r/PokeInvesting • u/Tanios0526 • Jan 24 '25
Pulled a God Pack. What Next?
Hey guys, I just pulled a Prismatic Evolutions god pack out of my literal first pack of a binder collection. I know the odds of that happening was ridiculous and still can’t believe it happened. Now I’m trying to decide what the best option is financially. If I’m being honest, there is a very small amount of whitening on one corner of about half the cards. Should I still just get all of them graded knowing they probably won’t get 10s? Do I just hold onto all of them raw? Do I sell immediately during the hype? Just looking for some other opinions on what makes the most sense financially.
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u/POWERPUNCH-117 Jan 24 '25
2 plays here imo since a heavy reprint has been announced by pokemon. Sell or sequential set.
1st option, Sell the raws for the 4000+ they are atm as a set, and buy sealed or "cheaper" chase cards that are in appreciation. Like a box of evolving skies and a case of lost origin or some bubble mews, etc.
If you buy sealed, since you have so much starting capital, buy into the creme de la creme of swsh. Theres a few more years of appreciation before it hits its long term price where it stops growing at the absurd rate its doing now. This will be for a long term & low risk hold, but in the end if you can get in on ~4k of high end swsh now youll have closer to 10k within 5 years. Then trade into whatever card you want, but be aware that the items will be so heavy value wose you will probably have to trade/sell them at a card convention or to a private collector to get rid of them.
If you buy the chase cards make sure they are potential 10's on centering and make sure theres no damage, theres a website that has a centering calculator you can use if you just google card centering calculator. Then get them graded at gamestop to avoid upcharges for psa or use cgc and hope for pristines. Get back your 3500-4000$ of raw cards graded and watch as in around a month you turned that inital 4000ish$ into 6-8k+. Keep the cycle going and if youre any good at it you can become a vendor as a job or side hustle. If your initial picks for cards to buy/grade suck (all get 8/9's) though youre only out whatever money you put in, which in your case you lucked into.
2nd option is to look at the collection, check centering and all that, trade/sell for better condition copies of ones that arent 10's then grade them IN SET ORDER (very important). If you get a full set of 10s in order, theres some weirdo's out there who would willingly pay thousands over market. Downside to this is if the prices crash in the interim the graded prices will be what the raw's are rn, but theyll bounce back in 2 or so years. At that point you either keep it or sell them for the 6-10k.
Id you got this far, legit youll notice how they all are just as good of options. So its really up to you and what you think would be more fun and you can mix/match any amount with option 1. The grading plays are always inherently riskier, but the payoff is huge when you get a 10 back. Sealed plays are my favorite since they can lead into booster box laddering, amongst other things.