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1 AM Pokemon Rant: Crazy Vintage Pokemon Sales? Cultural Assets? Is Pokemon Comparable to Fine Art?

Reserved Investments

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The Pokemon insanity continues! Recorded at 1 AM EST with NO edits and NO fancy filters! Welcome back to Reserved Investments, the only non-hype driven collectibles finance channel (on YouTube) that covers the entire antiques and collectibles trade...

In today's video we answer the following questions: What is going on with all the crazy suspicious vintage high grade Pokemon sales? Is Pokemon a cultural asset and does it even matter? And finally, is Pokemon comparable to fine art? And to those of you thinking what my answers to these questions will be, maybe you should watch the full video first?

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From the 2011 movie Margin Call, as said by the fictitious CEO John Tuld played by Jeremy Irons (go watch this movie...after you watch this video in full, thank you)

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20 Comments

@AC-wl7ve 5 hours ago

We are living in the dumbest timeline

@MitchMitchem666 9 hours ago

Fine art was either touched by the hand of the artist when it comes to originals, or signed by the artist when it comes to screen prints. Fine art has condition reports, but no grading. Art editions of originals and screen prints are known edition sizes from the start, which means the population can only go down over time.

Graded Pokemon cards are nft 2.0, because the language is identical to nft 1.0.

@jimmydbarnes 8 hours ago

watch out for Little Timmies and Kimmies trying to sneak into the DeLorean time machine!!

@swaky5138 6 hours ago

Fun fact: It's technically a "safe" deposit box because it's a deposit box located in the bank's safe.

@GingerbreadHydra 10 hours ago

Laughs in sealed vintage

@numismaticmaster8612 7 hours ago

I’m still new to Pokémon, and as soon as I heard that term, I just knew it was some buzzword.

@winstonw2020 5 hours ago

Great video, funny I have a ton of Shaquille oneal rookies since I was a kid, had them graded years ago and have a ton of 10s and 9s.. they weren't worth much until recently 10-20 x... I asked someone why and they said Shaq rookies are a cultural asset. And funny you mentioned fine Art. In the sports card world I'm sure you heard influencers stating sports cards are replacing fine Art. Will be interesting when capital pulls out for those juicy divy yields of the capital markets. Thanks again for your great work. Have a wonderful weekend.

@jyeeeee 5 hours ago

Basically, modern Pokemon cards will crash. Vintage Pokemon cards are a question mark.

@monkey39128 8 hours ago (edited)

Congratulations on the big sale! It's definitely getting to the point where I need to consider selling some. It's hard because a lot of my Rocket Returns cards are so low pop that I'll never get them back, at least in PSA 10. 😂 Whatever I do, I'm just glad I listened to you and pivoted into vintage 2-3 years ago. It's been life changing and I'll always be thankful for your advice.

@I_____happy_b_____I 6 hours ago

Congrats on the big sale! 🎉

@RetroHabit82 8 hours ago

Any collectibles I sell goes right into my accounts, Investment accounts, IRA and etc.

@kay.dee.666 7 hours ago (edited)

3:37 Would love to see footage of you holding the slab you're selling / you telling the story on when you bought and how you sold it. 🥰 Also, is there always a capital gains tax if you would just reinvest all the gains into something else? (Ex: Other items in PSA Vault, Fanatics, etc.)

@jamesash2394 4 hours ago

Sean is taking a victory lap in this one :)

@OctogonOxygen024816 4 hours ago

I'm curious, can we get a compare and contrast video between the top 15% of LEGO loose minifigures and top 15% of lv x Pokemon raw cards from your perspective? Im curious to see what you're assessment is on liquidity and order books for comparing these 2 particular assets and your experience buying and selling both; lego and pokemon cards

@MultiJohnnyangel 9 hours ago

I'll keep buying cracker jack and rare tootsie toys that were made pre-1970.

@BruceM-z2z4h 9 hours ago

Good Video - I don't know if you've one of these before or if you spec these out - but comic book, "Splash" page(s). and/or even CGC Graded comic book pages only or CGC comic book graded, covers only?

@ahammy1 2 hours ago

Funny enough original art of things like comics and cards exist and sell regularly. Maybe this is the actual new fine art of today’s generation?

@jameskm03 9 hours ago

Does anyone play Pokémon? I don’t know any that do…

@internaut2 9 hours ago

Trading cards are miniaturized, mass-produced "pocket art" doubling as alternate currency. It's a separate, parallel lane that has a much deeper pool of participants than fine art does. I believe that the characteristics of pocket art voraciously feed into the ever-growing total market cap of this space.

@pokecards2140 7 hours ago

It has been basically impossible at this time to find value in Pokemon, excluding blips of seeing momentum and flipping into it.

I am fairly surprised at the lack of attention on early MTG in high grade given the state of Pokemon, and I see a lot of opportunity in this space. Cards at similar conditional rarity for a fraction of Pokemon equivalents. Quite interesting...