T2W4 Explanation Writing; The Pokemon Card Economy

The Pokemon Card Economy

Introduction

Pokemon, a world with lots of wonders, and in the world of Pokemon Cards
pretty near to infinite possibilities. Classic card collectors, GX/EX hunters,
Mint geeks, the world of Pokemon Cards has many stereotypes and this
explanation will help you determine what stereotype you will be,
from Gambling addicts to craze followers.

The Rating system

When you buy a Pokemon card booster pack you accumulate excitement or
uncertainty on what’s inside the pack. When most amateurs (or expert)
pokemon card collectors open a pack they shuffle the last four cards from
the back (for Sun And Moon series every series has a different
combination) to the front so you go from least valuable to most, three of
those four cards at the backs are uncommon cards, you can tell uncommon
cards by the diamond at the bottom of the card. Uncommons have a
common value of twenty cents (that is if anyone will buy it). then in front
of those three cards are six common cards, you can tell common cards by
the circle at the bottom of the card. Common cards are Commonly worth
ten cents (once again that is if anyone will buy it). And finally two
“Mystery Cards” “The first mystery card” could be any rarity
(except for holo, or GX) how you can tell that it is the first
“Mystery Card” is that it is a ‘reverse holo’ (a ‘reverse holo’ is a card that
has a shiny foil around the whole card except for the pokemon’s picture).
The second “mystery Card” is usually a normal rare you can tell by the black
star at the bottom of the card if your lucky maybe a valuable GX, or ‘holo’.

‘Holo’s’ Are like ‘Reverse Holos’ except for only the pokemon’s picture has
a foil the rest of the card is normal. But the GX is a lot easier to tell
because the whole card is not only smooth (at the front) but also the
whole card has a foil, another way to tell if it’s a GX is at the bottom
of the card there is a silver star. A silver star means it is an
Ultra Rare card, the reason why the silver star is not called the
GX Star is that before GX’s you could get EX’s that also have a
silver star, and also the silver star may be on any normal card,
even though it may be a normal card it is still valuable having a
silver star indicating it is an Ultra Rare.

Demand

Demand is a confusing thing.  Demand is controlled by the collectors that
buy the cards. The collectors usually buy the card on the rarity of it,
in hopes that in the future the value of the card will increase dramatically.
So when the collectors want a card the value of it rases, but sometimes
the hype weres of and the value decreases, a good example are EX’s.
EX’s were all the craze when they were new, but Pokemon stopped making
them and started making GX’s, suddenly everyone wanted GX’s instead of
EX’s. but if you want a good card that will keep its value You’ll want to go
for a pokemon based in a fandom, for example, one of the most loved
Pokemon (in the most expensive stereotype of Pokemon Card collectors)
is Charizard, in fact when the first Charizard GX Rainbow rare came out
the demand was already so high for that pokemon that it instantly became
the most expensive pokemon of the set at (now) a whopping average value
of two hundred and fifty NZ dollars.

Mint Value

Easily the hardest part to get through in pokemon card collecting for
amateurs is mint condition cards. Through my experience of trading with
other kids is that they do not treat their cards well (on average).
Mint card rating is something some collectors wish don’t exist because
sometimes even one small chip will affect your 1-10 mint card rating by
a large amount. But sometimes it’s not the card it is the packaging because
old pokemon card booster packs are a lot of the time worth more than the
cards inside it. But there is a trick if you don’t want to lose money by
buying packs, pro collectors usually use gram scales to weigh the card if it
has a foil card in it. But sometimes holos will trick you on what weight it is,
but you just have to take a chance and find the heaviest pack you can find,
even if it just has a difference of just a milligram.

Language Economy

The language economy is on our (English) side. With different languages,
there is a different demand, rarity, and value. The more card collectors
speaking that language the higher the Demand is, make the value higher.
And luckily more card collectors speak English than any other language.
A big part of pokemon card per head language is the
“Rare Per Head system” because every language has a similar amount of
production, so the wider known the language the more the cards have to
be spread out between everyone.

But if there are fewer people speaking that language the more cramped
the cards are spread. Essentially what you want is a wider spread language
so more people have more cards. Think of it like this, you’re the pokemon
company that makes the same amount of cards for every language,
now if there are fewer heads that speak a language you’ll have to throw
away hundreds of your cards since there are fewer people to buy them,
so instead of wasting them, you’ll have to give the buyers more bang for
there buck by putting more cards in their packs, that’ll give the buyers a
higher chance of finding a rare, now the idea of a rare is that the harder
it is to find it the more money it’s worth, and since those buyers are
getting more bang for their buck, they have a higher chance of finding a
rare making that rare less rare.

The Cards You Want

So what cards would you like as your investment? Well you’re probably
thinking that two hundred and fifty dollar Charizard from earlier, but
that’s only one of many types of Pokemon Cards That are super valuable.
There are a lot more like the 24 karat Pikachu, or the 1999 1st edition
holo shadowless Charizard, but what I recommend doing is buy a new rare
pokemon card that has a pokemon on it that die-hard fans love, and get
that because the value will increase over time.