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The Hobby Is Riddled With CRIME & Modern Pokémon Is Rebounding | Ep 94 | Bonus Card Lounge

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Get Free Slabs from Card Lounge via Chance @ketchumallcollectibles for your consignments! Collectr App A FedEx truck outside PSA was hit for nearly $1M in customer slabs, and the FBI is reportedly involved. Jake and Rob break down why it looks like an inside job, why theft and scams are spiking across the hobby, and what it means for your collection.

Topics: Slab Theft & PSA Heist · Vanishing Products & PayPal Scam · Delta Reign & 30th Celebration · Sport Stars Down 40% · Why Grails Are Flooding markets · The Modern Rebound Is Here

The Vintage Pokémon Correction & The $1M PSA Heist ft. Jarchomp Collectibles | Ep 93 | Card Lounge

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Guest: Jarchomp Collectibles

Jarchomp bought a Pop 1 Garchomp for $1,400 and sold it for $130K — weeks before Fanatics tightened its bidding rules and vintage Pokémon started correcting hard. He breaks down the $70K Gyarados he overpaid for, what he's selling now, and what's still underrated.

Topics: Vintage Is Correcting · The $70K Gyarados · Pop 1 Garchomp: $132K · Shill Bidding & Big Buyers · The $2.7M Torchic · What's Still Underrated

Vendors Are Getting SALTY & Sales Are Being Faked | Ep 92 | Card Lounge w/ Roboskillz & TBJake

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Consign with Kanto Shark! Collectr App SELLING YOUR COLLECTION? A collector spent $60K on GameStop Pokémon packs, kept every card, and it's now worth $200K. Meanwhile a Crown Zenith Mew jumped from $600 to $3,000 in a few months. Is the market being pumped?

Topics: Big Money Is Buying Up Slabs · Is the Crown Zenith Mew Being Pumped · Why the Cheapest Card Can Be the Rarest · Why English Cards Command a Premium · John Pokémon Slab Toss Drama · Boosters and Bangers $25K Lugia EX Trade

We’re Witnessing the CRAZIEST Era of Pokémon Cards | Ep 91 | Card Lounge

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Pokémon card prices are breaking records: Prism Star cards that sell for $10 raw now go for $2,000 to $10,000+ in a PSA 10, and a Team Plasma Lugia-EX is listed near $4 million. Rob (Roboskillz) and Jake (TwiceBakedJake) debate whether this is real collector demand or market manipulation, and who ends up holding the bag.

Topics: Is a $4M Lugia Real · Why $10 Prism Stars Now Sell for $10K · Who's Pumping Low Pop Cards · Are Collectors Buying Labels Not Cards · Jake's $350K Pop 1 Victory Cup · Rob Is Selling a Gold Star Gyarados

Why Most New TCGs Will FAIL ft. Adrive Creator of Elestrals | Ep 90 | Card Lounge

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Guest: Adrive Creator

LOUNGE5 for 5% Back w/ Arizona TCG! Collectr App to Track Cards! A huge thanks to Adrive for coming on the pod! Elestrals creator Adrive joins the Card Lounge to break down the Pokémon market, why most new TCGs will fail, and what it really takes to build a trading card game from scratch. From selling a $50K sealed EX Deoxys box to overprinting 25,000 boxes of his own set, Adrive shares the mistakes, the wins, and the 1 of 10 serialized card that has never been pulled.

Topics: Pokémon Market Is Wild · Is Pokémon Printing Too Much? · Why Most New TCGs Will Fail · Are Collector Boosters Bad? · Elestrals Tournament Prizes · The Hidden Mew Debate

Roboskillz & Jake Uncover the Market Manipulation in the Pokemon Card Hobby | Ep 89 | Card Lounge

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Pokémon cards are setting new records every week: a 1st Edition Base Set Charizard passed $1M, a $3M Art Academy Mudkip, and Level X, Gold Star and Legendary Collection reverse holo slabs jumping to six figures. Rob (Roboskillz) and Jake (TwiceBakedJake) debate the money laundering theories, lay out how a low-pop market manipulation play would actually work, and explain why "last sold" is misleading so many collectors.

Topics: All Time Highs · Are Scalpers Hurting · The Pokémon Boom · Why Auctions Go Crazy · Can Pokémon Cards Launder Money · Why Last Sold Is Misleading

People Are Openly Shill Bidding

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Hunting The FIRST Pokemon Card Ever Released ft CardBound | Ep 88 | Card Lounge

22K views · 1mo ago · 1:26:16

LOUNGE5 for 5% Back w/ Arizona TCG! Collectr App to Track Cards! A huge thanks to John from Card Bound for coming on the pod! ⁨@CardBoundProject⁩ Cardbound: The Story of the VERY First Pokemon Card The first Pokemon card ever released came out of a 1996 Japanese manga magazine — and almost nobody kept a copy.

Topics: CardBound Project · CoroCoro 223 · The First Pokemon Card Released · A Timeline Of Pokemon's First Year · Doom Scrolling For Research · How The Record Sale Started

30th Celebration Shenanigans! & Rigged All Time High Auctions | Ep #87 | w/ Roboskillz & TBJake

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LOUNGE5 for 5% Back w/ Arizona TCG! Rob showed up to record this one with no voice after SF Collecticon, and we still don't have a single 30th Celebrations booster pack in hand the night before release.

Topics: 30th Celebration · How Sellers Get 30th Early · The Gotcha Mechanic · Natalie's Leak · Why Prices Show On Screen · RGB Mew Sells For $20,000

The TCG Boom is Just Starting - ft. Alex Ketchem @ Card Lounge Live | Ep 86

17K views · 1mo ago · 1:16:27

Guest: Alex Ketchem

Pokémon content creator Alex Ketchum joins Card Lounge LIVE at Card Party to break down 7 years of content creation lessons going viral with "I was minding my own business," chasing Team Up as prices skyrocket, and why he still won't call Pokémon Worlds better than a small card show.

Topics: Card Party vs. Pokémon Worlds · Content creation · Advice for new Creators · Imposter Syndrome · The Power of Consistency · "I was minding my own business"

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