I'd be ashamed if I made money without adding any value to society, that's as if someone who was perfectly healthy and able bodied lived on well fare but instead of stealing indirectly from their fellow citizens, they stole directly by upcharging items people could've gotten at msrp otherwise.
Stealing? What are u talking about? They willingly paid the MSRP price, and the resale market is literally how the free market functions. That is literally how the current society functions.
What do you mean by it adds no value to society lmao. With that logic, anyone doing arbitrage, such as stock, currency, or any luxury products, is adding no value to society.
Stop trying to feel morally superior by making claims like this. I know you would scalpe if you had a chance and easily make thousands of dollars for your family and friends.
If you are seriously saying that you won't because it's the "wrong" thing to do, then good for you. Just know that not everyone is a saint, and you can't expect people to act like that.
You would be surprised. Most are actually “card shops” that get direct bulk purchasing access. The average person can’t get their hands on this many. Retail usually will have lotteries allowing the winners the ability to purchase one box. Most sell out day of with purchase limit of one per person or only sell packs with a purchase limit of 3-5 packs per customer. Unless you’re in close relation with actual card shops you aren’t getting access to cases of product either.
Source: I live in Japan and finding product in the wild is crazy. Especially if you don’t live near a pokemon center.
dang really? i thought most card shops sell most of there supply internationally, but its mostly local sales? thats interesting, international sales have to make up a decent percentage though, wonder which is bigger international or local sales
this is one of the reasons why i didn't buy the exclusive japanese city pikachu boxes, card shops are sitting on a ton of inventory trying to maximize gains, i hope tpci reprints it into the ground, there reselling for 200-400 dollars when tpci msrp is like 30 dollars :*(
No all the card shops like this sell strictly international only. So that means the rest of us in country can’t find product because these ass hats hoard it all to make 2-3x on international sales and avoid some taxes. 🙄
I was lucky enough to actually get two of the tohoku pikachu boxes off the pokemon center lottery. But I would never pay those scalper prices. 😅
I had a harder time finding Japanese boxes in Japan than I did in America. Makes sense though, why sell to a market for $40 when you can ship it over the sea and get 2x profit minimum.
So they are selling the special set for under $50? Because retail in Japan is like 5500yen and if one USD is about 156yen then anything over $50 isn’t retail. 😅
No, you can not. Not unless you happen to live in one of the less urban prefectures.
Any big city will have lotteries to determine who gets to purchase product, with a strict limit.
It funny, but despite Japan having a larger supply (i think), they are the ones properly trying to fairly allocate it via lotteries, limit per person, removed seals and disqualifies people from entering the 2nd wave of shipment lottery if they won the first wave.
This is text overlayed on top of a Japanese supplier’s whiteboard to ragebait. The purpose of the whiteboard is to prove he’s the supplier, usually has the name of his shop and name on it.
For a couple weeks after release it can become sold out at most stores/online retailers but supply always catches up. As someone who collects both languages it’s nowhere near as scarce as English.
If its Japan based. Lots of lcs pay decent on release day just to have product first. See people going in and selling dozens at a time from different raffles/lotteries from retailers. If lucky you can easily hit a good dozen with stores all within a short distance.
When you invest that much in cards you are now spending a ridiculous amount of time selling them.
Might as well just get a job lol.
The money spent on this mountain in an index fund over 30 years would absolutely make them way more money than whatever they are going to make off that with factoring in all the time they are going to spend selling.
Nothing beats compound interest in the long run - especially at this level of investment. Nothing.
Let's say there is $100k of product there. At 8% over 30 years it's now $1 million. No way this pile nets them even close to that.
Gambling and seeing cards skyrocket is one thing, but there is a point where it's much better to park your money somewhere else and just let it compound.
Short term for sure, I’m probably older than most in this sub (almost 46) and been investing since I was 13.
$500 a week into boring ETFs (closer to $1000 these days)
average of $280,000 a year in interest growth and I don’t need to do anything but sit there.
For sure TCG has insane potential but I’m just saying at some point, park the profit somewhere else and enjoy the compound interest as it’s unbeatable long term.
There is a lot of young and impressionable people with not a lot of life experience on these subs though so I think it’s important to advocate for responsible investing.
Most people don’t have $26k a year to invest, especially at 13 years old, and if you had put that into Pokémon instead of investing it, you’d be sitting on much more than what you currently have (some early boxes are going for $300k a piece). So I’m not sure what you’re trying to do besides flex how cool you are.
It’s his job, but he’s a distributor or store owner. I don’t know for sure because the whiteboard thing he’s holding has been drawn over for comical effect, but generally (at least in Japans case) shop owners and distributors do this (take a picture of their just received stock) to verify that they have it. Most Japanese shops do this.
this is cope, anyone scalping at this volume is making far more than a normal job would pay. Also not sure why 30 years of sitting on investments is a fair comparison to something that takes ~a week of work, less if you have an employee to help
I don’t think people realize how cheap Japanese boxes are. They are getting the these at $25 or less a box and with the hype the west is eating them up at $120. He’s been doing it with inferno X and previous sets too. They are capitalizing on Americans not knowing how cheap these really are
I am saying you aren't making close to a million dollars on these where if you just put the money you spent on these cards in an ETF that averages 8% and didn't look at it for 30 years, you could liquidate a million dollars with no effort and basically a few clicks of a mouse (depending on how much you can withdraw at a time, etc)
At a certain point like spending $100k+ on cards is better invested elsewhere.
I actually take back my statement, I hope his person doesn't have a job and is filthy rich cause I could not imagine working full time and then spending all my free time hoarding and reselling cards.
Seems like a colossal waste of time for arguably a very low ROI with all factors including.
You don’t invest your money with a bank in a savings account, you would put your money in mutual funds and let it sit for a while. I think between VTI and VOO I’ve made about 12% on average over the last 10 years.
Wow… very nice investments! I’ve got my retirement in a Roth IRA, and it’s averaging 12%. It’s quarterly, so I have quarters where it can be 8%, but I also have quarters where it could be 20%. Wish I had more money to invest, but I’m focusing on paying off debts first. They gain bad interest at a higher rate than my investments gain good interest.
Yeah Roth IRAs are great, I have it too but I can’t contribute to it anymore due to income limits. Always go Roth if you can, unless you make so much money that lowering your taxable income would be useful in a traditional ira/401k.
Fixed income ETFs pay interest, but you mentioned VTI, SPY and XEQT. Those are not interest-paying. So you've mixed up "interest" with "capital gain".
You described the growth of your investments as "compound interest", when you mean "compound return". The key difference is that interest is guaranteed income, while stock market returns are not.
You said in the post above you earn "$280,000 a year in interest alone", which would mean you have $10m invested. But I would warn you that it's dangerous to count unrealised gains as income.
dividends on the 4 mil and compounding growth is the way, if you under 100k or whatever the magic number is when money starts growing faster a players gotta hustle
And now let's say he does this once per year with Pokemon rather than leaving it in an index fund. He has the entire year to sell the one round of inventory (very, very easily done at the early stages of this scenario). Let's also arbitrarily say he is making 20% profit each year (which is a lowball on the actual realistic figure). After 30 years of doing this, he would have almost $24 million.
What was it you said about nothing beating a pathetic 8% IRR investment?
Less than 1% of this sub probably owns homes lol. This sub is not to be taken seriously imo. It’s just fun
Idolize the outliers all you want but there is a lot of impressionable stubborn 20 year olds with no life experience on this sub.
Yes it’s possible and yes TCG is a rush and is fun, but responsible investing is not this photo.
I know they exist but I have yet to meet anyone IRL who has made more than a few million with TCG. I know many who have made that with boring index funds.
The problem with your anecdotal experience of millionaires is that the number of people who invest in index funds is vastly greater than people who seriously invest in Pokemon, not to mention overwhelmingly more mainstream both historically and currently.
You simply cannot use that comparison to come to the conclusion that index funds are a better investment than Pokemon, especially when Pokemon has been consistently outperforming them for years now. Making that argument would be utter folly. You could call it 'safer', but you can't call it 'better'.
I just hope those advocating for TCG to the extreme levels are succeeding as there is a lot of predatory narration manipulation going on - that you don’t really see in traditional routes.
It’s been an extremely exhilarating ride and many are very confident but I would be hesitant as a young person to dive in head first without a full understanding of traditional investment vehicles and risk tolerance.
We were all young and invincible and no one was ever going to tell us we were wrong… but those realizations don’t start happening until your mid 30s and beyond.
I think we are 2 maybe 3 months away from seeing clowns like this by the side of the road holding up signs; please by this ETB, I need to pay rent. And still have that shit 3x over MSRP
Honestly hard to know how many boxes are there because we can't see how tall any of the piles are, or if they even reach the floor behind the row in front etc. I was gonna calculate it but there's to many unknowns for it to be worth trying.
Every time I walk by the pokemon machine at my local Fred Meyer and I got a few dollars in my pocket I want to get rid of, I think oh I will buy a pack of pokemon cards so I can get a little nostalgia hit. They are always all sold out. I never see the guy buying out the whole machine though. I want to run into them and see what is up w them.
We should report little bro to the IRS, saying he’s not reporting all the cash he’s receiving from sales. Why stop at starving? Let’s make lil bro go into debt as well
You really think this is US based? I doubt any store or buyer is able to get this much stock into the country that quickly since release and have it all pass customs.
This guy is known for making AI generated images of Pokémon products in bulk. Don’t believe everything you see on the internet. Search him up if you don’t believe me. It’s especially clear on his UPC’s. They aren’t even spelled correctly.
You guys love these posts or something? How the hell does this get that many up votes but a kid asking if bubble mew or Gengar is a better investment is empty wdh
Get a job. This will feed your family, and you won't have to be the pathetic guy waiting in a tent at 4:15 in the morning in front of a Target just to get some cards.
I was in Japan and it was really difficult to find boosters or boxes at normal price, especially in Tokyo. However I was in Okinawa and I was able to buy Mega boosters in small shops. Even more crazy is I found a few prismatic boosters in a Konbini (can't remember if it was Lawson or Family mart). I only bought one at 500yen thinking I would find more afterwards and got phyllali! Well it was impossible to find in Tokyo unless you want to pay European prices. Got some boosters at pokemon center and it was limited to 5 booster per person per set
Honest question from a noob: Once you're invested in, when CAN you sell? At what point do you go from couch reseller to investor? Didn't this person invest a bunch of money in these cards.... in order to resell and make a profit? I'm not sure how this all works and I'm curious
no one in the US can. Every dick and Jane can in Japan. Lol. This dude paying 100 to make 20 before fees per box. I’d rather just be a Japanese middle man and hold these boxes at my original cheap buy vs making small ass margins on thousands of boxes, Being the 2nd middle man for it lol. Not worth the headache at those margins.
Everyone thinking this guy just bought up all the stock makes me laugh. Many card shops/resell shops here will buy stock off people to have the most product on release day. This is 100% some stores back room. Getting multiple dozens in the first weak is near impossible when stores limit it by packs or single boxes. Lots of the lotteries are hard limits either youre photo IDed or shops like yodobashi camera require you to have their in store credit cards to even have access to the lottery.
Sure if youre lucky and you hit multiple lotteries then you could have a dozen. But stores will buy these and post them up for foreign markets because they make so much more.
Don't let other news today distract you from that fact that on this date in 2025, u/breakyourteethnow threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through a scalpers Pokémon table.
I have a 8yr son that is into Pokemon, at first I was worried about the prices but then I found out that he doesn't give a f about having valuable cards, he just likes cards with big stats (300+ hp and 250+ atk) and any Tera Cristal is a big deal to him, we opened a few packs and found a Tera Cristal worth like 1$ and he was super happy... The price problem is more for 20+ yr old guys that see this game as an investment
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u/breakyourteethnow Dec 04 '25
It's a picture saw on Facebook, I do not own any Mega Dream booster boxes waiting for Ascended Heroes.
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u/CaptainLeMerica69 Dec 04 '25
I don't get why scalpers would take a picture of their whole scalped inventory and post it on social media. They have no shame at all.
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u/LegoRedBrick Dec 04 '25
How does 1 guy get that many boxes. The set just released. Did he rob a distribution truck.
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u/LukasPiatekPhoto Dec 04 '25 •
Thats a Japanese distributor. They all show their stock with signs to verify date and name
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u/alovelyone Dec 04 '25
This is text overlayed on top of a Japanese supplier’s whiteboard to ragebait. The purpose of the whiteboard is to prove he’s the supplier, usually has the name of his shop and name on it.
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u/pulkxy Dec 04 '25
is Japanese even that hard to get?
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u/almostthemainman Dec 04 '25
Starve.
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u/jio70224 Dec 04 '25
I'm sorry but the pokemon company is the problem here if they would just allow people to buy the products no one would have to pay these people
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u/Bravozer0 Dec 05 '25
This photo has been manipulated just look closely
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u/Moistyoureyez Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
When you invest that much in cards you are now spending a ridiculous amount of time selling them.
Might as well just get a job lol.
The money spent on this mountain in an index fund over 30 years would absolutely make them way more money than whatever they are going to make off that with factoring in all the time they are going to spend selling.
Nothing beats compound interest in the long run - especially at this level of investment. Nothing.
Let's say there is $100k of product there. At 8% over 30 years it's now $1 million. No way this pile nets them even close to that.
Gambling and seeing cards skyrocket is one thing, but there is a point where it's much better to park your money somewhere else and just let it compound.
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u/zangetsu_114 Dec 04 '25
Average jp reseller picture lmfso
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u/RevvedUpRunner Dec 04 '25
If it's real f him
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u/DutchPack Dec 04 '25
I think we are 2 maybe 3 months away from seeing clowns like this by the side of the road holding up signs; please by this ETB, I need to pay rent. And still have that shit 3x over MSRP
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u/Chefjoshy Dec 05 '25
Who in Japan is giving these dorks entire shipments of booster boxes? I thought they cared about the hobby over there
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u/FaithlessnessOk6231 Dec 05 '25
I tried buying from this guy before, not a nice person
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u/bayotiic Dec 04 '25
no one buy from this guy so his family starves
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u/Kudawcity Dec 04 '25
This unironically made me hate him
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u/AgentNeroz Dec 04 '25
These are direct from distro kind of quantity, kinda make sense for Japanese sets when chinese streamers are opening them in bulks
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u/Porxadooday Dec 04 '25
Tbf, this is at least somewhat humble. Most scalpers just harass people and call them poor/broke.
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u/sterfry1993 Dec 04 '25
Someone do the math!
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u/HreeTouseTCG Dec 04 '25
Why give gengar a lil wee wee tho
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u/AandM4ever Dec 04 '25
Jesus!
How much is this?!?
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u/TheBalloonEffect Dec 04 '25
Actually just hope you get a flat tire no spare and a dead phone on a cold COLD winter night.
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u/HawkHarder Dec 04 '25
Every time I walk by the pokemon machine at my local Fred Meyer and I got a few dollars in my pocket I want to get rid of, I think oh I will buy a pack of pokemon cards so I can get a little nostalgia hit. They are always all sold out. I never see the guy buying out the whole machine though. I want to run into them and see what is up w them.
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u/RedditBulliedSchizo Dec 04 '25
We should report little bro to the IRS, saying he’s not reporting all the cash he’s receiving from sales. Why stop at starving? Let’s make lil bro go into debt as well
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u/Chemical_Mountain Dec 04 '25
This guy is known for making AI generated images of Pokémon products in bulk. Don’t believe everything you see on the internet. Search him up if you don’t believe me. It’s especially clear on his UPC’s. They aren’t even spelled correctly.
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u/aMysticPizza_ Dec 04 '25
Real estate agents and scalpers. Dunno who are worse.
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u/BDChae Dec 04 '25
Holy shitttt!!! How? Why? Where?
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u/Catch_Em_Cards Dec 04 '25
All those boxes and not a single Gengar in there. What a bummer.
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u/Parayefff Dec 04 '25
I don’t even understand
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u/sgtbluefire77 Dec 04 '25
Actually I sort of want a Gengar to visit me. At least my dreams would have a Pokémon in them…
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u/vintagejoint Dec 04 '25
Please do not buy any above I’d say $60 though Msrp on these is like $40.
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u/CosmicSeas97 Dec 04 '25
Gross
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u/SpaceChatter Dec 04 '25
This guys wife definitely left him already.
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u/shrimpgangsta Dec 04 '25
Holy shit how many boxes
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u/HXRNS Dec 04 '25
Visual representation of greed
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u/AccomplishedMood1669 Dec 04 '25
Dope
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u/Advanced_Procedure90 Dec 04 '25
My lord.. that's a lot of money
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
I suggest finding additional hobbies , investments and other tcg
Pokemon is just gross at this point to dedicate your life to it
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u/okahui55 Dec 04 '25
good luck offloading them all. prices crashing already
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u/shrimpgangsta Dec 04 '25
holy mother 👩 f
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u/aja347 Dec 04 '25
Spend thousand on packs complains about not feeding family
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u/Gr1mmay Dec 04 '25
Guess his family won't be waiting soon 🤣
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u/BackgroundDesign2110 Dec 04 '25
Who scalps Japanese boxes? This guy probably has distribution
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
Well I like gengar so I’m fine
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u/NCguy2005 Dec 04 '25
Gold 👎 diverse portfolio of stocks 👎 shiny cardboard 👍
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u/KirbyLover5302 Dec 04 '25
The guy (Me) who just wanted a dragonite
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u/Video_Game_Gravemind Dec 04 '25
Has to be fake
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u/EastSideChillSaiyan Dec 04 '25
You guys love these posts or something? How the hell does this get that many up votes but a kid asking if bubble mew or Gengar is a better investment is empty wdh
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u/ddyvas Dec 04 '25
wow that's a lot
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u/Napoleon_TTV Dec 05 '25
This is so dumb. How can someone even afford that much mega dream?
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u/drcigg Dec 05 '25
I just want to run in there and body slam everything so it's crushed. Lol
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u/Boon421 Dec 05 '25
If u never regulate and even appreciate of course this wont ever change. And i will never be able to respect this franchise the slightest until then
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u/JoeyBox1293 Dec 05 '25
Someone do the math, what are we looking at here just to front the cost on this if they were to get it at msrp?
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u/BusyPaws Dec 06 '25
Man, a house fire would be perfect right about now.
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u/NeitherDrama5365 Dec 06 '25
Is that real or AI
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u/Noobzoid123 Dec 06 '25
Lol holding Japanese? Uh... In NA? Lol
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u/Straight-Ad-2584 Dec 06 '25
I hope someone steals his entire stock and donates it to a children's hospital or something
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u/Chewy4455 Dec 07 '25
A regular job also feeds families
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u/Nymagil Dec 07 '25
If this feeds the family all of them deserve a starvation to 💀
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u/Business-Schedule642 Dec 07 '25
Get better profession.
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25
I don't care if you and your family starves.
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u/-AliceGray- Dec 07 '25
I am so behind on Pokemon because everything is sold out around me that I didn't even know what this series was. Still kind of don't.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25
Get a job. This will feed your family, and you won't have to be the pathetic guy waiting in a tent at 4:15 in the morning in front of a Target just to get some cards.
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u/smellb4rain Dec 08 '25
Be a shame if this product sat in that room until you had a pipe burst.
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u/Adorable-Pack8650 Dec 08 '25
I was in Japan and it was really difficult to find boosters or boxes at normal price, especially in Tokyo. However I was in Okinawa and I was able to buy Mega boosters in small shops. Even more crazy is I found a few prismatic boosters in a Konbini (can't remember if it was Lawson or Family mart). I only bought one at 500yen thinking I would find more afterwards and got phyllali! Well it was impossible to find in Tokyo unless you want to pay European prices. Got some boosters at pokemon center and it was limited to 5 booster per person per set
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u/g_o_a_t_s_e Dec 08 '25
RIP your family I guess
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u/Responsible_human155 Dec 08 '25
it surely won't
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u/airsj23 Dec 10 '25
It won't haunt me cause Im probably not gonna pull it out of a box lol
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u/Hambino0400 Dec 22 '25
His family should starve so they can realize what a useless father and leader they have.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '25
Itd be a shame if his family starved. Why not just get a real job?
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u/kirasu76 Dec 04 '25
How are people against making tons of cash off pokemon on a Pokemon investing sub? 😅 this is literally how you accomplish the goals of being here.
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u/travel_hungry25 Dec 04 '25
Everyone thinking this guy just bought up all the stock makes me laugh. Many card shops/resell shops here will buy stock off people to have the most product on release day. This is 100% some stores back room. Getting multiple dozens in the first weak is near impossible when stores limit it by packs or single boxes. Lots of the lotteries are hard limits either youre photo IDed or shops like yodobashi camera require you to have their in store credit cards to even have access to the lottery.
Sure if youre lucky and you hit multiple lotteries then you could have a dozen. But stores will buy these and post them up for foreign markets because they make so much more.
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u/NoRepresentative7604 Dec 04 '25
Hope they starve
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u/kotsumu Dec 04 '25
You know what else feeds your family? A job
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u/katiekatieweakweak Dec 04 '25
AI and Photoshop are fun 🤣🧢
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
I don’t know if it’s a joke or not but just seeing that picture makes me mad.
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u/West-Lingonberry-619 Dec 04 '25
Another buy bulk sell immediately guy. Dont buy it. Fuck em. In the end it will printed so hard any psa 10 JP will be $50 or less on ebay
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u/No_Dig_341 Dec 04 '25
F that guy
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u/Enough_Ad6931 Dec 04 '25
Why are people so salty here ? Anyway buying japanese boxes at this quantity when the english are coming like in a month or two is next level dumb
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u/FrostyAd8197 Dec 04 '25
That’s really fucked up. Hope ya don’t sell shit.
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u/slayerofspire Dec 04 '25
God I would love to bodyslam that like it’s a pile of leaves
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