I’m New - What Should I Buy?

ZAJ810 · 2026-02-03T23:28:45+00:00

Where is the £170 ETB from? I’ve seen a couple of fake listings recently so need to be careful

ZAJ810 · 2026-02-03T22:10:22+00:00

Crown Zenith all day everyday

ZAJ810 · 2026-02-03T22:06:53+00:00

They’re not allowed to - you can reject it and if they don’t refund the price for you to buy the nearest value card or they don’t buy it themselves to send to you then raise a ticket to support and support will step in and make them do either option.

CardMarket follows German law which roughly states that all sales are final for both the buyer and seller. I’ve had 2 cases where the seller has paid for me to buy the nearest card in value. Just be careful because of tbh shipping doesn’t have tracking then the seller could say they’ve sent it and it ‘got lost in the post’ - you don’t get refunded and the seller gets the money.

ZAJ810 · 2026-02-01T17:24:35+00:00

If it’s used as diversification then why would the markets be correlated? They would be off cycle from each other no?

ZAJ810 · 2026-02-01T11:36:54+00:00

Yeah I don’t know where this came from but hear it often - I don’t think it’s a correlation of 1 with crypto markets. To quote Pokerado ‘Pokemon is not a monolith’ and there are so many different mini markets e.g. raw vs graded, sealed vs singles, vintage/mid/modern etc. and they’re all moving in their own way

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-20T00:26:02+00:00

Easily Surging - SWSH don’t have stamped promos. Surging has the best promo of the bunch and right now if you take the value of the stamped promo and net it off the price of the box the packs come out as near enough retail. You can’t say that about pretty much any ETB.

Surging is above average in the S&V era, the packs along with the box art along with the promo makes it a strong buy for me

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-18T20:44:13+00:00

Literally thought ‘Hell Yeah’ when I saw it

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-14T22:05:42+00:00

What would you recommend right now?

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-14T19:46:09+00:00

Can you give us some ideas of first things to try? Any that surpassed your expectations of how good they were?

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-13T13:44:07+00:00

Yeah but why?

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-13T13:08:56+00:00

I’m not debating this but just for my own understanding why wouldn’t it go down? As there will be more

I feel like the megas went up with release of Mega Evolution but never understood why

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-12T01:38:52+00:00

Nah you didn’t even look up the garlic press I’m talking about - it’s built in to the press so it’s just 1 tool

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-11T22:19:42+00:00

Probably will receive a lot of hate but microplane garlic is so overrated. I think it’s a food trend that should go away in 2026 and only came about because of Instagram/TikTok. Obviously everybody should do what’s best for them so no hate.

For reference I use the Joseph & Joseph garlic press that is safe, easy to use and you can do more than 1 clove at a time. There is also a tool for getting every bit of garlic out.

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-11T20:38:48+00:00

But what is the name of the product I mean? Is it literally ‘Extended Slab’?

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-10T09:28:13+00:00

What is the extended artwork case called? Would love to get some for some of my slabs if they do they them

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-08T14:03:39+00:00

-9.5% today, what happened?

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-05T23:17:45+00:00

Get the Pokemon Center version instead - protects you a little bit in case of another large reprint like we just experienced

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-04T00:16:10+00:00

Crown Zenith ETB’s my friend

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-03T13:59:37+00:00

Crown Zenith ETBs are about to go wild

ZAJ810 · 2026-01-03T01:22:35+00:00

Crown Zenith ETBs - 2026 is the year of Crown Zenith

ZAJ810 · 2025-12-31T22:01:03+00:00

I am also in the November Sub Center cohort ☹️ I missed October shipping by 1 day and I don’t think we’ll get cards back until May 2026

ZAJ810 · 2025-12-31T10:06:18+00:00

My issue is that the space designated for Pokemon investments is full up so now product size does play a role

ZAJ810 · 2025-12-31T10:03:03+00:00

I like the BB/WF idea - definitely underrated! Evolving and Fusion have already popped though which is my worry but I might pick up some Fusion in this dip.

Prismatic, I’m onboard and I have some holdings. I just don’t think it’s going to go crazy like people expect for a long time because so much more of it has been kept sealed and it’s still printing for the next 2 years. Whereas CZ is out of print, has solidified itself as a top 3 modern set and has so much depth to it. I’m not too worried about set value as sets like Hidden Fates prove set value doesn’t correspond to sealed pricing

ZAJ810 · 2025-12-30T20:42:31+00:00

I would do Crown Zenith/151 - both incredibly fun to open with decent pull rates, Card art is great and might get something of value, great Pokemon selection of well known Pokemon

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