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dude really about to sell raw mantles XD hes gonna get caught for sure

Holding evolving skies and team up forever🎉

Things are dropping because these days everything else you need first is so expensive. Cheers from md

Don’t be too hard on yourself, bro! We appreciate the effort

13:17 👋 You're welcome! 🤓 Amazing art for this years Illustration Contest! Only downside is some of the ai art that was discovered Wishing your father a quick recovery from that covid

It’s tough collecting and going to these shows with all the theft going on. Hope your pops is doing well and has a speedy recovery from Covid.

Everytime I come around the city

Got to stay strapped. Especially when you have valuables. If convention centers don’t allow people to carry and protect themselves the convention should be held liable for theft and crime.

You should rock a mullet

1.5 million dollar heist is what every bank robber wishes for. And some guy pulled it off in 5 minutes 😂 with no one noticing till hours later. If I had a case of cards worth 1.5 mil I would have held onto it the entire convention duration.

I think it was sports cards stolen, not Pokémon

Thanks Orion, I enjoy hearing about your life and progress toward your goals, we are like-minded. 🤘

I’m always wary whenever modern dips in popularity for English, since I’ve been loving going back to older eras and just buying up cards from them

Do flareon

How much did u pay for that?

Pokemon has become a business, only for people with money like this man and many others.

Hey brother, I just found your video I share the same sentiment with you regarding the boxes, we're in a similar position regarding not owning any but wanting to jump in. I'm also trying to collect each of the theme decks too. As boxes are at the top of the chain (well, besides cases but how many of those are there?) once they diminish it's gone. As well as more and more singles entering the market with pack breaks, once a box opens, there's also more packs coming into the market. I agree with you regarding Pokemon as inherent gambling, but I do believe a large percentage of packs from a box break get stored away as sealed. I'd be inclined to put this number at least at 50% of the box. This might explain the price drops in Jungle and Fossil packs as these are also the most prevalent boxes. I agree with you regarding boxes having no option but to increase in value, but this is entirely dependent on factors out of our control staying the same. For example, the world to continue as it is, without disruption, in its business as usual neo-capital approach. If, for example, something drastic occurs like a world war, deadly disease-outbreak, or a severe economic collapse/depression, this would flip all of this on its head as material goods and collectibles are surplus to more pressing needs. I know that's a bit doomsdayish, but as a society we've had it pretty good for a while now, and I do see that as a real possibility. Anyways boss, lets get our grubby hands on some more cardboard peace

We the collectors control the Market values entirely. There is no bandwagon to jump on we are the bandwagon. Value is completely subjective and always will be. At the end of the day it's a 2 cent piece of paper. If you get into this hobby as a Job or a investment it will NEVER be stable. Case closed. Prices go up and down because of supply and demand. Once people get the cards obviously they will drop. They print more cards now than ever and reprinted several cards. No one plays the TCG what the card does is irrelevant where that is the SOLE market value determination in Magic cards. Pokemon is literally just art now purely subjective and it shows as the cards are literally just mini posters. Vintage even after it's covid bubble is the most safe bet. There's far less out there and even less in good condition. Anything modern will have millions of copies floating around with thousands upon thousands of PSA 10s. If you are a reseller preying on peoples hobbies you deserve to lose your ass imo. Also fuck venture capitalism it ruined collecting in retro gaming and card collection.

Hey man, if you're having any trouble parting with your cars.. I'd recommend just taking them out to a parking lot or cool area and take a bunch of great quality photos of them before you sell them. Taking photos of my things helped me to part with stuff that I had to get rid of that took up a lot of space, and I think taking photos of them helped give me closure / make me not miss these things nearly as much as I thought I would.

"dont fall into the hype" - buys a house ..... good luck man

Imagine if someday pokemon have a little less cards in a set, but more good cards to play! But it's not that. You can open like 20 packs now with no playable cards at all. I know player base is better but. After TCG => SCH Selling Card Hobby Pokemon Hobby boxes

Scarlet and violet eras suck!!!

Hey Orion, I’ve been selling my cards on eBay for about a year and a half and my store is starting to kick off pretty well. Have you had issues with your envelopes not getting their tracking scanned? It seems to happen fairly often and it has booted me out of the Top rated seller category as a result. I would highly appreciate any advice, love your videos man🤙

They all keep climbing over time. Kids destroy cards at a fast pace. 20 / 30 years from now the kids buying today will be buying then. And opening today's. And past boxes. To remember there families when they were young.

Yeah I think refining your collection to its most valuable and sentimental parts is a good idea. I got lucky and won some auctions way under comps, so I'm probably gonna flip those, might crack the slabs and resubmit, but that might be pushing my luck.

I've pretty much come to a hard stop on collecting any cards in the Pokemon scene (aside from a vintage Japanese or a misc shiny or prism card from previous modern sets). Compared to a couple years ago, I've really narrowed on staying in only a couple lanes instead of trying get them all and complete sets. I am strictly grabbing a single booster box each time to keep sealed. 1) I don't have the cash flow to buy a case let alone cases and 2) I don't have the room to collect multiple boosters of the same set each time they release. As my Dad says, "More power to ya son!" 💪 PS- it is difficult, but you are right about it being healthy. Just takes adjustment like adjusting to a better diet or regime in a healthy way. And yes, a few relapses in the last few months have happened haha.

Time to buy 😮

Good disicipline bro. Stay strong in focusing on non discretionary expenses first and only putting money in the hobby with extra cash.

Really like your channel dude keep up the content 👍

Nice video

Taking a break once in a while is nothing but healthy. You can get into tunnel vision really fast with pokemon and watching the market and all it's pumpers every single day. The fomo is still heavy even though your rational side tells you this can't 10x tomorrow. For me I rationalized spending heavily by I can just sell this. And you can but I'd argue most people will not get market price for their items and if you have to liquidate you will get even lower and then fees and shipping and time. It's fun but I had to come to the realization that I for myself don't want to treat this hobby as an investment because that is how you will burn out in the long term if you overspend even slightly which is so easy to fall into in this hobby. Since I stepped back from this notion I regained the fun that brought me back to pokemon in the first place, before it was more like an addiction.

It’s an exciting time for you man and it’s awesome that the hobby can help fund those life changes. I went to Collect a Con this weekend and sold off a small chunk of my slabs, about 15 of them for $3,500 to Bulbastore and Pack Battle. I’ll have to share the time stamps once they put the videos out! Hope to meet you at one in the future!

Damn you! That $20 super chat I sent you in the live stream was for the house, not another theme deck

You’re crazy buying a house in this economy

That would be sick if you do end up picking up that theme deck collection. I just picked up one of your Neo ones a day ago. Can't wait to add it to my display shelf with my others.

yup all these other poketubers said all prices jumping buy buy buy two months later prices crashing LOL

Same here. Have calmed down a lot. Just feel like it’s healthy. No one can run for ever,need to walk ones in a wile.

I think it’s so hard to get a good mix of investing information , playable , collection or a great art information on modern.. any one of those hit the card prices go up.. Sealed boxes around 90 I think is a buy all day long..

Careful buying a house right now, but as long as you can afford to maintain both houses without being forced into tapping into any equity in the short road. Short of that if your long on the housing market you may be OK. Peace Brother!

If you don't buy every single one of those themed sets I'm going to tell your wife that you bought 16 booster boxes of temporal forces without her permission!

Thanks for the video brother Orion

I know you are a finance major but wouldn't that rental be the best rental of all time of the rent covers the 400k @6% interest? Are you not taking capital expenditures, vacancy, repairs that need to be set aside for the rental and the mortgage of the rental. Usually people are lucky to get 500 in pure cash flow.

I held off on getting the Roaring Moon EX until last month, and I'm glad I did. Went down the predictable 50% so I picked up several.

Anything you almost bought but then saw it drop hard?

If I'm not mistaken a first print yellow has a white ESRB on the cover?

Transition into real estate content 😄

Good job selling stuff off for better reasons. I was hoping this day would come for you. It’s easy to get caught up in this hobby but actually selling stuff and making some profits can be even better. Nice work dude!

keep it up bro

Well honestly o think that modern is eventually gonna be vintage . Atleast that’s how I look at it . And sealed booster boxes and packs will always gain value