It’s tough to compare a modern chase card with a vintage chase card. They were released under very different circumstances and cater to two different audiences. Also, the proportion of individuals looking to pay $10,000 for a base unlimited Charizard is much smaller than the proportion of individuals looking to pay $1,000 for an Umbreon VMAX.
I don’t think that the Umbreon VMAX is going to stonk hard in the future, but I also don’t believe that it’ll be worth $150. The most likely scenario in my opinion is that it trends sideways or slightly decreases for many years.
I sat down like a professor with my guide for hours and hours but I still had to get assistance from Serebii. Come to think of it, it was probably the first troubleshooting I ever used Serebii for.
I guess a more simple way of what i mean is this.
Imagine a psa 10 base charizard had a 30k psa 10 pop instead of 460 and what that does to its price. Thats what Moonbreon will be at best in 25 years.
I distinctly remember discussing the puzzles at recess. We didn’t even have access to the internet I don’t think. Maybe we did but none of us thought to use it for help. Was in like 5th grade I think
Pop reports to value is tricky because in that case low pop cards should be worth a lot of money but not all are. I think popularity plays a bigger role
Low pop is dangerous. Even the scarcest and most difficult to grade cards are not perminarly low pop if they’re set cards. I know many people who have been shafted by “low pop” cards that have tripled or more recently. Grading is still somewhat in its infancy and pop reports are growing exponentially
I keep thinking back to the trigger for one’s appreciation and emotion over the card. I remember seeing a few charizards in school, and that made me want it. I have to wonder how many kids today see moonbreon around, and how much that makes them want it. Is it too inaccessible, so kids write it off? I guess I’m asking, what card does a kid want to pull today, and could they reasonably save up to buy it in the card shop if they saw it?
there should be a very low maximum post limit per day. so everyone would value their maximum posts more and the quality of posts/questions etc would increase.
I saw a few people were nervous about posting and saying the wrong thing, so they refrained from engaging. I think this suggestion would make that anxiety worse for people.
It could maybe be useful (temporarily) in case of super hot topic like the CGC megathread some time ago.
Otherwise I think it would only hurt people that are usually providing quick informative replies like dyl and pfm for example.
Contrarily, E4 members should be required to post at least 34 times a week, otherwise they be relegated to the shadows, and only allowed to come out when the admins need more contributions and soul sacrifices for sick badges and other cool swag.
While I can understand the appeal from a completionist mind set, stamped World’s Promos and set cards that are extremely expensive only because of a basic gold stamp are incredibly boring collectibles to me personally.
I agree with you in the sense that I don’t collect these because they don’t really do anything for me. For the people who do care though, I think it’s more about what the basic gold stamp represents than the stamp itself.
I can potentially apply it to certain topics. But I don’t know if quality would change with a post restriction. It’s a culture thing, if you want to see more quality posts and threads you have to be the change you want to see!
Bro look like he picking up the swirl he dropped. 
