TIE Pokemon Booster Box Portfolio Report - December 2024
Come take a look at which Pokemon booster boxes I am invested in and how well they're performing.
Welcome to a new (but also old) series where I document the performance of my Pokémon booster box portfolio.
Paid subscribers from 2021 and 2022 will remember I used to document a portfolio of collectible cards every month before curbing it due to workload and lack of interest.
Little did I know, the lack of interest was on the non-Pokémon side of things.
(Which makes sense now in retrospect)
With that said, I will now be documenting the performance of my Pokémon portfolio for the indefinite future.
This means I will also be sending out buy and sell alerts for my booster box positions, just like I do with LEGO.
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I’ve been in the Pokémon investment game for a long time and here is one of the favorite posts I’ve ever made here:
Turns out the trend of booster boxes hasn’t changed since then and they still appreciate after they’re out of print.
Why do they appreciate?
Simply put: Supply and demand
People love to collect them and only a finite number of sealed boxes exist once the Pokémon Company decides they’ve printed enough.
So not only is the supply eventually limited, but the number of sealed boxes decreases over time as people open them.
This shrinks supply.
It’s the same reason retired LEGO sets appreciate.
I’m going to be honest though, it isn’t a great time to re-introduce this series.
We are in the middle of another Pokemon boom.
The Pokemon Company can’t print enough cards to satisfy demand right now and demand has skyrocketed over the last couple months.
I might not be buying a lot anytime soon unless they can get a lot more supply out to the market.
Buying sets at or below MSRP has been pretty easy over the last two years but has been impossible since the later part of 2024.
Historically, this leads to an eventual temporary overprinting and a decreased rate of price appreciation for a while.
Personally, I don’t care what happens with the market either way.
I buy booster boxes regardless of what the market is doing (assuming I can get them at the right price) and then sell them several years later.
I just wanted to discuss what is going on right now so I can say I warned you ahead of time should:
We not be able to buy any booster boxes this year at a good price
The current boom fizzle out and prices cool off for a while
As a reminder:
This newsletter does not provide financial or investment advice.
I simply share with you what I’m doing with some of my capital.
What you choose to do with that information is up to you.
With that out of the way, let’s take a look at my current Pokémon booster box portfolio that I started in mid-2020: