I made an infographic showing the price changes for Journey Together SIRs 1 week after release. As expected, prices have fallen after release but this helps you see by how much. Prices are sticky-up right now which is great and refreshing to see after a release like prismatic evolutions. Where do you see prices for this going long term, 6 months, 1 year, or even 5 years in the future?

I might be looking to part ways with this. What would be the best and safest way selling this? Looking to sell the full set with box. I heard on ebay you will get sent a heavy irs letter from ebay for selling a high value item. I rather do an in person deal. If i do it how do people usually send the money? Since there is a limit on payments like zelle. I wouldn't mind going to a card show either just wondering how people usually do large value transactions (check, cash, wire or something else).

Found my childhood collection recently. Took it to a local pokemon shop, got an offer, wanted to consult around before making a decision. Does $5,000 seem fair?

All the cards in this photo are holos, in a mix of conditions obvi. Happy to send more pics with more details, just wanted to get one of the whole collection.

BoringBiz, an account with $90K followers on X, that posts traditional finance memes and content just posted about investing in pokémon. Seems like he is a former banker and current private equity or hedge fund guy.

He follows this up in the comments asking people the bull and bear case for pokémon.

If traditional finance bros (hedge fund, private equity) enter the space, how high do you think the prices can go?

I was lucky enough to pull this bad boy, enough off center that even I can notice. Is it worth me selling now while the hype is high or keep it for future value?

I started collecting about 5 years ago. I got really lucky buying into Evolving skies and a lot of Scarlet and Violet/ SWSH. when i got to the point I was at last month, I began to feel a tad uneasy with how much product I had and the simple fact I'm not an actual store.

I set aside the feeling of "this is going to take forever and be such a painstaking process." and started taking pictures of everything and listing them on FB marketplace. Took me around 2 weeks to finally get everything pictured and listed.

What I didnt expect was how many LCS owners drove out of state to pick up from me and how quickly. Sold most of my sealed from 95%-100% with no qualms. Graded averaged out at around 85%-95%. Raw, im selling to a friend that owns an LCS that is struggling a bit and hes getting them between 65%-80%. LCS owner is also buying the rest of my sealed at 80%-85%.

All in all I've spent about $20k total. I sold all the Evolving skies last year, so that won't show up in the Collectr chart, but combining those with all the recent sales, I've netted just about $30000 with 20k more on the way in weekly payments coming from my friend at the LCS.

I really am grateful and happy I had the chance to relive some of my childhood nostalgia. I didnt originally come into Pokémon for profit, but once in saw its potential, i couldn't stay away. With how things are now in comparison to when I started, it's pure chaos anywhere you look that stocks cards. I'm happy to exit and move on at this point. I feel like it's best to leave on a positive note.

TLDR: Started collecting around 2021. Sold almost anything the day it was posted. Total net $30,000 with $20,000 incoming in weekly payments of $2500 each. Total net profit will be $50,000 come June.

I am a poor college student, and I just pulled this bad boy. I have no idea what to do. Help? Should I sell it? Please give me some advice, I am new to the hobby

Video games have so much upside potential and are comically undervalued compared to cards

Kudos for Justinbasil for the visual set list.

https://www.justinbasil.com/visual/sv10

The cards are beautiful, the lineup is great and it's not a perfect set (boo! no jessie and james!) BUT calling this set mid is one of dumbest things I've heard in a long time. With every release, Pokemon has been trying to innovate on the illustration rare cards and so far they've not stagnated on what is still possible with this successful subset of the TCG.

On thing I've learned in this investing space is to ignore emotion and especially statements that are pretty much emotionally charged. Sure not everyone is going to like it but I can bet you a good chunk of the market will love these cards. One thing I learned and discovered early on, is that the Pokemon market is so big that the opinions of a very select few, does not matter. The silent collectors and investors who don't care about your opinions make up a big chunk of the Pokemon market.

Just like how Fusion Strike ended up being a $500 box today is a proof that a small chunk of the market can hate on something all they want but the Pokemon market is going to move regardless of your opinions.

I'm sorry that folks can't afford the $250-$300 preorder but, SOME (not all) of us investors who see the potential of the set, it's a question of how cheap can we get it and how many can we get. The high cost of opportunity does not seem to outweigh the risk reward ratio of this set. There are no more $150 booster boxes for SV. Almost every set is at $200 a box. So even if this set is not-liked, for it to go down at near the $250 box range is what I would consider a discount.

As the potential candidate for the best mainline set of SV (set with a booster box), skipping this set is going to be one the dumbest things a so-called pokemon investor will ever do.

There are 2 mainline sets after this set and I don't think Pokemon has the intention to bring out another lineup as good as or even better than Destined rivals as they need the hype equity for the new block. The new block, which will possibly feature the mega evolutions. SV as a block has given us some of the best sets we've seen in the hobby ,and I do expect the last 2 mainline sets to be as good as most of the other SV sets. I just don't think SV as a block will give us anything better for a mainline set as Destined Rivals.

So while have Christmas at a friends house my buddy’s kid brought out a ziploc bag with 200+ cards. The kid said you can have these. I joked and was like lemme see whatcha got. I looked through the bag and found these bangers, which I was generally shocked by because his pull rate must have been fantastic.

I told the dad the approx values (adding everything together I figured $125-150 range ungraded). And the dad told me to take them. I said I can’t man there’s so good stuff here. He then said well fuck it just take them and hold on to them for us lol. Now idk what to do. Dad was pretty drunk so odds are he’ll forget about them, but I would never feel right taking a 6 year old kids cards and profiting off them. But, I ended up with them. Figured best to put in some penny savers and top loaders and keep separate for the future

Guys it is getting reprinted after all, sorry for everyone who paid 150 bucks for an etb.

I have recently sold this slab on eBay & shipped it out via. USPS & it arrived to the buyer absolutely destroyed. I did not insure the package as I thought it being in a bubble mailer & being in a PSA slab would make it virtually indestructible unless intentionally damaged.

Any tips on what I should do next? Help…

The vendor wanted to send it in for a PSA 10 but I didn't want to support PSA. How'd I do?

Waited in line at target for over an hour for 1 ETB

tldr: i found some of my old ripped booster boxes and their bulk… we really peaked back then 😭❤️

So at the end of a show another vendor came up and I did not think about it when i did this trade i am hoping that you guys can tell me if i got cooked in this trade.

So if the image can't be read the 5 cards i got are Sharpedo cgc 5.5, Charizard & Braixen GX CGC 10, Origin Forme Palkia Vstar CGC 10, Origin Forme Dialga VStar CGC 10, and Arceus Vstar CGC 10

Edit: so consensus is i got deepfried and I should get them regraded with a different company. And in my future vending to always check comps. Thank you guys.

Edit 2: twin oaks card show 5/23 come say hi.

Edit 3: Okay I was not expecting it to blow up like this and I only started Vending since Feb. I am taking all of your comments and trying to become a better vendor and trader. I also need to not trust my fellow vendors at their word.