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i remember TwicebakedJake once said something along the line of "if you like a card buy it, chances are other people like that card too." so far i got 15 hisuian growlithes from twilight masquerade in my binder and sent off two growithes and perrin to cgc. getting ready to do the same with spheal and castform from surging sparks. we'll see what happens in the future.
I bought 20 gold star greninja and 25 trainer gallery zekrom, the one with N. Bought them at $1-$2 hoping they might be $10 someday and seeing what the stained glass birds promo is doing gives me hope
Dude, you have no idea how many of those boxes I got. Sold plenty of PSA 10 cards to Gamestop (I did my research, only sold them cards that would get me 90+% market as opposed to Offer Up idiots offering under 70%). Got over 50 boxes of the Kingdra and over 40 of the Greninja. Sent them off to PSA. Everywhere here in the US, they are sold out, but in Ireland, many stores still have them. I'm going in a few days to visit. Definitely gonna buy out all at Greninja and Kingdra boxes there.
I’ve been hesitant talking about this play to not blow it up too much lol. ive already sold off a round of ones I graded and am sending off another round for grading now. It’s one of the most obvious plays staring people in the face but bc it’s shrouded fable people are ignoring it. The non gradable ones still sell for $10-15 so it’s almost a 0 risk play
@@CardHaunters Precisely. Sold out EVERYWHERE in the US with no signs of reprint of the boxes. These cards will eventually blow up, but by how much, remains a mystery. Perhaps when we enter the 10th gen and we potentially get rid of the ex mechanic for something new, maybe that's when ex cards go on the rise. Or, with Legends AZ with potentially something new for Greninja, then nostalgia will hit and Gen 6 cards go up in price.
I’m a Financial Advisor for Northwestern, love the content! I’d say a good video for you could be over the age group Pokémon came out. The kids in the 2000 growing up getting Pokemon cards are starting to be 25 years old and are starting to create wealth for themselves and maybe getting Pokemon cards for there kids as well so more generational Pokemon cards are getting distributed and that could be more of a reason to get back into the hobby. Hope all is well brother, keep growing the business!
Surprised you didn’t highlight any from temporal forces. Arbok, Litten, gengar full art all have decent multipliers in a 10. That set is so undervalued right now (at least here in the UK). You can still get it for around £100.. easy play in my opinion.
I feel like if you bought a 100x of those cards when they hit their low, then you’re golden but right now it’s a little late to be picking up those cards.
@@ericcastillo926 this has been a sneaky play for awhile that people are now starting to talk about. Sells raw for $15 and the boxes go for $25-30 so the risk is minimal. The PSA 10 price has been rising too
I remember watching a similar video Alex made earlier in the year surrounding this topic, and bought a PSA 10 O.F. IR Ninetales for $65. I got curious to see what it's worth now that everything has literally gone up in value and couldn't believe it's selling over $200; 3x it's value over the course of 6 months, not bad.
I’ve attempted this play with the IRs but gave up pretty quickly. Scouring eBay for good looking copies, only to get them with print lines or other defects that could not be seen on the pictures. It’s pretty obvious why the gem rate is so low when you start gathering up a pile of these cards. The QC was pretty dismal
I think one of the biggest things this data is showing you is that you should buy what you like in this hobby. Obviously, IR cards are not the most difficult to pull so their value is solely based on how they look, and the overall popularity of the pokemon that’s on it. I could see a future where all the IR cards explode even more after the S&V era is over
1:00-1:10 So I need to understand what I dont understand that way I will have a better understanding of the understandable! 😆😆😆❤️❤️❤️ Love everything you do Alex keep up the wonderful work and I hope you and your family and the NN family also has a wonderful Christmas week!
As you know I do bulk and cheaper singles, my market ticked up then people started listing all their cards, now the singles have more product on the market
It's wild for me that Chansey from TWM is such a cheap card! Just got it in Europe the other week for 8€. It features a couple of iconic Pokémon: snorlax, chansey, psyduck, ditto and it shares the artist with Raichu from PAL and Slowpoke from SVI which are both iconic!
The grading plays are awesome right now. I've got a few minty IR Ceruledges being graded right now. I just really love that card and have a feeling it will be big
The IR art is just as good as a lot of SIR just minus texture I wanted the gloom and slowpoke l. Not sure if I'd drop 1 to 300 on them though. Texture adds a lot
In my opinion the play is to look ahead at potential in IRs in newer sets and buy and hold raw. Sell them to the poor guys who want to take a stab at grading. I have been lucky to pull some of these IRs and QC is pretty rough.
I’m stacking just the regular non Pokemon center charmander promos. Grabbed 35 etbs at $23 a pop and the promo already pays for half the box’s alone ungraded
I dont think SV base is a lackluster set tbh. Some pretty cool cards in the set. Everyones gonna be trying to get SV base sooner or later and prices will go up on it. The cards are just the start. The sealed product will follow.
Telling ya that the kingdra and greninja promo's from shrouded fable will explode in a year or so. Very beautifull artworks and all in all popular pokemon. Now 15 euro will easely go op to 30 in a couple of months
I’ve been trying to grade singles for 6 months. Not a collector club member or established shop, just a guy. 12 submissions I thought were perfect cards, all 9s.
Would you still recommend buying into these? I saw your other video the other day on buying up booster boxes. Which one would you recommend buying right now if you had to pick 3-5 items? Ty :) Awesome content keep it up I learn a bunch
Had some great pickups recently! Such a great time in the hobby with prices moving so much. Random question: which do you find easier to sell/buy; PSA 9 or RAW?
I like selling slabs because there is no argument about condition the way there can be on singles. Thats just me though. Singles can move faster especially with TCG Player so...
@NostalgiaNomics There are definitely arguments for both, but we feel the same way when it comes to selling slabs over raw. Less hassle! Appreciate you! Happy holidays
Timmy's, remember when it comes to a lot of this stuff liquidity is a thing. Don't just look at the price sold for but the quantity that's sold. A lot of things selling now are seen as leftovers.
I'll never understand why people pay so much for modern PSA 10s lol (that aren't big chase cards). I know there are collectors that want the perfect card, but like purely monetarily speaking...it doesn't make sense to pay so much more for a card you can find NM for literally a fraction of the price. Why not put that money towards other cards/things you want?
i think shrouded fable has some good potential with the ir's they look cool it is just that the sir's are kinda meh so nobody care's about the set in general
I’ll die on the hill that ninetales is a special card. If that was a sir instead of IR it would be the main chase. Glad I graded one in a 10 before the run. Also as someone else said the kingdra and greninja shrouded fable promos also a good play, have already graded a fair number and sending off another round of them soon. Very liquid and the greninja has been climbing recently
Grading cards and singles are not a huge part of my business in the hobby these days. That doesn't mean I won't make content for those that do enjoy that side of things still
Folks! Yes some people might try to "make a play" i.e. buy some singles to grade them and resell, but I'm not sure to what extent this is the case. How many people are just buying the cards as singles for their collection? How many people are actually sending their cards in for grading-- just for their collection? We don't know any of this stuff. Slowpoke 204 for example, there's only 430 copies sold within the last year, and SV base only out for 18 months total, and PSA pop report is close to 1000. I just don't see singles prices escalating as a result of "grading plays", but rather grading plays are merely a factor in their rise. I'm out!
Also, it might be good to sell the graded versions now. Once the Christmas and black Friday rippers' PSA subs come back, the price on the PSA 10s will likely decrease pretty dramatically.
This is why stellar crown will be a surprisingly good sealed investment. The illustration rares are super popular, the bulba and Squirtle pair with the obf Charmander, the cards are hard to get in a good enough condition, the set is enticing for rippers because the pull rates are good, and of course, there's a veryyyy nice premium on the PSA 10s.
pull rates are good? not really it is similar to the other sets. The only hits that will last are bulba and squirt. It will be eventually a mid set but definitely not top 5 of SV
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i remember TwicebakedJake once said something along the line of "if you like a card buy it, chances are other people like that card too." so far i got 15 hisuian growlithes from twilight masquerade in my binder and sent off two growithes and perrin to cgc. getting ready to do the same with spheal and castform from surging sparks. we'll see what happens in the future.
I bought 20 gold star greninja and 25 trainer gallery zekrom, the one with N. Bought them at $1-$2 hoping they might be $10 someday and seeing what the stained glass birds promo is doing gives me hope
@@marcburch2633 the zekrom likely cos the counterpart is coming
SF greninja and kingdra promos are the way to go
Agreed. Bought 12 of each copy when they first came out for around $9 each. The Kindra’s obviously lagging behind but I think it’ll still creep up.
Dude, you have no idea how many of those boxes I got. Sold plenty of PSA 10 cards to Gamestop (I did my research, only sold them cards that would get me 90+% market as opposed to Offer Up idiots offering under 70%). Got over 50 boxes of the Kingdra and over 40 of the Greninja. Sent them off to PSA.
Everywhere here in the US, they are sold out, but in Ireland, many stores still have them. I'm going in a few days to visit. Definitely gonna buy out all at Greninja and Kingdra boxes there.
Dude these promos in PSA10 could be a sick play actually. BEAUTIFUL cards.
I’ve been hesitant talking about this play to not blow it up too much lol. ive already sold off a round of ones I graded and am sending off another round for grading now. It’s one of the most obvious plays staring people in the face but bc it’s shrouded fable people are ignoring it. The non gradable ones still sell for $10-15 so it’s almost a 0 risk play
@@CardHaunters Precisely. Sold out EVERYWHERE in the US with no signs of reprint of the boxes. These cards will eventually blow up, but by how much, remains a mystery. Perhaps when we enter the 10th gen and we potentially get rid of the ex mechanic for something new, maybe that's when ex cards go on the rise. Or, with Legends AZ with potentially something new for Greninja, then nostalgia will hit and Gen 6 cards go up in price.
I’m a Financial Advisor for Northwestern, love the content! I’d say a good video for you could be over the age group Pokémon came out. The kids in the 2000 growing up getting Pokemon cards are starting to be 25 years old and are starting to create wealth for themselves and maybe getting Pokemon cards for there kids as well so more generational Pokemon cards are getting distributed and that could be more of a reason to get back into the hobby.
Hope all is well brother, keep growing the business!
Appreciate that man. Ill keep that in mind. Thank You!
Surprised you didn’t highlight any from temporal forces. Arbok, Litten, gengar full art all have decent multipliers in a 10. That set is so undervalued right now (at least here in the UK). You can still get it for around £100.. easy play in my opinion.
Also Gastly…
@ferdsx5 yeh! Forgot about that one 😅 and sawsbuck/deerling and metagross. So many nice cards!
@ agree!!
I feel like if you bought a 100x of those cards when they hit their low, then you’re golden but right now it’s a little late to be picking up those cards.
Ive been stocking up on that charmander promo card, that one for sure will go crazy soon enough
ALEX! The biggest play in my opinion is the greninja promo from shrouded fable! Super underrated for just 15 dollars. What do you think about it?
Better art than the Twilight card, for sure
Personally the best artwork of 2024 and cheap
What's the card number? Can't find it
Greninja ex SVP 132
@@ericcastillo926 this has been a sneaky play for awhile that people are now starting to talk about. Sells raw for $15 and the boxes go for $25-30 so the risk is minimal. The PSA 10 price has been rising too
Obsidian Flames grading has been good to me. I’m 1/1 on Cleffa and 2/2 on Scizor for Gems.
Got my PSA 10 Persian from Shrouded Fable, absolute banger card.
I remember watching a similar video Alex made earlier in the year surrounding this topic, and bought a PSA 10 O.F. IR Ninetales for $65. I got curious to see what it's worth now that everything has literally gone up in value and couldn't believe it's selling over $200; 3x it's value over the course of 6 months, not bad.
Love it! Congrats on making the play!
I bought a bunch of Drowzee’s from Base for $5 a few months back also got a handful of Gastly for $20 few month back
I’ve attempted this play with the IRs but gave up pretty quickly. Scouring eBay for good looking copies, only to get them with print lines or other defects that could not be seen on the pictures.
It’s pretty obvious why the gem rate is so low when you start gathering up a pile of these cards. The QC was pretty dismal
I think one of the biggest things this data is showing you is that you should buy what you like in this hobby. Obviously, IR cards are not the most difficult to pull so their value is solely based on how they look, and the overall popularity of the pokemon that’s on it. I could see a future where all the IR cards explode even more after the S&V era is over
1:00-1:10 So I need to understand what I dont understand that way I will have a better understanding of the understandable! 😆😆😆❤️❤️❤️ Love everything you do Alex keep up the wonderful work and I hope you and your family and the NN family also has a wonderful Christmas week!
Thats it, You Got It!! Appreciate it. You too!
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That’s right! I’ve been saying “PSA 10 ALL DAY!!”
As you know I do bulk and cheaper singles, my market ticked up then people started listing all their cards, now the singles have more product on the market
People never talk about the Gengar Vmax Alt Art zooming like crazy
huh? that one is no brainer so why talk abt it further?
It's wild for me that Chansey from TWM is such a cheap card! Just got it in Europe the other week for 8€. It features a couple of iconic Pokémon: snorlax, chansey, psyduck, ditto and it shares the artist with Raichu from PAL and Slowpoke from SVI which are both iconic!
Cleffa was just delivered to me and it’s beautiful.
I bought that Marill card about a month ago for $16 aud (10usd) because I liked the artwork. Didn’t realise it spiked so hard
Remember yall if it’s already posted on tiktok or youtube, almost everytime it’s too late. Look for upcoming trends or you’ll be destroyed
Just got 2 PSA 10s back on the Cleffa and 2 of 3 on Scizor. Just have to be very careful with the print lines
I rate the background Flex 8/10 with the XY Era Booster Boxes 0:59
Love ur content bro. 👍
The grading plays are awesome right now. I've got a few minty IR Ceruledges being graded right now. I just really love that card and have a feeling it will be big
The IR art is just as good as a lot of SIR just minus texture
I wanted the gloom and slowpoke l.
Not sure if I'd drop 1 to 300 on them though. Texture adds a lot
In my opinion the play is to look ahead at potential in IRs in newer sets and buy and hold raw. Sell them to the poor guys who want to take a stab at grading.
I have been lucky to pull some of these IRs and QC is pretty rough.
I’m stacking just the regular non Pokemon center charmander promos. Grabbed 35 etbs at $23 a pop and the promo already pays for half the box’s alone ungraded
IMO if NN is making a video on a play it’s already too late. Trust your instincts and make your own plays fellas
ALEXX!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I dont think SV base is a lackluster set tbh. Some pretty cool cards in the set. Everyones gonna be trying to get SV base sooner or later and prices will go up on it. The cards are just the start. The sealed product will follow.
I'm just waiting for more Surging Sparks reprints so I can buy more! Hopefully more booster box reprints please. 🙏 Great video.
Pouring one out for the Snorlax and Charmander PC promos I sold for $30 earlier this year
Sold snorlax for £10😭
Strangely enough last night I made a 3am purchase of OF pidgeys pidgeottos and pidgeot sets to get graded. My first time submitting
Telling ya that the kingdra and greninja promo's from shrouded fable will explode in a year or so. Very beautifull artworks and all in all popular pokemon. Now 15 euro will easely go op to 30 in a couple of months
Just picked up 7 SF greninja psa 10 promo's myself for a decent price
I’ve been trying to grade singles for 6 months. Not a collector club member or established shop, just a guy. 12 submissions I thought were perfect cards, all 9s.
kids with money is exactly what the pokemon hobby is all about, dry them all 😂
making money on nostalgia never miss
Great value!
Never looked it like that, thank you!
I really enjoy the arts in scarlet and violet base
If you want to see insane, look at the price of the Prize Pack Gengar VMAX
Would you still recommend buying into these? I saw your other video the other day on buying up booster boxes. Which one would you recommend buying right now if you had to pick 3-5 items? Ty :) Awesome content keep it up I learn a bunch
@@nathg8096 I invest 99% in sealed myself
crazy multipliers alex! Time to shop at some card shows and get some grading going. WILD rises!
I have a binder with just all the IRs
Thanks for the info 👍
Had some great pickups recently! Such a great time in the hobby with prices moving so much.
Random question: which do you find easier to sell/buy; PSA 9 or RAW?
I like selling slabs because there is no argument about condition the way there can be on singles. Thats just me though. Singles can move faster especially with TCG Player so...
@NostalgiaNomics There are definitely arguments for both, but we feel the same way when it comes to selling slabs over raw. Less hassle!
Appreciate you! Happy holidays
Just bought the drowzee
Timmy's, remember when it comes to a lot of this stuff liquidity is a thing.
Don't just look at the price sold for but the quantity that's sold.
A lot of things selling now are seen as leftovers.
I'll never understand why people pay so much for modern PSA 10s lol (that aren't big chase cards). I know there are collectors that want the perfect card, but like purely monetarily speaking...it doesn't make sense to pay so much more for a card you can find NM for literally a fraction of the price. Why not put that money towards other cards/things you want?
i think shrouded fable has some good potential with the ir's they look cool it is just that the sir's are kinda meh so nobody care's about the set in general
Scizor is next. Lowest gem rate in OBF and too cheap raw
Say it's not the magikarp ir at the beginning of the video...... starts the first card shown is magikarp 😅
Dang dude just looked at my pokefolio I’m up 105% YTD. I 4x’d the s&p 500. Sealed investing is nuts.
We all know what’s up.. but what’s headed up.. oh I know.. I’ll give you guys a freebie… charizard 228 . Several more are headed up.
How can there be so much difference between a card thats 10 bucks then after grading it sells for 170 its not as though there aint alot out there
It’s how hard the illustration rares are to grade look at the pop report for them
@smackerdab OK makes sense I haven't looked at that
Subjective grading :(
It's REALLY bad for tcg right now, Surging Sparks is only grading 40% gems
im going to buy ALOT of ceffas SIRs lovce that card and it will go up in value
I’ll die on the hill that ninetales is a special card. If that was a sir instead of IR it would be the main chase. Glad I graded one in a 10 before the run.
Also as someone else said the kingdra and greninja shrouded fable promos also a good play, have already graded a fair number and sending off another round of them soon. Very liquid and the greninja has been climbing recently
$200 Raw Karp to $1200 PSA 10 = x10? Lol
1000%? Lmao
Come on dude.
My bad. I was pretty tired when I made this lol
I’m here to make bookoo bucks, can you show me what will go up not what has gone up? Thanks
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Sold a stack of cards for $350 the other day. Put that in crypto. Now its 1.7k. Sold!
What meme was it?! No utility coins are moving like that
Yes what coin was it?
@@VibraFinance memes on hbar 👍 escohbar graff
Lol still hoping crypto will make you rich
Damn slowbro out here makin moves. 😏
remember when all sword and shield alts tanked except for a few this will happen to these
So why arent you selling any if youre a Pokemon investment expert ?
Grading cards and singles are not a huge part of my business in the hobby these days. That doesn't mean I won't make content for those that do enjoy that side of things still
Craziness
Whats up with the shouting
Folks! Yes some people might try to "make a play" i.e. buy some singles to grade them and resell, but I'm not sure to what extent this is the case. How many people are just buying the cards as singles for their collection? How many people are actually sending their cards in for grading-- just for their collection? We don't know any of this stuff. Slowpoke 204 for example, there's only 430 copies sold within the last year, and SV base only out for 18 months total, and PSA pop report is close to 1000. I just don't see singles prices escalating as a result of "grading plays", but rather grading plays are merely a factor in their rise. I'm out!
regardless the prices are shooting up
Also, it might be good to sell the graded versions now. Once the Christmas and black Friday rippers' PSA subs come back, the price on the PSA 10s will likely decrease pretty dramatically.
This is why stellar crown will be a surprisingly good sealed investment. The illustration rares are super popular, the bulba and Squirtle pair with the obf Charmander, the cards are hard to get in a good enough condition, the set is enticing for rippers because the pull rates are good, and of course, there's a veryyyy nice premium on the PSA 10s.
pull rates are good? not really it is similar to the other sets. The only hits that will last are bulba and squirt. It will be eventually a mid set but definitely not top 5 of SV