Hey everyone, thank you in advance for your advice.
I have been extremely picky with my pokemon investments (stuff I plan on keeping long term). 100% of my pokemon investments have been put into two categories:
-Sealed WOTC booster boxes
-WOTC Charizards in PSA 10
To keep it short, I made this choice because I think they are the items in the hobby that have the biggest growth potential and that are fairly liquid at the same time. I realize that them being liquid shouldn’t be a priority since they are long term investments but for me it’s a good safety net.
I have been thinking for a while about adding a third category to my long term investment and that is a few graded exclusive japanese promos.
Here are a few examples:
-Eevee holo 500 Pts Fan Club
-Porygon Holo 700 Pts Fan Club
-Master Scroll 8600 Pts Fan Club
The problem is my knowledge on them is extremely limited. I know this is totally subjective but I would like to get some of your opinions on the following:
1.Rank from most growth potential to least:
IMO:
Sealed WOTC Booster Boxes > WOTC Charizards in PSA 10 > Exclusive Japanese Promos
2.Rank from most liquid to least liquid (ability to sell and get closest to market value within 1 month of being for sale)
IMO:
Sealed WOTC Booster Boxes > WOTC Charizards in PSA 10 > Exclusive Japanese Promos
3.Lastly which graded japanese promo would you buy with a budget of 2-6k USD
Since you have no knowledge or personal attachment to Japanese promos, why collect them? You’re dealing with collectors here who love their cards. Keep in mind, everything is an investment. Only time will tell if it’s a good or bad one. Collect what you love, then you can’t go wrong;)
I’m not OP, but I’ll respond: Because they offer something unique in the hobby, a challenge, and can have a lot of growth potential.
I only really knew the first 3-5 WOTC sets. Once I completed what I wanted to there, I found I wasn’t really interested in later sets and decided to jump into japanese promos. Simply to keep the hobby exciting for me.
I had no knowledge or personal attachment to any japanese promos, but I’m having more fun collecting than I did with set cards because of the randomness, always learning new things, and keeps me engaged in the hobby.
Anyhow to address OPs post, I don’t really have any insights to ranking things or what is best for growth lol. just collect the promos the highest end promos you can afford if you want something liquid. I would suggest focusing on what you like the most too. There’s so many promos to choose from that if you are just choosing based on liquidity and growth, you want really get very far without genuine interest.
Hey Gary, I appreciate the response but this doesn’t answer my query. Maybe I should have been more clear but I have my personal collection in which I buy cards and other pokemon product that I like and have interest in not caring about return. I also buy more expensive items as investments, for those items I buy the ones I think will give me the best return.
For example, let’s pretend I hate everything about the Skyridge set but I think the sealed product has some of the best potential for growth, I may pickup some as investment.
The advice you’re giving is similar to saying buy stocks of companies you like which is fine but not what I’m asking for in this post.
Hopefully this doesn’t come off the wrong way, English is not my first language.
Have a good, long think about what the most desirable cards/sealed product are right now, how iconic they are to the hobby, how their price has changed since Pokemon Go came out, whether you think that trend will continue, how scarce those items are, how nostalgia comes into play, how accessible they are, current price, etc.
Your question is a question everyone asks and there’s no one right answer. If you own things for long enough they will rise.
Japanese promo cards aren’t very liquid. You’d have an easier time selling set cards at comparable prices vs exclusive Japanese promos, even if the Japanese promo is rarer. Japanese promo cards are more about selling during the hype, something that’s not going to go well if you don’t have a active ear on the ground.
Stick to the things you know unless you have genuine interest into sticking with the new venture.
I find that investing in PKMN and investing in stocks are not as closely related as some people think. Besides the issue of liquidity in PKMN that is non-existent in stocks, it is difficult to calculate things where you use risk, like betas or opportunity cost, for PKMN since the price dropping is less of an issue than liquidating early - and the financial penalties that can be associated with it. I also think that collectibles have a much heavier link between intuition/experience to growth/high ROI than public equity (which I would say have a higher correlation between analysis and ROI). There may be situations where it makes sense to have a larger proportion of an investment portfolio to be in collectibles and not stocks, and vice versa. Each investment vehicle has its pros and cons, and collectibles is just another type of one.
I realize you may have just been using my initial comment as a segue into your post here but I feel the need to clarify.
My comment was meant to be facetious. I assume most people on the forum (including the OP) are here because they have a genuine interest in collecting cards. Whenever I see the wrong “i” being the focus (that is, “investment” over genuine “interest”), it just rubs me the wrong way. So my point was, if you are going to subtract all the emotion or interest in what you’re buying in Pokemon, you could just go and buy stocks or something equally emotionless and (imo) dull.
But no one can fault me for my facetiousness since I also provided my opinion regarding the original question
I was just using your comment as a segue into mine, since without it I thought the comment might have seems out of place. I totally agree with you about interest over investment. With the current landscape, there is a bunch of fun to be had and money to be made, so why not both?
