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

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

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

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

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.

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

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). The simplest explanation is often the correct one. They purchased feedstock sheets and cut them, then it sounds like someone advised the guy to say they were sitting in storage (for the serious collectors out there, there's a reason you don't come out and say oh I bought 100 charizards on a stock sheet and cut them). The reason you don't do that is because from a collectible standpoint those cards could be considered fraudulently produced. If the factory didn't create the finished individual card product [yes even if finishing the produ t is as simple as cutting a small yellow square] then it could be argued those are a different class of charizard and placed into a seperate collectible category and thus valued differently. For those that have never seen one before, here's a link to a google image of an uncut holographic machamp uncut stock sheet: https://images.app.goo.gl/ivNbQJJgZrkYRwJ97 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.

I know it’s just cardboard but childhood nostalgia hits hard seeing all those cards. ❤️

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

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

Seems more like daddy works in the pokemon card factory 😅😅😅😅

this is the kid growing up who said his dad worked for wizards of the coast and wasn't lying.

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

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

Just killing me with the way he’s shuffling those holos 🥲

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

All those rares not being in protectors is absolutely killing me inside. Dude, every time he rubs them together outside of a protectors drops their value!

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

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.

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

One of the worst days of my life was like 2 years ago when I found my beloved collection in storage, only to find all my holos got cleaned out 😢😭