Rarity vs. Demand & Understanding the Difference When Investing in Antiques & Collectibles!

Welcome back to Reserved Investments! In this video I explain the difference between rarity and demand! This is vital if you are investing in the antiques and collectibles trade. This video was created due to some of the comments I received from collectors who still do not realize that most of their favorite collectibles are selling for a high price point because they are in demand, not rare!
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[@lecturelad]

More sage advice. Thank you ! I'm a retired investment advisor who sometimes got so weary of telling clients that those Beanie Babies they were stashing in their safe deposit boxes and their Franklin Mint dinner plates were never going to make them wealthy. Most listened but many didn't. Sometimes stupid goes clear to the bone.

[@ReservedInvestments]

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[@cards4kidz360]

Hey Sean, if you enjoy discussing different products than Pokemon, feel free to do so as your knowledge is very RARE, thus I'm sure the quality of the video will be at top-notch

[@custum18]

If you're a real collector and have been doing this for decades you realize over the years from meeting people that collectors are sitting on mountains of hoarded collectables.

[@theunfortunatecollector115]

Every boomer guy I know has a ton of collectable stuff. none of them will ever sell. They really were the collector generation

[@mllarson]

Collectibles don't equate to value. I could collect napkins and sauce packets from my local McDonalds and it won't be valuable. The smart collector churns his or her stockpile and lets the greater fool store the items for decades. As long as you are selling to these Kimmies, Timmies, and Poindexters you are doing pretty good. By the way, are you interested in some vintage 1990's era McDonalds napkins? 🤣🤣🤣

[@UelCarter]

this guy gets it. i've been beating the drum about these comics for over 10 years. demand better, don't overpay for Spidey 300 or Hulk 181

[@krzysztofszmytkiewicz1029]

Would love to see more videos on such interwsting objects like the target glass ball you have shown in the video. More curios!

[@drathicusrex7244]

I’d love to see a follow up video discussing very rare items with limited / negligible demand. As a niche vintage tiki mug collector, I have some very rare pieces such as a 1960’s porcelain Sascha Brastoff candle holder made for the short lived Aloha Jhoe’s restaurant in Palm Springs, CA. There are mass produced modern day Tiki Farm mugs that would most likely sell for more money than this rare piece.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

He did that when the channel was new. Talking about games and comics and toys that are rare that no one cares about. Rarity doesn't equal value.

[@mattelder]

always good as a 'refresher' video. Asteric items are interesting from time to time.

[@rhodeisland92]

Thank you for explaining these core concepts. And yes! Esoteric items!

[@image_comics9224]

My favorite video this year so far! Great stuff Shawn ! Always appreciate your knowledge ...

[@hogations]

Excellent advice! I'm a comic book collector at heart, but I would like to see videos on other antiques just because I find the entire collecting habit very interesting, and it's always good to learn new things about interesting things!

[@Bimmy_Lee]

More antique and isosteric videos please! I love that stuff. Thanks for your content!

[@rickd6476]

It blows my mind the amount of money in comic books, when I know very few people who even care

[@HermannTheGreat]

Millennial here, I've never come across anyone in my school/work/social circles who collects or even reads them. When the Boomer and maybe Gen X is passing, Comics books will lose most of their demand I believe.

[@rickd6476]

@@HermannTheGreat makes you wonder what the next “comic book” will be for us millennials

[@HermannTheGreat]

Might be early tech, Older Apple Tech and Samsung phones, Early apple watches etc., Young millenials and Z-Gen don't seem to be collectors the same way. Good thing is, this stuff will be dirt cheap in another 20 years@@rickd6476

[@sidneyrivera3578]

Thanks for putting your expertise out there. I wish I had learned of your channel years ago…I have really enjoyed the last 3-4 months of content and have been going back in your video archives. Keep up the great work.🙏🏼

[@ReservedInvestments]

Thank you!

[@hartspot009]

Nice target ball ! Ralph Finch is the "target ball guy" that recently downsized some of his extensive and rare pieces. I hope this great video finally gets through to those who need it. Well done!

[@Kurtle001]

Shawn is the Goat 🐐

[@oarancards4443]

Never liked this guy ,,I was wrong he’s very cool and very smart ,,speaks the truth thank you

[@cmmusicchannel-nc6lc]

Great video. Thank you for taking the time to explain these concepts. I would like to see more of your videos that include historical items (documents/money/etc).

[@ReservedInvestments]

I pulled back from doing some of those videos, but hope to circle back to them soon.

[@rasmusbertelsen6129]

I'd love to watch a video on your take on what to pick up or what you have been picking up for the last 12 months. Thanks for all the great share of knowledge.

[@nowherebound2908]

Great commentary as always, keep it coming! (Kimmy, Timmy, and Poindexters Anonymous 😂)

[@OpinionatedFanboy]

Great video. Could not agree more!

[@davidsamuelson2089]

I listened to you & my own common sense during COVID card & comic book highs. Locked away my personal connection to mass produced stuff (did hold onto a handful of things I actually love) & sold into those all-time highs. Never regretted it - everything I might want back I can get now for 25-50%. Not too shabby.

[@Teacherguy06]

Wow, so well said. I feel like a bit of a sucker but still enlightened.

[@bat2275]

Disagree with RINKER saying nothing mass produced will ever be rare. There are certain golden age comics with supposedly less than 10 copies in existence. Rarer than Action #1 or Detective #27. But his point is generally correct.

[@timreierson26]

Regarding future videos, I think it would be beneficial to create content that hits the broadest audience. I like the many videos you do that reinforce the core principles of investing in collectibles. As a slight twist, how about giving us real life examples of collectible purchases the conform to your principles and those that violate your principles. For example, using a recent comic book auction to highlight the good and the bad? This would help to reinforce these principles by allowing us to observe how you evaluate selected purchases.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Really good episode and I agree on definition of rarity and scarcity and what you should focus on for true value especially if your going for a longer time line. 👍

[@user-yo5nf7wm2p]

Good work! I'd love to see you make more content on coins and paper currency! Thx

[@shadowmarez7457]

Great video man. I always tell me friend "Rare/Hard to find doesn't always mean Value" New card games i wont mention like to create fake rarity where they create only 5 in the world. But it's a card game no one plays or cares about, saying there are only 5 in the world is meaningless if there's no market who cares about it. Something like that, You explained it better lol .

[@tdpetrucci84]

Thank you Shawn 🎉

[@thewealthofnations4827]

Yes, please do a video on historical documents that you have mentioned many times but don't talk about as much. This world is huge and wonderful. I was looking at historical documents from the Napoleonic era which are interesting and of course anything George Washington related. The other side of this is owning a historical document is more meaningful and significant than a printed card featuring fantasty illustrations. Glass is interesting too. There is a whole heap of glass out in the bush near where I live from the late 1800's where the prospectors used them when they were looking for gold.

[@MK7779-]

Excellent content in this video. Thank you . Sell into the hype

[@katielowen]

Shawn thanks so much; this was hands down one of your best explained videos. Excellent explanation of rarity vs scarcity, the volatility of conditional ‘rarity’ of non-rare collectibles, and the examples you gave. I think what you explained with your House of Secrets and Batman examples is what threw me for a loop in your last video of buying a overhyped $3500+ PSA10 Pokemon card, vs why you wouldn’t consider buying a PSA9 at less than 1/5 of the price. Wouldn’t you consider a 9 the better buy, or would you disregard buying either altogether (like your amazing Spider-Man example)? Also, would love if you ever made any videos in the future going through some of your examples of past purchases and later sells. Whether they were whiteboard style, or just talking about your mindset on when and why you speculated on the item at the price that you did, vs when and why you sold. I know you’ve said you mention these concepts every several months, but sometimes it just takes the right example to really get the concept to ‘click’ with a viewer. Thanks again for going into so much detail in today’s video!

[@ReservedInvestments]

Too many out there. It’s a catch 22. If you buy at PSA 9 it’s nothing special and high end investors don’t want it. If you pay $4K or more for it, it’s overpriced. Hence the point of that video.

[@katielowen]

@@ReservedInvestments Gotcha; that makes sense and sums it up perfectly. Thanks again for the response / explanation!

[@HJ-fr6ku]

Shawn great video, I'm a big comic book guy so I would like to see you do a video on fabricated scarce books versus error variants like a black cover venom lethal protector 1 that got missed during quality control versus a 1:1000 chase variant... keep up the good work.

[@tomneijnens4048]

Thank you very much

[@pearljamstar2900]

Would love to see more videos on sports cards.

[@rogueinvestor2375]

I would definitely like to learn more about the antique side of the market.

[@nevercold808]

Hahaha! I'm guilty of putting 'RARE' in the titles of certain ebay listings when I was actively selling there. It kinda just became a habit. The offerings, at least I think, would fall under scarce, especially in the condition some of those things were. I honestly thought that target ball you were holding was an old glass fishing net float. I had no idea glass target balls were a thing. This is what can happen if you live on a rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, haha. I'd love for you to share your knowledge of more niche items and even items you find enjoyable. Would make for an entertaining and educational watch.

[@ReservedInvestments]

There is nothing wrong with this, as I myself do it on eBay. If you put 'in demand' in the title, no one cares. If you put 'rare' in the title and description every Timmy, Kimmy, and Poindexter comes running...sadly...

[@fahboy8752]

You may have talked about them before but I haven’t heard you talk about Diecast such hot wheels and matchbox. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts even though I’m sure I kinda know lol. BTW, Awesome channel (just making sure so I dont slapped in the face with a stale doughnut 🤣)

[@awsmofo]

Evolving Skies booster box is actually around $500 currently. Not trying to be the pokemon stonker, I enjoy your content and agree with most things you say/preach.

[@mfdoom1898]

This dude deserves a million subs 😎

[@JC-dg6vo]

The US was importing Furniture from China since the mid 1800's where U.S companies had already setup shop to produce plates, glasses and anything they could forge like Tiffany wear, to make a buck! The Great Lakes region Furniture was suffering because of this. So rare only came out real artisan's/mavericks' shops (Hudson River School for Art that was heavily forged) or others who created something amazing that every Timmy, Kimmy and Poindexter bought forgeries of out of mass-produced bins because they wanted to have an item that looked expensive. You and I did the same thing. I sold Tin toys, comics, ceramic, coins, etc...and shoved that into discounted stocks. I am sitting on rare comics and coins (1893 S Morgans) that I will divest myself of in the coming years.

[@timreierson26]

Another video idea - can you critique the three big auction houses and their auction processes (Heritage, ComicLink and Comic Connect)? Pros and cons of selling on those platforms? Critique could even differentiate based on various categories - eg comic age, comic value, scarcity, genre,etc.

[@paulroy3673]

More antiques videos please.

[@Kaiju_808]

Great video as usual. This is exactly why I sold my Giant Size X-Men 1. Took the money and ran. It is not rare, they are everywhere just like Hulk 181. I await that day that a lot of these “rare” comics get blasted by a huge influx that dilutes the market. I’m looking at you ASM 300. 300 is an awesome book, big milestone but so so overpriced and not rare.

[@alexestrada9371]

Excellent as always...Would you make a video on the R/C collectible market please...

[@ReservedInvestments]

Very niche market...

[@Thegravy251]

Personally, I'd like to hear about other things, not necessarily for investment purposes, but it could be interesting. I walk around flea markets and garage sales and it's pointless looking for comic books and the like, but people overlook things like antique tools, or other items and that's what I'm looking for.

[@freiheit8573]

So important point. Yes, pls more esoteric items. One can learn so much from these cases. Even if an item is rare, it is not necessarily valuable. You can create a NFT for example that is a 1 of 3 and then? Value comes from the intrinsic entropy of an item. If it is very hard or even impossible to recreate, then it has value. Some items are impossible to re-create because they are old and unique, like the Monalisa. When there is doubt, the valuable one will always be the older version. The reverse case of this was Da Vinci Salvador Mundi. First, it was considered a copy of a lost original...then it was dated and traced back to Da Vinci itself and suddenly it is the highest-priced painting ever. Pop culture items should have an historic character. The first edition Pokemon cards are a fringe case, but will never be meaningful or rare the way a historic painting is rare.

[@collectapaul]

Hey Shawn, first comment but by no means a new viewer. It would be interesting to get your opinion on the Baines Shield card of Arthur Wharton which recently sold here in the UK for ~£26k, would you consider that rare or scarce? Do you think it warranted what’s believed to be a record UK sale for a single vintage card?

[@christiantolliver4042]

People don’t differentiate material value from nostalgic value. Can’t tell. Nostalgic value provides audio or visual anchorage to a time or an event. That brings a certain stability in your brain to know the future is just as uncertain as it was then and you survived. Keeping it or reacquiring it is valuable if it has meaning. It may not be financially valuable if the next person has no connection whatsoever. Sean, let me know if you need anything done on the left coast. Would love to work w you.

[@panthar1]

I am +1 for more esoteric collectable categories, there is a lot of them out there you have not talked about at all, or only in passing. To be expected though, you won't get as many views. Just like Rudy and his lego video's don't get as many views. Eventually the YT algorithm will come to your rescue as you get attention in those collector categories though. If your goal is to educate then it surely supersedes the goal of views.

[@BeenBeenBeenBeen-fp2st]

Shawn I've been recently been watching a ton of your videos and I agree with pretty much everything you say. With the release of video game pop reports, it is easier now to get a better idea of how many games have been graded in the last few years. That being said, looking at the first print Matte Sticker Super Mario Bros, WATA has graded 42 of them, and there weren't many made to begin with (10,000 tops). I'm talking Matte Sticker sealed not any of the other 10 print variations that they made 60 million of. Collectors seem to prefer the earliest prints of items. A Matte Sticker Mario is not a Detective Comics 27, but there are fewer graded copies of the first print Mario than of the classic first appearance of the Caped Crusader. There are no known sealed copies of the First Print 1985 Matte Sticker Mario. The 42 on the WATA pop report are all CIB. The most expensive game off all time was the Second print Gloss Sticker Mario from early 1986 which went for 2 million. I agree that is quite high, but there only 2 known sealed copies of the Second Print sealed Mario Bros. Now, would you ever do a video discussing the low numbers of these early prints which video game collectors pay high prices for? If there aren't many copies out there according to the pop reports, what do you see in regards to their future potential? I think Mario will continue to be popular in the future just like Batman. Again, I'm specifically talking about the first print and not any later variants. Thanks for reading this and I'm really enjoying your videos!

[@TheSillySils]

I can tell you from personal experience that Blue Balls are definitely not rare

[@kobecollects]

I agree with some points and disagree with some points. Great video! One of the reasons why sealed product is a good investment for a brand such as pokemon, its its because its deflationary with a growing fanbase. All things are relative, so are 400 charizards in psa 10 rare? In comparison relative to millions of pokemon fans, yes. The gap between supply and demand changes relative to the fanbase and supply. Sport cards, 1k is low pop lol. In pokemon that sounds like a lot! But there are more pokemon collectors gained last week than what the comic book hobby gained in the last 10 years. You see it yourself when you make a comic nook video vs a pokemon video. For myself, ive done 10x++++ on MODERN sealed Pokemon - whethet or not peoople know sealed goes up, discipline to hold it sealed remains rare.

[@HydraCollectables]

Thank you so much for this Shawn. Can you please do a similar analysis or give your opinion on a high grade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 first and second print. Thanking you in advance.

[@jordanparks99]

I think more videos on different topics would be good.

[@theunfortunatecollector115]

I would enjoy videos on other categories. I have an 1800's torpedo glass bottle from Dublin it's neat. Not worth much though

[@bat2275]

yeah ..... more videos on 1800's antiques like target balls, antique farm equipment, etc.

[@geeksurge]

Love your incisive explanation, as always. How do you account for cracked or lost slabs (CPR, etc.) in the CGC/CBCS numbers? Certainly, the reported numbers of slabs are higher than the actual numbers of books actually out there. Do you know of any analysis that accounts for this process?

[@williamedwards5704]

We are supposed to send in our cracked labels and they remove them from the census. I wonder how many folk's actually send them in.

[@fourdoormafia]

Ninja turtles #1 first print is both rare and in demand. Great book to buy with only 3250 copies printed (250 being file copies)

[@goldeneastgun]

100% true... but, I feel like I'm in the principals office getting in trouble 🙃

[@vgrepairs]

Ok? And?

[@goldeneastgun]

@@vgrepairs And... "Thank you sir. May I have another?"

[@ReservedInvestments]

Some of you need that…😉

[@consumetheliving]

Hello sir, I love this content and would love to hear your opinion on Golden age comics specifically pre-code horror. This genre of books also saw increases during the "game stop" covid boom and have persisted while silverage books reset. Curious to see if you think books like Crime Suspenstories 22 and Chamber of Chills 19 will hold value or correct.

[@vgrepairs]

He's spoken about that before! Pre-code horror, fantasy, and mystery comics

[@davidsamuelson2089]

I’ll bet that there are quite a few less of those Tec 27 books out there than the census count, considering how many people must’ve cracked and resubmitted to try and get higher values post pressing.

[@le_med]

Yes on esoteric items

[@Shishkebarbarian]

Shawn schooling Timmies is my hobby

[@victorlouie1068]

More videos on graded comics. I can’t help myself.

[@UKDark_Mark]

Great video again Shawn, thank you. The Scarcity-Rarity-Value and where to buy (if you must 🙂) in that cycle was explained perfectly. And ‘yes’ on antiques coverage please or something more on books?

[@videozz2012]

Please make a video about the Base Set 1st Edition Charizard in PSA 10 condition and its rarity, or lack there of?!?? I would really like to hear your opinion on this card in particular!! The PSA 9 would also be worth covering

[@ty2k]

This is me requesting a rug collecting/investing primer to really drive away all of your traffic except me. ;)

[@smashdragon182]

For all you Pokémon investors, truly rare cards are your trophy cards

[@zandelscomicsandcards7543]

Would you consider certain Silver Age comics to be rare or just In Demand? I’m speaking of Action Comics # 252 the first appearance of Supergirl. That one specifically. I don’t hear you talk about Sliver Age comics too often.

[@MyBookssonicmario8998]

I’d like your opinion on .C.I.A.B. Games (code in a box games) on switch like Aggelos or especially Yono and the celestial elephants. These games had a physical release before being .C.I.A.B. They’re lower budget and could be forgotten in the digital age under the ocean. Yono has different versions with the best one being the English, Spanish and French version, as it has the English title and description.

[@Dinnye01]

Shawn, I am friggin' happy that you doubled your net worth during the pandemic. It gives just that much more credibility to what you say. Your fortune is not our misfortune. It IS also our fortune. Well, for those who listen. A metric fuckton of channels on youtube preach about profits and give no real advice. You? You do it for free. You give context and you give useable advice. And I can't say fairer than that.

[@TOSStarTrek]

Is that cobalt blue? 1:48

[@fatheadcat9958]

In the auction circuit the word "rare" doesn't imply scarcity, rather "rarely offered" for sale. The word has just been hijacked by ebay sellers to draw attention to their listing. However it can apply when used in it's original meaning on ebay when something common in for example in the USA is uncommon in the UK. For example, back in 2004 the Dreamcast game GigaWing 2 was very common in the US and sold for $10, but it was never released in the UK, so when one came up for sale in the UK it was rare. So it isn't quite as clear cut when put on a global market stage.

[@odinknowsbest]

I'd like to know what books are referring to or a link to the video you mention them would be cool ty

[@ReservedInvestments]

Check out my previous videos. This channel was meant to be explored. You will easily come across the video if you look through my back catalog.

[@mitchgilbert6894]

The trick is to buy the card, not the grade. A PSA 10 Charizard is still just a charizard when it's all said. 1 charizard = 1 charizard

[@grant5864]

4:45 How do you "sell items into the hype" if you don't have the items beforehand? Are you timing the market? If you didn't have the items beforehand how did you know you weren't buying at ATH?

[@matthewbryant2972]

Do a piece on Elvis Collectables.

[@ReservedInvestments]

Already did. It's a dying collecting category....

[@charless6602]

Absolute rarity >> conditional rarity!!!

[@iFOMO23]

If you make it any clearer they might actually start to listen to you bud!🎉❤

[@khadorstrong]

1952 Topps Mickey Mantles were mass produced. How much did that record one sell for last year? How much are low grade versions going for? Rare doesn't mean valuable. Mass produced doesn't mean it won't be valuable.

[@ReservedInvestments]

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[@DeltaFH]

I think this is a good basic overview, though I think it lacks some greater nuance. Like, having a scarce item without demand is just as deadly as having a mass produced item long term. It is all relative to the size of the market's demand for the item. If you have an item that only 10 copies exist, but you only have 40 buyers looking for it, versus if there is 2,000 copies of an item with 2,000,000 people looking for it. One is certainly rarer if you only view the pure amount of copies in existence, but the one with more copies and greater demand would most likely be harder to obtain and more costly to obtain. How often the item transacts is important as well. I would much rather have a coin that is consistently selling at auction every month than one that hasn't sold in 9 years, even if there are more of that coin and more in that grade than the other. Please cover more antique categories. I think if you're doing this channel for education then the videos on Pokemon will attract the people in and hopefully in the long term it will lead them sticking around for the more niche or at least less talked about online/KZbin markets. That's definitely the advantage of this channel over someone who is doing it as a full time job, which would be stuck only following the hot topics.

[@jordand1554]

Funny… noted collectibles expert Harry Wrenkers book basically had one page in it… it said don’t buy any collectibles at all, buy the S/P 500… and then referred to everyone as “timmes” and “poindexters” for being stupid enough to buy the book…. Colorful.

[@ReservedInvestments]

It would help if you actually knew how to spell his name. 😳 It’s Rinker. You’re welcome.

[@jordand1554]

Lol - greatly appreciated! Boosting your YT algorithm here. Clearly never heard of the guy (I thought that was pretty obvious) :)

[@PokeSeph]

Average Timmy here. What are the books you recommend to better understand the antiques and collectibles markets? I didn't see anything about it in the video description

[@ReservedInvestments]

Watch my previous videos.

[@leafgreengoblin]

Which books did you recommend again? Antiques Handbook?

[@ReservedInvestments]

If you watch my previous videos you’ll know the answer.

[@Aurinna]

When investing in collectibles, what's the argument for investing in graded items over sealed/raw items? I think overall there is a graded premium that is more susceptible to volatility in supply/price swings and isn't as safe as just buying sealed product or just the raw singles/item itself since grading varies from the company whos grading it and isn't as consistent.

[@ReservedInvestments]

Graded items for the most part are more easy to value and highly liquid.

[@Aurinna]

@@ReservedInvestments that's fair, hope you have a good day!! :D

[@bignothing909]

true rare is good but demand is best. u name me one comic fan that dosent like venom. long as kids trade up to physical media and I think asm 300 is a blue chip comic and worth 700 to 800 bucks. also I would like u to do a stockmarket for dummies were u compare safe stocks to safe collecting and the possible pay out after 10,20 years

[@txag007]

You see this same thing with the dvd/blu ray community. People try to equate out of print discs (OOP) as rare. I laugh at those listings, and think yea buddy, your massed produced disc is "rare" ::eye roll::

[@TheMysteryDriver]

People don't watch old videos for the most part. That's why so many channels repeat content

[@ReservedInvestments]

I get a gazillion questions a day that I answered a million times before…lol.

[@TheMysteryDriver]

@@ReservedInvestments I'm sure. Human nature isn't to seek info for yourself but to be spoon fed it.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

I agree , a rare steak is rarer 😆👌

[@poxpower]

How does "mass produced scarcity" fit into this? Like for MTG a "1 of 500" serialized card is kind of rare if you consider it a "1 in 500" but if you consider a "1 of X amount of total serialized cards" then now it's just one of tens of thousands...

[@ReservedInvestments]

It was produced out of rarity, that is completely different than organic/true rarity.

[@poxpower]

I'd be interested to see a video on this with data to see if there's any sort of trends or categories of cards like this. The "1 of 1" lord of the rings card did sell for 7 figures after all. Clearly the gimmick worked to some extent. And logically speaking, in 100 years, whether they printed a million or just one of that card, if there's just one left and people want it, what's the difference? Action Comics had a huge print run but just a handful survived. Is it basically just random whether or not people find value in manufactured scarcity?

[@leehaskins307]

can a person say RARE on ebay of a modern spots cards like a GOLD which is only 10 cards total… is a modern gold card of just 10 in total rare ? I think so…. very interested in ur opion… becuase thats the way modern cards are trying to be rare… is it working in ur opinion ?

[@ReservedInvestments]

That’s mass produced scarcity. Big difference. You can’t manufacture rarity.

[@alexkueter9710]

I know you'll hate this but to be fair everyone was saying putting booster boxes away even during sun and moon era was dumb because everyone was doing it and most of those boxes are 6-10x in 4 years.

[@ReservedInvestments]

Again, you are not understanding the catalysts that caused that to happen. That's what the Pokemon community is missing. So no, I won't hate your comment, I hear it ten times a day, It just proves that the Pokemon community has no concept as to what caused the catalyst that drove prices up. Hint: Sell into the hype while prices are at all time highs.

[@jcorellana4568]

I'd like to see more esoteric item content, but glassware is uninteresting to me and probably too far down the rabbit hole for most. Some of those historical documents or coins you talk about, or one of a kind pieces even (art perhaps?) I think would make for great content and maybe garner more views (although definitely not as much as comic/pokemon stuff; those buzzwords are just unbeatable in the algorithms 😅). Cheers from Canada

[@BOBSMITH-fp5xv]

damn 2nd comment , almost 1st :)

[@victorcotto6699]

I love it when these dopes say, Hulk 181, ASM 300, etc. are very rare. And that their value is due to their perceived rarity. LOL

[@weaslepopper]

If the word "rare" is #1,"vintage* HAS to be #2,right?

[@ReservedInvestments]

Actually it’s ‘mint’, but vintage would come right after along with ‘investment grade.’ lol.

[@ramonedetroitguam6075]

asm 300 cgc "double autograph" 9.0 - 9.8 is rare....

[@verified893]

Double autograph. Haha.

[@Mskedu47]

Guys your stuff is not Raawrrrr

[@timothyj592]

Shawn you lie too much. That evolving skies pack has been touched by you which means it is a limited edition 1 of 1 pack 😅

[@saltytbone]

Well sure "rare" is overused on eBay, but whatabout "L@@K" ?