All joking aside; there were a few key-ticket pieces that were partially obstructed in that picture. I’m not sure if Gary did that on purpose or not. Without getting into any specifics, there were two items in particular that I would have liked to see fully!
Show us all!
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I remember unlimited base boxes sub $300 and shadowless blisters for $35-$50. I only wish I’d bought more at the time. =P
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I’d love to show the world cause 50,000 or more collectors would bombard E4 but it could hurt the market which wouldn’t be fair because those items will never be offered for sale. I’d like to say those things will be buried with me but after seeing the lot, you know that would be impossible.
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You can always share in PMs 
If I wanted to be teased this bad I’d go to the local strip joint.
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I’ll see you there
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Give me a time and a place 
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Gary that’s amazing! Damn.
Someone share the base set booster boxes I sold them back in college for like, $400 or $500. 
That’s about as recent as my regrets are, haha!
The moral of this story is there is a lot more product out there than you could ever imagine. Most of it is thinly spread out and sadly a lot of it has likely been lost along the way. It is hard to imagine but more and more still gem mint cards are lost every year somehow. I bought a 4 figure collection off a guy last year that yielded me tons of gem mint 10’s from base unlimited, jungle fossil rocket and gym 1st editions and he had mentioned how under a year prior his kids binders, which were very similar in quantity and quality, had been lost (likely to a dumpster) in a move. It’s saddening.
The hoards like the one I am sure the photo shows though are the ones that as Gary mentions could really rock the markets if they hit it the wrong way. I’m not even sure if it’s proper to say “the wrong way” because if someone dealt with those gold star dogs from that hoard “the right way” all it would have done is prolong the inevitable drop in prices and burn a lot more people with higher prices than they were worth along the way.
I think Base 1st maybe would be the exception but I would wager to guess that there is still to this day enough product out there in hoards for every pop report to go up anywhere from 10x to 100x from where it sits today. That is counting all the hoards of untouched pack pulled gems as well as all the sealed product out there.
I’m actually working on something to get closer estimates on print runs of certain sets than I think anyone has shared before, but we will see how it goes.
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I would be surprised if many “hoards” actually remain. I don’t doubt the possibility, I doubt the probability. Even more so that they will surface.
Keep in mind 2003-2006 was the absolute bottom of the market. People were too busy spraying Axe body spray to buy Pokemon. 
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Sooooo reading through this thread… Basically, everyone be sure to sell all your shadowless cards off if Gary ever hits us with bad news about being terminally ill. I always knew there was a warehouse somewhere with a hundred thousand+ shadowless rares in it somewhere. What I wasn’t counting on is that it’s already been discovered and continues to be well maintained. 
Damn it eBay and PayPal letting me down with the fact they only record data for the past two years, pretty annoying actually. guess i should log all my purchases in the last two years while i can.
I totally agree with Scott. The boom over the past couple years have flushed out nearly all the private hoards. Remember, not everybody is as crazy as me. If I ever gave up my collection it would only be to someone who didn’t need the money and would sit on them. This, I guarantee everybody. I actually have two, or maybe three, people who already fit this bill. That third one has offered to buy in to half my Charizard collection at market and I could hold them all till my time is up then he’d get his half with an option to buy the other half at my wife’s discretion. This has been under negotiation for months.
Btw…I love the Axe spray example. I remember my sons spraying it into the air then jumping in amongst the spray lol.
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I will never, ever, EVER sell my collection. With that being said, you must leave me a Mint 1st Edition Charizard in the future! I will write In Memory of Gary H. In the sleeve and keep it safe forever.
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It’s someone like you I’d trust my WHOLE collection to;)
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hey its me ur brother 
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I really should have started this awhile ago; however, now that I have to file taxes every year, I am going to start creating a paper-trail for everything that I purchase - for both tax reasoning and just to have for viewing down the road. Unfortunately, any “proof” of purchases from when I first started-out (2009) is long gone - it would have been so cool to look back on that stuff! However, I was able to dig-up a few cool purchases from when I re-entered the collecting / re-sale scene two years ago (2016).
This first screen-shot from my eBay Purchases in 2016 really captures everything - I found this one really cool! I shut-down my original eBay Business half-way through college (2013 or 2014) - just got to be to much for me between being in school full-time and working part-time on the weekend (not to mention being a broke college student). I sold-off my entire eBay Business and Pokemon Collection (honestly believed that I was done with the hobby). However, even while I was out of the hobby, I found myself still browsing eBay and keeping-up with the overall-market. After graduating college and entering the work-force, I found myself getting bored during the weekday with my extensive off-time - and actually really missing my eBay Business!
I knew I wanted to start another re-sale business; however, I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to get into. I looked into a few collectables that interested me (Coins, Stamps, Comic Books…). But, after awhile of going back-and-forth with myself, I ended-up coming right back into my true passion (Pokemon). I started collecting and re-selling at basically the same time - the above were my first two purchases. The first being the start of my re-sale business and the second being the start of my collection. The Rev.-Holo L.C. Set was 99% MINT Condition - won that via eBay Auction and the only card I had to replace was some C. Card (forget which one). That set is still sitting within my personal collection - where it will now stay for a very, very, very long time!
Shortly after starting my collection, I knew one of my goals would be to collect one of every Booster Pack! I actually purchased all four Skyridge Packs from that same seller (krap7142) - could only fit those three within that screen-shot. All sold via eBay Auction - got two at $56.00 and two at $62.12. The crazy part about this is that that was the going-rate for these packs just two years ago! That wasn’t a steal for me back then - I wasn’t thrilled about that pricing back then. Now that these packs are selling for $200.00+ / Ea. I’m pretty thrilled to see that though! Haha
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