I work at Walmart, and yes, it’s insane what some people will do. We had to lock them up behind a register so that people wouldn’t steal them. And they’re still gone almost constantly
@@bodoke8266 Yeah, there is always a bunch of card opening trashes in some of the areas. Mainly most of them are stolen. I constantly notice how there are nearly no pokemon cards in the walmart section.
I remember back in about 2010-2016 me, my dad and my brother's used to love playing the actual card game together. We didn't care at all about the value or collecting them, we just wanted to have fun. Sitting at the kitchen table playing against my dad on a rainy day, flipping coins and hoping to pull a certain energy card I needed is such a happy, nostalgic childhood memory to me. I find it really scary now that collecting pokémon cards has become so serious and expensive, it kind of ruins it in a way. I don't even know what terms like 'secret rare' means or what the value of our small collection of older cards is worth. I wouldn't sell them anyway, even if it's a small fortune, because they're really sentimental to me.. I just find it kind of sad that such an innocent game from my childhood has become so daunting.. (That was way longer than I meant it to be haha, sorry)
I remember those kinds of things too. Except my dad was drunk or high most of the time and we weren't playing together he was just ignoring me. Good times.
I fail to see the big deal behind skinny/fat 1st editions or shadowless or shineys and now reverse holos and vmax, ect... When I collected them it was the base and jungle set over 20 years ago, which were relatively easy to get the whole set as I did. I sold the sets on Ebay for the cost of buying all the packs at around $700 total over 20 years ago. I had the 1st edition sets of base and jungle and the cost of those now are astronomical. But I collected them because I played the game & liked it but when me and my friends didn't play it anymore I got rid of it.
old things with demand retain their value, and Pokemon is the biggest franchise in the world. there are more fans of it now than ever. So the market is shifting in to a much more serious place, like how classic marvel and dc comics are also worth many, many, many thousands of dollars, after 60-80 years post-print. dont be surprised when the Pokemon market goes up even more. Pokemon is only 25 years old. Imagine what these cards will be worth in another 25 years.
It’s insane tbh how crazy people are acting over Pokémon. Imagine being a kid and finally getting some money and then go to a nearby store just to see adults fighting each other for the cards you want, OR the entire stock SOLD OUT.
my younger brother got into the tcg again because of those kinds of people around the same time that i started getting back into pokémon as a whole again (it’s been a sort of comfort franchise and hyperfixation for me for years now but throughout most of 2020 i lost interest and in 2021 i got back into it). i’ve always loved collecting the cards, so we went out to target and went to get a few booster packs since we have the money to. they had a limit on how many we could get, but we were able to get 2 packs each. a couple weeks later, we went to gamestop to get cards. they were sold out completely. we tried a couple other stores and eventually we happened across a dollar store that was selling packs from around 2014. really puts into perspective how much people who aren’t even fans of the franchise have ruined it for people who are imo.
It makes me kinda sad that Pokemon Cards have seemingly never had their actual purpose. I remember wanting so, so, so badly to play the game, and could never find anyone to play with or who wanted to try to play. Now it really is just gambling. My cards will forever sit in my deck gathering dust.
I believe many people play Pokemon TCG but not with real cards and deck, but in Online/LIVE client instead. It helps save cards in mint condition and also helps save time on things like shuffling, coin flips, damage counter putting etc.
my classmate in 4th or 5th grade had this MASSIVE full art charizard. he had to hold it with both of his hands. i didnt know that official cards could be that big so i thought it was fake, looking back it was probably real
Me and my mum went to the local target let’s say a month ago and we went up to the help station lady and my mum asked “ hello would you know where the Pokémon cards would be?” Then the lady pointed to a sign saying they weren’t selling them anymore because someone went insane and when someone bought the last pack they PULLED A GUN OUT ON THEM. I just am shocked when hearing this and I have so many questions “are they ok?” I ask the help lady of which she replies “yeah they handed over the pack but when the crazy guy realized he had a card box in one hand and a gun in the other he just drove off” and that’s the last time I asked for Pokémon cards at target.
Damn that's insane. I knew Target stopped selling them cause people were being idiots but I didnt know something that serious happened. If you want packs they're still sold at Walmart. They were out for a while but have come back.
Walmart is probably the best place to look, either they have them at the front behind a counter or in the 'boy toys' aisle beside the wrestling figures
Scalpers have made the hobby way harder to collect. All started with Logan Paul opening those 2 base set booster boxes, sparked a lot of hype in the tcg and prices have never been the same since.
I collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and due to the stuff surrounding Pokemon, retailers also stopped selling them as well. My local card shop sells some of the products above retail, and I don't want to pay extra for shiny cardboard.
yeah Logan Paul really fucked up Yu-gi-oh, MTG, Pokemon, all the primary TCGs. Scalpers saw what happened to Pokemon and went after the others aswell. Fr tho dude fucked up TCGs permanently unless the US starts passing some serious anti-scalping laws for things outside of like...tickets to sports games or movies or whatever. Until then, it's just gonna keep getting worse.
This is why I’m happy I’m a dork who makes Gunpla as a hobby, only fans of Gundam even care, so I don’t need to worry about my local hobby store no longer stocking new and old kits.
i'm just trying to collect one card of every Pokémon(but ones like Regieleki and Spectrier don't have cards yet), idc about Trainers or Energy. Hell I'd trade my Charizard-GX just because I already have a Vivid Voltage one and I don't need the GX one(but my brother has the GX as part of his deck sooooo Edit: nvm now i collect any card, except energy cards with no Collector Card Njmber
Content creators that open boxes usually have good accountants and are able to write off the majority of the costs of packs and boxes as a loss and a business expense which helps make up a massive margin
I love how her reactions are genuine: CandyEvie: “Ooo wow cool” aDrive: “OH MY GOOOOOD YOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOAH. NO WAY DUDE! NO WAY! OMG YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
I understand, it's exciting when you pull something expensive to pay the box value, but there are some pokemon tcg content creators that looks like did drugs before the unboxing tbh
The whole craze has inspired me to go through my collection again. I have plenty of old cards, from flea markets and second hand shops, and the like. It's probably not gonna be possible to buy cards that way again, and that has me kinda sad. It was so fun as a kid, to find a person giving up their collection on a market, going through the cards, picking the ones that I thought prettiest. I have bought 100 cards for 10 € once. I really want to get back into collecting them, but... I haven't seen a booster pack in a *while* , and the newer gens aren't as interesting to me as the older ones. I hope there will be new sets with the Gen4 remakes. And I hope there will be a way to actually get my hands on some cards again.
@@th-lm8rg The booster packs are coming back slowly to my local shops, haha I've bought one recently Flea markets have been rare the last few years, but they're coming back, too, so there is a chance to get lucky again ^-^
I'm not big on Pokemon cards because there sold out everywhere and everyone fighting over them and I don't wanna be the one getting punched over a pack of cards lol
Saw a bunch of old Duel Masters cards being bid on on a local site. There were some Japanese cards in between, which is rare, but l didn't think it justified the highest bid of around $1000 for less than 100 cards. It's at that point people should step back and remember they're doing this for shiny pieces of cardboard.
Streamers ruined card game markets. I'm big into Yugioh, and even though nothing has really affected our game, people are hoarding older and higher rarity cards, just on the off chance that some streamer with waaaaay too much money decides he wants to buy out all of the PSA 10 DDS Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the market or something.
My buddy when he was a kid purchased a ton of the sealed booster boxes for the original first edition set ever made. I’m talking about 50 of them. Overtime he sold one or two here and there to help make ends meet when times were tough. Even after that he still had just over 40 of them left. He just recently sold them all due to the massive spike in prices and was able to put a sizable down payment on a house.
my faith in the tcg community hit an all time low back in 2019 when i bought multiple hidden fates packs at my local Walmart only to discover someone had already bought them, open them, resealed them and brought them back for a refund. I'm pretty sure they weren't allowed to re-shelf those but they did ;-; it could have been someone who worked there. I dropped the tcg a few months later. it's sad to see the community like this. Edit i should also say that, i'm in a VERY small town so if that's happening here than i can't imagine what it's like in big cities.
Its insane the price of cards today. Makes it more difficult to continue to collecting but hoping the hype does a little, or Pokémon prints more cards :)
Actually most collectors don't collect full sets, they tend to choose something to specialize in like Japanese promo cards, full art trainers, specific pokemon/trainers, just to name a few options.
It'll calm down eventually. It's an "investment" rush, IE speculation on prices and scalping. Once interest dies down, the price will drop like a rock. Same thing happened in the 00s.
@@beebs56 idk about back then, but considering this is only going on because people have time to spare and an income to provide for, once the pandemic completely ends (1-2 years) then it’s gonna end quick in most areas
@@beebs56 A couple years, and then the price bottoms out as the market crashes. It happens any time someone influential says "these are going to be really valuable in a few years" and they are invariably wrong.
@Wanna Be a Smurt Person Trying Psychic type includes Ghost (weak to dark) and Fairy (weak to metal) (fairy was discontinued at the start of sword and shield, you can still use fairy cards and energy but not in tournaments) Fighting includes Rock (weak to grass) and Ground (weak to water) Dark includes Poison (weak to psychic) (as of sword and shield, anything older is part of psychic) Colorless/Normal includes Flying (weak to lightning, resists fighting) Water includes Ice (weak to metal, sometimes fire) and Grass contains bug (weak to fire just like grass)
@Wanna Be a Smurt Person Trying It's one of the easiest TCG to learn. Try Pokemon TCG Online. It has a tutorial. You don't have to bother with types at first. Most decks only have one to be consistent. Three at most
The fact that so many kids are just gonna never be able to get pokemon cards for their birthdays or for Christmas anymore because of greedy adults makes child me realize how much nicer people were back then
It made me so sad when Target stopped selling cards. Before they blew up I would buy a booster pack or two and got some good Tag Team cards sometimes. But now because people go crazy for them I can’t even be a casual card fan without shelling out for cards. It sucks, especially because I feel like those buying them up like crazy don’t even like pokemon
Oooh this is why target isn’t selling pokemon, that’s kinda sad. I just want to occasionally buy a booster pack and see what fun Pokémon I get. Let me be a causal collected that never finishes a deck
It's worse than it sounded in the video. They stopped having them in stores because someone pulled a gun over baseball cards, which basically scared stores into not having any cards other than magic the gathering anymore.
I once had almost 100 cards... and then, coming home from school, I saw my infant brother destroy literally all of them, laughing as he saw my face as I was in disbelief.
I had my Pokemon cards stolen, I was collecting them for fun, but that just crushed my hobby. I only play Pokemon games now. Sorry to read that, I feel your pain.
Man, I remember when I was like 8, going to the local flea markets and you could buy old Japanese fossil, jungle, and team rocket packs for like $3 a piece. I’m now 23 and will cherish those memories forever, because I will never be able to afford it again haha.
tbh i dont think that anyone is actually buying cards to play the tcg. its all perceived value, a market held aloft by its participants simply believing they are investing. but i would be lying if i said that i didnt buy a shiny alcremie off of tcgplayer
I hate how i cant go get my single booster pack of the week as my "treat to myself" like i used to do. It was never that big of a thing and more of a sweet little nostalgia kick opening up a fresh pack and seeing what i got. But now because idots cant let people have fun its all down the shoot.
I remember when I collected Pokemon cards. I remember getting my first one, a hollow Mudkip from McDonalds and wanting to collect more. I didn't know jack about the competitive scene or how to actually use them, but I still liked pretending to have battles with my little sister. I stopped collecting a long time ago and definitely don't plan on getting any more in the climate of money hungry scalpers but I still love them a just like to look at them once in a while and reminisce of good times.
@@rameball it will never die down. Pokemon cards will be popular forever. The only reason they're hard to find now is people who don't know anything about pokemon decided to buy anything to attempt to flip
I mean that is the problem though. People are turning a game that was meant to be played into an investment and it ruins the experience for the people who actually want to play the game by making product scarce and driving the price up to where it no longer becomes an affordable hobby. Its the reason why big retail stores no longer sell cards because of this behavior and it creates an unhealthy barrier of entry for actually playing the game like it was intended to be.
i really like how you didn't freak out on every hit like a lot of card openings i seen. it was really nice for once for to see pack openings and you were surprised but also like sincerely happy that you got some cute and cool playable cards. i enjoyed this video
goodbye finishing crimson invasion. i just hope all this hype dies off soon, and there will be a huge crash of value. serves you right for following a hype train, destroying a niche hobby just for monetary value.
@@Weebdotexe In my city, luckily they still have a bunch of Crimson invasion boxes, so I have the chance to actually get all the 111 cards (without any secret cards), I actually do wanna finish it because im only a couple cards away
@@Weebdotexe Omfg i got that card like 5 times, today I got excited cuz i got another textured card and it was a double T_T (im missing a couple full arts + GXs)
In a world of seemingly unlimited cash-flow pokemon card openings, this video was very refreshing. Happened to stumble upon this and it's my favorite Poké video I've seen in a while. Plus your voice is adorable.
The worst part is the drive for it right now makes me want to buy it more, like if I see a pack I'll be like "gotta get it before the scalpers do" even though before I probably wouldn't have even thought about it. (I do like buying a pack every once in awhile because I think the art's nice)
Eh, I don’t really care about the “value” or the “market.” I just wanna enjoy the cards themselves! Though I have been considering buying some f those McDonald’s cards I didn’t get during the event and they’re not too bad compared to some of the other stuff (though they would def add up). But even that is more just… because I want them.
The only value that matters to me is the sentimental value. I was more happy giving my old cards to my nephew that if I sold them for a few bucks, honestly (and buying him a few sets before everything went completely crazy)
Thanks Logan Paul for getting scammed on a base set box. Really drove up the market from copycat youtubers claiming all of their boxes on business write offs and cypro kids thinking this is the next cash cow
So it's been a year and I can't believe how accurate I was lmao. People really have been treating the TCG like a stock option, buying boxes to hold and keep unopened as inflation goes insane. All of the cards in big stores near me have now been security boxed because they're being stolen so often. And the worst part? I bought a Pokémon Center Celebrations ETB in January and pulled the Base Set Charizard, worth £80 ungraded, paid £50 to get it PSA graded over 3 months and it's now sat on my shelf worth £140 as a Grade 9. I paid £110 in total for it, since the ETB was £63. If PSA hadn't cracked down on their ratings to cause artificial value inflation it would have been a 10. And because of that I now have 6 opened ETBs in my wardrobe and bought most of the Celebrations products🤦🏻♂️
Yeah the price hike in Pokemon product over the recent years has definitely been astounding to me. It definitely bums me out as someone who likes opening all sorts of sets and was able to freely do that in years past. Nowadays I just open whatever set is most likely to give me my value back which is usually the most recent set, and I don't aim to collect the whole set just open a bit of it for fun hopefully break about even while building my collection of commons for myself and friends for our decks.
The store I work at sells them and it’s sheer madness whenever we get new ones in. Chilling Reigns is supposed to come out next week and I’m terrified for my life.
5:03 Yep! It happened at my Target. People were actually attacking each other outside the stores to steal cards from others, while actual Pokemon Card fans are sitting in the corner laughing, crying, or both!
That's honestly pathetic, if I may be so blunt. Fighting over the cards is one thing, but the people who actually like the hobby are LAUGHING at them instead of trying to do something about it is just messed up. It makes me think that people who do that sort of thing have no right to be complaining about this, since they're not doing anything to prevent those damned scalpers from gobbling up everything before the people who actually want to collect and/or play with the cards are able to for themselves
I remember the energy card gave the Pokemon more health or more damage depending on how cool it looked. Fighting, fire, steel, poison would give more damage, while cards like water, grass, and fairy gave more health. Needless to say everyone wanted the fire cards as they were the most common and the energy gave them more damage so that they could wipe their opponent on the floor.
in like 3rd grade we would make up little tournament brackets with our group of like 8 friends, and everyone got to bring 6 cards and one of those giant promos that xy did simpler times
Still dejected about the Target thing- the TCG has been one of my favorite games and I’ve played for years, so the fact that I haven’t been able to obtain any new cards since, like, Christmas, is disappointing. Have some manners, folks!
I relate so much to this video... I never got the chance to really collect a lot of cards, but I was always interested in the amazing artworks on the cards and eventually learning to play the game (super fun). I sort of went away and came back at the end of 2021 and oh boy was it terrifying. As mainly a collector who's also broke I understand wanting to get the most value out of my money and sort of looking at what all my cards are worth, but at the same time I just want to have fun. I'm opening these products, I'm GOING to lose money. That's how buying and opening ANYTHING is supposed to work. But with people buying tons of sealed products as a form of investment (someone on reddit literally asked what to buy since they were sinking $3000 in Pokemon TCG as an investment) and calculating how much profit or loss they get from ripping every product is insane. I loved that you were happy every time you got a hit (even holo hits) because that's what it's supposed to be like, not going "oh it's another worthless $2 card". Of course I'd buy singles if there's a card I really want but opening new products and collecting cards bit by bit is supposed to be fun and the money really sucks the fun out of it.
Yeah, i agree with ya about the money part. No disrespect to Candy, but it made me kinda sad how she was frequently commenting on how much the cards she pulled would be worth and whether she’d be making back what she payed for the boxes. That’s not the point for me, i just enjoy collecting them because they’re cool and i really love the pokemon world!
This craziness with cards has made me want to buy a few. But now that they’re all not selling them I’m pretty mad. And I imagine the all the scalpers are trying to sell cards for thousands. Or they’re not real. I’m sad that I can’t get cards anymore
I've always hated scalpers, but they're really ruining everything lately. I expected to not get a PS5 for a while, but now I can't even get freaking Pokemon cards?!
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Pokémon cards are so expensive and rare to find that a single bulbasaur is as expensive as a PSA 10 shadowless charizard
Hey they still sell Pokémon cards the stores are just hiding it we found some and it was full with Pokémon cards can you move the Pokémon cards from the main area where you get them so you cannot find them easily
LITERALLY. I've been collecting cards since I was little but 2 years ago I actually got into playing the card game. Now I can't get any of the new stuff so now I have to gamble on magic the gathering :'^))
@@fireflare908 the old mr mime card from like 2000 or so. it only has 40 health, but if an attack deals 30 or more damage to it he takes no damage at all. its attack starts weak only dealing 10, but it deals 10 plus all the damage already on it so if it has say 40 damage it deals 50 damage.
I used to love collecting Pokémon cards, but I never really _collected_ them. Like, I loved buying boosters and just seeing what I'd get, and making nice decks out of them. I loved the feeling of getting a LV X or EX or whatever. But I never tried to "complete" a set or went looking for a specific card. I never bought a single card online or anything. I never looked how much my cards were worth, or thought of a card as a cash value. So I never thought of it as gambling, or the whole concept of "making my money back". To me, I spent the money, and got the cards, and that was it. The only reason I'm scared to buy Pokémon cards now is because I missed thousands of cards already and starting again now would feel weird because I'll never get the ones I missed.
Thank god someone finally made a video on this...this has been pissing me off over the last year or two. Scalpers and Logan Paul ruin everything. Wanna know how bad it's been for me? Shining Fates(Set she opens in the video and one of the newest) I had been hype for this set since last year and was DYING to collect some of them(Specifically the shiny Snom, which i caved and just bought because i was done with this BS) EVER SINCE THE DAMN SET CAME OUT I HAVE NOT SEEN A SINGLE HINT OF ANY UNTIL LAST FRIDAY! Where i found those 16$ tins with two packs each. I bought three and left two on the shelf. This Anniversary for Pokemon has been terrible thanks to the wrong people realizing that Pokemon shit is valuable. I cannot afford to pay hundreds of dollars for card packs, i just can't.
I don't collect Pokemon card anymore, long time ago they got stolen, which just killed my enjoyment for collecting and I just stopped. I only play Pokemon games now. That really sucks. I know how it feels to buy something just to enjoy it but then other people ruin it. Scalpers are the worst, scalpers have been ruining everything in the pandemic... I'm glad you got your packs.
Interesting thing about sealed products the longer past going out of print the less related to value of singles pack prices get. It starts to be based off of nostalgia, the pack opening experience, and supply.
I remember when I got back into collecting(around October) I looked up evolutions booster boxes because they were my favourite I saw the price and that instantly made me hate scalpers
I got back into collecting when evolutions came out and me and my wife went hard on those ETBS and booster boxes lol now seeing the prices of them and the value is insane.
You don’t have to collect them in that way. I love drawing and I epically love drawing Pokémon so you could always make a collection of your own or use a computer and find different pictures to put together. There’s more than one way to collect cards.
@@carolinebergin4633 Neat idea! 💟 Less expensive to. Because cards are getting more expensive because of idiots ruining everything for us casual collecters.
It’s kind of weird that the price of the rarer cards is still so high. As someone who got lost in the throws of nostalgia and probably spent more than they should of, it seemed like the rarer stuff was consistently not that rare
I totally agree with this, I played Pokémon back in 2016 and I got an elite trainer box(I think it was ancient origins) for Christmas and it was around 50 dollars… it sells for around 1000 dollars right now😱
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Reminds me of when I tried to prove scratch lottery tickets were a waste of money and ended up turning $10 into $150 over the course of a half hour or so.
BS extremely underwhelming.... no huge chase cards other than maybe the golden cards, and even then, not really fan favorites by any means... tends to happen with a lot of the sets that have no real 'hitters' ... some of the XY sets were notorious for this reason exactly. Funny thing is, Champions path was going to be the same way as Battle styles (below MSRP) until literally the last few weeks/months, PTCi threw in the rainbow rare zard vmax/shiny zard v at the last second and 'saved' the set... still think that set is highly overrated, literally only one card that will make your money back on a booster box, and thats pretty abyssmal.
I'm sorry but whenever you talk and show your animated self it is the most adorable and cute thing I've ever seen why does your animated self look so good!?
Id be a millionaire if I still had every 1st ed base set pack i opened when the game first released. I easily went through a few boxes. I'm pretty sure I was one of the only ones in our small town that bought the packs from our local video store.
I'd also be a millionaire if people I played as a kid kept their cards in decent condition. We turned prize cards into an ante rule. You take the opponent's prize cards instead.
I got back into collecting recently, before I collected from 2006-2011 and now it's so different, I live in a city with about 225 000 people and none of the retail stores around here can keep any pokemon stocked for more than 48 hours before EVERYTHING is gone, and I'm not sure if it's high demand from lots of consumers or just a small few re sellers buying all of the sealed product in my region but either way it is crazy same story with any retail store in any neighboring towns. I really hope it's not re sellers because I saw so many kids cry this holiday season because they couldn't get pokemon cards since they are all always sold out. Absolutely crazy how much the card scene has changed, and don't even get me started on the price of old sealed product, I don't think anyone could've foreseen things getting this crazy
Yesterday I went to target because I had a gift card and there were actually some Pokémon cards. There were only the one pack ones, but I was still surprised.
@@xft9285 don't see how, the scalpers just sit on markets , they're that high not to sell them, but to hold them until they move more in that direction, the pandemic ending won't make old sets any less sat on
i got one of those back in 2016. i distinctly remember opening it on my grandparents dining room table and getting the fullart gardevoir ex, along with the super cool fullart sylveon ex with the charms on the side. sucksthat greedy people have turned our childhoods into something to make a quick buck off of.
Basically, if you're into collecting Pokemon Cards, a good source to find them is the local Charity Shop. I have had some good luck finding good sets of cards, including a binder full of some of the original cards. And they were dirt cheap too!
pokemon cards will be the next currency mark my words
More valuable than bitcoins indeed
"Ill give u my charizard card for a house please, thanks"
If so then I am stonks
Cleaning my attic, Hope I find my Book collection of og cards
Time to invest
business idea: fund the development of an actual time machine to go back and buy a load of Pokemon cards from 1999 to sell in the present
Yes
Yessss patterz is here
I mean you could also use the time machine to buy a whole bunch of Sega Saturn games
I would mostly like to tell to past me to really take good care of their cards
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Sounds about right tbh
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Toby from Birdkeeper! I suspect he has no clue what he's talking about!
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I work at Walmart, and yes, it’s insane what some people will do. We had to lock them up behind a register so that people wouldn’t steal them. And they’re still gone almost constantly
They are always behind the counter in the UK anyway since kids kept stealing them
i was at walmart and the entire toy area had just alot of opened pokemon stuff its surprising
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@@bodoke8266 Yeah, there is always a bunch of card opening trashes in some of the areas. Mainly most of them are stolen. I constantly notice how there are nearly no pokemon cards in the walmart section.
As someone who used to work at one, this is absolutely true. Target doesn’t do this surprisingly.
Make way for the new Pokémon villains, Team Scalp-It!
This should have several thousand likes
Lol
This deserves way more likes
Did some one draw this yet? ._.
@@TherealSakuraKei they should
Did anyone actually know how to play pokemon cards as a kid or did we all just think they looked pretty?
I thought they looked cool
Me and my friends tried, I mostly play the TCGO nowadays if I do play Pokemon TCG (I'm more into YuGiOh cards now)
Nope
I know how to play
I do, and holy shit it's complicated
I remember back in about 2010-2016 me, my dad and my brother's used to love playing the actual card game together. We didn't care at all about the value or collecting them, we just wanted to have fun.
Sitting at the kitchen table playing against my dad on a rainy day, flipping coins and hoping to pull a certain energy card I needed is such a happy, nostalgic childhood memory to me.
I find it really scary now that collecting pokémon cards has become so serious and expensive, it kind of ruins it in a way. I don't even know what terms like 'secret rare' means or what the value of our small collection of older cards is worth. I wouldn't sell them anyway, even if it's a small fortune, because they're really sentimental to me..
I just find it kind of sad that such an innocent game from my childhood has become so daunting..
(That was way longer than I meant it to be haha, sorry)
I remember those kinds of things too. Except my dad was drunk or high most of the time and we weren't playing together he was just ignoring me. Good times.
@@mikeycarrero6501 Oh.. I'm sorry to hear that, life really sucks sometimes :(
I hope everything's going okay now
@@sleepy2702 Hello
I fail to see the big deal behind skinny/fat 1st editions or shadowless or shineys and now reverse holos and vmax, ect...
When I collected them it was the base and jungle set over 20 years ago, which were relatively easy to get the whole set as I did. I sold the sets on Ebay for the cost of buying all the packs at around $700 total over 20 years ago. I had the 1st edition sets of base and jungle and the cost of those now are astronomical. But I collected them because I played the game & liked it but when me and my friends didn't play it anymore I got rid of it.
old things with demand retain their value, and Pokemon is the biggest franchise in the world. there are more fans of it now than ever. So the market is shifting in to a much more serious place, like how classic marvel and dc comics are also worth many, many, many thousands of dollars, after 60-80 years post-print. dont be surprised when the Pokemon market goes up even more. Pokemon is only 25 years old. Imagine what these cards will be worth in another 25 years.
It’s insane tbh how crazy people are acting over Pokémon. Imagine being a kid and finally getting some money and then go to a nearby store just to see adults fighting each other for the cards you want, OR the entire stock SOLD OUT.
@Joseph Rickard wow man that REALLY sucks. I hope your future is great.
@Joseph Rickard I hope to be successful in video gaming myself my friend
same thing is happening with yugioh, some stores are limiting number of packs per customer
my younger brother got into the tcg again because of those kinds of people around the same time that i started getting back into pokémon as a whole again (it’s been a sort of comfort franchise and hyperfixation for me for years now but throughout most of 2020 i lost interest and in 2021 i got back into it). i’ve always loved collecting the cards, so we went out to target and went to get a few booster packs since we have the money to. they had a limit on how many we could get, but we were able to get 2 packs each. a couple weeks later, we went to gamestop to get cards. they were sold out completely. we tried a couple other stores and eventually we happened across a dollar store that was selling packs from around 2014. really puts into perspective how much people who aren’t even fans of the franchise have ruined it for people who are imo.
Near me I have seen Pokémon cards in stock for a month at Walgreens battle styles and some sun and moon sets pretty good
"And I'll never open cards again"
*The new set called Evolving Skies involves all the Eeveelutions as the main cards of the set*
do not tempt me
@@CandyEvie They have one of the cutest secret arts! Sylveon V is my favorite one. T
Lol
they have the best backgrounds
@@CandyEvie lol
Scalpers ruin everything. I hope the pokemon card market crashes soon so normal fans that aren't scumbags can actually enjoy them again.
Yeah smaw
I hope the magic market crashes too
@@elblekqet you and me both, I have an angels and Demons deck to make lol
@@xFreSh999_ I have many mono Colored legacy decks to make that can be competitive
@@elblekqet I mainly play commander or modern. Haven't tried legacy tho.
It makes me kinda sad that Pokemon Cards have seemingly never had their actual purpose. I remember wanting so, so, so badly to play the game, and could never find anyone to play with or who wanted to try to play. Now it really is just gambling. My cards will forever sit in my deck gathering dust.
Ikr
and its not the the game is bad its pretty good
Same man I wanna see how competitive my deck is
I believe many people play Pokemon TCG but not with real cards and deck, but in Online/LIVE client instead. It helps save cards in mint condition and also helps save time on things like shuffling, coin flips, damage counter putting etc.
We could battle over discord it would be weird but I also just wanna test my deck
“I just wanted to show you this torchic I got from McDonald’s,it has no eyes”
-Lucy 2021
torchic is my favorite pokemon but uh
*i think my gengar ate its eyes*
As Gruncle Stan once said: “ HAVE YOU COME TO STEAL MY EYES!?!”
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Lki
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Xk gy
wut
A magnificent creature in its natural habitat, McDonald’s
Thank you for teaching me gambling is good and fun!
only gambling if you open the packs 😤
waIT-
Gacha moment
Gambling is fun. I first learned this at the Game Corner in Pokémon Red.
@@cocomunga To be fair, the game corner was rigged in our favor lol
Not just now, remember that phase with the hyper realistic full arts
Gen 5 and 6 had the best full arts
Wait are you talking about the cards that were literally two cards and had some really cool I think it was a heartgold soulsilver set I think
my classmate in 4th or 5th grade had this MASSIVE full art charizard. he had to hold it with both of his hands. i didnt know that official cards could be that big so i thought it was fake, looking back it was probably real
Me and my mum went to the local target let’s say a month ago and we went up to the help station lady and my mum asked “ hello would you know where the Pokémon cards would be?” Then the lady pointed to a sign saying they weren’t selling them anymore because someone went insane and when someone bought the last pack they PULLED A GUN OUT ON THEM. I just am shocked when hearing this and I have so many questions “are they ok?” I ask the help lady of which she replies “yeah they handed over the pack but when the crazy guy realized he had a card box in one hand and a gun in the other he just drove off” and that’s the last time I asked for Pokémon cards at target.
ah yes the logical course of action
no pack = gun
pov u don’t get the last Pokémon pack so you pull out a glock on them:
That was very American of him.
Damn that's insane. I knew Target stopped selling them cause people were being idiots but I didnt know something that serious happened.
If you want packs they're still sold at Walmart. They were out for a while but have come back.
Walmart is probably the best place to look, either they have them at the front behind a counter or in the 'boy toys' aisle beside the wrestling figures
Pokemon cards aren't scary, but the people that buy them are.
Indeed
Yup especially what happened recently
@@Style_224 I'm pretty out of loop, what happened?
So true
@@nv_johan8711 this was about a month ago but apparently people started fighting for pokemon cards
Scalpers have made the hobby way harder to collect. All started with Logan Paul opening those 2 base set booster boxes, sparked a lot of hype in the tcg and prices have never been the same since.
Is he literally ruining everything?
I collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and due to the stuff surrounding Pokemon, retailers also stopped selling them as well. My local card shop sells some of the products above retail, and I don't want to pay extra for shiny cardboard.
yeah Logan Paul really fucked up Yu-gi-oh, MTG, Pokemon, all the primary TCGs.
Scalpers saw what happened to Pokemon and went after the others aswell.
Fr tho dude fucked up TCGs permanently unless the US starts passing some serious anti-scalping laws for things outside of like...tickets to sports games or movies or whatever. Until then, it's just gonna keep getting worse.
This is why I’m happy I’m a dork who makes Gunpla as a hobby, only fans of Gundam even care, so I don’t need to worry about my local hobby store no longer stocking new and old kits.
@@betabee1221 in my area mtg cards are as common as they were 2 years ago
Am I the only one that doesn’t try to collect the full set, just my favorite card.
Same here! Also don't have the money to spend to collect full sets either so 😂
Yea I only collect cards I really enjoy I sell the surplus and just use that cash to buy more of the ones I want
No, I just like getting packs and seeing what I get
Same I can’t collect it all I’m only 14
i'm just trying to collect one card of every Pokémon(but ones like Regieleki and Spectrier don't have cards yet), idc about Trainers or Energy. Hell I'd trade my Charizard-GX just because I already have a Vivid Voltage one and I don't need the GX one(but my brother has the GX as part of his deck sooooo
Edit: nvm now i collect any card, except energy cards with no Collector Card Njmber
Content creators that open boxes usually have good accountants and are able to write off the majority of the costs of packs and boxes as a loss and a business expense which helps make up a massive margin
I love how her reactions are genuine:
CandyEvie: “Ooo wow cool”
aDrive: “OH MY GOOOOOD YOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOAH. NO WAY DUDE! NO WAY! OMG YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
I understand, it's exciting when you pull something expensive to pay the box value, but there are some pokemon tcg content creators that looks like did drugs before the unboxing tbh
@HalfAnimatronic That's why I stopped watching him as well. There's a major difference between acting and overacting.
@Lursvanlieshout_ Max is just built different
I am CandyEvie lol
@@23thomashawk hi CandyEvie I am dad
I went to a store the other day, and I saw a small pack of cards that costed over $20. I remember buying a same sized pack three years ago for only $6
probably a scalper
One pack is 5$ where I live
@@benbramhallofficial Same, I wish it was at least 4 instead
@@justint9664 actually that probably wouldn't help get much profit so probably more like 6$
Scalping+Inflation
Broke: spending tonnes of money on real cards
Woke: playing the online tcg where everything is free
Big Brain: Not being a douche
Biggest Brain: Telling everyone to play the TCG online
@@mr.preston1632 Sorry if you took this the wrong way, it was meant as a joke but I can see how someone might be offended by it!
@@dragonsurge1096 I am not offended btw, just making another joke by you not being a scalper
Lol
I used to love the online tcg in 2010 - 2012, there was a nice tutorial.
The whole craze has inspired me to go through my collection again. I have plenty of old cards, from flea markets and second hand shops, and the like. It's probably not gonna be possible to buy cards that way again, and that has me kinda sad. It was so fun as a kid, to find a person giving up their collection on a market, going through the cards, picking the ones that I thought prettiest. I have bought 100 cards for 10 € once.
I really want to get back into collecting them, but... I haven't seen a booster pack in a *while* , and the newer gens aren't as interesting to me as the older ones. I hope there will be new sets with the Gen4 remakes. And I hope there will be a way to actually get my hands on some cards again.
I disagree sometimes I'm able to find cards on Facebook for good deals but that's pretty much the only place now
@@th-lm8rg The booster packs are coming back slowly to my local shops, haha
I've bought one recently
Flea markets have been rare the last few years, but they're coming back, too, so there is a chance to get lucky again ^-^
@@anzaia2164 Fr I miss searching for cards like that
I'm not big on Pokemon cards because there sold out everywhere and everyone fighting over them and I don't wanna be the one getting punched over a pack of cards lol
Saw a bunch of old Duel Masters cards being bid on on a local site. There were some Japanese cards in between, which is rare, but l didn't think it justified the highest bid of around $1000 for less than 100 cards. It's at that point people should step back and remember they're doing this for shiny pieces of cardboard.
I will give u some legends I have 3 of the same lol
I will give u some legends I have 3 of the same lol
Buying singles is a better use of your money anyway
@@billmcjargenfoot9959 true facts
Streamers ruined card game markets. I'm big into Yugioh, and even though nothing has really affected our game, people are hoarding older and higher rarity cards, just on the off chance that some streamer with waaaaay too much money decides he wants to buy out all of the PSA 10 DDS Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the market or something.
Blue eyes is getting more and expensive even the korean blue eyes prismatic rare is reaching 40$ mark
ygo has been clearly affected, big retail stores arent selling packs anymore
You kidding, here in Brazil ODPD was once being sold at 100R$ *per card*
@@Gavvi2552 i watch team aps and they talked how its getting harder and harder getting cards
My buddy when he was a kid purchased a ton of the sealed booster boxes for the original first edition set ever made. I’m talking about 50 of them. Overtime he sold one or two here and there to help make ends meet when times were tough. Even after that he still had just over 40 of them left. He just recently sold them all due to the massive spike in prices and was able to put a sizable down payment on a house.
CandyEvie: *Makes a point*
Also CandyEvie: *Opens Pokémon cards to prove her point but ends up proving her wrong* 😂
That's what we like to vall reverse psychology
I think
my faith in the tcg community hit an all time low back in 2019 when i bought multiple hidden fates packs at my local Walmart only to discover someone had already bought them, open them, resealed them and brought them back for a refund. I'm pretty sure they weren't allowed to re-shelf those but they did ;-; it could have been someone who worked there. I dropped the tcg a few months later. it's sad to see the community like this.
Edit i should also say that, i'm in a VERY small town so if that's happening here than i can't imagine what it's like in big cities.
Bruh what the fuck thats allowed? Its like licking bread and giving it back
@@greenuvlight i really don't know how it happened. But the packs were very clearly messed with.
Thats messed up and probaly illegal
Sounds like they kept any rare cards and replaced them with commons
Sad
You can't let one persons wrongdoing ruin it for you when the community is full of good people
me who has a single tin of cards that don't really form a cohesive deck: hmmmm interesting
Mood
yeah, same here
Me who bought fake cards and lost them all lol
@@OmniversalInsect same lmao
me with literally one card my brother gave me:
Its insane the price of cards today. Makes it more difficult to continue to collecting but hoping the hype does a little, or Pokémon prints more cards :)
I have 2 ancient mew cards 🤤🤤🤤
@@prettyiestsnakealive they're worth like £5... Sorry
Actually most collectors don't collect full sets, they tend to choose something to specialize in like Japanese promo cards, full art trainers, specific pokemon/trainers, just to name a few options.
It'll calm down eventually. It's an "investment" rush, IE speculation on prices and scalping. Once interest dies down, the price will drop like a rock. Same thing happened in the 00s.
and in the 90s with comics.
That makes me feel better. In the 00s how long did it take to drop?
@@beebs56 idk about back then, but considering this is only going on because people have time to spare and an income to provide for, once the pandemic completely ends (1-2 years) then it’s gonna end quick in most areas
@@beebs56 A couple years, and then the price bottoms out as the market crashes. It happens any time someone influential says "these are going to be really valuable in a few years" and they are invariably wrong.
@@kabobawsome so the same is gonna happen to all these crypto currencies?
Makes me sad so many people collect thousands of cards for a game they'll prob never play. Give the actual game a shot, it's super fun!
As someone who collects cards and play the TGC, I have to agree with you 100%
I don't really know how to play Pokemon cards, I only collected it bc it looked pretty but I'll give the game a shot, thanks:))
@Wanna Be a Smurt Person Trying Psychic type includes Ghost (weak to dark) and Fairy (weak to metal) (fairy was discontinued at the start of sword and shield, you can still use fairy cards and energy but not in tournaments) Fighting includes Rock (weak to grass) and Ground (weak to water) Dark includes Poison (weak to psychic) (as of sword and shield, anything older is part of psychic) Colorless/Normal includes Flying (weak to lightning, resists fighting) Water includes Ice (weak to metal, sometimes fire) and Grass contains bug (weak to fire just like grass)
@Wanna Be a Smurt Person Trying It's one of the easiest TCG to learn. Try Pokemon TCG Online. It has a tutorial. You don't have to bother with types at first. Most decks only have one to be consistent. Three at most
Depending on the region, pokemon tcg is the 2nd or third most played tcg, after magic and yugioh.
The fact that so many kids are just gonna never be able to get pokemon cards for their birthdays or for Christmas anymore because of greedy adults makes child me realize how much nicer people were back then
They weren’t nicer, they just hadn’t learnt to exploit your childhood for profit yet.
:(
I hope they can still be ordered from the pokemon website.
All this buying reminds me of America's pandemic toilet paper hoarding.....
@@TherealSakuraKei the only place I really see them is at the target near me
@@genesisera8364 I disagree.
It made me so sad when Target stopped selling cards. Before they blew up I would buy a booster pack or two and got some good Tag Team cards sometimes. But now because people go crazy for them I can’t even be a casual card fan without shelling out for cards. It sucks, especially because I feel like those buying them up like crazy don’t even like pokemon
They like money, they don't care about the hobby but the potential profit of it.
Oooh this is why target isn’t selling pokemon, that’s kinda sad. I just want to occasionally buy a booster pack and see what fun Pokémon I get. Let me be a causal collected that never finishes a deck
I went to RidAid yesterday and Pokemon cards are kept behind a glass case
It's worse than it sounded in the video. They stopped having them in stores because someone pulled a gun over baseball cards, which basically scared stores into not having any cards other than magic the gathering anymore.
@@voiceofthelegion578
Idiots always ruin things for everyone... =:(
This is why we can't have nice things.
I once had almost 100 cards... and then, coming home from school, I saw my infant brother destroy literally all of them, laughing as he saw my face as I was in disbelief.
big oof :( I had a similar experience with my donald duck comics I collected once.
I would actually throw him across the room
100% rip you 4
I had my Pokemon cards stolen, I was collecting them for fun, but that just crushed my hobby. I only play Pokemon games now. Sorry to read that, I feel your pain.
so uh is he dead or do you need a nuclear missile or...
Man, I remember when I was like 8, going to the local flea markets and you could buy old Japanese fossil, jungle, and team rocket packs for like $3 a piece. I’m now 23 and will cherish those memories forever, because I will never be able to afford it again haha.
Makes me sad that people who want to get into collecting old cards a normal amount now won’t be able to afford it because of scalpers and “investors”
There is nothing scary about getting stabbed at target for a 7$ packed of cards
It happens a lot where I live
@@MASTEROFEVIL that must be terrifying, stay safe my man
@@soupcorvus7451 Incredibly terrifying
Aren’t the packs $5?
@@MustacheDLuffy it depends tho
In my country converting to american dollars i'ts like 1,44$
Evie: "I literally want to lose money, come on box suck already!"
Literally cards at the moment are more money value than playability value
I mean. Waifu tax is a thing
@@itsfort2098 pokemon waifu huh?
@@Echa37-H37 yes of course. Also praise singles
tbh i dont think that anyone is actually buying cards to play the tcg. its all perceived value, a market held aloft by its participants simply believing they are investing.
but i would be lying if i said that i didnt buy a shiny alcremie off of tcgplayer
Your reactions to pulling Yanmega and Yanma made me smile they always feel so underrated.
I hate how i cant go get my single booster pack of the week as my "treat to myself" like i used to do. It was never that big of a thing and more of a sweet little nostalgia kick opening up a fresh pack and seeing what i got.
But now because idots cant let people have fun its all down the shoot.
big mood. I miss the casual "Oh hey, I'm out shopping for X-thing i need anyways, might as well grab one or two booster packs for fun!"
You should move to Las Vegas
It’s very easy to get cards here
And even a local Boba shop sells Battle styles packs for $4 a pack!
Chute*
Yugioh players: first time?
@@four-en-tee
Yes, first time... =:(
I miss the days were sets were completable. Now every set has 600 secret rares in a set of 50 cards 🥲
Ain't that the truth. 130 cards with like 5 secret rares is doable, but sets are like 300 cards these days
I remember when I collected Pokemon cards. I remember getting my first one, a hollow Mudkip from McDonalds and wanting to collect more. I didn't know jack about the competitive scene or how to actually use them, but I still liked pretending to have battles with my little sister. I stopped collecting a long time ago and definitely don't plan on getting any more in the climate of money hungry scalpers but I still love them a just like to look at them once in a while and reminisce of good times.
All I learned from this video is Shinx is the foreteller of good pulls, as he should be.
Buying Pokemon Cards is becoming as crazy as buying Amiibo.
FACT
Honestly i have to agree everyone is going insane over them but like the amiibo craze it will die down in time but there's no way of knowing when
@@rameball it will never die down. Pokemon cards will be popular forever. The only reason they're hard to find now is people who don't know anything about pokemon decided to buy anything to attempt to flip
I’m scared thinking about the future where these might actually become valuable assets, where a single pack can buy you a house or something
I’m stocking up just in case make sure my kids can get through college
@@Luvthexmen people like you are the reason why this is a problem.
@@treek10k yeah fuck him for trying to create a future for his kids
I mean that is the problem though. People are turning a game that was meant to be played into an investment and it ruins the experience for the people who actually want to play the game by making product scarce and driving the price up to where it no longer becomes an affordable hobby. Its the reason why big retail stores no longer sell cards because of this behavior and it creates an unhealthy barrier of entry for actually playing the game like it was intended to be.
Lol, a single pack can get you a nice trailer. So yeah your right.
This is why I buy Yugioh cards, no one gives a shit about that so the packs are always cheap AND in stock.
Count your blessings (and unopened packs!) my friend. On day, the world is going to go just as crazy over Yugioh cards. It's only a matter of time.
In my area not many buy pokemon to begin with 😂 the only ever time I actually see stocks low is either during a new season or games release.
I’ve never held a yugioh card expect one which was a chick that had rainbow hair ? I know nothing about yugioh
I actually play yugioh just with an older rule set and with my brother
Have you watched the show I’ve watched the first season lol
i really like how you didn't freak out on every hit like a lot of card openings i seen. it was really nice for once for to see pack openings and you were surprised but also like sincerely happy that you got some cute and cool playable cards. i enjoyed this video
I mean. Pokémon cards are….. **HUGE** now.
goodbye finishing crimson invasion. i just hope all this hype dies off soon, and there will be a huge crash of value. serves you right for following a hype train, destroying a niche hobby just for monetary value.
huh there seems to be a glitch in the matrix with this comment
@@Weebdotexe In my city, luckily they still have a bunch of Crimson invasion boxes, so I have the chance to actually get all the 111 cards (without any secret cards), I actually do wanna finish it because im only a couple cards away
@@voidsterr im missing registeel, that is it, idk how i managed to find all the gxs and no registeel but hey lul
@@Weebdotexe Omfg i got that card like 5 times, today I got excited cuz i got another textured card and it was a double T_T (im missing a couple full arts + GXs)
I can see why people have been asking for another card vid that was really chill ,nice change of pace for card vids
Your videos make me so happy, they’ve gotten me through tough times. I sincerely thank you Candy.
In a world of seemingly unlimited cash-flow pokemon card openings, this video was very refreshing. Happened to stumble upon this and it's my favorite Poké video I've seen in a while. Plus your voice is adorable.
The worst part is the drive for it right now makes me want to buy it more, like if I see a pack I'll be like "gotta get it before the scalpers do" even though before I probably wouldn't have even thought about it. (I do like buying a pack every once in awhile because I think the art's nice)
Eh, I don’t really care about the “value” or the “market.” I just wanna enjoy the cards themselves! Though I have been considering buying some f those McDonald’s cards I didn’t get during the event and they’re not too bad compared to some of the other stuff (though they would def add up). But even that is more just… because I want them.
I bought a bunch of the holos I was missing from a local shop including the pikachu for 40 dollars. Not too bad.
The only value that matters to me is the sentimental value.
I was more happy giving my old cards to my nephew that if I sold them for a few bucks, honestly (and buying him a few sets before everything went completely crazy)
Me too
You bought em cuz you like em
They have value to you! That’s what matters (:
Thanks Logan Paul for getting scammed on a base set box. Really drove up the market from copycat youtubers claiming all of their boxes on business write offs and cypro kids thinking this is the next cash cow
So it's been a year and I can't believe how accurate I was lmao. People really have been treating the TCG like a stock option, buying boxes to hold and keep unopened as inflation goes insane. All of the cards in big stores near me have now been security boxed because they're being stolen so often.
And the worst part? I bought a Pokémon Center Celebrations ETB in January and pulled the Base Set Charizard, worth £80 ungraded, paid £50 to get it PSA graded over 3 months and it's now sat on my shelf worth £140 as a Grade 9. I paid £110 in total for it, since the ETB was £63. If PSA hadn't cracked down on their ratings to cause artificial value inflation it would have been a 10. And because of that I now have 6 opened ETBs in my wardrobe and bought most of the Celebrations products🤦🏻♂️
Yeah the price hike in Pokemon product over the recent years has definitely been astounding to me. It definitely bums me out as someone who likes opening all sorts of sets and was able to freely do that in years past. Nowadays I just open whatever set is most likely to give me my value back which is usually the most recent set, and I don't aim to collect the whole set just open a bit of it for fun hopefully break about even while building my collection of commons for myself and friends for our decks.
Idk what's more terrifying, the tcg prices or eyeless torchic.
The store I work at sells them and it’s sheer madness whenever we get new ones in. Chilling Reigns is supposed to come out next week and I’m terrified for my life.
People only want mommy Melony anyway
Hopefully you don't get a knuckle sandwich.
hope everything goes okay, stay safe :(
I wanted to get just one elite trainer box or even a booster pack so bad.... but gamestop sold out on pre orders..
I am sending prayers for your safety
5:03 Yep! It happened at my Target.
People were actually attacking each other outside the stores to steal cards from others, while actual Pokemon Card fans are sitting in the corner laughing, crying, or both!
That's honestly pathetic, if I may be so blunt. Fighting over the cards is one thing, but the people who actually like the hobby are LAUGHING at them instead of trying to do something about it is just messed up. It makes me think that people who do that sort of thing have no right to be complaining about this, since they're not doing anything to prevent those damned scalpers from gobbling up everything before the people who actually want to collect and/or play with the cards are able to for themselves
@@matthewkuscienko4616 Ahhhhhh, that part about the laughing in the corner, that was a joke.
7:04 this part made me wanna cry.
I remember we just took health away by the damage of the card and we had like 5 cards or smth. It was simple and yet so fun.
I remember the energy card gave the Pokemon more health or more damage depending on how cool it looked. Fighting, fire, steel, poison would give more damage, while cards like water, grass, and fairy gave more health. Needless to say everyone wanted the fire cards as they were the most common and the energy gave them more damage so that they could wipe their opponent on the floor.
@@kirboboi3047 when I was a kid the energy cards gave you 50 more damage
in like 3rd grade we would make up little tournament brackets with our group of like 8 friends, and everyone got to bring 6 cards and one of those giant promos that xy did
simpler times
Sometimes I fill my bathtub with marinara sauce and pretend to be a mozzarella stick
That sound AMAZING
May I join you?
*yum*
@@papa-tello8403 I don't see why not
@@whope1623 Thanks!
Still dejected about the Target thing- the TCG has been one of my favorite games and I’ve played for years, so the fact that I haven’t been able to obtain any new cards since, like, Christmas, is disappointing. Have some manners, folks!
I relate so much to this video... I never got the chance to really collect a lot of cards, but I was always interested in the amazing artworks on the cards and eventually learning to play the game (super fun). I sort of went away and came back at the end of 2021 and oh boy was it terrifying. As mainly a collector who's also broke I understand wanting to get the most value out of my money and sort of looking at what all my cards are worth, but at the same time I just want to have fun. I'm opening these products, I'm GOING to lose money. That's how buying and opening ANYTHING is supposed to work. But with people buying tons of sealed products as a form of investment (someone on reddit literally asked what to buy since they were sinking $3000 in Pokemon TCG as an investment) and calculating how much profit or loss they get from ripping every product is insane. I loved that you were happy every time you got a hit (even holo hits) because that's what it's supposed to be like, not going "oh it's another worthless $2 card". Of course I'd buy singles if there's a card I really want but opening new products and collecting cards bit by bit is supposed to be fun and the money really sucks the fun out of it.
Yeah, i agree with ya about the money part. No disrespect to Candy, but it made me kinda sad how she was frequently commenting on how much the cards she pulled would be worth and whether she’d be making back what she payed for the boxes. That’s not the point for me, i just enjoy collecting them because they’re cool and i really love the pokemon world!
"The pen is mightier than the sword" someone said, but they failed to take into account that Pokémon cards beat them both.
They're both. Pen to create, sword to open
This craziness with cards has made me want to buy a few. But now that they’re all not selling them I’m pretty mad. And I imagine the all the scalpers are trying to sell cards for thousands. Or they’re not real. I’m sad that I can’t get cards anymore
I've always hated scalpers, but they're really ruining everything lately. I expected to not get a PS5 for a while, but now I can't even get freaking Pokemon cards?!
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Pokémon cards are so expensive and rare to find that a single bulbasaur is as expensive as a PSA 10 shadowless charizard
me that I still have like a lot
Hey they still sell Pokémon cards the stores are just hiding it we found some and it was full with Pokémon cards can you move the Pokémon cards from the main area where you get them so you cannot find them easily
LITERALLY. I've been collecting cards since I was little but 2 years ago I actually got into playing the card game. Now I can't get any of the new stuff so now I have to gamble on magic the gathering :'^))
just imagine how strong the old school mr mime card would be. the one that takes no damage if its more than 20.
the w h a t
@@fireflare908 the old mr mime card from like 2000 or so. it only has 40 health, but if an attack deals 30 or more damage to it he takes no damage at all. its attack starts weak only dealing 10, but it deals 10 plus all the damage already on it so if it has say 40 damage it deals 50 damage.
@@otbaht Link or card number?
@@swordswinger5 Mr. Mime 6/64 - Missing Jungle Set Symbol
I used to love collecting Pokémon cards, but I never really _collected_ them. Like, I loved buying boosters and just seeing what I'd get, and making nice decks out of them. I loved the feeling of getting a LV X or EX or whatever. But I never tried to "complete" a set or went looking for a specific card. I never bought a single card online or anything. I never looked how much my cards were worth, or thought of a card as a cash value. So I never thought of it as gambling, or the whole concept of "making my money back". To me, I spent the money, and got the cards, and that was it. The only reason I'm scared to buy Pokémon cards now is because I missed thousands of cards already and starting again now would feel weird because I'll never get the ones I missed.
The full-art Shuckle EX is the most beautiful thing I've ever set my eyes on.
Or GX, whatever the hell. Shit's confusing now, can you blame me?
Pokemon V
Pokemon V Max
Pokemon V Star
SHiny boi
Whatever the hell an "amazing rare" is
i remember when it was just ex
13:59 "Oh we got a- [number 1 victory royale]"
Stop it. Get some help.
I loved the packs with giant cards. I like to use them in my room as wall decor.
It got so bad in target that a person pulled out a REAL GUN JUST FOR POKÉMON
Thank god someone finally made a video on this...this has been pissing me off over the last year or two. Scalpers and Logan Paul ruin everything. Wanna know how bad it's been for me?
Shining Fates(Set she opens in the video and one of the newest)
I had been hype for this set since last year and was DYING to collect some of them(Specifically the shiny Snom, which i caved and just bought because i was done with this BS)
EVER SINCE THE DAMN SET CAME OUT I HAVE NOT SEEN A SINGLE HINT OF ANY UNTIL LAST FRIDAY! Where i found those 16$ tins with two packs each. I bought three and left two on the shelf. This Anniversary for Pokemon has been terrible thanks to the wrong people realizing that Pokemon shit is valuable. I cannot afford to pay hundreds of dollars for card packs, i just can't.
I don't collect Pokemon card anymore, long time ago they got stolen, which just killed my enjoyment for collecting and I just stopped. I only play Pokemon games now. That really sucks. I know how it feels to buy something just to enjoy it but then other people ruin it. Scalpers are the worst, scalpers have been ruining everything in the pandemic... I'm glad you got your packs.
Thank goodness Pokèmon video games will never be this affected.
Sadly cards have.
How dare Logan Paul get into Pokemon cards what a travesty
Interesting thing about sealed products the longer past going out of print the less related to value of singles pack prices get. It starts to be based off of nostalgia, the pack opening experience, and supply.
I remember when I got back into collecting(around October) I looked up evolutions booster boxes because they were my favourite I saw the price and that instantly made me hate scalpers
I almost bought one at 200 dollars in July last year. By October it was impossible.
I got back into collecting when evolutions came out and me and my wife went hard on those ETBS and booster boxes lol now seeing the prices of them and the value is insane.
“It doesn’t have any eyes.”
-The most funniest sentence I have heard this year, for some reason. 😂
I was just about to start collecting them when the huge craze started again. I think I'll hang back for a year or so...
Same ;_; I'm so sad
You don’t have to collect them in that way. I love drawing and I epically love drawing Pokémon so you could always make a collection of your own or use a computer and find different pictures to put together. There’s more than one way to collect cards.
@@carolinebergin4633
Neat idea! 💟
Less expensive to.
Because cards are getting more expensive because of idiots ruining everything for us casual collecters.
“That is my first shiny”
v-max ditto: :I
It’s kind of weird that the price of the rarer cards is still so high. As someone who got lost in the throws of nostalgia and probably spent more than they should of, it seemed like the rarer stuff was consistently not that rare
I totally agree with this, I played Pokémon back in 2016 and I got an elite trainer box(I think it was ancient origins) for Christmas and it was around 50 dollars… it sells for around 1000 dollars right now😱
Honorable mention goes to the McDonald card promos where people where scalping Happy Meals
They literally bought so much food for the cards and it went straight to the trash
@@MASTEROFEVIL no how am I supposed to pit on weight for my winter hibernation?!
@@christianedwards9025 Wendy's
It’s so crazy how overpriced things are these days. Idk why but it made me so happy watching you open packs 😭
long time coming 🥲
Respectfully@@CandyEvie as a p.s.s~
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Well we are in a global economic depression
@@paul-wade-hampton6766 w u t
Reminds me of when I tried to prove scratch lottery tickets were a waste of money and ended up turning $10 into $150 over the course of a half hour or so.
The power of gambling
Imagine being a neighbor of a pokecard TH-camr
And the just hearing at around 6 am a muffled *"ohhh mayyy gawwdd shiny charrizzaardrrdddddd"*
Yeah, another Evie video, i'm glad that that i didn't sell my Diancie card
"it will never go below its retail price"
battle styles: am i a joke to you?
BS extremely underwhelming.... no huge chase cards other than maybe the golden cards, and even then, not really fan favorites by any means... tends to happen with a lot of the sets that have no real 'hitters' ... some of the XY sets were notorious for this reason exactly. Funny thing is, Champions path was going to be the same way as Battle styles (below MSRP) until literally the last few weeks/months, PTCi threw in the rainbow rare zard vmax/shiny zard v at the last second and 'saved' the set... still think that set is highly overrated, literally only one card that will make your money back on a booster box, and thats pretty abyssmal.
I'm sorry but whenever you talk and show your animated self it is the most adorable and cute thing I've ever seen why does your animated self look so good!?
Seek help.
Go outside
I would but it's 92 degrees Fahrenheit outside and I don't have air conditioning
The time when one of your favorite TH-cam animators animated your favorite pokemon card
Id be a millionaire if I still had every 1st ed base set pack i opened when the game first released. I easily went through a few boxes. I'm pretty sure I was one of the only ones in our small town that bought the packs from our local video store.
I'd also be a millionaire if people I played as a kid kept their cards in decent condition. We turned prize cards into an ante rule. You take the opponent's prize cards instead.
“I didn’t want to feel like I had to make a video every time I opened a pack, you know?”
Sounds a lot like maxmoefoe.
As a magic collector I felt this in my soul
I got back into collecting recently, before I collected from 2006-2011 and now it's so different, I live in a city with about 225 000 people and none of the retail stores around here can keep any pokemon stocked for more than 48 hours before EVERYTHING is gone, and I'm not sure if it's high demand from lots of consumers or just a small few re sellers buying all of the sealed product in my region but either way it is crazy same story with any retail store in any neighboring towns. I really hope it's not re sellers because I saw so many kids cry this holiday season because they couldn't get pokemon cards since they are all always sold out. Absolutely crazy how much the card scene has changed, and don't even get me started on the price of old sealed product, I don't think anyone could've foreseen things getting this crazy
"Let's lose some money" is perfect for a shirt!!
Yesterday I went to target because I had a gift card and there were actually some Pokémon cards. There were only the one pack ones, but I was still surprised.
5:56 OMG I literally have the exact same box and I am also keeping it sealing hoping it will go way up in value later on.
Gonna have to sell before pandemic ends or price will drop hard
@@xft9285 don't see how, the scalpers just sit on markets , they're that high not to sell them, but to hold them until they move more in that direction, the pandemic ending won't make old sets any less sat on
At 3:35 I have the exact same pikachu that I got from McDonald’s
i got one of those back in 2016. i distinctly remember opening it on my grandparents dining room table and getting the fullart gardevoir ex, along with the super cool fullart sylveon ex with the charms on the side. sucksthat greedy people have turned our childhoods into something to make a quick buck off of.
Basically, if you're into collecting Pokemon Cards, a good source to find them is the local Charity Shop. I have had some good luck finding good sets of cards, including a binder full of some of the original cards. And they were dirt cheap too!