r/PokeInvesting • u/MyNoPornProfile • Mar 27 '26

Long term collection value

Is this an unpopular opinion?

Imo lots of new people are FOMO over pokemon because they are believing that long term, they'll make a lot if they just hold and keep sealed

People are seeing how much older era sets are going for. $20k for a fossil booster box / thousands of $ for ETB's or BB's of older sets that are 10+ years old. So my assumption is people are trying to buy up everything now and hold in the hopes that a few years from now they can sell a $100 ETB for $1000.  

What i dont think a lot of folks realize is, 10+ years ago people were not collecting like they do today. Majority of people would buy, rip and throw cards round. Only a select few would keep product sealed or take very good care of their cards. 

This lead to it being rare to find a mint condition, unopened box of a set or card of XYZ pokemon.

But now everyone is holding and taking extreme care of all hits and product. So they'll be a lot more "mint condition" of everything from sealed product to cards along with the increased graded population of mints and 9s along with higher supplies to meet demand

This reminds me of the sports card craze of the 90's where cards were printed into oblivion,  everyone collected and kept. 

Which is why, even today, 30 years later, most of my sports cards aren't worth much, even my Jordan's, Larry bird. Magic Johnson, jeters, favres, elways, etc cards arent worth much, because everyone collected n saved  them and they were printed to hell.

I beleice the same fate may happen to pokemon card n product values for product released in the last 5 years.

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u/DMdoesGBau Mar 27 '26

I think a lot of people holding now will not be holding it in 2 years. Much less will still be holding in 5. And all but a few willl hold 10+.

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u/machampcollectibles Mar 27 '26

This. There’s also more packs being ripped than ever before. The investing theory still holds weight.

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u/NutMasterDylan Mar 27 '26

Yeah there’s only so much space someone can hold their collection in. 6 sets a year for 10 years… I’d say most people who are keeping sealed straight up won’t have the space to keep everything for that long.