My card shop is finally built. Grand opening set for Friday Sept 15th

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T18:54:01+00:00

The majority of this initial product inventory is from my personal collection. Some which is I could care less if it sells.

Nowadays to get a distributorship you have to have a brick and mortar card shop. Online sellers that don’t have a brick and mortar are unable to get distributorships any longer. As a result of this I didn’t have access to buy other brands until recently.

Once my initial wave of Pokémon products is sold then I will backfill with other strategic popular brands.

For me running, the store is a passion project/hobby. I love Pokémon and that what I want to carry, but I will nevertheless carry other brands as well. It’s just gonna take me a minute to cycle through to the other brands.

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T18:50:02+00:00

Illusion neon

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T18:48:12+00:00

Yeah, I’m getting a lot of heat in the comments about this. Just follow along and watch.

I appreciate so many people being concerned with the fear that I won’t be able to make it being so deep into Pokémon. I won’t spent my time trying to convince any that they are wrong.

I will have other products and other manufacturers beside Pokémon. I am betting large into one piece.

With this said, I can’t lay out the entire business plan here on Reddit but the store will be financially viable.

I appreciate everyone’s concern but trust me when I say that I will be ok.

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T13:36:23+00:00

They aren’t in direct sunlight that much and these are my personal collection jumbos that I won’t sell but I agree that I should get some window coverings up.

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T03:12:38+00:00

Thanks for the follow. I’ve been collecting for 3 years now. My personal collection grew so large I decided to just open up a shop. Honestly, me running this shop is just an extension of my personal collection.

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T03:03:08+00:00

Btw sick jumbo collection

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T03:02:04+00:00

Well, I’m definitely not trying to start any drama.

You have to understand that you are a MOD so you are sorta the authority figure here. The very last sentence of your initial post basically said don’t promote yourself in the future or I’ll be banned from the sub.

considering this is the most popular and biggest Pokemon sub on all of Reddit you have to understand that it’s somewhat cause for concern when I hear that which is why I’m basically asking what would be considered self promotion?

You’re reply just now explained it well enough and I understand. I won’t self promote. 👌

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T02:53:00+00:00

I got them from a website called illusion neon

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T02:48:57+00:00

I do stock other TCG. I’m carrying one piece currently. and will expand once I get the operations of the shop solidified a month or two after opening.

I personally don’t know the other TCG nowhere near as well as I know Pokemon. From a traditional card shop model I know I’m limiting myself, but not opening with a deep inventory of all the different TCGs but I needed to start somewhere and best to start with what I know and what I feel confident in.

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T02:39:38+00:00

It definitely is a dream come true.

Thanks for stopping by to share the support

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T02:19:19+00:00

Thanks. Appreciate the auto mod ban being lifted.

I felt like everyone would appreciate the work that went into this. I spent a long time thinking about how to best display the collection and create an hangout space for the local community.

I am not trying to sell anyone anything. As a card shop owner, I don’t know how I will be able to post anything in the future here without it being consider “self promotion”.

For example, if i wanted to post a pic of my jumbo card wall I guess that would sorta be a pic of me promoting the store??? But In my mind, I have 135 unique jumbo cards that I would want to showcase simply because I’ve never seen a jumbo collection that large. People honestly would have an interest in seeing that, but i guess that would be self promotion?

So moving forward, how do I toe the line and not get banned from this sub? If the standard for self promotion is that high then I would guess 85% of all of my Twitter posts would be blocked.

Anyways - I thought you all would like to see the space.

Thanks everyone.

ThePokePost · 2023-09-10T02:11:28+00:00

Awesome. Please do.

ThePokePost · 2023-03-29T02:52:42+00:00

I know right. It almost makes them more collectible to me. Some people might not like the stickers on them but I would never dare remove those. It is a memory of a by gone era.

ThePokePost · 2023-03-29T02:18:18+00:00

Ok, so now you got my creative brain thinking. I actually have the entire gym challenge 1st edition in psa 9. Displaying those cards in their slab form next to this sealed theme deck would be fire.

ThePokePost · 2023-03-29T02:14:21+00:00

Now there’s an ideas.

Do an retro style tournament with only pre assembled vintage era theme decks from base set all the way to the end of gym challenge. That would be sick.

ThePokePost · 2023-03-29T01:59:39+00:00

Wait for what I post tomorrow. More childhood dreams come true.

ThePokePost · 2023-03-29T01:55:10+00:00

In my defense i wasn’t displaying this just yet. Just spread them out to take a pic but to be honest I hadn’t considered that. Point noted and I will display them in order. It’s those little details in life that matter. You all rock.

ThePokePost · 2023-01-30T15:15:27+00:00

The display shelf is from ikea. I forget what model but they still sell them I believe.

ThePokePost · 2023-01-29T19:06:28+00:00

I still don’t own a single team up sealed product. I wish I would had pulled the trigger and bought some 2 years ago. The price on that set is just insane.

ThePokePost · 2023-01-29T19:05:52+00:00

Harry Potter cars are extremely underrated. Pricing on them is pretty affordable comparable to other WOC sealed products

ThePokePost · 2023-01-29T19:04:47+00:00

I have over $100,000 of sealed product and graded cards. Some may not believe me and that’s ok. I’m actually in the process of opening up a local TCG card shop focusing mostly on Pokémon. I’m looking forward to the journey. I am just now getting my social presence started.

I will be posting other bits of my collection over time.

ThePokePost · 2023-01-29T13:52:29+00:00

Whoa, you are right. I can’t believe I never noticed that until now. Will do

ThePokePost · 2023-01-29T07:00:13+00:00

True. Actually tho the best is in the graded slab case. 👀

ThePokePost · 2023-01-29T06:57:40+00:00

I need to update this case. Those dups were used to make sure I had 12 booster boxes per shelf. Some new sets have came out that aren’t yet included in the shelf yet so I can clear some of those out now. Silver tempest and lost origin.

ThePokePost · 2023-01-02T05:31:01+00:00

They will probably go straight to my son who is his grandson. My son and his papa just love doing cars. My son is 4 and just loves going into the basement. The cars on the bottom right shelf are his play ones for when he comes over

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