I bought 9 BB of evolving skies on release for 125 and ripped them all. Best pulls were umbreon V alt and dragonite v alt, no Vmax alts at all. Wish I had them sealed now 😢
You win some, you lose some. Learn from both those outcomes. I too made some bad decisions. Btw I bought 20 of those costco evolving skies etb combo. Couldn't resist and opened 10 but still have 10 sealed lol. Best 37.99$ ever spent in my life.
One thing I have learned early on in my investing journey is that sometimes we need to have a short memory. Can’t dwell on the bad plays we made or the product(s) we didn’t end up buying. Gotta say “oh well” and move on to the next. There will always be a good next play
Selling for a profit is never a bad play. Even if it goes to the moon you still profited. Saying "If I only held" can always be countered with "what if you never even bought into it" Wins are wins
I got hit by the $200 151 Japanese booster boxes. That one got a lot of people. Another terrible one that I made was getting four of those Pikachu VMax boxes from Celebrations. We have all made mistakes in this. But my successes have far outweighed those.
My biggest mistake was not buying all the Fates Collide ETBS I found on clearance at walmart in 2019! They were about $45CAD.. wasn't really investing yet, just opening casually for fun! My worth investment on the other hand was probably Shining Fates! I still have a lot of that and most is worth less then I paid.
Years ago I was in Target and there were five Team Up ETB's sitting on the shelf for sale. I didn't even give them a second look because I was there to buy 3 Darkness Ablaze ETB's. All the hype was for Charizard then. I rub my forehead everytime I think of that shopping trip. At least I did buy an art set of Team Up sleeved booster packs (which I kept sealed) so the trip wasn't a total bomb. There was really not much hype for Team Up until 2022.
Yes there was hype for Team Up in 2022. You probably didn’t see Team Up it was probably Shining Fates or something. Team Up wasn’t in any stores in 2022.
I also bought Japanese 151 at the very top, it crashed about a week later, thankfully I only bought 1...but my biggest regret is I went HARD into shining fates pre orders. Still got so much of it hanging around and it's worth less than I paid 3 YEARS later. Literally got multiple of every product. It was around the time when scarcity at release was the big factor...then they printed it sooooo much 😂 lesson learned
In time, most investments will turn around. Just have to play the long game. Also, sometimes you have to accept you missed the train, and just focus on the next opportunity.
got shafted on some tins from pokemoncenter. I forget which tin it was exactly, but the single tins were coming with evolving skies, but I bought the 2-tin combos which were all brilliant stars and fusion strike instead, zero evolving skies in like 20 tins lol. it was rough
Loved this Colin! Wish more creators would talk about the losses because it’s how we learn and no one’s perfect!! One of my losses arrived in the mail today. Thought I got an amazing deal on eBay on a Gardevoir & Sylveon GX Alt Art I’m pretty good condition for $125…it’s fake…shiny object syndrome man!! It’s real!
I disagree with this. I have no reason to pump product - maybe I’m naive but I speak my own opinions and experiences… I seriously don’t have any ill intent when talking about poke investing
I guess it depends on how long you’re talking about. If you’re talking about short term investments then yeah those might not have been very good, but like that huge collection box might be way up here in another 5-7 years
Evolving Skies- yup bought those Costco tins and Sold em ( kept one) . Yup bought a Japanese 151 box at the peak as well, but bought 6 more at current price. Please don't buy POkemon cards at their all time highs....why do that to yourself? Remember it's okay to miss out on something cuz theres always the next Hot thing.
If you still had the evolving skies etbs, would you sell them now that you would have 4 xed your money or would you keep holding them? I think I have 7 of each variant and I got most of them at 40-45 USD
Very much appreciate and enjoy your videos. Vivid Voltage BB's, (some day may not feel so bad), and Shining Fates were my big L's. Shining Fates ETB's and Collection Boxes seemed like such a good idea.............And then it wasn't!!!!😁😁
I’m going to be laughing so hard when all the people who sold their PSA 9s for cheap realize PSA 9 and 10 are impossible to distinguish 😆. It’s basically like card grading today is where coin grading was in 1995. And coin collectors were PISSED when they realized they’d been only keeping MS70 coins only to find out even experts can’t tell between MS69 and MS70. The same is true with PSA 9 and PSA 10. Even top experts can’t tell the difference yet people pay huge premiums for the plastic slab.
@@ThePokeOffice Yeah but that’s kinda the point. Card collectors still haven’t figured out that they should buy the card not the slab and it took coin collectors a while to get that too.
Buying a small order from a jp distributor, getting slammed with duty tax 20% I didn't think I had to pay but was just in the range of it, then 151 crashed so I have a couple of boxes I need to wait until next year to recover 😅
Also psa 9s are not a waste of money. If you buy at the right time and sell at the right time. Also you didnt ES took off like that. The only thing i can agree where you loss is graded low and getting robbed ha
#1 Worst pokémon investment is not investing in pokémon
#truthbomb
Wow , I wish I would have thought of this comment , good job man
I bought 9 BB of evolving skies on release for 125 and ripped them all. Best pulls were umbreon V alt and dragonite v alt, no Vmax alts at all. Wish I had them sealed now 😢
Wow. Yea, having them sealed would be nice but still always fun to rip product
Heads up everyone , 151 mini tins on sale Pokemon center
Just remember, you made money you didn’t lose money. You just didn’t make as much as you could’ve..
Yep, it’s not actually bad. Just wish I would’ve been more forward thinking to hold on to a few
My mistake is buying under 10 packs here and there instead of taking small breaks and buying 20 to 30 packs once every few weeks
Hmm
You win some, you lose some. Learn from both those outcomes. I too made some bad decisions. Btw I bought 20 of those costco evolving skies etb combo. Couldn't resist and opened 10 but still have 10 sealed lol. Best 37.99$ ever spent in my life.
lol, I still have 4 of them left! But yes, the price was amazing on those
Easy tip: once a set is recognized as good early it will be good late, Cosmic Eclipse, ES, CZ and now Twilight. 151 was there ever a doubt?
One thing I have learned early on in my investing journey is that sometimes we need to have a short memory. Can’t dwell on the bad plays we made or the product(s) we didn’t end up buying. Gotta say “oh well” and move on to the next. There will always be a good next play
couldn't have said it better myself!
Selling for a profit is never a bad play. Even if it goes to the moon you still profited. Saying "If I only held" can always be countered with "what if you never even bought into it" Wins are wins
I got hit by the $200 151 Japanese booster boxes. That one got a lot of people.
Another terrible one that I made was getting four of those Pikachu VMax boxes from Celebrations.
We have all made mistakes in this.
But my successes have far outweighed those.
Yep exactly! But like I said, as long as we learn and keep going with the new knowledge from past mistakes, things look good
My biggest mistake was not buying all the Fates Collide ETBS I found on clearance at walmart in 2019! They were about $45CAD.. wasn't really investing yet, just opening casually for fun!
My worth investment on the other hand was probably Shining Fates! I still have a lot of that and most is worth less then I paid.
Years ago I was in Target and there were five Team Up ETB's sitting on the shelf for sale. I didn't even give them a second look because I was there to buy 3 Darkness Ablaze ETB's. All the hype was for Charizard then. I rub my forehead everytime I think of that shopping trip. At least I did buy an art set of Team Up sleeved booster packs (which I kept sealed) so the trip wasn't a total bomb. There was really not much hype for Team Up until 2022.
Yes there was hype for Team Up in 2022.
You probably didn’t see Team Up it was probably Shining Fates or something.
Team Up wasn’t in any stores in 2022.
Oof. Oh well - live and learn!
@@blake7587 It was in 2019.
@@finksworld Nice try but Darkness Ablaze didn’t come out until August 2020 so you could not have seen them when you went to buy DA ETBs. 😉
@@blake7587 Thanks, it must have been in 2020. There were definitely Team Up ETB's on the shelf in 2020 (When I passed them up for Darkness Ablaze).
I also bought Japanese 151 at the very top, it crashed about a week later, thankfully I only bought 1...but my biggest regret is I went HARD into shining fates pre orders. Still got so much of it hanging around and it's worth less than I paid 3 YEARS later. Literally got multiple of every product. It was around the time when scarcity at release was the big factor...then they printed it sooooo much 😂 lesson learned
Yep. Theres always bound to be some failures
In time, most investments will turn around. Just have to play the long game.
Also, sometimes you have to accept you missed the train, and just focus on the next opportunity.
100%
got shafted on some tins from pokemoncenter. I forget which tin it was exactly, but the single tins were coming with evolving skies, but I bought the 2-tin combos which were all brilliant stars and fusion strike instead, zero evolving skies in like 20 tins lol. it was rough
Dang
Loved this Colin! Wish more creators would talk about the losses because it’s how we learn and no one’s perfect!! One of my losses arrived in the mail today. Thought I got an amazing deal on eBay on a Gardevoir & Sylveon GX Alt Art I’m pretty good condition for $125…it’s fake…shiny object syndrome man!! It’s real!
Oof. You should be able to bring that up with eBay and get your money back!
To be fair if UA-camrs do live pack breaks it’s most likely they’re pumping product.
But if UA-camrs don’t do pack breaks they’re most likely honest.
I disagree with this. I have no reason to pump product - maybe I’m naive but I speak my own opinions and experiences… I seriously don’t have any ill intent when talking about poke investing
@@ThePokeOffice I didn’t say you though.
I'm sitting on a mountain of evolving skies ETBs, my best investment ever. I can't believe you sold so early 😬
Agreed, but I needed the money at the time
Hi pokeoffice awesome as always.
Do you know where to buy the cheapest booster boxes cases in Canada ?
Hobbiesville, Zephyr Epic, lots of people in the main Facebook groups sell for cheap too
I regretted selling my 151 booster bundle cases. Needed the $. Fortunately was able to replace them this week.
I guess it depends on how long you’re talking about. If you’re talking about short term investments then yeah those might not have been very good, but like that huge collection box might be way up here in another 5-7 years
Yea, you’re right. Another 5 years and everything will probably be up a bit more
One of The worst investment you could make is opening up a booster box 😅 Thank you for sharing some of your mistakes We all make them
Evolving Skies- yup bought those Costco tins and Sold em ( kept one) . Yup bought a Japanese 151 box at the peak as well, but bought 6 more at current price. Please don't buy POkemon cards at their all time highs....why do that to yourself? Remember it's okay to miss out on something cuz theres always the next Hot thing.
Mistakes only hurt when we don't learn from them. You're alright now buddy.
If you still had the evolving skies etbs, would you sell them now that you would have 4 xed your money or would you keep holding them? I think I have 7 of each variant and I got most of them at 40-45 USD
That’s always the question for investors/collectors. When do you sell?
@@ThePokeOffice I'm not planning to move them, just curious if you had your still. I'm hoping they 4x what they are now. Then we'll be talking!🤌🤣
Very much appreciate and enjoy your videos. Vivid Voltage BB's, (some day may not feel so bad), and Shining Fates were my big L's. Shining Fates ETB's and Collection Boxes seemed like such a good idea.............And then it wasn't!!!!😁😁
Yep they sure printed a lot of shining fates
Awesome advice 👍
I participated in bounties with Blake’s breaks….. I win in the worst investment race 😂
lol. Yikes
Thanks for the video! We take an L, we learn, and we keep on going!
Exactly
Selling all the evolving skies might actually be your biggest w
I dunno about that. But it kept me going so maybe you’re right
@@ThePokeOffice that’s what I’m saying man imagine you didn’t sell and we wouldn’t know who you are
I’m going to be laughing so hard when all the people who sold their PSA 9s for cheap realize PSA 9 and 10 are impossible to distinguish 😆.
It’s basically like card grading today is where coin grading was in 1995.
And coin collectors were PISSED when they realized they’d been only keeping MS70 coins only to find out even experts can’t tell between MS69 and MS70.
The same is true with PSA 9 and PSA 10.
Even top experts can’t tell the difference yet people pay huge premiums for the plastic slab.
True to an extent, but the 10 still signifies something more rare than the 9. It’s all about that little tag inside the slab
@@ThePokeOffice Yeah but that’s kinda the point. Card collectors still haven’t figured out that they should buy the card not the slab and it took coin collectors a while to get that too.
I wish I never opened my Charizard UPC. Only got a Greedent Alt art from all the packs. Probably my worst mistake
I got a rainbow zard from Brilliant Stars in mine. I bought 2. Rip one keep one sealed is my motto
The funny thing is that is a really nice hit - getting an alt art out of fusion strike. However, it’s not worth much for sure
@@Ottrix82, this was one of the ones I hit on. I bought six Charizard UPC and never considered opening one.
This is a great reason why to never FOMO.
Best way to learn that is the stock market.
this Blake guy holy 🤣
Buying a small order from a jp distributor, getting slammed with duty tax 20% I didn't think I had to pay but was just in the range of it, then 151 crashed so I have a couple of boxes I need to wait until next year to recover 😅
I’m ready to get vulnerable 😮🎉
Kelso voice, “Buuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnn!!” 😂
Don´t worry, all will go even more up soon.
Also psa 9s are not a waste of money. If you buy at the right time and sell at the right time. Also you didnt ES took off like that. The only thing i can agree where you loss is graded low and getting robbed ha
#1 is stay away from modern Japanese its so much more volatile than English
Wild video
Crypto investments make these losses look like huge wins 😂
I’ve had my fair share of crypto loss too lol
You couldn’t get your money back on the scam?
Nope, I paid cash
Go to work, get a job, but never sell an investment at such a low profit! 😢
I could have been a millionaire if I bought bitcoin wgen it was $1. 😂
You and me both!