The Giant English Market Thread

[fourthstartcg]

@admiral77

@fourthstartcg

You’re just ignoring empirical reality to make this post.

I can cherry pick data that says the market is up 70% from last month or I can cherry pick data that says it’s down 70%. Just like it was incorrect in March to say that the market was universally increasing, it’s incorrect now to say that it’s universally decreasing. Your points are further weakened by the fact that if you go from March to now, prices are in fact almost universally up across WOTC, EX, DP-HGSS, and Modern. This has already been pointed out to you though.

The worst thing about Pokemon market talk is the people who refuse to take a nuanced look at the reality of prices and instead revert to pronouncements of doom or pronouncements of moon. Sure, if you want to vindicate yourself ignoring for months the reality of the massive and fundamental interest and market shift we have seen in Pokemon over the last year, this period of clear short-term price decreases on some items is enticing. Ignoring these price decreases is also enticing if you want to vindicate yourself ignoring the fact that the growth we saw was clearly unsustainable and Pokemon cards do not go up forever.

Sigh. I will speak more in generalities for you then.

In general, for the past year it seems as though the general consensus of this forum was that we were not in a bubble, the price increases were justified, and there wouldn’t be a crash.

Now there has been a crash ( large price decreases since you are concerned about %s) and this forum is now saying “oh yes, that was to be expected.”

There doesn’t seem to be an unbiased analysis because everyone is so heavily invested.

You haven’t been reading the entire forum then, as we get “crash incoming” posts daily for the whole year. Like your other posts, this is not rooted in a factual analysis of the overall market and more so your own personal opinion and a desire to feel like you were right all along about the market.

This is why I try not to engage in this thread, there is so much basic factual inaccuracy in people’s understandings even when people take the time to respond and correct misunderstandings. Many people are not here to learn but to seek confirmation for their opinion of what the market is doing/will do. Almost always the conspiracy gets thrown in where E4 somehow is unable to comprehend anything other than price rises because we own cards.