Holy crap the Kanda tax is going crazy here
I’m a seismitoad fan, but never expected one to be selling for $200+ raw
I’m a seismitoad fan, but never expected one to be selling for $200+ raw
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It’s more of a paranoid “to be banned soon” narrative premium to me, some genuinely thought Kanda drew those 6s intentionally. Meanwhile the same illustration is out in Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Indonesian and Korean (today)
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Oh yeah I could see that. I didn’t notice that lol. Thanks
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Cars are useful indeed, but why not buy a beater to drive around and use the remaining 15k on shiny cardboard?
Hell, going on holiday adds no physical value. You cant drive a holiday, but people drop 10k on a week, where “all” you get are memories.
Ultimately, its up to the individual how they spend their money.
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I was surprised it didn’t do this out of the gate (at least on the JP side, not sure if it did for English?). The JP version was £10-15 for a good few weeks until randomly shooting up to £55 a couple of days ago. Since Magikarp I’d have thought the Kanda tax would have been pre-built-into prices straight away.
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At release it was around $70ish and I thought even then it would go down. 2 weeks later I was sorely mistaken lol. Might be attributed to what @koala said. Potentially a mix of kanda, investors, and fomo if it were to be banned art.
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$70? I guess there was a bit of that pre-optimization there then, cos that’s a lot of money for a regular AR. Looks like there was a bit of $tonk turbo lag on top of that 
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Yeah exactly! I thought it was already baked in then the price tripled!
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Just gonna leave this here for reference
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This is slightly less than what I paid for an extremely strong 9 in January. Lmao.
People have lost their minds. The fallout from all of this is going to be insane.
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The thing thats crazy is
We are in July
Historically one of if not the slowest month for Pokemon where we typically see prices dip
Imagine once we move toward the Holidays. Especially with 30yr anniversary hype and the return of Megas
There will be so much attention to Pokemon
It may get worse before it gets better
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It’s certainly possible, but I’m just very wary of where this is all going. Most people’s wallets aren’t endless, and I think things are entirely out of balance at the moment.
I mean, even on E4, a site comprised of some of the most enthusiastic and/or deep pocketed collectors in the sphere, I’d be shocked if there were more than a very select few among us that are actually financially capable of keeping up with this market if it continues this current trajectory.
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I’m missing something, what 6s?
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People are silly (and will look for any excuse to increase the value of a card)
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Is this the Unholy Grail?!
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I respectfully disagree. He makes 100k aged 25. That is not a “normal” salary for anyone outside of finance or tech-bro. That’s 4x his young age, and puts him in top 10% of earners in the UK apparently, meaning 1 in 10 employed people he walks past in the street still make more! So i’m not talking about billionaires. There are just far more wealthy people than you think. We all walk past millionaires every day.
Anyway, if i was on 100k aged 25 i’d have bought some crazy stuff! But i wont even retire on 100k a year.
If he stays in the same job til 60 and gets a measly 5% a year, that’s 600k a year.
Let him live a little 
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I’m sure it’s nobody’s intention to tell him what to do with his money. I just find curious how unpopular the common sense has become in certain social circles.
While society and the world seem to have taken a shit spiral, for some reason it appears that Gen Z and millennials are seriously convinced that it’s only natural for every asset, crypto, stock, income or pokemon card to go up up up.
This is maybe the result of never having witnessed a serious recession or something like a 2008 crisis with our eyes and savings, and I feel this attitude is definitely different from older generations.
This is just an observation, nothing personal really.
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By the phrasing of your post, we just clearly live in parts of the world with extremely different costs of living. That’s all I’m going to say lol.
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