how to do pokemon investing in four simple steps: 1. buy sealed product 2. put it in a dark closet away from moisture or direct sunlight 3. wait like 5-10 years 4. profit it really is just that easy
Great video! I have just bought what I genuinely wanted to collect and wanted to keep for the long haul. I love my personal collection of cards, the artwork, the memories and the thrill of the chase means so much more than what they are worth.
@@OpossumBud nah man you were fully respectful towards all the people you mentioned. I just wanted to comment this to give appreciation to the guy for anyone who doesn't know him. Or in-case they passed judgement because the whole "pokeinvesting" community is super weird and mostly predatory. He's like a diamond in the rough, so are you! I love your content. Can't speak for everyone else.
Great Vid s always. My investment advice is 1.) Hold, Hold, Hold. Pokémon is a long term hold. 2.) Sealed is King. Even the most unwanted sets like Evolutions go up. 3.) Invest in sets you believe in, don't spread out just to diversify. I'd rather have grabbed 10 boxes of team up then 2 and a bunch of others, stand on the sets you believe in. I believe in Japanese 151 so I grabbed 9 boxes. I think Chilling Reign is 2nd best S&S set behind evolving I grabbed 4 boxes. I believe in Lost Origin, Brilliant Stars and Fusion Strike long term so I'm currently grabbing them.
This, the rest doesn't matter. If you are getting what you want out of the hobby who is to say otherwise. If people want to have an opinion on your habits in the hobby maybe they should chip in and financially support your habits LMAO.
Best card investment advice I can give is enjoy what you are collecting/investing in. Proper sealed items collecting like(Booster boxes, ETBs, UPC, etc..) Seriously though, if you are not enjoying it, the investment is nothing more than a pile of boxes sitting in a storage room somewhere. I love my invested boxes to be displayed because I enjoy looking at them and how they decorate my office/gaming room. In this aspect, its far easier to sit on, but that is just me.
I don’t get why XY Evolutions sealed products are so expensive when the hits themselves aren’t even that expensive. You can get the two expensive Charizards for less than a 3-pack blister.
Here's the real pro tip. Literally....like literally just buy whatever it is you want to buy. Stop focusing on buying "valued items". You come first, "BUY WHAT YOU THINK IS VALUABLE TO YOU." Also thank you Opossum Bud for keeping real. Like seriously
Thank you, my friends think I’m crazy saying that evolutions was a set for for a small period of time was tired of because it was everywhere. I’m just glad you said it, confirms what I remember. On its release it was hard to find then Pokémon company started dumping tons of evolution product which exhausted the community at the time. This is all from my perspective.
Oh no, I'm absolutely devastated. What am I supposed to do with my inexpensive cardboard? It's not like I can just look at them and enjoy the nostalgia, smh this market is rough. The guys on NotWhat said I was gonna make big boy money, they lied to me 😢
My only mistake was picking up pokemon in the first place shiit I'm a degenerate ripper and my "investments" end up in my permanent collection 90% of the time
the guys who know nothing will be gone just give it a few years. They'll chase something else given time or go back to their day job. pokenomics I think has been long term and has a legit business in cards, but I don't know, don't watch his stuff. Anyhow, eventually they will all sell their stuff, maybe keep a few cards, and just clear their closets and move on. Or they will move on to things like selling $2.50 booster packs for $10 on whatsnot for a while....
I never understood this. Are you sure your not talking about scalpers? How does someone keeping 3 boxes sealed and opening 1 for fun per set instead of opening all 4 right away ruin the hobby for you?? Why does it matter what other people are doing? It actually helps because the more investors, the more sealed product we will have in the future. Which will make sealed products cheaper for us to open down the road. This whole thing where you can't think of money that you worked so hard for while buying expensive collectible cards is crazy to me. I want everybody to have awesome collections for the least amount of money as possible.
@@PokeBeardTCG not sure your response, the obsession with value is ruining it not if someone holds or opens. I have tons of sealed product that down the road ill either open or trade for things i want.
@jerseyjohn123 I 100% agree money shouldn't be everything, but pokemon is a ridiculously expensive collectible, and a lot of pokemon investors are fans and collectors first. The people looking for this information are new people, or people that dont have alot of money. I just dont get why it ruins the hobby for you if some people care about the value more than you. If you look at the biggest collectors in pokemon I put my life on it says they care about the value a ton and have been investing heavily for years. Especially if you're spending your hard earned money on sealed boxes also. To some people thats bad and you're an investor bro. It don't matter if you plan on trading them or selling them it's the same thing. You probably wouldn't be sitting on a ton of boxes if you knew for a fact they would never go up in value and be worth trading for other things. You would have some of your favorites to open down the road but you wouldn't be dropping a ton of money and having a ton of product like you said you have. I just think it's crazy all these people that hate on pokemon investors while they're also sitting on a ton of sealed products. But again, I totally agree that value shouldn't be first but it should be in the back of your mind if your spending your hard earned money on something. If you wanna have the best collection for the cheapest amount possible than you gotta think about the money and be smart. Ask any big-time collector of anything, and they will talk about the value.
Big fan of PokeOz and I tend to agree with him 99% of the time. A lot of the other guys are just copy pasting the exact same content month after month and literally nothing changes.
@@OpossumBud the ironic thing about advice is no matter what, you're going to be completely wrong when giving it to a wide audience. Weight lifting, investing, whatever, there's just going to be different goals for different people.
The rule of thumb I've always used when it came to "investing" in pokemon cards is buy in threes. One to open. One to keep sealed. And one to sell later down the line. You sell the 3rd one when it covers the price of what you spent on all 3
tbh nostalgia nomics is always on point....i think sealed booster boxes is the best like he says because it displays well and after time always goes up wether its a little or alot
If ever is just buying to sell... Who's everyone going to be selling to? Pokemon has never been as it is today, so going off historical trends is all but useless. "But it always goes up!" .. Cards don't have fundamentals, just technicals. They are just as speculative as crypto, which one could argue has always "just gone up." The only way for values to continue rising is if cash inflows outweigh outflows with the rate Pokemon produces cards.
I’ve legitimately gotten into arguments with these newer collectors who don’t realize that cards and product used to be stupid cheap. I remember plasma storm etbs just sitting on shelves and people not rushing to buy out the shit. In 2014 you could buy a raw complete shadowless 1st base set for $1000. And that included zard. These new people annoy me. None of this “investment” talk was a thing back then.
I've found the speed of appreciation recently a tad alarming. Like Lost Origin was £115 a month ago and now it's £200. Either demand really is that insane or there's a lot of speculators. Could be the start of a longer term bubble. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 10 years when all these hoarders plan to sell.
People forget we have proof of concept; ie sports cards. Good news is Charizard is never going to have to do some PR clean up. If good sports cards didn’t keep rising I would think differently. If all the people with actual money weren’t buying stocks, the could be throwing their money at Pokémon cards. 🧐 times will change. Maybe I need to make a video on this too, but with actual logic. Good job as always OB
It's laughable that people think an "investment" is a failure unless it increases by 500 to 1000%... If buying and selling Pokemon (short or long-term holds) brings you a higher profit than conventional investing, it's a win.
Well thats because 90% of the people who "invest" in this game only have the knowledge and market experience of 2021 onward... It's hilarious how many bad takes I've seen from people who pretend to have experience from Covid onward yet don't know that TCG's were never considered an "investment" until then.
The point PokeOz made bringing up the ETB’s from Sun and Moon and X&Y is that current ones are printed WAAAAY more and will not perform as well because they’re supply us much higher. I don’t think he’s saying they can’t appreciate but that they will be slower than like a booster box for a main set.
And what I WAS SAYING was all 6 of these homies give advice that contradicts the other persons in a lot of cases and it’s confusing as hell for new people. People in my opinion should get their feet wet and build their own experiences as well as listening to their favorite creators.
@@OpossumBud that’s fair. I was just commenting in regards to your comment about XY not being a valid era to mention. I think for the point he was making it was valid to mention XY because a beginner could look at how much those appreciated and think everything will do the same. I think he’s trying help new people understand the pokemon company prints a lot more of those now than they did back then.
@@MrGuitarfreak132 well those did well because no one cared about them and then creators flooded the area all wanting to open it. Sword and shield and Scarlet and Violet will do the same, it just takes time
@@OpossumBud yeah but I think it’s a little more than that. I agree Swsh and S&V will all do well over time but I don’t think we will see as fast of gains in etbs even if you ignore the pandemic. While the pandemic pumped things to outrageous highs and then collapsed everything is higher than prepandemic and to me that says more people are collecting now which is awesome. So if we can keep a flow of collectors coming in slowly things should mostly all do well given enough time.
@@MrGuitarfreak132 the pandemic kickstarted some of this, but content creators are the reason sun and moon and XY went crazy up. Nothing organic happened about them and Pokemon printed more product in SwSh and SV cuz there is more people here now. Zero to do with the product and more to do with external people driven factors.
Bro, I love your content but commenting on personal experiences of tubers that are admittedly making bad decisions is a bit harsh. I think it’s fantastic that new people enter the community with any expectation, if they make a mistake and admit it- it’s funny for sure but I believe we should support those newcomers and help them where we can. Again, love your content and your stance on Pokemon and tubers- you are the man bro
@@joyce1187 point of the video was all their advice, and yes even Oz was giving advice, was contradicting each other and is extremely confusing for new collectors, and that people should make their own decisions on stuff with their own experience. All creators vids were featured and I said in the vid multiple times “nothing against this person” minus a couple of them. Hope that helps
All love, yep that helps. I watch all your vids just wanted to understand this one better and TY, makes perfect sense. Keep the content flowing brother!!
None of the advice is necessarily bad but I think its bad to rely on these videos and advice as gospel. As you said, if you're active in the hobby and genuinely enjoy Pokemon, you will gain a gradual understanding of how you want to go about things. Doesn't take that long either in my opinion. A good few years and you generally have a good idea of what you like to buy, how you go about selling, how much money you want to put in, etc. I understand why these videos exist but I don't think it is a good idea to rely on any of them. Both from a collecting and "investing" standpoint
It doesn't matter about what cards are in the set. Is the set old? Yes. Does the set center around fan favorite Pokémon? Yes. Is the amount of the product in low supply? Yes. Boom, expensive product. It makes sense, I just don't like it because I'm financially gated off from opening older sets I grew up with.
Buy multiples has to be the funniest advice in any of these. Imagine someone giving stock advice having the mind-blowing revelation to make a video telling people to buy more than 1 stock for a company they think will do well.
My collection is banging because it’s my collection. My advice, don’t listen to investors associated with Pokemon and collect what you like. I collect because I like the cards not for the monetary value. I have $2 cards that are awesome.
I remember when i was stationed in Hawaii. Targets had evolutions, xy on clearance. No one wanted pokemon. Hidden fates were sitting in shelfs. Wish i could go back.
Bruh I am so tired of investors thinking they’re better than scalpers, any time you bring money into a hobby it fucking ruins it for collectors. Unfortunately i dont think we’ll ever go back to those pre covid days as long as shit like the pokeinvesting subreddit and pokeinvesting discord groups are active
To be honest, the main take here is to follow on what does your intuition and stimulus kicks in. Whether to follow their tip or not, its up yours to take. These legal advices can vary from time to time but we cant guarantee for it. I enjoy collecting tcgs because they are pretty fascinating as well as a part time hobby.
@@trey6615 Weird and slimy because anyone who was interested in actually investing would do some research and find real investments that have performed much better than pokemon. Most Pokemon "investors" are simply flippers looking to cause or take advantage of false shortages. There's a reason most investors have complained about this newest generation of cards, because pokemon is back to printing billions of cards and these flippers can't profit off false shortages. Also weird and slimy because there's people like you. Those that see a video and get so triggered by it, feeling that they are under attack, that their only option left is to lash out several times in that comment section, casting juvenile insults at randoms to feel better about their weird and slimy nature.
Danny Phantump posted a vid that had a website from just 4-5 years ago before the boom that had Fossil or Jungle (some vintage packs I don’t remember exactly) for some crazy low price like $25 or something. Pokémon was really cheap not that long ago.
I really hope that all the people “investing” in “valuable” cards, sell them off when they dip down for a few years and then leave the hobby permanently.
Hey Investor Ivan here, I am late to the party because I was to busy swimming in my money pit This comment will make a you a millionaire (hehe yup) Singles Gloria full art - brilliant stars (we remember what happened to Rosa full art?) HGSS primes in general (I like them very underrated still cheap and good pickups also basically vintage for you bros) MEGA EX’s (pokemon Z mega stonks Mayhaps) Shiny wooloo - shining fates (I own 200 of them inflate that single make me rich pwease?) SEALED PRODUCT 2018 Mysterious powers tins from Walgreens (they have 1 fusion strike 1 brilliant stars 1 evolving skies for 15.99 nerds will call it the holy grail in 3 years max) Heavy hitters V boxes from Costco and Sam’s club (when sword and shield becomes older this boxes stonk will rocket for its verity and amount of packs alone) Haha thanks for reading this comment bros this was investor Ivan signing out I am terminally ill from sleeping in my money pile!
Man I came back into the hobby after a couple years . I’m trying to build out a deck so I’m selling off some singles I don’t want . The amount of investment bros trying to buy my whole binder at a discount is crazy . I’m tired of these people lol
I knew this was going to be a good one like always. Longest video in awhile. Ill put a investment video out. Think it will be good. Not sure if anyone has done it but just gonna go with it.
Pokemon printing cards so fast. Let alone buying older set, even completing modern sets as a hobby is not financially advisable. New sets come and go like consumables. Print, distribute, buy, next! But wai.... Don't care, here's new product. My paldean fates haven't even come yet! Don't care, here's temporal force, cyber judge preorder!. For graded cards, it's not only depends on whether people interested in graded cards. But also whether the company you grade your card with destroyed their own reputation while you are sitting on it.
Maybe side note, we are lucky living in the US and Europe we can even afford to buy these in the first place. You don’t think the rest of the world is going to get wealthier over time to mess up that good old supply and demand curve?
This is one of my top 10 favorite videos of yours, youtube needs to let me like this twice so I can invest and sell one of those likes later 😆this is your xy era
Just buy what makes you happy. Pokémon is not a serious investment realistically. If you want to invest in incremental gains then get a Roth IRA and put money into it. That will appreciate just as fast as Pokémon cards lmao. Buy some rising stocks in small bunches. Sure Pokémon can be an investment but if you’re only in it for the money then you’re kind of an idiot.
Just say you're broke. Consistently been outperforming traditional investments even after the boom settling. But hey, you go buy your stocks that can drop in large numbers overnight, and I'll continue to see 10% in a month.
$1800 in AMC calls at the right time translated into $7,000,000 in under a year. Pokemon is basically crypto. There's no fundamentals, just technicals. If everyone is buying to sell, who are they all going to be selling to? @@trey6615
The invest bros would shit their pants if they watched some of Primetime Pokémon’s free cards by mail videos from back in the day. The Dude is a GOAT legend.
I only invest in the oversized promo cards because as we get older our eyesight will get worse and only be able to look at those cards. Big 🧠 Timmy over here
I like top 10 pokemon, but he does look scuffed af in that clip lmao. Honestly not a bad tip tho, when i only buy 1 of something im never selling it, and so it really isn't an investment.
I really enjoyed the video, nice wholesome way to get that point across. Pokeinvesting is here to stay, it's not really my thing but I dabble a bit here and there.
The pokeinvesting Reddit is the peak of this shit. People asking strangers what cards to grade or was it a good pull obviously have no grasp on the tcg 😂 but like you said some of this advice is good
Evolutions, objectively, will be a tough sell with 151 on the market. Evolutions looks like ASS, I laugh everytime I see the prices on it. It DOES NOT fill the nostalgic gap for base set. There are better sets with more impressive art in xy expansion. Most base cards set aside minty holos and grade 10s are affordable. It looks like base set took acid and ran backwards through a corn field lmao. Same with S&M, outside of the top cards and hidden fates, it has little to offer except rainbows and gold cards. Some full arts. Objectively though the cards aren't as appealing as swsh. Only time will tell, but I'll put my money in good condition wotc vintage and the masterpiece that is swsh.
Brother I agree, the full art mega ex cards are pretty cool but other than that evolutions is boring as hell. IMO the secret rares in XY sets are slept on but as a person who has been into pokemon since the base set nothing comes close to the alt arts in swsh, the beautiful silver borders and crisp art. I don't know what's guna hold value I just collect what I like and I've been slowly snatching all the alt arts I can when prices drop. I didn't think the tag team cards would explode in price but I loved those and snatched them up for relatively cheap now I wouldn't buy those for the prices they are now so the ones I'm missing will stay out my collection for now lol.
Can't go wrong collecting what you like. Missing out is not always a bad thing in regards to S&M. Sealed product will stay high, but singles will eventually be affordable again. I saw my raichu&Alolan Raichu alt go from 30 to 170ish on the high, and back down to 118 currently. That hype only happened due to swsh alts. Granted S&M has less print runs overall and the card quality definitely wasn't always there for English. I opened more hidden fates than anything I'm sure, Including the rayquaza premium figure collection. Probably my biggest mistake other than selling a complete base set for cheap on ebay.
@@eeveevault aw man that raichu is my #1 regret from tag team, I had someone send an offer to me for 25$ on ebay but me and the lady were saving up for a house so I'd feel guilty buying more but now that I think about how much it is now I should have accepted it. Blastoise is my #1 though and I'm thankful I grabbed the blastoise x piplup before it went to high. Feels good to have what I have though need to be more thankful. Love this hobby.
I find it hilrarous how they sit in front of this shelf full off boxes like some sort of bored shopkeeper, open the bloody things and enjoy the cards ffs!!!
I'll say on Whatnot as a new seller a year ago, everybody that came in my stream almost wanted cards lower than tcg lowest listed and ask for giveaways every couple minute's. I see the popular streamers tho that have their long term viewers literally overpay to support. But alot of times high items dont get bid on and you can get steals if chats are sleeping.
