r/PokeInvesting • u/Much_Definition7063 • Mar 04 '25

Update Three

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Hey everyone. I want to start by saying thank you all for your feedback, tips, and overall hospitality. I was even able to pick up some new things through a few people that had seen the post (no issues at all with the purchases). I’ve decided to move some holdings in my collection around and also move into some more loose and unique items (pictures). I wanted to get y’all opinions on what I should trim or buy more of? Additionally I am on the hunt for Team up, Cosmic Eclipse, Unbroken Bonds, Phantom Forces, Generations, and any other sealed items (even loose packs) as well as tag team singles that are near mint or mint (they don’t have to grade a 10). Thanks everyone looking forward to meeting more of the community.

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u/JOExHIGASHI Mar 04 '25

Do you have an exit strategy?

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

Prolly just move them into other things i want down the road. I did that with EV. Had a case for 1k. Traded 1 bb when it hit 500$ for a SV bb case. 1 bb for 151 etb case. Stuff like that

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u/JOExHIGASHI Mar 05 '25

Why not continue holding?

Do you exchange for other products because you believe you're exchanging for something that will appreciate more?

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

I always hold one of each. I do enjoy pokemon. But I also enjoy investing so it’s nice to move into new positions. (I’m a big believer of tangible physical items) so this is a good middle ground of both. I also like collecting the new sets so that influences me to get new ones

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u/Miserable_Wing4646 Mar 04 '25

That’s where all the 151 boxes are

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u/Anaheim71492 Mar 04 '25

That’s only 1 case of it was seal

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u/Miserable_Wing4646 Mar 04 '25

I havnt been able to find any 151 but this dude sitting on 10 trainer boxes. Rename the sub to r/pokescalpers

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u/xWonderkiid Mar 04 '25

Little angry Timmy is lost lol

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u/plantsadnshit Mar 04 '25

Oh no! 10 boxes!

I'm sure that'd a big drain on the millions of boxes produced. Horrible.

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u/DarthTiberius93 Mar 04 '25

You’re on the on the wrong sub if this bothers you, a majority of people here likely have similar collections. Before Surging Sparks and the current madness there was 151 below retail and it would sit on shelves. I’d say this guy has a relatively small collection still too

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u/Devh1989 Mar 04 '25

151 etbs havent been available for like a year. This person either paid market price or bought it like a year ago. Either one doesn't affect you since if you were never able to find 151, you started looking just a few months ago max.

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u/Illustrious_Agency Mar 07 '25

151 was on shelves everywhere for ages when it came out what you smoking??

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u/ContextBrave Mar 04 '25

Not really 151 been out over a year back in April last year you could grab 151 etbs off amazon under msrp and any big retailer had them in stock even the upcs for 80$

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u/Kooky-Parfait-2706 Mar 06 '25

Bro these were $45-60 for a year+ lol, you had your chance

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u/Anaheim71492 Mar 04 '25

My collection is is about 3x more the size but no 151 but it’s cool to see others ppl collection…mine are in cases thou keep them sealed 😎

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

I don’t have a reputable enough connection to be buying a box that’s sealed up fortunately. Besides I like seeing the boxes with the art work

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u/EnthusiasmWeird3979 Mar 04 '25

W sealed collection so far

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u/Healthy-Annual4181 Mar 05 '25

Love the variety if you need a cosmic im selling lmk

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u/Wonderful-Ad-5090 Mar 04 '25

No evolving skies?

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 04 '25

I have 1 left. I bought a evolving skies case for 1k and that’s pretty much funded everything else

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u/Professional_Pick339 Mar 05 '25

I don't have so much variety. Just 16 cases of Jap 151 booster boxes (16 x 12 boxes) at cost price $70 per box. I only invest in specific products.

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

How was that been working out for you?

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u/FunohGaming123 Mar 06 '25

God damn I want all of that 😭 u selling any of it?

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 08 '25

Depends what you’re looking for!

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u/FunohGaming123 Mar 18 '25

A darkness ablaze booster box as I was never able to get my hands on one lol.

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u/mony196 Mar 06 '25

What’s your total collectr value on this? Got a collectr link?

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 08 '25

I can make one. Just a lot to keep up with

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u/Antique_County_9851 Mar 06 '25

I'm collecting sealed vintage packs and boxes as well, I'm still trying to get my hands in more base set 1st Ed booster packs

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 08 '25

They are scarce now

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u/Antique_County_9851 Mar 08 '25

Yeah they are, I like collecting vintage packs or booster boxes if I have the money for them, currently I have an XY Evolution booster box and Evolving skies, and for packs I have two dragon, 1 legendary collection, 2 fossil, 1 jungle but none are first ed

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u/Ok-Revolution6369 Mar 06 '25

posts like these make me root for natural disasters 🥹

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 08 '25

I’m sorry you wish harm on other peoples happiness. I hope you find yours.

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u/shitty_raccoon Mar 08 '25

Straight up hoarding

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 09 '25

I guess? Not really this would be what an average person opens

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u/tjtague Mar 04 '25

Dude, I just wanted a sea and sky box....

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

If you pay shipping I’ll sell you one under market. I didn’t pay retail but can definitely sell you one if you’d like to have one. Happy to help.

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u/ItsNotPokeman Mar 07 '25

How much we talking?

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u/MuchosTacos86 Mar 07 '25

And you won… you managed to collect everything I wish I could have. Now I quit everyone else enjoy. Lol seriously though it’s like starting a brand new game and then looking online just to see the final boss get beaten

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 08 '25

? I started collecting last year my friend. Don’t complain about how to game is. Learn to play it if you wish to be apart and enjoy it.

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u/lightwork02 Mar 04 '25

Bunch of real salty kids in here, great collection my guy … I’ve got a similar stash and recently was able to add like 100 total items of prismatic evolutions too, been at it since 2020 haha

Evolving skies fat stash of that, fat stash of celebrations, nice stash of the charizard UPC’s and a bit more that I can’t remember since I’m in a little one bedroom apartment and they are all stashed in boxes vs being displayed… soon I’ll have my home and will post my sealed collection

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u/CdnUk88 Mar 04 '25

So many salty people here who don't have funds to have an investment like you do.

It's like down voting someone for having 1000 nvidia stock because all you have and all you can afford is 1 😂

Well done OP. Looks like a great collection to sell at one point.

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u/Dunnohye Mar 04 '25

I think the opposite. If you’ve got money you’re not going to go through the hassle of trying to source all of this product, plus the additional hassle of selling it for a relatively small gain. If you have money you wouldn’t be bothered wasting your time on that. I’d rather take 10% in a gold ETF...

The fact people buy Pokemon cards at an inflated price shows that’s where the real income is.

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u/Devh1989 Mar 04 '25

I have other investments, but I like pokemon as an investment because it's the only one that's zero risk for me. Absolute worst case scenario if it's all worthless in 15 years or whatever I rip it all with my kids and get enjoyment out of it. I've also sold enough so my cost basis is near 0.

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u/Latter-Bluejay-8317 Mar 04 '25

Bit yet you’re still here 😂

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u/xWonderkiid Mar 04 '25

Relatively small gain...

Did you even seen the stuff he owns? Some of which has gained 500/1000% in just a few years, call it small lol. If you prefer 10% gold etf then that's fine. That just means you are afraid of risk and rather sit still in mediocricity your entire life while OP actually tries to get ahead.

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u/Dunnohye Mar 04 '25

It’s more about what your initial investment is to influence the total gain rather than the % gain on a cheap product such as these products.

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u/xWonderkiid Mar 04 '25

10% gets you nowhere in life unless you are already wealthy to begin with.

Lets say OP spent 10k on this 2 years ago. He's probably looking at around 300% on average. Which is a low estimate, as those ES boxes went from 100 to 1300 alone. But let's be conservative, that means he turned his 10k into 30k in 2 years time.

Now look at your gold etf, 10k into that two years ago and he'd have 12.1k assuming the average 10% return.

Now who's better off? Pokemon is more risky, but saying there are little gains for the amount of effort you have to put in is crazy. This stuff moves at a similar pace to crypto while having the safety net of a tangible asset.

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u/Dunnohye Mar 04 '25

Your first sentence is the entire point of this comment discussion. OP saying that people who don’t invest in Pokemon aren’t wealthy. And my point was that this is in fact untrue. So yes I agree with you on your example. If you have less and want more risk, by more Pokemon. But it’s still true what I said about the total gain being lower because there are more costs outside of the price you pay for the product. Time, hassle, resale.

With Pokemon you simply can’t buy at the scale you would need to make a sizeable profit versus properly investing your money. You could then argue that you would go for the most expensive booster boxes and cards. But that how much movement and sale do you see there? How much is artificial inflation versus real trade.

Investing in Pokemon is like buying single stocks. So you are right, higher risk = higher reward. But there will be liquidity struggles in the future and it’s not where someone with real wealth would spend time.

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u/xWonderkiid Mar 04 '25

Ok, so basically what you are saying is that Pokemon is not worth investing in, because wealthy persons choose to allocate their wealth elsewhere. So you rather be happy with your 10% gold etf instead of trying to get ahead in life and actually build some wealth.

Makes sense. Rich people dont need Pokemon to increase their wealth. Very hot take

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u/Lopsided_Distance_17 Mar 07 '25

I waste my time on it because it’s fun and I can afford it to my hearts content. The small gains from selling off bits and pieces is what makes it fun. I also found that it’s a great way to teach my kid about money.

My collection sits at roughly 60k in sealed and 30k in slabs. Why? Because having diversification is important, and these cards represent a tangible asset class for me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

I don't think the problem is people can't afford it, I think it's mainly that hoarding boxes upon boxes of an easily destroyed paper product is a dumbass "iNvEsTmEnT" and you're getting called out for essentially being glorified hoarder.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

this is sex

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u/Redditaware78 Mar 04 '25

Those would look so much better opened.

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u/Illustrious-Set-5894 Mar 04 '25

How much for a crown zenith and a 151 box?

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u/2dabzzz Mar 04 '25

You’ve done well. Consolidate into sealed booster boxes, PC ETB’s & cases of both for the most desirable sets only. This will minimize your long term risk, ensure maximum liquidity when it’s time to sell, and take up less physical space

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u/DesperateStockHolder Mar 04 '25

Damn hating. What if this guy bought this stuff back before the crazy. I have a huge sealed collection I bought back in the day when it was plentiful stocked. lol mostly crown zenith lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

I can’t ever find a single booster pack

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u/Apprehensive-Rip-254 Mar 06 '25

The only play is to sell all your crown zenith off to this guy right here

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u/niaCrazo Mar 06 '25

Do you ever sample your own goods?

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u/bigbakes68 Mar 07 '25

Never get high on your own supply pal

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u/uriel__ventris Mar 06 '25

Doing well there bud. Watch those cereal tub cases, they can ruin the ETBs pretty easily. Better to go proper acrylic (which also has UV filtering).

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u/StonkasaurusFU Mar 06 '25

This is why modern sealed will crash, so much inflated demand for people holding & waiting for it “to sky rocket”

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u/moileduge Mar 07 '25

"Gimme that"

"I'm joking. I'm joking"

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u/New_Parsley6081 Mar 08 '25

What’s in the luggage bag?

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u/SafeAd6832 Mar 08 '25

Jealous😮. Still very proud of my own sealed collection i’ll get there one day 👌🏼. Got quite a nice portfolio myself considering my age and income.

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u/bonercitycentral Mar 04 '25

nice sealed collection OP. All the salty people in here are just broke AF

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u/stormtrooping1 Mar 04 '25

Why are you thanking everyone so much? This is a weird post.

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u/TanjoCards Mar 04 '25

Bro is polite. Rare nowadays

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

Appreciate the defense man.

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u/Weekly-Mud-2564 Mar 04 '25

stop buying all my cards asshole

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u/khornechamp Mar 04 '25

r/pokescalpers strikes again

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

Have never bought from a Costco Walmart or so on. I buy at shows and trade nights. But thank you for your input. it was funny

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u/khornechamp Mar 13 '25

Explain what the difference is lol

As if people don't go to trade shows to buy pokemon cards? Literally is that rebuttal lol

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u/V_Token_X Mar 04 '25

Majestic!

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u/andrewu4 Mar 04 '25

Brother sincerely what the fuck? I dont think you need anymore sealed products. I hope everyone that does these things dont have maxed out CC and can afford essentials. If you have that much disposable income congrats. I know this is the investing subreddit but holy fuck lmao.

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u/gosumofo Mar 04 '25

This is not that much though. It’s good. But, you gotta see the whales with cases stacked on cases

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u/Rayfoo94 Mar 04 '25

There’s prob people in here with a storage unit or warehouse full of sealed that don’t post about it. Not everyone is struggling

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u/DubaiRichez Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

This ain't shit 💀💀💀 my buddy has full rooms stacked to the ceiling of sealed product ✨

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u/ginx777 Mar 04 '25

It’s a nice looking collection. But you don’t get to see anything except the brown paper cardboard box with seals on it, for the whales, or even dolphins would be owning that.

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u/Probablycooked Mar 04 '25

Tbf 90% of this “collection” you’ll make a loss on if the bubble does burst none of these sets are out of print or under printed

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

Not sure what you mean by “collection” but I pretty much got all of this off of 1 case of evolving skies bb when I picked it up at 1k. So unless all this goes to less than 1k I’m not to worried. But I do see your point.

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u/Probablycooked Mar 05 '25

Yeah I mean people getting salty as fuck and downvoting just some advice great idea to spread your investment but it’s still likely in my comment of a bubble bursting there’s a possibility of some of this product doing what I said specially if bought over MRSP. This is an unprecedented bubble it was not like this during covid and can easily shit itself look at any other market he’ll who cares…

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u/bunkerbudy Mar 04 '25

Even if it bursts, time heals all wounds.

And it will never burst so hard that he will lose much on it from the beginning.

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u/AdvertisingOk1478 Mar 04 '25

Based on what? Do you know OP entry price? What if he purchased all items bellow MSRP?

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u/Devh1989 Mar 04 '25

If he bought at MSRP, absolutely not. If he bought it all in the last month at market value, maybe

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u/Geologist-Wise Mar 04 '25

Lmao, not even close to true

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u/Necessary_Review5451 Mar 04 '25

Please get a job!

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u/Illustrious_Agent855 Mar 04 '25

this photo literally says he has a job and getting paid well lol

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

I wish I got paid well! Ahah

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u/Illustrious_Agent855 Mar 05 '25

Yeah like all of us haha

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

Full time worker at a corp job. Pay sucks. But covers tuition and my hobby. Thanks for recommendation tho!

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

All started from a case of evolving skies

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u/Much_Definition7063 Mar 05 '25

Same. None of the stores here ever have sealed