Tbh I’m not too worried about it in the near term. I think there is no way this is the last reprint of 151 (both English and Japanese).
I’m confident that either closer to the holidays or sometime early next year we’ll see another big reprint. Its free money for TPC and TPCi.
I was able to get one order that’s all
Why is pokemon center so bad at selling product? I was trying to add bundles to my cart for 30 minutes and saw the announcement almost immediately. Got none, but at least Best Buy came through for me. Just rediculous.
I dont think the japanese 151 will ever have high value. Everyone seems to be stacking boxes of these, the populations will forever be high.
yeah maybe if you grab like 20 booster boxes of this maybe one day it will be worth like $150 but to really make money you would need to stack so many boxes
about 2 months ago i sold a binder of the full 210 set with all 153 master balls
It sat on ebay for 3 weeks with no bites or offers.
finally i switched to auction style and was able to sell the binder for $3,700. I would say it was a disappointing result. yeah i could have held for like 10 years or something but i just see way too much product out there
So 1 booster box would equal 7 dollars and 50 cents?
Confused
I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion. perhaps you read my post wrong. please explain the math
i mean each booster box would be worth $150 (just throwing out an appreciated number). but if you paid like $65 or something thats hardly worth waiting 8-10 years to gain $85 minus inflation
it would only be worth it if you bought many of these booster boxes and waited. but just buying 2-3 of these wont make you rich this will never be a $500 box
You said if you stack 20 booster boxes maybe one day it’ll be worth $150, which of course can be interpreted by $150 per box, but I saw it as 7.5 per box.
This is the original era. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 box or 1000 boxes. There will always be an audience.
Modern buyer simply do not care about pops or qty. It’s a proven fact at this point. Will it stay that way? Idk probably not but to bet against modern is throwing easy money away at this point imo
Umbreon VMAX further solidifies this argument.
it’s not about looking at pops though
its about many tens of thousands of these booster boxes always available and everyone looking to sell and compete with one another. supply and demand
supply will always be high
nothing has ever been printed as much as 151. nothing has even been close. More 151 has been printed than the entirety of the sword and shield area combined
Pops/qty of boxes in this case
More 151 has been printed than the whole sword and shield era combined ? I would love to see some data on that if you’ve got it
Can we also see your ebay store @POKEBEAST? It isnt featured on your profile…
In 2023 52.9 Billion Pokémon cards were printed, equal to 20% of all ever printed in Pokémon’s history dating all the way back to what, 1995?. most of this demand is 151. and they have reported that they already have surpassed this number in 2024
yes, more 151 has been printed than all of sword and shield combined
I’m still waiting on data that says 151 is printed more then SwSh combined…
if you cant deduce using basic math I dont know what to tell you
i just want to put for reference, 9.7 billion cards were printed in 2022 and that was a record
52.9billion were printed last year with 151 comanding the lions share of prints and this years print is even larger
People have said this about many previous products, particularly about Evolutions, for several years after its release. Evolutions was printed in huge quantities (well, huge in proportion to the demand at the time, anyway) and there were plenty of people storing a case or 2 into the back of their closets. Booster boxes are now, what, 5x since release?
Concern about unprecedentedly huge quantities of ultra modern is valid, as well is the higher number of people storing it away. It just means that more time will need to pass for the average product to increase in price by an order of magnitude the likes we’ve seen with pre-2020 products.
What this TCG, along with the Stock Market and Crypto continually proves to us, is that we constantly underestimate its potential for continued growth, whether that’s for organic or inorganic reasons. What happened over the Covid era has completely skewed peoples’ vision of this. Additionally, markets move forward much faster than most people realise. A downside of the human condition is that our view of “the state of things” becomes fixed in relation to what’s happening over a particular period of time - in other words, and without wanting to sound like Kamala Harris, its difficult to envision what can be.
but there has been a huge influx of ppl returning to pokemon
this event has already happened though
what would be needed is massive growth of brand new collectors in the market… but 151 is a nostalgic set, it would be unreasonable to expect millions of ppl to come back to the hobby many years AFTER the set is in the market. Those ppl are here in the now… and the pokemon company is more than happy to fill all this demand with relentless supply and even oversaturate the market. Not to mention they are even willing to extend print runs beyond the 2 year typical print window now so long as demand remains
its not fair to compare to any other set, we’ve never seen anything like 151 before it has no parallel
100% incorrect