Hey /TCC, Ive been getting into buying XY ETB's at retail (if I can), and off what I presume are scalpers (ugh) with the hopes of not caving in and opening them, and saving them for long-term holds. I figure as people are consumed by the desire for the holo Charizard, more and more ETB's will be bough, further increasing price on these increasingly coveted items. Mind you, I'm coming at this from mostly an investment standpoint, but like all of you, I grew up whatching Ash on Tv, playing all the Nintendo games up until Pearl (Still have mint Crystal and Emerald in boxes), and collecting cards.
Honestly /TCC, I never thought I would see the day where I would be buying Pokemon again, but the combination of the ever-expanding interest in the series, and Freeland (Canadian Finance Minister) saying the Gov't will "unlock" savings accounts (Cyprus circa. 2012 anyone?) has me literally making a run for the banks to get all my "non-essential" amounts of cash the fuck out of there. Im going into hard cash, Crypto, metals and cards. You may laugh but thats my plan, so don't focus on my apparent doomsday paranoia lol.
I know you guys don't like "investment" types in this hobby, but im sorry if I'm just trying to save my hard-earned cash from being evaporated right before my eyes. To put it into context, I was a broke poorfag 5 years ago out of high school. Decided that feeling sucked, so I worked hard for years to save everything I could. living with relatives, driving shitty cars, tatty clothes, not drinking, not going out often, cheap food brands.
I've been working almost non-stop , and I've had two days off in the past calendar year. I'm not talking office jobs either. More like 13- hour Mondays, shoveling pig shit, dead litters, long commutes, driving through foot deep snow in backroads to make my dollar. If you don't see my need to get into this hobby, then ill direct you to the blind man on a galloping Rapidash who apparently can. But I digress.
