Pokemon Cards

So that's why there's no bullmarket for Crypto lmao. Every Crypto bro are on that Pokemon card grind right now. Makes sense cause instead of losing money being rugged by some Indian, they can just buy and hustle stuff at card conventions and still always have a physical item at the end of the day rather than some made up jeet scam. So Gold are for boomers and Pokemon Cards are for Millennial and Zoomers.

The pico top for pokemon was right before the prismatic reprints they're gonna come back to crypto this month and it'll exp

So printed NFTs then. Got it

buy splinterlands cards. Its the next magic the gathering.

Like 2 or 3 years ago I posted an untouchable thesis for Pokemon cards, with direct comparisons to NFTs, Crypto, and sports betting, with copious references greater fool theory.
Reporting back to tell everyone I told you so. Specifically the haters trying to shill their awful worthless digital feces and trying to fud my legitimately parabolic hustle.

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Aren't these cards easy to forge? how does one even confirm the authenticity of a fucking card??

Because fake cards are easy to tell apart? That's like asking how you can confirm an authenticity of the cash in your pocket. Because the legit print uses a technique that makes it unique only to the real stuff.

Cash is made from a special material though, pokemon cards are made of the same stuff every other card is made of and I assume it would be easy to copy with an industrial printer.

fucking kek, an autobattler the next mtg
at least recommend GU as the crypto card game

Again they print Pokemon like money youtube.com/shorts/yD9vfb9KFrc

They have a special printing technique they use that people that make fakes can't copy.

I assume it would be easy to copy with an industrial printer

Retarded take cause if they were easy to do then the market for Pokemon would have crashed faster than the NFT market years ago.

the ability to tell the difference is natural when youve been looking at real cards every day since they were made. i can tell if a card is fake in 1 second. its usually the colors, gloss, and the way it snaps back after slightly bending it

It's trival to tell real and fake apart. Even old ass magic cards that weren't even made to be hard to fake are absurdly hard to fake because of how many things you have to get 100% perfect just so that the flexes the right amount, have the right texture against skin, shimmer the right way in the light and so on. Once you introduce holographic foils it's so hard replicate you might as well go into currency forgery.

still always have a physical item

cardboard

Tulip mania. Wait until they find out about silver.

Tulip

Limited supply

You said the same thing when BTC was 10 dollars, didn't you?

The problem with Tulips was they were only alive for a week or something you dumb retard. These cards will outlast all of us if taken cared properly.

this thread is the peak of the pokemon bull run btw now we wait until OP finds out about cs2 skins and then we can let crypto resume

Nigger I actually know about it CS2 skins, I was contemplating on playing CS2 just to gamble for skins at one point. I just felt like making a thread. I still buy packs for Pokemon occasionally and I've been binge-ing Deep Pocket Monster's shorts channel a lot lately. And no were not on peak yet the bubble will crash when retards realize that while it does have value, they overinflated it a bit too fast.

Pokemon cards can be free too if you're not a bitch about it

They do have a market cap though. Nintendo has gone to great lengths to keep it out of the hands of sweaty millennials. So even chasers and competitive slop will only run you maybe 20 dollars max.

It's not really an investment. More of a hobby that can sometimes yield profit

I would dump all my money in trading cards but I seriously can't get past the counterfeit hurdle. The thought of some chink production factory making perfect replicas of my stack, making 1,000 cards for $1 while I pay $16 a card unnerves the fuck out of me. Sophisticated counterfeit operations exist, and there is no way to really prove anything is legitimate. Fun as a hobby, yes, but betting generational wealth on it? Hell no.

counterfeit

The whole market would have crashed decades ago if counterfeits was really a threat. You really think a bunch of autist will let shit like that fly in their hobby?

Anything can in theory be counterfeit. Your money your digital chucky cheese token even you as a person.

there has been a TCG general on biz for like a year now, plus pokemon has been up only for like 25 years

If you're this concerned about counterfeits you're better off never considering buying or selling them.

They said that about every card game and people just end up hoarding instead of you know, playing the game

buying pokemon cards after the age of 12

have sex incel

investing is for kids only

Kek the projection.

hurr durr

money actually made: $13.56

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So it's obviously gambling, but I already like gambling anyway.
Is there some pack I can just buy at Target? I see videos every week of black people stabbing each other in California or New York over the latest boxes of cards but I live in a small town where I can probably get a pack from a store.

151, Prismatic Evolutions, Destined Rivals is what you should buy now.

If you are that concerned with fakes it definitely means you aren't ready to spec on TCGs in general. If you know what you are doing fakes aren't even remotely a concern.

you have to watch the prices. yes buy prismatic etb. no do not buy prismatic etb for $200. you can walk over to the cards, pull out your phone, take a picture of the item with ebay, and it will pull up listings. simple as. if you dont do this you would have been eaten by sabertooth tigers 10,000 years ago

If you're behind the curve, it's understandable you'd be salty. You have no idea how much I multibagged lol. This isn't even counting sealed product.
Let's just say I broke even on my personal collection years ago.

At this rate trading cards will replace fiat currency as base paper money, which is honestly kind of based. 2035 you will be buying groceries with some kind of meme coin, 3 pokemon cards and a pog or even fucking staking rewards from the grocery store in question.

based charizard hodler

/pmg/ here. Why is there no Pokemon 24k gold rounds?

Here's a mind blower, money is basically just a paper that we put value on. What you're describing is just pure bartering like what people did before money was invented.

My understanding is that you’re actually probably safer buying the highest value cards you can to speculate on, since there’s a lot of value on the line the techniques to check authenticity are worthwhile, and in some cases even valid provenances are widely known by serious collectors, like black lotuses where it’s very hard to come up with where you got it these days since theres basically no unaccounted alpha packs. The problems with counterfeiting happen when you get into mid range cards where people don’t really bother confirming authenticity for like $10-20 rares, so you actually can have rampant counterfeiting tank the market since nobody is really checking the supply that hard

The problems with counterfeiting happen when you get into mid range cards where people don’t really bother confirming authenticity for like $10-20 rares

Are you fucking retarded? Lmao you can't even use those fakes in tournaments of course people will authenticate it. $10~20 are the range of cards people tend to use in tournaments. I've been playing Pokemon on and off since 1998 and Yugioh since it came out. I've had my fair share of seeing fake cards and it's so easy to tell apart that all your worries sounds so retarded to a lot of us here.

stocks and other investments

can lose more than what i put in

pokemon cards

the lowest it will ever be is msrp

THE CHOICE IS OBVIOUS

literally this, sealed product is the cheat code

I don’t know about pokemon but MTG I absolutely have purchased Chinese fakes that could pass next to a real card, much less sleeved and probably sell even.

I haven't heard anybody complaining about fake MTG since the 90's and again, you won't get far with fake cards.

>the lowest it will ever be is msrp

Past performance does not guarantee future results you fucking midwit. Pokemon company knows this and will print everything to the ground. This isn't 1999, or even 2019

>the lowest it will ever be is msrp

I've seen guys open up 25 year old packs with like 10 cent pulls comprising the entire pack. They usually pay at least $200 minimum for those as well. Unless you're just reslling at a later date with the assumption they'll keep rising perpetually I can see how most people get screwed over.

I know people use them for CEDH, fakes
are even more of a hot button issue I think due to prices right now for competitive, or at least were a while ago

Like 2 or 3 years ago I

at the time lf the most obvious fucking top that hasn't been recovered, you absolute normalfag

Pokemon company knows this and will print everything to the ground

25 years of booster boxes being up only contradicts your point