My wife and I just got into collecting. We started with Pitch Black. Our gamestop has 30th available for preorder but seems kinda expensive. Do people still truly collect or are they just chasing an expensive card?

Genuine question, why is one hated and one is ok?

The current prices of the Pokemon Center versions of the Chaos Rising and Pitch Black ETBs are the lowest I’ve seen for any modern set post-release.

I understand that the underlying sets are not as popular as others, but even Perfect Order’s PKC ETB is currently more expensive.

I wouldn’t necessarily buy many regular ETBs of these sets, but the PKC one at current prices is a no brainer. It’s a limited print run and should outperform any other SKU in these sets once it starts going out of print.

These won’t be overnight winners, but I am buying as many as I can afford at current prices. DYOR.

I just bought this PSA 9 Chinese Cubone for $248 ($272 after taxes and fees). Seems like they’re going for $230-250 pre-tax and I’ve read conflicting predictions on what the card will do.

I wanted to buy from PSA because I knew the condition it would be in and I knew it was authentic. I have no desires to sell at this point, but am curious what you guys think the market will do to the price of this card as time goes on. Short and long term.

So, these two are currently on their way back to me.

I actually graded them just so I could sell them as I thought they had a solid chance of getting pristine 10s, fast forward 2/3 months later and the arse is currently falling out of the market. I think I'm pretty tempted to just hold onto them until everything starts to pick back up again (I'm not in a rush to sell necessarily).

Is anyone else holding onto these two cards? What do you plan to do with them if so?

I'm just looking to get a few thoughts on the potentially of these cards and what everyone else is doing with them. Thanks!

Edit:
Sorry, I should have been clearer. What i meant to ask: Do people still buy complete vintage sets all at once, or has the market shifted toward people preferring to pick and choose individual singles instead of chasing a master set?

And whether it would be a mistake to get rid of these sets in favour of higher end slabs like stamp pika or the CD promo starters.

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I’m 6 cards away (3rd slide) from completing all the Japanese holos from Base Expansion to Neo 1. Once completed, everything (including some odd mid era cards) will be worth $9k cad, give or take depending on condition.

Im playing with the idea of just putting everything into a stamp Pikachu promo in a 10, or the CD promo starters.

Is this a good idea or should I just hold onto the raws?

Either raw or graded, I’m lookin to spend 2k on a card at my next show. What are good current investments?

I basically did a quick analysis (with my good friends ChatGPT pro and Claude Max) and see that, on average, if we consider the top chase cards of modern sets, we see raw chases perform similar (if not better) than their psa 10 counterparts, with the metric being % growth in the last X months/year.

This kinds of begs the question whether a modern investment portfolio of modern chase cards should be the raw form or slabs. Slabs can be more liquid/demand, but if raws can achieve the same % growth at a much less investment capital, why not go into raw forms?

What Pokemon investing wins have you had recently? This can be a great deal, finding product, getting a good grade, or really anything that you are proud of!

We have a PokeInvesting wins channel on the Discord that is pretty popular so we figured we would give it a go and we've had some members suggest this kind of post.

If this sort of post is well received, we can keep it going as a weekly posting to show off your wins for the week. Thanks!

Hey, I was looking at a card that really intrigued me, and that's the Charizard V from Brilliant Stars. First of all, this Charizard V has beautiful art. I'm not even exaggerating when I'm saying this is one of the nicest Charizard artworks from the Sword and Shield era.

Something I've noticed is that this card is cheaper than buying a booster box of Brilliant Stars, which usually isn't the case for hyped-up characters and a card that looks this good.

Am I missing something? Do you guys think this is a valid price point for the card? The card is $320 raw, while booster boxes for Brilliant Stars go for $600.

Or is it someone trying to regrade to a 10? This cards been hovering around $110 for a while. And I saw it jump up on Collectr this morning. What do y’all think?

I currently have a first edition Chansey PSA 4 but I want a better quality one. Do you think I should aim for an 8 or a 9 and sell this 4 or get a graded 8 or 9 assuming that there are no budget constraints.

What would you do?

You have 10k to spend on Pokemon. Would you rather buy graded cards or singles?

Singles to me are ideal because I like to put them in my binder to look at once in awhile but I’m thinking of selling bits of my collection to buy some graded cards to hold on to instead.

I personally like the shanks card more and honestly think these special anniversary sps are a bit undervalued besides luffy of course but an afraid to be getting rid of what seems to be a pokemon grail card whereas shanks does not seem to be a grail card in any capacity. Especially since this one has the first manga ever to compete against as the shanks grail card

Any suggestions for cards with good long term appreciation.
I have bought nidoking IR from 151 the snorlax promo, DR IRs blaziken cynthias roserade hydrapple. So really looking at the big sets that have done / doing well.
Any from prismatic?

I bought into this card because I thoroughly enjoy rare and unique cards that are the only fullarts of specific pokemon like this Gem Pack Vol. 4 Ponyta.

I ripped 4 booster boxes looking for it and since I didn't pull it I decided to purchase a very clean, raw copy from my LCS for $200 ~ @ $220 Market

At the time, (early-mid July) the PSA pop was sub 200ct and the last sold was averaging $1.3k with plenty of sales at +$1.5k and maybe a handful of lower sales still above $1k.

With PSAs current $80 minimum charge I debated sending it Express or with the $150 service. Considering my entry point and the current 3 month wait on "Express" I thought to myself, hey I can swing $150 and try to get it back sooner with plenty of room to move the card before it goes below $1k to lock in a solid $650 profit which would give me a greater budget to purchase a bigger chase card to work towards my dream collection.

So why do people look at weeks of listings above $1.5k and then randomly decide to sell on ebay for less than half all of the sudden? This is the most annoying part about trying to grade to lock in condition and then have the most liquidity. First to market has the advantages of being able to set prices. Great, I am not expecting 100% or even 90% of those comps. But sourcing a rare, "exclusive" card is hard enough when you try and do it organically by finding product at a reasonable price, on top of pulling it and hoping its a pristine copy, then paying a ridiculous amount to grade it. Only to watch the market price change over night from an upchargeable pricepoint to now <60% of the sales from 10 days ago.

Mindless rant over. Hopefully yall can relate.

This is the one and only card that I have and I originally bought it because I really loved the art and it's my favorite pokemon. Raw at the time was like $10 and for the sgc 10gm was only $40 and im blown away that psa 10 are going for $5k+. Realistically how much would an sgc 10 go for?

I bought the Japanese bubble mew in a psa 10 for $850. Is this a good buy/investment, or did I overpay and buy into the hype?

Will the 30. Anniversary set also release in China at the same time with everybody else?

Asking since usually they were behind now always

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Collector says $130 currently

Low pop. Sweet arts. And they are relatively cheap compared to other vintage hits even in high grades 8-9 which are usually pretty clean.