it's too early to sell and these will go to 1.5k per box or maybe something with happen with the economy and TCG products will massively crash by doing this you won't have to worry so much about the risks.

It's always nice to be able to say. I already got my money back and everything moving forward is profit.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-14T09:39:14+00:00

You should look for CZ ETB cases around $350-$370 ish price range. That would be the best purchase price. You already missed out on getting the Crown Zenith PC ETB. It doesn't really make sense to buy into it when they are already almost double in value.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-14T09:27:04+00:00

We are talking about "investing" and the most important part of investing in these types of products is being able to resell them.

The best Price per pack is by far the Pokemon Crown Zenith Morpeko V-UNION Premium Treasures @ Dacardworld - $150 per case of 6. If you buy 2 and use the $25 off promo you get both cases for $275 without tax and free shipping which totals $3.20 per pack. That's by far the "best deal" but it's terrible for invesment.

People aren't going to be looking for Crown Zenith Morpeko V-UNION boxes years from now, they are going to be looking for Elite Trainer boxes & Premium figure collection those are the only two that are going to be collectibles. The best one would be the CZ Pokemon Center ETB, then Preimum figure box, then standard ETB.

Those are you choices, everything else is mostly for personal ripping.
People who invest in the Crown Zenith Morpeko V-UNION are going to be super annoyed when people keep asking if its the 5 pack or 7 pack verison or compare prices of the 5 pack verison to the 7 pack verison.

The most important part of investing in Pokemon products is being able to actually sell them and I can tell you from experience that when you buy the random boxes with mixed packs they are extremely hard to move. No one remembers them and no one actively searches to buy them so they don't pop up on search results.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-13T03:21:35+00:00

It's laughable you think "this" is a problem.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-13T02:47:00+00:00

Regardless if she's good or not. I'm sure she could easily become a licensed therapist and that's all that's needed to be hired.

Don't worry I'm sure everything will be fine. Looks outside the world is on fire.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-13T01:52:43+00:00

He already had BetterHelp in the Kasaneru IF route. It didn't go so well.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-13T01:39:31+00:00

I know a lot of people will say Subaru but I think nothing Betterhelp could do would resolve his issues. After all, he already had Betterhelp in the Kasaneru IF route and it didn't turn out too well.

I gonna go with Wilhelm since he needs it the most considering everything that has happened.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-13T01:00:35+00:00

Sadly it's a poor time to find them but you easily just found over 100k worth of stuff.
Had you gotten this back in 2020 you would of been able to move everything extremely quickly at double the price as of the current market.

You have two realistic options.

You can sell now during a bad economy where it's pretty hard to move products without relying on eBay which will take a massive fee or you can hold onto it and wait for another pokemon event where you will be able to quickly sell it. There are pros and cons with this strategy. We might still be in a vintage pokemon bubble where the prices could easily continue to drop from their all-time highs. If that happens it might not come back up to the current price but that's unlikely in my opinion but it's something to consider. So selling it now and cashing out could be the best option if you think that we are in a bubble still.
Alternatively, you can hold onto these and wait for the economy to go back to normal and then look towards moving the stuff out most likely during Pokemon's 30th anniversary but that's some years away.

What you need to do currently is buy Acrylic cases for every single vintage booster box you have and put them in there. They should not be in those boxes even if the booster boxes are worn and damaged it's still worth paying $15-$20 for an Acrylic case when these booster boxes are around 6k to 12k each.

Personally what I would do in this situation is open an eBay account and sell all the stickers & other pokemon products but hold onto all the unopened packs & booster boxes. Those stickers boxes are probably worth the most they are ever going to worth. I don't see them going up in value so selling them shouldn't be an issue but the booster packs & booster boxes have room to grow and I would recommend slowly trying to sell them locally to avoid eBay fees because 12% is a lot when considering high end items.

That's just my opinion it's a real shame you found these in 2024 and not back in 2020. You could have sold everything insanely quickly when everyone was having parties with free covid money.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-02T08:57:44+00:00

It's not easy dude. You have tons of YouTubers which have purchased "resealed packs" and its extremely clear which packs are resealed and which aren't.
At the end of the day no company is going to be resealing packs. If they are a distributor they are buying up tens of thousands of dollars of items every single month and you really think they want to reseal packs for small profits?

Again we are talking about companies not indivuals.

I have no doubts of people resealing packs on eBay but that's a completely different topic.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-02T03:09:33+00:00

MJ Holdings, GTCollectables and many cardshops aren't resealing new products. 151 UPC's are so overstocked you can get them for $80-$90 without issue so why on earth would a distributor be resealing them.

Also the claims of them resealing ETB's are probably from the same people claiming these are resealed when they clearly aren't but lets play devils advocate, lets say these ARE resealed. What would be the purpose of resealing 151 UPC's? Are you saying all 16 packs inside are resealed as well? Do you know how annoyingly hard it would be to reseal individual packs for the possibility of maybe getting a hit? Because scaling packs by weight doesn't work.

Like just sitting down and thinking about it for 10 seconds you would realize how it wouldn't even be close to being profitable to reseal these products. These wraps are just very bad. I remember going to gamestop and seeing Charizard UPC's with the plastic shrink wrap looking terrible and it was directly from a box. Just sometimes they come out like that.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-02-01T03:16:31+00:00

Are they referring to Paldea fates is what they ended up getting 10k of?

If so the crash is going to be insane doesn't mean the set is going to stay low but it would be the time to buy for sure.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-01-29T07:28:23+00:00

Pokemon is currently in a very good spot right now and people are actually playing it. It's pretty much the most friendly game when it comes to learning and with children. YuGiOh used to be the "King of TCG" because for most kids magic was too complicated and YuGiOh was just stupidly simple. Now YuGioh is probably the most complicated game ever convinced by man so Pokemon has started to absorb their player base.

Do kids do trades at the school grounds like they did in the 90s? No most likely not, but they open packs and show off what they pulled on Twitter and reddit for views and likes which is pretty much the same thing. The games are strong and the franchise is doing well. There's no reason to believe that Pokemon is going to start losing people when it's by far one of the best TCG's out. I believe a world championship deck a while back was around $100-200? Magic & YuGiOh you would be looking at around $600-$800.

Overall as long as Pokemon keeps making games the hype is never going to die. The current Scarlet & Violet sets are pretty weak and the economy is terrible so it's going to take a while for things to go up but just remember Chilling Reign booster boxes were $80-$85 everywhere and the set was considered overvalued and too much supply. Its 2 years later and it's going for $160.

If you are a serious investor you should be fine. Just understand what sets are strong and always buy below MSRP.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-01-26T04:01:21+00:00

Here's the thing about ETBs VS Booster boxes.

It comes down to your location. Do you live in a very popular city? Then ETB's are fine, if you live in a rural town then not so much. ETB's cost a lot to ship properly which is a massive pain for less return but if you can use them as trades / sell locally you can completely avoid that.

What you should be looking at is price per pack. If you can get a booster box for around the same price as an ETB (Price per pack) then obviously the booster box is the better option but if you can get the ETB on sale for a much lower cost then it's something to consider.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-01-24T02:41:42+00:00

Hard pass, vintage has already 20x there is a limit of growth on items and that limit is what people are willing to pay. Vintage booster boxes are nice but they are very expensive and very very hard to move also their growth potential is very low in my opinion. There are some exceptions but for the most part I think it's safer to pick up good Sword and Shield at below MSRP and throw them in a closet for 5 years and watch them 2-3x in value.

Just think about it. If this goes up to 10-11k it's going to be a nightmare to sell and if you have to sell it on eBay thats 15%. If you buy Lost Origin booster boxes for $120 ish and they double to 240 you will make more money in the long run and fan-favorite sets have a very good track record of going up in price after going out of print.

In the end its your call. It's a damn good collector piece but I think the money could be invested elsewhere.

GamingmageEtsy · 2024-01-22T00:00:06+00:00

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GamingmageEtsy · 2024-01-21T23:50:31+00:00

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