cool.
Yes for anyone reading this. DONT DROP $20k on Pokemon cards! Unless you have a Time Machine
Cost basis is totally irrelevant, with all due respect. If youāre not selling at the current prices, thatās essentially the same thing as buying at the current prices.
Also, while those are good prices compared to what the cards are worth rn, they arenāt low prices at all. idk if you were here a couple years ago, but those cards (except maybe Alakazam/the eeveelutions, which I donāt follow the prices of) were all worth way less than that just a few years ago. People could barely give their treeckos away just a few years ago. Iām sure there are others on this thread who remember the guy with the PSA 9 on eBay who kept sending offers in the $800-$900 range for months with no one biting. This wasnāt ancient history; this was literally like 2022.
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Good insight. But personally I donāt buy 
for investment purposes, they were my childhood grails I wanted to buy ever since I was 7 years old. I would actually prefer for the prices for to crash back to 2020/21 prices so I can complete my collection. They bring me so much more joy than money, and the financial upside Iāve experienced is just a bonus. Iām sure prices will come back down in the future, so Iāll buy more.
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Well, 15 minutes ago, you said something that gave me the opposite impression:
āSafer than a savings accountā and āsure to decline in priceā feel like contradictory statements to me, but maybe Iām just being obtuse 
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Can crash 50% tomorrow and Iāll still be up in profit better than some savings account. Sure theyāll fall down soon but long term trend is in the money.
Holy crap the Kanda tax is going crazy here
Iām a seismitoad fan, but never expected one to be selling for $200+ raw
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Itās more of a paranoid āto be banned soonā 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 didnāt notice that lol. Thanks
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 āallā you get are memories.
Ultimately, its up to the individual how they spend their money.
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I was surprised it didnāt do this out of the gate (at least on the JP side, not sure if it did for English?). The JP version was Ā£10-15 for a good few weeks until randomly shooting up to Ā£55 a couple of days ago. Since Magikarp Iād 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 thatās 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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Itās certainly possible, but Iām just very wary of where this is all going. Most peopleās wallets arenāt 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, Iād 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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Iām missing something, what 6s?
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