Well, in Japan.....IT IS COMMON for the retail stores and Pokemon center to remove the shrink wrap because its their way of "fighting" people who only purchase to resell. Pokemon center is selling 151 in BOXES now and 5 boxes per person but they remove the shrink wrap when you buy it. I'll post a video of them doing it.
I totally get that, you walk in a shop to buy and they take off the wrap to prevent reselling. But then are we assuming people walk around buying their limit of boxes from pokemon center or shops, and then building their supply up by the thousands to sell to resellers? I'm sure people do it, just seems like high risk to me, and we don't know how many transactions were made with that box, how many hands it passed through to get to you. Then there's tons of shops in US that are easily getting boxes by the thousands with shrink on. That just seems like a lot less risk to me. I assume they are getting direct from a shop in japan that buys hundreds/thousands of cases direct from pokemon.
They have boxes of all the other sv sets, but they are limiting it to 10 packs (half box) of 151 to get it out to the most customers and stifle reselling.
Hot dang, what a cracked box. Great IRs and Masterball, FA Charizard, and god pack to boot. Couldn't hope for much more from a single box. Plus, giving away an IR Bulbasaur and IR Ivysaur, and still plenty more hits to go around.
So happy for you my dude!!! I waited to watch this with my girl because we watch you together (you already know) and we were rooting for you the entire way. What a goated box and super well deserved. Looks like the bulbasaur and ivysaur kept reaching out to you that day. 🤙🤙🤙
No one deserves it more considering how much you opened of English and now Japanese. Congratz on the pulls and the special pack (I don’t want to spoil it). I would like the bulbasaur or ivysaur.
We pulled a Charizard from our Made to Order. Thanks to you helping us get a proxy address. However we did not pull it on video, it was for our PC. Always love your episodes!!!
That’s awesome man! I got one box last year here in the uk (way overpriced) and the same thing happened to me. My SAR way Jinx but my last pack was blessed by god himself which turned the box from a big loss to big win! 😁 happy for you my dude!
Fantastic, congrats to you too! I guess if the odds really are like 1 in 3-4 cases, it happens more then I would think. I really thought I would get Jinx SR and Cycling Road masterball, lol.
Oh you lucky duck! What a box! I cant believe you just pulled the full art. Im missing it from my english set. And a few masterball hits. Thats crazy. So happy for you.
OMGOODNESS 🎉🎉SO Happy for U!!!Love Japanese Need that Bulbasaur to finish up the trio. Ivysaur is Amazing 👏 🤩 U were just saving up ur luck,thats all.What a Great Box Best I've seen 👏 👏 👏 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Love your Gengar T-Shirt! Wow congrats on the god pack that's some crazy luck. Am really happy for your pulls. My first bet was you pulling SAR charizard. No way you also pulled my favorite card of the set the beautiful fullart Charizard EX, just wow! Yay Ivysaur. Meh wanted to win that gastly so bad lol.
Ivysaur. Dude! That must be such a good feeling to open a God pack. AND you got the Squirtle AND the charizard as well. This box was absolutely busted. Congrats man
Awesome pulls. In my first two boxes i got one Erikas invitation, one charmander, one wartortle, two bulbasaurs, a psyduck and a nidoking SIR. 5 and 6 ex cards also in each of those. No luck on the masterballs though, I got a pikachu pokeball reverse in both boxes and almost had a heart attack but then dissaipointment set in lol. I would have squirtle instead of wartortle though, so I had all 3. Hoping for light packs full of hits. I'll try to get 10 more from pokemoncenter online on Monday.
Ivysaur! Holy smokes what an amazing box!! Congrats!!! I was stoked to pull Charizard sir and charmeloen masterball in my last box (2nd box ever). Phenomenal pull for me. This is even better! Amazing!
What an amazing box! You might as well announce your retirement from the Pokémon TCG hobby now! You’ve reached the summit! It’s going to be tough to top this one (at least with any recent set). As for non-shrink wrapped Japanese booster boxes, like others have already commented, it’s common for shops in Japan to remove the wrapping to deter re-selling. What I haven’t seen mentioned, however, and I feel is worth highlighting, is that shrink wrap removal is something Pokémon Centers do. They rip it off in front of the customer at the time of purchase. This practice is one reason why you sometimes see sellers of unwrapped boxes on Yahoo! Auctions and Mercari and similar websites in Japan include a photo of their receipt.
Seriously, still on a high from that, any other opening will just be a let down. Yes, I understand that if you buy a box from PC in person, or a shop, they may take the shrink off, but generally you're buying a box or a few, if they allow.. so then, I guess we assume that person is going and flipping it to someone else, or that person is a flipper, so they're going around buying that way by the thousands to sell on the US market? That seems like a lot of boxes that would have to be bought and flipped that way to supply a big seller. If they're just getting like 5 and flipping them, then they're risky too, because they have no store or reputation to protect. Seems like a huge risk to me. Then you have shops that seem to have no issues getting large quantities with shrink on. I imagine they are getting right from a shop who is buying thousands of cases direct from Pokemon, since I understand there are no distributors in Japan, its just PKM to Shop direct. This seems like minimal hand changing of the boxes, which should be massively less risky. It's all risky though.
Kudos, you hit pay dirt with this box. You hope for a god pack and when it appears, it's a "what just happened moment". Ivysaur and Bulbasaur giveaway is real sweet too!
I just received my box of 151 from Cali pokey house and right off the bat. The shrink wrap is supposedly one of the giveaways that it’s a fake box .. says the rap cut line is supposed to be under the tear tab.. if it’s directly on the tear tab overlapping then it’s a fake box and that’s exactly how mine is.. I figured they would be a little more respectable but it seems fishy .. I wish I had someway to confirm this so I can start a return process if it’s true they’re selling fake boxes.
Can you post clear images of the box and ask on a Reddit Page, like PokemonTCG. This way I and others can see the images and guide you. I have ordered eight 151 booster boxes from "Calipokehouse" now and some other japanese booster boxes; I don't see anything wrong with any of them I have sealed and the ones I've opened were good. Be sure it's Calipokehouse and not an imposter.
Since I have an online shop, I generally only pay attention to shop's singles cards. I don't recall ever seeing anyone sell booster boxes for anything close to the deals you can get online. The shops I go to in the area are Triangle Area Trading Cards and Big Boy Gaming (They go to the shows at the Fairgrounds and have the best prices (for singles they match lowest verified price on tcgplayer), but their shop is a drive and if they're at a show, all their singles will be too (so have to call in advance). I've been meaning to check out Underworld and Hidden Block in Raleigh, so I don't know what they have. I went to Vaulted a long time ago and everything was double retail (he seemed to buy at retail and flip, imo) and I didn't like his singles prices, but I've been meaning to go back and see if anything's changed since he moved location to Apex.
Ya, I feel like I should redo the math with the god packs factored in. If we say 1 in 800 packs, we're looking at 1 per 40 boxes. It's only going to add a few bucks to the Average value pulled, so maybe we'll call it $48-50 in value on average, which is not much more then I estimated.
I opened my first two Japanese boxes yesterday and pulled a god pack on the second one. I couldn't believe it. Charizard and Blastoise SARs were in mine!
FAM!!! DUDE!!! Congrats, bro!!! That was CRAZY!!! I'm really happy for ya, man! I've seen you pull some nice stuff in the past but I've also seen a lot of your personal rips not go the way you were hoping. REDEMPTION, BRO!!! What a busted box! #ROADTO5K Ivysaur
Japan will take off shrink wrap for places like Best Buy equivalent but will do it in front of your eyes to prevent or mitigate resale and deter mass purchase. Japan tries hard to restrict limited product to kids depending on scarcity. But if I lived in America, there’s no way I would trust a wrap free box
Japanese 151 be like "Look... I'm sorry about how my English brother treated you."
A nice little constilation prize after spending thousands on SV 151 🤣
Well, in Japan.....IT IS COMMON for the retail stores and Pokemon center to remove the shrink wrap because its their way of "fighting" people who only purchase to resell. Pokemon center is selling 151 in BOXES now and 5 boxes per person but they remove the shrink wrap when you buy it. I'll post a video of them doing it.
I totally get that, you walk in a shop to buy and they take off the wrap to prevent reselling. But then are we assuming people walk around buying their limit of boxes from pokemon center or shops, and then building their supply up by the thousands to sell to resellers? I'm sure people do it, just seems like high risk to me, and we don't know how many transactions were made with that box, how many hands it passed through to get to you. Then there's tons of shops in US that are easily getting boxes by the thousands with shrink on. That just seems like a lot less risk to me. I assume they are getting direct from a shop in japan that buys hundreds/thousands of cases direct from pokemon.
I can't see any boxes on the website, only single packs with a maximum of 10 per customer. I ordered 10 last Monday and just now ordered 10 more.
They have boxes of all the other sv sets, but they are limiting it to 10 packs (half box) of 151 to get it out to the most customers and stifle reselling.
Thats the kind of a box you wanna open 10-20 years down the line. That is why 151 boxes will pretty expensive in the future.
Seriously. I need a case now, haha.
Hot dang, what a cracked box. Great IRs and Masterball, FA Charizard, and god pack to boot. Couldn't hope for much more from a single box. Plus, giving away an IR Bulbasaur and IR Ivysaur, and still plenty more hits to go around.
So happy for you my dude!!! I waited to watch this with my girl because we watch you together (you already know) and we were rooting for you the entire way. What a goated box and super well deserved. Looks like the bulbasaur and ivysaur kept reaching out to you that day. 🤙🤙🤙
Super happy for you after some disappointing rips!! This was insane, what a box! Oh and Ivysaur :)
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing! I would love the ivysaur but bulbasaur amazing too!
No one deserves it more considering how much you opened of English and now Japanese. Congratz on the pulls and the special pack (I don’t want to spoil it). I would like the bulbasaur or ivysaur.
We pulled a Charizard from our Made to Order. Thanks to you helping us get a proxy address. However we did not pull it on video, it was for our PC. Always love your episodes!!!
That’s awesome man! I got one box last year here in the uk (way overpriced) and the same thing happened to me. My SAR way Jinx but my last pack was blessed by god himself which turned the box from a big loss to big win! 😁 happy for you my dude!
Fantastic, congrats to you too! I guess if the odds really are like 1 in 3-4 cases, it happens more then I would think. I really thought I would get Jinx SR and Cycling Road masterball, lol.
You legend. That’s the only way to pull two Ivysaurs from one booster box! I’m glad you didn’t mess up this video either!
What good luck!! The japanese charizard SAR hits differently
Oh you lucky duck! What a box! I cant believe you just pulled the full art. Im missing it from my english set. And a few masterball hits. Thats crazy. So happy for you.
All in one box. That's nuts!! Kyle says we are missing the sir blastoise but have the rest :)
Ivysaur.
Wow. Totally awesome. The reason why Japanese 151 is just an amazing set. MasterBalls and God packs all in one box.
Time to weigh my 151 boxes… holy cow what a great box. Love the content 😅
This was awesome! I have yet to get to pull a god pack in any set but that's got to be the best feeling when you see the AR in the wrong spot!
you were 100% due! love to see it congrats man
Ivysaur galore. The god pack could not have happened to a better pokemon card fan. Congrats my man. Keep up the good work.
OMGOODNESS 🎉🎉SO Happy for U!!!Love Japanese Need that Bulbasaur to finish up the trio. Ivysaur is Amazing 👏 🤩 U were just saving up ur luck,thats all.What a Great Box Best I've seen 👏 👏 👏 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Love your Gengar T-Shirt! Wow congrats on the god pack that's some crazy luck. Am really happy for your pulls. My first bet was you pulling SAR charizard. No way you also pulled my favorite card of the set the beautiful fullart Charizard EX, just wow! Yay Ivysaur. Meh wanted to win that gastly so bad lol.
That must be one of the best pack ripping feelings. Congrats🎉
Ivysaur.
Dude! That must be such a good feeling to open a God pack. AND you got the Squirtle AND the charizard as well. This box was absolutely busted. Congrats man
Awesome pulls. In my first two boxes i got one Erikas invitation, one charmander, one wartortle, two bulbasaurs, a psyduck and a nidoking SIR. 5 and 6 ex cards also in each of those. No luck on the masterballs though, I got a pikachu pokeball reverse in both boxes and almost had a heart attack but then dissaipointment set in lol. I would have squirtle instead of wartortle though, so I had all 3. Hoping for light packs full of hits.
I'll try to get 10 more from pokemoncenter online on Monday.
What an insane box! Awesome to see after the struggles with English 151. You should sneak *god pack* into the thumbnail or title 😂
Ivysaur! Holy smokes what an amazing box!! Congrats!!! I was stoked to pull Charizard sir and charmeloen masterball in my last box (2nd box ever). Phenomenal pull for me. This is even better! Amazing!
Amazing box opening. Glad to see you pull some heat. Ivysaur!
Ivysaur. Good hit! I’m weighing the 4 boxes coming in a few days
Congrats on your God pack! I tried so hard to get one in 151, both languages, to no avail. Great video, congrats again. Ivysaur
That was a fantastic opening. A 2g difference = god pack box, what a good call to purchase. Ivysaur and Bulbasaur IRs = fire giveaway,
Unbelievable pulls. Still think the bulbasaur line might be my favorite! Ivysaur!
With how bad your luck seemed to be with the English 151 you def. deserved that god pack my friend!
Ivysaur!
God pack !!!!?
Is that your first god pack ?
Incredible to see; congratulations 🎉
Ivysaur 🙌🙌🙌 Awesome reaction and Video keep up the great work 💪
Ivysaur. Wow...congrats on the god pack. You hit the dream box.
What an amazing box! You might as well announce your retirement from the Pokémon TCG hobby now! You’ve reached the summit! It’s going to be tough to top this one (at least with any recent set).
As for non-shrink wrapped Japanese booster boxes, like others have already commented, it’s common for shops in Japan to remove the wrapping to deter re-selling. What I haven’t seen mentioned, however, and I feel is worth highlighting, is that shrink wrap removal is something Pokémon Centers do. They rip it off in front of the customer at the time of purchase. This practice is one reason why you sometimes see sellers of unwrapped boxes on Yahoo! Auctions and Mercari and similar websites in Japan include a photo of their receipt.
Seriously, still on a high from that, any other opening will just be a let down. Yes, I understand that if you buy a box from PC in person, or a shop, they may take the shrink off, but generally you're buying a box or a few, if they allow.. so then, I guess we assume that person is going and flipping it to someone else, or that person is a flipper, so they're going around buying that way by the thousands to sell on the US market? That seems like a lot of boxes that would have to be bought and flipped that way to supply a big seller. If they're just getting like 5 and flipping them, then they're risky too, because they have no store or reputation to protect. Seems like a huge risk to me. Then you have shops that seem to have no issues getting large quantities with shrink on. I imagine they are getting right from a shop who is buying thousands of cases direct from Pokemon, since I understand there are no distributors in Japan, its just PKM to Shop direct. This seems like minimal hand changing of the boxes, which should be massively less risky. It's all risky though.
Nice pulls! GOD PACK! :) Greetings from SIngapore!
Ivysaur - That box was crazy. Now everyone is going to weight their boxes. 😂😂
Great pulls must feel amazing to get a god pack like unimaginable.
Cherrs m8
Such luck to pull Ivysaur not once, but twice.. Aside from everything else xD
damn! that god pack of 151 hits like fire🔥🔥🔥🔥
Such great luck that day, afraid I'll never see that again!
Kudos, you hit pay dirt with this box. You hope for a god pack and when it appears, it's a "what just happened moment". Ivysaur and Bulbasaur giveaway is real sweet too!
Ivysaur 🔥🔥👏 nice hits 😮that god pack wahhh what a feeling must be🤯
so cool! thanks for the chance :D
Ivysaur! Wow I’m jelly you got that God pack! Haha
I just received my box of 151 from Cali pokey house and right off the bat. The shrink wrap is supposedly one of the giveaways that it’s a fake box .. says the rap cut line is supposed to be under the tear tab.. if it’s directly on the tear tab overlapping then it’s a fake box and that’s exactly how mine is.. I figured they would be a little more respectable but it seems fishy .. I wish I had someway to confirm this so I can start a return process if it’s true they’re selling fake boxes.
Can you post clear images of the box and ask on a Reddit Page, like PokemonTCG. This way I and others can see the images and guide you. I have ordered eight 151 booster boxes from "Calipokehouse" now and some other japanese booster boxes; I don't see anything wrong with any of them I have sealed and the ones I've opened were good. Be sure it's Calipokehouse and not an imposter.
So I’m from the triangle of nc where is the best place to buy booster box’s 36pck in store or is there anywhere that does that
Since I have an online shop, I generally only pay attention to shop's singles cards. I don't recall ever seeing anyone sell booster boxes for anything close to the deals you can get online. The shops I go to in the area are Triangle Area Trading Cards and Big Boy Gaming (They go to the shows at the Fairgrounds and have the best prices (for singles they match lowest verified price on tcgplayer), but their shop is a drive and if they're at a show, all their singles will be too (so have to call in advance). I've been meaning to check out Underworld and Hidden Block in Raleigh, so I don't know what they have. I went to Vaulted a long time ago and everything was double retail (he seemed to buy at retail and flip, imo) and I didn't like his singles prices, but I've been meaning to go back and see if anything's changed since he moved location to Apex.
Congrats man that's so sick!! Ivysaur🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ivysaur! What a crazy pack..epic
that was awesome. great freakin box.
Ivysaur! Great pulls my dude 🎉
did not know 151 booster boxes are this good
What a box! Your last video of the stats just got destroyed😂😂
Ya, I feel like I should redo the math with the god packs factored in. If we say 1 in 800 packs, we're looking at 1 per 40 boxes. It's only going to add a few bucks to the Average value pulled, so maybe we'll call it $48-50 in value on average, which is not much more then I estimated.
LOL that has to be one of the best boxes I've ever seen.
Ivysaur. Amazing video congrats
That ivysaur looks great, and I know you gonna pull something better by the end of the video
Ivysaur! Congratz on the God Pack!
I opened my first two Japanese boxes yesterday and pulled a god pack on the second one. I couldn't believe it. Charizard and Blastoise SARs were in mine!
Sweet, congratulations! Such a fun, fantastic set.
I just opened my second japanese box ever and had the same thing !
@BoZeXa Congrats! I guess you'll be chasing that joy for awhile, like me!
@@PokemonFamClub Yep haha, that's for sure
Hell yeah dude...killer box...Ivysaur
Ivysaur - Wow! UNbeliveable
Epic box, you definitely deserve that W. Would be nice to win that Bulbasaur and Ivysaur!
Insane God pack! You deserved it for real, glad you got it!
Ivysaur!! What a great video!
Ivysaur! That's so awesome! My brother lives in Japan and is getting some for me. Hoping I can get a God Pack too!
Ivysaur
Great pulls man. Keep up the content! My son and I really enjoyed this video.
well done! Amazing god packs in this set!
What a god pack!!!! That's awesome man 🎉
Ivysaur !
Wow, a god pack, I didn’t think it was real. Congrats
amazing!! Ivysaur! awesome god pack!!
Ivysaur. Great pulls!
Amazing 🤩 congrats to the god pack 🎉 great content btw 👍🏻
FAM!!! DUDE!!! Congrats, bro!!! That was CRAZY!!! I'm really happy for ya, man! I've seen you pull some nice stuff in the past but I've also seen a lot of your personal rips not go the way you were hoping. REDEMPTION, BRO!!! What a busted box!
#ROADTO5K
Ivysaur
Thanks, I still can't believe it. It's going to be hard to open anything else now, going to be such a letdown. Thanks!
You’d never be able to tell if you opened a god pack unless you caught it on video. Well done!
Congratulations on the pulls 🙂😁.
Ivysaur - Congrats on all the hits 🎉
Ivysaur. Awesome box.
Unbelievable! God pack with ivysaur and company
Crazy god pack! Ivysaur is clean
Holy god pack ivysaur😎
Ivysaur - Wow! Congrats!
CONGRATS!
Congratulations on the God pack. Ivysaur!
Nice box! Ivysaur
Great! Congrats! 👍😎🏅
Ivysaur is the CLEANEST card out of the bulba line in this set imo!!
ivysaur baby!! congrats man
Ivysaur… man the god pack was so cool!
What a box. 🎉 Ivysaur
Congrats, Vanessa!!!
Wow that was a great pack Ivysaur
Japan will take off shrink wrap for places like Best Buy equivalent but will do it in front of your eyes to prevent or mitigate resale and deter mass purchase. Japan tries hard to restrict limited product to kids depending on scarcity. But if I lived in America, there’s no way I would trust a wrap free box
Ivysaur. Crazy to pull a god pack from 151!
Ivysaur
Crazy pack with all the Charizard
Nice! Ivysaur!
Ivysaur - congrats!
Ivysaur
Absolutely fire 🔥 congratulations....oh and IVYSAUR
Congrats on the god pack!!
Ivysaur
I got chills watching this
Japanese 151 is one of the best sets
nice pulls