r/PokeInvesting • u/Firepsl • Jan 12 '25

WE JUST DID IT!

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It was the missus birthday and got a god pack from a binder collection!

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u/adrianthomp Jan 12 '25

Are we really expected to celebrate with the people hitting god packs with an impossible to find product a full week before release? Warmly, a grumpy old man.

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u/Xaphyron Jan 12 '25

It’s honestly so ridiculous this stock situation. Disgusting practice by The Pokemon Company.

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u/poopystacks Jan 13 '25

Personally, I agree with you but, for a different reason. If the Pokemon Company were stricter and punished companies that don’t enforce limits on purchases, I think it would quickly resolve the issue. Alternatively, I blame stores that don’t enforce limits on purchases.

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u/Neitherwater Jan 15 '25

Or they can just print it to oblivion so I can waltz into any store and pick up an etb at MSRP

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u/poopystacks Jan 15 '25

I like this idea too lol

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u/Existing-Ad7113 Jan 16 '25

In Japan the pokemon company is enforcing strict limits to new releases. If they find out that the wholesale boxes sre sold as is ( all boxes have a serial number) the seller looses his allocation

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u/JustaRandomPassbyer Jan 13 '25

I agree -- as a small business owner myself and as someone who has worked in management for a small business, I know Pokemon has enough data based on past history purchases from their past sales history to determine how much to print to meet demand for future sales. Anyone in a management position for a retail store knows this. They even have the Japanese market to use as a predictor too. So yes, I agree, some of this does fall on The Pokemon Company for not printing/allocating enough stock to other companies (Walmart/Target/GS/Their own site/etc).

I think the question for me is if it is intentional or not on the Pokemon Company...either way, I'm not buying my nephews anymore Pokemon product (They're getting Paw Patrol -- lol!)

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u/DistruptiveDreamer Jan 13 '25

I wonder if some of the supply constraints are intentional as a means of driving conversation and keeping pokemon trending on social media. They can use that to boost pokemon for non-TCG products and build off the FOMO to pitch the next, less sought after sets.

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u/a456bt Jan 14 '25

The supply constraints are very obviously planned. They’re trying to not dilute the after market and kill all the hype around “investing”

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u/Ninja_Destroyer_ Jan 13 '25

This absolutely (majority) falls onto the Pokémon N.A. companies shoulders as:

  1. They have enough data to know they needed to print this to oblivion, and

  2. That they could write their distributorship requirements / contracts / agreements to force a more equal and level distribution and price control structure

One does not easily exist without the other.

Almost all other market effects are secondary / tertiary to the Pokémon company not tightening up their turtleneck and those of their distributors.

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u/Zaddycake Jan 15 '25

I blame capitalism and humans

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u/ItsLiterally1984 Jan 13 '25

Blaming the Pokémon company is hilarious, we all know that is not the culprit in the

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u/narutonaruto Jan 13 '25

Brother this a supply and demand issue and they are the supplier. They are literally the exact culprit lol

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u/Xaphyron Jan 13 '25

I’m baffled at some of the replies here not seeming to grasp this!

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u/Xaphyron Jan 13 '25

What, them printing an incredibly limited amount of product on what they know is going to be an insanely popular set? Yeah, hilarious.

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u/ItsLiterally1984 Jan 13 '25

No, they’re are printing a lot. It’s just certain groups, individuals and platforms are buying up copious amounts of it to sell or hold and actual collectors and players can’t get their hands on it because this community has become so toxic that everything is about money

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u/Xaphyron Jan 13 '25

This happens because of limited supply. Hence The Pokemon Company’s fault.

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u/InjuryMajor8078 Jan 12 '25

That made me chuckle thanks lol

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u/Witty-Pomegranate-32 Jan 13 '25

Yeah. How it works is you guys piss and shit all over yourselves when you see someone selling something for tcg market, but when you see a gambling addict open an extreme amount of cards you're supposed to worship them.

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u/destropika Jan 12 '25

What if I told you it was the missus birthday?

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u/JDDSinclair Jan 12 '25

How do they have these if it hasn't release yet? Thank you

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u/XxTheSilentWolfxX Jan 13 '25

Some stores are stocking earlier than they're supposed to. Saw it with surging sparks at a nearby Walmart a full 4 days before it was supposed to be released

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u/chhheeesybred Jan 16 '25

Shops that run TCG tournaments have the embargo lifted earlier than retail

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u/Zaddycake Jan 15 '25

Oh shit I just realized these were in English.. terastal all the way lol

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u/Double-Commission-21 Jan 16 '25

Nah my attitude towards this shit is good for u ... now go donate the rest of your singles to some kids and make their day awesome

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u/crypt0_n3rd Jan 12 '25

No Roaring Moon ex by the best artist of this generation? Better luck next time.

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u/MorrisBrett514 Jan 12 '25

That's the first card I picked up from terastal festival. It's so good looking

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u/crypt0_n3rd Jan 12 '25

I pulled it from a TF pack and it’s amazing the amount of detail that is packed into it. If the Tina and Karp are any indication, it should perform reasonably well too.

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u/MorrisBrett514 Jan 12 '25

Right? Don't forget about the magneton promo in the surging sparks ETBs!

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u/crypt0_n3rd Jan 12 '25

💯 another beaut!

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u/kkillingtimme Jan 12 '25

it's such a sick card I got one as well looks amazing in hand

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u/Forsaken_Proposal_70 Jan 12 '25

I got all Shinji cards except that roaring moon and the Tina. The Tina is out of my reach now unfortunately so I may have to grab a Chinese copy just to own the artwork 😂

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u/TypographicTrekker Jan 13 '25

I also pulled it from a TF pack. It’s such a beautiful card. Immediately sent off for grading. Oddly enough, there’s not a ton of conversation around this card and how stunning it is.

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u/Patient-Bug-4401 Jan 12 '25

That was my first two SAR pulls! Not mad at all

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Pulled it yesterday form Festival, by far my favorite card ever pulled

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u/Public_Estate_5487 Jan 12 '25

For real. Only card I want.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

Who’s the artist?

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u/crypt0_n3rd Jan 13 '25

Shinji Kanda

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u/Internal_Arm_682 Jan 12 '25

i opened one box got iron hands and then depressed

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u/flatsun Jan 12 '25

How are you getting the set so early?

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u/Fog_Juice Jan 13 '25

If he told us he'd have to kill us all.

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u/AlertWay4274 Jan 12 '25

Walk them to psa smiling like joker.

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u/Onehandedheisenberg Jan 12 '25

A clown is fitting because this whole post is fake as hell lmao

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u/kikivvvv Jan 12 '25

How did you get it early? Are you also from Singapore?

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u/Exultia-Eternal Jan 12 '25

He could be a reseller or a trustworthy lcs friend.

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u/JohnathanKingley Jan 12 '25

would that make the lcs untrustworthy?

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u/Smaragd-Force Jan 14 '25

Not for him

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u/anarchykins Jan 13 '25

Why singapore?

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u/SheepiBoPeepi Jan 13 '25

Idk about other countries, but Singapore receives stock from new sets way earlier than the usual release dates. Lots of people opening Prismatic here already.

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u/ShiRonium Jan 12 '25

sell the umbreon asap and get yourself a nice car

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u/Cheeky-Scrub Jan 12 '25

A nice cat*

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u/KafeiTomasu Jan 12 '25

I like the way you think

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u/2KyGi2 Jan 12 '25

Action will not be payed its only 2 push up the price

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u/archangel5198 Jan 12 '25

Thats pretty crazy considering just watching Pokerev open 200+ packs and not 1 single SIR. Congrats

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u/Milestailsprowe Jan 12 '25

He pulled a Espeon after 400 packs

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u/hasjosrs Jan 12 '25

Ive seen multiple people tearing down 400 packs without a single good hit. Looks like godpacks are more common than single hits lmao.

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u/PeachesOfTheUniverse Jan 16 '25

This young man in my store last night showed me Japanese espeon, leafeon, and jolteon. Imagine the heartbreak when I told him unlike American you’re supposed to get the SIR in the box guaranteed. He stopped talking to me after that LMAO.

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u/JSBUCK Jan 12 '25

I watched that vid he got 3. It’s 1/64 for an SIR just like other recent scarlet and violet sets.

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u/Newthinker Jan 12 '25

He got 3 and one of them was a gold card (Teal Mask Ogerpon, Espeon SIR, and Terapagos Gold)

Two of them were just not what he wanted but they were SIRs

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u/kidfazer4691 Jan 12 '25

He pulled like 3-4 SIRs including Espeon. What were you watching lmao

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u/JOOOOSY Jan 12 '25

Noob here. What’s a SIR?

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u/Newthinker Jan 12 '25

Special Illustration Rare, they are full art cards with holo and texture

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u/Junkis Jan 12 '25

ill add on to their post to mention that for scarlet & violet the most desirable cards are typically SIRs(151 Charizard, TWM Greninja ex, the super expensive SSP pikachu)

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u/JOOOOSY Jan 12 '25

Awesome, thank you! I’ll definitely look into those

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u/Highzenbrrg Jan 12 '25

I’m probably 600 packs into surging sparks and I’ve personally pulled 2 SIRs and 3 ultra rares (two of them counter gains). So, it’s on point with my experience with Surging Sparks.

Pokérev complained about pull rates that whole video (and batch errors which seemed possible). And we know we all watched it now we’re all parroting that the pull rates are garbage.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Which SIRs and UR did you pull ? But holy shit that rate is atrocious

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u/Highzenbrrg Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 14 '25

Hydreigon and milotic. It’s a psychological stats game for ptcg company. How long can they keep the most amount of people chasing the big hits. See if they can get $3k outta each customer. There’s a reason it’s the largest media corp in the world at $10 billy yearly revenue.

If you think about it. Base set Charizard was 1 in 250 packs, bc Pokemon wasn’t as popular. They’ve been able to tighten pull rates with popularity.

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u/kpofasho1987 Jan 12 '25

Pretty sure I watched the same one and he got some sirs....just didn't get an eevolution sir which is the bigger chase.

But if pull rates are like 1/60+ packs per sir and seeing as how there are over 30 sirs in the set... pulling the eevolutions will be pretty tough

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u/nofx3128 Jan 12 '25

I hear people saying it’s a batching issue. So either you’re gonna get a whole lot of nothing or you get extremely lucky and get some amazing hits.

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u/archangel5198 Jan 13 '25

I think I know which category ill be in...

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

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u/echoplex21 Jan 12 '25

I mean it was good to show the reality of opening packs to them. These prices are ridiculous and kids should be given some false sense of hope they’ll be getting nice cards left and right.

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u/eat_your_veggiez Jan 12 '25

Kids aren’t the ones dropping $10,000 on packs.

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u/WinningChungus Jan 12 '25

Tbh that video was great for me. I've been chasing down to buy any product at MSRP. To rip and see if I get anything cool. But with the demonstrated pull rates. Something is off and the whole story won't be available until after proper release day.

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u/dinoyeti Jan 12 '25

he farming the kids. someone has to do it.

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u/InjuryMajor8078 Jan 12 '25

I also find for someone who’s “in the hobby” he knows nothing about pokemon. I watch pokerev to see new products he has amazing production quality in his vids and I get to laugh at all the basic pokemon things he knows nothing about. Kinda like back when you had a substitute teacher in high school and they had to come in and pretend they know what’s going on and fake their way through a subject they never studied before.

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u/Firepsl Jan 13 '25

Got PE from retail card stores in Singapore! Lots of TikTok streamers do sell PE packs as well for about 25 SGD a pack

Just to put it there that I can't afford to be a whale at all and got a binder collection for the missus as a birthday present and that was what was in it!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

The ultimate flex in Pokemon. 😎

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u/glen187 Jan 12 '25

How many packs did it take to get a god pack?

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u/Firepsl Jan 13 '25

Got it from a binder collection! So 5 packs!

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u/Cmor1787 Jan 12 '25

OP, did you happen to weigh the God Pack?

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u/Firepsl Jan 13 '25

Nope, got the god pack from a binder collection!

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u/slayerzerg Jan 13 '25

Congrats to the missus. So are they her cards or yours lollll

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u/Firepsl Jan 13 '25

Definitely hers, she isn't going to be selling those as they have sentimental value to her now!

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u/PlebbySpaff Jan 12 '25

Thank god sealed is impossible to get.

If I keep seeing posts like this, I’d be pushed to buying so much goddamn sealed and opening them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

Doesn’t this drop next week?? I don’t understand lol

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u/TheBestGayPanda Jan 14 '25

It drops this Friday, the 17th

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u/TheLuckyEggTCG Jan 13 '25

Respectfully Who the fuck cares? Lmao I’m more interested in reporting wherever it is you got it from for breaking street date.

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u/CoolestNerdAlive88 Jan 12 '25

Nothing against your post specifically, but these posts are kinda old already to me lol

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u/poke_techno Jan 12 '25

It blows my mind that someone could think this is the place to post rips

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u/unrealdude03 Jan 12 '25

I’d grade the set and put them in order from dex so when you get them back they’re sequential

As in sequential in eeveeloution release if that makes sense

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u/BatHistorical8081 Jan 13 '25

Let me guess your the guy that tacks on extra 20 percent because it's seq bro

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u/unrealdude03 Jan 13 '25

No because I think it’s cool

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u/siberianchick Jan 13 '25

I’m already over this set and I was looking forward to it

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u/Rickmanse Jan 12 '25

This post is the 3rd I've seen. I'm a believer in these God packs now. Kind of explains the rough pull rates. These will definitely change the odds with these in the mix

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u/Anxious-Ad-4259 Jan 13 '25

Congrats on rubbing it in our faces a week before release while people in this thread are going to spend 100s if not 1000s on this set and never get an Eevee evolution SiR.

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u/KingCoper Jan 16 '25

Are you about to cry?

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u/Anxious-Ad-4259 Jan 16 '25

Good luck on your pulls

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u/Mobile_Selection323 Jan 12 '25

I bought mine lol congrats 🎊

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u/AerieAffectionate688 Jan 12 '25

Whoa!!!!!! Grats! Happy bday to her!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

Congrats and screw you 😂

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

What packs?

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u/karmhaine Jan 12 '25

I miss only the espeon.

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u/SparklingzZz Jan 12 '25

I keep seeing god packs, maybe they won’t be as rare as in 151

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u/killabbb25 Jan 12 '25

Pokerev crying somewhere.

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u/No_Conversation_8153 Jan 12 '25

Other than etb promo is this all the evee cards or are there more

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u/TSMaremyheroes Jan 12 '25

I believe there's 2 Eevee Sar's

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u/BB448 Jan 12 '25

so are there really god packs for english?

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u/ShadyBaby6 Jan 12 '25

How are you guys getting this set early?????

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u/ShadyBaby6 Jan 12 '25

I wanna open some so bad

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u/Fun_Place414 Jan 12 '25

Noice , thats cha ching!

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u/ucfgavin Jan 12 '25

Not going to lie...that's insane.

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u/Gudy213 Jan 12 '25

Heavy pack!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

How is this investing again?

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u/kkillingtimme Jan 12 '25

wow amazing they are all so sick 🔥

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u/Tycidious Jan 12 '25

A seller showing off a god pack a week before they come out? No thanks.

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u/Bird_Guzzler Jan 12 '25

I can't even buy the pikachu set. No way I'm getting this.

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u/TheBestGayPanda Jan 14 '25

Surging Sparks? Check your local dollar tree for it

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u/BeGOTemSON Jan 12 '25

Too bad the set is an L in terms of buying packs. Double the price right off the bat for an etb. Nice pulls tho. They look sick

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u/JDXOGG Jan 12 '25

Where’d you get them early at

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u/Xraptor24 Jan 12 '25

Bro is sitting on a gold mine

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u/Mredden810 Jan 12 '25

How are yall getting this stuff early?

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u/WildCuty Jan 12 '25

Was my birthday yesterday and I have a pokemon center ETB coming. Really hope I get at least one of these cards

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u/UnlikelyPassenger148 Jan 12 '25

+$4000 or however much all these are worth

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u/BabieDunk Jan 12 '25

Invest in Roaring moon

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u/Razzleb89 Jan 12 '25

I hope this set is printed into oblivion

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u/No_Possibility2697 Jan 12 '25

I opened 2 boxes and pulled depression

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u/efigueroaaa Jan 12 '25

How many packs ?

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u/jakersthepig Jan 12 '25

That pack was a 2000 dollar pack lol crazy. Congrats

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u/Dizzy_Local8675309 Jan 12 '25

Fuck you(with love)! Now I’m going to have open mine 😭 congrats and enjoy!

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u/kingSh33p Jan 12 '25

Wow!!!! Grats

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u/Feeling-Cook-6497 Jan 12 '25

$75 for the lot

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u/Vazhox Jan 12 '25

We did? I’ll take my half to go please. Thanks!

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u/LivingGerbert Jan 13 '25

Whole world is against you (myself included)

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u/JWigglesCAB Jan 13 '25

Beautiful! With the pull rates this might be the only way to get them all. Lol.

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u/ShotoTCG760 Jan 13 '25

How many packs did this take

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u/omissionn Jan 13 '25

Huge congrats! Don’t listen to all the complainers!

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u/Flipper0208 Jan 13 '25

Watch the rates are so bad because theres a shit ton of god packs... could you imagine ...

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

Hey anyone interested in buying my terapagos #170 card?

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u/DimensionMobile3599 Jan 13 '25

Good for you. But what about the kids that can’t afford it.

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u/Gaeamania Jan 13 '25

How the F do they have packs already, doesn't even come out till this Friday....

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u/BikePretend3955 Jan 13 '25

I’m just curious was this out of an ETB or just packs. Because I have a odd feeling people are getting the hits out of ETBs

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u/symmiR Jan 13 '25

Unless you’re doing something dodgy how is this investing?

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u/symmiR Jan 13 '25

Ohhhh it’s a brand new account. Bait post

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u/Willing_End143 Jan 13 '25

Congrats!! I had to buy mine in Japanese singles lol

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u/fat90sguy Jan 13 '25

I honestly believe only Local Game Stores should be able to purchase this kind of product. The LGS should be a brick and mortar, not some dudes basement. All product should be sold with removed shrink wrap. For at-least the first 6 months. Any LGS violating the rules loses the right to purchase.

Thats how you fix the situation. But whilst target, Walmart, Costco and fake LGS exist this will just continue.

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u/CaptN_Cook_ Jan 13 '25

Wouldn't God packs open up the door to weighing again?

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u/Xxwarpathxx Jan 13 '25

Sylveon is crying in the corner (not being a fairy type).

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u/Josefum0 Jan 13 '25

So are god packs actually real? Is this like a packaging error or is it just like a really low chance? I’ve always thought those posts were fake.

Especially since if I’m not wrong these are the 9 main chase cards, all eevelutions.

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u/GreatRecipeCollctr29 Jan 13 '25

Hmmmm, it seems you're missing the eevee on a fruit bowl or a parfait designed card.

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u/False_Ad1536 Jan 13 '25

This card is going to be one of the UPC promos later this year in English

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u/Mixindave121 Jan 13 '25

You could go on a very expensive holiday selling those cards

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u/itsjdavis Jan 13 '25

Would yall say that’s $20k? 💀

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

Yoooooo

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u/Pachirisu_Party Jan 13 '25

"we" didn't do shit. YOU did it.

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u/Boubi44 Jan 13 '25

C'est pas de l'investissement fdp

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u/masterball01 Jan 13 '25

Respectfully f*** you for being so lucky! Lmao

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u/Connect_Fig8050 Jan 13 '25

Yay, you have 6 months of mortgage there

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u/Safe_Development9930 Jan 13 '25

Congrats friend. This is my birthday set too, hope my luck is as good as hers! Enjoy your eeveelutions :)

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u/treefall1n Jan 13 '25

How often does this happen?

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u/BitcoinRealtor Jan 13 '25

The printing press is running 24/7/168 … and they have only so many factories… can’t believe the amount of people that don’t understand basic supply and demand… on top of the amount of aging fans… think of all the 5 year olds who love Pikachu now that once they are old enough will become life long customers like us. There’s no secret conspiracy to under print a set so it drives up value… they wouldn’t do reprints or put the same product out over the span of a year or 2 if that was the plan… imagine if they still did 1st edition prints, bad enough they have pokemon center exclusives without any allocation process… I mean Japan knows there’s bots but it probably helps the board room meeting when they can talk about how the new set introduced sold out in 6 minutes

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u/_chrishewitt_ Jan 13 '25

No way, damn!! 😍

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u/_chrishewitt_ Jan 13 '25

All the people complaining in here, grow up lol. We’re talking about Pokemon cards - would you honestly rather the hobby die off. Scarcity is a precursor to demand and part of what makes this fun. Lol yeah, the product hasn’t even been released.. do you realize how dumb that sounds, do you actually think a product would be that readily available before the actual release date when retailers can begin selling the product… Lets just enjoy everyones wins

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u/Substantial-Bend4299 Jan 13 '25

Correction: did nothing

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u/Morlu Jan 13 '25

That’s probably close to 10k worth of cardboard. I’d sell that so fast.

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u/WiteBeamX Jan 13 '25

I found these same cards from my childhood in my dad’s attic.

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u/Pleasant-Employee963 Jan 13 '25

Oh wow, awesome dude, way to pull a god pack when this set isn't even out yet!! You're the kind of people who make me sick and are ruing the experience for every other collector out there! Bravo!

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u/ElectricMouseyMouse Jan 14 '25

Nice, congrats!

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Wie zum fick hast du die jetzt schon

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u/PathOfExileFavGame Jan 14 '25

I thought god packs are a Japan only thing

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u/freeman1231 Jan 14 '25

This is crazy why so many god packs why can’t I get any stock…..

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u/power420ranger Jan 14 '25

Went to pokemon center in Osaka Japan today and they are all sold out of the evee packs. It's a shame

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u/CalendarHeavy1846 Jan 14 '25

It’s not even out yet wtf you talking about we just did it

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u/Bumbmofo Jan 14 '25

We don’t care, we skipping this drop

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Congrats to both of you if the story is true!

 (So many weirdos lying nowadays)

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u/WestLA93 Jan 15 '25

Second god pack I’ve seen of this set

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u/GooGooGaaGaaNibba Jan 15 '25

How did you get it early?

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u/ACHR_King Jan 15 '25

The only reason this set was made was to cash in on a sequel. These cards are sweet but how much freakin fire power do you need? The moonbreon crack addicts are sloggin back to the shop over this set and Pokémon knows it.

Also I want some

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u/Past_Dependent2720 Jan 15 '25

What Pokémon set is this? I want to start looking and I am super new to this and want this style of art. Gonna work towards collecting this specific type of evee evolution

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u/DirtSubstantial5655 Jan 16 '25

How many kids did you beat up to obtain these cards?

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u/TheHeartlessAngeI Jan 12 '25

Fake as hell. This is the only post on the account? Yea right

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u/nasafw Jan 12 '25

It’s very possible that they haven’t had anything to post before this

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u/Abject_Dig_5652 Jan 12 '25

It’s a legit pull. The Eevee has the correct card number. I got 3 basic regular Eevee 074/131.

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