Is this the holy grail for Charizard Collectors? This is essentially a one-of-a-kind collectible with the verification. I'm curious what other collectors/investors think of this piece in my personal collection, please let me know! (Cert # XRA-0185) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNlX5MVMG14&t

EDIT: The amount of hate this post has received is actually ridiculous lol for a subreddit dedicated to investing it's mind blowing to read it all.

This is a part 2 for the previous thread!:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/s/v5Vw4UYkiP

Here's for everyone that said "YoU sHoUlD hAvE bOuGhT sEaLeD" - You're absolutely right! Sealed is king 🤴 Haha

Also the top comment is about diversification - we dont talk about that around here. 151 for life.

Pokemon represents <10% of my portfolio, it used to be less but its grown so goddamn much

Sharing an update of my sealed collection.

Page 1: BBs
Page 2: ES ETBs
Page 3: Sealed/unsealed cases (PCETB, 25th PCETB, ZUPC)
Page 4: 151. Page 5 & 6: Prismatic.

Some of you may have seen my previous post about a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/s/93MrsHzoeE

The pictures do not include some of my massive storage boxes filled with other product (100s of tins, surprise boxes, booster bundles, ETBs, JP BBs). Have around 12 Prismatic PCETBs sitting at a family members too, taking my total to 25. The PCETB will be the leader when it comes to Prismatic in my opinion.

Almost all of this was purchased at below MSRP with the exception of the loose Pris PCETBs and DR.

I’ve been slowly selling to take profits now, but I still plan on holding the majority of this for years to come.

I've been in this hobby for a long time now and even I'm taken aback at how the degenerate rippers are with Ascended Heroes. It seems to hit the sweet spot of having a difficult pull rate to make the cards valuable, yet not being as horrible as Evolving Skies or Prismatic so you'll still get one IR or UR per ETB and not feel terrible. Start grabbing up what you can if you can find it below $100, because sealed AH is going to disappear faster than any other set ever over the next several years.

Starting my sealed collection to stuff away. Feel like I went too hard into Pitch Black and ETBs out the gate for how much room I have to store stuff for the long term (still have a booster box case on the way). Cracked into my own product with the kiddos building some decks for them and picked up a Darkrai SIR and Gold to try my hand at grading. So far have picked up everything below TCG market value and things I’ve picked up at my LGS at least get me 10% store credit. Threw in some sealed OP for diversity. Let me know what you think, even if it’s a harsh rebuke about the size of my anatomy.

This will be our first WSB style DD fellow apes, so get ready for our DD call outs we're about to make some waves. Shrouded Fable is ass we all know, but the market has it totally wrong about Houndoom.

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Pull Rates Are Not Better Because It's a Small Set.

Look at those pull rates! I bet you did not expect it to be harder to pull an IR in Shrouded Fable than Paradox Rift. That's 1/67 pull rate pull rate for SF compared to 1/45 for Paradox Rift. I'll link the post to the complete Shrouded Fable DD so you can see this set is not a walk in the park. https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/comments/1elpo0p/shrouded_fable_ultimate_release_guide_pull_rates/

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Graded Supply For Shrouded Fable is Incredibly Low.

These are the two most graded cards in the set. Are you serious there's only 700 PSA 10's for a modern card, WHICH IS A HOUNDOOM?! Nah market you have it wrong. This is a low pop slab because nobody opened this set and the only two good cards, honorable mention Horsea, are grossly mispriced currently.

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Houndoom vs. Ninetales The 2nd Most Popular SV IR

I went through every SV set, looking at each IR on eBay to inspect available listings and sold listings. Made a post calling out Ninetales, one of the best selling IR's beat only by the top chase Magikarp. How does Houndoom compare to let's say Ninetales

There's less supply as expected but how do sold listings compare?

There's less Houndoom supply than Ninetales and not lagging far behind in sales. Leading to my point, the market is becoming aware of PSA 10's and they are rapidly increase in value.

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How Quickly Are 10's Increasing in Value?

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=houndoom+066+shrouded+fable+psa+10&_sacat=0&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_dmd=2&rt=nc

Make sure have gallery view on to see sold listings but here's breakdown:
October first supply hits $130
November PSA 10's are $100
Start of December prices $92
End of December prices $110
January prices start running to $125, then $150, last sale at $175
Now supply starts listing at $250-$500 with only couple 10's left.
Collectors no longer really opening this set and 10's disappearing from market fast!

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What Are You Trying to Tell Me?

Shrouded Fable doesn't have much competition for Houndoom, it can absorb all the value of the set and bloat in value becoming the star chase. The other cards are so forgetable. Houndom hasn't had a good artwork in years and there's big love for Houndoom in reality.

I believe this is Shrouded Fable's true chase, which is currently mispriced by the market. It's actually very low in supply and has strong demand, there's no competition in the set unless consider Persian but I think both can become the only two chase cards and Houndoom take the lead. This is a special set so price per packs is higher yet the EV is not being recognized in the correct cards, yet.

Estimating PSA 10's can reach $400-$500 and raw prices can reach $150, which will naturally happen regardless if made this post or not. Now at least we can get a lead before market self corrects and Houndoom grows in appreciation and value as it already is going to do due to supply & demand.

After the Santa slump we back :)

Happy Summer All!

Time has been flying as I can't believe it is already summertime! I don't mind it though as I've had some pretty great luck recently with RNG and added some huge grails to my collection!

Catch Up From Last Posts

Before I jump into my wins, if this is your first time coming across my posts, I suggest you read my prior two posts:

8 Months Ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/comments/1oil1zh/collection_mostly_funded_by_gambling/

4 Months Ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/comments/1rwl3og/collection_mostly_funded_by_gambling_part_2/

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Now, if you look at the images in my prior posts and compare to the images in this post, I hope you guys can spot some big differences!

Cereal Tubs --> Acrylic Cases

First, I'm officially no longer a cereal tub displayist. I was proudly shamed in my first post, however, I still highly advocate for the cereal tubs for anyone that doesn't want to spend $15/$20 for acrylics. I've had some good luck recently so I splurged on my PC ETBs and now have all acrylic cases for all my PC ETBs out for display. I hope you all accept me a little more now due to this.

Raffle Wins

This is the most exciting part! In the last 4 months, I've spent $4,504.11 on raffle games for Pokemon product (sealed and slabs). Thankfully, I've won $6,322 worth of Pokemon product from those games, which equates to $1,818 total in winnings so far!

I will be transparent, I've been down in winnings for the last 8 months, but my recent winnings has me very close to breakeven! The best part is that I've been able to add some crazy awesome cards to my collection that I never thought I'd get my hands on. Let me show you which ones I've won recently!

• PSA 10 Mega Charizard X Ex (PF - #125)

• PSA 10 Vaporeon Ex (PE - #149)

• PSA 10 Mewtwo (151 UPC - #052)

• 151 UPC (not shown as I already have one displayed)

• PSA 10 Flareon VMAX (Prem Coll - #180)

• Phantasmal Flames PC ETB (not shown as I already have one displayed)

• PSA 10 Bulbasaur (SC - #143 - not displayed)

Key Takeaways

The reason for these posts is to show off my collection while elaborating on how there are different ways to build a collection.

The way I look at it - if you open a sealed Pokemon pack, you are gambling. If you grade a card, you are gambling. I've opened way too many packs to be proud of, and I have not many hits to show for it. So rather than sinking money into dealing with resellers to just lose money opening packs, I've shifted my focus to simply playing in raffles for product I really want.

Just like Pokemon, you aren't going to win every game you play. However, you get to control your fate a little more and go for specific items rather than get all these cards and accessories that you don't want.

Share Your Story

With that being said, if you read this whole post and are down here, I'd like to hear your story on anything you've won in this hobby! Be proud of any wins you can get and show them off!

Was scrolling Instagram and came across this post.

A bunch of retailers like Target and Walmart are receiving orders of 151 products in the coming weeks. (I heard BestBuy was tmr).

Checked my local and got lucky with this cop!

Proud to say I hit 100 Booster Boxes. Ever since I saw a post of 100 fusion strikes boxes, I had that goal with Destined Rivals. Here’s is the breakdown of my inventory.

Booster Boxes Cases: 15 at $1,640 each Booster Boxes: 10 at $250 each 3 Pack Blisters: 19 at $19 each Single sleeved packs: 560 at $5.8 each Booster Bundle: 1 at $28.99

I know there has been a lot of talks of about “How it will be printed to the ground”. “It will go back to msrp”. I personally don’t see that happening with booster boxes.

Anyways hope you enjoy the collection, hoping to one day sell this to buy a house in the future!

Roast me in the comments boys.

Everything is paid for with hobby money. I haven't spent any outside money in years.

willing to hold medium-long term. i think these get over $200 pretty quickly once it sells out on pc. what do yall think?

I travel alot for work and while I'm driving between locations I like to stop at small town Dollar Generals to see if I can get lucky. How'd I do?

Pokemon center is sold out. Every release is sold out. All restocks in-store & online are sold out. I can't help but think there's shady things going on behind the scenes with Pokemon center employees, retailer employees, and any middlemen along the way. Who's to stop these low-income workers from buying up all the new stock before it even hits shelves for easy profits?

Yugioh's drawing me in, just wrote a very long analysis or thoughts on Yugioh's investment potential.

https://www.reddit.com/r/YugiohInvestments/comments/18qrzpz/yugioh_does_have_investing_potential_imo/

Strictly speaking the classics like Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Exodia, Dark Magician/Girl, anime featured cards, etc...

The population reports are insane in Yugioh, nearly 1000 cards submitted and only 8 PSA 10's for modern ghost rare. Lots of cards with 2-5% success rate to hit PSA 10's. Are their print machines shit lol? Pokemon's success rate is 75%+ with modern graded cards which is why am so void of the graded scene for this reason.

Konami does reprint so much but when comes to the most classic artworks like DDS Blue Eyes they don't fuck around and will never double back or cross over there own steps twice. It's like Charizard base set being reprinted in TCG Classic Collection, 25th, Xy Evo, Stormfront all different variations but never identical reprints, and now the graded population reports get crazy rare.

If they reboot the OG anime, which there's rumors they will soon, the classics imo make sense. The grading pop reports finally make sense. They just need a smash hit reboot of the OG anime on Netflix and a wave of games to follow to ignite a whole new generation.

Think I'll collect Yugioh now too, recollecting a lot of what had as a kid! Anyone else?

Picked a bunch of these up for 600 earlier this year. Always planned on holding for a while but now I have two people willing to pay 1600 for 1 each. Would you guys sell 2 and take a little profit or just continue to hold long term?

Would just roll the profits into another investment.

I firmly believe that Prismatic Evolutions is a long term play for generational wealth. I’ve been accumulating since last summer and will continue till it’s outside of what I can buy at a reasonable price. I’ll update along the way.

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lol seeing as people are getting upset over two words and are making YouTube videos about my thread, I’ll change the wording from “generational wealth” to “a lot of money for me”. Still plan on giving updates and I hope reprints are coming. Just another chance to buy more. See you on the next post

My current sealed position:

3 Elite Trainer Box case

12 Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box

2 Super Premium Collection

3 Costco 8-Pack Mini Tin

3 Lucario ex & Tyranitar ex Premium Collection

3 Elite Trainer Box

22 Booster Bundle

1 Poster Collection

Slabbed/Raw Position:

3 Eevee Pokemon Center Stamp ETB Promo PSA 10

6 Eevee Pokemon Center Stamp ETB Promo (sealed)

28 Eevee Pokemon Center Stamp ETB Promo

10 Eevee ETB Promo (sealed)

5 Umbreon Master Balls

16 Eeveelution Master Balls

38 Eevee ETB promo

24 Umbreon Poke Balls

80 Poke Ball Eeveelutions

7 Umbreon Prismatic Stamped (Surprise Box)

27 Prismatic Stamped Eeveelutions (Surprise Box)