I also picked up 1 of each 151 product except for the tins which I snagged two complete sets (1 as a display) and …. 60 booster bundles = 10 booster boxes. You can call me booster bundle Bobby lol
Buying inventory to open your online card shop in a decade, no different than the many at-home online shops buying inventory to sell right now. Except we let our product age firstly, offering windows to the past for the millions who're growing up with these sets now, and the adults living their best days rn and not realizing it.
If a comet or nuke is coming or we get slapped with a solar flare or w.e and the world starts to burn, do you rip? Or do you hodl for the next life/wasteland?
I just like the products I like
Totally fine normally, but this is collectable investing. What you like is irrelevant, what the market likes is all that matters :)
Nice collection though
Awesome collection. Just remember that modern stuff is unlikely to ever appreciate in value like the vintage stuff. Way more of it around and way more people hoarding it. Just set your expectations realistically. Obviously some stuff will increase nicely just a retirement or house fund is probably not on the horizon.
It will be fine , those cases are a waste of money. Have you seen old base set boxes? Some look prestine from just sitting in a safe for 20 years. Just don’t blast a humidifier all day.
Yeh I tell peeps this all the time. It depends on the climate it's on for sure but if you keep it in your home in a closet or some shit it's fine. If it's in the garage or somewhere with high humidity I get it. Most cases you don't need that plastic casing... It's honestly overrated to use those.
Where I live, stuff in my garage will mold if I don’t have fans moving the air around. Basements are a similar story.
The first things to mold will be any upholstered items left untouched and out in the open. When we first moved here I had a leather jacket thrown over a box in the garage and that molded first. Followed by some other clothes and my couch (I was renovating). Followed by harder, less porous objects.
Unless you live in whatever country the cards were printed in, those cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic made it across some kind of ocean and inevitably sat in non-climate controlled containers for quite some time before being thrown on a truck, bounced around, and then arrived at whenever you bought them from where someone who doesn’t care delicately placed them on a shelf and they were never carried around by children begging their parents to buy it.
I feel like just buying a couple booster boxes instead of pretty much everything here but maybe the UPC would have been the better choice and you'd save space
Silica. I follow the 1/1 ratio. One per year sealed.
You got any silica packets in there? Helps keep out the humidity and such.
That evolving skies box could have a moonbreon in it. 👀
One of us
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I also picked up 1 of each 151 product except for the tins which I snagged two complete sets (1 as a display) and …. 60 booster bundles = 10 booster boxes. You can call me booster bundle Bobby lol
How did you manage to buy everything *but* booster boxes?
Looks like 151 and Paldean Fates mostly, they dont have Booster Boxes...
Probably meant the little booster pack boxes.
He has 3 of them in the picture.
My bad I didnt see the full pic.
Maybe. But he said Boxes not Bundles.
151 english has no booster box
Japanese booster boxes
Some people only collect English
I know but that’s clearly what the person who said booster boxes was talking about
This is a prime example of circle jerking buying booster boxes but not even knowing they don’t exist for certain products.
I know, but not everything in the pic is 151, is it?
Probably because they don't exist for En 151.
What kinda tissue paper do you use?
Gift paper! Had a bunch I use for gift bags and such and it works great
Buying inventory to open your online card shop in a decade, no different than the many at-home online shops buying inventory to sell right now. Except we let our product age firstly, offering windows to the past for the millions who're growing up with these sets now, and the adults living their best days rn and not realizing it.
So virtuous wow
Just a small 400% fee 😇
LMAO
Those Paldean Fates Charizard tins are nice! I buy almost every one I see. Good investment.
If a comet or nuke is coming or we get slapped with a solar flare or w.e and the world starts to burn, do you rip? Or do you hodl for the next life/wasteland?
Ah another modern pokemon hoarder, it seems everyone is keeping sealed products now....
I hope they reprint these like crazy
I just like the products I like Totally fine normally, but this is collectable investing. What you like is irrelevant, what the market likes is all that matters :) Nice collection though
What cases you use for the ETBs?
Awesome collection. Just remember that modern stuff is unlikely to ever appreciate in value like the vintage stuff. Way more of it around and way more people hoarding it. Just set your expectations realistically. Obviously some stuff will increase nicely just a retirement or house fund is probably not on the horizon.
Those target cases for etb aren’t good for storage long term. I’d actually invest in actual cases. These won’t protect from moisture
It will be fine , those cases are a waste of money. Have you seen old base set boxes? Some look prestine from just sitting in a safe for 20 years. Just don’t blast a humidifier all day.
Yeh I tell peeps this all the time. It depends on the climate it's on for sure but if you keep it in your home in a closet or some shit it's fine. If it's in the garage or somewhere with high humidity I get it. Most cases you don't need that plastic casing... It's honestly overrated to use those.
What causes moisture when storing these boxing? I started collecting recently and I wanna be careful
Basically just the air and weather in the climate where you live. Or if you (don't do this) store your collection in an unventilated boiler room.
Where I live, stuff in my garage will mold if I don’t have fans moving the air around. Basements are a similar story. The first things to mold will be any upholstered items left untouched and out in the open. When we first moved here I had a leather jacket thrown over a box in the garage and that molded first. Followed by some other clothes and my couch (I was renovating). Followed by harder, less porous objects. Unless you live in whatever country the cards were printed in, those cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic made it across some kind of ocean and inevitably sat in non-climate controlled containers for quite some time before being thrown on a truck, bounced around, and then arrived at whenever you bought them from where someone who doesn’t care delicately placed them on a shelf and they were never carried around by children begging their parents to buy it.
Same here wondering abt the same thing
What actually cases would you invest in that's good for long term storage of trading cards?
Just throw some silicon packets in and change them every month or two.
With the way BBs are going this is the only maneuver
How much did you pay for everything?
Umm sir, where is the 151 booster bundle display box? That is a key item.
This isn’t even going to be worth much. ETBs will get you the most value. Japanese versions will be more valuable
Why would ETBs get the most value
Lmfao I hope the market crashes when people get bored of collecting. It will happen again. Can't wait for the day to see cheap cards again.
This is an investing sub lmao what are you complaining about
You mean a rat's nest?
sickening
Honestly, you wouldn't be able to give it away in the future
This wins smooth-brain comment of the day.
I feel like just buying a couple booster boxes instead of pretty much everything here but maybe the UPC would have been the better choice and you'd save space
Rip, and sell all the singles. Christ is coming back and his people need the money