I think people felt there was an opportunity to buy IR cards that were sub $10 in large quantities due to how crazy the market is in general rn. Heck, japanese AR were (are?) sub $1 in bulk lots on ebay. I dont think Drowzee is a $100 card though, not even close. Itll retrace (haha unless…?) but i dont see it being bulk anymore
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“We are SO back!”, said 2021
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In no way on earth anybody can realistically think that this is organic demand. It completely reminds me of the hype in 2020/21 and the Japanese Female Full Art trainer hype in 2023. I sometimes venture in the dark world of r/PokeInvesting and watch some “hype-stonkz-tothemoon” YouTubers when I am bored and people there are really completely delusional thinking those cards will skyrocket even more. And they have the craziest explanations why this will happen to most the other IRs as well.
Yes, the art on a lot of those is phenomenal (also on the Drowzee) but there was a reason why most of those were sub 10 bucks a couple of months ago (and that you can get most of the Japanese ARs for around 1-2 Euros/Dollars). Simply because all modern sets have huge print runs and ARs are not that crazily rare (yes I know, English ones are harder to pull than Japanese ones).
I am not saying that all of the IRs will crash like crazy and some probably won’t go back down to sub 10 Euros/Dollars in the future, but I don’t think that they will continue to skyrocket endlessly. They will at some point go down. It’s the third hype in the last 5 years so looking back at the last two certainly helps understanding this one.
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You know, I’m getting a lot of bad vibes in this thread, similar to those that were hating on my boy’s Bulbasaur valuation in 2020 craze.
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It’s like a market minigame, convince just enough people to buyout [card of the week] then cash in at the peak price
Immature markets, especially ones were cards can be picked up for so cheap, are very easy to manipulate.
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Dude Im going to unload all of my PSA 10 Unlimited non holos if this is really happening again lol. I don’t think the average collector/person realizes that there are ALOT of people with mint conditon base set commons and uncommons that have been waiting for the cards to be worth grading.
The fact that an unlimited voltorb sold for more than a 1st edition one, screams noob.
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there is massive demand, i doubt that it is manipulated, the better word is hyped. I listed 6 raw ones recently and sold them all within 2 hours to different buyers.
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Do you think the current price of Umbreon 32/75 makes sense?
122$ raw NM? What is it hitting as a graded psa 10
I don’t know and I don’t know if I want to know. Card was going for 15-25 raw in December and vary early Januarary.
Where? And is that unlimited? The tcgplayer price graph doesn’t show that
If we are talking about the Neo discovery one…old, awesome artwork, popular character, 1/10th the price of cards released last month. Seems fair to me
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I wasn’t monitoring it on tcgplayer just ebay. Prices sometimes lag or exceed. Prices were higher pre November so maybe it’s returning to base line. What about rockets snorlax. The price isn’t high but other rockets common and uncommon pokemon aren’t increasing in price like that one.
Can anyone explain this?
Maybe I’m losing my marbles (which I may be anyways), but how on earth is someone willing to shell out $10,000 for this? How is this even an auction-able item? Is this just people trolling? I feel like this sort of thing just diminishes the legitimacy of your platform (in this case, Goldin).
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Cheetozard - the Harbinger of the End
But seriously wtf
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Pop 1 Habee Grale
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I need to start investing in hot cheetos more often (I’m pretty sure I’ve come across cheetos like this and just eaten them) idk who’s bidding on this it would be a funny bit at like 100 but anything above 500 is just plain stupid, I’m sure the sellers pretty happy for selling a cheeto in a 20 dollar case made in china for so much