Is a buy out even a buy out if nobody buys cards at whatever the price of the cards left which you didn’t buy?
Pokemon really doesn’t have buyouts. MtG and Yu-Gi-Oh! do but people actually play those games so there’s always a huge shift in demand for one card or another. The supply of a given card can disappear in an hour.
Just because an individual has accrued a given card over time doesn’t mean it was bought out, neither does the supply of a card rising gradually over time.
It would be too expensive to try and buy out high end product and you physically couldn’t do it on graded cards which have such low populations.
It’ll be interesting to know what sort of % buy out is needed to raise the price of a card by a significant amount
As has been said you would need high demand for the cards even at a higher price point. Therefore you could really only do it with playable cards or a new release which wouldn’t happen nowadays save some exclusive releases e.g. Art Academy Promos.
There has been a couple cases back in 2012(?) where some prominent tcg player managed to figure out the meta after rotation and acquire/“buy out” all available Tropical Beaches and Yanmega/Magnezone Primes. After rotation prices started rising and they started unloading. IIRC prices were 5x-10x at the highest. Even then it’s probably more about figuring meta and “it” cards than buying out the stock.
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can I be nosy and ask how many you have?
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Gary has 21 or 22… I think? What would be more interesting is how much has been invested… We probably don’t want to know how cheap he got them. 
Actually, it might be less. I thought he had 20 copies before, but it might have been 10.
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I think it’s 13 PSA 10 1st Ed. Base Charizard Cards
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I thought it was 12 because he had chance to get 13 but doesn’t like the number 13 as he’s superstitious? 
could be wrong though
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That’s why he is willing to sell #13.
12 or 13; still more than anyone else will ever own! LOL
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Hahah you got that right 
Yes, 12 in my collection and the nicest one I’ve ever seen (and I’ve grade 3 1/2 or 4 dozen) is listed cause of that nasty number 13.
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Are they all from back in the day?
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But if you sell it and then get another then that one will be #13.
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No. Spread out over the years. I’ve paid appx 20k for a couple.
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Fortunately that’s not how I see it. If I did, I’d have to quit at 12 lol.
I’ve never sold one out of my personal collection so #13 will be out and my next one will be #14.
For me, I’m comfortable with that;)
Haha I was only kidding. But a way to be doubly sure that the next is definitely #14 and not #13 over again just have to be sure to buy one quickly before you sell the other!
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But then I’d feel like I was tearing into an entrenched part of my collection and leaving a hole to boot. Collectors are really a unique breed lol.