ALPHA INVESTMENTS REVEALS MILLIONS IN LOSSES

[@fsmoura]

_Florida Man Loses His Mind; Records Video of Himself Groping in the Dark in Underground Cave Full of Luxury Cardboard_

[@BigDirtDawg]

😂

[@honestabe411]

“Buy low sell high” great advice my career is flourishing

[@zerorequiem42]

"If I buy the entire stock, it will be rare... And THEN I'll make more tendies" -Rudy

[@johaadganor1684]

All this cardboard stock would make me insanely paranoid about water damage and mold.

[@D0012D13]

Waiting for the hurricane of cards, packs and boxes flying everywhere.

[@testestfff]

And doesn’t he live in Florida lol bad place to have all this

[@trax72]

@@D0012D13 if that happens, I hope it will be Hurricane Rudy

[@sirlionheart4614]

You must be new here.

[@madquest8]

I'm assuming they are insured? And what about RATS!! LOL.

[@Just_Pele]

The issue with Weiss Schwarz is, sure you can sell a box every now and then, but even just one case saturates the market, especially for some of the less known sets. I bought four cases of Batman Ninja for ~$80 per box, it's a pretty well known set, and at my shop I can get $250 for a box, but buyers are pretty rare. Sure, there's very little supply in the broader market, but it's a small customer base.

[@michaeledwards1644]

thats not the point, Rudy is stating that Weiss Scwartz is like a Vincent van Goh painting..just waite till it goes to a million dollars per box..max out your defense

[@Just_Pele]

@@michaeledwards1644 "Vincent van Goh painting"? 🙄 They're pretty cards, but it's still just a game with a very small player base, and nothing like a UNIQUE (meaning there's only 1 of them) piece of legendary art.

[@VexJinks]

@@Just_Pele "Legendary art". No one outside of MTG cares about MTG art. For real. In Pokemon, I don't think anyone cares about the "original art" Pikachu or whatever. What's alluring about Gen 1 Pikachu is that it's one of the cards that started it all, not that it has alluring art. And if we being real, old MTG art is dogshit.

[@Just_Pele]

@@VexJinks I was talking about Van Gogh paintings being legendary art, not MTG cards. lol

[@soulmask2781]

Thats all boxes, even magic is like that. you buy boxes and wait and even when you start selling you need patience. Thats what Rudy is saying, patience. No one said youd sell 10 cases of any set instantly.

[@foxinsocks5549]

I have always enjoyed your videos for two reasons. 1. The information and how you deliver 2. I enjoy seeing you clearly do what you love for a living and always doing it your own way. Never stop being you floppy taco man.

[@ethanforster]

You deliver common sense info in a fun way. As head of the Timmy Club I give you the Timmy seal of approval!

[@oldbones7726]

Love seeing the sealed cases stacked to the moon. This video makes me very happy as it demonstrates that patience and not panicking pays off in the long term. I am not an investor but I do collect MTG cards. Rudy is like an outpost in the cardboard wilderness, dependable and reliable, dispenses good advice and common sense for free. All you have to do is sit back and listen, absorb the lessons and learn. I remember peeps screaming when Chronicles came out, how bad it was and reprints were killing MTG, destroying the secondary market, etc. It is amazing how often history repeats if you survive long enough. Thank you Rudy for a very entertaining and instructive video, it is appreciated.

[@smr.trading.cards.]

Chilling Reign is criminally underrated... You've got a great position in that one Rudy

[@JustCmonSense]

I didn't think Chilling Reign was underrated. I think people just don't have the finance, therefore, would rather go for something worth alot more for their little $$.

[@smr.trading.cards.]

@@JustCmonSense that's a good point. We bought CR booster boxes at $91 a piece while everyone was flocking to other cheap reprints at the same time. This set will age very, very well 🙃

[@Tehkneekz]

that set is pretty dookie

[@smr.trading.cards.]

@@Tehkneekz it has some of the best Alts in history. Find a different hobby maybe??

[@TraphouseTCG]

Please open some boxes sir, please anything

[@kinGhidora]

Overprinting regularly hurts pokemon since people love opening it so long as the set is strong (RIP Crimson). I always buy 2 cases of pokemon 1 too open and 1 too add to my sealed collection.

[@rogertruong5751]

True. But not as hard as the current day of MTG. All MTG sets on the board went down.

[@MrTedMcForehead]

if you can afford 2 cases per set you're rich.

[@kinGhidora]

@@MrTedMcForehead I don't think so I mainly try to make the hobby sustain itself. I try not to go too deep and I sell w.e. I don't collect from the first case. I mainly collect only full art trainers. yet I do tent to spend a bit more than I should on pokemon in general

[@PokeInvestingyt]

Rudy's starting to feel more like a Pokemon channel with each upload lol

[@notaraven]

He went from bathroom pokemon boxes to warehouse box goblin and honestly i am here for it.

[@Dinomanion]

Well MTG might very well be on its way out. Waning at a minimum.

[@libertyjones1451]

Layer after layer of cardboard. From ultra tuff low grade shipping box, to mid grade internal case box, to high grade booster box, then finally the pearl at the center the luxury cardboard rectangles

[@pineapplelord3670]

Did anyone else pick up on him saying Shord and Sealed at 1:52? Love it!

[@reelbigpokemon]

cool to see that you stayed the course, still got my 2020 shirt ;)

[@subzer0425]

I remember the video when you brought up Chilling Pain and I weighed the pros and cons at $90 a box and went and grabbed a couple of cases and now loving the Chilling Gain.

[@jaydubau8755]

If Rudy's warehouse catches fire, like half the booster box case inventory poof, gone

[@MrMurphdog96]

Love these vids keep them coming!

[@DoingNothingKing]

This is legit one of the craziest things iv seen in the hobby. I had ZERO CLUE store owners were allowed to buy that many booster boxes… that’s almost unfair lol

[@AdamTCG]

Unfair is an understatement. This guy single handedly fucks up modern markets.

[@arej00ryan]

@@AdamTCG This is a TINY percentage of the booster boxes printed worldwide. I highly doubt it has any effect on the market.

[@teeceedee]

why is it unfair please elaborate

[@BigDirtDawg]

What are you talking about anyone with the money can buy whatever they want 😂. There are big time sellers right on ebay when all this stuff releases that will sell you cases for very competitive prices.

[@BigDirtDawg]

@@arej00ryan none at all 😂

[@JustCmonSense]

Hard time creates tough men, you're one of them men Rudy.

[@chaozboy9482]

how exactly is Rudy struggling?

[@mebinici]

​@Chaoz Boy I think he's referring that Rudy is a man now 😆🤣

[@Cam32412]

That quote is so stupid 😂😂😂

[@JustCmonSense]

@@Cam32412 think a little and you'll know what i mean. It's stupid because you don't think.

[@Cam32412]

@@JustCmonSense i saw the chart, it’s nonsense. I did actually think about it, and none of it actually applied or was true. It just sounds nice for all these attack on masculinity ppl to keep spreading around.

[@anthonyshannon6744]

I love the flex.. Rudy is the real deal

[@qcommonsense]

I don't know much about the US TCG market, but if a friend of mine had told me he was about to invest a lot of money in Weiss Schwarz, I would have done my best to stop him. If you really want to do that, I suggest collect the individual autograph cards, not the boxes. But there is nothing wrong with Pokémon boxes. I think even the worst box will be profitable in 5 years. All it takes is the mentality to hold on to it😁

[@NMercy]

It's all about diversification and hope you can survive the bear markets...

[@CHJazzman]

All that self assurance in Rudy's actions is really a sign that he is thinking more and more about calling it quits and what might be the easy way to step out before the ship sinks, but this sinking ship has a long way to go. Someone will buy the rights and MTG might be better again with some new visions.

[@pawpatrolnews]

Rudy's green screen skills are getting better

[@Mktwiz99]

I wonder does stacking the boxes on top of eachother for long periods of time cause damage to the bottom boxes holding up all the weight?

[@jerimenolan4809]

There is a term called "Edge Crush" in stacking stuff, notably cardboard in most instances. So long as you can visibly see the lower boxes not warping or flexing and all boxes are stacked uniformly then there is no need to worry about possible damage

[@chaddw6303]

More than likely for each box there is a recommended stacking height and I'm sure Rudy knows what it is 😂

[@NMercy]

Was going to say every new CCG runs the chance of becoming a Decipher Star Wars CCG... then I looked at the booster box prices for that... So yeah, guess just diversify the hell out of it and wait....

[@blackstar3391]

Rudy please do a video about one piece romance dawn prices. Set came out in December at 80 dollar preorders is now at 160-170 and mostly sold out everywhere

[@maydaynation3349]

Low print run that’s all it is

[@jason7719]

The harsh reality of there's so many angry goblins out there they let good things pass them by continuously because they can't stop being angry

[@fsmoura]

10:25 _"Florida Man Goes All In On Luxury Cardboard-Has No Rug Rats"_

[@FalconX79]

And this is one of the main reason why prices are going up and most of the players can't buy sealed products anymore.

[@GolDGreg]

I’m telling you the floor on any Pokémon booster box EVER has gotta be like $75 because people would rip them for fun at $2 a pack

[@PropiaPersona]

Battle styles almost reached it

[@CHRISG612]

This is just incorrect.

[@TheGreatHeeroYuy]

@@PropiaPersona $79.99 is the lowest I personally saw it a couple days ago.

[@sephonvar2129]

Hey Rudy, it would be interesting to hear how you got started. Most people can grab a case or two of a sealed product here and there, but not pallets. How did you finance your early purchases or did you have money at the start? I am just interested since I think it would help some of the people looking to go into this business.

[@TheJcris87]

His old videos go over how he started out pretty well tbh. He used a lot of personal money and a lot of credit card purchases to start off tho.

[@joshuahoops9430]

It’s easy to hoard cardboard by the pallet when it’s an inventory purchase and a tax write of so it’s basically unsold inventory! Your taxes in part are based on how much inventory you hold the more inventory the cheaper and less taxes you pay this is one thing Rudy doesn’t talk about how all his large pallets are basically saving him thousands in taxes every year

[@davereeves1967]

He bought a fuckton of Carnival bonds at a massive discount, on top of being a broker, on top of having been buying RL since Lotuses were under a grand. There's videos on it.

[@TheJcris87]

@@davereeves1967 totally forgot about the carnival bonds. I should rewatch some of the old vids again.

[@sephonvar2129]

@@davereeves1967 Yeah, I have heard him refer to the broker job since I have been watching, but not all who exit that field are well off. With the amount he has and continues to purchase, I thought there was a good chance there was family money involved that got him his start. Thanks for the info and I may check out some of the earliest videos to see if I can hear him explain it.

[@tamska]

I'm quite interested to hear your feelings about Digimon TCG and the new upcoming Battle Spirit Saga?

[@dannydevito4338]

Time keeps ticking - when you’re up it’s never as good as it seems and when you’re down you feel like you’ll never get up again

[@jsway0]

Has anyone else noticed when Rudy gets excited he sounds like Vizzini from princess bride?

[@jsway0]

Inconceivable!!!

[@JamesWanders]

The piece I've yet to put together or hear Rudy talk about is when to liquidate product. I've some old sealed MTG boxes, don't need the extra cash out of them, so they're sitting there accruing. Is there some data-based end point I should be looking for to sell 'em off?

[@chaddw6303]

It seems like that 7 to 10 year range is what I've heard recommended if the market is in an upward trend of course unless you're trying to hold something as long as you would have held an alpha booster box from back in the day

[@JamesWanders]

@@chaddw6303 Heh, well for my oldest sealed stuff we're pushing 15 years at this point. 2005 product I picked up in 2007 and just never got around to opening. Generally Rudy's (good) advice seems to be not to sell when people on the internet are going crazy so I'm just waiting for that time when all online discourse is calm and collected.

[@hatchimatchi69]

i bought a ton of this because of your video about a year ago. I love you

[@jimbarber8617]

Been subscribing since early 2018. Stay the Course!

[@kidscollectingwbrody]

Valid point. Love the videos. If you have the money to hold and play your position vs their print “waves” There is most definitely money to be had

[@geekworthy7938]

Christmas in a downward production economy creates scarcity. As the economy strengthens, down it goes! Got about 1.5 years until the good times are over.

[@yesayes]

Rudy said go against the grain... Buy all the magic 30th now!!

[@PZADaKillaBee]

If there are great cards about first gens pokemons the set will perform good (evolving skies (1) has eeveeolutions, umbreons, and rayquaza / brilliant stars (2) has a lot of charizards / fusion strike (3) has mew, gengar, espeon / then chilling reign, lost origins and silver tempest will follow). Battle style, sword & shield, rebel clash have very few interesting cards...they could also rise in the future but compared to the ones above it will be *casual*

[@escutler]

I love this man. He preaches 100% truth! Any sets of established properties will always go up in time. Always. The only factors are increase by how much and over what time. The only risks are with new games/properties, which could fail and disappear quickly. However, those losses are offset by the gains from stocking away the "good" stuff. Anyways, never mind- Rudy always states it better than I could.

[@robertdascoli949]

I can't believe Rudy made a purchase all the way back in 2021!

[@Dann-qp2uw]

I don’t know anything about mtg or investing I just watch cuz he’s funny and man that rent a girlfriend had me rolling. Who invents this stuff. More importantly who fing buys it! Well…Rudy does…

[@tcsmagicbox]

You should do this video again but with Jack Skellington singing "What's this?"

[@BlightsteelNinja]

11 months to create this for Xmas 2023

[@MTGUnpacked]

That Weiss stuff baffles me. I get Pokémon, but Weiss is so esoteric. I guess I'm just not in the target market!

[@ChoujiSempai]

and here I am just trying to find some Fujimi Fantasia Bunko to rip open x-x

[@siyagames]

What a great dude Rudy is! I'm not even a magic-guy, but watching him for around 2 years. Just wanted to say THANKS for all your videos!

[@chaosdude86]

Best video I've seen in a long time! That's a life-changing lesson right there! For Free! On KZbin!

[@CraynosGaming]

I need to work for you. I want to know how all this started for you. No regret - I love that. I am going to start small and invest. Thank you for this FREE sage advice. I wish I would of found your channel early in life.

[@jeffreycote1146]

On the next episode of hoarders.. good for you man nothing but respect for you man

[@therealaY]

I like your videos! Keep it up!

[@seanwolfe8046]

Rudy is showing off her, love it!

[@SRBAB]

No gains without losses

[@MtgLonestar]

Rudy's boy had a Secret Lair Birthday Party at his warehouse and secretly opened all these box's!

[@peterbarrett5742]

Went all in at 80/box for Chilling Reign at the same time I went all in on Seven Deadly Sins - being objective is hard, it's a good thing other people can't talk to me about their opinions in the basement :D I'mma buy a few extra tacos this week, ty Rudy

[@7Alberto7]

Alwais stay the course! Thanks Rudy! I walk on strong

[@machampioninvestments4242]

I wouldn't even touch sealed product with Rudy's stepbrother's chorizo on taco night.

[@JesseHahn11]

Yea Rudy isn’t playin. I love it! Much respect man 🦾💯🔥

[@TheColts714]

Real inspiration to living the YOLO life ✊🏼

[@a1pha_star]

Thank you Rudy, very cool! ❤

[@aiRCoft]

I love it. Very inspiring to like-minded investors everywhere.

[@diyosmfn]

How does one buy like that? Is that straight from the printers?

[@retrovideo2124]

The thing about a lot of this inventory is that while the aftermarket price may be high, it's a very niche product. How many people are actually looking for these items? It's going to take multiple lifetimes to sell all of this inventory.

[@NIRVANAmat]

Just thinking that myself.. you can rely on a few sets. Due to nostalgia buys, once the younger fans get older. But.. yeah the rest is niche as you say. Small market.. but hey! It’ll sell. Just very slowly

[@xtendedhell8224]

Ruby your position in Weiss is INSANE

[@TheIfarted]

No matter what product it is they dont reprint it forever. They print it for a little while and then move onto printing the next product.. and people open product so as time goes on less and less of it is available. As long as theres still demand for a product years in the future your good to go

[@ZiggyZal]

Amazing!!!! You forgot to say folks??!!!!!!

[@roythecrazy2790]

Do you have Onepice first edition too??😅

[@matthewelliott2213]

Rudy's soon made a new bmx course through the Weiss... Excellent time for a video!

[@fernwogteveril6935]

Rudy has inspired me to get a haircut and get some cardboard

[@jaybyrdcybertruck1082]

This is why since 2018 Ive been buying $Tsla every 2 weeks. Im holding past 2030 and just bought a crap ton more yesterday. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. So just buy and hold forever.

[@BakaGrappler]

Hearing you say "Most investors don't make any money" really brings something home. I'm kinda doing this for fun. Anything I get, I buy a product where I would have fun with it if it never resells. A little bit of Mind Over Mana theorycrafting. And I'm having fun just getting some boxes and... not opening them. If they sell in the future, fine. If they don't, fine. And you know, there is a guy I saw a comment on, he liquidated his entire Modern Horizons 2 position, ALL OF IT, to buy into as much Double Masters 2022 as possible at launch. And now Drafts are 270, and collectors are even lower. Most people are not making the money, so yeah, I think making sure you take responsible actions that will not end in regret no matter how the pendulum swings for you is more important than chasing that bottom line. If the price of cardboard can ruin you, it may not be worth doing. But everyone has to have a day job, I suppose, and I'm just a minnow in the Collector's seas.

[@isaacthek]

Why on earth would you sell all of a position in a recent set to but another recent set?

[@BakaGrappler]

@@isaacthek He wasn't buying a set. He was buying the Hype. Tens of thousands of dollars of hype.

[@brandonharry6961]

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[@mariakira6176]

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[@brandonharry6961]

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[@melissastone434]

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[@Danjohnston96]

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[@harryjacob629]

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[@user-kg8uq9es3u]

What happens if your warehouse gets hit by a hurricane?

[@Cloudyconfusion]

How do you buy these directly and in those boxes??

[@lorddoctorwattage2479]

I would willingly buy a lot of the stuff you showed if for nothing else besides to add to my own collection. Not sure why people would say no one wants these things when there are always people who want them for, if nothing else, to look at them after a few years for collection purposes.

[@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS]

Ordering 8 pallets so 20 people can buy 1 booster box for their collection is generally not a good business move. That's why.

[@lorddoctorwattage2479]

Its your own choice to believe what you want to believe about a product. The point being made is that you cant determine how popular a product will be the moment it arrives because there will be people who want it for collections or that may have not known about a product until its out of print. Plenty of people get into these different tcg things later than when they first come out so having a place and/or person you trust have some available is nice even if you have to pay more since the product is more popular later. Maybe some never moves but thats a risk you have to take in order to get the nice payday with something that you cant determine at the moment of release. If you wait to see if it gets popular, there probably wont be any left to get and then you lose out on the nice windfall you couldve had.

[@davidrivas6182]

Your a smart guy rudy whole lot of experience man I so feel you

[@Akaoni21]

No miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid?... Rudy doesn't know what he's doing!!

[@piscinaiv7937]

Rudy coming out strong style like 90s puroresu!

[@Cisco_on_it]

Ive been picking up bangers pf psa 10 slabs for more than grading costs. Suckers lol

[@ttsupra87]

Thank you papa rudy

[@TheChaosOfTheShadows]

Watching you go over your Weiss collection as someone who ain’t that into anime cracked me up 😂

[@P1Castle]

"I may do that. I'm known for that."

[@tylerhennessy2701]

Do you ever get the itch to open a box and just enjoy the cards?

[@nicholasdiffer769]

HOW TO REACH YOU TO BUY A CASE?

[@thomasf.1014]

Rudy nobody gives a shit about Weiss/Schwarz....it's never gonna be as big as magic or yugioh or Pokémon or even flesh and blood. You'll be sitting on those for years.

[@Theprivatepsychodelicreel]

Lol “I’m known for that” lol that made me laugh

[@fsmoura]

_"Honey, you haven't come out of the basement in days! What do you want for dinn-"_ _"Shhhh!!! I'm watching that huckster Alpha Investments finally go down!! This is historic! God, after all these years posting negativity on Reddit! Do you even understand the magnitude of this moment? Of course you don't . . . just grill me a cheese."_

[@mauriziodemagnis]

Are you UMU/MTG Lion? 😆

[@djdrack4681]

Its not that I thought the industry was dead...but that I refuse to leverage at all with interest rates... and had to put large $ in real estate when deals presented themselves. Otherwise I'd be sinking 5-6 figures with the serious dip happening. 2 cases across the board and in 5 yrs it'll all pan out like almost always.

[@itsallfunandgames723]

Rudy is quickly becoming the De Beers of Weiss Schwarz.

[@rocknroller167]

I understood that reference.

[@Eturnul]

I just wanna know if the program includes pokemon cards? I would love to join your program but don't need any of the magic just pokemon

[@thepokeplumber]

Dude I love it I’m rocking with you until the wheels fall off and hell if we end up losing you said it perfect we live once I’d rather be a part of it then not I still don’t even know what weiss is but now I wish I went even heavier lol and if we don’t get a print of the silver tempest I’ll absolutely love it!!

[@tracksphantom540]

Will Magic the Gathering and Pokimon and Dragon Ball Z and Yugio Prices MetaZoo Baseball Basket Ball Football cards GO DOWN!?

[@robertpearce2244]

STAY THE COURSE!! Shot Ruby, love these types of videos 🤩👏

[@thomassabecky3055]

Where’s the meta zoo bro? Is it still doing good? I honestly have no idea 🤷‍♂️

[@isaacthek]

I got fatigued by wizards this year and ditched on brothers war... Oof. I did buy into jumpstart 22 and dominaria remastered early...

[@pokert9401]

Hey Ruby, im not sure if this help but you may want to get a metal shelves for those heavy cases. I just have a feeling over time, the bottom will get smashed and may ruin the cards. If you dont think they will, then ignore this message. By the way, i love seeing your mountains of pokemon cases. Its like seeing a gold of mountain.

[@Pumpkinfarmer08]

Do you have Insurance on this

[@nexes6718]

During times of war collectables always takes a hit in history. Want to make money in big war times gold, gun, and ammo stock a good bet. Most collectable will not have much gain until threat of world war dies down and economies stabilize.

[@ZakiAoi]

STHAPPPPP SO MUCH WEISSS I WANT ITT!