The bling around the case was a brilliant idea, and if I was a billionaire I would do exactly the same.
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There will always be that “one card” you will never add to your collection and you have to learn to be okay with that.
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I think I can name like 10 right now off the top of my head 
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supply and demand. more people want the cards than they did previously, and jp still has the issue of usually only doing one or two print runs of most sets before never reprinting it. the restocks are immediately purchased up and there is never a point where you can just buy it in stock somewhere unless you’re local and wait in line throughout the night.
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say it ain’t so
but I agree
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- I might not be able to open a ScV block japanese booster box containing a waifu SAR
- I may never pull a waifu SAR
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Supply really is the key issue here. I think as long as Japan continues to print to local demand, this problem will persist. Japanese cards were not meant to go out of Japan anyway.
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Waifu collectors are here to stay. It’s not a fad, it’s a movement - a really uncomfortable and awkward movement. 
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Og vintage (96-02) will always be the heart and most important cards in the hobby.
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We are all going to die someday and you can’t take anything with you.
Guess that doesn’t just apply to Pokemon lol.
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Very tough to swallow – pill still stuck in throat
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Every modern artist is at risk of including the latest hyper-expensive chase card in their master set
Shinji Kanda (debut 2022) - SA Giratina V
kawayoo (debut 2009) - SA Lugia V
Akira Komayama (debut 2011) - SAR Miriam
GIDORA (debut 2022) - SAR Dendra
DOM (debut 2022) - SAR Grusha
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- I will almost certainly never get to experience a signing event unless I move countries
- There is a 99% chance you do not achieve everything you want to achieve. But, its fine. The fun is in the journey, not the destination
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Trigger warning: The following statements may cause offence, they are hyperbolic and generalistic in nature to increase the shock value.
Pokémon will never again feel like it did during your childhood, chasing the nostalgia is only an escape from this world and preventing you from doing something meaningful with what limited time we have.
Your real life friends will never understand why you spend thousands on pieces of cardboard. You are likely being ridiculed because of it without your knowledge.
You wouldn’t collect Pokémon cards if no one else cared about it. We all seek approval/affirmation in this community.
Prices will never return to 2017.
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This is a tough pill to swallow about life in general. At work, in your friend group, hell probably in your family too. People are almost certainly talking shit behind your back
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This is also a hard one and also not just for the hobby but life in general. Seeking constant validation just ruins your own sense of self worth. But I guess that’s the age we live in.
Cheers!
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“ You wouldn’t collect Pokémon cards if no one else cared about it. We all seek approval/affirmation in this community.”
This is the one I had to swallow hardest and learned from post-2012. Gathered quite a substantial collection (probably £500-750k worth in today’s money) 2010-2012 but felt like I was the only person in the world doing so at the time, and ended up selling the lot cheaply because I thought I was being childish and irresponsible with my money. Wish I’d found e4 or opened my eyes a bit wider before I made that decision. If I’d reached out and found more like-minded people I might not have sold. If everyone else in the world stopped collecting tomorrow, I’d like to think I’d carry on regardless, or at least keep and enjoy what I’ve got.
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Some tough ones that come to my mind:
- Any card valuation ultimately comes down to what the market or buyer is willing to pay. It can have the best fundamentals, rarity, popularity and it could still potentially lose value or interest at some point.
- We’ll never have a “normal” market again, where you have less speculation or heavy-handed investors and analytics going on.
- We’ll probably never have an “organic” experience with Pokemon again because it’s impossible to re-create the market and mentality of the late 90s/early 2000s towards Pokemon and other TCGs.
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You’re competing with potentially hundreds or thousands of people when browsing online marketplaces, whether that be ebay, mercari, yahoo japan, etc. The likelihood of you coming across an “overlooked gem” is slim to none.
There are so many eyes on pokemon now, there will never be a release, promo, or special card that flys under the radar and is ever worth 100x its value.
Buyers and sellers have a naturally adversarial relationship. Buyers want the most money for their card and sellers want to spend the least amount they can. We’ve all taken advantage of the ignorance of a seller, and no one is voluntarily paying more than someone asks for.
As long as there is money to be made, people’s motives will always be influenced
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