Some time around mid 2020 I sold this card and it’s Latias counterpart for $200 each because they had increased so much from when I bought them for around $35 each the previous year.
Even early THIS YEAR i managed to buy the latios for 220,-. 2025 has been crazy for semi vintage (past wotc)
The holiday calendar sold out on Pokémon Center in around 24 hours. What’s crazy is at the time, it was the only product on the entite website that had packs in it. Now TPCi will probably overprint this next year since they think it is insanely popular. However, it only sold out so fast because there are no other options.
It’s still in stock on the UK website however the Prismatic bundles and the Leafeon VStar Special Collection sold out it under 30 minutes, Which is a new record from what i have usually experienced ordering from the Pokémon Center online. I was surprised to see they stocked a 4 year old set (Evolving Skies)
This is how much Rayquaza from celebrations is now:
I’m getting completely priced outta this hobby lol.
Remember I want a master set of rayquaza, and paying $100 bucks for 2 regular rayquaza ex’s is ridiculous.
Whats even more ridiculous is the fact that a reprint is only 6 bucks less than the actual version.
Not knocking what your saying of course, but I think it’s fairly obvious that buying anything in this market thats not to sellis a losing battle in the long run.
Isn’t better to fomo the original instead? I don’t follow these MEGAs but the original seems a decent deal when compared.
You are too far zoomed in. It’s been going up slowly for 9 months then took off the past 3 months. The signs were there to get it before the huge spike. It’s modern though, so many people have Celebrations packs stashed away. It will crash
One has a Pikachu stamp, one doesn’t. Case dismissed.
Yeah you’re right.
A lot of celebrations cards have been rising immensely to the point where it’s comparable to the tag team boom that just recently happened (and died out for a bit).
It’s a horrible time to get these cards overall, and i’m very much certain that most if not all of these cards will crash, but I’m willing to eat my words if it truly comes down to it.
This can probably be attributed to pre-30th anniversary hype. It’s the same pattern we saw earlier in the year with previous Team Rocket cards going up because of Destined Rivals hype.
It’s pretty crazy because all these cards were sub 100 for the longest time and seen as cheap reprints with an large, ugly Pikachu stamp. But as this market has proved countless times, what was once tacky becomes in vogue with time.
It’s a bad time to pick up anything right now. Just focus on what you can, and the rest will eventually fall into place.
Thanks! Really appreciate it!
what on earth
Can EU order from the UKPC or do they get nothing?
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Modern penny stonking
You just never know…
Unless you have a discord then you know
Nothing.
They’ve cracked down on forwarding services too.
