Efour Weekly — Apr 26 – May 3, 2026
By the numbers
- New topics: 55
- New posts: 1,436
- Active users: 10 tracked; top contributor @c0ll3ct0r (170 likes, 32 posts)
- Most active category: collecting
- Standout metric: The Most Recent Purchase megathread logged 30+ new posts this week alone — the forum’s busiest single thread
Prices Aren’t Moving. Neither Is the Consensus.
I’m here on da scene, and da market thread is doing what it always does: generating heat without generating answers. The question got asked plainly on Tuesday — prices were supposed to correct, they didn’t, so now what? The replies split fast. @wisewailmer opened with the week’s sharpest line:
Hold your loved ones tight, and sell off the rest.
From there the thread sprawled across a week of vintage price hand-wringing, touching the broader surge in vintage values and the Japanese market’s stranger moves — including one card that sat under $100 in PSA 10 until six weeks ago and is now trading near $7,000. The functional consensus, if there is one: patience, savings discipline, and accepting that some cards are simply gone. @thsigma laid it out in five numbered steps. @gengarbrigade, over in the vintage thread, put it more bluntly: “The market doesn’t care about your feelings.” Nobody disagreed.
The $10K Question Nobody Would Answer Directly
A quieter but more personal tension ran through a thread about making the big purchase. @thatpikachuguy had a card in the $10K range on the table — niche, possibly the third time it would ever transact, and something hunted for over a decade. The ask to the forum was less “should I” and more “talk me into it.” The forum obliged. Replies across the week converged on the same instinct: grails don’t come back, smaller cards always do. @madmonkey put it flatly:
Most of my biggest financial mistakes are not making these large purchases when the opportunity was present.
The thread ran parallel to a grail-feeling thread where @EvenOddish landed a long-hunted Portuguese 1st Edition after a year-long search, and @martin recounted flying to Belgium to close a trade for an E3 red cheeks Pikachu. By week’s end, @thatpikachuguy confirmed the jump — and also casually mentioned pulling a duplicate SIR from a recent trade the same week. Timing, as always, does what it wants.
A Forum Artifact Gets Slabbed
The week’s most unhinged, most beloved post came from a thread with an absurd premise that somehow delivered. @silversnorlax204 acquired a CGC-graded copy of the E4 magazine featuring @pfm — signed by @pfm — and presented it, completely straight-faced, as “the apex of ALL collectables.” The grading note read “Autograph deemed inconclusive,” which @Dyl correctly identified as cosmically appropriate. @pfm showed up in the replies to promise the forum’s homies an early retirement. @Quuador revealed a @pfm-signed copy already lives in their own collection, courtesy of a Secret Santa. The whole thing lasted about 18 posts and landed more likes per post than almost anything else this week. It was stupid. It was perfect.
Quiet Wins, Completed Corners
Several collections crossed meaningful thresholds this week with little fanfare. @chefonaquest celebrated three years on E4 by completing 100% of all Indonesian Eevee cards. @Metapod_museum finished every TCG-sized Metapod in every language, including sealed and unpeeled variants — only the fourth species collection completed across all languages, per @Quuador. And @slowqueen posted a European Slowpoke haul that added 74 unique all-language SlowCards in one mail day, pushing the overall collection to 94% complete. The E4 Vintage Thematic Set Event kept accumulating entries too — a clay Treecko photographed in actual greenery, a Chatot finished in a rush, @Quuador’s first freehand drawing in 25 years. The deadline extended by another month, because the project is too good to rush.
Dat’s all from dis correspondent — pay your grails forward, and don’t let nobody tell ya da autograph was inconclusive.