I think the widespread association of them being reverse holos makes people just dump them. but texturing them makes them really far from reverse holos in actuality.
Reverse holos are literal junk lol. Nothing unique about them at all from card to card (including master balls), but these are all different.
However, I have no trust in the current consumer base which mostly don’t seem to have any mind of their own and who mainly like what influencers tell them to like.
On the contrary, I think people were acutely aware of the uniqueness of the textured holos, it’s just that they can’t hold any value with how many are out there, since most value is tied up in the SARs, and the masterball variants there’s really little room for these to be more than a buck. Realistically only a few popular mons could demand a small premium.
It’s supply and demand, and in this case the supply is massive. It’s pure pokenomics if you will ;).
My LGS had booster boxes for 65 bucks which is the lowest I’ve ever had to pay for the yearly high class set right at release.
You say that but then Pokeballs are rarer than SARs so that doesn’t work out.
But I was comparing these to 151 masterballs which are just reverse holos. These are more comparable to Radiant cards.
And also the fact that influencers/consumers are seemingly not focused on the texture but the fact that it is a masterball. The masterball is the most irrelevant thing about it IMO. The least effort, most superficial part of the card lol.
Yes and e-series reverses are individually rarer than the crystals, should they each be valued more than the crystals?
It’s merely diluted over a large card pool. Since the general public is not looking to pull specifically let’s say pokeball holo drilbur, but specific SAR’s, that’s where the value must be. Since you get one in every pack, and on the whole you’re not chasing a specific pokeball holo, they will never have the ‘hit-feeling’ attached. Typical ‘if everyone is special, no one is’.
It’d also be a very strange world if every pokeball holo were worth 4-6$, because then the SAR’s would have to be worthless (assuming box prices stay same and JP keeps the printers going BBRRRR)… It’s diametrically opposed to the structure of pull-rates, which ties in with how our brain chemicals react (gacha/gambling, you have to have duds to make the hits stand out…).
With radiants you bring up another of my slept on favourites. Absolutely dirt-cheap for some great looking cards, but because of how small the card pool for radiants is combined with reasonable pull-rates, these individually oversaturate the market (as opposed to pokeball holo’s which are individually rare, but as a whole saturate the market as you pull one each pack).
In a vacuum these are amazing value for money, I’ll definitely buy some bulk lots of them just to put in a binder. But I don’t expect them to go stonk outside of that vacuum.
Yeah, I’m definitely not arguing or wishing for them to be expensive, just pointing out the irrationality of influencers and consumers. In the end there are more of them than me though.
Interesting choice of the Eevee SAR, instead of using the SAR found in the God pack. Guess that is an actual alt art (2 SAR of same Pokémon)
The cards aren’t in set order anyway, so who knows, maybe the other Eevee got a 9 
It’s sequentially graded; no other Eevee was submitted.
This set will take scalping to a new level I fear. I wouldnt be surprised if there is the first ever scalper murder at walmart trying to get these. Stay safe everyone.
That is an extreme thing to say and also feeds into the hype. Everyone can take a breath and it will be ok
The arts on these things are mid at best. Nobody needs to die
I like how this implies that there is a level of artwork where its okay for people to die over it
Lol
Early Van Gogh was mid at release
Boxes are up to $60 on SNKRDUNK, and I would assume will continue to climb some more.
HOWEVER, its important to note that like 151, I imagine prices will drop like a rock when they announce the first reprint. I’m still targeting $35-40 per box as my buy price.
Kinda cheap for a set of PSA 10s or at least the seller didn’t make much on it. After grading fees, not much profit left. Happy buyer hopefully.
Seller made a ton. $1,870 graded or $400 -$500 raw. Sad buyer in my opinion
