honestly your just poisoning the well and trying to cause a shift in the current influx of prices and STRONG COMMUNITY. your just mad because charizard is shitting on your precious lotus and magic as a whole....lmfao I'm sure Your brain washed magic community is going to loose there minds and respond for you.
@@brokengames9020 you act like you are privy to this info like no one else is. Not everyone is lost. Some people just enjoy the game for what it is, and have seen the changes coming from a long ways off
Its possible, kind of; Lightning Rodent - Whenever Lightning Rodent attacks or blocks add an energy counter. Remove an energy counter; Lightning Rodent deals 3 damage to target creature. _"I choose you; Lighting Rodent!"_
All these new investors are exactly that... New. Be in a the game for 10 years and you'll know what Rudy is saying is 100% true. A lot of these Pokemon investors sound like they get their financial news from Yahoo.
I'm 80% in Precious Metals with 20% cash on the sidelines. Vaccine will roll out in big quantities Spring 2021. We have a long, hard Winter to get through and lots of stimulus packages will be ending Dec 2020. With the current political situation, I do not see additions stimulus getting approved anytime soon. With rents due, bills to pay, and lots of people still out of work, and a winter of lockdowns, I see a LOT of incoming pain and insolvency. It is incredible how quickly liquidity dries up when everyone rushes towards the exit. Nothing uglier than a fire sale. Unless you're the one holding a big pile of molar offering 15c to the dollar. Bravo philanthropist! Leverage is great when momentum goes your way, but it will kill you when it goes against you if you have not adequately managed your risk.
most good ideas get absorbed by big companies, wich apparently are run entirely by brainless lefty drones wich will make sure the product includes a lot of.... the alphabet.... except in China. There the product will very popular, very republic, and very of China. Either way, the product looses the interest of the hardcore fans, and bye bye trendy stuff.
It's weird to see someone coming from the MTG community call out pokemon as a trend. Is it a trend if it lasts 25 years? Weren't people saying the same thing about MTG 10 years ago?
@@ryank2465 indeed, the far left does have that weird tendecy of bringing politics into everything... for example, nobody gave a crap about it in star wars until Kathleen Kennedy put her claws on it. Now Disney is dealing with the brutal assasination of the franchise. Another ridiculous example is Angela in Marvel, when she mets Bor in Helheim. The far left pull that kind of shit all the time. Probably the far right too, if they could... it just so happens that most of the media is WIDELY dominated by left. Not sure how old are you... but i remember when the conservatives used to say videogames caused violence. The left is doing the exact same thing. Just look at Anita Sarkeesean.
@@edstuff1198 Not really. I've been in gold and silver bullion/coin collecting for a long time, and I've seen these exact sort of trends play out multiple times exactly like he describes. You should have seen the piling into silver people did back in 2011 when it went from $10 to $50 an oz only to get burned over the next year or two.
I have been playing the game since it's release, and I can still not figure it out y'all who buy stuff just for the art... I mean I'm not knocking it, it just really confusing me because of that's the case why don't you just download a copy onto a printer and like hang it up or something. if it's just for art, it kinda seems like a waste of💰 U ´꓃ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ/ᐠ｡ꞈ(*￣(ｴV●ᴥ-ᄒᴥくコ:彡…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷʕ ꈍ～>`)～～～( ͡°ᴥ ͡° ʋ)
@@migs2765 professional Pokemon TCG player for years and like I said I don't understand. I mean, genuinely can you even name 95% of the artist LOL. I'm not trying to be negative I promise I'm just trying to get it.
I’m only buying one or two booster boxes to keep sealed when I see something that I think later on may go up. If it doesn’t oh well...I’ll crack it and have a good time....if it does go up...then I make money. Win win as long as I stay within my budget. Pallets in the other hand well...good luck lmao
That’s the way smart people just getting into it should do. Those buying cases upon cases of champions path etbs could have that whole investment burn up if they keep printing them. If they can sit on it for years they will most likely be fine because of the double chase charizards but if they can’t they might have to liquidate them and loose hundreds if not thousands. Best bet for anyone getting in on this is to not put all their eggs in one basket and get stuff from different sets, and hell not necessarily even all cards or booster boxes. I ordered 4 of the Charizard Gigantamax playmats Pokemon center had before they sold out and they are now $100 on ebay
@@Ozhull yeah your right the problem is people over extending themselves too much and when it doesn't go up quickly they have to pay back credit card debts and then get bent over and fucked
Yeah, that’s what I’ve decided. I’m just going to pick up 1-2 sealed boxes whenever a new set releases, and hang on to them. If it keeps going up, then, great. If not, fine, I open the packs and expand my collection (I have loved Pokémon since Red and Blue and have a large collection of cards that I just collect because I like them). Not going to go beyond my means and drop thousands on cases or anything like that. As of now, I’m sitting on 2 sealed Champion’s Path etbs, 1 sealed Sword and Shield Premium Collection, and a pre-ordered box of Battle Styles. All things I would have bought anyway, but I’m just keeping them sealed.
@@SSJFutureGohan62093 I'm doing something similar ill generally buy 3-6 boxes /etb/special editions on release (every release) and sit on them. its about £200-500 a month am I leveraged, nope CC paid in full. will I make a fortune probably not, will I still put aside £1000 or so into traditional investments a month... Yup. for me it's been great as its a way to fulfil my reptile brain to buy buy buy while still investing. and hell they make nice display pieces and I get a warm feeling when they arrive. should I be putting more into my traditional investments and stop being a timmy and renting? yup but buying at retail and having a 3-5 year time horizon should give me some form of return when it comes to the need to do a downpayment and if it doesn't? well ill just hold onto them and rent for a little longer. Being in my mid 20's I have time.
Pokemon is nostalgic. And its in current pop culture. Magic isnt in current pop culture. Vintage cards of Magic and Pokemon will always be the most valuable. But i think more modern era sets. Pokemon is a way better investment over time. Its going to be popular 20 years from now.
One thing we can all agree on is this: Yugi-Oh is not in the same leagues as MTG & Pokemon. Small cards, a shit ton of text to read, overall low production value and long ass turns means a crap tcg that will bite the dust soon.
@@RiseAgainst369 Yugioh has been going on for almost 20 years and is about to surpass Pokemon as the biggest TCG in the world lol you have no idea what youre talking about.
@@RedPartyhat A lot of the reason is that investors have made massive buyouts of yugioh product. Go on ebay you will see many sealed products at jacked up prices. Stores can no longer get cards. It's similar to what's happening with Flesh and Blood right now, they pounced on all the sealed product and now there's none in stores.
Rudy, it is all about mitigating risk and having the ability to have a buffer so that if you have loss you are comfortable with that. Buying on margin or leveraging credit cards without the money to pay it off, is not smart for the "little guy".
Saw your comment on Charlie's channel. You should go on his podcast. I'm sure he'd love to have you on. Or an in person collaboration since you're in Jacksonville and he's in Tampa.
The sheer vast knowledge he possesses alone makes him more valuable than a foil showcase schmancy fancy elder legend expedition on a taco Tuesday, every day of the week.
@@gabrielharvey956 collectibles exoerienced less asset infaltion than other risk assets. He found his niche , good for him. Im more into stocks, treasury, commodity investing and play magic as a hobby. He got rich off magic while i got to experience a lot of unforgetable moments only playing magic. Good for him. Dont worry prices might tank pretty soon (magic and probably stocks as well). You will get your cheap buying oppertunity.
With a lot of rent/morgage moratoriums ending on the 31st of december, as well as student loan payment starting for a lot of people next year (this haveing a deflationary effect as people will be forced to liquidate stocks etc.), could we see a wave of liquidations (deflation of prices) in the magic secondary markets as well? My best guess is once the moratoriums etc. end we will see a lot of assets crash (includes mtg cards) as people scramble for liquidity to pay of their monthly payment plus the 6 additional payments they defered. Btw thanks for warning as many new people as possible about possible headwinds and dangers ahead when it comes to volatile risks assets like collectibles and stocks . Its hard to find honest good people like you in the financial/investor industry.
I love that mew card. Had it as a child and many extremely rare and expensive cards including numerous charizards in my binder but my mother gave it away.
@@Sapientiaa Same. I have a few of those mews now though. Did you see me opening a few on my channel?! I was giving some away to new subscribers on my instagram if they subscribed to my youtube page.
All jokes aside: my genuine interest in this channel isn't necessarily tied to business or MTG cards, but rather for Rudy's consistent drive to make sure that his viewers don't lose focus on the fact that they're investing their money in a hobby or practice that could also unknowingly affect their financial futures (which can also just as easily affect many other factors in their lives). I'm grateful.
I’m here for when Shining Fates gets overprinted because they know the hype is there so I can scoop up boxes for less than retail from people putting their life savings into that set.
You might man if you have the right connections. I pre-ordered 600 worth of it for MSRP so I shouldn't have any problems even if it gets printed to shit
I open both Magic and Pokémon packs with the kids on our channel and the kids love to open both. But I never understood why adults like to open Pokémon packs. To me, the game is ok. It is simple so the young kids can play and understand it. But that is just it, it is simple. To me, this looks more of a 2020 COVID bubble than anything else and when it burst (and it will) people are going to get hurt for sure. And that is too bad.
@@Blernster Yeah, I do it with the kids because they enjoy it. But it is limited to about once a week. I think any more than that for us would turn into a chore for them!
When you start seeing Funko Pop TH-camrs switching to open Pokémon on their channels, and all your local game stores have Pokémon product flying off the shelves (despite never having stocked it before), you just know this is a total bubble! The only question is how soon it will burst?
There's a new Charizard card coming next year one of the fancy shiny whatever and everybody will keep going but after that? It will go down hard except the old WOTC era that will still go up in price because of all the people cracking open the limited amount on the open market.
@lass kinn So I decided to dig a little bit to get more info, there's a new special Shiny Pokemon oriented set in Japan, it's not a main set but it is a big set not the norm in Japan. There's good cards on it but you know that new Charizard Vmax on Champion's Path? The one I'm talking about it's the Shiny Charizard Vmax so there you go....for what I can tell it's just a variant and kt could be included on the anniversary set or the fall set all depends on sales of current stuff. Free tendies again next year for the anniversary set.
Why so many TH-camrs care about the market and the benefits of players or flippers, do you think those flippers are gonna broke?? The market is going up and hype or going down. Who cares? The love of those pokemon memories that stayed in childhood or even for new generation people is priceless. The pokemon game company Nintendo will not break no matter how the market goes. And by the way, that big Pikachu is called vmax Pikachu. It is from the new remake series of the Pokemon anime TV series. Please respect a little bit. Real collector thoughts.
Rudy needs to organize and communicate his points better - He presents two main, but separate concerns - 1) People are over leveraging in a super hot (potentially peaking market) - This is a legit concern and wise warning - 2) People care about Pokemon and are not diversifying into other games like Magic - This is not a legit concern and only shows that Rudy doesn't understand how Pokemon has such a wider and more vast appeal and will always be more popular than Magic. Further, Pokemon Co. runs its business 1000% better than WotC. After selling my MtG collection and moving to Pokemon 2 years ago I haven't had any reason to look back.
@@randomsanctum yeah, that broken games guy is a dick of a reposter. Been copy pasting similar texts on every single rudy video. He just can't stop watching and posting literal shit. Been on it for months and months.
He’s such a moron...and even worse his fans are doing the same as him. A lot of people are gonna get a hard lessons on how markets work when they print these sets into aboslute oblivion
I think the most unique thing about Pokémon is that the community is extremely healthy and genuinely passionate about the artwork and collecting. So it feels as though this type of valuable pricing will continue so long as they are being led by people who actually care about the product. I think the only true danger is if people who are greedy try to come in and inflate prices. They will make some high sales but eventually it will balance back down to something reasonable and still valuable.
Standard Pokemon doesn't usually sell for too much in the first place. The competitive scene for Pokemon isn't as loud or flashy as any other TCGs, singles are relativley cheap unless they're the super duper rainbow secret gxexlvlx versions. This bubble is going to POP.
Rudys comments are measured he admits he doesn’t know what will happen or that he’s not fully qualified to state. His analysis is sound though and he raises great points
Tiny female me has to dodge 5 grown men fighting over vivid voltage boosters while the vendor is trying to stock. None of them noticed the ETB's off to the side...I got what I wanted and left a fair amount for others while these guys left the booster pegs bare...
Yeah the flippers hitting every big box store is starting to get annoying, even the LGS's in my area are getting cleared out of anything new (even with the insane markups). I'm going to wait this out before getting any Vivid Voltage etc.
Some people have to learn the difference between a hobby and something to make money off of seriously. I really like Philosophy and was thinking of going into grad school, but after reading about the job market for Tenured Philosophy professors it rightfully scared me away. Some advice I got was only go for it if NOTHING ELSE can make you happy. And I'm glad I followed that advice after seeing how some people are struggling with a PH.D and had no plan b. Can see the parallel with this situation. This is even more important with investing cause getting out of massive debt fucking sucks enough on its own let alone explaining to everyone that you are financially screwed because you went all in on cardboard. If you want to buy a couple boxes for a fun investment go ahead and have fun. Turning your hobby into your job can ruin both for you if you aren't careful.
And regressing to things that made them happy in the past because of general uncertainty about the future. Agree though that now is a big time for home business
They can apply all day long, doesn’t mean they’ll get any. They might get a handful of elite trainer boxes and maybe some booster boxes. The TGT’s and WMT’s of the world are going to get 98% of the product, no matter how you slice it. Applying doesn’t guarantee anyone that they get as much as they want. Watch videos by Card N All Gaming, he only gets some....SOME product. And he puts it on the shelf and online, it sells out over the weekend, then he doesn’t have anything until the middle of December. I get you’re point, but my point is, applying to buy Pokémon cards wholesale, does not guarantee the right to purchase as much as you want.
It's absolutely hilarious when compared to the absolute TRASH that is Pokemon Standard format right now. Even most deluded players will admit this is probably the worst in history of this game. The pandemic is inadvertently helping PTCG, by keeping people at home and stopping them from playing the game. It's literally just a Trading Card product right now, no game. Japan has just released another "shiny" set and announced another.
I definitely understand. So many of these "collectors" are arguing to death that "collectability" is in more demand compared to "playability". In truth, there are far more players than collectors.
@@501clonetrooper that was true a year ago. Not anymore; there are now over 24 million vintage trading card investors in the USA, with 17.6 million of them having at least some sort of position in Pokemon.
Ive spent about $1500 in the last 2 months on pokémon products. Evo, HF, VV, tins, boxes, etc. Ive opened more than I have sold lol but I'm enjoying it. I still have a lot of sealed product and have stored it out of site. I'll sit on it for a few years of I have to and either open it with my kids or sell it. No rush on my end at this point. Just don't tell my wife 😉
One thing I never thought of that you mentioned is Pokemon will print endlessly to capture the revenue which means products like Vivid Voltage will be over printed.
Doubtful, TPCi hasn't reprinted a set beyond trash for a while now. And when they do re-prints they are small now. In fact, the Champions Path Reprint will be really small. Voltage will get a small reprint as well. TPCi has been balancing things out since Evolutions. Either they under print or just barely overprint... Or it seems that way if the product doesn't sell.
Shining Fates and the Pokemon 25th anniversary will sustain momentum through 2021 however will slow down come 2022 unless Gen 9 comes out for Switch and is the Breath of the Wild of Pokemon games and if that's the case don't expect serious slowdown until 2023....
I'm telling y'all these people just want first crack at these boxes so they can be the first to express grade the new Zards and be the one to get the premium to selling the first one to some fool with more money than patience.
Modern product investments, run for your dear life.... vintage product investment, ride the wave and enjoy the hobby!!! I don’t see a huge crash coming for vintage. These products have been steady in demand WELL before 2020 hype started for your average joe...the genuine collector demand has always been there and will continue to grow generically.
Ever since the “boom” started, viewers on TH-cam have seen 10’s of millions packs opened.. there will eventually be a burn out 🔥 everyone is just doing what the popular folks are doing. Plus some of these modern packs are getting super expensive from all this craziness.. going to push people away. I loved Pokémon as a kid, as millions of others.. and I got burned out like everyone else. I tell my viewers not to spend $150 on Vivid Voltage.. it’s not worth it. Pandemic is going to end and change a lot of things that people don’t realize.
Once the economy opens back up 100% people are going to have many more avenues to take when it comes to spending their time and money. I hope the hobby stays strong, but there is bound to be a drop off and these folks are going to be losing $$$$$
@@basedblueboy8770 yeah folks just have an unrealistic expectation with these modern cards. When I was kid the cards were about worthless.. took 20 years for people to miss the product for them to have ANY value.. Lord only Knows if these New iterations will be missed as well. I really didn’t think Pokémon would be worth anything as a kid, I didn’t know social media was going to be around either! Playing with fire these folks are! 🔥
YEAH, RUDYYY! ROCK THE BOAT Edit: I certainly agree with what you're saying. I notice a lot of people who do not have experience in the market heavily committing to modern. I watched adidas do this with Yeezy; I cannot imagine why Pokemon wouldn't capitalize on this and just flood the shit out of the market. That's why you see CP already reprinting ETBs for like a fourth wave, when in the past ETBs weren't getting reprinted like that (at least to my knowledge). I would actually prefer that they do that to be honest because I buy modern for the genuine enjoyment of cracking packs and I am not trying to pay some greasy dude who would've bullied me for liking Pokemon 5 years ago triple the price for a goddamn Dubwool box. Vivid Voltage and Darkness Ablaze will reprint and reprint again. Hell, Unbroken Bonds and HF are getting reprints; CE, UM??? I don't think some of the newer people who are "investing" in Pokemon understand the situation we are in, and what this hobby normally looks like. "Investing" is typically long-term, VERY (bold, underlined, italicized) long-term. Vintage packs were selling for what, like $90 a year ago (obviously this differs based on the set, but this is my average lol)? I think some people read investing and think "spend money, flip, make money" not "sit on this booster case for 15 years." That's just my take though, I could be terribly wrong! I am not trying to argue with anyone, so if I offended anyone, my bad, pls be nice in your reply and we can talk about it, ok thanks :)
Great video. Havent commented in forever. Pokemon has been my thing for many years. I used to comment about your random WOTC boxes in the background back before you ever mentioned Pokemon in your videos. I've seen the ups and downs but you're right, this is extreme. I think a lot of factors are at play obviously. Maybe COVID and its influence of the job market has made some people look for other sources of income and helped add to the Pokemon craze? I don't know. But you're right. It's scary that some people don't realize the risk they are taking. Pokemon is going to over print all of these new sets. When PSA can catch up, and all of these graded cards hit the market, prices will drop. It's not going to be fun for those holding the credit card statements every month. I wish everyone the best. I'll continue to buy Pokemon as I always have, but it will be sealed WOTC and earlier XY product. Collect what you love. Enjoy it. If you can make some money on the side, then awesome. But dont risk it all. Great video.
I'm also on the dumb wagon. Remember having opportunities in 2010 and 2012 to buy numerous wotc sealed boxes, most between $120-200. What did I end up buying? whatever the latest BW set was and open it. I specifically remember debating between it and Gym Challenge. (my favorite set ever) To be fair, everyone during the 2000s up until maybe the mid 10s had chances to acquire boxes at those prices though. It's not like you had to have a ton of connections and needed to jump thru hoops to verify things. To make it worse since maybe it'll help someone else feel less bad, I sold my collection years back. Just 3 of the 800 some rare holos I had would now get me what I sold for. (I undersold locally, back to the dumb wagon I go haha) I'll just keep telling myself since I was relatively clueless and never thinking of the future I'd of opened whatever I bought anyway, then sold and the outcome would be the same no matter what.
It's those new beautiful Shiny VMAX cards getting people back into the game, they look amazing and are very powerful cards. I haven't played pokemon in a while but the TagTeam and V cards are bringing the game Back to Life, the cards look really cool and i think it's what the players wanted.
well its not the cards its the tediousness and hype by influencer which is really getting people to Pokemon. Normal VMAX shinys go for ~20$ which is not that much. For "nostalgic" reasons they choose charizard...
@@xStanyyx Like is said, The Cards are getting people back into the game, Because they are so strong, it makes the game more exciting, that fact that the Vmax is only $20 is even better for the players, it's more affordable unlike other card games. Like omg the card is only $20...Yeah but if you played the game you'd understand the value comes from the Effects. But people don't even play the game and only care about turning a profit lol, doesn't happen in pokemon unless it's graded shit.
I haven't done flipping or investment work and even _I_ thought about it for a second on weather or not I should give it a try. Glad I didn't. Seems too saturated.
Earned my sub. You’re spot on. You might find solemn Yugioh as well-pretty similar perspective on the topic of card prices. No clue why people stock up on NEW product XD them and everyone else in the world. There’s a reason the old stuff is RARE-COLLECTING THEM WASN’T MAINSTREAM. lol, let fools be fools. The most we can do is hope they don’t get hurt too much by throwing all thier money here
The point is, The Pokemon Company has full control of the supply side. Said supply could double overnight, making the existing supply half as valuable. Gold is only valuable because it is scarce. Pokemon cards on the other hand...
I collect Pokémon cards and I think people have been entirely too bullish about modern in this market. Even too bullish with certain vintage cards. Glad you brought up this issue with so many people wanting to flip modern booster boxes.
There are an ungodly amount of flippers in the market right now, I thought early this year was crazy, but now (as Rudy said) it’s exponential. I’m guessing it’ll get to the point there aren’t enough buyers for these flippers to sustain. When each set leads to more and more flippers.
This may be one of your best videos. I really appreciate you speaking some hard truths, and hopefully somebody in that position will see this video before doing something really stupid
1000s of card stores 80s through late 90s, then 9/11 hit, Twin Towers went down, war, recession, etc. we lost our stores... There were 200-300 card shops in San Diego, CA alone back in the day during the peak, how many today, one or two per state? Two to three THOUSAND card shops wiped out overnight when consumers woke up to terror and stopped buying non-essential collectibles, etc. When does this recession hit? One of a few entrepreneurs out of 100 might celebrate 10th anniversaries...
I think I know which TH-camr your talking about, i thought the same thing when I saw so much product pull to his/her driveway, yet the TH-camr still talks about having a regular job 9-5 job which makes you wonder how he’s buying so much product which I did the math was around 30-50k, yet still have a regular job. If your buying that much product you shouldn’t be having to work for someone else, unless your just getting into debt.
What hurts the most, I am a die hard collector of Pokémon. Been collecting since 1998/ 1999. I have never been into the hobby for resale values and profit. I have been in it for myself, the fun, and the overall excitement of opening Pokémon cards. Then organizing those cards into sleeves, top loaders, binders, card boxes, etc. It's hard to purchase cards from my local card/ comic book store, big box stores, and small business', when the shelves of Pokémon products are empty. I was happily opening more XY Evolutions packs just months ago before this hype. I just have 3 more cards to complete the full set... I am irritated because I cannot finish my set now. No way am I paying scalper prices. The hobby and genuine love for Pokémon is ruined for me. I will however cherish my 3 complete sets of the 1999 base set, 1st Edition, Shadowless, and unlimited, along with many highly sought after cards.
Newer product yes but old promos and stuff that was low printed no. will probably stay way higher priced. Looking at you 204/xy-p pikachu I bought 1 for $20 seller had few more was broke said later but now it’s never gnna happen. Also not unlimited base that was heavily printed.
I just put 100k in pokemon and it was all in credit cards, people call me crazy. Well i think it's crazy to finance a 40k car with no hopes in getting your money back at least I got a home of making money.... Who's crazier?
I have had disdain for a lot of aspects of the Pokemon community, VGC is my newest facepalm from the community. Everyone is acting like a special Timmy because their nostalgia is going to become the break they feel they deserve in life. We have seen it before, entitlement fueling the Bitcoin / Hertz bubble because ITS THEIR TIME. Millennials and investing gets ugly
@@RS-vz8xd It very much does. Massive short term run up into an over 50% crash then further falling. People got second mortgages or put their whole savings into it. It being up again years later doesn't mean there wasn't a bubble in 2018
@@Verlisify Overheated assets are different than pumping and dumping companies heading for bankruptcy (Hertz). I don't think entitlement is a connecting thread, just FOMO and short term outlook.
@@RS-vz8xd No. A common thread was entitlement. Bitcoin is tech, tech belongs to the millennials, this was the time for the beaten down generation to get what they deserve. That was the biggest argument I saw for investing bitcoin because only they understand and should be rewarded for the real value of blockchain
@@Verlisify I think there was, and is, a lot of interest in a method of exchange not tied to the monetary policies of individual countries... The assumption that tech belongs to millennials is pretty simplistic. I'm sure there were many middle-aged/boomer risk chasers who were also caught up in the bubble (look at the Bitconnect guy as one example :) )
crazy time for sealed product. content creators are just shredding through supply like you said. Should be an interesting couple of years afterwards and if the prices will ever ever drop even on the slightest.
Thanks Rudy! As somebody who has just launched his store ( Doing it because of lack of work - Covid) certainly going to take your advice on board! Certainly, open my eyes on some areas!
Suckers are going for all the new junk when the real money is in collecting promos, out-of-print sealed product and reselling bulk in custom kits online after buying products and opening them on deep sale. If you can average $2.5/pack or less, you can pretty much make money if you grade your good pulls and resell the code cards and bulk. Also works if you buy new release stuff and sell them at a high enough price online to cover the original cost with some sealed or open product left over for profit. I personally have ads running all the time to pre-sell stuff I am on the hunt for. For every 2-3 units I find to flip, I can get one free. I have the time to stalk my local target, I go in with a budget in mind (pre-sales), a profit objective (break even or small profit after my take) and walk out all the better for it.
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honestly your just poisoning the well and trying to cause a shift in the current influx of prices and STRONG COMMUNITY. your just mad because charizard is shitting on your precious lotus and magic as a whole....lmfao I'm sure Your brain washed magic community is going to loose there minds and respond for you.
I thought this may have been irony but that's a large amount of Fortnite in your uploads
@@Zarrx LOOOL
@@Zarrx Damn! Call the burn unit!
liked your comment ironically
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You're telling me Pokemon can't go up 50% a month forever??????????????????????????????????????????????
Lol I was looking for your comment.
This needs to be the pinned comment
It better. My lifestyle and cost of capital requires it.
@@maemorri you're in for A long bumpy ride my guy
Sure it can!!!!!!
And EA can continue to double its profits via microtransactions forever too!!!!!!
Meanwhile, Charlie is building a Skyscraper of Yugioh boxes.
I was thinking the same thing lol.
Rudy made a comment on his new pokemon video
@@Zamurkai lmao everyone lives in the same circles
@@brokengames9020 ok
@@brokengames9020 you act like you are privy to this info like no one else is. Not everyone is lost. Some people just enjoy the game for what it is, and have seen the changes coming from a long ways off
I can't wait for Secret Lair: Pokemon so I can play my Pikachu commander deck.
It’ll never happen!😉
... 👎🤢🤮
... yeah I’d buy it
That's probably one of the only secret lairs I'd buy
Its possible, kind of; Lightning Rodent - Whenever Lightning Rodent attacks or blocks add an energy counter. Remove an energy counter; Lightning Rodent deals 3 damage to target creature. _"I choose you; Lighting Rodent!"_
All these new investors are exactly that... New. Be in a the game for 10 years and you'll know what Rudy is saying is 100% true. A lot of these Pokemon investors sound like they get their financial news from Yahoo.
Can’t wait for the crash to happen so I can scoop up the cheap product and crack packs to my heart’s content
I'm 80% in Precious Metals with 20% cash on the sidelines.
Vaccine will roll out in big quantities Spring 2021. We have a long, hard Winter to get through and lots of stimulus packages will be ending Dec 2020.
With the current political situation, I do not see additions
stimulus getting approved anytime soon.
With rents due, bills to pay, and lots of people still out of work, and a winter of lockdowns, I see a LOT of incoming pain and insolvency.
It is incredible how quickly liquidity dries up when everyone rushes towards the exit. Nothing uglier than a fire sale.
Unless you're the one holding a big pile of molar offering 15c to the dollar. Bravo philanthropist!
Leverage is great when momentum goes your way, but it will kill you when it goes against you if you have not adequately managed your risk.
@@putonghua73 preach it, my brother
Crashes are extremely rare. You would be way better off playing the other side of the coin.
Sealed product will never be dirt cheap, especially since this recent hype which has lowered the supply
Fuck yes hella dopamine coming once people move on
I don't give a damn about pokemon, but everything he said applies to all the trendy stuff that comes up nowadays.
most good ideas get absorbed by big companies, wich apparently are run entirely by brainless lefty drones wich will make sure the product includes a lot of.... the alphabet.... except in China. There the product will very popular, very republic, and very of China. Either way, the product looses the interest of the hardcore fans, and bye bye trendy stuff.
It's weird to see someone coming from the MTG community call out pokemon as a trend. Is it a trend if it lasts 25 years? Weren't people saying the same thing about MTG 10 years ago?
@@Ozhull Geralt¿s saga were published decades ago, and only became popular after The Witcher 2... so... yes, Pokemon is becoming a trend.
@@juliofranciscogomezstoppel1860 imagine bringing politics into everything
@@ryank2465 indeed, the far left does have that weird tendecy of bringing politics into everything... for example, nobody gave a crap about it in star wars until Kathleen Kennedy put her claws on it. Now Disney is dealing with the brutal assasination of the franchise. Another ridiculous example is Angela in Marvel, when she mets Bor in Helheim. The far left pull that kind of shit all the time. Probably the far right too, if they could... it just so happens that most of the media is WIDELY dominated by left.
Not sure how old are you... but i remember when the conservatives used to say videogames caused violence. The left is doing the exact same thing. Just look at Anita Sarkeesean.
I can imagine rudy at a desk with 4 land lines, his creepy visor on, frantically making calls around the country collecting data for this video
Most of what's in this video is only in Rudy's imagination.
@@edstuff1198 Not really. I've been in gold and silver bullion/coin collecting for a long time, and I've seen these exact sort of trends play out multiple times exactly like he describes. You should have seen the piling into silver people did back in 2011 when it went from $10 to $50 an oz only to get burned over the next year or two.
@@edstuff1198 this comment didn’t age well
@@xXxUrbanNinjaxXx Yeah because 7 months is like an eternity in some peoples minds. Get back to me next year and we'll see.
@@edstuff1198 are you joking? 30 - 50 percent corrections have already happend. i feel bad for you friend.
My minds telling me “CAUTION” but my body’s telling me “free mf tendies babyyyyyy”
You failed to mention the buyers like me . I just buy cards cause they look cool lol
Literally 2020 re-ignited my childhood addiction, i've bought so much and don't plan on selling ever
Same
Same.
I have been playing the game since it's release, and I can still not figure it out y'all who buy stuff just for the art... I mean I'm not knocking it, it just really confusing me because of that's the case why don't you just download a copy onto a printer and like hang it up or something. if it's just for art, it kinda seems like a waste of💰 U ´꓃ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ/ᐠ｡ꞈ(*￣(ｴV●ᴥ-ᄒᴥくコ:彡…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷʕ ꈍ～>`)～～～( ͡°ᴥ ͡° ʋ)
@@migs2765 professional Pokemon TCG player for years and like I said I don't understand. I mean, genuinely can you even name 95% of the artist LOL. I'm not trying to be negative I promise I'm just trying to get it.
I’m only buying one or two booster boxes to keep sealed when I see something that I think later on may go up. If it doesn’t oh well...I’ll crack it and have a good time....if it does go up...then I make money. Win win as long as I stay within my budget. Pallets in the other hand well...good luck lmao
That’s the way smart people just getting into it should do. Those buying cases upon cases of champions path etbs could have that whole investment burn up if they keep printing them. If they can sit on it for years they will most likely be fine because of the double chase charizards but if they can’t they might have to liquidate them and loose hundreds if not thousands. Best bet for anyone getting in on this is to not put all their eggs in one basket and get stuff from different sets, and hell not necessarily even all cards or booster boxes. I ordered 4 of the Charizard Gigantamax playmats Pokemon center had before they sold out and they are now $100 on ebay
They all go up eventually
@@Ozhull yeah your right the problem is people over extending themselves too much and when it doesn't go up quickly they have to pay back credit card debts and then get bent over and fucked
Yeah, that’s what I’ve decided. I’m just going to pick up 1-2 sealed boxes whenever a new set releases, and hang on to them. If it keeps going up, then, great. If not, fine, I open the packs and expand my collection (I have loved Pokémon since Red and Blue and have a large collection of cards that I just collect because I like them). Not going to go beyond my means and drop thousands on cases or anything like that. As of now, I’m sitting on 2 sealed Champion’s Path etbs, 1 sealed Sword and Shield Premium Collection, and a pre-ordered box of Battle Styles. All things I would have bought anyway, but I’m just keeping them sealed.
@@SSJFutureGohan62093 I'm doing something similar ill generally buy 3-6 boxes /etb/special editions on release (every release) and sit on them. its about £200-500 a month am I leveraged, nope CC paid in full. will I make a fortune probably not, will I still put aside £1000 or so into traditional investments a month... Yup. for me it's been great as its a way to fulfil my reptile brain to buy buy buy while still investing. and hell they make nice display pieces and I get a warm feeling when they arrive. should I be putting more into my traditional investments and stop being a timmy and renting? yup but buying at retail and having a 3-5 year time horizon should give me some form of return when it comes to the need to do a downpayment and if it doesn't? well ill just hold onto them and rent for a little longer. Being in my mid 20's I have time.
Pokemon is nostalgic. And its in current pop culture.
Magic isnt in current pop culture.
Vintage cards of Magic and Pokemon will always be the most valuable.
But i think more modern era sets. Pokemon is a way better investment over time. Its going to be popular 20 years from now.
Or at least... it should be. But, you never know though.
One thing we can all agree on is this: Yugi-Oh is not in the same leagues as MTG & Pokemon. Small cards, a shit ton of text to read, overall low production value and long ass turns means a crap tcg that will bite the dust soon.
@@RiseAgainst369 Yugioh has been going on for almost 20 years and is about to surpass Pokemon as the biggest TCG in the world lol you have no idea what youre talking about.
@@RedPartyhat A lot of the reason is that investors have made massive buyouts of yugioh product. Go on ebay you will see many sealed products at jacked up prices. Stores can no longer get cards. It's similar to what's happening with Flesh and Blood right now, they pounced on all the sealed product and now there's none in stores.
@@mikegreen2701 that aged well
Rudy, it is all about mitigating risk and having the ability to have a buffer so that if you have loss you are comfortable with that. Buying on margin or leveraging credit cards without the money to pay it off, is not smart for the "little guy".
Saw your comment on Charlie's channel. You should go on his podcast. I'm sure he'd love to have you on. Or an in person collaboration since you're in Jacksonville and he's in Tampa.
@Sad Cheese i think he's talking about the moistest man alive, penguinz0
@Sad Cheese Penguinz0
He opens yugioh cards, among his thousands of other talents
@Sad Cheese lead role of one of the hunger games
Please make this happen :D
If anything, he could talk about actual cardboard finance or floppy tacos to shoot the shit
The sheer vast knowledge he possesses alone makes him more valuable than a foil showcase schmancy fancy elder legend expedition on a taco Tuesday, every day of the week.
It's almost like he... _knows what he's talking about_ and not just making crap up.
He has a vast knowledge of reserved list and have no clue about the game , rudy is into money making not mtg
@@gabrielharvey956 collectibles exoerienced less asset infaltion than other risk assets. He found his niche , good for him.
Im more into stocks, treasury, commodity investing and play magic as a hobby. He got rich off magic while i got to experience a lot of unforgetable moments only playing magic. Good for him.
Dont worry prices might tank pretty soon (magic and probably stocks as well). You will get your cheap buying oppertunity.
But Rudy, next year is 25th Anniversary for Pokemon.
Also, as long as everything pans out. The Olympics is supposed to be in Japan. You know Pokemon will be doing something special for that.
Will be interesting to see if the impact of the 25th anniversary will have just as big of an effect that logan and the others have had.
we all just watch the same youtubers huh xD
@@stefanpereira9367 if it has Pokemon in the title I've probably already watched it xD
@@hexmaniak5604 what about me ☝️ 🤣
With a lot of rent/morgage moratoriums ending on the 31st of december, as well as student loan payment starting for a lot of people next year (this haveing a deflationary effect as people will be forced to liquidate stocks etc.), could we see a wave of liquidations (deflation of prices) in the magic secondary markets as well?
My best guess is once the moratoriums etc. end we will see a lot of assets crash (includes mtg cards) as people scramble for liquidity to pay of their monthly payment plus the 6 additional payments they defered.
Btw thanks for warning as many new people as possible about possible headwinds and dangers ahead when it comes to volatile risks assets like collectibles and stocks . Its hard to find honest good people like you in the financial/investor industry.
Probably the best piece of advice my dad ever gave me. “Anything, in moderation, is usually ok.”
"The trend is your friend" I heard that in my day-trading classes........
Meanwhile we have 25th anni set and Pokemon snap otw.. lol and the new movie.. What does Magic have.. Oh yeah .. No wonder!
I love that mew card. Had it as a child and many extremely rare and expensive cards including numerous charizards in my binder but my mother gave it away.
@@Sapientiaa Same. I have a few of those mews now though. Did you see me opening a few on my channel?! I was giving some away to new subscribers on my instagram if they subscribed to my youtube page.
All jokes aside: my genuine interest in this channel isn't necessarily tied to business or MTG cards, but rather for Rudy's consistent drive to make sure that his viewers don't lose focus on the fact that they're investing their money in a hobby or practice that could also unknowingly affect their financial futures (which can also just as easily affect many other factors in their lives).
I'm grateful.
They've been warning of a "Pokemon bubble" since early 2019. I guess if you cry wolf enough times you'll eventually be right.
Amen
I’m here for when Shining Fates gets overprinted because they know the hype is there so I can scoop up boxes for less than retail from people putting their life savings into that set.
I'm trll ya that you won't.
You might man if you have the right connections. I pre-ordered 600 worth of it for MSRP so I shouldn't have any problems even if it gets printed to shit
@@zacheriashelm I already secured 15 ETBs and 50 of the Pikachu boxes from Amazon. Lmfao
@@kota687 so scalping I take it
@@zacheriashelm incorrect. I’m ripping every single one of those bad boys. I’m too hyped for this set.
I open both Magic and Pokémon packs with the kids on our channel and the kids love to open both. But I never understood why adults like to open Pokémon packs. To me, the game is ok. It is simple so the young kids can play and understand it. But that is just it, it is simple. To me, this looks more of a 2020 COVID bubble than anything else and when it burst (and it will) people are going to get hurt for sure. And that is too bad.
You obviously haven't played higher skill level players, it's more complicated than it seems
@@xNoktemAeternus2 This is true. Only basic play.
Most of the TH-camr/twitch streamers opening packs are just doing it cause it's the popular thing at the moment
@@Blernster Yeah, I do it with the kids because they enjoy it. But it is limited to about once a week. I think any more than that for us would turn into a chore for them!
When you start seeing Funko Pop TH-camrs switching to open Pokémon on their channels, and all your local game stores have Pokémon product flying off the shelves (despite never having stocked it before), you just know this is a total bubble! The only question is how soon it will burst?
There's a new Charizard card coming next year one of the fancy shiny whatever and everybody will keep going but after that? It will go down hard except the old WOTC era that will still go up in price because of all the people cracking open the limited amount on the open market.
@lass kinn So I decided to dig a little bit to get more info, there's a new special Shiny Pokemon oriented set in Japan, it's not a main set but it is a big set not the norm in Japan. There's good cards on it but you know that new Charizard Vmax on Champion's Path? The one I'm talking about it's the Shiny Charizard Vmax so there you go....for what I can tell it's just a variant and kt could be included on the anniversary set or the fall set all depends on sales of current stuff. Free tendies again next year for the anniversary set.
Why so many TH-camrs care about the market and the benefits of players or flippers, do you think those flippers are gonna broke?? The market is going up and hype or going down. Who cares? The love of those pokemon memories that stayed in childhood or even for new generation people is priceless. The pokemon game company Nintendo will not break no matter how the market goes. And by the way, that big Pikachu is called vmax Pikachu. It is from the new remake series of the Pokemon anime TV series. Please respect a little bit. Real collector thoughts.
Yo, Rudy back at it cornering the marketplace like the usual floppy taco basement weirdo he is
Rudy needs to organize and communicate his points better - He presents two main, but separate concerns - 1) People are over leveraging in a super hot (potentially peaking market) - This is a legit concern and wise warning - 2) People care about Pokemon and are not diversifying into other games like Magic - This is not a legit concern and only shows that Rudy doesn't understand how Pokemon has such a wider and more vast appeal and will always be more popular than Magic. Further, Pokemon Co. runs its business 1000% better than WotC. After selling my MtG collection and moving to Pokemon 2 years ago I haven't had any reason to look back.
Man these are some pretty tulips, I might have to open a tulip shop myself!
Alpha Timmy, Rudy's investments
@@brokengames9020 Predictable Stalker at it again.
@@brokengames9020 Hey bro, how are you today?
*You gotta collect them all!*
@@brokengames9020 This comment had zero to do with Magic, you transparently THIRSTY troll.
@@randomsanctum yeah, that broken games guy is a dick of a reposter. Been copy pasting similar texts on every single rudy video. He just can't stop watching and posting literal shit. Been on it for months and months.
The Great Gordita rush of the late 90's taught me that you never buy in at the top of a bubble. Buncha saps!
lol i love how he has his camera shut off at 10 and if he want to go longer he has to turn it back on
Supply-demand curve will fix itself eventually. That's the beauty of free markets.
That’s Danny Phantump you’re talking about isn’t it? What do I win? I’ll take a lotus.
He’s such a moron...and even worse his fans are doing the same as him. A lot of people are gonna get a hard lessons on how markets work when they print these sets into aboslute oblivion
Agreed. Dude has no idea what he’s talking about!
I think the most unique thing about Pokémon is that the community is extremely healthy and genuinely passionate about the artwork and collecting. So it feels as though this type of valuable pricing will continue so long as they are being led by people who actually care about the product. I think the only true danger is if people who are greedy try to come in and inflate prices. They will make some high sales but eventually it will balance back down to something reasonable and still valuable.
This is really incredible. That’s a ton of new sellers on the market!
Standard Pokemon doesn't usually sell for too much in the first place. The competitive scene for Pokemon isn't as loud or flashy as any other TCGs, singles are relativley cheap unless they're the super duper rainbow secret gxexlvlx versions. This bubble is going to POP.
people agree that current pokemon format is awful. the pandemic is actually helping PTCG by preventing people from playing the game
It's almost like being fiscally responsible is a smart thing to do.
One day wotc will make a secret lair card called "Rudy, Basement Dweller" 😂
Rudys comments are measured he admits he doesn’t know what will happen or that he’s not fully qualified to state. His analysis is sound though and he raises great points
Tiny female me has to dodge 5 grown men fighting over vivid voltage boosters while the vendor is trying to stock. None of them noticed the ETB's off to the side...I got what I wanted and left a fair amount for others while these guys left the booster pegs bare...
Lol
Yeah the flippers hitting every big box store is starting to get annoying, even the LGS's in my area are getting cleared out of anything new (even with the insane markups). I'm going to wait this out before getting any Vivid Voltage etc.
Imma come in and sweep all them cards that I want, after this fad crashes the market.
no fad here champ
Some people have to learn the difference between a hobby and something to make money off of seriously. I really like Philosophy and was thinking of going into grad school, but after reading about the job market for Tenured Philosophy professors it rightfully scared me away. Some advice I got was only go for it if NOTHING ELSE can make you happy. And I'm glad I followed that advice after seeing how some people are struggling with a PH.D and had no plan b.
Can see the parallel with this situation. This is even more important with investing cause getting out of massive debt fucking sucks enough on its own let alone explaining to everyone that you are financially screwed because you went all in on cardboard. If you want to buy a couple boxes for a fun investment go ahead and have fun. Turning your hobby into your job can ruin both for you if you aren't careful.
DO NOT BUY POKEMON - BUY KHANS of TARKIR BOOSTER BOXES
LOL
This guy gets it.
@@brokengames9020 So THIRSTY.
Absolutely beautiful explanation of what’s happening right now in the hobby.
could be due to covid, people trying to find new ways to make money from home. just a thought.
And regressing to things that made them happy in the past because of general uncertainty about the future. Agree though that now is a big time for home business
They can apply all day long, doesn’t mean they’ll get any. They might get a handful of elite trainer boxes and maybe some booster boxes. The TGT’s and WMT’s of the world are going to get 98% of the product, no matter how you slice it. Applying doesn’t guarantee anyone that they get as much as they want. Watch videos by Card N All Gaming, he only gets some....SOME product. And he puts it on the shelf and online, it sells out over the weekend, then he doesn’t have anything until the middle of December. I get you’re point, but my point is, applying to buy Pokémon cards wholesale, does not guarantee the right to purchase as much as you want.
It's absolutely hilarious when compared to the absolute TRASH that is Pokemon Standard format right now. Even most deluded players will admit this is probably the worst in history of this game. The pandemic is inadvertently helping PTCG, by keeping people at home and stopping them from playing the game. It's literally just a Trading Card product right now, no game. Japan has just released another "shiny" set and announced another.
I definitely understand. So many of these "collectors" are arguing to death that "collectability" is in more demand compared to "playability". In truth, there are far more players than collectors.
@@501clonetrooper that was true a year ago. Not anymore; there are now over 24 million vintage trading card investors in the USA, with 17.6 million of them having at least some sort of position in Pokemon.
Though in Japan, they are playing tournaments in person, but Japan is doing relatively well compared to the WEst.
Ive spent about $1500 in the last 2 months on pokémon products. Evo, HF, VV, tins, boxes, etc.
Ive opened more than I have sold lol but I'm enjoying it. I still have a lot of sealed product and have stored it out of site. I'll sit on it for a few years of I have to and either open it with my kids or sell it. No rush on my end at this point.
Just don't tell my wife 😉
Bro I got vintage theme desks
Rudy, It's the new normal! Play Flesh and Blood, flip Pokemon, invest in MTG, eat tacos. ( -3-)
One thing I never thought of that you mentioned is Pokemon will print endlessly to capture the revenue which means products like Vivid Voltage will be over printed.
Doubtful, TPCi hasn't reprinted a set beyond trash for a while now. And when they do re-prints they are small now. In fact, the Champions Path Reprint will be really small. Voltage will get a small reprint as well.
TPCi has been balancing things out since Evolutions. Either they under print or just barely overprint... Or it seems that way if the product doesn't sell.
What I find mind-boggling is that maybe 10% of the people into Pokemon TCG are actually playing the damn game.
They made a game for the Pokemon cards?!
@Ishan A Nostalgia is finite, a game can bring in new people and create "new" nostalgia keeping the product relevant for generations
Wait until the 'Timmies' find you! They can't handle these kinds of discussions, Rudy.
@Alex Martin Congrats! You are becoming financially red pill aware! ;)
I'm going to sell my Charizards once they hit 100x what I paid for them 3 years ago. Stonks =)
I sold my reverse Charizard from evolutions for $100 last week.
Diamond hands man. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. When you have haters uploading vids crying about it, then you know we’re still going up and up.
I sold my E-Series Expedition holo charizard I pulled when I was 12 for $320. Oh and I bought a 1st Ed. Base Set booster pack for $70 10 years ago...
@@aleckermit big mistake selling that Zard tbh. Vintage trading cards are only ever going up.
Smart, Matt. They'll get there very soon, considering growth is only accelerating.
Rudy nailed it once again
Follow this Rudy. Follow this and tell us when it starts to fall apart. I'll swoop in with my big fat wad of cash and buy them all out.
the whole 30$ from yor Granny's b-day card?
@@grasthube COPE
Rudy, you hit the nail on the head. Most of these people in your comments know little about actual investing.
16:16 some of us are in it for this
Shining Fates and the Pokemon 25th anniversary will sustain momentum through 2021 however will slow down come 2022 unless Gen 9 comes out for Switch and is the Breath of the Wild of Pokemon games and if that's the case don't expect serious slowdown until 2023....
2020: People pretend to love Pokémon.
We can't go back to flipping floppy tacos, Rudy.
I'm telling y'all these people just want first crack at these boxes so they can be the first to express grade the new Zards and be the one to get the premium to selling the first one to some fool with more money than patience.
welp you've pretty much nailed it 3 months later! curious to see how it progresses over the next year.
8:10 I guess Rudy has seen Danny Phantump
What I was thinking lol!!!
@@younguy978 Literally a video with cases of Pokémon in his garage.
Modern product investments, run for your dear life.... vintage product investment, ride the wave and enjoy the hobby!!! I don’t see a huge crash coming for vintage. These products have been steady in demand WELL before 2020 hype started for your average joe...the genuine collector demand has always been there and will continue to grow generically.
Ever since the “boom” started, viewers on TH-cam have seen 10’s of millions packs opened.. there will eventually be a burn out 🔥 everyone is just doing what the popular folks are doing. Plus some of these modern packs are getting super expensive from all this craziness.. going to push people away. I loved Pokémon as a kid, as millions of others.. and I got burned out like everyone else. I tell my viewers not to spend $150 on Vivid Voltage.. it’s not worth it. Pandemic is going to end and change a lot of things that people don’t realize.
Feels super played out at this point. Everybody and their mom is open I Pokémon cards and it is mega fucking boring.
Once the economy opens back up 100% people are going to have many more avenues to take when it comes to spending their time and money. I hope the hobby stays strong, but there is bound to be a drop off and these folks are going to be losing $$$$$
Modern will take a heavy hit, especially ultra modern like VV. But you'll be fine holding older stuff.
@@basedblueboy8770 yeah folks just have an unrealistic expectation with these modern cards. When I was kid the cards were about worthless.. took 20 years for people to miss the product for them to have ANY value.. Lord only Knows if these New iterations will be missed as well. I really didn’t think Pokémon would be worth anything as a kid, I didn’t know social media was going to be around either! Playing with fire these folks are! 🔥
YEAH, RUDYYY! ROCK THE BOAT
Edit: I certainly agree with what you're saying. I notice a lot of people who do not have experience in the market heavily committing to modern. I watched adidas do this with Yeezy; I cannot imagine why Pokemon wouldn't capitalize on this and just flood the shit out of the market. That's why you see CP already reprinting ETBs for like a fourth wave, when in the past ETBs weren't getting reprinted like that (at least to my knowledge). I would actually prefer that they do that to be honest because I buy modern for the genuine enjoyment of cracking packs and I am not trying to pay some greasy dude who would've bullied me for liking Pokemon 5 years ago triple the price for a goddamn Dubwool box. Vivid Voltage and Darkness Ablaze will reprint and reprint again. Hell, Unbroken Bonds and HF are getting reprints; CE, UM??? I don't think some of the newer people who are "investing" in Pokemon understand the situation we are in, and what this hobby normally looks like. "Investing" is typically long-term, VERY (bold, underlined, italicized) long-term. Vintage packs were selling for what, like $90 a year ago (obviously this differs based on the set, but this is my average lol)? I think some people read investing and think "spend money, flip, make money" not "sit on this booster case for 15 years." That's just my take though, I could be terribly wrong! I am not trying to argue with anyone, so if I offended anyone, my bad, pls be nice in your reply and we can talk about it, ok thanks :)
Sealed product = comic books. Which means hold that ish until your 7th child is born
Great video. Havent commented in forever. Pokemon has been my thing for many years. I used to comment about your random WOTC boxes in the background back before you ever mentioned Pokemon in your videos. I've seen the ups and downs but you're right, this is extreme. I think a lot of factors are at play obviously. Maybe COVID and its influence of the job market has made some people look for other sources of income and helped add to the Pokemon craze? I don't know. But you're right. It's scary that some people don't realize the risk they are taking. Pokemon is going to over print all of these new sets. When PSA can catch up, and all of these graded cards hit the market, prices will drop. It's not going to be fun for those holding the credit card statements every month. I wish everyone the best. I'll continue to buy Pokemon as I always have, but it will be sealed WOTC and earlier XY product. Collect what you love. Enjoy it. If you can make some money on the side, then awesome. But dont risk it all. Great video.
I almost bought a 1st edition Neo Destiny booster box in 2014 for $500......shit
Even in 2014 you were dumb for turning that down lol
I'm also on the dumb wagon. Remember having opportunities in 2010 and 2012 to buy numerous wotc sealed boxes, most between $120-200. What did I end up buying? whatever the latest BW set was and open it. I specifically remember debating between it and Gym Challenge. (my favorite set ever)
To be fair, everyone during the 2000s up until maybe the mid 10s had chances to acquire boxes at those prices though. It's not like you had to have a ton of connections and needed to jump thru hoops to verify things.
To make it worse since maybe it'll help someone else feel less bad, I sold my collection years back. Just 3 of the 800 some rare holos I had would now get me what I sold for. (I undersold locally, back to the dumb wagon I go haha)
I'll just keep telling myself since I was relatively clueless and never thinking of the future I'd of opened whatever I bought anyway, then sold and the outcome would be the same no matter what.
It's those new beautiful Shiny VMAX cards getting people back into the game, they look amazing and are very powerful cards. I haven't played pokemon in a while but the TagTeam and V cards are bringing the game Back to Life, the cards look really cool and i think it's what the players wanted.
well its not the cards its the
tediousness and hype by influencer which is really getting people to Pokemon. Normal VMAX shinys go for ~20$ which is not that much. For "nostalgic" reasons they choose charizard...
@@xStanyyx Like is said, The Cards are getting people back into the game, Because they are so strong, it makes the game more exciting, that fact that the Vmax is only $20 is even better for the players, it's more affordable unlike other card games. Like omg the card is only $20...Yeah but if you played the game you'd understand the value comes from the Effects. But people don't even play the game and only care about turning a profit lol, doesn't happen in pokemon unless it's graded shit.
I haven't done flipping or investment work and even _I_ thought about it for a second on weather or not I should give it a try.
Glad I didn't. Seems too saturated.
If you buy a booster box for $100 retail and keep that product sealed there’s literally no way you lose money
Learned a bit! Thanks for your transparency
Pshhhhh Rudy is just tryna drive the price down so he can flip everything when it comes back up. Don’t think you can trick us Rudy ;)
They stores his sealed Pokemon boxes in his guest bathroom,next to the toilet.
Summary of this video: Don't be a Timmy
@@brokengames9020 at least most of the expensive stuffs in Pokemon are cosmetic blink and the regular versions are not too hard to come by
@@brokengames9020 So THIRSTY.
So?
Earned my sub. You’re spot on. You might find solemn Yugioh as well-pretty similar perspective on the topic of card prices.
No clue why people stock up on NEW product XD them and everyone else in the world. There’s a reason the old stuff is RARE-COLLECTING THEM WASN’T MAINSTREAM.
lol, let fools be fools.
The most we can do is hope they don’t get hurt too much by throwing all thier money here
The majority of people who don’t love it, might leave, but it’s def not a bubble
The point is, The Pokemon Company has full control of the supply side. Said supply could double overnight, making the existing supply half as valuable.
Gold is only valuable because it is scarce. Pokemon cards on the other hand...
I collect Pokémon cards and I think people have been entirely too bullish about modern in this market. Even too bullish with certain vintage cards. Glad you brought up this issue with so many people wanting to flip modern booster boxes.
There are an ungodly amount of flippers in the market right now, I thought early this year was crazy, but now (as Rudy said) it’s exponential. I’m guessing it’ll get to the point there aren’t enough buyers for these flippers to sustain. When each set leads to more and more flippers.
Well, Rudy, one thing is certain: Smart money has long made its move, so I'm gonna chase after it with all the money I can manage to borrow ( oДo) 📈
I'm going to do the same
Levrige (weird meme face)
And where's that? Crypto markets?
@@basedblueboy8770 luxury cardboard rectangles
This may be one of your best videos. I really appreciate you speaking some hard truths, and hopefully somebody in that position will see this video before doing something really stupid
Don’t get stuck with a soggy taco.
1000s of card stores 80s through late 90s,
then 9/11 hit, Twin Towers went down,
war, recession, etc. we lost our stores...
There were 200-300 card shops in San Diego, CA alone
back in the day during the peak, how many today,
one or two per state?
Two to three THOUSAND card shops
wiped out overnight when consumers
woke up to terror and stopped buying
non-essential collectibles, etc.
When does this recession hit?
One of a few entrepreneurs out of 100
might celebrate 10th anniversaries...
I think I know which TH-camr your talking about, i thought the same thing when I saw so much product pull to his/her driveway, yet the TH-camr still talks about having a regular job 9-5 job which makes you wonder how he’s buying so much product which I did the math was around 30-50k, yet still have a regular job. If your buying that much product you shouldn’t be having to work for someone else, unless your just getting into debt.
can you point me at the channel? I want to hear what they say/think.
I'm curious too
Danny has been in the game for a long time.
@@gregorybenoit8526 I’m not talking about Danny, I know who he is but I’m not talking about him.
What hurts the most, I am a die hard collector of Pokémon. Been collecting since 1998/ 1999. I have never been into the hobby for resale values and profit. I have been in it for myself, the fun, and the overall excitement of opening Pokémon cards. Then organizing those cards into sleeves, top loaders, binders, card boxes, etc. It's hard to purchase cards from my local card/ comic book store, big box stores, and small business', when the shelves of Pokémon products are empty. I was happily opening more XY Evolutions packs just months ago before this hype. I just have 3 more cards to complete the full set... I am irritated because I cannot finish my set now. No way am I paying scalper prices. The hobby and genuine love for Pokémon is ruined for me. I will however cherish my 3 complete sets of the 1999 base set, 1st Edition, Shadowless, and unlimited, along with many highly sought after cards.
I can't believe I'm this early. My first MTG set War of the Spark, I'm always late...
Don't worry, mine is Throne of Eldraine.
HI im Timmy. Should I sign up to sell retail so that I may order a huge pallet of pokemon cards for my 1 bedroom apartment?
I got $250 ready for when the Bubble Pops I want some newer product to rip 😂
Newer product yes but old promos and stuff that was low printed no. will probably stay way higher priced. Looking at you 204/xy-p pikachu I bought 1 for $20 seller had few more was broke said later but now it’s never gnna happen. Also not unlimited base that was heavily printed.
@@henlo.. omfg that card is sick I just looked it up. You are lucky to have that
I just put 100k in pokemon and it was all in credit cards, people call me crazy. Well i think it's crazy to finance a 40k car with no hopes in getting your money back at least I got a home of making money.... Who's crazier?
I have had disdain for a lot of aspects of the Pokemon community, VGC is my newest facepalm from the community. Everyone is acting like a special Timmy because their nostalgia is going to become the break they feel they deserve in life. We have seen it before, entitlement fueling the Bitcoin / Hertz bubble because ITS THEIR TIME. Millennials and investing gets ugly
I don't think Bitcoin fits well into your analogy...
@@RS-vz8xd It very much does. Massive short term run up into an over 50% crash then further falling. People got second mortgages or put their whole savings into it. It being up again years later doesn't mean there wasn't a bubble in 2018
@@Verlisify Overheated assets are different than pumping and dumping companies heading for bankruptcy (Hertz). I don't think entitlement is a connecting thread, just FOMO and short term outlook.
@@RS-vz8xd No. A common thread was entitlement. Bitcoin is tech, tech belongs to the millennials, this was the time for the beaten down generation to get what they deserve. That was the biggest argument I saw for investing bitcoin because only they understand and should be rewarded for the real value of blockchain
@@Verlisify I think there was, and is, a lot of interest in a method of exchange not tied to the monetary policies of individual countries... The assumption that tech belongs to millennials is pretty simplistic. I'm sure there were many middle-aged/boomer risk chasers who were also caught up in the bubble (look at the Bitconnect guy as one example :) )
your business advice is always solid
Moral of the story everyone’s running towards Pokémon I’ll buy magic lol
Happy I found your channel! You're a really smart dude...and your Pokemon bathroom is hilarious! Thanks for the knowledge dude!
MTG guy’s a Pokémon expert now 🤣
@@brokengames9020 So THIRSTY for attention...
crazy time for sealed product. content creators are just shredding through supply like you said. Should be an interesting couple of years afterwards and if the prices will ever ever drop even on the slightest.
Making bank, good for them
The garage guy with modest home = Danny Phanthump (all his stuff is already payed for through preorders)
Not sure about apartment parking lot guy =?
ZGemporium
Thanks Rudy! As somebody who has just launched his store ( Doing it because of lack of work - Covid) certainly going to take your advice on board! Certainly, open my eyes on some areas!
This is the video i needed to hear last week, Thankfully I didn't go all in, but I did go over what i knew i should.
Love your analysis bro 🤓
Suckers are going for all the new junk when the real money is in collecting promos, out-of-print sealed product and reselling bulk in custom kits online after buying products and opening them on deep sale. If you can average $2.5/pack or less, you can pretty much make money if you grade your good pulls and resell the code cards and bulk. Also works if you buy new release stuff and sell them at a high enough price online to cover the original cost with some sealed or open product left over for profit. I personally have ads running all the time to pre-sell stuff I am on the hunt for. For every 2-3 units I find to flip, I can get one free. I have the time to stalk my local target, I go in with a budget in mind (pre-sales), a profit objective (break even or small profit after my take) and walk out all the better for it.