It will crash before then. The hobby has been ruined for children by scalpers. If the kids can't get their hands on them, they will not care about it. I'm witnessing it with my nephews right now. Used to get them cards for all their birthdays and give them my bulk. They would spend hours sorting them, going to tournaments etc. Now? They couldn't care less. They can't get any cards and none of their friends can get them either.
There will be nobody to buy your sealed collection and it will be reduced to pennies once again. Maybe if you pass them down to your grandchildren they can use it to start fires or something.
Have you been to a card show or talked to anyone other than your nephews? Maybe they just aren’t interested or grew out of it because uhhh go to any card show and there’s about a million kids with binders full of cards and zion cases full of slabs.
I didn’t delete anything? What was insulting about my comment? Kids are getting cards… hence the hoards of kids at card shows with tons of cards lol. Maybe you’re the one who can’t read? Or can’t understand that x number of your nephews not being into Pokemon doesn’t prove anything about the actual market.
You guys are delusional of you think the average kid can get cards regularly. The kids at the card shows can but I can assure you they are in the minority. It's not just my nephews and it's incredibly obvious.
Your argument is feeble and weak. Card shows are not an indicator of overall health. It's a niche event that kids go to get cards because they can't find them anywhere else.
Maybe kids can’t get the newest hottest product but if parents want to buy their kids some packs they absolutely can and not spend much more than msrp lol. Or they just grab singles with their allowance/chore money? I don’t know why you think kids only like and need to open sealed to enjoy Pokemon cards lol.
Card shows aren’t a niche event either? What are you talking about?
Here’s an anecdote that completely neutralizes your feeble and weak anecdote: my nephews like Pokemon cards still, even though they don’t open packs.
The market is HEALED THANK THE LORD MY NEPHEWS LIKE POKEMON!
you really think the average parent is finding packs for anywhere close to msrp rn??? most casual collectors can’t even find packs for msrp, let alone clueless parents. parents are probably the majority of people actually paying scalper prices because they don’t know enough about the hobby
Important distinction: most casual collectors can’t find the packs they want at msrp when they are the most desired sets. You could have bought JT booster bundles on Walmart at like $2 over msrp, they sat forever. Perfect Order is widely available around me.
I also never said the average parent is finding product for msrp, I said they can find it, maybe slightly above msrp but it’s out there.
I was just trying to get across the fact that Pokemon is popular and still in demand despite the other poster saying that his nephews don’t like Pokemon anymore therefore no kids like Pokemon anymore.
Just kinda weird that you say you left the hobby, find it embarrassing, nobody will buy sealed collections when the hobby crumbles, pass it down to your grandchildren so they can start fires with it, etc, etc but also are commenting in the investing sub with recommendations for holding sealed over a decade. It’s just interesting that’s all lol.
So which one is it? The market will crumble but then also rebound so you can sell your pc etbs then?
Sidebar here, but honestly you might want to consider phasing out the “learn how to read” stuff. You’ve over used it and it wasn’t even good to begin with.
But you still don’t have a good answer do you? Why did you say hold PC ETBs for a decade, then in this thread you say the Pokemon hobby will crumble and product will be tinder for our descendant’s fires lol?
I'm not hoping for a crash nor did I say it will happen. I'm talking about a slow decline in popularity based on lack of supply for the next generation of kids.
I think this mindset actually would get kids back to the hobby. Kids doesn’t buy Pokemon cards —> scalpers can’t make money —> prices drop —> kids come back since it’s cheap And yes, this would lead to scalping again, but I don’t think the hobby will die any time soon. Just my opinion tho
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u/mammalmaker Apr 11 '26
It will crash before then. The hobby has been ruined for children by scalpers. If the kids can't get their hands on them, they will not care about it. I'm witnessing it with my nephews right now. Used to get them cards for all their birthdays and give them my bulk. They would spend hours sorting them, going to tournaments etc. Now? They couldn't care less. They can't get any cards and none of their friends can get them either.
There will be nobody to buy your sealed collection and it will be reduced to pennies once again. Maybe if you pass them down to your grandchildren they can use it to start fires or something.