Rudy made it sound like he had knowledge about an intentional price manipulation of ES box prices. In today’s market, it wouldn’t suprise me if the price spike was triggered by an event like that.
Of course that being said, manipulation like this can only work if there’s already a level of organic demand and acceptance of the new price. If there wasn’t, the spike would be temporary and just a blip in the long term. If the price ends up stabilizing at this new price then ultimately whether it was triggered by a 100% organic event or not doesn’t matter from a practical perspective; the organic demand supported the new price.
I’ve sold 4 ES cases into the recent run up. 1 was to a relatively new ebay account and immediately relisted on ebay at a higher price. 1 was to an ebay account that sells golf cart supplies. The other 2 weren’t noteworthy (likely illuminati smurf accounts).
There is definitely a bit of a FOMO aspect to the recent rise in ES prices. Loose packs seem to be in the $11-12 range now, but I’ve managed to pick up ~65 at MSRP over the last month or so, so there are some opportunities to stock up still.
Evolving Skies sealed booster boxes are seeing a fairly significant climb within the last month or so, I assume staying in line with the also increasing price of both raw and graded Moonbreons (as well as just overall interest in the set/full arts). Ebay listings (both sold and asking prices) seem to reflect this as well.
I can’t believe it got this high tbh. I get that a lot of people are bullish regardless and see this as the long play. But at this pricepoint selling feels like a no-brainer, might be able to convert into cards I actually want.
Might be time to sell the Evo Skies case tbh. Sure it might go up more in the future but that amount of funds would help pay off a lot of bills and more card singles.
The recent hype in modern also made Evolving Skies rise even more in value. Here in Europe the last sales for an English BB on eBay are between 1,100€ and 1,200€. On cardmarket listings start at 1,200€.
I feel that my line of reasoning was pretty logical. It wouldnt make sense to not incorporate taxes and fees just because 4 out of the 50 states have 0%. The other 46 states have fees anywhere from 5% - 9% and should be incorporated into the final price of what someone is willing to pay for these boxes. At the time, my prices were pretty spot on for the last 10 sales.
Umbreon vmax psa 10 reaching 3k consistently after taxes and fees. I feel it will surpass latios and latios psa 10. I also feel as though the demand for evolving skies booster boxes heavily surpasses the demand of team up booster boxes. Although there are much more ES boxes on the market currently it still has room to grow.
I don’t know, the last Latios/Latias sold for $5000, and there’s a current auction with a $4650 bid. The pop of the card is 10 times lower than Moonbreon, but who knows, people want so much this card to reach the moon, that it probably will !
