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Alex, a few suggestions: 1. If you add a few boxes on each side of you, you could totally have a Pokemon booster case style Game of Thrones sword throne setup, and I am here for it!! 2. I don’t know if this helps, but I upgraded from the Yeti mic to the Rode PodMic and it’s made a huge difference in sound quality. 3. I’m predicting you will double your subscribers before June of next year, because this content is incredible and so well thought out. You’re a rockstar!
I've mentioned this on many videos and got hammered in the comments, these new investors will see a dip and dump product which will compound and eventually return back to a bear market (Usual Cycle) this will happen with Surging Sparks once Prismatic / Rocket / Trainer sets are out. it's healthy and normal cycles that have constantly happened over the past decade i've been investing
Just as a counter point…. I’m more inclined to believe when prismatic comes out at $100/etb , which makes it $400/booster box, I think that will drive people back to surging at “half the cost”. 🤷♂️ just a possibility
@@TheSnackAttackingSnorlax Always a possibility however people over leverage themselves so will be sat there with a lot funds tied up in surging, once it stagnates or dips I think the dump will begin. If you compare Surging to Prismatic I know where I am looking to build a bigger position.
I just have to say… your logic and explanations continue to be 💯 on point. You’ll be at 300K followers in 2025. No doubt. Everyone in Pokemon should be listening to you.
@NostalgiaNomics Yea, I feel you. I get pretty tempted to do the same sometimes😂. For a second, I thought Twilight crashed after I just went over it on my falling friday, lol.
Hobbies are expensive, and we manage this in our finances by selling parts of our collection occasionally at a profit. We keep all profits in the collection. It's such a balanced system, and we have been keeping it going for over a year. You could call us investors, and you'd be right. We also collect cards, play the game with our bulk, and trade with people in our community. We enjoy the hobby, but with current prices, we have to do so responsibly. And, if that means selling one cool piece of our collection so we can grow to meet bigger collection goals, then we gotta do things like sell our Surging Sparks Booster Box Case. But when we do, we will be able to use that to buy 2 more cases for our collection of a set we enjoy and believe in just as much. That's a HUGE win in our books! Thanks for the video! Always appreciate the hard work! Great points at the end!
I like to new mic😂. But fr i just got two case of TM for 710. It over shot and o sat back. I been picking up temporal forces. It a sleeper. As you just said that is strong set lol. And your the man. Watching the rest. Keep pushing and remember if you don't have haters, your notndoing it right but your good now Alex. Leave them behind on your new adventure. Best of luck bud!
Stellar crown is a fun rip, pull rates have felt generous, and at a cheaper pack price it's desirable. Wouldn't be surprised if it creeps up to 130 by january
This Alex is so much better than hysterical Alex. I don’t care if he’s mimicking Rudy. Sound quality is great here. Dude streaming is crazy lucrative- making $2-3 per pack for 1000 packs in one day is nuts.
Man love the setup tbh..thank you again for concise, reasoned information..the tears of timmy if soaked into the carpet helps with sound :) Gratz on the buyout and 151 entry.
Thanks for the info, didn't even realize Temporal Forces was at $140, last time I checked it was $110. I went stupidly heavy into Temporal Forces & Crown Zenith so hopefully it pays off in a few years. I think Temporal Forces probably one of the strongest set because of the Paradox Pokémon not having Tera Crowns.
I opened my own online shop 7 months ago. Poketubers like you allow me to stay informed and make smarter decisions for my business. Very grateful for ya keep it up!
Temporal Forces (my maiden set), was the first set post-rotation, so it introduced a lot of new key cards that changed TCG meta, including ACE-SPECs. A lot of it was ripped by players to stock up on new playable essentials. There is also very high possibility for Paradox Pokemon (SIRs) from PAR and TEF getting new SIRs in Prismatic Evolution set. I think this will boost prices of TEF SIRs and prices of TEF sealed itself
Temporal Forces is definitely one of my favorite Scarlet and Violet sets-it has some of the best artworks of the era, so I picked up a case for $695 3 weeks ago (Obviously extremely happy with that purchase). Also looking to get some Surging Sparks, but I'm going to wait on that. I do think it will perform wonderfully long term, but it'll almost certainly come down to a more reasonable price point in 2025 with reprints. Love your opinion on giving primary sellers the profit rather than flippers/scalpers btw-I hadn't thought about market value in the way you described it before.
My LGS prices all ETB's for $75 and $180 for booster boxes even when they were all under $100 last year. I thought maybe they priced high expecting people to haggle until i tried and they pulled the "I know what I got" thing. They also clean out all the local Walmart's and Target's too. Sams club CZ boxes, Aldi's Poke balls with Cosmic, Costco 151 they get it all. Weird how they never really sell anything. They also only offer 35% on cards and slabs but that's another story.... They have 2 giant locations here in Upstate NY too....
Completely agree on TF. Such an underrated set with very good SIRs - probably my favorite of SV thus far. I get the Greninja chase but I was never a fan of TM
Bro love all your content, love the no nonsense straight shooting attitude, just balls and strikes haha. I've been in the hobby for awhile and can never get a good answer on the following question. I know your a sealed guy for the most part but I invest in a lot of graded slabs. I also know that most cards go down over time vs sealed. Knowing the risk of investing in graded singles, is there one strategy / formula that is tested and true over time? Meaning certain pokemon or certain sets or certain rarity just do better over time than others?
Appreciate that brother. Singles are always a gamble. Very hard to time correctly. I stick to the best hits in sets of popular species when they are down and the hype has moved and try to hold until the next cycle when I make singles plays. Hope that helps.
I was one of those quick flippers with SS as I saw the rise immediately. I have no problem in waiting until mid 25 and other sets to take the heat off this. If your playing the long game it doesnt matter. You might as well realise some gains with the crazy market atm too
Changing the mindset of Timmy's one video at a time! Alex saved me from being a Timmy. My symptoms were: scared money, paper hands, FOMO, racing to the bottom, buying high and selling low and some weird rash in the cra.... oh wait... different issue... I digress. The advice is like spinach.. green, slimy and hard to keep down, but once digested those muscles develop. This leads to those heavy bags not feeling so heavy, and a stronger grip which over time leads to those heavy bags becoming filled with helium and lifting you off to the moon... Great vid as always! Chef's kiss on the sound quality too!
That last minute or so of advice really inspired me to open a couple of sealed Surging Sparks ETBs immediately getting home from work later, thanx? 🤷♂️ lol
You and Brian make me want to fight for inventory that shops or online stores are trying to clear. It’s a lot healthier than complaining about price heights in a free market.
I have a question for you i like to buy Sleeved Booster Cases to Holde them 5 to 10 Jears and than sell the Sleeved Booster as Singels i dont have a lot of expendable income so i think its a good long term invest. waht do you think is this a good item? I like to think that even a Singel Booster for 50 to 100 is more affordable than a 1000 to 3000 Booster Box.
Very good advice on "being ok if you miss out". I learned this hard lesson during covid and still have shining fates etbs i paid $60-80/each for along with other collections boxes etc.
It seems like the pokemon market always goes up around Christmas and winter but then crashes in spring. Some sets and cards might do the opposite. Stocks do that a lot too. I wonder what surging sparks will do next year. Will it stay up or get reprinted and crash like vivid voltage?
Yay!! I can jump in on reprints and get things for cheap again lol just had to fight people off at target for SwSh ETBs so i can buy cheap and hold id rather wait then fight for it
i was surprised with my order of surging sparks ( it become pre-order with estimated time around 2nd - 3rd week of feb) maybe it is the reprint schedule?
Dude I've been watching you for so long. Your advice is so dope. I went from buying singles, flipping, to a sealed investor. I need to increase my portfolio overall, but the mindset is there now. I even buy slabs I know will go up in the future, and I'm holding those. I'm patient 😂....remember guys hodl!!! Can't stomach this? Get out now, hahaha...also new mic sounds 1000% better hahaha
I do feel ya, man. I also feel that any stores with a distro have an obligation to offer juuust under market in most cases when it's above MSRP, just to give the little guy a shot. If you're offering market, people have no reason to do business with you vs. another seller. Boring! Be one of the cool kids; hook us up! lol
Thanks for the advise man... That's really ease my mind on prismatic evolution.. u know, everyone is pump up on this eeveelution so i kinda worry that i might get left behind everyone else. Then u said "it's okay to rest on a set or two, wait for low price" haha i kinda happy😊❤
love the point of view, but i would love the videos if you put some editing on them, for example, if you are talking about certain set, put an image of the set or the product, that would make it more friendly with people who are just joining the hobby
I think what you said the other day about your friend still stands true, the people who buy on release or on preorder and hold for years ignoring all the short term market fluctuations are the people who will profit the most
Happy to talk about value appreciating on an investing channel, but "it's not gouging if people pay the price" is not a good defense. That's literally how price gouging works. This isn't price gouging because consumers don't need surging sparks booster boxes to survive, so the price is just going up to meet a luxury demand. Actual competitive cards will usually be very affordable on the secondary market if you want to play the game too, so expensive boosters rarely wall poeple out of playing the game. It's only people who want to collect the set that are being rpiced out due to the high value of the set, which is understandably frustrating but its isn't exploiting desperate people the way price gouging is.
Could stellar crown be being opened more on ur breaks then other lower end BB’s because it’s a newer set and people could still be hunting for the SIR’s
When my daughter and I got done opening a surging sparks etb and 10 extra pics, she asked how much it cost. I told her around 100, she sleeved the cards and walked away.
While in Europe, Surging Sparks and Prisativ Evolutions are also running wild, Twilight Masquerade has stayed in the 110-120 mark all this time, so it doesn't surprise me a lot that it dropped a bit in the US. But even if you bought at the highs in the US, don't sell, in 2-3 years nobody cares if you paid 110, 120 or even 170
Saw comments on other channels saying they'll stop shopping at a store if they raise prices after being a loyal customer for years. Kinda sad to make threats like that...Store owners take the risk on buying meh products so they should be able to price it at what they want. Some stores decide to reward returning/loyal customers which is a great idea but I also dont think its necessary. Stores are the ones that buy the unpopular products and have to sit on them for who knows how long...Should be rewarded for being in the trenches when the hype comes.
Newer investor here (just 15 months). I am looking to sell surging sparks BBs only because I went in more than usual (bough 3 cases instead of 1), with the plan of selling when they hit $200/box. I just didn’t they that’d happen this soon haha but I’ll still have one case for the long term as I’ve done with every set in sv era
this room just gives off pokemon investment vibes. Some "poke investors" make videos and don't show their positions... I see you have a large position in pokemon lol. Shows credibility! 👍
15:25 apply this logic to the ps5 systems.. pretty sure those people were called scalpers for like a year or 2 even when the market was buying at scalper price.. the problem isn’t the price. It’s that special places always seem to get hit by big dealers who always get all the inventory and then flip high.. that is the problem..if it was a free market then anyone without a dealer account could buy in mass quantities and do the same as the dealer/scalpers. I understand that is how it works but don’t complain when your Yukon cost more then msrp or you can’t get a ps5 pro because it’s marked way up.. dont even get me started on toilet paper scalpers.
sounds good, i was gunna mention the sound was kinda cwispy very first video i seen, send the audio thru a compressor or just boost the 175hz legit A decibel lol
New collector. Master set 151 opening packing n then card shows for remianing singles. Found i liked the hobby again. Thought it might be fun to open 2 mini tin packs from costco. Ya right. Priced at $60 from costco. They sold out that day and instantly got posted on marketplace for $140 from scalpers. Like get real. When did people stop just enjoying this hobby. I refuse to pay that price for cardboard. It's fun but not that fun. I wish more people buying pokemon would work together to just enjoy the cards. Canada btw
Supply and demand we get. It's ok store owners should be able to raise the price to stabilize demand. Just accept when pokemon raises your price to regulate the market.
Im here , i was thinking on holding better , unless I really need the money it will be nice to see that 250-300 on surging and also I did miss out on prismatic 😢
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New microphone sounds better 👍🏼
Not a new mic 😂
😂 Troll
That foam will do you good.
Glad he got a new mic
Yea I like this mic better as well 😂😂
Bro has so many cases, that it's stopping the echo 😎
We have to stop meeting like this
@@sonofamerc im sowwy
🤣 Must be it!
I feel like this is a turning point, Alex wasn’t yelling at us it was just the room 😂
The mic has a new Alex setting just for him
Best comment 😂
I agree your new mic definitely sounds wayyyy better .
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🤣🤣🤣 Ok this is actually HILARIOUS!
@@NostalgiaNomics thanks for your vids!
Alex, a few suggestions:
1. If you add a few boxes on each side of you, you could totally have a Pokemon booster case style Game of Thrones sword throne setup, and I am here for it!!
2. I don’t know if this helps, but I upgraded from the Yeti mic to the Rode PodMic and it’s made a huge difference in sound quality.
3. I’m predicting you will double your subscribers before June of next year, because this content is incredible and so well thought out. You’re a rockstar!
I second this idea!!🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for all the help and support! I will check it out.
I've mentioned this on many videos and got hammered in the comments, these new investors will see a dip and dump product which will compound and eventually return back to a bear market (Usual Cycle) this will happen with Surging Sparks once Prismatic / Rocket / Trainer sets are out. it's healthy and normal cycles that have constantly happened over the past decade i've been investing
Just as a counter point…. I’m more inclined to believe when prismatic comes out at $100/etb , which makes it $400/booster box, I think that will drive people back to surging at “half the cost”. 🤷♂️ just a possibility
@@TheSnackAttackingSnorlax Always a possibility however people over leverage themselves so will be sat there with a lot funds tied up in surging, once it stagnates or dips I think the dump will begin. If you compare Surging to Prismatic I know where I am looking to build a bigger position.
I just have to say… your logic and explanations continue to be 💯 on point. You’ll be at 300K followers in 2025. No doubt. Everyone in Pokemon should be listening to you.
Pogo
Appreciate you brother! That would be incredible!!
You got me with that thumbnail 😂
@PokeBeardTCG 😂😂😂 Ya I'm not proud of it but playing into the negative clickbait a bit lol
@NostalgiaNomics Yea, I feel you. I get pretty tempted to do the same sometimes😂. For a second, I thought Twilight crashed after I just went over it on my falling friday, lol.
@@PokeBeardTCGkeep your style bro
I can see surging sparks dipping into the new year with a reprint and prismatic and the team rocket set out. Should be a good time to pick some up
Hobbies are expensive, and we manage this in our finances by selling parts of our collection occasionally at a profit. We keep all profits in the collection. It's such a balanced system, and we have been keeping it going for over a year.
You could call us investors, and you'd be right. We also collect cards, play the game with our bulk, and trade with people in our community. We enjoy the hobby, but with current prices, we have to do so responsibly.
And, if that means selling one cool piece of our collection so we can grow to meet bigger collection goals, then we gotta do things like sell our Surging Sparks Booster Box Case. But when we do, we will be able to use that to buy 2 more cases for our collection of a set we enjoy and believe in just as much. That's a HUGE win in our books!
Thanks for the video! Always appreciate the hard work! Great points at the end!
Respect the daily videos 🙌🙌🙌
I like to new mic😂. But fr i just got two case of TM for 710. It over shot and o sat back. I been picking up temporal forces. It a sleeper. As you just said that is strong set lol. And your the man. Watching the rest. Keep pushing and remember if you don't have haters, your notndoing it right but your good now Alex. Leave them behind on your new adventure. Best of luck bud!
Just hit a potential 10 squirtle out of a teal mask ogrepon box, stellar is actually dope
Stellar crown is a fun rip, pull rates have felt generous, and at a cheaper pack price it's desirable. Wouldn't be surprised if it creeps up to 130 by january
This Alex is so much better than hysterical Alex. I don’t care if he’s mimicking Rudy. Sound quality is great here. Dude streaming is crazy lucrative- making $2-3 per pack for 1000 packs in one day is nuts.
“If you want to take profits on Surging Sparks its ok I’m not mad at you” -Alex
Man love the setup tbh..thank you again for concise, reasoned information..the tears of timmy if soaked into the carpet helps with sound :) Gratz on the buyout and 151 entry.
Now Alex can start pumping and market manipulating Japanese 151 😂
The Cabal is expanding internationally!
I was gonna leave a message on last vid, the sound is crazy good and maybe the case esthetics fits your channel better?
It’s true my distributed is out of stellar crown. Good thing my position is built already
Thanks for the info, didn't even realize Temporal Forces was at $140, last time I checked it was $110.
I went stupidly heavy into Temporal Forces & Crown Zenith so hopefully it pays off in a few years.
I think Temporal Forces probably one of the strongest set because of the Paradox Pokémon not having Tera Crowns.
Storage setup looking CLEAN.
@skippyfx appreciate it brother 🙏
I opened my own online shop 7 months ago. Poketubers like you allow me to stay informed and make smarter decisions for my business. Very grateful for ya keep it up!
Appreciate the updates nomics! 👍🏻
Any recommendations for trying to locate and buy sealed cases at a good price? Really want to jump from a collector to an investor.
Anywhere and everywhere lol. There is no one place i use. Just have to always shop around.
@ I figured this was the response I’d get but was worth asking 😂
DAMN ALEX! FINALLY PROPER SOUND! greets! :)
im trying to decide between that mic you have and its DJI competitor , you have positive feedback for that mic?
Ya it's kinda wild lol
Temporal Forces (my maiden set), was the first set post-rotation, so it introduced a lot of new key cards that changed TCG meta, including ACE-SPECs. A lot of it was ripped by players to stock up on new playable essentials.
There is also very high possibility for Paradox Pokemon (SIRs) from PAR and TEF getting new SIRs in Prismatic Evolution set. I think this will boost prices of TEF SIRs and prices of TEF sealed itself
Temporal Forces is definitely one of my favorite Scarlet and Violet sets-it has some of the best artworks of the era, so I picked up a case for $695 3 weeks ago (Obviously extremely happy with that purchase). Also looking to get some Surging Sparks, but I'm going to wait on that. I do think it will perform wonderfully long term, but it'll almost certainly come down to a more reasonable price point in 2025 with reprints. Love your opinion on giving primary sellers the profit rather than flippers/scalpers btw-I hadn't thought about market value in the way you described it before.
Well, a lot was said but the thing for me is that it was well said!
U think it’s worth it at this price for booster boxes? Besides surging I think all the booster box prices are still worth it in the long run.
I do too!
Congrats on getting your distributor! Well deserved!
Great comment on dont be afraid to miss out. There will ALWAYS be banger sets coming out.
I'm surprised there is still Twilight Pokemon Center ETB's available. The stamped promo is not the best but it's still selling for 20-30.
Your voice bouncing off those stacked cases just nicely 👌
It's one of your better videos. I have never seen your microphone as a problem. Thanks for the great content.
My LGS prices all ETB's for $75 and $180 for booster boxes even when they were all under $100 last year. I thought maybe they priced high expecting people to haggle until i tried and they pulled the "I know what I got" thing. They also clean out all the local Walmart's and Target's too. Sams club CZ boxes, Aldi's Poke balls with Cosmic, Costco 151 they get it all. Weird how they never really sell anything. They also only offer 35% on cards and slabs but that's another story.... They have 2 giant locations here in Upstate NY too....
Sounds like they kinda suck
Dude everyone is right the microphone is way better now I completely agree 🤣🤣 listening to this on my way to work
Completely agree on TF. Such an underrated set with very good SIRs - probably my favorite of SV thus far. I get the Greninja chase but I was never a fan of TM
Bro love all your content, love the no nonsense straight shooting attitude, just balls and strikes haha. I've been in the hobby for awhile and can never get a good answer on the following question. I know your a sealed guy for the most part but I invest in a lot of graded slabs. I also know that most cards go down over time vs sealed. Knowing the risk of investing in graded singles, is there one strategy / formula that is tested and true over time? Meaning certain pokemon or certain sets or certain rarity just do better over time than others?
Appreciate that brother. Singles are always a gamble. Very hard to time correctly. I stick to the best hits in sets of popular species when they are down and the hype has moved and try to hold until the next cycle when I make singles plays. Hope that helps.
I was one of those quick flippers with SS as I saw the rise immediately. I have no problem in waiting until mid 25 and other sets to take the heat off this. If your playing the long game it doesnt matter. You might as well realise some gains with the crazy market atm too
Yay for new mic. And the new sound proofing wall behind you is also helping!
Changing the mindset of Timmy's one video at a time! Alex saved me from being a Timmy. My symptoms were: scared money, paper hands, FOMO, racing to the bottom, buying high and selling low and some weird rash in the cra.... oh wait... different issue... I digress. The advice is like spinach.. green, slimy and hard to keep down, but once digested those muscles develop. This leads to those heavy bags not feeling so heavy, and a stronger grip which over time leads to those heavy bags becoming filled with helium and lifting you off to the moon... Great vid as always! Chef's kiss on the sound quality too!
We got Alphanomics before GTA6
I do like the switch up though🎉
That last minute or so of advice really inspired me to open a couple of sealed Surging Sparks ETBs immediately getting home from work later, thanx? 🤷♂️ lol
Twilight masquerade will be similar to fusion strike. Don’t underestimate the power of Greninja.
You and Brian make me want to fight for inventory that shops or online stores are trying to clear. It’s a lot healthier than complaining about price heights in a free market.
Prices going down? I just bought a PC ETB TM like a week or so ago cause that shit gonna go back up for sure in some years. Especially the PC
I can’t believe you sitting so close to Japanese case, must be painful for you lol.
@Cryptomaniac.f It didnt feel great 😆
This comment deserves to be higher 😂
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I have a question for you i like to buy Sleeved Booster Cases to Holde them 5 to 10 Jears and than sell the Sleeved Booster as Singels i dont have a lot of expendable income so i think its a good long term invest. waht do you think is this a good item? I like to think that even a Singel Booster for 50 to 100 is more affordable than a 1000 to 3000 Booster Box.
I stick with booster boxes becuase they are the most sought after and liquid items usually as time passes but you can do just fine in those too
Unpopular opinion: Local card shops are nothing more than established scalper.
my guess is lots of card shops started out as long term scalpers or holders that had too much supply
Agree. But did you just learn what retail is?
That’s how capitalism works bud
@@metalmajesty haha i guess so
Obviously there is no game play at yours, otherwise you’d think differently.
Very good advice on "being ok if you miss out". I learned this hard lesson during covid and still have shining fates etbs i paid $60-80/each for along with other collections boxes etc.
It seems like the pokemon market always goes up around Christmas and winter but then crashes in spring. Some sets and cards might do the opposite. Stocks do that a lot too. I wonder what surging sparks will do next year. Will it stay up or get reprinted and crash like vivid voltage?
Enjoy hearing your knowledge thanks again and congratulations on buying that shop.
Yay!! I can jump in on reprints and get things for cheap again lol just had to fight people off at target for SwSh ETBs so i can buy cheap and hold id rather wait then fight for it
i was surprised with my order of surging sparks ( it become pre-order with estimated time around 2nd - 3rd week of feb) maybe it is the reprint schedule?
the sound quality of this room is genuinely so much better that I thought you got a new mic
I love stellar I pulled that colorful pokemon 2 booster box
Thank you for finally upgrading your microphone! 🎉
Dude I've been watching you for so long. Your advice is so dope. I went from buying singles, flipping, to a sealed investor. I need to increase my portfolio overall, but the mindset is there now. I even buy slabs I know will go up in the future, and I'm holding those. I'm patient 😂....remember guys hodl!!! Can't stomach this? Get out now, hahaha...also new mic sounds 1000% better hahaha
Hi Alex, is that a japanese 151 box? nice sound quality :)
I do feel ya, man. I also feel that any stores with a distro have an obligation to offer juuust under market in most cases when it's above MSRP, just to give the little guy a shot. If you're offering market, people have no reason to do business with you vs. another seller. Boring! Be one of the cool kids; hook us up! lol
U got an affliate link for that new mic ? would love to buy it and support the stream 🤠
Haha I don't. I got it on Amazon though
Alex owning Japanese cards before gta 6 is crazy
Do you think it’s a good idea to hold 151 packs or open ? I got a lot
Short term no idea, long term yes.
New mic is great. Where’d you get those shelves?
Just home depot. Nothing special.
Thanks for the advise man... That's really ease my mind on prismatic evolution.. u know, everyone is pump up on this eeveelution so i kinda worry that i might get left behind everyone else. Then u said "it's okay to rest on a set or two, wait for low price" haha i kinda happy😊❤
No way! It's the same mic?! Bahah that's awesome. Great stuff.
Thank you for the economics lesson Alex
love the point of view, but i would love the videos if you put some editing on them, for example, if you are talking about certain set, put an image of the set or the product, that would make it more friendly with people who are just joining the hobby
That would be nice i agree but impossible to do with the limited time I have running the business and keeping videos so consistent... sorry.
I think what you said the other day about your friend still stands true, the people who buy on release or on preorder and hold for years ignoring all the short term market fluctuations are the people who will profit the most
Happy to talk about value appreciating on an investing channel, but "it's not gouging if people pay the price" is not a good defense. That's literally how price gouging works. This isn't price gouging because consumers don't need surging sparks booster boxes to survive, so the price is just going up to meet a luxury demand.
Actual competitive cards will usually be very affordable on the secondary market if you want to play the game too, so expensive boosters rarely wall poeple out of playing the game. It's only people who want to collect the set that are being rpiced out due to the high value of the set, which is understandably frustrating but its isn't exploiting desperate people the way price gouging is.
LOVE THE SOUND QUALITY ALEX!!!!!!!
Could stellar crown be being opened more on ur breaks then other lower end BB’s because it’s a newer set and people could still be hunting for the SIR’s
Couldnt hear anything you said over the crisp audio. We've been waiting 4 years for this👺😂 Happy Sunday!
When my daughter and I got done opening a surging sparks etb and 10 extra pics, she asked how much it cost. I told her around 100, she sleeved the cards and walked away.
Red lines on the thumbnail and 20k views. You love to see it. 🚀
That's all it takes man. I hate that is where we are at but here we are...
@@NostalgiaNomics the people know what they want. Have to give it to them. I know the theme for my live title/thumbnail this week 😆
Should I buy out my LGS at 170 before tax so about 190 a box after I think he has 3
Alex improving production quality lets goooooo
Like I always say... you're killing it Alex !!!
While in Europe, Surging Sparks and Prisativ Evolutions are also running wild, Twilight Masquerade has stayed in the 110-120 mark all this time, so it doesn't surprise me a lot that it dropped a bit in the US. But even if you bought at the highs in the US, don't sell, in 2-3 years nobody cares if you paid 110, 120 or even 170
I think it would be cool if some shops would do a nice black friday deal on some sets but you have to open them in store to get the deal.
Not only is the sound better, but the background is better
Down here in Santiago, Chile there's all kinds of Temporal Forces around.
Saw comments on other channels saying they'll stop shopping at a store if they raise prices after being a loyal customer for years. Kinda sad to make threats like that...Store owners take the risk on buying meh products so they should be able to price it at what they want.
Some stores decide to reward returning/loyal customers which is a great idea but I also dont think its necessary. Stores are the ones that buy the unpopular products and have to sit on them for who knows how long...Should be rewarded for being in the trenches when the hype comes.
Newer investor here (just 15 months). I am looking to sell surging sparks BBs only because I went in more than usual (bough 3 cases instead of 1), with the plan of selling when they hit $200/box.
I just didn’t they that’d happen this soon haha but I’ll still have one case for the long term as I’ve done with every set in sv era
New mic is awesome!
No Abercrombie no tap out shirt. Nope don’t like it one bit.
You’re killing it though Alex thanks for the current market information
this room just gives off pokemon investment vibes. Some "poke investors" make videos and don't show their positions... I see you have a large position in pokemon lol. Shows credibility! 👍
15:25 apply this logic to the ps5 systems.. pretty sure those people were called scalpers for like a year or 2 even when the market was buying at scalper price.. the problem isn’t the price. It’s that special places always seem to get hit by big dealers who always get all the inventory and then flip high.. that is the problem..if it was a free market then anyone without a dealer account could buy in mass quantities and do the same as the dealer/scalpers. I understand that is how it works but don’t complain when your Yukon cost more then msrp or you can’t get a ps5 pro because it’s marked way up.. dont even get me started on toilet paper scalpers.
Temporal Forces has Raging Bolt, the namesake of the most popular deck in the TCG. That's why it gets ripped
sounds good, i was gunna mention the sound was kinda cwispy very first video i seen, send the audio thru a compressor or just boost the 175hz legit A decibel lol
New collector. Master set 151 opening packing n then card shows for remianing singles. Found i liked the hobby again. Thought it might be fun to open 2 mini tin packs from costco. Ya right. Priced at $60 from costco. They sold out that day and instantly got posted on marketplace for $140 from scalpers. Like get real. When did people stop just enjoying this hobby. I refuse to pay that price for cardboard. It's fun but not that fun. I wish more people buying pokemon would work together to just enjoy the cards. Canada btw
Yeah the new mic is working really well man
Supply and demand we get. It's ok store owners should be able to raise the price to stabilize demand. Just accept when pokemon raises your price to regulate the market.
The cases behind you are reflecting the sound back towards the mic making it sound better than it does in your normal space.
Love the new microphone!😊
Dude the new mic is fire
Im here , i was thinking on holding better , unless I really need the money it will be nice to see that 250-300 on surging and also I did miss out on prismatic 😢