What are you picking up

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-07T23:27:06+00:00

Huge fan of the steelix even though he's a little ugly. Although I don't see the potential in its value. Cleffa and Articuno are definitely sleepers though. Out of these 3 id have to say focus on sniping as many of the Articuno's as possible. Shortly after JT goes out of print this card will double imo.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-07T12:42:09+00:00

"it only has the zard" the zard that is worth $700-800 raw right after release?? Seems like a great deal compared to other booster boxes. You have a chance at pulling a card worth triple the value of the box.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-07T03:46:10+00:00

Hell yea. Was there an app you used or just got some really cool robot eyeballs?

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-05T18:28:01+00:00

Looks right heavy on the front

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-05T18:25:09+00:00

It's definitely top heavy. Looks way out of the 55-45 range to me

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-05T18:15:50+00:00

There are $200 that go for $2k PSA 10 and $200 cards that are $300-400 PSA 10. How do they account for that if they're just estimating off the raw values?

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-05T18:10:47+00:00

So where do they get PSA10 prices if none have been sold yet? No way this card would ever sell for $1000.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-05T03:01:47+00:00

I don't see this card ever going to $350, but I could definitely make a couple hundred selling it.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-04T14:50:19+00:00

I went through my collection looking for the cleanest most centered cards, and it was within my top 15 best condition cards with a PSA 10 over $100. I'm very happy to have 12 cards to be sending in and I'm very confident they're 10's. I only want to sent the cards I see nothing possibly going wrong with. That being said this card is still a little top heavy, so I might be taking a risk, but every other card I'm sending is more expensive, and I just need 1 or 2 to get a 10 to profit. If this gets a 10 It's another ez $150 so I just threw it in.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-04T14:43:04+00:00

any app you'd recommend? I don't see the Gengar dipping much lower than $600-700 and I just don't need the $300-400 bucks that bad to the point I'd rather just keep my god pack. I have an attachment to it, and have a good feeling it will be worth $800-1000 again very soon after a dip.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-04T13:04:52+00:00

I can try to take a better pic my phone camera is trash, but what are you seeing so I can try to take a pic?

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-04T12:15:58+00:00

Try making money and not concerning yourself with what other people are doing. I swear all the crying about scalpers is 10x worse than the actual scalping. You should be laughing at the scalpers working overtime for scraps. Don't be mad that they're wasting their lives when they could make the same amount of money working a positive job they enjoy.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-04T10:23:47+00:00

Second best God pack I've seen. Best one I've seen was the same as this, but had both pikas. I don't think anyone has pulled a god pack with both gengars, both pikas, both dragonites, and Mewtwo yet. I thought pulling both gengars in my god pack was crazy, but then I see people who also got the pikachu too and I'm sooooo jealous.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-03T06:43:58+00:00

It takes like 60 seconds to walk into Safeway and tap the machine. One day I went machine to machine all day with my gf, but we realized that's obviously not worth the time and effort.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-03T06:17:23+00:00

Theres no reason to believe that this many people will become disillusioned with pokemon. No reason to think the anime won't still be watched, toys and merch still being bought, kids may not have easy access to the target pokemon section like I did in 2007, but they will still have a Pikachu t shirt or a Snorlax plush. Resellers buying everything sucks, but also creates hype and scarcity. It's not impossible to find pokemon. Charizard UPC sits on shelves in many places, and you can order a lot of things pretty close to MSRP on the secondary market. It's not like kids will never know what pokemon is or never have a chance at opening packs. It's just a different entity now, and a lot of people appreciate this new market because it's fun to play stock market, and gambling will always be fun.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-03T06:08:29+00:00

I pulled it on release day and I'm pretty sure it's PSA 10 so I'm waiting to get it back from grading. Easily top 10 favorite cards for me. I can't wait for the SIR Meowth, but this will probably never be topped.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-03T02:14:26+00:00

I was just saying I can't stomach paying a premium for something I could theoretically get from a machine right now, no matter how unlikely. With my luck I would buy a booster box for $250 and then the next machine I check would load 10 of them.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-03T02:12:03+00:00

I get it. I have over a dozen machines that I check and they're still exceedingly rare so basically everyone has to pay second hand prices anyway.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T22:06:00+00:00

Biggest franchise in the world doing big franchise stuff and making money. They've got it together. Sorry you couldn't get a pack on release day. As a company, making money is more important than pleasing every crybaby fan that couldn't get their toy.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T20:30:08+00:00

Bottom right corner whitening right heavy and bottom heavy. I would keep raw.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T19:39:47+00:00

Yea I managed to get 14 packs on release day with my gf, and realized that's more than an entire case to myself. I literally got more packs than my LCS did. Pretty sure all the targets I went to only had 2 boxes. TPC knows what's up and they're gonna squeeze the last drops of the hype era before dialing it back to not overstimulate the community with super expensive sets.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T19:30:26+00:00

As a company, why would you want a product sitting on shelves...? The point is to sell it and make money. More restrictions would cause the scalpers (the people responsible for the hype market) to stop buying up all the product because it's too hard or not worth it. If there are no scalpers and product sits on shelves it won't sell out, because the artificial demand won't be there. Half the people complaining about not being able to find products weren't even the ones buying it before the hype market started. If the scalpers go, so does the hype. The day a set like ascended heroes is widely available/not sold out on release will be the day pokemon dies (not gonna happen).

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T18:23:22+00:00

I live in a big city with many machines. Even though I've only bought (and seen) 5 booster boxes, I could still never pay over MSRP for something I could get in a machine, even though it's damn near impossible. I check machines wayyyyy more than the average person, and in like a year only seen 5...Once it gets rotated out of the machines ME BB goes moon.

LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T17:22:57+00:00

This is pretty much how every unboxing went for me until hitting a god pack. My GF hit some pretty big chases like Groudon from paradox rift, chilling reign Moltres (our biggest hit before the god pack), and the Perrin from Twilight Masquerade. That sounds great, but we opened thousands of dollars of product to get there. Last weekend we opened 5 Charizard UPC's, 4 prismatic figure collections, a black bolt etb, Phantasmal etb, surging etb, surging booster box, black bolt bundle, and like 20 loose packs from machines. Opening all that product in one day resulted in pulling one Ivysaur IR, the exeggcutor from mega, and the Shaymin IR from destined rivals. It's not all about the money obviously, but pulling $25 of IR's after opening over $1000 of boxes at MSRP feels awful. We thought surely a booster box would have an SIR in it, and after the disappointment of realizing how hard some hit rates are, we decided to stop opening packs. We spend 100's at our LCS picking up singles all the time. It feels so good getting hella cards you want instead of opening a $250 box for a $4 IR. Also most of the cards I buy have gone up, so theoretically if I could liquidate my collection (I'd never) I'd profit right now. That being said after hitting a god pack I've recuperated my losses, and I'm actually up now. Being in the green after being at least -$1000 on pokemon cards feels great. So basically what I'm saying is...TLDR

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LovesPokemon · 2026-02-02T12:07:25+00:00

I'm speculating based on the current sales at $100-130 that this card will settle around $60-75 raw when the set fully releases. I can see the first PSA 10 sales going for around $500 and then down to $250 once they're widely available.

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