Unlimited Base Set Booster Box

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@zorloth

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Is it really a “speculative frenzy” when the PSA 10 chase card is valued at 500% the cost of the box?

In August, the box was $120 and the Charizard was $1500- which is is 1150% return… I’d say the box price is catching up to the PSA 10 cards.

Yes. Because only 3% of copies submitted to PSA actually get a PSA 10. So the PSA 10 Charizard value is more or a less a non-factor in terms of the EV of the box.

Aside from that, it’s insane to be pay 5x MSRP for a box that was printed as heavily as Evolutions was, of which an unbelievable amount is being hoarded, and (most importantly) that could be reprinted at any point. The fact that the box is worth as much as it’s currently worth is because of speculators. This is clear because this was a product that was readily available at MSRP for the past four years. The fundamentals of the product haven’t changed in the past two weeks.

I have a thread that has been following the rise of this box since July. It’s not the lasts two weeks. However, what has changed in the last several weeks was alluded to by @gottaketchumall several months ago. He noticed the distribution chain was tightening up, and that his in particular would be out by October:

www.elitefourum.com/t/evolutions-box-is-120-while-its-psa-10-charizard-is-1500/28300/12

www.elitefourum.com/t/evolutions-box-is-120-while-its-psa-10-charizard-is-1500/28300/69

People love to say the product was hoarded, etc. but don’t offer any proof. Who’s hoarding? Who’s to say that just as many people bought and opened it? What we can see right now is that the demand for this set is clearly high enough to send a “mass produced” booster into the territory we see it now. (FYI all booster boxes are mass produced)

At the end of the day, every out of print box raises in value.