Man Discovers FORGOTTEN $1,000,000 Pokemon Card Collection

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[gemik]

The guy is going to single-handedly kill the market prices ahah

[Lb_Collects]

He shouldn't have shown this, he should have graded some, kept some others sealed and slowly sold them... basically how the diamond economy works

[Xekoroth]

Interestingly enough, years back there were uncut feed sheets which had hundreds of the same card in a very large sheet. They were fully printed etc just needed to be cut at the borders. I remember thinking if someone ever buys these and has a professional cut them out properly they would be rich.

I'd be willing to bet this person (and presumably their father) bought those stock sheets and did just that. From watching the videos I propose that for two reasons.

1. Pokerev mentioned the obviousness of the ratio being off between common/uncommons to holo rares. While this is true a simple explanation could be they realized they werent worth anything and just dumped them once they had their current amount.

2. If you watch carefully when he counts the charizards, you'll notice the left/right centering is almost perfectly identical for about 20 cards, then the pattern changes and the next set of 20 cards are identical etc. This tells us that this cards were cut in the same literal batches (mind you the only way to get that level of precision would be to buy 500 to 1000 booster boxes straight from the factory, and even then you'd have to assume the factory made every box in your order sequentially without filling other orders between, highly improbable).


It's worth mentioning these huge uncut sheets were never priced at the price of one of those cards times the amount of that card on the sheet because they were considered a unique seperate collectible thing.

[ThesTapes]

“Tell me you were rich growing up, without telling me you were rich growing up”

[elontusk]

This guy dad for sure worked at the card printing press. They would probably come in after closing and start printing like maniacs.

[bbppchan]

I think he can single-handedly crash the vintage pokemon card market with his stock.

[pipkin-u]

The fact he's running them through his hands like that multiple times without having instantly sleeved them just pisses me off

[joncastle]

No wonder they are worth so much....this guy has had the majority of the world's stock in his attic this whole time!

[TurkeyFaceX]

How the hell do you build a collection like this and forget about it? This looks like quite the childhood project. I remember far less interesting things like having a conversation with another kid about what our favorite Runt candy flavors were and being surprised that we both said banana. Even if you stopped caring about Pokemon for the past 23 years, with a collection this bonkers you likely wouldn't forget about it.

[plastokopie]

cringe every time seeing people handing cards like that

[njh]

At first I was worried the POP of 8-10 base holos was going to go nuts.
But then I saw him rub them all together so I'm not worried anymore haha

[DickDack]

probably had a family member who owned a card store back in the day who opened packs to sell individual cards. Store must have gone bust and a decade or so later family member is deceased, and the cards are found. That would explain the hundreds of booster boxes needed to achieve a collection of this size, probably even got rid of bulk by selling them in premade packs.

[Ashwellx]

See these priceless Charizards? Let me just grind them together a dozen times? Not enough? okay!

[jedimaster]

each time you say " put in a sleeve" he just keeps sliding those cards even faster LOL

[wisp]

you gotta get in contact and tak to him hahaha, would love to see that!

[MrTedMcForehead]

Seems like he has around 110-112 of each big ticket holos. Ironically those uncut sheets are 10x11. Good chance his parents got a hold of a few.

[thecakeisalie]

Video should be titled: "Man DESTROYS FORGOTTEN $1, 000, 000 Pokemon Card Collection in a matter of mere seconds by rubbing the cards together"

[TheCrownCarrier]

The fact i had everything this guy has when i was younger, drives me nuts

[MDSF]

Wow. I also collected Pokemon with just the goal of collecting the 1st generation of 151 cards back in 1999/2000. Once I collected all of them, I lost interest rather quickly and the collection sat in a closet for approximately 5 years until Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, LA, where I lived in Lakeview at the time, in 2005. We had approximately 16ft of flood water in our area, only a quarter mile or lesser, away from the levee break.
I remember when I went back to see the damage from the storm, I saw a few of my cards stuck in the muddy, sandy sludge that remained in the house after the storm. I was pretty apathetic at the time over losing that collection. Although, as time went on, I realized what I actually lost, since the cards I had were in absolute mint condition, probably close to PSA 9ish.
I was only 16 at the time and my attention shifted to girls and sports, amongst other things, naturally. We weren’t wealthy by any means. It took a long time to build that collection through trading and buying cards whenever I could afford it myself since my mom, who was a single mother of three boys, really couldn’t afford to spoil us with nonessential things, although she really tried her best to do so regardless of the hardships it may have caused her at the time. She was very selfless when it came to making her kids happy but needless to say, I was lucky to open a pack or two every couple weeks, maybe even once a month.
That year, in 2000, when Christmas rolled around and we got some gift money, I went straight to our local card shop and spent $120 on a gem mint 1st edition Charizard. I remember it like it was yesterday because it was the very last card I needed to complete my set and after the cashier handed that card to me, I shouted, “I caught em all!!” and quite a few kids came up to me, extremely eager to see my binder of cards and attempt to make trades.
Those were the days…
_Those. Were. The. Days._

[kepler-b]

“ Take out the trash “ ( booster box )
“ Make your bed “ ( booster box )
“ Clean the kitchen” ( booster box )
“ Put your toys away “ ( booster box )
“ Turn up the tv “( booster box )

Rev you got me dead 💀