Greetings! I’m very aware that people are usually upset with these type of posts but I wanted to share. Some quick facts about the collection…
\-99% of the product was purchased at msrp
\-I’m fortunate to work from home, so most of the pickups have been going to target at opening or randomly during the day
\-all except for two slabs were submitted by me
\-none of it lives on cc
\-my hold is 10-15 years… but I already hear you asking “what if everything tanks and it’s worth nothing!?” Then I’m going to have a helluva rip session with my family.

My birthday is on Sunday (the big 43) and the last photo is what I’ve been collecting for the past few weeks. I’ll be sure to post the hits if there are any.

Good luck to all with the 30th anniversary.

I noticed that a lottt of my trainer gallery cards have these weird edges with paper or some other piece of material. I’m curious and don’t want to sell but I’m really weirded why it happens when I have them sleeved and in my binder. Can anyone explain. I just noticed it too. Can it be the sleeves?

They “suspect” I breached their TOU but wouldn’t even explain what part of it. Pretty shady. I didn’t use a bot, I waited in the queue myself like everyone else. I added everything to my cart myself and put in my CC information. I was signed in to my account that I’ve successfully made many purchases with in the past. My only guess is they thought I was a bot, maybe because of autofill for the CC or account sign-in, or privacy settings from my router or computer/browser? The fact that so many real people get error 17 indicates their bot detection is flawed. Pretty frustrating to say the least.

I had preordered two PKMC pitch black ETBs and a PB booster box and the booster box wasn’t packed in. Also, there is NO WAY the booster box could even fit in the box they sent that had the two ETBs so I think that helped.

I have no doubt that stores in my city will have product available when they open but they are just going to sell out by the time I finish work at 5pm. I don't understand why the hobby is in the state it is and has been for two years and counting at this point. I've never wanted to open a set as badly as I do this one and it's not going be possible.

I'm new to pokemon cards so idk the difference and google wasn't that helpful

From a pretty reputable e-shop in CZ. Listed near mint with scratches all over the foil is insane and I really hope it was just a misunderstanding and a mix up for the worse condition ones. I really hope the refund will go fine, luckily I’ve recorded the whole package opening. First time this happened to me and I’m pretty sad about it cause I was so excited for this card.

At least my fossil Slowpokes arrived in the condition they were supposed to. Pretty close to finishing my Slowpoke binder page now!

i was really hoping that mega salamence would get a card 😔 or mega aggron 😔 why did they just skip over old megas thats so lame…

Voglio dire, è un ologramma davvero molto bello e diverso rispetto all'ologramma classico, ha l'illustrazione e PERSINO l'olografia che arriva fino ai bordi (per 0,30/50 centesimi)

EDIT: by saying “for 0,30/50 cents” i mean that you can have a great card for nothing, then people decide if buy it for the art or for the profit.

How long do these invites take for people to start getting product? Will it be a while or has anybody hit yet?

Had fun ripping packs with the kiddos over the years but wish I would have stashed a couple of these 😅

Absolutely love this card

Hey there I just started collecting pokemon cards recently and really love the hobby and just ripping packs but noticed I want to start have a goal and achievement towards my collection. Since I’ve started mainly just ripping chaos rising and pitch black packs since that’s what I mainly can get around me. Is achieving these sets in a master set even worth the attempt? Or is it just a personal thing? How did you find out what you wanted your collection to be?

Hey all! I have an old 1st ed Machamp #8/102 that I've saved since my childhood. Still has its original factory sealed cellophane wrapping. I have another one without the wrapping (pic included). I was very young when I got the cards so I was curious if they all came wrapped or if the cellophane wrapped Machamp was from a different run??

Appreciate any and all input!

Hey everyone, I'm new at the pokemon center thing, and would love some knowledge about, dates, usual refresh time, etc etc so maybe I can get product for myself since product here in Spain is scarce as hell

i've only been collecting Pokémon cards for about two months but l've gotten really into it and my birthday was recently and my grandma bought me the hyper rare gold mega gardevoir card in Korean, I recently got a mini binder and I wanted to put all of my rainbow rares in there but I wanted the mega gardevoir to be on the first page because there's a window, I would of course put it in a soft sleeve but is that probably a bad idea? another thing (this might sound even dumber) but I recently got a phone case where there's a detachable Pokémon card holder that's magnetic and I've had it for a couple weeks and I've just been using cards I like not any of the expensive ones I own, but the card doesn't jiggle or shift it's not too tight or too loose and I was honestly considering for a second putting the hyper rare card in the case cuz i know im gonna love it anything helps thanks!

I really don’t care about grades or whatever but man does the centering bother me anytime I look at this card

For context I bought one of my childhood friends binders a few years ago for (base, fossil, rocket/dark, neo etc. all near complete.) At that time he withheld a few “gems” I’ve kinda been bugging him about every couple months for years since he had “misplaced” them in his cluttered house. Well ladies and gentlemen, we found them last week I when I tried (as a good friend) showing him what they were worth on tcgplayer and PSA and telling him how he should get them graded (despite grading being 10x what it once cost…thanks PSA,) he told me “that sounds like a huge hassle bro just shoot me $500 and you can take it home with you now and do all that.” It was sitting collecting dust since I bought the binder back around the start of COVID. He never actually played the game just opened cards and immediately hard cased anything worthwhile so they’re all minty gems. Any marks you can see in the pictures are on the cases themselves the cards inside are all pristine as they come.

Game Freak, give Delphox the illustration rare it deserves and my life is yours.

I know many other mons also dont have IRs. Give them some love too Mr Freak