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dude in the blue shirt is delusional bro 🤦🏾‍♂️

some vendors are wild bro dude wanted to say nothing is wrong with the card besides the dent on it lol

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I just came across your Channel and I think I found the confidence on going to my first card show here in Seattle next week! I’ve been collecting for a long time and I have a lot of cards that I want to trade! Thank you! 🙏🏼

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Keep up the amazing work

Always a great day when Oyama uploads

Anyone who gives back to the community has my support 👍 new subscriber here

Great work! Keep it up!!

Love the vid

Love it my guy! The pawmot in the pack is awesome, it was meant to be. Be sure to show sales and deals too otherwise people gonna act like being nice and guiding new hobbyist means you are just a coop copy 🤣 never pay attention to them though, we need guys like y'all. Not just one.

Nice!🎉

what site do you usually use for price checks?

theres no glue the two pieces of the case are sonically welded together

3:00 Massive!

What a legend💯

Nice breakdown dude. Good video

Fantastic video, starting my vending journey this year. This is quite helpful.

Great video bro, I asked you on insta about selling so this is very informative.

Great insight into the business. I'm interested in selling on ebay. Question regarding how you price cards to sell on that platform. Lets say a psa 10 of a card is $100 on price charting and you picked it up at 80ish% like you mentioned in your previous video. How do you price cards taking into account fees, shipping and leaving room for profit yourself?

Great video. ya I’ve definitely thought about this too. I’ve loved pokemon since 1999. And genuinely eat up videos of seeing people packing orders and doing deals. I currently work full time with great benefits and run my own media agency on the side so I know I would love the hustle. But when I see what some people are “making” I’m like, ya but how much of what you’re you’re making is going towards putting food on the table and your mortgage and paying for your bills 😅 knowing I’d have to make that PLUS the additional $30k MINIMUM to keep the business running. But I know I’ll get there one day! Just one day at a time with a risk and investment mindset 😆

I love what I do. I like to collect pokemon cards for fun.

I dont even want to quit my job to sell pokemon cards, but I found this super interesting / insightful! Solid video

I really appreciate this upload Ricky! Something that viewers like me can learn and understand how it would be to live as a TCG vender 😊 Very educational 🙏🏼 Thank you so much!!

Awesome video Riki! Everyday I dream about making the leap but at my current scale, it wouldn't even cover half of my mortgage🥲

I appreciate the rawness and the number crunching currently scaling up my business for 2025 hoping to triple what I did if not more what I have done.

I knew there was a reason I liked you right away... you're a Scizor fan too!! I actually love Scyther as well, but Scizor is obviously way better.

This is a really solid breakdown of the short, mid, and long-term pros and cons of the business. I also think that it gives a very realistic snapshot of what it would take to "go full time." Especially today there is a deluge of content showing quick snippets of huge deals and lots of cash, and I think that appeals to people who think it might be easy to break in. I like your overall takeaway that it is both possible and potentially a good idea, but not an automatic "yes" for everyone.

Great video man! Love the presentation and points covered.

Drpends on the person's situation for sure. Personally for me, I don't work a six figure job with ok benefits. I don't enjoy my full time work. I enjoy reselling and can see myself doing it full time. However before considering going full time, I'd rather look for a better job. Sometimes you just need a better job vs reselling full time. Tip courtesy of Pokene.

Hey mate, great thorough presentation! Alot of aspects covered, no sugar coating, realistic (honest figures and real business theory/struggles).

Great content, great channel-- curious whether or not you think more of the value in the pokemon card market [from the buying/ selling of cards; ignoring the streaming monetization component] is from solving market inefficiencies (e.g., matching buyers/sellers and capturing the 20-30% margin from that), if more of the value is from taking advantage of human psychology (e.g., ripping streams, gambling and auction streams where you're effectively getting people to overpay).

I stay cooking them at 80% all day😝💯

Love your videos man and I like that you mention Pokemon Steven, definitely lots of insight from that guy. I find that your decision in not making vending/selling your 100% is very sensible and resonates with me a lot. I love the pokemon hobby and I feel I would not want to turn it into this extremely aggressive selling machine that would make it less enjoyable.

this is such a great video. I would love to sell pokemon cards for a living. It might take a bit of the fun out of the hobby, but i'd much rather sell pokemon cards than do my current job working for a big corporation. I've gone to 4 card shows these past few months, and they were so much fun. currently just doing it as a side hustle and slowly growing inventory. perhaps one of these days i will get a table at one of the card shows and start selling. taking it slow and learning every day.

Depending on where you live, it can also be a factor. I think in your case, even if you made like 150-200k a year from pokemon cards, you might not do it. I believe you value your security in your job + social life more than that, which is totally fine! I feel like its Pokemon is low risk to enter but it can become very dangerous if you want to scale up and bite more than you can chew. Taking out loans to quickly expand and take advantage of the market because "low risk" can put you at high risk. I do agree that people can start as low as 1k but realistically, 10k is a better starting point. People wont be able to see incredible gains without getting more money invested. Especially for long term hold. I would honestly advise people to actually to arbitrage if you want risk free cards/sealed products during this big pokemon boom. Grow your collection slowly and enjoy Pokemon as a hobbyist rather than full cut throat business. Have a small sealed collection, vend if you like, open cards for the thrill, and have fun! Shiny cardboard is awesome. Just my two cents.

Pokémon Steven is good example for this as he has been selling Pokémon cards on eBay only for about 10 years I think he’s selling over $1 million dollars a year he sells mainly graded cards on his shop and his girlfriend sells raw cards on her eBay store . He doesn’t recommend quitting your job to sell cards full time because it puts a lot of stress on you to pay your bills but once you are at his level you can definitely quit your job.

Love this video! I gotta say you were one of my inspirations to pick up a camera and do buyer POV videos. Completely understand and going through this grind myself! Over 500+sales on tcgplayer in 2024. Biggest thing for me that helps me with sourcing online/recording shows, is that I actually enjoy it. I tell myself, if I enjoy this hobby with or without the camera on, then I can justify the time time and mental capacity.

Where is that shirt from??

i enjoy the channel but commenting on what you assume people make isnt cool, your also very new in the game, personal opinion but stick to the show and rip content. your a salesman and you talk well use that

i really like the breakdown you have here - i recently started getting into this sort of business around november 2024 and have around a 20% roi after expenses. thing is i started with a very small budget + had to spend MULTIPLE hours a day trying to understand ebay, shipping, and effectively sourcing cards. having capital helps with sourcing too but again, its that time aspect which affects everything as a whole. i definitely recommend as a hobby buying and selling here and there for fun though!!

Okay i want to win a free box of paradise dragona, if i wint this box be my first and i start to collect pokemons cards! Quaxalotl ! ;D

Would make it less fun as well imo

Awesome video and thank you for the break down. Honestly it’s nice to temper the expectations around this because I feel like everyone is so glamorized by all you pokemon content thats around and it’s honestly not that easy to do! It’ll be fun, but lots of hard work.

You need to already be well off or have a high paying job , period . The margins from buying Pokemon cards are super thin unless you can consistently buy at 70% . IMO social media whether it’s TH-cam , instagram or TikTok will be key to if you want to be full time Pokemon .

Selling cards is a great way to supplement your regular income

Always a good day when Oyama uploads

Love that shirt! Where’d you find it?

First

Hell yeah bro