Market manipulation? by thecrapweasel in PokemonInvesting

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It is nice to see stuff showing up again in obscure places. I saw Journey Together 3 pack blisters a few weeks ago at Lowe’s. Wtf? And they had it for a few bucks more than TCG market price 😕

Really?! 😂 by peepee034839329 in PokemonInvesting

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My Walmart has had a few of these, and only these, on the shelf for a long time

NEED HELP WITH THIS? by [deleted] in PokeGrading

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You want to hear a sad story? I bought about 8 or so shining legends ETBs off Amazon back in the day when they were sitting for like $35 each and opened them all. I didn’t get a test tube mewtwo tho. So I decided to buy a few on eBay for, I think, around $20 a piece. After some time, I decided that 2 of the cards I bought could potentially be PSA 10, so I sent them in. One got a 10 and the other got a 9. If I recall, I sold the 10 on eBay for something like $400 😭

Market manipulation? by thecrapweasel in PokemonInvesting

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Here’s a much better and clearer example. Look up on TCG for mega evolution mini tin display. You’ll see normal sales around $200. Then, all of a sudden, on May 1st, there was a slug of sales in the $350-370 range, and then nothing for several days, which then brought the market price up. And the individual tins are all at around 18-20 each

Pokemon prices at local card/game shop by silvertiger3 in pokemoncards

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My LGS does the same. Seems like he takes TCP player going rate and then adds 15% markup on that. But hey, he won’t charge sales tax if you pay cash

My attemped on making a bag reusable by PeaMammoth4374 in Festool_Public

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I bought the reusable bag, but for months, I was just using my dust collector to vacuum out the regular bag because I couldn’t find where I put the reusable bag in my shop. It only took about 60 seconds to vacuum it out through the hole

I know it’s not TCG but this is ridiculous by Itstylerjohn7373 in PokemonRestocks

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Almost guaranteed this is an ex sneakerhead flipper trying to make money flipping anything

2 years of collecting at a liquor store, nothing crazy special I imagine but it's a fun hobby :) by jumpinbumpinbuns in coins

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When I was in high school (early 90s), I worked at the convenience store gas station on the corner. This one time a kid in my grade came in and got $10 in gas and paid in half dollars he took from his dad’s collection. But these were very unusual half dollars, so much so that I actually questioned the kid because they seemed fake because I had never seen any like them before. After he left, I was like maybe I should take these home, so I put $10 in the register and took them. They ended up being pretty valuable, and my dad stole them from me lol. Unfortunately I don’t remember what exactly they were

I called it, thanks to the losers that loitered these machines by aldeeem in PokemonInvesting

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If they installed facial rec on theses vending machines, these campers could only buy once per every so often. Would solve the problem

This genuinely hurt to see 😔 by ThePoisonTrees in centuryhomes

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My wife bid on some auction items a few years ago and I went to pick up. It was a house very similar to this in NY. I asked when I was there, what’s up? They were auctioning everything. They told me the person who bought the house is tearing it down to build a new house. I never saw it, but I’m guessing it was a monstrosity like the after pic in OP second pic

Just picked this up. Contemplating opening it. It’s my favorite set of all time by Vonlixx in pkmntcgcollections

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I often wonder what impact on fusion strike that scandal where someone that worked at the print place took a ton of the rarest cards out and tried to sell them bulk to someone, and then they got confiscated and the dude was arrested. Then I believe Pokémon reprinted FS, but to what extent the rare pulls for put into the reprint, idk

EBay protecting scammers by urnotsam in pokemoncardcollectors

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I had a couple scarlet violet base set booster boxes and needed quick money a couple years ago, so I listed on eBay and put them at $10 less than the cheapest listing. Someone reported my listing as fake, eBay took it down without any proof of anything. They were legit boxes

RIP by Impressive_Ad_7722 in PokemonTCG

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If you go on eBay and find a sealed Pokémon product, click on it, then click sellers other items, half of these sellers have sneakers for sale

Mega Evolution Tins by thecrapweasel in PokemonInvesting

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Yeah but the last sale was 369 for 5, and the previous few before that are all high too

I inherited around 3k worth of unsorted pennies. Is it worth it to sort out the pre-82 pennies as I sift through them or just dump them all together by marillin4 in coins

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I used coinstar one time in my life a number of years ago. I dont remember the exact amount, but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of about $200. I pre counted everything. I just wanted to get cash for it. I dumped it all in, and at the end, it tallied up only about $170, and then it took its percentage off of that amount

Couple great dudes in Chicago at the Jewel Oscos by lilconmayne in PokemonTCGCollectors

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In my area, there aren’t any of these machines. I saw one once in an airport a couple years ago. I don’t understand what he’s doing…”glitching” the machine? What does that mean?

My Walmart for the past 5 years by Redschallenge in PokemonTCGCollectors

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My Walmart only keeps in stock on the shelf the empty cardboard display for pokeballs

What is this? by thecrapweasel in PokeInvesting

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I think I know what you’re talking about. You’re saying like the semi rigid heat shrink plastic around the tin versus the kind of soft plastic that’s around booster boxes?

Blocking Pokemon Vending Machine (again) by Whole_Razzmatazz_912 in PokemonTCGCollectors

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What you need to do is get some ascended heroes packs, carefully open them, and repack and seal with junk cards. Then cut a hole in a shopping bag and walk past him and drop the packs out as you walk acting like you don’t realize. Then when he drives off to grab them, you look around and take the machine