May 29, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min · 11 segments
In this episode, hosts Nic and Zack delve into the current state of the Pokémon hobby, covering market trends, safety concerns at card shows, Japanese market dynamics, and recent policy changes on…
And Nick's investment tip of the week.
I like to offer one every single week.
Uh-oh, here we go, here we go.
I have-- I did a recount of my collection, uh, a couple of times now, and stuff that was scanning in for $100 like a couple months ago have at least 10X'd at this point.
So if you can still find any cheaper ones, safe buys, safe buys, especially with the market in China kinda just absorbing them and how that, how money is going through there as well.
And so that's my tip of the week.
And just as a quick reminder, this recently came up, just a reminder to stay safe.
Every time I open Instagram, there's just a new story of a card shop being broken into or a collector's house being broken into.
And a scary thing that happened a couple weeks ago for me is that I just...
I, I was attending a card show, uh, nearby, and, uh, there was actually some of the vendor vehicles actually found GPS trackers on their cars.
Like not...
And legit GPS trackers.
We're talking like industrial GPS trackers that probably don't give a signal out saying that we, you, you're being followed or anything like that.
And it was kinda...
A lot of people were ki- I was following like the comments, and a lot of people were like, "Well, how, how did they know? Like do they check every single time? How did they know?" So I actually talked to one of the vendors who was-
Hmm
... working that show, and this must have already happened at a previous show.
It just wasn't really widely reported.
But the organizers of Hobbycon, the name of the event that, uh, I was attending, they actually, before the show actually happened, they told all the vendors, "First off, we're gonna have you guys unload all your product in this, in a separate entrance from the public, so you're not going through the same place as everyone else is going.
And as well to check your cars for GPS trackers afterwards, after the show ends." So there must have been reports that-
Mm-hmm
... from previous shows that, uh, GPS trackers were attached to vendor vehicles, and they were targeted.
And Nick's investment tip of the week.
I like to offer one every single week.
Uh-oh, here we go, here we go.
I have-- I did a recount of my collection, uh, a couple of times now, and stuff that was scanning in for $100 like a couple months ago have at least 10X'd at this point.
So if you can still find any cheaper ones, safe buys, safe buys, especially with the market in China kinda just absorbing them and how that, how money is going through there as well.
And so that's my tip of the week.
And just as a quick reminder, this recently came up, just a reminder to stay safe.
Every time I open Instagram, there's just a new story of a card shop being broken into or a collector's house being broken into.
And a scary thing that happened a couple weeks ago for me is that I just...
I, I was attending a card show, uh, nearby, and, uh, there was actually some of the vendor vehicles actually found GPS trackers on their cars.
Like not...
And legit GPS trackers.
We're talking like industrial GPS trackers that probably don't give a signal out saying that we, you, you're being followed or anything like that.
And it was kinda...
A lot of people were ki- I was following like the comments, and a lot of people were like, "Well, how, how did they know? Like do they check every single time? How did they know?" So I actually talked to one of the vendors who was-
Hmm
... working that show, and this must have already happened at a previous show.
It just wasn't really widely reported.
But the organizers of Hobbycon, the name of the event that, uh, I was attending, they actually, before the show actually happened, they told all the vendors, "First off, we're gonna have you guys unload all your product in this, in a separate entrance from the public, so you're not going through the same place as everyone else is going.
And as well to check your cars for GPS trackers afterwards, after the show ends." So there must have been reports that-
Mm-hmm
... from previous shows that, uh, GPS trackers were attached to vendor vehicles, and they were targeted.
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