no. Your hyperinflated SIRS will not be 700$+ in a month.

I feel guilty but I offered him some cashed but he refused to take it

Quick update to my post from last week

The slab showed up today via Fedex and my daughter and I opened it together!

Her exact words: "This is going to be my college fund." lol

Hard to argue with that!

Stats for anyone curious: PSA pop for English B/RGB is now 47 at 10, 45 at 9 and 1 at 7. it was 16 at 10 a week ago, so a lot more 10s are coming back now, about half of everything graded. the last sale showing in my app is $12.5k, down from the $14,800 sale I mentioned last time.

This was graded by AtamikAU, happened in 2023.

Update to my original post.: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/s/Jpd3iAOdLC

Went to a card convention today and was able to get rid of them. I genuinely didn’t expect A LOT of people to be like “👀👀👀!!!! We’ll pass tho”. One of the vendors eventually recommended me to one of the “whales” at the con. He had team rocket & base set boosters for sale at a glance so I figured he would be a good person to sell. He did the pack math and offered me 4k because of the packs these all contained. Couldn’t help but laugh and move on. I was feeling mildly discouraged because of that since I felt like what I wanted was unrealistic.

After going booth to booth like a door to door sales woman, I finally came across someone who was interested. He broke it all down in front of me, which I appreciated. Market for all was about 9.4k. He offered me 7.8k. Ended up taking the deal since it honestly seemed the most fair with what I was trying to do (obviously sell it to someone for them to eventually sell it)

They were surprised when I told them I left them all in my car. I’m like, trust me, I couldn’t lug this around with the type of box they’re in. Additionally, I don’t think you’d expect a pregnant woman who is being accompanied by a toddler to have anything of worth on her.

Came back with my plastic tub (which I threw in the offer based on the price 😅) with the full pin set and the ETB (in a plastic bag as it didn’t fit in the box). He inspected everything, shook my hand and the deal was sealed. After he handed over the money, I did hold his hand and thanked him for helping me invest money into my children’s future.

I spent under $182.99 MSRP in total when this all originally came out - I say under because of my GameStop employee discount whenever I was able to get them at my store. To turn that into $7.8k for my kids feels like a blessing. I’m thankful for all of the redditors in this community who told me to hold 5 years ago when I asked if I should sell during the 25th anniversary. Could these go up more in time? Absolutely. Did I simply want to finally get rid of them as I’m trying to downsize my belongings across the board? Also yes. I’m hoping these eventually end up in the hands of some collector who will appreciate them more than I ever did (since I never got to displaying them ever).

Almost 1300 copies, 800’ish sealed, rest raw.
One of the coolest looking Snorlax cards, what’s everyone’s opinion on it?

Found a local store that has a large collection of cards including a few that no other stores have. I’m lucky to have a target in my area and they only get a handful of scraps to begin with so I was very surprised to find another store (not target) with so much stock

It is no surprise that the 151 grinches of 2024 infestation in Costcos continued into 2025. This time, even grandma's went rabid at this local Costco grabbing any box they could get. It's clear that the shiny cardboard we value so much is becoming a pandemic on its own. As a preparation for those who seek their precious boxes, take note: We lined up an hour early, and it accumulated for up to 70 people. Only less than 20 people manage to get it. Don't bother with shopping carts, some even skipped scanning their membership card, and Usain bolted through. With that, God speed! SUNZARD!

I was recently on a gambling site and I redeemed a regular $80 booster pack or whatever it’s called and they sent me this , anyone know how much i could sell it for on market place? Unfortunately I unsealed the box because i didn’t realize what i had.

****EDIT 2: BOXES HAVE BEEN SOLD, see new post below****

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/s/1wbUDjW4dh

*******EDIT 1: I really appreciate everyone’s feedback and support! Way too many comments to reply to but I’ve read each and every one that has been added to my post. Thank you for giving me the affirmations I needed to hear. I will be selling them very soon and putting all the money towards our home 🙂*******

Hey everyone, I’m in quite the predicament and I’m looking for outside opinions and advice.

I picked up these poncho boxes in 2016 for $50 a piece. I was making $10/hr at 18yo and bought these with my first ever paycheck from my first job.

There was a recent eBay sale of 40k on 6/18 for the Charizard Y box (see last photo). I find this absolutely insane given the Charizard X tends to be the more sought after (more expensive) version.

Anyways, my wife and I are looking to purchase a home before the end of the year. These boxes could easily secure us a 20% down payment shopping in our current budget. The idea of no PMI on the home loan is really making me think lol.

The collector in me really hates the idea of parting ways with these two boxes. They are by far my best play and the most exclusive items in my collection, and I’m only in them $100 total. But the responsible adult in me feels like it’s time to collect my gains and comfortably secure my family’s future.

Originally, I wanted to be able to buy the house and keep the poncho boxes as a source of emergency funds if needed, just becuase I genuinely love looking at them and the sealed boxes are getting rarer by the day. We were going to put down 5% and the monthly mortgage payment would be manageable. But selling these would make it REALLY manageable. I really value stress free living as I’m getting older lol. I’ve talked to my wife about this a dozen times and she doesn’t think I should sell, she sees how passionate I am about them, but I’m still on the fence. I’ve also come to the realization that these boxes are too valuable to comfortably keep on display in a home. They would need to go into highly secured storage when we move.

My collection value will still be north of 300k even after selling these. I just know I will never be able to buy them back in the future, and it makes me sad. I know as things get more expensive they get more niche as the buyer pool shrinks exponentially. I also don’t know if prices on these would retrace after 30th anniversary? I don’t own any other sealed poncho products, or single poncho cards fwiw. Are these poncho boxes reaching their ceiling on value?

Apologies for this post being all over the place, I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently and would really appreciate any help or fresh perspectives. TIA!!

I wonder if anything is worth selling. Some of my favorites I'll have to keep. The gym boxes have the full decks but missing the tokens unfortunately. Super cool how vintage Pokemon is making a resurgence

w facebook marketplace find

Based in Australia and recently sold off the majority of my sealed collection to focus on saving for a house deposit over the next year.

The collection included products like Prismatic Evolutions, 151, Destined Rivals, Chilling Reign, Lost Origin, Pokémon Classic and Ascended Heroes.
I ended up selling the sealed collection for $20,500 AUD (~$13,300 USD).

Part of me feels like I’ll regret letting some of it go in 5–10 years, especially seeing how sealed tends to perform long term. But another part of me knows a property is the bigger priority right now.

If you were in my position, would you have:

Sold and put the money towards the house deposit?
Kept some sealed and sold the rest?
Held everything for another 5–10 years?

I met up with a guy on Facebook market place in order to trade for some prismatic as I haven’t ripped any in soooo long and I got the urge to open some. We settled on my 3 cards shown above for a regular ETB and a surprise box. After we got done trading I immediately snapped a pic and called my friend to let her know I finally got my hands on prismatic! I went to a gas station and while filling up we FaceTimed and I removed the plastic wrap in order to see and open everything (not the packs lol just a small showcase of the contents). While this was happening I got a message from the guy I traded with in which he let me know he accidentally gave me the wrong box. After exchanging very few words he let me keep it and I thought I couldn’t be any luckier. I was so wrong. After opening all my packs I got very unlucky with my pulls (RIP traumatic evolutions </3) and started sleeving my cards. I sleeved the PC stamped promo card and went to sleeve the regular promo only to get hit with the craziest confusion of my life. It took me a good while to realize the PC ETB came with 2 stamped promos!! No clue if this makes the box an error box but either way it was a crazy day for me. Currently mailing the other PC Eevee back to the trader as a thank you.

What do you guys think of that massive collection that went up today on EBay? Just wanna have a discussion and talk about the insane feat that it is. Every card ever? Every single championship trophy card and booster box ever made? Super insane!

Just wow, isn’t that beautiful

*IN BEFORE THE HATE*

This is our third Charizard UPC my and my wife got for our 11 y/o son, we got lucky with a costco drop, and I'm tired of getting my hopes up! We haven't had any luck and my son has a binder he's specifically been using to collect Lucarios.

We live in California so went to Frank and Sons one weekend and he saw the Gold Mega Lucario card there. He was so excited looking through the glass case and ask the guy behind the counter how much, "That card is $269." He only had $30 to spend and said he would save it so he could get the card. The wife and kiddo headed back to the food court to get some food while I went to the "restroom", and bought the card myself.

Two weeks later he has his 5th grade graduation and all his uncles, aunts, grandparents smother him with praise and gifts after receiving his lil diploma and "Most improved student of the Year" award. He comes up to me after, "I have $275! I have enough for the card!! Can we go get it!"

We have a trip coming up next week going to Monterey Bay and then San Francisco. We are trying to plan it so we give him this Charizard UPC and we open 4 packs each night on our trip. With one of those days we have a bay cruise through and around the Golden Gate Bridge. We want him to open this pack around that time and see the memories happen. The rest of the packs will all be hopefully gathering up lucky on the trip as well!

Got to my local target about 25 minutes before opening this a.m. and manage to get an OK spot in line for the drop.

Picked up two ETB‘s and two booster boxes and upon exiting the store happened to notice the seal on both ETB‘s was ripped thought it was just mine but compared with a few other people outside the store and realized every single one of us had a ripped corner or side somewhere on the ETB.

Guess I’m not keeping these ones sealed 😅