/biz/ - Business & Finance

I've been enjoying these threads, so figured I'd try to make a kind of general layout.

Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about collecting cards, selling cards and investing in cards and I will answer to the best of my abilities.

>>28709992
As far as single cards go the most money is in vintage product. This is true for yugioh, magic and pokemon.

For yugioh you want to keep an eye out for 1st editions from the first few sets (this is where my knowledge for yugioh ends desu, too many different rarities of cards).

for pokemon you want to look for anything WotC era with specific emphasis on looking for 1st editions and shadowless (shadowless 1st editions preferably) see pic related. For modern cards most of the cards hover around the $5CAD to $10CAD range, so are not really economical unless you run an eBay store or have a connection to an LGS (plus opening product is always a lower EV). Though some of the newer sets have chase cards (typically a Charizard - always big value in them) that are worth getting familiar with, some of the recents have been:
Burning Shadows: secret rare rainbow charizard
Hidden Fates: shiny charizard gx
Darkness Ablaze: Charizard VMAX
Champion's Path: shiny charizard V and secret rare rainbow charizard vmax
Vivid Voltage: rainbow rare Pikachu VMAX

The next big chase will be the shiny charizard vmax in Shining Fates releasing next month. This card will easily be a $1000 CAD card I think.

Hello card collectors. These are my favourite /biz/ threads as I do quite a bit of investing in sealed pokemon product, as well as buying and selling cards.

If you have any questions about cards as investments, please ask. I will also do some collection audits on collections as well like I did earlier this week, just make sure you post non potato pictures :)

>>28479036
Extremely good investment opportunity. A friend and I split a case that we bought off of eBay for 900 USD. These are the optics:
-sealed booster packs vs. the single wrapped cards like in previous Pokemon McDonald's promos.
-25th anniversary product, so valuable from a colection standpoint
-Were printed in 2020 (first card showed up accidentally in a Darkness Ablaze booster box), so the entire supply was printed during peak covid supply crunch.
-Not releasing in Canada (maybe later by miracle), so you have thirsty Canadian collectors scrambling to get these packs.

In summary, over the next few weeks you can expect the prices of these to skyrocket, and I expect their final value to hover somewhere around the POP booster packs (over $100CAD/box), unless there is a reprint for Canadian market (but will still hold value long term).

>>28257331
>>28257272
Shadowless and non-shadowless refers to the drop shadow located on the right hand side of the card's art frame (pic related).

Shadowless 1st edition were the very first run of Base Set 1 (only found in that set, does not appear in any sets past Base Set 1) and had an incredibly small print run. This is why cards that are pack fresh go for thousands of dollars, and why it costs several hundred thousand dollars.

>>28257282
>implying manchildren will stop being manchildren

>>28257331
Some of the non first edition holos are worth getting graded. Typically if they are more popular pokemon (eeveelutions, arcanine, etc), and only if they are in exceptional condition. It's always best to check eBay's sold listings to see what you can expect for the price of a graded card. A lot of the non-vintage cards get graded as well, pretty much any of the big chase cards that get pulled from the newest sets get graded immediately. See Vivid Voltage's secret rare Pikachu VMAX and Champion Path's secret rare shiny Charizard V and Charizard VMAX. The upcoming set, Shining Fates will have a similar chase card, the shiny Charizard VMAX. Good note: ANYTHING charizard is instantly worth more money than any other card of similar rarity.

One thing OP hasn't mentioned that I think is much more important is investing in sealed product. People are viciously hunting down anything Pokemon (and sports and Magic and Yugioh) in order to open it and grade or flip the cards, while a small majority of people are holding sealed products long term. You can look at pretty much any booster box or box set pre-XY (and some older XY like Phantom Force, Furious Fists and Flashfire) and there values have 200+%'d in the last several years. So if you can hold that kind of product you are essentially guaranteed to make money.

>>9003047
>The hell does shadowless mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2q4TsfHdH4