# Pokemon researchers, do you tell first or buy first? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 4, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/pokemon-researchers-do-you-tell-first-or-buy-first/33045 "2021-07-04T03:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Quuador](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/quuador/32/237215_2.png) [@Quuador](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Quuador)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/pokemon-researchers-do-you-tell-first-or-buy-first/33045/14 "2021-07-04T17:31:44Z")
> [@gengaranimal](#): > > Quuador, aka “The Curator” , Curator Quuador, “CQ”. I like it! Sounds like a character from the Matrix or Mission Impossible. Thanks for the compliments @lyleberr@gemmintpokemon@gengaranimal . 😊 As for the question of the actual thread: in 99 out of 100 cases I just share it. I could keep things for myself, and in some rare cases I do at first, but eventually I’ll just mention it to some people or just share it in an article or thread here on Efour or reddit, even if I could have better keep things for myself since I’m still missing a certain card in my collection. But in a lot of cases there are other people discovering the same things eventually anyway, even if I do keep it to myself. To give an example of something I kept to myself (one of the rare cases where I did), but someone else discovered and shared it later on: the Ivy Pikachu reprint from 1998. It is glossy with Keiji Kinebuchi illustrator, but in pictures you usually can’t see the difference between glossy and non-glossy. You can still see differences by looking at the Energy symbols, though. I had already noticed this earlier while I was trying to find this 1998 reprinted card (and I still am looking as we speak unfortunately 🙁 ), but [hayo noticed and shared the same in the Efour thread](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/japanese-ivy-pikachu-reprinted-corocoro-variant/29544/32). (If anyone sees this card for sale, please lmk asap.) At the same time though, if [KEI hadn’t shared the existence of this card in 2018](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/corocoro-japanese-promo-reprinted-edition/21760/1), I wouldn’t even have known about it. It’s a Pikachu variation that was discovered years after I was already collecting Pikachu cards. If I had known from the beginning seven years ago, I might have already found it by now. So yeah, even though the chances are pretty high I’m shooting my own ass by sharing all kind of info on cards I don’t even have yet, at the same time if more people are aware of them and look for them, the chances are higher one eventually pops up for sale. Also, I personally love all these minor variations in cards, like most of the things mentioned by Zach for example: grey 1st edition stamps; no stage Blastoise error; black flame Ninetales; etc., even though a lot of people don’t care too much about these kind of variations. And I personally share them almost immediately if it’s outside of my own collection goals, especially if I know it’s within the collection goals of someone else (i.e. [the Fossil Muk with repeated black ink dot I shared with joponnes the other day for example](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/jopos-slime-army/32584/36)). But even if it’s within my own collection interests, I usually tend to share things like that rather quickly. Could be stupid in most cases, but I personally think ‘_sharing is caring_’. 🤷 And by sharing info, other people also help me out in return tbh. @pichufan linked me to those unlimited edition E1 Pikachu auctions almost immediately when they started for example, and I’m happy to say [I was able to win the second one, which is currently incoming](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/whats-your-most-recent-purchase/21976/4211). 😊 Happy to finally have bought this card after collecting Pikachu and searching for it for seven years. And if that auction wasn’t shared with me, I might have missed it (note however that PichuFan wasn’t the only one who shared it; I think I had around ten messages from people who knew I was looking for it 😁 ). Greetz, Quuador --- _[View the full topic](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/pokemon-researchers-do-you-tell-first-or-buy-first/33045)._