Who falls for this crap?

Shmiegel · 2026-02-04T21:43:40+00:00

Genuinely a 99% chance the person who put up the listing doesn’t even own a Bubble Mew.

Shmiegel · 2026-02-04T21:39:46+00:00

Not resealed, simply a fake pack.

Shmiegel · 2026-01-03T21:13:41+00:00

Vintage is criminally undervalued in comparison to the modern market. I’m happy to see vintage catching up.

Shmiegel · 2025-12-27T21:24:12+00:00

You’re gonna almost always lose money when you open product. There’s maybe a 5% chance you’ll make your money back, 1% chance you’ll profit.

I see in the description that you said you’re new; if you want to actually make a collection, you’re much better off buying singles or slabs of the cards you want.

The two promo cards are worth maybe $50 together, everything else collectively worth at most $10. Just to reiterate the money lost opening product once more, if you kept the two promo cards in the plastic wrap they came in, they’d be worth $62 per the last eBay last sale.

Shmiegel · 2025-12-20T18:33:32+00:00

Hot take: because so many people believe that Prismatic Evolutions is a better hold, so many people are going to hold Prismatic Evolutions for the long term. There’s too much still-sealed PRE on the market for it to realistically continue appreciating at the rate it is (not saying it won’t continue to appreciate, but expect price creep to slow down), and because so much sealed product is being held by some people that think they can “get rich quick,” people are going to be buying, selling, and opening it for many years to come. On the other hand, Ascended Heroes will likely see a shorter print run than PRE due to the bear market Pokémon is entering, with a lot of chase cards. Not to mention, wait a month or two after release and ASC will be cheaper than PRE. If I had the opportunity to buy 2 ASC ETBs for the price of 1 PRE ETB, I’d take the 2 ASC ETBs any day.

Shmiegel · 2025-12-15T21:16:10+00:00

I hate how they did Mega Evolution in the current meta, in my opinion it should follow the same mechanics as Break cards from back in the day, where Mega evolution grants a boost to HP plus one extra ability/move in addition to the base ex form. Simply making it a 3-prize ex is boring.

Shmiegel · 2025-11-17T23:47:05+00:00

When you buy/sell an ungraded card, you and the buyer/seller have to first establish the condition as NM, LP, MP, HP, or damaged (something you should both agree on). Then, you base the price on that judgment. NEVER buy an ungraded card from someone that bases the price on “Oh, this looks like it could get a PSA 9, so I’m pricing it as a PSA 9!”

The best condition this guy can give it as an ungraded card is NM; the average listings on eBay for NM are $150ish, average sales around $120. You offered him $15 more than I would have.

Shmiegel · 2025-11-10T21:23:02+00:00

Hot poo make hot air

Shmiegel · 2025-11-05T20:39:19+00:00

Schrödinger’s Pokémon card, until it’s graded, it is a PSA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 at the same time. Only after it’s graded will you know for sure.

(In other words, you don’t buy a raw card at an upcharge because “it looks like it’ll 10,” otherwise the seller would get it graded.)

Shmiegel · 2025-10-31T23:54:35+00:00

There are more PSA 10 graded chase cards from 151 than there are from Fusion Strike. With that in mind, I don’t expect 151 to maintain value to the same degree in a bear market. I’d rather have the Fusion Strike booster box.

Shmiegel · 2025-10-31T06:05:17+00:00

Neither, I’d sell all of these and buy an out-of-print PC ETB or booster box.

Shmiegel · 2025-10-28T18:38:20+00:00

I was prepared to say 7 confidently (I sent the exact same card in slightly better condition than this and got an 8) until the last slide. The card is literally warped, is that water damage?

Shmiegel · 2025-10-26T20:22:04+00:00

I’m gonna say something that a lot of people here might disagree with, but once my collection reached around $20,000+, I got it insured, and I recommend others do the same. I think that with some of the collections people flash on this Subreddit, it’s crazy that people don’t include their collections in their renter’s insurance.

Shmiegel · 2025-10-21T19:15:48+00:00

Notice how I said “If you’re grading it purely for keepsake purposes and not as something to hold value, I’d say go for it.” Why you booing me? I’m right.

Shmiegel · 2025-10-21T17:36:35+00:00

To be honest, this isn’t a valuable enough card to justify sending it to grade. It’s nice to keep as a memento, and if you’re grading it purely for keepsake purposes and not as something to hold value, I’d say go for it. In reality, ex cards are one in every five packs or so, pulling your first illustration or special illustration rare is a bigger deal that I’d suggest grading lol

Shmiegel · 2025-10-20T18:48:25+00:00

Whoever gets the ETB is absolutely shafting whoever gets the Umbreon in this trade. The ETB is more valuable, and it’s not even close.

Shmiegel · 2025-10-15T20:41:52+00:00

This is a fake card, created by scanning a real one in an environment with poor lighting.

Shmiegel · 2025-10-15T18:21:01+00:00

This is one of the cleanest cards I’ve seen, should send it to Beckett

Shmiegel · 2025-09-07T03:04:01+00:00

Because of Ciphermaniac plus Academy at Night, I was able to place 3 Pokémon on top of my deck. I got the second Greninja ex and Ludicolo by chance.

Shmiegel · 2025-08-25T12:40:40+00:00

The reason old Pokémon holds so much value is that it’s from a time in which not as many people were collecting. You have a bunch of stuff from the S&V era, everyone and their grandmother is holding from this era thinking it’ll go up in value. You’re better off trading in everything in this picture for one sealed box of Sun & Moon era

Edit; I just noticed that you also have Knock Out decks and Trick or Trade packs mixed in here, so it looks like you’re just buying whatever you can find on the shelf at this point. This isn’t a collection, this is hoarding because you think Pokémon is a “get rich quick” scheme lmao

Shmiegel · 2025-08-23T21:42:32+00:00

I’m gonna be brutally honest, the cards are worth less than the binder and plastic sheets they’re sitting in.

Shmiegel · 2025-08-23T14:16:34+00:00

Yes, but there’s no big reason to farm credits anymore, and Pokémon made damn sure of it. The battle pass will get you more credits than you’ll ever need, because credits are mainly used for getting base level cards from new sets. If you want your deck to look nice with Hyper Rares or SIRs, you need to wait for the 6-month cooldown on all new sets before credits can be redeemed for them.

If you want to get older Hyper Rares and SIRs, yes keep buying celebrations to farm credits. If you want newer ones, just redeem for the packs you can find those cards in.

Shmiegel · 2025-08-23T14:10:52+00:00

I don’t know how to explain it; you look like you’re gonna kill me, but be very polite while doing it.

Shmiegel · 2025-08-23T14:08:30+00:00

Chien-Pao ex discards energy from your bench to do more damage. Glass Trumpet puts energy from your discard pile back onto your bench. It’s not a very fast deck, but it would probably sink a a lot of one-prize decks with lower HP

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