The 6 WORST Pokemon Card Investments I've Made! 

PokeOz the type of guy to say “let’s take a silly one now” when taking pictures with his friends

Appreciate the honesty, people are often loud about their wins but silent about their losses. Life lessons right!

Love seeing someone with as much experience as you still make a few mistakes gives me hope for this newbie lol.

Great advice! New collector / investor here and im finding your videos very insightful!

Great discussion mate! I think now is a good time to jump on Battle Styles, it seems poised to start shooting up.

Still remember those times you mentioned astral radiance was a 'sleeper set' ... And yeah, it avoided that reprint. We can argue which later Sw/Sh set has the better TG but astral has some incredible, undervalued cards. Happy I jumped in on a few at that

I really love my Burning Shadows booster box. I do believe it will rise up high soon. Box looks awesome too!

Huge fan of your videos from the UK! Slightly odd question, but which make of acrylic booster box case do you use as they look awesome! Love the content!!

Hi PokeOz, nice vid! A suggestion: 1$ now is not 1$ 4 years ago, so next time you make a similar past vs future type of vid - try to calculate inflation in as well. Your list would have looked even much worse.

Great content those amazing rares would raise in value the rayquaza jarachi and rakoi will be valuable one day they are one of kinda cards the holo pattern is nice

I recently picked up a sealed display of those Vivid Voltage Build Battles (so, 10 boxes in the sealed display). I was wanting to open just for the promos… but changed my mind and kept sealed because I’m hoping market sees value in them.

The Alakazam V boxes along with others were re-packed (here in the UK at least) with much better packs. Some have Evolving Skies, Ultra Prism, and Cosmic Eclipse. Worth keeping an eye out for those sitting on store shelves!

Lately I’ve taken a bit of a hit on jap151 but I’m still buying more at these low prices to cost average, I still believe it will do fairly well in years to come. Top video Michael 🤙

I also bought a case of Prerelease kits of Vivid voltage, back then i remembered it felt like a no brainer due to the facts that every second kit has a Zard or Lugia, however I still think it will slowly rise

Hey Micheal, would be interesting to hear your thoughts on investing in sets that have already gone up but still have potential for growth. Recently bought a team up, cosmic eclipse, unified minds & unbroken bonds booster box as I believe even though the entry price is high the tag team cards are one of the best ideas Pokemon has had in awhile so I believe they’ll continue to appreciate in the future vs say a lower entry point box that doesn’t have the same X factor

I know you didn’t make the best return on some of these items but you are still up like you mentioned. I think that’s really impressive because the where you’re worst were during a time of uncertainty where there’s a lot of scalping and the craziness from the Covid era.

My man I hope you are right about lost origin! I bought a crap load of it for super cheap! Right after release!

Mike you have to consider inflation as well. You dollars don't go as far now as they did 4 years ago. Where did you get the display boxes, love them. Ps best investments next?

My worst one was buying a case of vivid voltage build and battles at the top of the market 2 yrs ago. We all have to makes mistakes to improve

mine rn is jp151 😭

Ive already topped that by having to sell a japanese 151 box at 130 that i got for 220 😂

Good and fun for other people to see that even people who have been in the hobby for awhile don’t always invest in hits all the time.

Not sure when you bought your Vivid Prerelease Kit but I bought 2 cases at $300 aud each and they're closer to $800 plus now and once those dry up they will probably double again. 3rd ever Prerelease stamped Charizard will always be a much much lower print and POP then regular sets.

Guilty as charged with battle styles during the 2020 run up..almost to break even lol

What about shining fates and 151 if you bought before the reprint surely you lost there and what about singles and graded cards ? Easy to loose There

I bought tons of Darkness Ablaze and Pokemon GO ETBS in the last 6 months or so. Buying bundles of them every week on eBay for $30-$34 shipped here in the US. $15 per ETB after tax and shipping idc what the set is i’ll stack those boxes. Same seller had tons of different sealed cases of V heroes tins, CZ tins and older tin cases that I was buying for $65 to $75 a case when people didn’t bid them up so high. Even grabbed a few booster cases of Fusion Strike and Brilliant around Christmas for $780- $820. Seller finally sold out about a month ago. Deals are still out there you just have to work hard to find them.

I still remeber VV etbs going at 80 quid on ebay, argis had them for RRP for the longest time. As soon as they sood iut they jumoed uo to 80 quid. 3 years later and my lgs still has the etb at £42.50. old mate was on about dariness ablaze , I i remeber when the etbs were £180 until the reprint.

Could you do a video on which sellers you choose, reliable websites and how you tell if you got fake boxes? I know people like the investing aspect but also want legit cards to collect and want best value while getting official cards. I know TCGplayer sells some but also is a good place to know if you’re paying the right amount. Like the market price of silver tempest and lost origin booster boxes are in line with pokemon center prices right now.

Only thing I dislike about pocket dex is you can’t specify 1st edition from unlimited, the scan feature didn’t work at all scanned the Umbreon vmax alt and it gave me 2 random commons or it wouldn’t read at all. I think they should list conditions and just go off the last sold on tcgplayer. Those 3 things would make it one of the top tier apps in the space.

Mine is a lot worst 1/ Eevee Heros Gym Box - $1380 with tax n shipping 2/ Pokemon 151 - $188 with shipping

I wish I had learned the lesson of not ripping everything when ai first started collecting and I probably dropped about $3.5k on ETBs and build and battle sets and didn't have a goal. If I had that time again I would have just bought Pokemon Center 151 ETBs and Vstar Universe booster boxes. Fomo and unrealistic expectations are a hell of a drug.

What’s the best site to buy booster boxes in Australia every site I look at everything is overpriced

A vivid voltage box went for $89 on ebay last week, thats when i decided to open my one box of it lol

Darkness is a good looking box. Hopefully it will come good in the end. Will you take $36 for the build and battle 😂

Don't feel bad I bought a case each of vivid voltage and darkness ablaze etbs right after the huge reprint they got, not my greatest play id have to say 😂

What your time criteria mate ? Japanese 151 is now 115-125 …..50% drop or more ….you were recommending at around $300 …I bought a few at $250 so I feel your pain too, probably no as much as comics lol ….

I payed full MSRP for the Charizard and Mew UPC, four of each. I think I'll be sitting on those for a long time before I can make any decent profit on them.

Take into account inflation the. You lost some money on those. We need to think about dollar value too

My biggest mistake was buying etbs in the beginning back when i was new and all the poketubers were saying etbs were the best investment. Thats how i ended up with 12 evolving skies etbs and not a single booster box. My gains would have been substaintially more if I had done booster boxes unstead. Also had money parked in shining fates for way to long before i sold it for break even and decided it was just a lost cause. Besides that, ive had alot of sucess buying umbreon 3 pack evolving skies blisters, and 3 pack team up blisters when they were 45$. You win some and lose some.

My worst investment was FOMO-ing on a Pikachu on the ball for £80 (now worth around £30) Best one was definitely ES booster box which I nabbed at £110, so overall I'm definitely still up 😅

Pocket Dex is great. Thanks for letting me know its coming to android. Bought my first iphone just to use it.....

Do you think pokemon cards appeal to the younger kids? I have two nephews (7 and 5) and both show interest when they see my cards, but when I give them some, they put them down and forget about them immediately.

To be honest, most of the products you listed were very good investments at the time. If they never had the massive reprint for darkness ablaze and vivid voltage, you would have been holding a gold mine there.

Wow, you haven't bought any other products that are now worth less than when you bought them? This is really impressive!

Burning Shadows will go up with time for sure.

My bad purchases! £80 on shining fates etb £170 for Japan 151 BB

A much worse investment than a sealed Darkness ablaze booster, is an opened Darkness ablaze booster.

You win some you lose some. I'd say the worst investments Ive made are singles and not sealed product. Over time I've changed that any single I buy is for my personal collection and only sealed booster boxes are my investment.

As an investor, what is the best thing you've sold and the most money you've made?

I think the Burning Shadows will do better if you have lots of patience and give it like 5 more years.

How is Vivid lower than Darkness Ablaze??! 😂😂 Surely that'll change soon. Vivid still has a very solid chase card so I'd expect some movement soon. No chance a Pikachu set should be that cheap, especially one that's so iconic.

Let’s go!! 🎉🎉

I don’t think there’s really any “bad” or “worst” investment on here the Alakazam V box will take the longest to appreciate but it will over time. The rest will do fine long term. Yes they have done poorly recently but with time they will be fine. Could that money be better used elsewhere right now? Yes, but if you paid more for what you’d be able to get back for it now you might as well hold unless you really need to free up capital. I think the video should be 6 slowest investments. If you’re in it for the long game 10+ years these will technically all rise. The vivid voltage prerelease kits are amazing products with Lugia, Snorlax, Charizard being 3 of the 4 stamped promos. To me that’s a sign to pick up more, maybe I’m just crazy. I think vivid is a great set with a big chase in the rainbow chunky boy and I think the amazing rares will be sought after in the future specifically the rayquaza. Appreciate the topics for conversation especially on these older sets and investments as I think about these a lot as well.

Oh no I didn’t do that but I graded 100 energy cards 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

There's a button you have to check so people know in the beginning that there's a paid ad during the video.

Brother, that's it??? You only made these 6 slightly "bad" investments? Man you should see how bad I did with things...

I bought alot of Shining Fates ETBs. Wrong decision.

Woahhh you've got a crypto bot in the comments! That's when you know you've made it! 😂😂

You miss 100% of the chances you never take. Overall all Pokémon booster boxes/etbs increase in price in time. I believe it’s about finding a sweet spot around the bottom and waiting it out for the long haul. Imagine if you didn’t buy a case of Evolving Skies or Fusion Strike/chilling reign because you saw loses in your darkness ablaze position. Diversifying is the absolute best thing to do with any investment. Should you have done anything different with your decision making processes? or is it just a case that the market didn’t accept the product? Learning is definitely half the fun when investing in cardboard. Looking at the pretty things on shelves is the other half haha

You're wrong about number 5 if you bought the one with evolutions in it.

could we see a 6 best investments you've made? or did you already do that?

Bought only 3 sets and all of them are bad investment -151 jp -ruler of the black flame -shiny treasure 😂😂 basically everything goes 50%-70% discounts overtime dont buy anything on early release guys

the real question is, have you accidentally bought any fakes?

Is anybody even opening vivid voltage now a days?

I thought 151 BB was your Worst investments

The worse of Pokémon is still good

Love all the Japanese 151 comments. The set hasn’t changed all the cards are the same. For some reason you liked it so much to pay $200 a box right? So what changed its the same product? In all reality with all the market manipulation that is going on with Sketchy Japanese resellers it’s going to be back to $200+ in no time. PokeNE pre sold 100K in boxes and made multiple videos bragging about it. Now all the sudden he’s dips and scrubbed all the JPN 151 videos he made leaving nothing but a post saying 90% off distributors canceled orders he could only get 450 boxes at a time”loss” and not sure when or how he fulfills the other 1500 boxes he sold already. Problem with Japan is outsiders don’t have any contact with legit distribution so these 3rd party resellers can tell buyers whatever they want with zero way to confirm. Like OnePiece pre orders are being cancelled and once it’s $200 a box then pallets will show up. I don’t think it was the reprint anyways but resellers dumping old hoarded stock drive demand and make way for the reprint stock in May like we were all told.

I don t see any investments here I see speculation and some serious hoarding in the background. Also why does it seems there are way more Investmentbros on RU-vid from Australia? You need to stop telling people these are "investments" because these are not investments since you are not a financial advisor. Do you think that buying stamps also is investing? No...its collecting not investing because the fact that a price is up does not mean you will be able to sell all your stocks at that price. NONE of you Investmentbros look at the market depth.

At least I'm not the only one who's been screwed by Vivid Voltage. I really really hate that expansion 😡