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What a waste of time, just like all the other Metazoo hating Podcasters, who did not get any free Samples or Grail cards From MW, fact: Metazoo made a lot of Sellers money, Metazoo is a better investment than watching people like you, trying to convince them otherwise. Fact: you Podcasters are bought and paid for influencer.

The “surge” (pun intended) of livestream box breaks on TH-cam and WhatNot has completely shaken the TCG market. We just can’t solely rely on historical trends/cycles to accurately predict the market anymore as the barrier of entry into marketplaces, the free marketing, and the reach of marketing due to social media has completely changed the TCG market in new ways.

IMO any sale that provides net proceeds over 12.5% is beating the annual average of traditional financial investments. The other factor that I’m not sure is being considered (maybe I just missed it) is that the seller fees can be included in selling expenses and deducted from taxable income.

Absolute 🔥🔥🔥 I 100% agree!

PS> Buy a stock for $100, sell at $200, cost to sell $0, taxes of 15-35% leaves you $ 165-185 and near zero work or time to execute the sale. Also no storage risk associated with this investment, vs that of storing cardboard.

Fees and taxes do eat up more than half your profits. Do the math. Buy at $100, it doubles to $200, sell at 15-20% expense leaves you $165, less 35% or so in tax, leaves about $140. You risked the $100, made $40, your "partners" fees/taxes collected $60 If you are not an active seller on an online platform, you are NOT getting market price, you will need to discount off market price to get the sale, thus likely leaving you at closer to 80% of market price. On a long term hold, you really need the item to increase in price by its cost on a yearly basis, to make the whole investment better than traditional ones. $100 box, needs to be $200 in year 2, $300 in year 3, etc Anything less than that, and in the long run, you would be better off with more tax advantage investments. Add in the time/work involved to sell this stuff, makes the above all the more important.

Great video

TH-cam poke channels have been front running you for about 10 days already, lmao.

That's what happens when 75% of the buyers are speculator dorks that hoard boosters boxes like toilet paper. Capitalism learns that it can just sell those dorks expensive toilet paper. Also VROOM VRROOM BEEP BEEP is gonna be the set of the year.

Not a patron, but I picked these up from pokecenter after your vid a few weeks back :P

first time watching one of ur vids. well spoken, well said,

I don’t care what the vocal minority are shouting, I’m betting heavy on innistrad remastered. If they crash to 200 I’ll be loading up the closet. I love almost everything about this set.

What do you think about old mtg vintage card market? Do you agree it will stay in a bear market for the next 3 ywars?

Isn't this called 'Marketing'? 😅😅😅

Yes TCGs have a winning formula by selling boxes of random cards. That people are willing to buy for cards that will never see the light of day, or play at a table. However, the best selling card game of all time has a predictable pack of cards. That keeps on selling the same 52 cards year after year. A customizable card game. Where you get more than the necessary amount of cards in one box to build a deck. No expansions. You get to customize your deck and not have to overpay to get that one card to make your deck playable. That is what I am working on.

With regards to signal to noise, it's just a matter of the filter that is applied to the data set. What you are possibly asking for is a way to codify this and automate it to your input streams.

While not TCG, its still cardboard with a history 100 years longer than TCG, Junk Wax Era baseball cards. That era mirrors what is occuring with some TCG today. Even with a much larger bb card market today, than in the late 1980/90's, the sealed and cards from that era are still not worth much money, difficult to sell, and will remain that way forever.

There's a saying in the investment world... "don't fight the market, but ride it until the wheels fall off".

Take everything you said and apply it to 1999-2008 single foils

What does the smart money do when sealed boxes become predictable and hard to allocate large positions of? Where does smart money move to? Where is the opportunity of an inverted bubble?

I'm sold... Need to buy a collector box now. Lol

Hey Final Trade! That was a good take. Although, not everyone was selling including myself. I'm holding on to products and I assume a lot of people are so probably that's why not enough products left the closet to affect prices. Just a food for thought. Great content!

I like what they are doing about hope they don't go too far like the sports card hobby boxes. Those are a disaster.

Low print run + serialized poster cards = success, really doesn't matter what cards are in the set.

"Tonight I'm cleaning out my closet" - Marshall Mathers, 2002

Are you perhaps talking about the dude that was comparing star wars in the 2000s to pokemon? 🤣

Im chaining this into Lost Mine of Phandelver.

Any person who uses the statement "printed to oblivion" when it comes to Pokemon has no clue or no idea how big the consumption rate is for the TCG. Once you get a tiny glimpse of how product is being consumed, you too will be "hoarding" some of these boxes. The thing with Pokemon's consumption is it does NOT and will NOT matter how old, how new, how bad, how "worthless", etc the set is. Ripping packs in Pokemon is as natural as taking a breath.

Good advice. I have a business that I'm currently building with TCGPlayer and TH-cam to build brand awareness. It's a marketing cost, it's a loss leader.

I don't think you can underestimate the power of the psychology that is really at work in a collectables market. We have no underlying cashflows for these assets so all pricing is based on market sentiment. Folks almost always hold on the way up and sell on the way down. Box prices doubling keeps boxes in the closet untill sentiment turns, then folks rush to sell fast. I lived and collected through the junk wax baseball card era, the comic boom, the beanie baby boom, the alternate movie poster boom, the urban art boom, the first crypto boom, the nft boom. Time will certainly tell what the long term value will be and there will be cream that rises to the top for sure, but taking profits along the way and managing exposure is probably good advice. I have a lot of stuff that ran up in price and is now unsaleable, but I managed my exposure and took profits while stuff was hot.

Just want to say thanks for the content and videos. I just subbed to your patreon today!

do sth against your hairloss - thats serious advice

Great video. I think I know who you’re referring to, a collectible consultant 😅

Good advice

I’ve only been on tcgplayer for 4 months. Thanks for the great advice.

Here’s a good question. Why do people buy cards when they’re moving? So many address issues are the result of this.

Thanks for this good advice! where I live average salary is 24$/h I would totally do 30$/h

This is the most valuable advice I ever got for my card business. I'm just starting out and I hear a lot of people asking me why do I spend so much time for so little money. But I know over time, it's all gonna be worth it! The reason why a lot of people don't make money selling cards is because they don't do the background work of sorting thousands of bulk cards, etc.

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Is that a flying jackalope wearing a tinfoil visor?

Great points. Do you have a minimum number of boxes that you would consider for a mass box opening?

I'm watching this video 10 months later, but doesn't TCG Player have a rule that says you can't link to external websites, such as your TH-cam channel. I notice that you are stamping it on your Shipping Shields. Has this ever caused an issue for you?

this is a collectors set not a players set get over it

So we're ignoring the fact that the cards just aren't that good for this price point. I know I'm not

1999-2008 foil singles are going to explode in value.

dude which one of yall activated this man HE COMIN FOR BLOOD XD

Been buying Japanese pokemon booster boxes since 2017, have purchased around 1,000 and sold less than 10 🧠 💎 🙌

I've been rocking goblin patrol too!! my goblin deck has been winning too which is really quite nice.

This aged beautifully

Ha, nice twist. Holy cow 2 weeks later and up to $245!