I’d be interested to know what % of portfolio is modern for people on e4 compared to Reddit or IG. Idk if everyone has that thing calc’d or if it’s private but just a percentage would be interesting and would leave the value out of it
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Pogo shilling again I see 
<10% personally and i count everything after wotc as modern
if it´s post 2019 stuff it´s probably <1-2% for me but i still love collecting some beautiful v alt arts or other promos
maybe we could create a little poll in a seperate thread?
Last year i was 90% modern. Only vintage was a full base set in my binder. I couldnt really afford the vintage cards i wanted at that time. Now i basically cant afford the modern cards that i want so i switched everything to vintage because most cards slowly became affordable.
Im a 90’s kid though so i will always have a special connection to base, jungle and fossil and the neo series.
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It’s tough because the average e4 user is probably spending more in total. Someone could only have maybe 5-10% a year in modern but that could be 10x the average redditor.
Currently I probably spend about the same on both modern & vintage. I buy every new set released, and have since vintage was modern.
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Yeah that’s why just the raw percentage was all I was interested in. The percentage would tell us people’s level of faith in modern without telling us their personal budget which isn’t super relevant and is more private.
I’m probably like 15% - 20% modern ATM but that will be dropping as so far I am unimpressed with SV
I just think it’s a flawed premise because a person buying 50% modern and 50% vintage is probability doing different things with them. Im general, the goal of people who are actually profiting off modern is to get things back onto the market as fast as possible with a margin built in. It’s a replicable process. Whereas with older product you’re generally more reliant on slower sales across a larger time horizon.
In other words the % breakdown of modern vs vintage doesn’t capture the % still owned 1 year after the initial purchase and thus isn’t an indication of what people feel about modern in the long term
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modern is too easy to find, so naturally I have lots of it. I dont really view it as a specific segment of my collection, rather its just part of the whole. 
I’m probably around 20% too, but a large part of that is my VSTAR Universe set and my Japanese 151 master set. I don’t care about the future of those sets, I just like having them. Doesn’t always have to be about the money.
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That is fair. It may be better to compare sealed modern vs vintage then. For those who plan to keep it sealed anyway since it somewhat narrows down the person’s intention. Everyone assumes that everyone is sitting on stacks of modern boxes but I find that not many people have as much as I’d expect them to have or they’ve only got etbs/blisters (which I generally don’t count in the same vein as a box holder)
A lot of it is dumped when we hit like15% profit margin
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Do you buy modern English or Japanese ?
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Yes! 
But seriously I used to do both and more Japanese these days. I still pick up English just not as much.
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30% Gen V onwards, Gen III is most of what I collect.
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For me anything after black & white is modern at this point for me
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I don’t think ‘cheap cards’ is the correct description considering Darkness Ablaze has nothing besides Charizard worth more than $5.
But, I do wonder if SV will hold up better because kids can actually pull higher rarity cards. Still, that’s talking about at least 10 years from now so a really long time.
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How does goldin auction rates work?
I sold an item for 250(after bp added), I received 205$. So 18% off final price.
But BP is 22%. And they have a section that says seller receives 95% of sale price before bp. (Goldin) What am i missing here?
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What was the hammer price?
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a little off topic but mildly related to buyers premium; i’ve noticed that pwcc has made it progressively more difficult to see the price breakdown on cards you’ve bought. like you can go into accounting and assume the current price on won items is pre-bp and the sale price is including bp, but it doesn’t really clearly state that. also the last time i bought from pwcc, i was unable to see a breakdown of the prices on cards I purchased on the invoice before i paid. they also seem to have removed the scans of the cards on that showed up on the invoice?
maybe im just dumb, but i certainly remember this being way more straight forward like a year ago. i started noticing because i like to track my spending on slabs and noticed having to go more and more out of my way to get the information i was looking for. for a website that charges a 20% buyer’s premium on all purchases, it’s not very user friendly and is incredibly jenky
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- Which is 18% of final price. I received 205 in my account. Their site says 22% and i would receive 95% so Im confused
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