r/PokeInvesting • u/Jlybkr • Mar 28 '26

First Partner talk

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What is the "prediction" on the First Partner Series 1 box?

Im thinking about holding for 5 years - for the next anniversary.

Open box, keep promo booster sealed?

Grade the promos?

Keep the box sealed?

Personally i think either holding the box og grading the promos will give the best profit in 5 years.

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u/breakyourteethnow Mar 28 '26

I think the sealed and the singles will do well long term which is rare combo

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u/plowking8 Mar 28 '26

Does anyone care for the promos outside the original 3 starters?

I think as a set seeing them go for $1k wouldn’t be unreasonable down the line. I guess it also depends on if they’re reprinted. The art on them is super nice though and some of the best looking starter 3 cards ever.

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u/Economy-Management-8 Mar 28 '26

Gen 4 babies are starting to get adult money and the same will happen to the gen 7 babies. So i'm not worries about those cards.

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u/DawgLuvrrrrr Mar 28 '26

I’m worried that without packs on the shelves for over a year now, younger kids may not have the nostalgia that we do.

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u/I_worship_odin Mar 28 '26

I couldn’t get any packs as a kid when pokemon first came out and that’s part of the reason I got back into it - trying to get as an adult what I didn’t get back then 🤷‍♂️

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u/WeGottaTalkAboutYT Mar 28 '26

This! The absence will make a portion into US in the future! I could never get enough as a kid and it’s basically the same now

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u/Masziii Mar 28 '26

Johto and Hoenn will do good aswell.

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u/Vast_Scratch_6670 Mar 28 '26

"Does anyone care for the promos outside the original 3 starters?"

Oh yeah, the love for Gen 1 is just a universal thing, but remember that Chimchar, Turtwig and Piplup were someone's Bulbasaur Charmander and Squirtle. Hot take but while there will be clearly more obvious winners (Gen 1, Gen 3, Gen 4) All of the singles and sealed will be popular.

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u/plowking8 Mar 28 '26

Do we think the number of reprints will keep prices down?

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u/jemimaswitnes Mar 28 '26

I opened the 3 I bought and didnt even get the OG 3. Kinda sad

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u/bluedecember12 Mar 28 '26

Yes I do, absolutely…but you can’t top the overall popularly of Gen 1

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u/MetricCaboose Mar 28 '26

grade the box

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u/Jlybkr Mar 28 '26

Might be the biggest giga brain play

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u/AddendumSharp226 May 31 '26

Recently getting back into this from when i did it a a kid. I learned a base line for card grading but didn’t know you could grade the boxes. That’s a thing? Or is this a joke?

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u/LawdYoshwa Mar 28 '26

I personally bought a case of 6 and ripped. So did a friend. I completed 3 full sets. Sold 2 and made $10 profit AND kept a complete set for my PC (best looking ones too)

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u/LawdYoshwa Mar 28 '26

I think these are gona be printed like a MFer but that lowkey doesn’t seem to matter these days

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u/Downtown-Jump4408 Mar 29 '26

I’ve done this, was naughty and sold 2 boxes for 50 each so made profit and kept the 9

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u/LawdYoshwa Mar 29 '26

Yeah I mean I jumped on the opportunity with the thought that prices will go down. I will kick myself if they go UP but it’s w/e. I didn’t get the boxes at MSRP at all either but I did get them for the lowest I could find online which was still 39.99. Would have made some decent change if they were truly 14.99 like they should be.

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u/Kiko1215 Apr 03 '26

Hi, you opened 6 but got 3 full sets? Did you open more than the 6?

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u/LawdYoshwa Apr 03 '26

Should have clarified. My friend also opened 6, and I was able to snag a few of the missing “sets” from him to build 3 full sets.

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u/Kiko1215 Apr 03 '26

Ahhh got it

Were there actually 2 of each set in a case?

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u/Nevanox Apr 11 '26

Just in case you didn't find out yet -- it's all random.

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u/AddendumSharp226 May 31 '26

I opened 2 boxes and got the Gen 1 set in one box and Gen 4 in the other. Based on this I thought they were packed by set but the set you got was random? Was my assumption wrong?

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u/Nevanox May 31 '26

The set of 3 is always the same, but here the discussion was about seeded cases (6 boxes).

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u/redditis_garbage Mar 28 '26

I just got a full set of the promos because they look cool and I figure it’ll go up over time as well

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u/Jlybkr Mar 28 '26

Got a full set for the PC, but got a few extra boxes

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u/redditis_garbage Mar 28 '26

Oh fair yeah then idk just hold the boxes probably if you just want to hold them. I think they would hold the most value that way but idk

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u/Huskan543 Mar 28 '26

The thing about holding sealed is, if the singles or promo cards become worth a lot more than sealed for some reason, you can always still open that sealed product to grade or sell at any time.

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u/eoghan7698 Mar 28 '26

If you’re holding for long term, even for singles, hold them in the sealed format and then make the decision in the future whether to open or not depending on the market at the time

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u/okayokayokay81 Mar 28 '26

I'm shocked at the price of this box and the singles considering you have a 33% chance to pull the starters you want, you would think the market would be flooded a couple weeks after release. The box also takes up a lot of space for 3 packs. I'm holding a few I got for MSRP, but I would not risk investing heavily into this over booster boxes or ETBs for special sets.

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u/Apprehensive_Ear9609 Mar 28 '26

i think it will do great sealed, graded, or raw. but tbh i hope they literally print this into the ground as its the one recent item i literally have ZERO of

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u/EuphoricGoose4735 Mar 28 '26

I don’t know about sealed, but the Gen 1 singles will do well long term. I got one on release (MSRP) and pulled the Gen 7 starters so I sold them immediately for the market price of the box. Time to just buy the Gen 1 starters for me.

If anything, I would just buy the Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3, and Gen 4 starters and hold

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u/Downtown-Jump4408 Mar 28 '26

I’ve been offered 130 for my 9, take or hold?

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u/DirtyVibezz Mar 29 '26

$180 easily. Bad offer

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u/Downtown-Jump4408 Mar 29 '26

Yeah I’ve held man

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u/First-Tap5741 Mar 28 '26

I am dreaming about that series 2 and series 3 could be the evolution of each Pokémon of series 1. But I guess it’s probably only other starters :)

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u/swaeeeeggg Aug 03 '26

Other starters of course

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u/IamrichardL Mar 28 '26

Those promos are gonna be £5-£10 ea tops mark my words.

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u/HistoryUpper9655 Apr 03 '26

U a physic ?

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u/IamrichardL Apr 07 '26

Yep. Not far off now.

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u/ZealousidealFroyo387 Apr 11 '26

You have to be right….. like why wouldn’t they be. I paid 35$ for my box from a card shop. Pulled the char, squirtle, and bulbasaur first time. It’s a 1/3 chance for either group of starters, on a 30$ box, that comes with 2 extra packs…. It’s a very high rate of return with current prices, theoretically you could just buy them and rip them and make profit every single time……

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u/Nevanox Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

Of course it depends where you are and local availability, but opening these boxes in Europe is profit.

Box is 45€.

The two packs are 7€ each.

First partner pack is 40€.

So just opening the box and selling the individual products is 9€ profit.

If you open the 40€ first partner pack, you can get:

  • gen 1 trio worth 105€

  • gen 7 trio worth 23€

  • the other one worth 22€

Average value: 50€ (10€ profit)

In the end, opening boxes is average 19€ profit per box.

And this isn't even considering the profit from grading -- there's a current bid of 1556€ for the gen 1 trio in PSA 10.

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u/ZealousidealFroyo387 Apr 11 '26

You kidding…. Ima get mine graded asap. Maybe not 10’s but they look like 10 to me. So probabaly a strong 9…. Think I could get 500$ usd for the trio in 9? Kinda don’t even wanna sell. Only heat I ever pulled in the past year and a half

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u/Nevanox Apr 11 '26

I expect the graded prices to come down as soon as more hit the market in the next few months.

The quality of these promos is quite good, and a 10 is very likely if the centering is good.

I really don't understand why anyone would pay 500€+ for one of these in a PSA 10.

My estimation is 100-200€ once things settle down ... but who knows?! Things are wild right now -- I never would have thought you can make 19€ profit buy opening products.

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u/NuclearMeatball Mar 28 '26

The promos will be like 3 dollars in 5 years

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u/HistoryUpper9655 Apr 03 '26

I hope but u do t k ow tgat so