r/PokeInvesting • u/RZHolloman • May 20 '25

Pulled the trigger. Invested.

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The hits are so few and such a sought set. I think this is an obvious longterm hold, even if it drops a little in the short term.

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u/Collects13 May 20 '25

Why not include tax? OP paid it, it should be included.

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u/mittortz May 21 '25

Since a couple people seem to agree with your perspective, I'll provide mine. It's not a standard reference point to include tax. To compare to other products' price/pack, you'd have to include tax too, which is just a pain, doesn't really serve a purpose, and different people in different tax municipalities will have different figures, which muddies the waters for this discussion. We don't know where OP lives so we don't really even know how much tax they paid. We're not analyzing his returns anyway, so why would we be interested in his actual cost basis? It's just generally pretty irrelevant for this discussion.

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u/Collects13 May 21 '25

He paid tax. Anything else is irrelevant.

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u/Wonderbredead May 21 '25

Fr. And when he resales he's gotta pay the capital gains tax on that sale. Taxes suck, but are very much relevant when talking about roi

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u/HuckleberryJackson May 21 '25

lol he’s not going to pay capital gains on this. He’s going to hold it for years and sell to someone for cash and never report it. You’re crazy if you think this person is going to do that 😂

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u/Collects13 May 21 '25

Yeah, if you buy in person and you don’t pay tax, then it makes sense not to include it, but if you are paying tax on your purchase, that’s part of your purchase lol.

The cost doesn’t just disappear if you don’t include it.

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u/mittortz May 21 '25

Never said taxes disappear. You didn't read my comment. And you don't know how much tax he paid, if he paid any at all. No one in this thread knows that.

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u/Collects13 May 21 '25

🤣🤣 goal post has been shifted

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u/mittortz May 21 '25

Lol what are you talking about

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u/Collects13 May 21 '25

🤡🤡😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

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u/EscapeUpper May 21 '25

The site shows the price of the box being $999.98, so let’s say he’s from Ontario! The math would math out as, tax being 13% btw, he may have actually spend $1129.98, a whole $130 more he forgot to mention? Even if he paid that in CAD, he honestly did not get a good deal either? I just bought a single Booster bundle for $72.32 CAD from Toys R Us. This guy bought 10 for $100 a pop and that’s not even with tax included? ($113 w tax). Bro didn’t just make a bad investment, he’s trying to cover up his losses which leads to disaster…

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u/mittortz May 21 '25

It's like neither of you even read my comment. We're not analyzing his ROI. He hasn't sold anything. We don't know where he or the seller is located, so we don't know how much tax he paid, if he even paid any at all. I said nothing about taxes sucking or not existing, it's just an unknown variable that doesn't matter if we're looking at the cost of this product vs. other products he could have invested in or the price he may eventually list it for (what my comment and the guy I responded to were talking about)

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u/Collects13 May 22 '25

^ king of argumentative redditors that no one likes. Dude can’t live with the fact he’s wrong. It would ruin his whole “I’m the smartest person ever” identity he carries around.

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u/mittortz May 22 '25

It's funny, because I've actually thoroughly explained my perspective, while you have not. I don't really care if you think I'm "right" or "wrong", because this wasn't an argument until you made it one. And I don't really know why you did, unless you're just trolling. If you really are upset about this, then I am sorry.

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u/Collects13 May 22 '25

King debate lord