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[@demonfromwithin]

Its hilarious that you posted this Rudy. I recently sold my PSA 8 First Edition Shadowless Charizard for 30,000 this past weekend. I bought it for 1,600 around 5 years ago. Once I saw the hype these cards were going I simply had to cash in. 30k is seriously life changing for me!

[@adeadalienn2457]

Jesus Christ that's insane, I imagine bored rich people being the ones dropping that much money on one card...

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

@@goimpyt Yeah when I was 18 adn got my first job that payed like 30$ an hour I met this guy who would work 2 jobs and kept all his money so he could retire by 30. He lived like shit but By now if he continued that way he must be retired.

[@markhunt3975]

@@goimpyt english plz

[@markhunt3975]

@@goimpyt LMAOOO probably have cards worth more than ur family 😂😂😂😂

[@markhunt3975]

@@goimpyt link ur insta or snap then we can talk about who's poor, probably 10 years younger than you too LUL

[@Dentson]

"The entire pokemon is evolving" I mean that is sort of the point of pokemon....

[@secretrarecollctbles1892]

What's pokemon?

[@Zosh_]

Thanks for pointing out the jokes

[@minnesnowduh9942]

No pun intended

[@nicholasquaid1895]

Go away

[@trestres236]

Actually the point of pokemon is fictional animal abuse

[@MrFischfrosch]

Yeah a new YT Trend: "Influencer" buying new or old boxes and opens them. No idea who started this. Critical opend like 20k$ worth of Yu-Gi-Oh! last month alone.

[@johnbuscher]

But he actually likes YuGiOh

[@b.ghosty9749]

@Luis Alvarez mtg didn’t have a hit anime

[@joeallan3706]

wait until they buy a black lotus!

[@GoyBenius_0901]

Charlie likes Yu-gi-oh though, Logan knows literally fuck all about pokemon outside of what his scriptwriters told him.

[@Urek968]

@@GoyBenius_0901 Does charlie acually play the physical game? I know he plays online. But I don't know if he just buys to collect.

[@bobbybero7452]

When he found that Pokemon Box in a Japanese Forest

[@Milika666]

Bruh... 😆😆😆

[@tcgcardssayer1566]

dude that be pokemon jungle set. messed up on that dude.

[@MegaSeanzilla]

ghost type wasnt it?

[@craigfernandez4433]

eBay Timmies: TAKE MY MONEY RUDY, I’LL PAY WHATEVER YOU WANT Rudy: sorry, I’m allergic to Pokemon money, I’m just gonna troll you

[@grantmorris5813]

Next title Rudy’s beard changes magic forever

[@ChrisLee-on3ro]

I almost spit my beer out on that one..!!..(..almost,..I'm a professional..)...:)

[@Jon-Jon309]

“Gotta dump em all” - Rudy 2020 LMFAOOOOOOO

[@JonnyZuccs]

“Everybody wants the product and there’s just not enough to go around” yeah you nailed it in this one sir!

[@brianmatzen9617]

I’d rather buy a new Supra than a box of card board that by opening you have a 0 percent chance of making back 10%

[@brianmatzen9617]

@Robert Alicea I mean wallet fatigue in Pokémon is already starting to happen with psa stuff plus old school Pokémon no one has memories of playing them or using them just opening them and putting them in binder. Prices will go down not dramatically but there’s not a thing on planet earth I history that has ever kept on being bullish

[@brianmatzen9617]

@Robert Alicea ok I made a lot of money on bitcoin magic and vintage games in the same time frame people made money on Pokémon during the pandemic plus I own a business buy and sell extras on the side and I have 2 unlimited booster boxes for base set I don’t think I’m new to the community or investing. Everything I’m saying is what Rudy is saying. I have 0 clue as to why a very easy to pull charizard from evolutions is going for 5 times more than what a near mint base Zard was going for 6 months ago

[@brianmatzen9617]

@Robert Alicea I didn’t say everyone has it but I’m saying there’s not enough people with the cash buying one unless it’s for a flip.

[@brianmatzen9617]

@Robert Alicea of what? No one can predict if prices willl go up down or stay the same but history shows usually stuff goes back down then back up over the years. I mean it’s not impossible for one to sell for 35k then next week another sells for 25k it’s just how the market is

[@misskaitlyngrace]

As a lifelong collector with buttloads of doubles I love it when the market skyrockets. It’s happened a few times in the last few years. Pikachu paid my debt 😂

[@langtrout]

Detective Pikachu about to pave my future no lie

[@misskaitlyngrace]

@@langtrout talk to me. I have boxes and dont pay attention to prices lel.

[@langtrout]

@@misskaitlyngrace shiiii which ones?

[@misskaitlyngrace]

@@langtrout detective pikachu 😂 I have 3 booster boxes hanging out.

[@misskaitlyngrace]

The Japanese ones though

[@philipchiu9835]

Meanwhile my tons of sealed booster boxes of Core 2019, Gatecrash and Dragon's Maze are just sitting in my closet and hasn't gone up. I give up. Need Logan Paul to pump up Gatecrash

[@fsmoura]

i'll buy your boxes for cents on the dollar

[@markhunt3975]

Gotta wait a couple more years for a product like that to go up my guy

[@justua1992]

Id buy some just msg me back link where i can buy . :) i am starting to collect again .

[@youssefyounis9111]

You bought into the wrong era. If you want these to jump, you'll need to wait a few more years. Products from the Early 2000's and before will be the first to be hit with this jump. The only reason certain modern products in Pokemon are selling very high is because of the includance of Charizard or Pikachu. Unlike in Magic where they don't have that type of character following. MTG will definitely see the spillage of what's happening in the Pokemon and Sports Cards Market, but it'll only really effect the nostalgic products. Anything really post 2003 won't see a bump

[@CcReap3r]

@@youssefyounis9111 He was only like a year off. Innistrad boxes popped off a while ago.

[@multistack1502]

He has seriously changed the market and everything I’ve sold I regret as it has gone up 1000% but now is the time to sell some and/or hold some

[@CommandoMaster]

He got me back into collecting Pokemon. It's so much fun, and it goes up in value.

[@misskaitlyngrace]

Oh dude the feels. I sold my Mario x Luigi boxes two years ago for $400. Seeing them now.. hahahaha 😭😅

[@ibyitso7845]

Omg dude I just checked the prices and it's ridiculous. I'm so happy I have both mine still sealed 💜💜💜 Truly a blessing

[@wwehalo3fan]

It's true, I saw the handful of Pokemon videos with Logan Paul thinking weird flex, but okay. Then it dawned on me all his little minions would start slurping that stuff up.

[@TrentStrong]

Thats true, but Pokemon was already rising like crazy this year before Logan Paul came around. He is kind of late to the party.

[@wwehalo3fan]

@@TrentStrong True, I just follow Magic not Pokemon. But I imagine Paul's involvement certainly brought attention to a broader audience and will make for higher prices.

[@multistack1502]

I’ve been in the Pokémon game for years and it was slowly creeping up. Not much, but somewhat. There is literally a 1-3% increase. Now with Logan in it, it jumped 1000%. Obviously huge uptick, all over Efour about it. Logan is a pretty much joke of a human being and so is collectablesguru. They are just profiting off all this, which I can’t hate on if people are dumb enough.

[@wwehalo3fan]

@@multistack1502 Yah he's a garbage person, but slap a famous name on a product and people will start talking and wanting in especially on collectables like these.

[@momothewitch]

@@multistack1502 Yeah a lot of kids will get burned by this pump n dump

[@bajexe]

I was too young for the start of magic but I did play Pokemon as a kid when it was newly released. Now I can appreciate all the people who talk about playing magic with alpha/beta. I remember cracking plenty of base set, jungle and fossil boosters. Never kept anything sealed though (what 10 year old does?!) and my mum gave all the cards to charity around 2005 when I stopped collecting. I know I had a full set of pack fresh base, jungle, fossil and team rocket at least. Don't really want to think about how much money my mum cost me getting rid of those cards instead of just putting them in the attic :(

[@JMLRetroRoom]

If it makes you feel better, being in an attic or just say storage for years, those cards could eventually have gotten stuck to the plastic sleeve from the folder pages. Especially if something else with weight was placed on top of it all that time or it wasn’t in a temperature controlled environment. Our attics here in the U.S (hot climates) get very hot and would of destroyed them in a summer or two. You’d rip the font image off the card trying to remove it from the page sleeve. So there’s that 😅

[@Funder1Nk]

2:56 The entire Pokémon world is evolving....nice.

[@b.o.353]

Influencers are going to destroy both MtG and Pokémon eventually. They will buy and open ALL the easily acquireable old stuff. Prices will skyrocket. They have all that money and they just burn cash. Prices get crazy. They get bored and walk away and prices crash.

[@grzegorznapkine4073]

I think it's already too late, I don't care if booster boxes of base set are thousand of dollars or tens of thousands of dollars, I won't buy them. The time to buy was ten years ago. I don't think it will crash, at least not for a while.

[@StromkirkCurse]

lol

[@ddrguy3008]

Wow, someone who actually gets it. Some douchebag names Penguinz0 or something decided to mass box open the last few sets in yugioh just because they could trying to pull hundreds of dollar singles. Now they are done. It's unbelievable this age we live in and how stupid people are...

[@jacobyne]

I think MtG is way more solid than Pokémon, not the "too big to fail" but there's too many people in it, especially players and MtG keeps going on and on, while Pokémon will always be more about videogames than the card game, and when pokémon cards get too expensive (minus the real rare ones), a ton of people will get turned off and prices will mostly go down. There's just not enough backbone in it I guess. Might be there for Pokémon videogames though (although they will rise in a regular way).

[@ddrguy3008]

@@jacobyne Disagree. MTG is much more niche. Pokemon is more ubiquitous. Proof exists in the mtg finance group. They are largely responsible for making cards reach stupid price levels because they need to make their net 10% rather than work or make legitimate investments. That force really doesn't exist in pokemon, yet it is just as "strong" if not more in this market than mtg. Pokemon is objectively more iconic to more people than mtg. Mtg may be deeper, but pokemon has the numbers. As with most things, complexity tends to be forced into a back seat while simple digestible stuff gets to take the wheel.

[@loders69able]

Everybody trying to sip that member berry juice, nostalgia is one hell of a drug in trying times

[@SephirotHeRe]

I knew waiting outside Woolworths back in the day to open would pay off. Just sold a charizard

[@yellaturd]

@waterwalker 070 probably not if he's Australian. I don't think we really got 1st edition base set.

[@rogertruong5751]

19:48 Spooky. The ghost in your house didn't like the fact that you put down those Pokemon boxes from the shelf.

[@TheBishop12]

He got out of there quick

[@known2pown]

he said light and the light turned off

[@Jack_-930]

Does anyone else notice he has Black Lotus above his head to the left

[@sdidonato6178]

Yep, it's been there for a loooooong time

[@8642morrow]

and thats only one of many many more

[@paulparker3168]

Ha! This is why I changed my 1st edition complete fossil set PSA 10 listing price from £25k to £75k. Used to get £3-5k offers, now 10-15k offers. It’s just going up and up.

[@E-A-Z-Y]

Evolutions has exploded in the last 48 hours. 200 to 450 a box.

[@stayblazinyt3455]

Straight insane I can still get packs for $4 at Walmart lol

[@houseis]

Damn I bought 3 evolutions boxes a few months ago and the seller was trying to sell them saying "they will go up in value soon from end of print run" etc etc

[@stayblazinyt3455]

@@houseis theres so much stock still that price is insane

[@houseis]

@@stayblazinyt3455 Agreed. I dont sell anything I buy. If I'm unsuccessful by 65 (if I'm still around) I'll sell everything otherwise if im doing fine then it's all going to my family

[@xStanyyx]

@@houseis if you worry not beeing around at 65 you maybe start selling before your 65 cause the chance of beeing alive and actualy having something of it doesnt increace with the later years lol

[@amedeomodigliani4389]

Lived in Brooklyn back in the 90’s and the street salesman types would always be selling Pokémon cards and I remember me and my brother walking by and getting our mom to buy us each a pack.... good times

[@hozzoh9936]

I don’t remember that

[@pvtpain66k]

I saw the first Logan Paul video on trending & was like "oh?" & then I was the Charizard video & went "OH NO..."

[@maximem.ste-marie3578]

"the entire pokemon world is evolving" I see what you did there... "evolving" LOL

[@tychus3340]

Rudy and Pokemon; A Rudachu if you will.

[@tychus3340]

@Lemmy destroyer Dude...What?

[@Mukisamali]

@@tychus3340 LMAO for real though wtf that man on?

[@tychus3340]

@@Mukisamali I'm scared. .

[@MegaSkillz101]

New Pokémon slogan. “ You Gotta dump em All”- 6:37

[@dom19945]

I'm glad you talked about this. Logic help spiked the market as well. I'm very surprised something like this hasn't happened with Magic yet. I suspect it's because Magic doesn't have all the iconic characters that Pokémon has. MTG needs a tv show.

[@tiffanylastinger3925]

It's also because the age difference, I think. Magic was a game more popular for college kids and around that age when it came out originally because of the fact the cards were handed out at cons. So now the people that played are all in their late 30's early 40's which isn't influencer age. However, pokemon came out a little later and I believe after the TV show and video games which were already marketed to kids. The cards were very much meant for kids and now 20ish years later, the kids that played with them are in their early to late 20's which is the exact age for influencers at this point in time

[@dom19945]

@@tiffanylastinger3925 Right. I don't see MTG ever hitting a price spike like Pokémon is seeing right now. Not unless Hasbro pushes multiple levels of promotion and merchandising. TV and video games seems like a good start. MTG has great characters, but none have reached that household status as a lot of Pokémon have. Everyone knows who Pikachu is, but not everyone knows who Liliana is, and that's a problem for Magic.

[@nacreserut]

There's already a walking dead TV show friend

[@AAA-ty8op]

Pokemon base is 100 times wider than MTG. Every single person knows what a Pokemon is, who knows MTG?

[@cuff82292]

@@AAA-ty8op the estimate is what 20 million magic plaayers, so likely 5x that know what magic is.

[@SupercarDriven]

Crazy We paid $33,000.00 for first edition pack from Logan Paul to be opened live on 2-27-2020 let’s go

[@team24s]

Lol, I remember when Bitcoin was the hottest thing and every influencer came out from the woods.. Dropped from 20k to 15k and all saying it's just a correction buy buy buy.. Rode that story all the way down to 3K. Burned a lot of people. Then just a few month ago all the people came out from the woods on sports cards. Zion will never go down.. Luka will go to the moon.. Market across the board dropped 40-50%, ton of people holdings bags and telling themselves it'll go up next season while while holding bags and going to sleep.. Rules of when you know shits about to hit the fan: when all the influencers or "new you tubers" come out from the woods and start making videos, who haven't been doing so previously in that genre or segment.

[@douglas2437]

Great comment

[@superego8405]

Pokemon cards are definitely more established than bitcoin. Once a card sells for a certain amount there’s really no reason why it would drop in value, because no one would want to sell it for less than the new established price. And before Logan Paul even made those videos a lot of cards were rising in value quickly due to coronavirus. And due to that no one is going to sell their cards for less than what someone else sold them for.

[@josephwilke8449]

@@superego8405 even better said.

[@cloudyskiesnow]

@@superego8405 That doesn't necessarily mean that the card will maintain those highs or go up. If people find out that they can't even sell the cards at the price they paid for it, that's when you either have a price correction, or market crash, depending on how many people are actually collectors v. speculators. Pokemon was going up before this fad train started, but nobody that doesn't inherently like the cards is just going to be sitting on these things as an investible asset when the price isn't going up or staying stable. Sure, if the value crashes far enough, people are likely to just sit on a card and hold it, because it's not worth it to sell it at that point, but they also tend to leave the market entirely, which is what happened when the popularity of Pokemon cards crashed the first time back in the early 2000s.

[@retropursuit992]

It's literally supply and demand. When demand gets low, prices get lower and vice versa.

[@paulrichard9663]

If you ever looking to sell that french box, even tho you said a the begining of the video that you won't sell them, i got contacts "logan paul" types of contacts that spent recently 120k on a neo genesis 1st edition booster box in french. French products are ultra scarce and some high end investors are looking for them. I had the chance to sell one of my boxes to "Bigflo" from "Bigflo and Oli" wich are famous rap artists in france, they are trending. So if you ever want to get in contact with them, i can help you on that.

[@dback2564]

J'ai des 1st french box. Comment puis-je te contacter ?

[@ClassicGoldCigarettes]

I’ve been watching the Pokémon market for over 10 years. It appreciates every time I look. All of it. Buy what you want now because it will most certainly be more expensive the next time you look.

[@DarkSharkBark]

ye I looked at pikachu meet red secret rare cosmic eclipse hmm 20 then damn out of stock. oh 40 wtf 79 :O

[@Haildawn]

Should've bought those Skyridge booster boxes for 3-5k back in 2013 like I wanted to....

[@sunnyschramm9650]

there are no more new edition boosters or displays in germany available or you have to pay 600% to 1000% of the original price. twitch goes crazy about pokemon unboxings...

[@foodsheavenlymade5644]

The only bad thing its that that like 95percent of the people who does love pokemon cant even finish there collection. Because investors

[@jadenyuki3138]

I like how there is more people who are getting into pokemon, but i dont like how the hype is making prices increase.

[@dylancollins8894]

yeh

[@joystiko]

Price isn’t increasing in newer sets which has some great cards so whatever

[@richardmiller6326]

I

[@justgarfield9721]

@@joystiko trainer elite box prices have almost doubled in price, from 50 to 100

[@Mixedin4k]

Coming back to this in mid-2024... Rudy you predicted the future of the vintage sealed and singles markets to a T. Vintage sealed has indeed held strong, albeit some small stagnation and correction, while the singles prices have been obliterated. The card community is truly blessed to have someone like you provide guidance and advice within this turbulent market

[@enthused7591]

Evolutions booster boxes have gone from $160 to $400 in 2 weeks.

[@xStanyyx]

cause they announced that they finally are not printing evo after 4 years... + the hole hype

[@TheGreatRuomal]

$425 a box now and climbing its insane

[@xStanyyx]

@@TheGreatRuomal as someone who came back into collecting and wanted to buy Evolutions that I missed back in 2016 I could eat my pants right now. 3 months ago this box was 90$ and I thought its too much xD

[@CJsComicsandGames]

I got one for $140 last month through ebay but sent it back for a refund because the box was in horrible shape!

[@Bananasforthesoul]

From how terrible the cards were printed and how many thousands upon thousands of packs are out there and available, it’s honestly surprising. Even after they went out of print, they only went up 50-150 a case until this last 1-2 weeks.

[@yugiohkid1996]

Thank god someone in the magic community respects other tcg communitys

[@Spicoli1Bilek]

Just a couple weeks ago the country rapper Upchurch started showing everybody his collection and people started going nuts over Pokemon

[@Sacronaut]

The smartest investors are buying 10 sealed products and opening 9 of them. Increase demand shorten supply.

[@Astartes00]

Smart

[@dentyo5238]

? You can do the same thing by just Buying 10 and NOT opening them lmao. You just sell 1 at a time very slowly when the demand rises. Still increases demand and shortens the supply.

[@Astartes00]

@@dentyo5238 even smarter

[@Sacronaut]

@@dentyo5238 Nah.. those boxes still being in circulation means the supply has not been cut at all. Less boxes in existence means the few that are left are worth even more. 1000 boxes in existence vs 100 boxes in existence... which one would cause the boxes to he worth more?

[@Sacronaut]

@@dentyo5238 Why do you think all the big poketubers are doing so many box breaks?? Because they know wtf they are doing. It make for great content and they get to cut the supply of boxes while raising the value of the ones they have stashed away.

[@austins.2495]

I watched one pokemon card video, now it's all YT reccomends

[@yorob1246]

This is true. Ever since LP did that stream, everyone and there mom's is opening up classic boxes and all. I actually quite enjoy it though.

[@ChalupaNoTomatoRC]

Dude where have u been all these years. I wish KZbin would have recommended you sooner than just today.

[@ibyitso7845]

Unfortunate buddy he's been doing this for like 5 years! Better late than never though bro 💜💜💜

[@willlozinak5182]

something about the way "The Rude Dude" talks. I could listen to him explain bread on toast.

[@jaydizzle6420]

Pokemon had a massive price increase before logan Paul.

[@TheClassicrocker67]

Yeah, that's the whole reason he was doing the opening in the first place, because they were already going for big $

[@pokeburt8722]

Pokemon XY evolutions boxes have gone from 160-400 USD in like a week lol

[@pokeburt8722]

more like 500 USD now btw lol $_$

[@YouAgain1986]

Ya that’s insane .. I was looking at those a few weeks ago debating whether I should buy some and didn’t .. now I’m annoyed ..

[@RekItRyan]

Roaring skies was an anomaly. It was reprinted into the ground due to Shaymin Ex being $80 initially and 4 copy staple in competitive decks . So Pokémon learned from this and will never reprint a set like they did roaring skies again. Just look at the current market and how hard it is to get allocations of any sort of reprints.

[@RekItRyan]

elipsorange Man you must be new. I agree they reprint sets for demand. However, we are talkin about reprinting to the amount of Roaring skies here. Which was a full reprint of booster boxes, which tanked the entire set, and second hand market. Evolutions reprint is highly allocated and is in the form of a collection box, not a booster box. Show me where I can get an evolutions box for MSRP if it’s being reprinted into the ground aswell? I think your right on where to put your money tho, the older, the rarer, the minter, the better ;)

[@mikedeisle5]

@@elipsorange many modern sets could be considered great investments. Hidden fates, team up and evolutions just to name a couple! I'm not saying buy them now but if you got them at MSRP then you'd be sitting on some cash.

[@PokemonHolo]

FOMO on selling at the highest point & FOMO on not buying it before it go's up even more

[@MET7Games]

You had me until you started talk about how how you weren’t confident on prices holding on the non holo cards. Being a 1999 Pokémon collector the biggest thing missed here is something so simple, nostalgia. People want the cards and the big money collectors buying the psa 10s are driving the box prices. It’s all content based value. Psa 10 WOTC pops are not growing and besides getting lucky and finding pack fresh binder collections people are looking to spend big bucks on boxes to open and get that nostalgic feeling of pulling a red cheek pikachu remembering their childhood anime, while grading their cards. That pack fresh Charizard, you can’t replicate the feeling. Also, the investors may be cashing in but overall the nerds like myself will not put our product on the market. We will hold and enjoy it unless hard times come upon us, that is adding to this fomo panic buying we are seeing too. The product is out there just being enjoyed in collections :)

[@markhunt3975]

Underrated comment 👌

[@devonz6034]

Same goes for magic bubble gum a sealed DVD whatever anything i agree with the si goes part when it comes to investing..which is the point of the video sealed product will continue to grow but singles I agree will probably have a rocky up and down. Whether is for nostalgia to eat the cards wipe ypur ass with them whatever people are opening and depleting sealed product that is already very scarce

[@jimijames6449]

Great comment 👍🏻 Also NM-M non holos have been undervalued forever. Mint first edition uncommon for 1.50 is crazy. Now it is going the way it should.

[@LewysC]

Definitely

[@richardmiller6326]

I am 52 years old Bought pokemon before it became a craze in the uk We only got unlimited here All cards straight into a binder.... I am now constantly told sell them....nope I remember the moment outside my favourite shop pulling charizard Not selling that memory

[@jermuchannel6536]

Our old kid Rudy showing off his fancy new toys to the poor kids.

[@chocolateking1143]

Rudy needs to leave our Hobby alone.

[@mrivera6975]

@@chocolateking1143 he's been around it for years.

[@franciscoholdman929]

chocolateking1 hes probably been in the game longer than you

[@chocolateking1143]

Alright @ the people responding to me defending Rudy- first off Rudy doesn’t play Pokémon. He will just hoard a children’s game to make money. LOL you guys are serious fanboys... whomever thinks it’s okay to take away little kids toys for their game has issues.

[@mrivera6975]

@@chocolateking1143 i'm just saying. Rudy being around pokemon isn't new. If he was just now getting interested in pokemon it would make more sense. But they guy has been buying pokemon product for more than a decade. You're just too late to say that.

[@REAlREAction]

1st edition base set booster box will be worth $1 million in ten years. I’m from the future.

[@WhiteArrowVR]

That’s if they’ve not all been opened by then....

[@Blernster]

@@WhiteArrowVR damn KZbinrs

[@fizzmac966]

Will I have a girlfriend in the future ?

[@dantheinternetman1]

@@fizzmac966 I pack out a base set 1st edition sold for $43k on Logan's auction. So today is the day.

[@rusty8311]

Boxes have sold for over $1 million already

[@zookasaurusrex3002]

You are such a legend of an investor.. you really do stay very aware of whats going on

[@acexrp6288]

Someone hire chuck norris to open an alpha starter on a youtube stream so we can balance this up, k thanks.

[@PILLLOVER123]

These prices are staying for now and a couple years once the hype dies down it’ll stay the same and when the next wave comes for any old stuff specially sealed it will all double again !!! You’re completely right !!!

[@rectanglethemime3564]

always flattered when rudy mentions the beautiful 3% ladies

[@AinrehteaDalnalirtu]

Same.

[@lancethepants6863]

lol flattered. He calls every woman hot. even when he's sorting cards, everytime he sees female characters he makes perv sounds and compliments the card. xD

[@anomiclife242]

Im in the works to be making 30k+ this week. Im very thankful to have come upon your video or wouldve never known my booster boxes are so much right now.

[@solemnyugioh]

So when will Rudy permanently change YuGiOh?

[@simpworthyone3668]

over $100,000 in Pokemon boxes now you have there

[@brianbrunen9803]

Bout' time. Anyone paying attention saw the price of old singles increase over the pandemic. Even non-wotc stuff.

[@Js-mm1jdjwc]

Evolutions booster boxes are $500 and where $150 a month ago. I wish I would have bought some.

[@Bananasforthesoul]

Everyone is thinking that nowadays. But nobody could’ve anticipated this amount of growth that fast, for how much of an absolute shit storm that set was.

[@AtoManPL]

Not that big, but Evolutions were going upward innlast few months - after they stopped reprinting it, apparently. And my regular seller would sell all his Evo boxes within few hours.

[@TheNutellarulz]

Last time I was this early, my taco wasn't floppy

[@FreneticZetetic]

Rudy just spend nearly 20 mins explaining basic supply and demand to the Timmy's; be thankful for his time and efforts!

[@justincrawford5992]

It's been horrible for us playing Base-Fossil or Base-Gym, the equivalent of 93/94 mtg. Buting a deck went from reasonable to unreasonable overnight.

[@tiffanylastinger3925]

I'm so sorry. I bet that became incredibly rough

[@soulja02]

Yeah the cards are extremely expensive now. I'm glad I kept most of my older collection even though it's nowhere near mint but still fun to have.

[@douglas2437]

As a non pokemon player, can you tell me how much one might expect such a deck to cost?

[@heartlesslucas7781]

Same with GOAT Format in Yugioh; everything is getting really expensive with less and less people actually having the cards which is rough when a lot of the good cards in the format haven't gotten a reprint since they first came out like Night's Assailant or Delinquent Duo which has only one reprint and is still low availability.

[@justincrawford5992]

@Lassi Kinnunen we had a developing community and the spikes prevented a few players from finishing decks. We just started building in the last few months. Hopefully everything goes down to reasonable amounts. Not every single has spiked either, a lot of stuff that went crazy isn't played.

[@lopez156210]

The thing about the sealed market is that it will always continue to go up. As more time passes, less sealed product will be available since everything is getting opened. Now, since everything is being cracked opened, raw card prices and as more cards get graded prices on single/graded cars will drop. Some see it as a good thing, other will frown upon this because their stuff lost value. When one gets into a hobby one needs to know when it’s time to buy and when it’s stone to sell, remember “buy low, sell high”. Xy evolutions was a perfect example, there were people who were smart enough bough it when it was cheap and kept it sealed. Now that boxes are selling anywhere between 400-500 a piece. It’s not a bad idea to dump evolution boxes and get some profit. As a collector however, it is the wrong time to buy at these insane prices. I know some will dump their entire collection but man unless you are in serious need of money, the sealed stuff should be kept, singles/graded cards should be dumped. For example, if you are one of those smart people who invested and picked up 1st edition charizards or shadowless and you have multiple copies. It’s not a bad idea to sell some, get that cash and invest it back into sealed product. Here is why, psa 10 charizard 1st edition, went from selling 40-60k a few years ago. Last year the record exceeded that of 200k Now let’s be honest, as these cards keep getting more and more expensive, your potential buyers will decrease significantly. Not everyone has hundreds of thousands of dollars just sitting around to buy a single card and even if they did there are far more better things to buy than a single piece of cardboard (i know I will be hated for this 😭😭😅😅). Now let’s just say you do sell those cards and recycle a good portion of that money back into sealed products. Fam, team rocket boxes like 4-5 years ago were selling for about 400-500 dollars. As of right now, they are selling anywhere between 16-20k for 1st eds and about 9-10k for unlimited. What do you think the prices for these are going to be in another 5-10 years. These have the potential to increase in prices and I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m the next 10 years they end up selling anywhere between 40-50k. One thing thought I will say, all good things come to an end and the generations that grew up with vintage base will some day retire and the hobby/community and even the nostalgia won’t be the same. Kids that are growing up with sets from last year or future sets won’t have the same interest/nostalgia as the older generations. Changes are the majority of the good vintage stuff will be out of their reach due to price anyways. Where I am going with this to cut it short is, now when to sell and when to buy. The sealed market and single/graded cards market are very different, however one thing is for sure, the sealed one will always continue to rise since every year that passes less and less product will be available. So those are my 2 cents when it comes to the whole thing going on in the Pokémon community/hobby.

[@yugiohkid1996]

The only person to spend thousands on background props

[@generalwoe359]

I thought that's 90% of what Hollywood did

[@TheBigjrbbbr]

The key to collecting is don't tell people what you have

[@Valgyan]

Not a title i ever thought id see

[@tomk1307]

Spot on! Every word. I’ve been collecting Pokémon since 1998 and Rudy is right. Sealed product prices will stay and perhaps rise. I too don’t agree with the prices of common and uncommon unless it is 1st edition base.

[@FredDurst00]

I like collecting things. I think it's neat.

[@mantislazuli]

I've built every deck in every format from Base Set to Black and White, including fully 1st ed Base Set Haymaker, full 1st ed Base-Fossil Do the Wave, a few Japanese decks with Fan Club Porygons, and pretty much every ex deck with stars for the expensive ones. I feel smart having done this stupid thing, now. I also remember buying my French 1st Ed Base Set booster box at 300€ in 2006. I still don't want to sell.

[@CheatingZubat]

Rudy my guy, I'll gladly give you 85.99 for a box of Evolutions.

[@zemsarutobi3874]

The English 1999 base set unlimited booster Packs are at least $550 on eBay. And that’s for a light pack. It’s crazy how much they’ve gone up.

[@GoyBenius_0901]

Weighed legendary collection packs are like £450 a peice, I got 12 unweighed packs for £144 back in 2011, absolute fucking shambles, total rape prices.

[@wolfattacker1]

I literally joined at the right time.

[@DanielFlores-fo1ee]

The worst time you mean.

[@retrogamelord3763]

the worst time tho

[@FenderBenz]

I don't think it's fun anymore. Way too much money. Only rich people can buy older packs now.

[@wolfattacker1]

@@DanielFlores-fo1ee nah. Best time. I’m a retailer. Just opened up shop. Profits galore. I always set my prices lower than most tho.

[@southsidecollectibles2937]

I agree, the sealed pokemon product is shrinking daily and the cards are becoming more common as the packs keep being ripped

[@southsidecollectibles2937]

But also, when grading the scarcity of your card is also known to an exact number through pop reports. So you know the supply for the market.

[@Jacobey22]

"Magic's Day Will Come" - Rudy 2020

[@stefanagha3248]

Magics day is done, if you really gonna listen to one of the most invested guys in MTG in the world on when to buy MTF product lol well you the biggest Timmy going.

[@terebiomimasu]

I collect stuff so casually that whenever I peek into the world that Rudy shows us of high-end collectors/investors, I really wonder if I should continue calling myself a collector. Haha. It's so fascinating.

[@minnesnowduh9942]

I love his little jealousy rent at the end, magic will have its day!! Lmao

[@chadanenberg6454]

Thank you for the Consistent financial information. I am just a commander player but it helps to see how magic is moving. You are awesome

[@brandonkick]

These prices are CRAZY compared to even three or four months ago. I remember keeping up with the prices pretty heavily in the tail end of 2018 / most all of 2019 Around the fall of 2019... the average base set unlimited booster was pushing 3K a box with 1st edition shadowless boxes easily pushing 10K+ Lets see... unlimited jungle / fossil probably 1800-2200 and add maybe $800 onto each box for first edition versions. Base set 2 was probably around $1200 a box Team Rocket / Gym Challenge / Gym Heros were just a touch behind jungle and fossil... probably $1500 for unlimited and $2100 - $2200 for first edition I quit buying pokemon cards right after gym challenge / gym hero's came out. Sold off my entire binder of cards for pennies on the dollar even pre covid prices. Here's the deal. Some of this product will pull back pretty heavily, some will not.... The earliest stuff will probably stay strong (Base / Base 2 / Jungle / Fossil / Rocket / Gyms) with the strongest being the earliest. Base set wasn't a huge run. There's only so much sealed product. Scarcity is a factor. Stuff that came after the WOTC era was probably printed to "oblivion" and is in a similar situation as revised. It can probably grow, but there's just soo much of it. Where as base set / base 2 is akin to alpha / beta. Rudy absolutely stole those boxes, even for end of 2018 early 2019 prices. I'd have bought every box I could have at those prices, at that point in time, without having any knowledge of the future. Of course, I didn't have much money... so every box I could buy would be like... 10 boxes at best. I do not see anything newer than the gym challenge / hero products having crazy growth that holds. Hell I never though Id see the day where team rocket held. In 2014 and 2015 you could buy 1st edition rocket boxes for like $700. Today that boxes would probably bring over 10K, and I'd think anyone who had them at $700 would be selling them at those prices. Unless your a king chalupa like our taco man Rudy himself, who knows there's going to be more long term growth (even if it's not the crazy exponential kinds) and has the staying power to let his money continue to make him more money

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

THANK YOU Rudy for explaining perfectly exactly what I've repeatedly tried to explain to my friends opening these. Singles and sets are going to go way down in price as these boxes are opened and sealed box prices are going to keep going to the moon as long as the unboxing trend continues.

[@TheGbzneegah]

Culture vultures figured out nerd culture was worth something smh

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

This

[@xDukii]

yep

[@Lock2002ful]

omg cry me a river cut the “exclusive real fan” club, no one cares the more people are interested in a product, the better for the fans If videogames and tcgs would still be a niche market we wouldn’t have the plethora of content we have today, so you can thank those “culture vultures” instead of feeling superior

[@retropursuit992]

@@Lock2002ful still amazes me how cheap some video game consoles and games are. Suppose the supply was just so high.

[@Furiouspenguin27]

@@Lock2002ful not really, fake fans buy into this shit and take it from people who’d actually appreciate it. And then when it’s no longer cool they sell it for more than it’s worth, again hurting the people who actually care about it

[@christopherbodnar9934]

I'm glad i found this guy. Hes brillant and well spoken

[@hugoramirez4445]

people are gonna cry when this finally blows over

[@wartortle1375]

I bought a $1000 PSA 8 Blastoise from Base set 2 on StockX 4 days ago and now it is worth $1500 on StockX. I haven’t even got the card yet and it went up in value.

[@snoopanoop7705]

I never liked or cared for Logan Paul even before the whole suicide forest thing but that did pissed me off even more about him.

[@bobbybero7452]

He’a a narcissist

[@snoopanoop7705]

@@bobbybero7452 agreed

[@PropiaPersona]

There's a shit ton of base set unlimited charizards on ebay right now

[@josesanchez7294]

Everyone seems to have multiple now it’s crazy

[@PropiaPersona]

@@josesanchez7294 yeah I would invest in shadowless lol

[@MTGUnpacked]

This massive hype can only last so long. At the rate influencers and investors are opening these old products, there soon won't be any old sealed product left!

[@Techn207]

Oh no there will still be a few here and there from the people that are not stupid enough to sell right now. If people open up a ton of those old product, only mean the value of the remaining one will go up because rarity. Probably wont be this year or some point in 2021 when the bubble burst, but give it a couple year and be ready to see "First Edition pokemon base set booster box for sale : 500 000$!"

[@Techn207]

@fusian𝗫 That's gonna be hard, for sure

[@oldfireworkcollectors]

@@Techn207 I don’t think it will take long till a base 1st sells for 500k $ probably early-mid 2021. just speculations tho :)

[@Techn207]

@@oldfireworkcollectors Possible, highly possible. Tho what im expecting is to see them rise sharply in price right now since we're in a huge bubble, then the bubble burst at some point in 2021, price drop back to ~current prices and it could take 2-3 years to get back to the 500k$

[@davidrobbins5079]

Sold my base to team rocket set at the first spike. Made a huge return and they went up 2 more times

[@Jon-Jon309]

“Pokémon in the bathroom” New band name I called it.

[@BloodLegaZ]

Dont act like that isnt like 50 hours of your Pokemon Silver's playtime is on the pot.

[@Silviremon]

Hope you got the Nintendo legal fees.

[@mrpyro07]

I agree 100% with what you're saying about single cards vs. sealed product. Psa 9 base set unlimited Charizard cards went from $150 in 2017 to $5,000 today. 3,500% increase in less than 3 years. If that isn't the definition of parabolic then I don't know what is.

[@oneof13forestpeople97]

Sealed will always do better than singles at the end of the day

[@shawnp8076]

Sounds about right on the team rocket box , that box was 250 to 500 like 7 years ago

[@nyx211]

16:53 Sounds as if you were scammed.

[@xGaaaBx]

jokes on them now HA!

[@serious409]

With the pack rippers we have on YT alone, they will drive the prices to the moon… they get enough revenue to keep buying the packs.

[@bishop5116]

* RUDY ON FIRE * TACO TOO HOT * TARMOGOYF'S DOWN, BUY SEANCE NOW *

[@fsmoura]

*_*buying intensifies*_*

[@gammafighter]

I did something similar to you in XY era. I was collecting at that time and would buy two booster boxes of the new set: one to open and one to hold. For the 3 years prior, each set that was released went up by an average of 50% per year, so I thought it was a sure thing. As you know, that was when they started reprinting booster boxes and prices plummeted. I just held on to what I had and forgot about it. I probably checked the prices twice since in that time. Now, my booster boxes have doubled or tripled in price. Since that was what I was aiming to do anyways, I am planning to sell. I think you have a good point about the older sealed sets. I think this price range may be the new normal, but I can see it pulling back as much as 50%. However, I think it's just a matter of time until another inciting incident occurs and these older sets spike up again. In the short-term, I'm not as optimistic as you, but long-term, I am bullish.

[@PropiaPersona]

Yeah but logan also brought in Collectibles Guru and his scamcraft,

[@BoshiYoshi]

I have a ton of the original Pokemon and Yugioh cards but I have no idea how to go about selling them properly.

[@ericbaker350]

It's also extremely positive for the kids. Honestly it's such a clean hobby and in the internet age giving kids value in something tangible that has value that is relative to interest is extraordinary and leads to great life lessons.

[@Miakel]

The thing is, like many childhood collectables, the people who collected Pokemon cards as a kid are now late 20s early 30s and now have a disposable income. So you have a lot more collectors suddenly.