I’m super excited to see what comes out of tonight. I’ve been watching the Zard Auction for the past almost week now.
Real question is will this be like the pokerev opening: no Zard?
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If I were a betting man, I’d bet no Zard tonight
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The insanity of all of this!!! THE INSANITY!!! Yet we are all so overjoyed. This is amazing. 200k for a box and yet you can easily turn a profit. Let us all who have zards be glad we did when we could. RIP 1st ed purchases…
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I’ll take that bet. Two of the big three will get pulled tonight.
How knows? Maybe there will be 2 Zard pulls.
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Maybe it’ll be 3 hitmonchans instead of 3 poliwrath 
Anyone have a link to the box opening?
good thing you’re not a betting man, 100% going to pull the zard, the stars have all aligned
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This is funny. I was talking to Logan earlier today. He told me he had a supernatural feeling that two CHARIZARDS would be pulled. I told him that oddly, right when I woke up I had the exact same feeling. What does it mean? Probably nothing lol. But who knows;)
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Well, I’m gonna go buy a 1st edition shadowless holo now.
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That’s crazy haha, I guess we’ll see! 
It’s funny joking about buying 1st edition base before this video or RIP, but then I realize just how many people are going to watch this and how true that sentiment just might be. The promotional video got 5 million views.
If 5 million people watch this, even if just .1% of viewers decide to start collecting 1st edition base after this that’s 5000 new 1st edition base collectors. There’s not enough supply for that currently.
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It’s interesting to see how much 1st Edition Base has increased recently and the fact that Jungle and Fossil 1st Edition haven’t moved at all. I would’ve expected some of these outside investors/collectors to go after those sets, too? It’s just crazy to see Base Set prices like quadruple while literally everything else is the same price as in June.
I wonder if the Base Set prices reach a point to where there’s spillover demand into Jungle/Fossil from people who are priced out of Base.
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Fossil has started to move, it’s ~12k now. Once jungle starts it’ll probably hit $20k very quickly. What I’m interested in is how high base set will go.
The popular non-holos (pikachu,eevee,meowth,cubone) have moved quite a bit and cards like dragonite have also seen a small increase.
I’m not even talking about booster boxes. I’m referring to the PSA 9s and 10s, which have been more or less totally flat.
I think there will be some increased demand, but more slowly. The unique thing with base is if you want to collect Pokémon cards, chances are that’s your first goal. Not for everyone, but for a majority. Tack on FOMO and that’s why we see the meteoric rise.
Then after base you move onto either what is most nostalgic for you, what you like the most, or what you think is the best place for your money. That might be Jungle, but it might be gold stars or EX era. No other set congregates collectors like 1st edition base. Whereas other sets filter out collectors by age, interest, rarity-desire, income level etc.
Gotcha, yeah thats true. Typically when the booster boxes start to rise the cards do also. But it’s really the chicken or the egg.
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What’s the buyer premium % on these auctions?