Going through old threads is fun because I’m always surprised to see what people were talking about back in time. Here’s a thread to share old posts that have aged in a funny or interesting way.
I have no memory of saying that. Speak enough and you’ll be correct eventually.
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(Not a real link don’t)
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“dont buy shrouded fable kingdra promos, they will go down”
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Three Best TCG Pokemon Investments
- Rare Japanese Promos
- Gold Stars
- PSA 10 Full Arts
Back then WOTC was king so it wasn’t an obvious list to make.
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I cant really think of a bad thing to buy if you bought before 2025. But its also nice to think of us all as clairvoyant
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Some people are more correct than others. The timing is interesting too because 5 years ago that list was still not great advice and it took the full 10 years to really pay off
I’ll return the favor @pfm!
PFM was one of the few forum “oldheads” who has consistently noted that modern product is a good thing to put your money into. At the time of this thread in 2020, the prevailing wisdom was that modern product was overprinted and vintage would continue to see the strongest returns over time. You can go look in the thread and see others (including me) being skeptical of putting money into modern if not outright dismissing it.
It’s easy to find uninformed and new people jumping on the modern hype train and for lack of a better term, getting lucky. People who have been in the hobby for a long time recognizing the prospect of modern early on was rare.
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Shout out to the 3 of you who clicked the link to pay for more tips
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Profound
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dam the proportional prices of those back then compared to now seems wild 
still alive Robert? @robbiegrass
Rudy had a decent video on this very recently. The prevailing wisdom at the time was that vintage should increase in equal or greater amounts than modern and that hypothesis has failed in many cases. I think it strongly indicates the modern market hype being more of a function of current economic issues rather than organic interest in the media at all. It could be a bad sign long term, but indicate things will persist until we all get shoved onto universal basic income and buying capacity is heavily normalized for the vast majority.
Fwiw, 100% agree that modern is more susceptible to bubbles/hype cycles etc. and the supply fundamentals are sometimes wacky. I don’t think we can say this means organic interest isn’t a real part of it though.
Modern’s performance may also be because it is the more accessible / affordable option that younger folks / newer collectors are/were exposed to. A lot of us love vintage because of nostalgia, but maybe that nostalgia actually lies with “modern” sets for many newer collectors.
Not saying the price increases in moderns are justified are anything… just some armchair speculation about why there can be some fundamentals here too.
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Not to totally derail the topic, but that’s not what would happen with universal basic income. The goal is not to lower everyone’s wages to the same rate. It’s to provide everyone with a “basic income” regardless of employment situation. You could think of it as a salary bonus if you’re already working. They did a trial of it a few years ago in a small Ontario town.
The people it impacts the most are housewives who don’t work, the disabled, university students, veterans, etc. Giving these people more spending power and money to put back into the economy.
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Oh we weren’t being scarcasitc…
