nato
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@BobNetworkUK never played endgame is there a point in me trying to get this camo will it be harder coz i’ve never played it
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@GemMint10_Cards @CardPurchaser I always preface by saying I’m new to all this shit. However, breaks and PSA grading honestly seem to be the biggest rip-offs in the hobby as a whole. Breaks are almost always awful if you get the whole box, let alone you get a specific player from the box.
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INSANE
There is MAYBE $500 in product on the table and people are bidding $8+ a spot for a random PLAYER BREAK. Saw $10 bids as well.
358 spots.
THATS $2,864 IN Rev, well over 2K PROFIT
How do people bid on this? I am dumbfounded
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Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:
You buy a Pokémon card for $50.
Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.
The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."
Government: "Don't care. Pay up."
You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.
Next month? That card drops back to $50.
Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.
That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...
Now picture this.
Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.
But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.
So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.
Gone.
To pay a tax on money that was never real.
Now picture the opposite.
Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.
Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.
He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.
Does the government give him his money back?
No.
Does the government give him his truck back?
No.
Does the government care?
No.
They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.
You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.
You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.
It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.
They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.
There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.
I hope you understand what's at stake.
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@BrOncosNix @BostonPBW @FanaticsSupport good try this year bro bro maybe next year you can avoid vrabel🙏🏻
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@BostonPBW @FanaticsSupport “ Ooooo wahhhhh someone called me a liar my pussy hurts”
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just got my SB jersey and didn’t even open it but what great quality control you guys got at @Fanatics! look at how crooked the @NFL logo is compared to the @Patriots logo..like, this literally is not hard to get correct @FanaticsSupport @End_Fanatics
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@Dan_1927_ @jackschmidt__ @pizzdaddy @PSAcard @CardPurchaser Pure interpretation bias on an employee by employee basis. One of the problems with getting too big for any company. Somehow they’ve faced no liability, but I don’t imagine that lasting forever. Difference between a 7 and a 9 can be multiple figures.
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@nauceee @jackschmidt__ @pizzdaddy @PSAcard @CardPurchaser Yep, PSA slabs are awful, wait time is horrendous, 0 grading report so they just work on a ‘trust me bro’ system and there is countless videos of low graded cards being resubmitted and getting higher
It’s the communities fault for accepting this though tbh
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@TorontoKOI I mean can we please drop Insight, Reeal can walk too. Let’s get some players that are good at this game like CleanX and Joe are
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@jackschmidt__ @pizzdaddy @PSAcard @CardPurchaser I mean I agree, but you already paid to get it graded. And they come back and say that essentially the card is too rare to grade at that price point that you already paid for. The principle of it is that the card community will still pay. It’s a slippery slope that’s led to this.
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@nauceee @pizzdaddy @PSAcard @CardPurchaser I get your point, and I agree. The card is gonna fetch at least 10k however. Almost worth it to just pay the $633. Highway robbery though. It should be illegal for them to do that
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@Dan_1927_ @jackschmidt__ @pizzdaddy @PSAcard @CardPurchaser The funny thing to me is that it’s been proven that other companies (alternatives) are just as good in terms of design, quickness, and even more sophisticated in grading. I honestly can’t believe people still send them cards, especially at a $700 price point for a “rare card.”
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@jackschmidt__ @nauceee @pizzdaddy @PSAcard @CardPurchaser It being worth it is why they can get away with it and It’s bullshit … if this was the average person who packed it, didn’t want to sell it and decided to send it off, just to encase it and have a sick card, they might be stuck - not everyone has $600 spare
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Not satisfied with where we are. Our fans expect more.
Make no mistake, everything is under review, and we will do what it takes to get this back where it should be.
Nothing more to say until there’s something to say.
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