@Maik Oertel damn thats messed up, i didnt know that

@Nikolai Lieder interesting take, was the buyback scandal proven or is it based on assumptions?

@Adrien Picheral i love it and thats what im doing as well. Alt arts are so great, i got started during sword and shield again, and picked up many alt arts from that era. It’s hard to keep up though and get every card you want right?

@Nikolai Lieder thanks for the great introduction! Seems like you put some good thought in what you want to buy and how to spread your budget. I also love the Japanese cards a lot, which Japanese singles are you looking to get right now?

@Nick Zebregs It's simply not worth my time, I make more money working on my business than buying a case, sending it in, getting the cards back, selling the ones I don't want. Also you risk not getting a psa10. Pikachu Poncho 203, it's a nice card, about 5.5k psa10 pop. How I make decisions whether to buy a card like that is to think do I want to have this card in my collection and if the price stays the same for 10 years, do I still enjoy having it? Otherwise it's very hard to hold. If it's purely about investments, I like stocks more. If it's about hobby with an investment angle and enjoyment of having the asset, in this case a card, pokemon cards are really great. You just need to be able to let time to its thing when it comes to value going up, and for that the most important thing for me is actually enjoying having the card rather than thinking that other people will want this card in the future and that's the only reason why I have it. I have a lot of cards that I just enjoy having, not sure if they have gone up yet, they probably have, but I just want to keep them for now, which ironically seems to be a great way to invest and let time pass to build value appreciation, besides focusing on some fundamentals of course, like how old, rare, scarce, and hard to grade the card is multiplied by popularity.

@Nikolai Lieder yea crazy right, i bought it recently, should have gotten it earlier. What did you spend your budget on this month?

@Luca Curtoni if you filter for just italian on cardmarket, the price should change.

@Adrien Picheral welcome to the community. The spreadsheet is currently not available. The tracking doesnt work anymore since cardmarket implemented cloudflare

@Tomáš Zajac Check this out: Osaka TCG stores: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FKPbE4g2KLcesGuP6 Tokyo TCG stores: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1KSc5gqUYLYSwxi57

@Natalia C. I’ve seen the box twice in about 4 weeks spent between Tokyo and Osaka. Once it was opened, once sealed. Card shoos hold expensive items, I’ve seen WOTC sealed boxes, japanese base set etc. Also gold stars up to €50k, sitting in the display. Not every shops though, I’d say the average shop sells single cards ungraded.