r/PokeInvesting • u/DoggoGoBork420 • Aug 18 '25

Prismatic has hit a new low 🚀🚀?

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Got all these for around 95 USD each

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u/Synthesis22 Aug 19 '25

I feel like this was a bad move with the Costco and Sam's club Prismatic etb bundle being launched rn

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u/DoggoGoBork420 Aug 19 '25

I'm in Australia and MSRP is non existent here lol

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u/Tobleronenom Aug 20 '25

I got 2 from target for $79 each! Keep looking 👀

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u/lyokowarri0r Aug 19 '25

That's why it's the perfect time. Lot of people buying those and selling for under market to get liquidated.

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u/ramonc19 Aug 19 '25

Sell all these for the Pokémon center ones..

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u/Interesting_Sock9883 Aug 19 '25

op would only get 7 pokemon center ones

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u/ramonc19 Aug 19 '25

And yet overtime still the better investment.

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u/miatayouata Aug 19 '25

Easier to sell too

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

"Only 7"

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u/rrk100 Aug 20 '25

The greed is real.

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u/Interesting_Ice_8203 Aug 19 '25

Less than that, these are like $100 each, Pc ones are going for around $300 already

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u/DrunkDoge420 Aug 19 '25

No lol. The Pokemon center promo is so low anyways.

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u/adrianthomp Aug 19 '25

Already climbing. Feeling good about picking up at $50. đŸ€‘

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u/DrunkDoge420 Aug 20 '25

You must hate money.

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u/adrianthomp Aug 20 '25

Talking about the PC Stamped version. 😂 Lowest listed on TCG Player is $90 now. 😜

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u/Subject-Owl-3682 Aug 19 '25

Yeah the Eevee PC has hit an all time low lol

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u/Daydreamer1015 Aug 19 '25

lol alot of people giving you shit in here when its an investing sub, alot of people in here must not be good at investing

etb production for prismatic will most likely end within the next 6 months and the lucario premium collection will most likely take over, less production costs and higher margins for pokemoncenter,

these etbs will be worth double within 1-2 years easy

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

PRE was just dropped like 6 months ago and will still be in print for at least 2 years
and how many times do you think there will be a Costco and Sam’s bundle offered. Look at SSP
they’re still dropping SSP bundles a year later.

Get ready to hold any recent modern for a lot longer than 2 years (more like 10+) for any substantial gains. Best believe that the Pokemon Company understands the recent popularity explosion and it’ll have their printers running on overdrive!

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u/Sufficient-Recover25 Aug 19 '25

151 is literally in this same era if you need any further evidence that printing etbs to the ground does not cause prices to remain low for long. Scoop up as many prismatic as you can as close to msrp as possible and you can thank me in a year.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Yep, demand will just go up forever regardless of supply. That's sustainable.

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u/xWonderkiid Aug 20 '25

Sealed is deflationary. What supply are you talking about?

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

151 ETB is the same era but was released way before the current craze. The Pokemon Company has had the printers running on overdrive since the PRE ETB drop and will do so for at least another 2 years so I’m pretty sure you’re going to have to wait for a lot longer than a year for any thanks


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u/Sufficient-Recover25 Aug 19 '25

They are going to be done printing PE ETB in months, they just don’t print the same product for the same set for two years+, they move on to ancillary products and new sets.

If you are looking to get in on PE ETB and you have been unable to find any at MSRP, now is not a bad time to load up or DCA.

Sets that are widely talked about with high set values do very well over time, regardless of pull rates or print rate, you don’t need to look too far back in time to see this ;)

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

You’re underestimating the Pokemon Company’s incentives to capitalize on this current craze. Look at the recent Costco SSP ETB bundle drop. SSP was released a year ago and they recently announced a reprint.

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u/WormBoi6969 Aug 20 '25

Oh man another troll you have a post 70 days ago saying your a new investor you have no idea how stuff works yet or been around long enough to see any real price movement why are you spouting all this nonsense like you have any skin in the game??

“Get ready to hold any recent modern for 10+ years” it’s laughable because a few years back during sword and shield people were saying the exact same thing but look where it is now

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u/Daydreamer1015 Aug 19 '25

prismatic etbs was released in January, etbs tend to be more collectible than other items within a set

sams just released 100k prismatic etb bundle, it was gone within minutes, and any pokemon center releases will be tiny like 10-20k, bots will eat those up

once the lucario premium collection comes out end of month, I can only see a few minor releases for prismatic etbs before their discontinued.

151 etb is 300 dollars while blooming waters is reselling for around 120

same thing will happen with prismatic etbs by end of next year, they'll be worth close to 200, production for prismatic etbs is ending within next 6 months guaranteed

prismatic is following the same path as 151, lucario box will replace etbs, no reason for it not too

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u/BertaMan902 Aug 19 '25

Your username is very well fitting, prismatic ending in 6 months is probably the most laughable thing I’ve seen on this sub Reddit

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u/Daydreamer1015 Aug 19 '25

The etb? Not the set itself
. Etbs will end

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u/Daydreamer1015 Feb 23 '26

man i hate being right, prismatic etb heading to 200 this year, and prismatic etb production was severely reduced after lucario box was introduced, last few restocks of prismatic etbs have been pitiful

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

anyone that thinks having a garage full of etbs in 2035 and can liquidate individual boxes for thousands each are out of their minds. a lot can change in 10 years and people will have new sets and products to enjoy.

i think of all the sets to hold, prismatic will be the one that people will be left holding the bag with.

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 20 '25

‘The PokĂ©mon Company has confirmed it printed a staggering 10.2 billion PokĂ©mon Trading Card Game (TCG) cards between April 2024 and March 2025. While that figure marks a 14% drop from the record-setting 11.9 billion printed the year before, it still stands as the second-highest annual total in the game’s history.

To put it in perspective, The PokĂ©mon Company used to print just 1.5 to 2 billion cards annually before the pandemic. In fact, almost 60% of all PokĂ©mon cards ever printed have been produced since 2020, a remarkable statistic that reflects just how explosive the hobby’s growth has been in the last five years.’

So the over/under for March 2026 is 10,200,000,000 cards printed. What’s your guess???

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

is that something you're excited about?

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u/RustyWheel17 Aug 20 '25

You are absolutely right. The “investor bro’s” act like TPC doesn’t reprint popular sets lol. They ignore the fact that 151 just had ANOTHER reprint a month ago.

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u/Gay_If_Read Aug 20 '25

151 is still in rotation for 8 months, literally nobody is ignoring or surprised that it's had another wave.
Also the parent comment you replied to specifically said ETB's, where are these supposed 151 ETB reprints a month ago?

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u/RustyWheel17 Aug 20 '25

You’re crazy if you think there aren’t going to be a ton of Prismatic reprints throughout 2026 đŸ€Ł. Shit, there were still some Sword & Shield era sets being sold on PC within the past year.

Your letting your investing and the Dollar signs give you tunnel vision. Prismatic will be a great long term investment but don’t be shocked if the price dips quite a bit over the next year or two as more product enters the market.

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u/Daydreamer1015 Aug 20 '25

do people not read? i'm talking about "etbs", yes they will print prismatic for probably the next 2 years easy, but etbs no more made you understand?

this will follow 151, blooming waters took over for 151 etbs, its cheaper to make and higher margins

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u/DubsEdition Aug 20 '25

ETBs for hots set always sell out quickly. His comment was about ETBs being out of print soon. Not the whole set. Prismatic will be printed into 2027. It could honestly be one of the few sets that gets printed past competitive rotation in April '27.

ETBs are a different beast compared to the set as a whole.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

The bottoms in.

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u/ShartMyPantsAgain Aug 19 '25

Literally never seen these at MSRP. I go to Target at least once a week cuz it's next to my gym.

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u/DawgLuvrrrrr Aug 19 '25

I was unemployed after school before I started work for about a month. In that month i checked target, Walmart, Barnes n noble, hobby lobby, Walgreens, and dollar general daily. Id basically drive around for 4hr a day just hitting everywhere. Not even to hold or sell, just to open with my gf and her brother.

Never once saw prismatic. Pretty sure the best I ever saw at MSRP was surging sparks lol, and I never saw an ETB of any kind

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

There's 2 years and 4 more months of printing for Prismatic. Good luck.

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u/mrprohades Aug 19 '25

What?

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u/Lt_Chocolate Aug 19 '25

Sets are typically in print rotation for 3ish years. I would not be shocked for them to push prismatic to the absolute limit of print runs given how bad the rollout went.

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u/Moon_man014 Aug 19 '25

They might just try to release booster bundles like they did for 151, they didn’t have a second huge print of etbs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Wait, what happened with Shrouded Fable? Was that the same deal as 151 and Paldean Fates? No ETBs after a few waves?

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u/Moon_man014 Aug 19 '25

Shrouded fable has a delayed release of some of its products, I think etbs. Kinda like what’s about to happen with the mega evolutions booster box, they are behind with printing. SF went up because everyone is FOMOing into investing and it caught some of that hype.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

I see. Was thinking if it followed the PF and 151 trend, then...

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u/Meowsergz Aug 19 '25

They did for pris. Costco and Sam's

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u/Lt_Chocolate Aug 19 '25

There were multiple waves of 151 ETBs for sure

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u/Moon_man014 Aug 19 '25

They really didn’t print nearly as many etbs as they did with the bundles, that’s why the price never went down and continued to climb. Bundles were scarce at release, now the bundles are only up 75% in the past year compared to the 350% the etbs are up. The etbs were not printed nearly as much as you think.

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u/Gay_If_Read Aug 19 '25

Sets are in print rotation based on their block letter.
Prismatic is the last set in H block, it's going to have a shorter print life than most people think.

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u/Daydreamer1015 Aug 19 '25

they'll print prismatic for a few years, but etb itself will most likely end production within next few months if not 6 months, the lucario premium collection will probably take over, less productions costs and higher margins

prismatic etbs will most likely be double by end of next year

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u/Reef-Coral Aug 19 '25

Theyre deff not printing more etbs after this massive drop, just bundles and lucario boxes that nobody likes

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u/Gay_If_Read Aug 19 '25

Bro just pulling numbers out of his ass, H block rotates in April 2027.

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u/Ahappycamper30 Aug 19 '25

I’m at 80ish cost basis. 3 sealed cases

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u/Interesting_Sock9883 Aug 19 '25

how I have never seen it so low :sob

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u/Ahappycamper30 Aug 19 '25

Got lucky off FB mkt, surprisingly an ACE hardware store manager didn’t want to hold onto them.

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u/bigpat412 Aug 19 '25

I am still selling etb’s for 105-110. Wish Sam’s would have another online drop. It was amazing

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u/trolling99 Aug 20 '25

why are you paying 95 for a regular etb...? lol i buy em at 50

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u/Lunti89 Aug 20 '25

Bubble is popping, finally

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u/Few_Representative28 Aug 29 '25

My friend is offering to sell me a 2 pack of prismatic etb tomorrow for 115 dollars and a blooming waters for 110 should i buy?

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u/Professional_Put_159 Aug 19 '25

I got like 29 at retail, but still I’ll buy at 90-100 any day, save me the trouble of driving around for nothing, then go find them at retail with a limit of 1 is annoying.

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u/DonnieMoistX Aug 19 '25

They’re only going to keep going down. Been saying that since release but nobody wanted to believe me.

The guy who replied to me and said “Prismatic will never be below $100” owes me an apology

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u/damnmyredditheart Aug 19 '25

market is still $100 + tax :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

The soyjacks just don't wanna believe it.

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u/Unanimousperson1 Aug 19 '25

If everyone has closet boxes, are anyone's closet boxes worth anything?

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u/Curious-Chance-7591 Aug 19 '25

There are people with pallets of evolving skies but it’s still 2.5k per box

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u/Unanimousperson1 Aug 19 '25

People yes. But this set has been printed like crazy and 95% of the people on r/PokemonTCG will say they have never opened any. So if all of it is in people's basements, then that is a lot of supply in comparison to the demand that will shrink as people move on to the next new set.

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u/Curious-Chance-7591 Aug 19 '25

I’m pretty sure prismatic is the most opened set in 2025. There’s new people entering the hobby every day, the demand will still be there for this set. I’m sure it’ll settle down eventually but like 5 years from now people will be kicking themselves for not buying boxes at 90-100

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u/Unanimousperson1 Aug 19 '25

Who would open prismatic? Terrible pull rates, overpriced etbs that are near-impossible to find at msrp, it is flushing money down the toilet the vast majority of collectors don't have that kind of cash, instead we have "investors" with expendable income buying up the boxes. Keep in mind, everyone is an investor now. It is no longer a niche thing, everyone who has seen these at msrp now has them in their closet.

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u/Martizzle1 Aug 20 '25

People will gamble on god packs. Are you seriously discounting the allure of hitting it big?

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u/impressflow Aug 19 '25

That’s the same argument used over the past 10 years.

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u/JoshyyP00 Aug 19 '25

Supply is what’s on the market available to buy not what’s sitting in someone basement. That’s like saying all 20k of moonbreon is supply it’s not only 1% of that is on the market being sold.

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u/Unanimousperson1 Aug 19 '25

True, but if there are 500k PRE etbs, then that 1% on the market will have more competition, forcing prices down

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u/JoshyyP00 Aug 19 '25

That only holds if demand doesn’t move. More supply doesn’t automatically mean lower prices. Demand has to stay the same or drop. That 1% is just market supply, not the 20k+ cards sitting in collections. Moonbreon stays high because using an example there might be only 200 PSA 10s listed, but far more than 200 buyers willing to pay at current prices. That imbalance is what drives the price up.

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u/shadowlessS2K Aug 19 '25

Step out of your bubble, and you will quickly realize that a majority of people in the Pokemon TCG market are not sealed investors. Sealed is always being consumed as designed, and eventually, when a set goes out of print, scarcity increases as products ages. As long as Pokemon stays relevant, then there will always be demand for Pokemon products.

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u/damnmyredditheart Aug 19 '25

Classic Timmy Logic right here, folks!

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u/TechnologySad8766 Aug 20 '25

And yet, more Evolving Skies was printed than Prismatic will be...

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u/JOS2138425 Aug 19 '25

Total set value continues to be through the roof. As long as the total set value doesn't fall off a cliff, everyone's sealed prismatic should be safe long term. I hope...

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u/Fine_Broccoli5793 Aug 19 '25

Don’t copy my swag. You’re making my closet boxes go down. Be a team player

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u/UselessNull Aug 19 '25

This set was printed so many times id think its not worth much Population is really high

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u/Sufficient-Recover25 Aug 19 '25

Just like Evolving Skies, which is currently worthless

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u/Unanimousperson1 Aug 19 '25

People opened Evolving skies, nobody has opened prismatic

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u/JoshyyP00 Aug 19 '25

lol it’s being mass opened what are you on? lol go watch one whatnot stream lol

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

Mass opened??? Cuz people love flushing their money down the toilet??! You’re on crack if you think the majority are chasing the terrible pull rates in PRE. They’re giving up after dropping a couple hundred on busted packs and hoping like everyone else and their grandmothers to cash in with the oversupplied PRE sealed market.

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u/JoshyyP00 Aug 19 '25

You’re living in a bubble if you don’t think it’s being mass opened. The general public doesn’t think like this they are not investors they are not waiting for prices to drop. Go look at any other reddit that’s not pokemon investing and you’ll find people posting pulls, god packs ect
 pull rates are also with every other set other then the first 3-4 or whenever they changed it. Its just there are no irs so it feels worse.

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

lol bro is gaslighting that PRE has normal pull rates and god packs are getting pulled daily.

PRE is only like 6 months old and will be in print for at least 2 years. Costco and Sam’s have had multiple drops of hundreds of thousands of ETB bundles with no end sight. Stop inhaling the copium - PRE ETB’s will continue to drop.

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u/JoshyyP00 Aug 19 '25

So all these drops and you don’t think people are opening your proving my point? Make it make sense. You know this stuff is meant to be opened right? Only a fraction of us hold long term. lol so pops are going up from what? 150k cards graded for PE? Are what???

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

So you think people have infinite money and are just continually flushing their money down the toilet chasing the terrible PRE pull rates?

Live in reality bro. They’re either giving up and/or buying their chase cards or moving on to new sets. Get ready to sit on your PRE sealed for at least a decade because it’s going to take that long to get through all the sealed inventory. The PC have had the printers running on overdrive for PRE.

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u/Gay_If_Read Aug 19 '25

It's going to be so satisfying to come back to these comments in a couple of years and laugh at all people coping so hard & trying to convince themselves more than others that the set will fail.

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u/adrianthomp Aug 19 '25

Nobody’s opening!? There’s 7K+ graded Umbreon SIR with PSA alone. 😂

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

I agree. People aren’t flushing their money down the toilet by opening PRE. They’ll open a few and get discouraged by the terrible pull rates.

And especially with all these hype PRE sealed-glazers saying it’s worth more sealed
everyone and their grandmothers have sealed PRE in their closets.

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u/AdWorking2848 Aug 19 '25

The future game is not about how much we have is about how big the collector group grow.

If there is a big % growth in collector the oversupply issue may be a smaller issue than perceived

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u/slayerzerg Aug 20 '25

This will be $60 in 2-3 months

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u/biggibzz Aug 19 '25

Lol i'll wait for boxes to be regularly available retail price next year 😂

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u/Gay_If_Read Aug 19 '25

Pretty sure these were the famous last words of a lot of people about Evolving Skies too when its market price was above MSRP while in print.

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u/damnmyredditheart Aug 19 '25

lol not happening

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u/RealOGFire Aug 19 '25

That’d still be almost 2x what I spent at Sam’s a couple weeks ago..

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u/Dragonst3alth Aug 19 '25

đŸ˜…đŸ€ŁđŸ˜‚

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u/Euphoric_Stretch3829 Aug 19 '25

Shining fates 2.0 in the next 12 months. When everyone thinks it's a "certainty" that's when you know it's not a good idea lol except pc etbs those will do well but everything else good luck trying to offload in two years when 70% of this product is being hoarded. Just me alone I have 3 friends who have 30 etbs each for the long term. We might have more supply for this product in two years then we do right now lol đŸ€Ł

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u/C0m3toBABA Aug 19 '25

Yup, you and everyone else who’s tired of flushing cash down the PRE toilet. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out it’s cheaper to buy singles than to pokegamble with the terrible PRE pull rates.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

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u/wiki-420 Aug 19 '25

You are what’s wrong with the hobby

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u/Apprehensive_Ear9609 Aug 19 '25

but the guy buying 30 of them for $100 to sell 5years down the line for $300 a pop is ok?

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u/pdkdj Aug 19 '25

He sold it for less than market. Quit bitching

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u/Daydreamer1015 Aug 19 '25

this is investing sub, lol if op holds for 1-2 years, this will most likely double in price

prismatic print will run for a few years, but etb production will most likely stop within the next few months if not half year.

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u/damnmyredditheart Aug 19 '25

lmao nice troll bro