Unpopular Opinion Thread

[pokemonsyndicate]

@KingPokemon

Any card with a gold shape stamped on it is useless garbage;)

Gold stars are amazing if your talking about them… Then I will destroy you with my unique skill set of abillitinz.

[gottaketchumall]

@fourthstartcg

Reviving this.

Art academy cards are boring, depict uninteresting Pokemon, and I’d never spend a cent of my money on one.

So if someone came knocking with a sealed deck of their 100 cards for $5k you wouldn’t bite?

I sure would. But not to keep them.

[milhouse]

@missingno

X&Y needs to end. Second, no more japanese letters on my english megas please. Psa needs to revaluate their grades. Their (6 ex-mt) grade makes little to no sense. It almost seems like they’re saying it’s a 6 & a 9. Ex-nm makes more sense.

These are all popular opinions.

[missingno]

@milhouse

@missingno

X&Y needs to end. Second, no more japanese letters on my english megas please. Psa needs to revaluate their grades. Their (6 ex-mt) grade makes little to no sense. It almost seems like they’re saying it’s a 6 & a 9. Ex-nm makes more sense.

These are all popular opinions.

Amongst you and I maybe.

[null_user]

I only like Base, Jungle, Fossil. The rest have no appeal. Any card after that, especially all these with ‘ex’ and gold stars, have absolutely no appeal to me, and I actually think they look crap.

Another very unpopular opinion is that I think all the championship and trophy cards are boring.

In no way am I dissing anyone’s collection - I think it’s awesome that people go for their own thing. We all have our niches - I’m just here for the nostalgia and getting what I couldn’t get on the playground as a kid. Collecting stopped with the fossil set when i was 13!

[null_user]

In fact, I don’t like any of the Pokemon after gold and silver. I’m stuck in the past. Sorry.

[missingno]

@zhongwen

I only like Base, Jungle, Fossil. The rest have no appeal. Any card after that, especially all these with ‘ex’ and gold stars, have absolutely no appeal to me, and I actually think they look crap.

Another very unpopular opinion is that I think all the championship and trophy cards are boring.

In no way am I dissing anyone’s collection - I think it’s awesome that people go for their own thing. We all have our niches - I’m just here for the nostalgia and getting what I couldn’t get on the playground as a kid. Collecting stopped with the fossil set when i was 13!

I think this is actually the most popular one of all.

[aj1]

None of the cp3 cards is a card I want to keep for myself, they are not cute enough to really be cute. Neo intro marill is better than flareon ex.

[pokemonsyndicate]

@zhongwen

I only like Base, Jungle, Fossil. The rest have no appeal. Any card after that, especially all these with ‘ex’ and gold stars, have absolutely no appeal to me, and I actually think they look crap.

Another very unpopular opinion is that I think all the championship and trophy cards are boring.

In no way am I dissing anyone’s collection - I think it’s awesome that people go for their own thing. We all have our niches - I’m just here for the nostalgia and getting what I couldn’t get on the playground as a kid. Collecting stopped with the fossil set when i was 13!

Theres a theory/Opinion that those who don’t like ADV/PCG era cards are absolutely brain damaged.

[fourthstartcg]

@gottaketchumall

@fourthstartcg

Reviving this.

Art academy cards are boring, depict uninteresting Pokemon, and I’d never spend a cent of my money on one.

So if someone came knocking with a sealed deck of their 100 cards for $5k you wouldn’t bite?

I sure would. But not to keep them.

Nope.

1. I don’t have 5k to spend on cards
2. 95% of purchases I make are for my personal collection. I have no desire to own any art academy cards to begin with, and I don’t enjoy the whole reseller thing to begin with. I’ll leave that to others.

[swolepoke]

@missingno

No one needs kadabra.

Anyway, first off X&Y needs to end. Second, no more japanese letters on my english megas please. Third, newer promos have better holo pattern than any set holo rare cards out there. Finally, Psa needs to revaluate their grades. Their (6 ex-mt) grade makes little to no sense. It almost seems like they’re saying it’s a 6 & a 9. Ex-nm makes more sense.

Excellent - Mint does mean the card sits somewhere between excellent condition and mint condition. It’s just the grade scale that comes after near mint. Try to think of it as one word like Near Mint, near mint doesn’t mean it sits between Near and Mint, it’s just one word. So Ex-Mint just helps gap a near mint and Excellent card, because personally I think that’s a big gap without sometbing bridge to bridge it

[missingno]

@swolepoke

@missingno

No one needs kadabra.

Anyway, first off X&Y needs to end. Second, no more japanese letters on my english megas please. Third, newer promos have better holo pattern than any set holo rare cards out there. Finally, Psa needs to revaluate their grades. Their (6 ex-mt) grade makes little to no sense. It almost seems like they’re saying it’s a 6 & a 9. Ex-nm makes more sense.

Excellent - Mint does mean the card sits somewhere between excellent condition and mint condition. It’s just the grade scale that comes after near mint. Try to think of it as one word like Near Mint, near mint doesn’t mean it sits between Near and Mint, it’s just one word. So Ex-Mint just helps gap a near mint and Excellent card, because personally I think that’s a big gap without sometbing bridge to bridge it

Nah bro it makes no sense…

[areestee]

@swolepoke

@missingno

No one needs kadabra.

Anyway, first off X&Y needs to end. Second, no more japanese letters on my english megas please. Third, newer promos have better holo pattern than any set holo rare cards out there. Finally, Psa needs to revaluate their grades. Their (6 ex-mt) grade makes little to no sense. It almost seems like they’re saying it’s a 6 & a 9. Ex-nm makes more sense.

Excellent - Mint does mean the card sits somewhere between excellent condition and mint condition. It’s just the grade scale that comes after near mint. Try to think of it as one word like Near Mint, near mint doesn’t mean it sits between Near and Mint, it’s just one word. So Ex-Mint just helps gap a near mint and Excellent card, because personally I think that’s a big gap without sometbing bridge to bridge it

It seems that the most common reason for a PSA 6 is a crease, however minor it may be, and regardless of how perfect the rest of the card is. Because of that, I like to think of the EX-MT thing as “Well, this card could’ve been mint, but look! it has this one fatal flaw! Such a shame, I suppose it used to be mint. We’ll give it a pity grade of ex-Mint.”

In all seriousness, no it doesn’t make any sense.

[snap]

Hating how lazy pokemon is. Just started watching season 17. Useless jerks couldnt even be f#//#^^d coming up with a new theme song for xy. Shame on you pokemon company, shame on you…

[acebren]

Not sure how everyone else feels, but in my opinion the aesthetics of cards made after WoTC stopped printing was, and still is crap

[snap]

@acebren

Not sure how everyone else feels, but in my opinion the aesthetics of cards made after WoTC stopped printing was, and still is crap

The most recent are the worst. Nothing virtually has changed since emerging powers…

[gottaketchumall]

Seems to be a very unpopular opinion with eBay sellers in general from what I see. Also unpopular with buyers of Pokemon cards in general moreso than buyers of other types of items than I sell.

IN MY OPINION eBay’s 9% fees are COMPLETELY REASONABLE. I would say cheap even. (With a lot of work and data crunching, one could likely prove it near scientific fact, not just opinion.) You sell to a larger audience than possible (almost) anywhere else, and command a higher price than (mostly) anywhere else. You want to see high fees, go to a conventional auction house. eBay deserves what it gets in fees.

It “grinds my gears”, (maybe I should have posted there), how often I get asked to do deals direct through paypal. It too often seems that people think eBay must charge about 30% in fees because I have been offered anywhere from about 50% less than my list price (BIN only item) to about 20% less than my list price. I have never, not even once had a reasonable offer that would benefit both seller and buyer of anywhere from a 1-8% discount. Not once. Probably 100 offers on my items, and never one that would help me, only 100 offers that would benefit the buyer in saving them money, and inconvenience me by not being able to use eBays shipping label generator and sales reports and such.

Also note that eBay is cracking down on this more and more as they should be because they no longer own paypal. It used to be that they would at least get the 2.9%+$0.30 from paypal on a sale steered away from eBay, so maybe they didn’t care as much as they were still getting something. Now any deal moved to paypal alone is completely lost for them.

[Taigataipan]

The release pace of new sets is too damn fast. Might be just me but trying to keep up with leaks etc. is starting to get really boring.

[kkthxbai]

@Taigataipan

The release pace of new sets is too damn fast. Might be just me but trying to keep up with leaks etc. is starting to get really boring.

Yeah… I’m still trying to figure out these e series.. And dp cards.. Omg.. Shiet.. What!! We are in Xy now? omg! How many?? Dam..

I think… Alot of companies and YouTubers, are really milking the pokemon brand name. Like I hate seeing those random YouTube bloggers make a list about pokemon or a react video about pokemon.. when they are just milking to get views.. They don’t generally appreciate it.

I guess there is positives these people bring.. Like the added awareness to the franchise. But part of me feels weird about all the YouTubers trying to jump on the pokemon bandwagon?

Anyone feel the same?

[cujucuyo]

3D/CG art on cards ruin them, it sucks and should be stopped.