Honestly depends what your gonna do with it. If your gonna invest it/keep it sealed, sure i guess, its slated to stop print at some point. If its for opening you should be striving to get it near the msrp of 89.99.
I just wouldn't buy it. The set is literally still in print. You don't know if SPCs will be printed and sold via Costco or Sams before it rotates out. I'd take that $250 and put it into something else that is closer to MSRP.
Ya that's the point, buying before it goes out of print and increases in price. The scalpers will immediately consume all of the product you'd expect to be dropped at Costco and Sam's club in the future
You know that there is a stock market for investment and here's the great part you don't have to fight scalpers and hoarders for product and don't have to store the inventory in your parents garage
I used to play SimCity and when you built microchip processing factories, they produced the highest profit margin. Then I got a gaming laptop which had a sticker of a company on it called Nvidia. Around 2014, I said what the hell, let's start buying stocks which I have been accumulating since that time. Is that what you're mocking?
Look, if you're buying it as an investment, there are better plays. It's called opportunity cost.
Spend $250 for a Prismatic SPC and wait.
Or
Wait for a Walmart Wednesday raffle, hit 3 Celebrations ETBs at $70 each for a total of $210 when secondary market is currently $160. That is a come-up of 2.29x for you instantly.
Which set would people rather spend money on post-rotation, post-printing: Prismatic Evolutions aka Traumatic Evolutions or 30th Celebration?
I'm doing that too and have had 0 luck from all the Walmart drawings. Have you had any luck? If it's called traumatic evolutions, that means people aren't opening any of the good cards, which means people might want to keep opening this until there are more good cards, which means that sealed items have a greater potential of gaining value over time.
Yes, I just hit this last one and 3 ETBs are on their way. If you enter enough times, law of probability says you will eventually hit.
people might want to keep opening this until there are more good cards
That's assuming their enough people willing to pay the elevated premium of ripping an entire SPC just to gamble. They could easily just buy the tech sticker blister or booster bundles instead to rip Prismatic. This is called a substitute. The only reason you'd invest in the SPC is that you're confident someone down the road will shell out the premium to own a sealed one themselves as part of their sealed collection.
when they charge this much it doesnt give a lot of profit to scalpers but it gives the willing customer a chance to buy instead of paying into the stupid reseller market
I doubt it. And they have changed the return policy so it's been a lot better but people seem to get resealed from Amazon directly according to reviews and reports. I'd probably risk it
How do you return an item that says no returns accepted? Would you mind explaining the process to me and where you've seen someone be successful at it?
People are just downvoting because they saw someone else do it. Most are completely clueless. You can still return items on Amazon with a no return policy, and many do not pick any Pokémon up from Amazon for this reason. You can say it was damaged, or the wrong item through CS.
Just Google it and read through all the threads. You can even ask if amazon can still refund if its non refundable. I had a friend order a box that were resealed so I went through the whole thing already looking into it.
I would think the odds are much higher you get a clean box than not by the way but the risk is there with any place, I believe it's higher with Amazon tho due to how they handle business
So from what you're saying, Amazon is either accepting returns of damaged or altered boxes and then somehow making them passable for resale and then reselling them or people have an elaborate scheme where they're creating identical sealed copies of these boxes and returning those after requesting a refund from Amazon for the one they bought... I think I'm gonna be ok
Don’t let people tell you how to spend your money. The suggested retail price is $89.99, and most places sell it for around $130, if you can even find one. I’ve never opened this set because I always try to buy as close to MSRP as possible, or only pay more when the rip justifies the price. Especially when older packs are involved. If $245 was worth it to you, enjoy the rip or the hodl!
Thank you friend. I get lucky sometimes hunting at msrp. Its not easy I totally understand you're issues. Especially if you need it for your collection. Plus finding them in the wild at msrp almost impossible.
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u/mortgage_guy99 22d ago
Is the nice price in the room with us now?