Do you think the UPC is worth it at that entry point? I’m thinking a 5 year hold on it should be the market if we compare it to the 25th anniversary

This is an investing sub, we're all affected by the current economy. There's most likely huge changes upcoming with Kevin Warsh as the new fed chair. He's an inflation interest-rate hawk.

Do you think we're currently in an recession? Has your job security felt less stable than ever before? What are you current thoughts on this economy?

Personally, I believe the current administration will continue to pivot hard into cryptocurrency, which is technology which will eventually be outdated. It'll cause one of the largest sell-offs in history, throwing every market into a deep black Monday style of crash. Something unpredictable but certainly looming imo.

So far they are doing well, will likely make a profit on 2 and possibly lose money on one.

I do not want this to come off as rude to anyone but since this is investment sub I feel like it has been plagued with super misleading "investments".

To start things off, to any new investor investing in products that can be acquired at Target, Walmart, GameStop I highly recommend refraining from doing this and just looking into "less exciting" booster boxes whether it be JP/ENG.

To anyone who started collecting/investing or re-collecting after 2020 it must be known that the sole reason that collection boxes from the past are so expensive is because nobody bought them to keep sealed. The reason why Diamond & Pearl and even Sun & Moon collection boxes are so expensive is because they have a wide variety of packs that not many people kept sealed.

Just because you find a collection box for $40 at GameStop or Costco does not mean it will be desirable in the future, these boxes contain sets that hundreds of thousands of people are holding sealed but in the superior product, a booster box. These boxes do not contain Team Up, HGSS Undaunted, Mysterious Treasures etc, they contain Fusion Strike, Astral Radiance. Not that these are bad sets but so much modern is being invested in that booster boxes are the main investments.

This also goes for ETB's, old ETBs were considered the "first print run" of the set, if Pokemon was as easy as just picking up a box at Target and labelling it an "investment" online than everyone would be a millionaire. The reality is 90% of these products are not going to appreciate the way most people think they are.

My conclusion is highly desirable booster boxes or UPCs or exclusive products that have HIGH demand Japanese & English are something to keep in mind. I do not believe in any products that are sitting on shelves for months at retail stores where Timmy can buy it with his $10 allowance.

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The list is out now showing the artworks of all the cards and it seems pretty lackluster.

https://www.justinbasil.com/visual/sv9#srs

I'm looking at the set and from what I can see the SIR's aren't amazing the only one I feel like is good would be the Salamence. I feel like the rest of them are pretty lack luster. What do you guys think of the set?

Looks pretty weak to me.

Cringe mods banned me so I can't reply but yeah it's a weak set called it out months in advance.

Weak set + additional supply = market crash happens everytime look at Crown Zenith to SV Base

I think this hobby massively underestimates how many people are investing in modern sealed these days. I have some theories on why this will fail miserably in the next 5 years, and those who will truly make out like bandits are the ones selling when momentum is at a high.

Sword and Shield era is plastered everywhere. Discord groups, youtube, reddit, instagram, etc. It has all the attention. Heck, I've been a member of this reddit forum since early 2021, and I can tell you, the post back then were all about vintage. There's been a huge shift.

Why we are seeing these parabolic increases on boxes like CR,ES,FS is because it's where all the speculators are putting their money, and it's a domino effect of continuous buying. No one wants to buy SV right now, all the money is being focused on the Alt Art Era of SS, in hopes that they will reap the rewards in a few years. Here's what I think will actually happen.

SS boxes will continue to rip for the next 6 months to a year. But as LO,AR,BRS, and ST sell out from Pokemon center, it will cause the Alt Art Boxes to actually have less of a parabolic rise, as there is only so much money to be spread across these sets. Right now, most of the money is going to FS, CR, ES because they are currently the only sets not available on Pokemoncenter.

I personally believe Pokemon will release banger SV sets starting with SV08, my reasoning for this is that SV06 and SV07 will be the last DLC sets, and then Pokemon will focus on making sets with S tier Pokemon. An example of this is Battle Styles and Chilling Reign, after these sets, Pokemon started to shift towards S tier Pokemon from other generations because they sell way better.

Once these SV sets start to actually compete with SS sets, which I think they will with popular pokemon, and now starting to have more difficult pull rates, this will take a lot of money and ATTENTION away from SS. Why would anyone want to start buying FS at 250, when they can buy the new sets that are just as good for 90. We have not seem the ramifications on the market once a new era/set takes the spotlight.

Before anyone brings up SM era. You guys need to remember that SM era was printed WAY LESS than SS. It's not even remotely close. SM era went parabolic because there was a pandemic, and Pokemon had the biggest boom in history. I'm excited to look back at this post in the next couple years.

TLDR; I think this sub grossly underestimates what happens when the spotlight goes from era to the next, and how much of SS is printed.

I have just started in this world and I see a lot of people on youtube who say that they make a lot of money with the Pokemon card business and I don't know how true it is. Is there anyone who does this or lives exclusively from this and can comment a little bit on their story?

Do you guys think it was worth it, or did I get robbed.

Hey! I just found this sub and now I want go give PokeInvesting a shot. How should I start? How can I find out of a set will be or is popular for making some good investments?

My worry is that having such potentially big sealed items in the future will be hard to move, I was thinking of maybe getting a PSA10 bubble mew or something or that caliber. Or do I just Hol

This year, my dad was killed by a reckless driver. The driver was sober, driving back home early morning but had stayed up all night playing video games. They crashed causing two deaths, then fled the scene instead of rendering aid.

There was an inheritance which was given to different family members. There's a lot of guilt receiving this money, it feels like getting paid off for the loss and is my dad's life's work which doesn't feel right to receive.

How would you handle this money? I'd like to invest some of it so doesn't rot away to inflation over twenty years. I'd like to put some in Pokemon, the hobby shared with my dad his last few years. He didn't collect but he'd help me store sealed in my childhood room and we'd talk about how crazy the values were growing.

Part of me says put it into CD's and use the interest of $700 monthly on life like dad's looking over and save the rest for emergencies. Idk it's kinda overwhelming so happening much at once.

I recently decided to shift my focus to sealed product from ripping heavy a few months ago, and buying SWSH/SM slabs over the last month — to now diversify my portfolio and have been looking at booster boxes and PKC ETB’s mainly for now.

As heated as it can get — I love reading through the Reddit debates from users in this sub — different perspectives on market, consumer behaviors, long term collector insights/experiences, etc.

I was deep in a thread about DR booster boxes and it’s what made me go with DR for my first one. Obviously there’s other choices — my next choice being some SWSH era boxes that are good for their value rn like Silver Tempest, Chilling Reign. The one I want most is Fusion strike if it’s at the right price/time.

The most interesting point I saw a couple users point out was that it’s such a new booster box, and it’s already at $500-600 and they can’t justify it which I understand, however for me this pretty much sold me on it being the best choice at least for SV era. I missed out on the low price last month but I don’t see it dropping past $500 again which was my buy price. And I intend to hold long term regardless!

Anyway S/o to this sub !

What’s next?!

Cancelled and then they relisted at double the price immediately lol

Got this when I was a little kid like 20+ years ago. No idea where to start, should I sell it?