@Poke_Bondo@ChettaCheez757 You want the truth?
There is no coordinated buyout. It was me low, med low, med, med high, high, then post after i was finished already
I’ve purchased many of these last year, prices have multiplied since. SWSH blister promos. Not many more will be added to the market, just barely out of rotation. In the future looking back, an entire set of matching 8+8 for less than $100 would seem like a missed opportunity.
Three low vol seem ready to explode.
Can’t complete the set without the missing puzzle pieces.
Also just FYI psa 10’s are very low pop and over $100.
For less than $1000, you can own a large percentage of these.
Opportunity hides in plain sight. Conviction to put funds down garners respect from me even if it turns out to be the wrong move.
3 months ago
- limited stock on Pokémon center
- older swsh
- nothing to hit except chonk
- chase was cheaper than a whole box
- online availability was low
- I like the card
Opportunity was not online, since each purchase was a stair step up by $5 each time
Opportunity arose at a major card show to clean house for everything on the floor
The whole “manipulation” idea is offset by ripping product. If the contents keep going up, you’ll be able to rip and make a profit. However, they wouldn’t happen as the price of product would simply go up.
Boiled down, it’s the end consumer (collectors) who have to fork over “market price” for cards they want.
There’s a whole sequence of events, but basically if prices of everything goes too crazy, the market will slow greatly on transactions.
LGS won’t buy from dist because dist rose prices. People don’t buy from shops, manipulators are stuck holding their inventory. Product is stuck at dist. Manips are stuck with singles. Collectors have cash. It’ll be a three way game of chicken on who cracks first. Then, there’ll be a rush towards the fire exit.
Neither. Both inflate numbers to make the robinhood investor bros feel like they did a good job with paper gains that bring them back to reality when they try to sell only to go through the cycles of grief ending up 65% of market which is 10% less than the 20% over market price they paid thinking they got a good deal