How many people have collections over $500? 1000? $5000?

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Hello, I was wondering after looking at many E4 members highest value expensive cards what percentage of all people who self identity as Pokemon Collectors have collections over $500, $1000, $5000, and $10000. How many individuals would that percentage amount to?

Right now my very rough guess would be that 20% of collectors have collections over $500, 5% over $1000, 2% over $5000, and 1% over $10,000.

Thanks

Edit: I updated to clarity that I was wondering about all collectors, and not just E4 collectors (I would assume that nearly all E4 members have collections of 1000+ and maybe 30% over 5000+)

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I’d say 30-50% are over 10,000?

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I think people serious enough about this hobby to post on a card collecting forum will have higher value collections than the average joe collector

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I have in the thousands, not sure if it’s quite $5k though. I mean maybe if you sold every holo rare at TrollandToad price, but honestly that’s not feasible.

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The thing is even most non collectors have $500-1000 'collection’s. I would absolutely cross the $500 and even $1000 for anyone collecting in any serious way. You’re well past that even if you only spend $100/month.

I would not be surprised one bit if 50% of efour members have a $10k collection… It adds up quite fast and you don’t even need a single $1000+ card to have a $10k collection tbh.

Also keep in mind the $500-1000 collection from… not very long ago is probably worth that now.

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I’m not just talking about collectors on E4, but all people who would self-identity as collectors.

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I am a fairly new pokemon collector so I would value my current Collection at about 500-600$ :blush:
However I don’t know how many people on this forum can relate to that so to answer your question I would say that experienced collectors such as Mr. Gilroy can give a fair judgement about this forums collectors base (y)
I see now that this comment does not bring much to the table, however a wise person once said: Age is of no importance if you are a cheese.
Now that does not make much sense at all, but who doesn’t like cheese?
Cheers!

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There is no way to accurately guess something like that. If we say what we think it is, it’s literally a wild shot in the dark.

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I misread that part as well. Your estimates are way more appropriate then.

There’s just no way to know how many people are participating/collecting…

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I haven’t conducted a full valuation of everything (a lot rests on complete set premiums etc) but I’d put myself in the over $10,000 group.

I’d think that most collectors that aren’t children have collections over $500. I’d say 60% over $500, 20% over $1,000, 10% over $2,000, 5% over $5,000, 1% over $10,000 and 0.1% over $50,000.

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How do you define a collector, is someone who buys a couple of random boosters every now and then a collector? I’d say more than 50% of ‘collectors’ would have over $500 in cards. When it come to collecting that’s a pretty easy number to pass, I mean competitive standard decks are 200-300 and I think collectors would have more value in their collection than what one standard deck is worth.

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$10,000 bracket seems like a low place to stop :blush:

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My interesting question is fair market value or book value?

Are we valuing our collections on what we spent or what they are worth now?

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fair market value I’d assume. Otherwise, there isn’t much of a standard for comparison to bridge older and newer collectors.

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At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if your collection is worth $100 or $1 million. The intrinsic value is what really counts.

One of my very favorite cards — a no-rarity Marumain (Electrode) — is probably only worth about $50, tops. But I’d never consider selling it.

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Oh then definitely over $10,000 lol

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I’m over 10k but it’s very hard to estimate percentages in different brackets IMO.

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E4 has the highest concentration of high end collectors, so this sample size is going to be a lot different than other places like Virbank, IG, Reddit, etc…

Most people on those sites would look at a collection of around $3,000 like mine and think that is high end. High end here is going to be a lot different.

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The average collection is valued at close to $2 million.

Gary single-handedly boosts the average up a couple million though :wink:

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In a few years it’ll be $1-$10, everyone will just buy customs right? :wink:

Why spend more on the real thing?

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