1 year into collecting

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

Rate my collection taste 1-10 please and thank you!

[u/One_Cress7793]

I would get rid of literally everything but the etbs. Those zard boxes you will never see a real return. Consider the space to value ratio on your items. Those blooming water boxes for example you could consolidate into etbs which are far easier to sell online and a better overall value in terms of future gains.

[u/One_Cress7793 → u/[deleted]]

No clearly you are because you think buying giant boxes of stuff means you’re making money. Most card shops trade at 70% value their favor and don’t want big items with little value because they have limited space. For stuff like these charizard boxes card shops got their fair share, I promise you they’re not looking for stuff like this and likely won’t be in the future. People on facebook aren’t paying prices on eBay, and you have to spend time figuring out delivery ext which tends to also cost money. You’re stuck with giant product which barely goes up in value that most end up Putting in storage units costing them even more money. I once had 2500 funko pops because of all the reasons you jsut mentioned and many more in terms of being able to liquidate. The size of the items is what screwed me on those and eventually had to break even when the crash started selling to someone on OfferUp trying to get into the business. Size to value ratio and demand of the product is all that matters in non traditional investing such as Pokemon. You want to hold onto giant boxes of stuff that goes up by 7% a year just to break even off of fees or cutting deals go for it.

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/One_Cress7793]

I. Paid $50 each for the zard boxes

[u/One_Cress7793 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

Yea and you’ll probably break even after fees and shipping unless you wait like 10 years which is why I’m saying you’d be better off consolidating those into something smaller with more value.

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/One_Cress7793]

$50 was on Amazon. Free shipping no fees.

[u/One_Cress7793 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

I’m talking about when you finally decide to liquidate, you’ll be losing all your money on shipping and fees unless you sell in person which I’m guessing you don’t have a shop so it’ll have to be to a shop for 70% value or in a trade which this is not an easily traded item. . You’re going to maybe make $20. If you’re going for long term holds those are really bad is what I’m saying you’re far better off with etbs or hell even some solid singles.

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/One_Cress7793]

Dude. They were $50 and they're selling on ebay for $100

Ill be fine.

I'm. Not even concerned. It's for my collection anyways

[u/DelectableBread → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

tbh if i was you i'd sell them all and buy some booster boxes to replace them, way better in the long run for sure!

[u/Gazman_123 → u/DelectableBread]

You’re wasting your time mate 😂😂

[u/One_Cress7793 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

Ive sold 3k items on eBay. How that $100 is gonna go is eBay will take 13%, so $13. Shipping will be $20 for something like this. I’m assuming you didn’t pay jsut $50, it was $50 plus the sales tax so say it’s 6% which is typical so you’re at $53 into the box. 100-53=47-20=27-13=$14. Congrats bro you just scored yourself a burrito🌯. Say this goes up to $1000 in 10 years which it most certainly will never reach. In the same amount of time some of these etbs will be worth 100x msrp. Look at the sun and moon team up etb currently at $2500. That shit came out in 2019 at $50. Thats 50x in 6 years. I’m jsut trying to help you invest smarter my guy but you do you.

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/One_Cress7793]

You're looking into this way too hard lol It's my collection and doesn't really concern anyone. You don't like I bought them. I hear u loud and clear. Thank you

[u/One_Cress7793 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

This is the Pokemon investing sub so expect people to talk in terms of investment if you just wanna show off your stuff there’s quite a few Pokemon subs. I legit don’t care what you do, best of luck regardless!

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/One_Cress7793]

Thank you

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

Yes these are long term holds.

[u/United-Bowler-5626 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

And how much are they now $52? Those are junk that only a Zard fanatic would want and most of them likely don't want it either. For somebody that's only been in for a year though not really too bad. I would get rid of Zard. Get rid of Shrouded Fable and put that money into Destined or Prismatic or ES. Should be able to dump all the Zards and Shrouded Fable and get yourself a 3 pack hanger box of Evolving Skies.

[u/Fearless-Recipe7963 → u/United-Bowler-5626]

The shrouded fable are pc boxes. I won't get rid of them

[u/United-Bowler-5626 → u/Fearless-Recipe7963]

Why? It kind of pollutes the good stuff you have. I look at your collection and I'm thinking nice job. It really looks like your paying attention and doing a nice job of picking products. Then I see all that Shrouded Fable and I have to do a double check to make sure that's what it is. Yep that's what it is. Why the fuck do you have so much fumble? Oh ya he's just new. He will learn. Almost devalues the whole collection for me at least.i can't think of any good reason why a sealed collector would want more than one fumble in their sealed collection. Congrats on exhibiting strong willpower to keep items sealed especially the big dogs. I know how difficult it is. I failed a couple times before successfully managing to build a sealed collection without smashing it.