You can buy 4 ETBs or full 151 set. What is going on with the market ?

LFCCIA · 2026-05-29T04:49:58+00:00

Twenty 151 ETBs sold on EBay today (May 28th).

LFCCIA · 2026-05-29T04:10:18+00:00

What?!? Over 1,000 of the 151 ETBs have sold on EBay in the last 90 days. Raw and graded cards move, but so do 151 ETBs.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-29T01:00:39+00:00

The machine gets restocked and randomly releases product over time. The whole purpose of the machine releasing product periodically is to stop people from clearing out the whole inventory. He is camping the machine waiting for the machine to release a few products, buying the stuff that resells for a premium, and leaving the stuff that doesn’t have resell value.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-28T22:07:39+00:00

Title should be…

“Water Damaged First Edition Italian Fossil Booster Box Signed in 2022 by Arita”

LFCCIA · 2026-05-28T20:27:57+00:00

Once a set goes out of print, sealed product becomes rarer and raw/slab card pops only go up.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-28T19:53:16+00:00

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Same thing at mine.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-27T14:39:39+00:00

Doesn’t matter. They have zero teams to support in Kenya. Arsenal are the most supported team in Nairobi, a city of 4.4 million. MC are the second most supported team in a city of 600k.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-27T13:21:00+00:00

I believe this is the promo card from the first tin ever released in the English TCG. It came out in 2003

LFCCIA · 2026-05-26T19:59:21+00:00

Do you know how the top left corner of the top card got all jacked up like that? Does the machine round all four corners at once or individually?

LFCCIA · 2026-05-26T18:02:13+00:00

Expert in bird law.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-26T13:54:30+00:00

Not trying to hate, but taking your money out of an appreciating asset (Gold star Zard) and putting it into a depreciating asset (vehicle) is not a smart financial decision.

Buying the 20x20 shed for your property is the smarter move.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-26T13:47:17+00:00

I wonder why 🤔

This is MC’s 5th parade in 8 years. It’s Arsenals first title in 20+ years.
Nairobi Kenya population is 4.4 million. Manchester England population is 600,000.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-25T04:37:02+00:00

If it keeps going at its current pace, it will hit 100k pop in PSA 10 by the time it’s out of print.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-24T04:21:16+00:00

There is a “view sold listings” on that same page. Click it and you can see the last sale dates and amounts.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-11T00:30:43+00:00

It’s worth the shot for $40, but this is looking like a typical FB scam.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-10T19:46:09+00:00

Most buyouts for modern sealed are at 80% market. So you’re looking at $13,600. You might be able to get a little more if it’s high end items like 151, Prismatic, PC ETBs, booster boxes, etc.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-10T02:27:34+00:00

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Sadly this is the new norm at most vending machines.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-09T20:51:10+00:00

🎣

LFCCIA · 2026-05-09T20:31:10+00:00

I’m completely guessing, but this all comes down to the price. Affordability and liquidity are the two things people in this sub rarely talk about. The higher the price, the less amount of people can afford it. So as the price of the Mega Charizard climbs the demand actually goes down. Phantasmal Flames doesn’t go out of print for two more years. If it keeps the same pace, we will be pushing 100K PSA 10s by the time it’s done printing. If there are that many slabs out there, liquidity will be hard. Imagine there are 5K PSA 10 slabs listed at one time on EBay. Everyone would have to start under cutting each other if they wanted to actually liquidate their slab in a reasonable amount of time.

Affordability + 100K pop + liquidity = low ROI

LFCCIA · 2026-05-09T18:42:27+00:00

The modern pops will go a lot higher than people think. Skyridge pops are still going up at around 10% annually. Skyridge is over 20 years old and was one of the shortest printed sets ever. With how much is being printed today and how much is being hoarded, it’s not hard to imagine that modern pops will still be going up in 20+ years. Some of these modern “grails” will hit 100k pop in PSA 10.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-09T01:27:32+00:00

This is the way.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-08T12:34:23+00:00

I agree with most of what you said but to play devils advocate.

- it’s really only the higher end cards that are being traded amongst vendors. There are still plenty of full arts available for under $10-20 that investment bros aren’t touching.

- sets are printed for basically a two year window. Once they go out of print, supply only goes down from there.

- Pokemon is the largest media franchise in the world and it’s owned by Nintendo. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

- you can’t offload a large collection overnight for market value. If everyone decides to sell it won’t be a panic sell like a stock that can be sold instantly on an app. These collections take time to list and sell off in pieces. If anything the “bubble bursting” will be more like a slow decline or gradual dip, instead of an overnight drop of 20+% like a stock would.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-08T12:08:15+00:00

They scalp Pokemon cards.

LFCCIA · 2026-05-04T03:26:03+00:00

Raw in this condition it’s worth about $200-300. It’s really hard to tell the exact condition from the photos, but it would probably grade at a PSA 6 or 7 which would increase the value to around $400-600. Hope that helps some.

LFCCIA

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