>>47200666well here's what happened.
I was watching a livestream of "PokeRev". he will do auction streams. he covered the the sell of the first Base Set booster that was sold for 200k.
a week later Logan Paul reveals he is the bidder.
at the time of the livestream i was like "wow what a dumbass, usually a base set shadowless booster goes for 130k-150k. he overspent 50k more than what was being sold recently."
then logan paul reveals that he bought the booster box on auction for 200k.
the seller of the account was the bald guru guy.
He definitely set this up to pump the price of a base set booster box. which in turn reflects the value of a charizard, because the main reason why anyone buys a base set booster is for the most expensive card in the set anyways.
hence why i stated earlier that a PSA 10 charizard was going for 150k in 2016, and the price was stagnant until after the 200k box was purchased.
they then used this sell as proof for justification on asking a higher price for not only a base set booster, but also a charizard.
they then auctioned off base set packs averaging in value from their auction at 40k per pack. where usually you could pick one up, and still pick one up for around 10k
they did nothing but enter the hobby. do a fake sell. pumped the price of pokemon cards. and rode the wave.
fact of the matter if you believe they created the value of cards. your dumb. they just fucking scammed the community.
i wouldn't welcome this dude back into the hobby or give him any praise. he just made it harder to collect. shit was already worth money.
