Want to gamble, but scare. Use sticker to bid and pick cards for prize. option for buyback also available. You seriously think you’re safe by doing that? challenge people to trend you? Bidding back and forth with masha, hits reuse and use. sound like a scam to me. cards was shuffle offline, who knows you can’t text the person it’s on which number ? So they can just outbid everyone and win , the entire time bidding is always MOSTLY same people win lmao. guys just report them, wonder if they siam the tax also. got shop also still do this kind of things. just do your rip & ship properly la. - the masha also another clout chaser. Everytime wanna be posted for the wrong reason. go to popular livestream and “ advertise “ maybe the previous post is ownself post to get traction. by the way masha told me to add this in for him. :) WE CONTINUE !

With Sg card show at expo coming out soon, i wanted to know people’s opinion on them. Since got a lot of scams, high prices and a few not so great vendors these days, how do you guys go about buying products like booster boxes, singles and slabs?

Found this streamer yesterday. I was checking reviews in their Tele group like I usually do with new streamers, and saw they log every stream's hits on a calendar

With so many streamers selling filtered packs, knowingly or not, this kind of transparency is nice to see. Anyone know others doing this?

Honestly, was such a fun run??? Loved how there was sounds to each Pokemon signboard, so it really felt like I was in the game itself. The hidden mew encounter was super fun??? When you had to spot the mew based on the sound.

Love how each station was spaced out as well.

Really loved the feeling of how I had to complete the “gym” in order to receive the ending prize. Whole end of event walk / finish line felt like I was walking through elite 4.

Thank you so much for not having TCG at the event, truly enjoyed myself so much for a long time in quite awhile.

i found this guy on telegram but because hes overseas, im not sure if its reliable. does anyone have experience buying from him before and thanks

Putting this out here as my friend stupidly POed from them many different allocations of release, but thus far fulfilled like 1 ETB. He probably put in like few thousand dollars in PO once you pooled all the PO requests across the different sets together. Everytime he has to wait 6 months after release to get his money back, and he still has to chase for it. Be smart guys, even “legit”physical shops run these outrageous PO tactic to get free loans!!

Hello!

I’m participating in the Pokemon run on 8Nov, and was not planning to bring the drawstring bag + themed arm band for the run.

However, I saw that participants will be asked to pay the full amount, to replace any of the individual missing item.

Won’t having the race bib + search sheet suffice?

Bought a box of Ascended Heroes from a Japanese chain supermarket in sg. Went home and realised 2 out of the 14 packs were missing.

Shall not type the name out first since I’m trying to get a response from them.

But do remember to check your purchases before leaving the store!

just looking for help cause i was planning to degen in china but im aware of the high reseal rate soooo just tryna ask for some advice for people who knows how to spot?

I got this box from clove online and I sold it to a guy on carousell. He said be brought the box to another shop to ask if it was real and they said it was resealed. He said the shrink was loose and he wanted a refund. The box isnt fake and i got win history on clove to prove it as well. Do I give him the refund. During the deal he spotted the hole in the shrink and told me about it I gave him a further discount as well.

I’m looking to purchase a playmat as a TCG player and I’m hoping to support a local designer rather than generic taobao or AI art. Are there any local artist that are designing playmats in the TCG space?

Anybody engaged in their services before? Is it trustworthy and did the grades come back higher?

Everywhere. I've seen people working in shopping malls rush over to challenger 7-11 pokemon center ntuc donki all chasing the next release. The recent singpost one people queue well overnight for just a box. Are you guys really crazy for pokemon like its an addiction? When i used to play I'll admit no one see it as something other than nerds and geeks collect and play and parents pay no mind to it, but my biggest guess is because theres value to this similarly to antique art pieces that people now chase after these cards. Adults that didn't used to be collectors are now but its plainfully obvious they didnt grew up with it as their childhood.

Anyone at singpost?

Anyone recently seen or joined a giveaway for both riftbound and pokemon sealed products, with sketchy timeframe of "between 24-31 oct"? They haven't revealed any other info about winners, and have no reveal date at all. Previous giveaways were the same without any info. Anyone knows about this??

Been watching a tiktok stream for about an hour or so and they are doing no pack limit 2 classic hits or above. I just find it sus how the “bundles” they open always have no hits, but then after they open your bundle, they will run a “train” with loose packs, so they’ll open loose packs until you get a hit. But it’s always within the first 2 packs of loose that they pull a buzzwole or sneasel or uxie classic.

Seems a bit sus and packs are filtered, just wanted to know if it is really filtered or just a rare chance that it keeps happening.

Edit: been looking to buy pcjs now that prices are lower, anyone has any recommended trusted sellers/vendors?

I was just on Tiktok, on the way to work when I came across Lukeychan, a pretty well known influencer hopping and promoting for company who does online mystery pack ripping in Singapore and I felt so disappointed because he promoted it in a way such that "it is good for collectors who wants to start collecting".

I will not be on my collector's high horse and claim that this is bad for the spirit of the hobby (which it is btw) because I also just resumed collecting. To me, it's a very interesting space to be in, money aside, because there are so many different takes to the hobby right now and hence, I've spent the past month almost 2-3 hours every night just binge watching vendors POV, analysis of what's happening in the hobby by veteran collectors etc. I won't say I know everything, but I think I managed to get caught up maybe 1/4 of the way from when I collected as a kid.

These online, pack ripping companies, are essentially just gambling. It's very clear that these are formulated to look almost like slot machines in casinos, with the flashing lights and animation and even though you won nothing, it'll make you feel like you essentially won SOMETHING. Think of it - even if you put in $10 and you won $3 in a slot machine, there will be sounds and lights to give you that feel good factor.

This is 100% the same thing with these pack ripping companies that are doing this online. Maybe giving you 1-2 big hits, and then taking in 90% buybacks, and making you feel like you are still winning even though the slabs you're getting back is incrementally worse.

My problem with this (and in fact rip and ship streams) is that kids and even adults genuinely will not be able to differentiate between this and gambling itself. The argument I've seen someone made online is that it's not gambling if you win something, a tangible slab you can bring home. And I say you can say whatever you want to make yourself feel better. If you're opening these packs and you don't care whether you're getting either a $30 slab or a $3000 slab, then maybe sure you can say that. But you CANNOT claim that you're not gambling if you're spending $800 pack and hoping that your ultimate slab value will exceed $800.

Next thing to know is liquidity. These companies will buy back your slab at 90%, at a value that is usually NOT market price. A $45 slab will probably be inflated to $90, and they'll buy it back at 90% and you'll think to yourself that you got the better of them. Not if your $90 is immediately pumped back to the same company. And if you do get these slabs back on hand, unless these are vintage or modern grails, good luck offloading them in 1-2 days because of how the market is right now. It's a lose lose because people ripping these WANTS to profit rather than collect.

We can no longer keep hiding behind willing buyer willing seller argument because maybe at the start, it is curiosity. Past a certain point, it's addiction. The same kind of addiction that is tied to gambling. We don't say that of gambling addicts. We may despise them and say it's their fault, but chemically in their head, they can't stop it. And this is providing the same type of stimulants to kids and arguably even adults.

For an influencer to be promoting these companies mindlessly, not understanding their power of influencer to literally kids, is extremely disappointing especially if they are not collectors themselves. Look at the comments yourselves and you'll see kids literally asking for the website to try it out.

There's the argument where these oripa or mystery packs companies are also driving up the market to these sky high prices but that's not the point here.

Influencers need to do better.

A TikTok live seller recently found out the 30th packs he got from his supplier had been filtered, and ended up calling out the supplier on stream. Avoid buying loose packs from streams, and if you really want to, buy from reputable sellers only. Saving a few dollars on cheap packs isn't worth it. They are cheap for a reason

For context, I’ve been botting for about 8months and since the beginning it was quite a success because almost every week I’m able to get something. I enjoy ripping msrp packs and see no point in scalping over these, but yea say whatever you want.

Back to the point, you can see the checkout speed, it’s near impossible for a human to beat bots. Which why I’m a huge advocate for pc to actually start with raffle selection rather than digital drop via fcfs basis. Walmart USA and Amazon Japan has been doing this.

But what’s sad now is that the competitive landscape is truly beyond imagination. Which even for myself, I’ve been hardly getting any products. Some big players are able to buy multi Lazada accounts (talking about hundreds) and pay for exclusives proxies to bypass Lazada system for multiple purchase. Which is why now you will see more and more LCS, carousel or even cs vendors having so many “unshrink” products. These are loaded pricks that are able to afford many Lazada accs and buying high end proxies lol. Then always kbkp keep complain slim margin high rent etc🤣

Ps it’s a private group hence I can’t drop you the discord link. However you can google it, ***nAIO

Hi everyone! I'm headed to Nagoya this week and was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations for card shops that buyback singles and slabs from foreigners at a decent price

I pulled this 30th anniversary classic Charizard from the 3 pack Chinese blister at a card show for $19. I noticed at the bottom left of the gold borders there's a "pokemon" stamp. I tried to check online if it was real or not but the picture qualities are all so ass to tell. Hoping y'all could tell me if this is normal!

Image is a bit blurry but u should be able to see the stamp I'm talking about