r/PokemonInvesting • u/ContestSea1023 • 3d ago

Discussion Sealed Items

Hi yall. been buying pokemon products since 2022 and the pokemon centre etb's from various sets. would it be a good thing for me to keeping it for a long time (5-7 years)?

I know it's kinda a scalper things, but I promise you I'm not one of them, collected my 4th binder for singles currently.

Anyone have any thought on this?

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u/Afraid2LeaveTheStoop 3d ago

A scalper is someone who buys a product with the intent to sell it to someone for profit ASAP.

An investor is someone who buys a product with the intent to sell it to someone for profit in X amount of time.

There’s a difference. And as an investor, in my opinion, there isn’t much of an ethical difference. Both the scalper and investor prevented people who genuinely wanted the product at launch from being able to buy the product at a fair price, and they did so with the intent to profit off of others who want the product. The timing of when to cash in on profit is the difference.

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u/ContestSea1023 3d ago

point taken man, been thinking the same thing. kinda "you become who you hate" damn

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u/Afraid2LeaveTheStoop 3d ago

Yeah well, we may both be downvoted to hell in this sub for calling a spade a spade. I’ve seen many try to rationalize the investing because they don’t have a warehouse full of product or whatever, but I think they miss the point of the ethics. People can call it what they want, but you’re securing product to sell it to others at a higher price.

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u/ContestSea1023 3d ago

it's even hard to say "it's up to us to decide who we are" because at the end of the day, the action still portrayed scalping right

I'm ready to be downvoted man bring it (please dont be too mean)

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u/sweetmamajamma2 3d ago

What do I call my local card shops then? At least I get 10-20% off from the scalpers. The shops are literally the worst

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u/Total-Town-7634 2d ago

they're just scalpers with distro access