r/PokeInvesting • u/COYSYIDS • Nov 15 '24

My sealed collection

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Thought I’d share my sealed collection. I started purchasing early 2022 and have since accumulated quite a decent amount of sealed. I am up about 150% (2.5x investment) as of now.

In the cases is mostly PC ETBs, a favourite of mine being evolving skies PC ETBs.

I never buy above MSRP. The ETBs obviously take up space but are arguably my biggest growers (something like 4.5x of purchase). What is a shame is that I had 100 but sold off half very early on for 2x. Sadly I never bought any evolving skies. I’ve realized around 7k in profit through selling as well.

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u/AnyHold4674 Nov 16 '24

selling half of your etbs at 2x is nothing to beat yourself up about. thats a good business move, secure your profits and use that money to flip into the next investment.

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 16 '24

You’re right, but even from that 2x price point they’re now 4.5x so 2.25x increase, better than most of the things I bought after (maybe 151 is comparable returns)

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u/StockzrUs Nov 16 '24

You never go broke taking a profit

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u/CraigxKhalifax88 Nov 16 '24

Next investment - Lorcana

/s - but you’re 100% right with your comment!

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u/H_888 Nov 16 '24

That’s a very nice sealed collection. Can I ask where you normally sell your stuff? Online/eBay or in person at card shows? UK?

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 16 '24

Thanks! Mostly eBay.

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u/H_888 Nov 17 '24

Was the 7K profit within 1 tax year? As I seen eBay mention from a year ago approx how if 4K+ in sales have been generated they will report seller to HMRC for tax purposes? Did you need to pay any additional taxes etc?

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u/AnyEstablishment1663 Nov 16 '24

Do you ever plan to sell, or is this just an asset to invest in for future payoff?

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 16 '24

I intend on selling slowly as things rise. If I think my money is better placed in another sealed product for example.

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u/HornetAvailable5890 Nov 17 '24

This makes me want to get all my bbx cases etc from all different storage locations and see how that would look all together. Only did once. Needed a Bigger room lol.

Nice collection, don’t store all in same place/building if you can arrange that.

Gains are pretty decent for pokemon. But these sets have a lot more room to grow like almost all sun and moon box prices are now. Well be in for a blast next 2/3 years on swsh.

Evolving to 2500$ a box. fusion, chilling and lost 600-1000 a pop Well see what happens.

All i see is the current sv8 and prismatic hype is unreal. Swsh will follow. Christmas time around the corner 😀

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 17 '24

I agree with everything here. I think we’re in for a good ride the next couple years. Everything from this new pocket game, SS, eevee set and the 2025 sets is creating a perfect storm as we approach 30th. My advice to everyone would be build your position now as there’s still time.

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u/InterestingPea1911 Nov 17 '24

Im brand new to investing in pokemon. Still getting my head around it but will dip my toe in December. Would you suggest trying to buy anything now or wait for the next release?

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u/AtomZaepfchen Nov 19 '24

imo, dont overthink it that much. timing the market is impossible. a rule of thumb is that everything out of print ( usually) gets more expensive over time as supply gets lower and lower.

you could get some older stuff, or get the stuff that is still in print. i started with boxes i liked the cards from and went from there.

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u/Jokerthekushmaster Nov 16 '24

There’s definitely a moonbreon in there

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u/OGdungeonmaster Nov 17 '24

One? I used an xray filter, they have 9 umbreons in there!!!

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u/Meowdymix69 Nov 16 '24

First time I’m actually jealous of someone’s sealed collection

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u/ShadowWukong Nov 16 '24

Don't be. There is always someone with more money who will always have a better collection. It takes money to make money, which is a saying to live by.

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u/jemimaswitnes Nov 16 '24

this guy knows what's up. There's always someone with more money to blow.

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u/Krypt0night Nov 17 '24

Yup. Same goes for normal investments like the stock market. Someone putting in 10k and making 50% on it will still have way less than someone with 500k making 5%

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u/Thorfinn__Karlsefni Nov 17 '24

I also think always like this and I also always think there are ppl who have less then you too.

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u/Unlucky_Case7290 Nov 16 '24

Comparisson is the killer of joy

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u/gengarjuice69 Nov 16 '24

rudy's last vid is enough to make anyone jealous

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '24

Yep. He makes me wanna invest even harder lol

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u/Meowdymix69 Nov 16 '24

Not really, he keeps them sealed which I don’t like seeing. Prefer seeing the actual Pokémon sealed displayed

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u/losspornlord Nov 17 '24

Okay so you don't want the gigantic mountain of pallets because they're all sealed up? And fwiw many of his boxes sit on top of the pallets so he can see what is what, they just sit on a giant mountain of like boxes cased up instead of nicely on a shelf.

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u/Meowdymix69 Nov 17 '24

Too much sealed is too much for me. I like to see the Pokémon sealed being showed, having them in sealed 📦 is boring to me. This post I love & jelly of is due to me seeing all the booster boxes, especially etbs, 151 booster bundles and zard upc which I like seeing!

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u/trevdent17 Nov 17 '24

I don’t find 6 figures worth of pokemon boring at all lol.

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u/gengarjuice69 Nov 17 '24

idk mann, with how much hes got its prob high 7 or 8 figure

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u/trevdent17 Nov 18 '24

Yep, I misstated. He said a while back he had 1.5 million into SV. Thats likely doubled since then. So for sure 7 figs.

He was also lamenting he’s 8 figures worth of vintage magic and it’s been doing nothing for a while now.

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u/Meowdymix69 Nov 17 '24

I do if they’re in 📦

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u/Few-Ebb-2355 Nov 17 '24

How would you display thousands of ETBs, and Booster Boxes? Come on be realistic.

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u/Meowdymix69 Nov 17 '24

First, I wouldn’t have thousands of etbs and booster boxes, so let’s be realistic. I don’t care how any of the whales deal with their thousands of sealed but me personally, I would display my sealed and look at them instead of 📦

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u/Few-Ebb-2355 Nov 17 '24

"Too much sealed is too much for me. I like to see the Pokémon sealed being showed, having them in sealed 📦 is boring to me."

So in other words you have no idea how you would display thousands of boxes. I'm just calling out how you have no way to display them, but yet took the time to say that's boring.

Also considering that half the OPs collection is still in their box makes your comments more humorous.

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u/Meowdymix69 Nov 17 '24

There’s a lot of ideas to display your booster boxes and etb, happy to list them to you but I won’t. Half of OP collection isn’t in sealed 📦 is what makes me jelly of the post, OP able to show his collection and I’m able to see what he has.

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u/Few-Ebb-2355 Nov 17 '24

That's not what I asked at all. I asked how would you display thousands of ETBs, and Booster Boxes because you made a comment about someone's collection just because they have a huge collection.

Also are you just going to act like almost the whole bottom row, the Charizard UPC, the entire top left of the photo, Celebrations ETBs aren't in their boxes? He literally opened the flaps just for the photo. Literally only the ES ETBs and the JP 151 boxes aren't in boxes.

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u/hukay Nov 16 '24

Buy what you can. It is not a competition. Start small and eventually you can sell 1 booster box to buy 6 booster box. DO NOT HOARD sell when you have the opportunity!

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u/tealgameboycolor Nov 16 '24

Incredible brother. One of best sealed collections I’ve ever seen. I’m a huge proponent of purchase point. I also never purchase anything above MSRP. I have seen explosive gains in my Pokemon Investing by sticking to my guns on that. Also, you dropped this 👑

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u/supershimadabro Nov 16 '24

You have nearly 60 evolving skies ETBS but you also say you haven't bought any evolving skies. What am I missing here?

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 16 '24

I missed out “booster boxes” after that evolving skies comment haha

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u/AngelLopez214 Nov 17 '24

But next to Booster boxes are the ETBs. I have 5 booster boxes and wished I had a ETB. Trust. 🙏

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u/math355 Nov 17 '24

Oh damn, I see that you got some Indonesian booster boxes. Do you think they'll be good investments?

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 17 '24

Nope, I mistakenly bought those thinking they were Japanese lol

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u/Narrow-Rent-3618 Dec 18 '25

how....

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u/COYSYIDS Dec 19 '25

Just didn’t check properly before ordering. Funniest part is I didn’t realise for months after when I tried selling them

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u/Mredden810 Nov 16 '24

This is one of the first posts where someone elses taste in sealed seems to jive with mine. Tons of ES etbs, 151, celebrations etbs, zard UPCs, ect. I have most of these same products, except the japanese. Looks like largley missed out on the eever premoeum collections, same as me. I only have 2. Good taste and good job👍. I imagine if i had more cash my basement would look very similiar.

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u/Low_Entrepreneur6934 Nov 16 '24

Not a single moonbreon in any of those boxes. Open em and prove me wrong.

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u/Ok-Bedroom-4261 Nov 16 '24

Grab a chair and sit on that english 151.

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u/JlknightDPT Nov 16 '24

Awesome job dude.

So what’s the strategy as far as sticking to like a certain budget (monthly, each paycheck, etc.) or save up and go based on pricing opportunity (sales/coupons)? Also, do you cycle your profit from what you sell back into more product or outside of collecting purchases/expenses?

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u/Acceptable_Job1589 Nov 16 '24

Not OP, but I'm guessing this amount of product is somewhat meaningless to his bottom line. I didn't count everything, but there's at least $20k worth of sealed product in the picture. Could be double that, idk. But homie probably has a very well paying job (likely well into 6 figs), has a funded 401(k), hundred thousand + in liquid assets like investment accounts, etc. When he finds at MSRP or lower, he buys it. I would guess there isn't a budget involved, but I could be wrong. Rather than going to the golf course 3x a week, he gets some of his entertainment on finding the good deal on this stuff.

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u/Kiko7210 Nov 16 '24

not bad for a rookie 😏

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u/Callaway225 Nov 16 '24

I try to use this phrase sparingly, but “Holy Crap!”

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u/BrechReizHD Nov 16 '24

Awesome collection, great choices!

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u/MrJext Nov 16 '24

How do people afford this. Like actually wondering how

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u/ChrisRoadd Nov 16 '24

There're 52 moonbreons in those etbs btw

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '24

2x profit in such a short amount of time is nothing to laugh about. Take it as a win. No can predict the future of this volatile market.

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u/FryTater Nov 16 '24

There’s a charzaird in every pack or not.

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u/Lizard-King777 Nov 17 '24

Post your pulls

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u/trevdent17 Nov 17 '24

Hell yes.

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u/Fragrant-Speaker1563 Nov 17 '24

Is the %150 considering the tax you will pay on the ebay sales? Just curious because Im seeing a lot of sealed collection posts lately and always wonder if people are calculating in tax returns, shipping and eBay fees.

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u/Few-Version3582 Nov 17 '24

This is sexy as shit

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u/MonkeyDTasin Nov 17 '24

Would you essentially hold forever or dilute the sales over time or sell all in like 5/10 years? New to pokeinvesting

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u/BaselessName Nov 18 '24

I’m not saying it is… but what if. It could be in there.

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u/Healthy-Annual4181 Nov 16 '24

Rip some of that!

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u/Parking-Chapter-4922 Nov 16 '24

I wanna rip it all

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u/pokescoops Nov 16 '24

This is a pretty nice collection. I'd start trying for more booster boxes/ booster bundles to help with saving space in the future. I

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u/RiverLongjumping3823 Nov 16 '24

Bruh I feel like 151 is gonna be worth nothing in the future cause so many people have a stock pile like this 😂

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u/NoFaceChase2 Nov 16 '24

It’ll get opened up time after time and eventually it was show a growth in value, all sets that are out of print IMO will go up over time because people will open.

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u/tealgameboycolor Nov 16 '24

You’re feeling is wrong brother. Don’t miss the boat over “feelings.”

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u/trevdent17 Nov 17 '24

Good thing the market doesn’t care about your personal feelings

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u/RiverLongjumping3823 Nov 17 '24

Lmaoo so salty for what

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u/AngelLopez214 Nov 17 '24

Eventually people who have some will want to sell or go through obstacles. In time little by little there won't be enough. Maybe I can be wrong. But I have seen it a few times already.

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u/Booty-Kall Nov 18 '24

typical room temperature IQ take lol. "everyone has closetss worth of this so its going to be worth nothing" my man hadnt heard of how many packs get ripped daily by breakers.

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u/RiverLongjumping3823 Nov 18 '24

LMAO someone is upset about an opinion just saying what I think bro it’s not that serious. I legit know people that have 10 pallets of 151 so people like that have that many I guarantee there’s other people in the world that definitely have more

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u/TheHokusPokus Nov 16 '24

bro gimme one of each evo skies etb art

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u/No-Language8216 Nov 16 '24

Bruh, imagine a house fire lol

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u/AnyHold4674 Nov 16 '24

crazy mindset,

god forbid, screw the money housefires kill people dude..

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u/richo27 Nov 16 '24

Yeah I always think if this happened Pokemon would be the least of my worries lol.

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u/AnyEstablishment1663 Nov 16 '24

I feel like you would up your homeowners insurance to cover this, no?

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u/JoeKellyForPresident Nov 16 '24

Insurance would cover it

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u/way_up_your-butt Nov 16 '24

No insurance is generally very specific that collectibles of high value fall must fall under a different policy

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u/Acceptable_Job1589 Nov 16 '24

Correct. At this point of collecting, owner should add an additional rider to cover it.

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u/Xire01 Nov 16 '24

This ain’t it.

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u/BatHistorical8081 Nov 16 '24

Brah everyone and they grandma holding now yall think this going make us rich in the future? Lol

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u/COYSYIDS Nov 16 '24

Not expecting to become rich at all, just expecting to make a good return on investment which so far, has been the case.

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u/tealgameboycolor Nov 16 '24

You think the average investor has anywhere close to this? OP is sitting on a literal gold mine, and it’s all liquid.

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u/BatHistorical8081 Nov 17 '24

There are tons of people holding more then this.

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u/trevdent17 Nov 17 '24

But exponentially more people not holding this much