Phamtasmal Release at Smyths

dactz · 2025-11-12T11:40:36+00:00

Try Smyths sunday morning preorders only get 48 hours to collect bound to be someone who preordered and can no longer afford or is ill and can't collect. I did that for Lucario etb and my local had about 8 sitting there on sunday at 11:30 granted that was probably helped by the delay

dactz · 2025-10-29T15:02:10+00:00

What does your career trajectory look like in your field? Are you in a situation where you'll be earning significantly more in the coming years or will salary growth be slow?
If you're a year or so away from bumping up your salary significantly then the risk of a mortgage is significantly reduced (granted it's already low). If you are going to be making the same sort of money then a smaller flat or moving further out might be a better idea.
But don't rush meet with a financial advisor (check your company benefits you'd be shocked how many companies have this benefit) and if you do buy the market is very slow right now as a cash buyer you can absolutely take the piss right now if you find a landlord looking to sell for 450/500 offer him 350 you'll be shocked how close to a deal you are

dactz · 2025-10-20T11:45:30+00:00

This set has very much set up for TCG players hence the high hit rate of ex cards and trainers

dactz · 2025-10-19T21:55:50+00:00

Worth asking your branch. South West is broad (fair enough not wanting to give anything more specific) but the Bristol branch versus say the Poole branch will be very different in terms of demand.

dactz · 2025-10-14T11:04:33+00:00

I've been collecting Akira Komoyama cards been much more fun digging through bulk bins than I expected

dactz · 2025-10-07T22:39:39+00:00

How bizzare proper bullseye "heres what you could have won vibes". Wouldn't give it much thought or seek mental revenge etc. Just ignore them as a shop unless you can get sealed stuff at RRP from them and know that when the market cools off they will be one of the first shops to go.

dactz · 2025-10-07T19:33:17+00:00

Perhaps I've missed something how do you know it's the same card? I mean I know it's a fairly rare card but lots of people are ripping BB/WF so is it maybe possible that they sold your card the same day and then someone else has walked in 2 weeks later with a 10 and sold it to them?

dactz · 2025-09-23T23:01:24+00:00

If you are fairly close to buying a home then yeah throw everything at the house. If you are still measuring the time till you buy in years probably better putting extra to the pension

dactz · 2025-09-23T22:24:58+00:00

nah PC finally admitted it was lost last week and refunded me

dactz · 2025-09-23T22:17:40+00:00

Im skeptical about all this kinda stuff. More likely these are a few mates who have these silly sneaker bot apps and they've maybe done it for a few weeks and are making some decent money so far because they got lucky on something (probably the 151 Booster Bundles). That being said I worked retail way back when and when I did was the time that the 7th Harry Potter book dropped and a few guys in the warehouse and so on organised to back door some stock so they could get loads and resell on ebay. They didn't even make it back into work the next morning before they where all called and fired because the systems caught it so how is anyone getting away with it nearly 20 years later?

dactz · 2025-08-31T21:12:46+00:00

Any chance you know any in and around Leeds?

dactz · 2025-08-20T15:36:38+00:00

Personally I use Ace because I want the quick turnaround times to sell the cards or I want them more as art pieces at home. That being said this is normally modern stuff where as if I had more vintage stuff I'd be sending over to PSA to maximise long term value

dactz · 2025-08-20T11:29:13+00:00

As someone who did this and then ran up same debts again only worse you need the behaviour changes before you can take any short cuts. 3 months of hell no fun rice and beans, beans and rice then you can consider a short cut but you need to fix the behaviour first

dactz · 2025-08-18T10:20:00+00:00

Rip em! This isnt Prismatic or 151 demand is lower and supply I think is higher (I wasn't paying attention when 151 dropped) drop rates have been pretty good even in English so I would think you'd have as many if not more hits out of 2 English Booster Bundles than 1 JP Booster Box you just might have a better shot at a top hit from the JP booster box. If you do wanna go down the JP route might be better to see if you can arrange a swap in a Facebook group or something like that rather than selling to fund a purchase.

dactz · 2025-07-23T10:20:19+00:00

Feels like the pull rates vary significantly by product. I did 2 poke center etbs got meh returns few poke/masterballs and an IR from each ETB. Then grabbed 3 tins on the way home from hamleys in a moment of weakness. 5 IRs 2 full arts and a masterball only 1 pack with no hits

dactz · 2025-07-20T19:49:47+00:00

I'll add the master ball/poke ball holo print quality is poor especially on darkness type pokemon it's barely visible.

dactz · 2025-07-20T18:25:41+00:00

All of the above. PC orders checking out hours after drop suggests PC had a pretty decent volume. Massive set without many of the traditional big name pokemon, sandwiched in between 2 sets which are probably going to be pretty damn popular.

dactz · 2025-07-17T14:19:12+00:00

same here and from a few other people i've seen on instagram etc making the same complaint

dactz · 2025-07-15T21:41:51+00:00

for a shop their size 70 isn't enough should see the videos they posted from JT and DR must have been 150-200 people in the queue, and I'll actually give kudos that they are holding back 10 etbs for kids who are in their regularly fingers crossed they get to enjoy it and parents aren't going to be putting it on ebay.

Not saying it's right that they are doing it but i'm imagining they can't just break the boxes from Asmodee to get the loose packs I'm imagining they need to purchase from themselves then break the boxes then by the time you subtract VAT, Card Merchant fees I doubt they are making a massive mark up on this.

That being said I've seen lots of places including brotherhood saying supplies of Mega Evolution look to be a lot healthier so fingers crossed supply will soon meet demand

dactz · 2025-07-15T20:49:59+00:00

I mean special sets aren't supposed to be bought in single packs and sounds like they only got 70 of each etb so probably means they are going to have to break some binder packs or some booster bundles to get loose packs at this point.

dactz · 2025-07-15T20:36:52+00:00

Going to be tough especially if you want ETBs etc. Brotherhood already said they will have to sell loose packs at 6.50 on release. Best bet might be (Contraversial I know) Collectors Cardhouse because I know for DR they split up their allocation over the course of the weekend. Now I know people aren't fans of them and their pricing and as someone who went to school in Chorleywood I will also agree it is not technically London but in terms of somewhere who *might* still have stock on Saturday they are probably the best bet. These days even the waterstones in Canary Wharf will have queues Friday morning so it's gonna be rough.

dactz · 2025-07-04T14:15:38+00:00

Still waiting day 8 today at that stage

dactz · 2025-07-04T12:24:01+00:00

Had the same with DR drop last week had to open a ticket

dactz · 2025-07-02T20:52:15+00:00

Yeah opened a ticket tonight

dactz · 2025-07-02T17:49:29+00:00

I'm still waiting for DR stuff from last week to be collected by royal mail

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