What are your unpopular opinions in pokemon? [Archived]

[null_user]

@shadowless

@kagome

i don’t understand the whole buy what u like bs. i mean cant you buy what you like and also buy sumthing with a gud price growth history? and price stablity? + theres a lot of misleading people away from the investing, hustling, flipping mentality in pokemon which i dont understand as well. if you don’t think money is important why do u have a job?

dont judge me for my unpopular belief please and thank you.

You are specifically stating: “theres a lot of misleading people away from the investing,…” if you were talking about a singular person making a purchase, who are the people then misleading the guy by saying “buy what you like” if not the community?

buy what you like is seperate from misleading people from investing hustling flipping mentality. i had 2 different unpopular beliefs not one that i posted together. the 2nd part misleading people i ment when people dont like investors, hustlers and flippers and they take action because of it. the first one has nothing to do about the community. the 2nd one is a minority of the community which is salty about other peoples gains. if u still don’t understand sumthing ask me ill help u understand.

[shadowless]

@kagome

@shadowless

You are specifically stating: “theres a lot of misleading people away from the investing,…” if you were talking about a singular person making a purchase, who are the people then misleading the guy by saying “buy what you like” if not the community?

buy what you like is seperate from misleading people from investing hustling flipping mentality. i had 2 different unpopular beliefs not one that i posted together. the 2nd part misleading people i ment when people dont like investors, hustlers and flippers and they take action because of it. the first one has nothing to do about the community. the 2nd one is a minority of the community which is salty about other peoples gains. if u still don’t understand sumthing ask me ill help u understand.

Thank you for explaining this accurately, a brilliant argument.

[laladida]

Charizard is crap, O’Doyle … I mean Blastoise rules!

[krill]

Crystal charizard is the most overrated and one of the worst crystal card artworks second only to crobat imo. And thats including the aquapolis ones as well.

[shadowd]

@kagome

@shadowless

It´s not our job as a collecting community to figure out whether a purchase makes financial sense for a certain individual. We have no background knowledge about these people nor are we financial advisors, therefore the “buy what you enjoy the most” answer is the most polite you can give.

i was talking about the person making the purchase not the community lol. i just want people to be smart with their own choices and they own money. including u. even gary v recommends studying before investing. i dont know how u got the idea i was talking about the community. i was talking about the individual. the individual himself is responsible to do his own research. there community is not responsible for anything. im not talking about myself since i know what to do myself its just that i feel bad for the people who make mistakes in this hobby and it costs them their money. i won’t mention which mistakes cuz i dont want to make an argument because that’s not the nature of the thread.

Who is Gary V?

All V/Vmax/Full Art, Ultra Rare, 5ban, etc. art work is terrible.

[desertshaman]

@shadowd

All V/Vmax/Full Art, Ultra Rare, 5ban, etc. art work is terrible.

I would say most rather than all, but yep. Often they are too busy, the entire subject isn’t in frame, there’s no background, the pose is weird, etc.

[krill]

@ripguyfawkes

@shadowd , not a fan of most full art cards but I like the V cards significantly more than previous full art cards.

As for my unpopular opinion, I sometimes wish I had entered the hobby at simpler time when there were no self-help gurus or influencers or self-declared poke-economists hyping things up, buying products at 4 times the current market value just because they can and telling us which product will be a super-duper-amazing financial asset in 200 years.

The doubled edged sword of increasing popularity. I thought things had gotten crazy when I got back into the hobby 2 years ago but recent events have legitimately soured my opinion on modern in general.

[nikhil]

@shadowd

@kagome

i was talking about the person making the purchase not the community lol. i just want people to be smart with their own choices and they own money. including u. even gary v recommends studying before investing. i dont know how u got the idea i was talking about the community. i was talking about the individual. the individual himself is responsible to do his own research. there community is not responsible for anything. im not talking about myself since i know what to do myself its just that i feel bad for the people who make mistakes in this hobby and it costs them their money. i won’t mention which mistakes cuz i dont want to make an argument because that’s not the nature of the thread.

Who is Gary V?

All V/Vmax/Full Art, Ultra Rare, 5ban, etc. art work is terrible.

Look up Garyvee or Gary Vaynerchuk he recently started buying Pokemon cards. Good guy

[nikhil]

Not directly unpopular, but I have found for myself that I love the trainer art work more than individual pokemon artwork based cards. I feel like the trainers just have a lot more room and there is less of a “well it looks like this one” kind of vibe. Lucky Stadium NY, Pokemon Center NY, Lass, Pokemon Breeder all come to mind. But that’s just me haha.

[caughtatpoint]

As a literal Poké ball Voltorb should have more icon points

[cross]

She’s never yours, it’s just your turn.

(She being any card/sealed product, etc. . . . No I’m not ok)

[muk]

@cross

She’s never yours, it’s just your turn.

(She being any card/sealed product, etc. . . . No I’m not ok)

Then you might as well enjoy it while it lasts
If a card leaves your collection, it only means there is room for a new one you can love

[mewtuw]

I’m not entirely sure if this will be considered unpopular or not but I don’t see why anyone (other than for pure enjoyment) would pump money into modern product vs vintage. People are aware that Pokemon is a huge hit now… As far as I know, nobody knew Pokemon would have this much success back in the late 90’s. The pop numbers for modern are going to exponentially exceed that of vintage - especially in high grades. We weren’t instantly sleeving our cards back in 1999. That seems to be par for the course these days. Seeing these GX or VMax cards in PSA 10 going for similar prices to some 1st ed PSA 9 holos doesn’t make any sense to me.

[shadowd]

@nikhil

@shadowd

Who is Gary V?

All V/Vmax/Full Art, Ultra Rare, 5ban, etc. art work is terrible.

Look up Garyvee or Gary Vaynerchuk he recently started buying Pokemon cards. Good guy

Thanks for that. there has been a lot of talk about a guy named gary on these forums so I was curious. I thought it was vaynerchuck, but I had no idea he collected the cards.

[muk]

@shadowd

@nikhil

Look up Garyvee or Gary Vaynerchuk he recently started buying Pokemon cards. Good guy

Thanks for that. there has been a lot of talk about a guy named gary on these forums so I was curious. I thought it was vaynerchuck, but I had no idea he collected the cards.

Well just in case: usually when we talk about ‘Gary’ we mean our dear ‘Gary from Pawn Stars’ @garyis2000, who is and will always be the true Gary of Pokemon. Don’t confuse him with this noob Gary Vee.

[shiningdoraemon]

Really wish they’d continue with the whole Ultra Beasts thing.

Really liked that. Especially the really cool designs

[pokenoob]

@mewtuw

I’m not entirely sure if this will be considered unpopular or not but I don’t see why anyone (other than for pure enjoyment) would pump money into modern product vs vintage. People are aware that Pokemon is a huge hit now… As far as I know, nobody knew Pokemon would have this much success back in the late 90’s. The pop numbers for modern are going to exponentially exceed that of vintage - especially in high grades. We weren’t instantly sleeving our cards back in 1999. That seems to be par for the course these days. Seeing these GX or VMax cards in PSA 10 going for similar prices to some 1st ed PSA 9 holos doesn’t make any sense to me.

There’s an inherit lack of understanding of the value of a dollar in the hobby because it has fairly quick ROI.

If you buy a box for $500 and then all the sudden it’s worth $2000, you think wow what a great investment!

At the same time, you turn around and put that same $2k into more product without understanding it’s two-thousand dollars because it was only $500 of your money.

As the saying goes- a rising tide raises all boats. inflation in the hobby raises all the prices of even less scarce items, but people don’t think twice about it because they didn’t work too hard for that cash.

[way2slowbro]

There is too much fixation on price, just buy what you like and can afford.

[sacari]

Yellow cheeks pikachu should be more popular than red cheeks.

Every pikachu card after base set has red cheeks and somehow collectors decided base set red cheeks was more unique than the only pikachu card that has yellow cheeks?

[ripguyfawkes]

@sacari, That’s actually a pretty good thought.