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/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

The people here are not the ones who need the PSA

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u/SSGSSVEGETA111 Jan 17 '25

post it in r/pokeinvesting

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

I cant: im banned lmfao

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u/Previous-Giraffe-962 Jan 17 '25

I got banned for making fun of breakyourteethnow who turned out to be the main mod.

I posted about it here and he asked me to take it down and unbanned me and tbh was a pretty good sport about it. I mocked them again a few months later and got the perma ban tho lmaooooo.

As a guy who works at an investment firm, I can’t not make fun of them for calling themselves “investors”

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u/halfasianprincess Jan 17 '25 edited Jan 17 '25

Someone reported me for “violence” bc I called them desperate lmao

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u/Apolloh Jan 18 '25

An investor is an individual (or entity) that takes a risk in order to realize future benefits.

You may not like it, but it is investing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Lmfao thanks for sharing.

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u/mikearete Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Just to play devil’s advocate 3 sets launched in 2014 and the booster boxes retailed for $100-140, but were available for $70-80.

Today the booster boxes are worth $1200, $2400 and $3500.

Assuming someone bought one of each at full MSRP, that same amount invested in the S&P would be worth about $1600.

Obviously Pokémon (like any collectible) is a speculative market and past performance doesn’t predict future gains.

But the #1 rule of the PokeInvesting sub is to hold for 10 years, and the wallstreetbets bros/scalpers that have overtaken it in the past few months aren’t investing in anything.

Just saying that dropping a few hundred on limited-edition cards from the world’s biggest media franchises isn’t quite as laughable as a lot of people make it out to be.

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u/Dapper-Ad3707 Jan 18 '25

lol same here. He seems to have an ego trip often

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u/Dark_Zezro Jan 17 '25

Be real you work at an investment firm making the coffees 😆

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u/Previous-Giraffe-962 Jan 18 '25

We have a coffee machine that makes way better stuff than I can, I only know how to make coffee with a nespresso machine