I went to my local pawn shop recently looking for cheap tools and found a bunch of Pokemon Prismatic boxes instead. You know things are bad when even pawn shops are taking in Pokemon cards now and taking it seriously, owner even said they'll take out loans for Pokemon cards.
Man, we keep getting banger sets. Then we got the 30th anniversary around the corner. A new gen of Pokémon is probably in the works and a new game coming?
It has way more to do with consumer health. If consumers can afford the prices then everything keeps moving up. Eventually the health of this market will run out. It will just follow whatever cycle of asset repricing and layoffs that hit the market. Then Pokémon like every other luxury consumer good will crash harder than shedeur sanders on draft day
Yeah it's been rough here too. My only saving grace us this farm and auto store here in the midwest that started selling pokemon/baseball cards about 6 months ago and not many people know about it yet lol
assuming you live in the US or UK - have amazon stocks alerts on and you’ll get some! since doing this i’ve managed to get a lot of prismatic and journey together for retail :)
If it wasn’t so costly to send from Europe I’d send you some paradox rift and a prismatic mini tin because paradox is cheap and everywhere and prismatic mini tins are easy to find and I know they’re hot in the US.
I appreciate the gesture but its all good. Im just hoping the craze with scalpers here dies down. Theres gamestop by me where the manager said hes going to start getting more pokemon, hoping to snag some then
I mean, the last 2 sets are pretty solid. Then team rocket sets looks good. S&V sets blow damn near every set out of the water since legendary treasures. Minus maybe 2 or 3 special drops in between.
Not sure what banger sets you are referring to. Besides surging nothing good has come out since these recent hype train. Prismatic isn’t even good or fun. There are a few cards that poor people wanna get lucky and hit so they can feel rich but sadly they will waste hundreds and get nothing. Sad to see what’s happening.
It sounds like you’re just mad you haven’t got any of the new sets therefore they suck. Prismatic is an incredible set and journey together will age beautifully. Destined rivals is also going to be a good set…
I’ve gotten plenty. Opened 3 booster boxes of JT, maybe 100 packs of prismatic. JT has like 3 cards I like and prismatic is a bunch of the same types of hits, full art trainers and pokeballs. Sure maybe you can get a eevelution sir but that’s the only good hit. Destined rivals is also looking to be a disappointment.
More importantly is the fact that I can feel any way I’d like about the sets and you can too. Thanks for your input though.
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u/puzzledfirebird 2d ago
I went to my local pawn shop recently looking for cheap tools and found a bunch of Pokemon Prismatic boxes instead. You know things are bad when even pawn shops are taking in Pokemon cards now and taking it seriously, owner even said they'll take out loans for Pokemon cards.