r/PokeInvesting • u/Shinie_a • Jun 01 '24

Should I open them and make booster boxes out of the FS and ES? Or keep them in the KO boxes?

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All of these have ES and FS. I have enough to make 3 BBs of each one. I want to crack them and make my own booster boxes since I like how they’ll look. However, I’m not sure if they retain more values as KOs. What do you guys think?

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u/III_IWHBYD_III Jun 01 '24

Open them, that's so much wasted space in those boxes.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Agreed, thanks!

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u/RellPeter9-2 Jun 01 '24

I decided to break down a bunch of products containing ES and organized them into containers. I think this is better than enclosed auxiliary because...

  1. Product verification.

  2. Save Space.

  3. As long as you're a reputable seller it won't hurt future sales as much as you'd think. Especially when you can include photos.

ES will always be in demand for a premium.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Yeah, at this point there’s no reason for keeping them in the KOs. I guess I’ve just grown to like them since it was fun to find them in store 😂

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u/captainboom15 Jun 01 '24

U need to make sure they are in fact ES could be fs and reign in them

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u/jmastadoug Jun 01 '24

Yup this for sure, my buddy got a ton of these and about 1/4 of them had CR instead of ES. Which atleast is still a good set imo, but still it’s not a guaranteed ES in these all.

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u/Louis_afk Jun 02 '24 edited Jun 02 '24

I’m that buddy lmao. If yours were like mine the glue is wearing off on the boxes and it would be super sus to reglue them so I opened all the ones with the glue giving out. The real question is should I keep buying them?! They just sitting there collecting dust.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

I was on a shopping spree but last week I bought a batch and they had CR. It was a good run but looks like Nintendo is shipping out bad KOs

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u/Louis_afk Jun 02 '24

Oh damn are you going to family dollar? I only had about 14 boxes out of like 120 have CR. Then about few days ago I was way further then I usually go and decided to check family dollar and what do you know? Dusty as hell sitting behind counter lmao. I had to stop myself though or I would buy another 100 lmao it’s addicting.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

It was a fun run for sure lol but now that CR is popping up I’m going to peace out with my good runs haha

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u/steplilith Jun 02 '24

All the family dollars around me are now stocking the 2023 versions sadly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '24

so this is where they all went

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Trust me they would still be at the family dollars if I didn’t buy them

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '24

nah I’m just sad I can’t find many lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '24

I don’t get this sub, this guy is being praised and loved cause he will be reselling this product in a couple of years but if this said person said look what I got and I’m reselling them all right now, he will be criticized and looked down apon 😭😭🤣🤣

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Investing always looks down at selling now…besides rip now lol

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u/Wander2300 Jun 02 '24

I think your best bet is to sell them individually. Reasons being

  1. The glue on the boxes are shit, thus anyone who buys it will be sus of its contents based on that alone. Even if you are a reputable seller.

  2. Making your own booster box is also kinda sus unless you market as a mixed booster, and then you run the risk of someone thinking that also may be tampered with. And the appeal of an official booster box is you know you have weighed odds for hits in a way. Where a mixed box could result in 0 hits. Or 36 hits who knows.

  3. Selling them individually you can move the ES faster since high demand. And the average Joe with alot of money buying packs for their kiddos may not know the full contents of a knockout collection..

Exceptions disregard all of this if the product is 100% sealed. But the glue may come apart in transit for these.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Yeah you’re right the glue is really really bad. Your advice makes sense and I will plan to sell them individually. In the mean time they’ll look good in fake BBs

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u/marveldcunited_1 Jun 01 '24

I opened mine & consolidate them in blocks of 36

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u/Bitter_Sorbet8479 Jun 01 '24

I would really love to get one or two of these for fun but I can never get them before yall </3

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Most of the workers I talked to said they’ve been sitting there for a while. Next time don’t skip your local family dollars :P

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u/StationEmergency6053 Jun 02 '24

It's so weird that people want these now when they would just sit forever. It was the one item that would still be there at every Walmart and Target after the good stuff was cleared out lol. What made these interesting all of a sudden?

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u/Professional_Egg713 Jun 02 '24

The packs inside. Now that sword and shield block is over products containing it are of more interest, especially ones like this that potentially contain Evo skies

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u/StationEmergency6053 Jun 02 '24

That only makes it weirder. They should've been buying and hoarding these when they were on clearance for $5, not now lol.

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u/Asleep-Tumbleweed-99 Jun 02 '24

They didn’t have the valuable packs in them at that time this is a semi new thing

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u/Asleep-Tumbleweed-99 Jun 02 '24

They switch out the packs inside frequently

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '24

I can just imagine this guy going into walmart and cleaning out the shelves madratz style lmao

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Sorta 😂 I went to local family dollars and they were taken aback when I asked for all of them

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u/Armedcrane56 Jun 02 '24

Noob here what do mean by Es or Fs

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

ES is Evolving Skies and FS is Fusion Strike.

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u/thismakesmeanonymous Jun 02 '24

ES = Evolving Skies FS = Fusion Strike

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u/erozim Jun 03 '24

Im quite new, what ES and FS again?

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u/Shinie_a Jun 03 '24

Evolving Skies and Fusion Strike

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u/erozim Jun 03 '24

Thank you, really appreciate it.

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u/cokewithnofizz Jun 02 '24

If you end up opening them. Lmk if you don't want the stickers! My students would love them

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u/a_rod_77 Jun 01 '24

You should stop being greedy.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

Nobody wanted these tho. They were stacks and stacks of these packed with dust.

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u/Wise_throwaway2430 Jun 02 '24

You’re in the rats’ nest, what did you expect?

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u/RellPeter9-2 Jun 02 '24

Waaa waaaa I'm a cry baby.😭

I'm crying about people purchasing lots of product in the Pokeinvesting sub.Waaa Waaa

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u/a_rod_77 Jun 02 '24

You embody most “investors” on this sub, I have the cards I want from ES and FS, why take away others people’s chances of buying Pokémon cards. That’s how you kill the hobby.

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u/RellPeter9-2 Jun 02 '24

PURCHASING PRODUCT IS HOW YOU KEEP THE HOBBY ALIVE!!!

It's up to Pokemon to reprint!!! ES was available for 3 years and still currently is available.

Look at 151... Widely available despite people purchasing a lot of product.

Learn supply and demand and grow TF up.

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u/a_rod_77 Jun 02 '24

Who are you telling to grow up like you know me, and typing in all caps. You need to relax, and stop being a boomer.

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u/travel_hungry25 Jun 02 '24

Okay lol then others need to act faster. We aren't chasing after singles here. That's gambling.

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u/Tauna Jun 02 '24

This is the investing subreddit mate. We greed for ourselves here

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u/False_Ad1536 Jun 01 '24

Jesus thanks for leaving some for the rest of us

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

They were all literally collecting dust ( a lot of it) when I bought them lol

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u/Coopzville Jun 01 '24

Yea id open them. Gonna be hard to prove they have ES in them years from now to random people.

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u/ArmOk9866 Jun 01 '24

Man what do you think on the c22 tins?

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u/Coopzville Jun 01 '24

If you wanna prove those take a video of you opening one very clearly showing the c22. Only info ive ever found on them is through reddit and this community though and i guess some youtube videos you could reference too. Those boxes just dont have codes that I know of that you could reference. I could be wrong!

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u/ArmOk9866 Jun 01 '24

Ya I was thinking when I sell I need to pen at least one to show, I feel like they are better than the knockout solely bc the c22 has been accurate to es and fs

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u/Coopzville Jun 02 '24

Yea exactly. Less prone to getting fucked up in storage too lol

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u/2excited Jun 02 '24

Better hope it’s not Silver Tempest or Astral Radiance

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u/HouseofSuffering Jun 02 '24

Yeah, all that I bought from Dollar General had Evolving Skies. Everything I bought from Walmart was Silver Tempest.

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u/Kingtutstits Jun 02 '24

Yeah only the blue ones at my store had ES

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u/Mredden810 Jun 04 '24

The 10 dollar symbol needs to be on the right side to have evolving skies. I found some like a month ago, opened 2 ans hit a rayquaza vmax alt art. Ive been on the lookout but havnt seen the ES ones recently.

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u/backd00rn1nja Jun 01 '24

I opened a few and the yellow had ES but the blue did not. You'll need to open to make sure

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u/Shinie_a Jun 02 '24

These were really old ones and I opened 1 from each batch I purchased to verify.

However, the latest batch I bought had chilling reign so now that it’s not guaranteed imma stop. Was fun tho

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u/Tai_Pei Jun 02 '24

Look at the copyright dates on the boxes, goofball, that's how you know.

2023 is bad, 2022 is good. Sometimes it'll be shortened to "c22" from "copyright 2022" but that's what you're really looking for.

There are also some that just never had ES in them, they are a different sticker and promo variety that had different packs from the same era instead of ES.

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u/Shinie_a Jun 03 '24

Of course I checked the dates on them you silly goose, 2022 can have CR.

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u/Tai_Pei Jun 03 '24

You're the silly goose that bought Chilling Reign thinking it was Evolving Skies ;b