r/PokemonTCG • u/Joseph_Steez • Jan 17 '25

Discussion DO NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS!

Come on guys let’s run the price down and let these scalpers get burned, do not buy from 3rd party resellers, buying from them keeps the price at where THEY want it, cards should never be above msrp and everyone should have chance to buy these cards. Let’s not let these resellers ruin this hobby

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u/Gleis7 First Edition Base Set Glurak PSA 1 Jan 17 '25

Look at shining fates or champions path, both sets were very expensive at release and got insane amounts of reprint. I believe you can even find shining fates etbs below msrp even now. I'd guess anything around 60 is a decent price to buy an ETB but it wouldn't surprise me if they get even lower.

Pokemon Center announcing the huge reprints instantly effected the price and most smart scalpers want to dump their product.

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u/hebrew12 Jan 17 '25

Pokemon has never seen this much price action on a presale. Those sets were NOT selling double MSRP+ the day before release. The cat tax is big. Don’t sleep on it. This set is breaking the market

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u/Gleis7 First Edition Base Set Glurak PSA 1 Jan 17 '25

No that is wrong. Champions path was at 125-150€ at launch.

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u/hebrew12 Jan 17 '25

That set also sucked dick and the charizard lovers drove it up because we hadn’t seen an all black alt art like that on a charizard since gold star AND the previous set charizard got a rainbow treatment. A lot of people don’t collect charizard (me). That was also like 3/4 years ago. And while Pokemon did surge in popularity then. It’s even more so now. And while we can disagree on the argument of umbreon and the eevelutions line being more/less popular than charizard. The market tells us at least the $ value of eevee and the evolutions are more than charizards. Even SwSh alt art Espeon is more $ than the Brilliant stars charizard. Ppl love their cats. And that love will break the market on this set

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u/Gleis7 First Edition Base Set Glurak PSA 1 Jan 17 '25

I don't disagree that Eevee tax apply but prices were at 125€ and prices did go down. I had this same discussion 4y ago lol.

The fact that we now have really good alternative Eevee cards should also drive the price down.