Why I’m Not Buying ALT ARTS. (Avoid FOMO!)

okay guys so the sword and shield boom that is currently happening right now in the market has been crazy it's been like exponential growth no one's been able to catch cards cards have like doubled with only 4 weeks it's been a pretty hectic time within the hobby but what I want to talk about today in particular in this video is the reason why I am not touching all Arts myself now this is just my reason why I'm not going in with them I'm not telling you what to do with what you want to do I just want to take you through my rationale and the reason why I'm being very very careful with buying alt Arts at the moment and just want to go through that look through some data and just talk generally about all Arts because they are the fundamental nuggets or the golden nuggets of the sword and shield era what we went through guys was just like an era that was unheard of so many fans re-entered the hobby so many people just got back into the hobby what I really want to cover today guys is these all arts and what's happened with them and I think it's really important if you're within the Hobby and you're buying these cards for you to understand and not get too like thinking that it's just going to be this bullish run one thing that I think a lot of people sometimes forget okay and it's just some I don't think enough people talk about this right your card only sells for what buyers are in the Market at that time guys it if if a genga Vmax is selling for whatever it's selling for PSA 10 800 900 us at the moment it can only get that price if a buyer is willing to pay for it at that specific time and guys I want to go through some stuff and I want to show you in because I I collect a lot of tcgs right I'm not just Pokémon I love Yu-Gi-Oh I love dragon ball you know if you watch my content I talk about other tcgs but my big Focus here guys is right now we're at the height of the boom right we're at this crazy it might keep going but we're at this thing where everyone's going in everyone's looking all eyes are on sword and shield but guys there is going to be a time when the dust settles okay it's just natural human nature people are going to be like going uh is it going to be this it's going to be that guys don't forget like we sometimes are desensitized to how expensive some of these cards are like if you look like like well let's just use geng of Vmax off the top of my head I think it's like 800 or 900 us if it's wrong let me know that price man you can buy like a PS5 and like a headset and like a probably even a chair for your gaming room with that kind of money it's you know they're expensive now what I'm really thinking about currently and what's happening currently guys the way I see it is like a rubber band I just feel like we're pulling this rubber band pulling it pulling it pulling it and it's just like at any moment this thing can just snap back and if it snaps back to too hard it can really hurt the thing you got to think about now is investment vers collection if you're buying some of these alts because you want them in your collection and you have no kind of thing where you're thinking that there's going to be future growth go for it if you're thinking about investing in these cuz there's going to be some massive growth I personally would not be doing that and I'm definitely not doing that and I could eat my words I could you know two years down the line I could look at this video and be like what a silly decision but no because I want to be actually honest with myself and this is like almost a journal of my thoughts that if they do grow 10x or whatever in 5 years time I know that in my current state I wouldn't want to buy them because I can just see that that is where my you know where my mindset is at the moment cuz you know I always think like every time we look at B set booster boxes everyone says oh B set booster boxes I knew a time when I could have bought that for $11,000 I would have made this much money but at the same time where right now like can can evolving Skies become a $200,000 booster box like are you buying evolving Skies right now and it's $1,000 you know it's very easy to look back and say oh back then I would have done it I would have done it but really when you actually think about it and when you're in the moment it's very different so don't always like look back and look at Future sets and how much they've grown and then get this thing where oh if I just bought those sets back then cuz it's very likely in during that time you wouldn't have done it anyway so there's no point to kind of Cry Of A spilled milk because I don't know if you would have bought a b set booster box from under $1,000 $1,000 is still a lot of money look at right now you buying evolving Skies of booster boxes maybe you are maybe you're not you just got to think about it like that right now guys I collect a lot of tcgs but I want to show you examples of other tcgs when they were at their High Point when currently right now what's happening with Pokémon when other tcgs were in this so for Yu-Gi they had these things known as ghost rares right and they had a set called ghost from the past and then they released another ghost from the past which was known as ghost from the past too and they had Dark Magician Girl also as a Ghost rare and I want to show you the difference of when something's in a hype era versus when the dust settles just to give you guys perspective don't think it's just infinite growth guys you have to be very careful with this so I'm here right now and you can see the Dark Magician on 5th of the 25th 2021 right it sold in a PSA 10 for 6,100 us huge man this was at the height right then you can see here on 7th of the 27th it sold for 4,400 us and you can see that was the price for you know quite a while it was sitting around that 4 Grand Mark you keep going and then it went to around the 3 Grand Mark and the 3 Grand US this was in 2022 what's happened 2 years later guys I'm going to go all the way to the top and you can see just was last week pretty much it sold for $1,111 a $6,000 card in a PSA 10 is today selling for 1,000 bucks guys people back then thought this was a this was a ghost red Dark Magician it's really hard to pull it's a very very hard card to pull but see how it couldn't maintain that price because the buyers in the market were only there at that given time if the buyers are not in the Market at that given time it won't sell so you have to think it's a free market guys it's not like that that's the price and it's like a PS5 that you buy at you know your store and that's the set price no this is a free market guys so you have to be very careful it's not infinite growth same thing with the Dark Magician Girl I know it's not Pokémon but I just want to give you perspective of how these things go so you can see the Dark Magician Girl here in 2022 when this card was released PSA 10 was going for around 1.5k us 1.6 and you could see then it kind of stabilized at this 1.4 to 1.7k Mark right we go to what it's selling for today and I'm scrolling all the way to the top and just last week it sold for 795 us in a PSA 10 same thing the Dark Magician Girl couldn't hold its price it was too hard for it to hold another one and it's another great example was this one here which was the Sun Goku awaken power PSA 10 this came this is a really really pretty much one of the highest Chase cards you can get in Dragon Ball and I want to show you guys this one is crazy man so check this out during its hype right you can see here it was selling in 2021 during the Boom for around 4.7k and it went to 7.2k then you can see the next one sold for 9.6k the next one sold for 9,000 then it sold for 12,000 10,000 and then it hit a high of $115,000 for a PSA 10 think of the price of that dude $155,000 for a PSA 10 you want to know what it sold just a few days ago and this one just a few days ago I've just scroll to the top sold for $910 so during the boom during when all eyes were on this car it was selling for $155,000 $10,000 consistently and now it just sold for $910 guys this is what I mean we're in a very big boom we're in a hype it can keep going but once that rubber band goes and the dust settles these prices tend to go like this I don't want to be telling you what to do but at the same time if you're buying cards at such high prices when so many eyes are on it you have to know the risks and the risk is it could really go down don't forget the price of these cards and Umbreon what is it like $2,000 for a PSA 10 whatever it is you got to think of how much you can do with that kind of money okay so one big thing that people say is and this is such a common thing people that buy now are not going to sell these cards because whoever's bought these cards is not going to sell them well guys life is very cyclical like that life is just you you move up you move down you move up people want to go on holidays people want to buy homes people will cash out when they need to don't think that people just hold on to these things indefinitely think about like when you look at you when you were 18 years old maybe you are 18 well let's say if whatever if you're 30 years old today think about how different your mindset was at 18 if people are buying these cards in 25 26 27 today are they still going to have that same passion at 40 Life Changes people go through different experiences people experience different things in life maybe they want to sell maybe they want to buy you know different things that's how life works so people are always going to sell these things one day no one is just buying these to hoard them in definitely maybe some collectors do like from my perspective the ones that I love I do know that it would be very hard for me to let go some of those but at the same time like some of my cards that I don't have such a strong connection with of course I'm going to one day sell them so moving on guys I want to go through some of the prices I want to just blaze through these I don't like my channel I really don't want it to just be like a thing where I look at prices and just look at charts I mean you guys can do that yourself I really don't want to always do that but just for the purpose of this video I want to go through these just to show you kind of some of the prices so we're on the Blazer and Vmax and here we go you can see it's currently selling for 402 us and you can see the kind of boom that it's had is just ridiculous that was was selling for 181 now it's selling for 400 more than double pretty much in a 3mon timeline right go to The Umbreon same thing here guys and finally the umbreons had some little and I mean a tiny dip from 950 to 911 but guys this is what I'm talking about this is the rubber band it can only hold for so long when there's such a high amount there's a lot of Pokémon Collectors out in the world but guys we have to be serious when you talk about investing if you want me to be real with you you know guys when you're buying cards at these prices you're not investing if you buying last last year during the dip that's investing if you're buying now well I don't know what you're doing to be honest I just think you're just you know following a hype Trend you got to be careful of that same thing with the gengo Vmax guys check this out same thing this this they're seem to find some little dips at the moment I don't know how if these are going to just go down this was they hit a peak of 408 and now it's at 377 it's going down a little bit is it going to keep going down I don't know will it stabilize but at the same time man it was a very high price and these prices were ridiculously high as well and I did make a video about this before talking about the O art boom telling you guys always to be careful and the same reason I've seen it in other tcgs I just showed you you know I collect other tcgs and I think that's a little bit of a point of difference of me I'm not just in Pokemon I love my Yu-Gi-Oh I love my dragon ball so I do see how other tcgs operate and that gives me a good perspective and a good broad perspective that I can bring into Pokémon same thing moving on here with the gutina V guys this is also experiencing some slight dip here nothing too crazy though 480 to $450 you know it's a $30 difference give or take it can go either way way pretty much whenever and we're looking at Aerodactyl v as well and that one's kind of stable it probably isn't it's probably actually a little bit undervalued to be honest this one but to me the risk of buying these cards is just too high so personally as a person that I consider myself investing in Collectibles I love that I'm just not touching these and I you know I'm not telling you this because I want these to go down I'm telling you this just from genuine thing I don't want you to guys just to be foam o and buying these cards at the high prices you they might grow more I mean that can always happen it's not like it can't right but at the same time the price that these went to jez man it's a pretty high market right and now also that these little dips are happening people just get really anxious man so the people just start selling you know so it's a weird time to be in the hobby some really big booms happened we don't know what's happened but it's obviously been a massive shift and at the same time guys you know when it comes to investing I'm always more of a sealed guy this stuff this is why singles are you know I talk about a lot of my videos they're just volatile man like you just don't know what's going to happen with them they're just like they're up they're down they're up they're down they crash really bad they boom really high it's just crazy market and guys you know with this Al up boom and all these things that are happening in the market instability it's really bringing a question is were Pokémon cards better before they became valuable well the answer to that question is right here I cover Pokémon cards before they became valuable and I discuss topics of whether or not they were truly better before they became valuable click that video guys and we'll chat more there

Channel: Phillips Collectibles

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Keywords: Pokemon Investing, Pokemon TCG, PokeInvesting, Pokemon Cards, Pokemon Collecting, Collectibles, Pokemon Collection, Trading Cards, TCG, Pokemon, PhillipsGlimmora, modern pokemon, pokemon sword and shield, modern pokemon investing, sword and shield, how to invest in pokemon, alt arts, tcg, pokemon collecting, trading cards, pokemon collection, pokemon invest, fusion strike, Chilling Reign, Silver Tempest, Lugia V, Blaziken VMAX, Alternate Art

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Length: 11min 51sec (711 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 09 2024