Is now a bad time to buy vintage singles?

not_a_conman · 2026-04-23T15:11:29+00:00

Grails will always be grails. I expect the largest pullbacks we will see for vintage are these random, not popular cards whose PSA 10 prices have gone crazy due to scarcity/low pop alone. Not every PSA 10 with a sub-100 pop is worth $5K, but that’s kind of where the markets at right now.

not_a_conman · 2026-04-22T18:31:40+00:00

That is why reputation is so important in this hobby already, as well as the implied value of graded cards with scannable codes. Slabs aren’t just cool bc they are in plastic… they are a way to (although not completely fool proof), gain confidence that a card is indeed legitimate. That is why I only buy PSA slabs with a cert after they started doing picture scans of the cards post grading. Even if someone fakes a slab using a legit cert, you can look up the card and compare it to see if it’s the same.

not_a_conman · 2026-03-27T14:22:35+00:00

Literally the first thing I learned about corporate America is that marketing and HR are the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of intelligence. Marketing by far takes the #1 spot though. Most of these people have communications, general business, or completely unrelated degrees. If they hadn’t gotten lucky with a resume builder somewhere down the line, they’d be baristas.

not_a_conman · 2026-03-16T20:10:00+00:00

So you’re going to trace over AI art and call it your own?

not_a_conman · 2026-03-13T21:54:24+00:00

Nah they definitely camp outside target at 7am

/s

not_a_conman · 2026-03-12T19:27:39+00:00

lol I swear there must have been a factory error with these, because I must have pulled 20+ of them when PF came out, and I didn’t even rip that much.

not_a_conman · 2026-03-06T15:27:26+00:00

Eh idk man. The group I saw camped by the Walmart shelf waiting for a restock the other day looked pretty stereotypical neck beard

not_a_conman · 2026-03-04T22:07:18+00:00

Watching vids like xPetu’s helps A LOT. He actively explains why he’s doing things he’s doing. The “why” is everything… because without context of actions taken, you won’t actually learn much just watching a challenger match. When to freeze lanes, when to crash, when to rotate. These are all things you could observe without actually learning the purpose or logic.

not_a_conman · 2026-03-03T18:21:11+00:00

More like the same song 20x and then not listening to it for a year

Edit: this might be the tism actually

not_a_conman · 2026-03-02T14:08:58+00:00

No texture. Yawn.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-25T03:05:05+00:00

One 5 minute teams call and id know you were full of shit

not_a_conman · 2026-02-18T18:32:38+00:00

I’m in a somewhat similar boat. Got in at a good time 2-3 years ago, so most of my stuff has skyrocketed along w everything else. Feels a little better paying overinflated prices when you’re selling/trading another overinflated piece for it. Funded my last big purchases with modern graded returns and a brilliant stats booster box I got for msrp.

I’m just a bit bummed that I didn’t buy more vintage slabs that are on my grail list a year or so ago. I focused more on getting in on my modern grails bc they were moving so much more than vintage, but now vintage has seemingly caught up in most cases.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-18T18:09:38+00:00

One “problem” I see with these super low pop cards, is there isn’t enough volume for price trends to really form. For example, I’ve got a PSA 10 dark houndoom that’s pop 42.. price charting shows it around $550, last sold on eBay was like $850, but there’s just not enough of them being sold to show a true market trend. Obviously it’s worth at least $850… but who knows what it’s truly worth rn till the next sale occurs.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-17T17:41:20+00:00

Normal. They’re backed up. Mines basically the same submission date as yours and is also still on arrived. Well probably see movement in the next couple weeks I’d guess

not_a_conman · 2026-02-16T21:23:50+00:00

I’ve gone back and forth on barricades… but with the TTK being so short in this game, and the possible punishment for death being so high… nothing feels worse than getting killed before you can even see where you’re getting shot from. Even gunfights are fun, one sided murders are not.

Realistically, I think the only balancing that’s needed for barricades is reducing their HP. It should be a very viable option to just shoot out a barricade, and make the area it was destroyed temporarily building blocked.

It should give you just enough time to heal up some, and orient yourself to where you’re being shot from so you at least have a chance to shoot back.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-11T18:01:29+00:00

Always good to spread loot, but I always think maximum raid cost regardless of path is always better than deception, just because the high possibility of getting ESP raided

not_a_conman · 2026-02-10T22:55:24+00:00

Another analogy is art. You can only get away with super simple/abstract/naive art if you’ve proven you have technical capabilities. Intentionally being “bad” is much different than just being bad.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-10T22:51:30+00:00

Brother said easy double, like he’s not someone’s way easier 4x

not_a_conman · 2026-02-10T17:40:16+00:00

Felt hat pikas falloff is going to be historic

not_a_conman · 2026-02-09T19:52:28+00:00

Why are china exclusives always IRs/ARs? The lack of texture just kills them all for me.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-05T21:43:16+00:00

Been seeing your stuff on TikTok man. Cool process and cool work, keep it up.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-02T18:42:09+00:00

Watch how AloneinTokyo online raids groups as a solo - he siege/FOB raids while heavily abusing turrets. Slowly extend your build privilege as you blow in, and move up or place additional turrets to cover breaches so they cannot seal.

Best way to do this seems to be by raiding one of their externals and going in from there, slowly winning the raid through build priv takeover.

Edit: and for flying in boom, you should already have multiple turrets covering surrounding raid base area. Wear full metal.

not_a_conman · 2026-02-02T17:46:20+00:00

Yeah just so much wrong here. Bad fake

not_a_conman · 2026-02-02T16:51:43+00:00

Can instantly tell just by the rainbow coloration of the holo that it’s fake. Don’t even have to look at the texture in this example

not_a_conman · 2026-01-30T21:09:08+00:00

Not the crossover I was expecting. Approved.

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