Was the Pokémon TCG Classic a Mistake?! Price Has CRASHED! (Pokémon TCG News)

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3 ай бұрын

The Pokémon TCG classic is very expensive and has clearly not sold as well as expected so, was it a mistake? Come see!
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@StegoRaptor333 3 ай бұрын

It wasn’t a bad idea. Overcharging for it was a bad idea. Seriously people, $100 would be too much for this. Honestly, I might pay $60-$80 for it but that’s it. Not to mention that the Japanese cards are WAY better looking than the US set!!

@beanburrito4405 3 ай бұрын

On top of that, the new cards aren’t standard legal. Like, why??

@bad_atgames 3 ай бұрын

@@beanburrito4405my guess is because its a collectors item and they didnt want a champions festival situation, although they’re reprinting them anyways so… no idea lol

@kyuremcjn8406 3 ай бұрын

Peoples who bought this when it first came out and had no patience to wait for it to crush on the market lost a lot of money to overpay 🤣🤣🤣 the Pokémon TCG isn’t about money it’s about loving it.

@PokeDangDeals 3 ай бұрын

Is the Japanese version being reprinted?

@drmonstervibes 3 ай бұрын

$60? Really? A regular ETB costs about that and it contains like 9 holos and 90 regular cards lol. It will never get lower than $200-250 which is probably the price that pokemon should have asked for it. You can get the box and the damage counters for that $60 though.. it is a nice box!

@ThisOldSkater 3 ай бұрын

I feel like the people that would be nostalgic for this don't have $400 to spend on a luxury Pokemon experience.

@PokeDangDeals 3 ай бұрын

I thinks it’s closer to that the product isn’t “luxurious” enough to justify the price point. The Japanese versions look so much better and are going for $400-$500. So much so that I’m considering buying one, and I’m not even a Japanese collector.

@alexmayfield5622 3 ай бұрын

I was at the opening of Pokemon center Taipei, and they had therse for sale for 8000 NTD (about 250 dollars). When i bought my paper to the counter saying I wanted to purchase one, the girl did not know what it was, and had to get a manager. The manager got it for me and said it was the first one they sold all day. It was 4 pm or so when i checked out, and they had pushed thousands and thousands of people through the doors that day. To say this product sold poorly is a huge understatement.

@joeyo4134 3 ай бұрын

Wozzy, this is legitimately the first time in 3 years that KZfaq recommended one of your videos on my feed. I’ve never known why as I’ve watched at least 100 hours of your amazing content. Thanks for being awesome!

@Niegezien 3 ай бұрын

I think its a cool product, but its just way way too expensive. Even at this lowered price im not willing to pay 300 euro for it... im willing to pay maybe half that at best?

@EJ_hobbies 3 ай бұрын

Got everything except the cards for 80 euro plus shipping. Never regretted that decision. Now we play on it with actual usable decks, and I am getting very much my moneys worth in fun cost. Feel a bit sorry for the guy with his three 100 euro+ decks. And I mean everything except cards, I got the sleeves and deck boxes and all.

@drmonstervibes 3 ай бұрын

that is the way to go yes!

@fawfulmark2 3 ай бұрын

$150-$200 range would have been fine, putting it in the same range as the Charizard and Mew UPCs. $250-$300 might have been debatable, but at least it would parallel the Japanese version's price. $400+ was just too far out- more than a freaking Switch OLED, and maybe even more than actually building IRL vintage decks based around Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur. These price crashes were kinda inevitable, ESPECIALLY when it was revealed the exclusive cards would be reprinted in a separate, cheaper product.

@drmonstervibes 3 ай бұрын

Spot on! It should have cost around $300 maybe a bit less. I think that was the price of the Japanese one and it has much better cards in it.

@cambot4life. 3 ай бұрын

I’m gonna be honest I think 300 is still way too much, like when I first saw this get announced I was thinking it would be like $75-$100 at most

@snikhops 3 ай бұрын

Japanese holo pattern was WAY better than the English!

@NeonTownExchange_Jack 3 ай бұрын

This product highlights how little Pokémon Company cares about the market outside of Japan.

@PokeDangDeals 3 ай бұрын

Two separate entities. The Pokemon Company and The Pokemon International Inc

@fernandomarroquin8901 3 ай бұрын

Hard to care about the rubbish American QC I'll stick with Japanese

@NeonTownExchange_Jack 3 ай бұрын

@@fernandomarroquin8901 having to learn a 2nd language for a TCG seems excessive

@timstram 3 ай бұрын

More like this product highlights how to take advantage of a bunch of people riding the hype train. The target market for this product at MSRP was "foolish people with too much money". If you paid $400 for it you are the target market.

@jair2776 3 ай бұрын

I could not see myself spending more than $250 for this. For the MSRP I could buy 4 booster boxes. It's just not reasonable. I've gone to a few local card shops that are willing to go down to $300 which is crazy. Especially for a set that will sit on a shelf and no one would want to break out and play.

@leosc24 3 ай бұрын

If I were going to spend 400 on a modern day pokemon collection it would be the celebrations UPC, every time. Even with that being 3.5x msrp I feel like it's well worth the price when compared to this over priced set. I love what they were trying to do here, in theory but 400 MSRP isn't even close to what I would feel comfortable paying for this especially with the price difference between the Japanese and English sets

@michaelzawitoski1842 3 ай бұрын

As some other people have said, was it a bad idea? No. Was it way over priced? Yes. Personally, I’d like a copy of each of the cards with the holofoil patterns in the classic collection, but I’m not dishing out $400 for it. If it was $100-$120, like a premium collection, maybe, but I just can’t justify it. Just like I can’t justify paying $700 for a paradise resort promo card. I’ve bought champions festival cards for the previous 4 years they were available, but it’s just ridiculous now. Little off topic, but it goes to my main point. It doesn’t matter how cool something may be if you overprice it and essentially limit who can afford to buy it, and then hope those people who can afford it will actually buy it. I’m not totally convinced this wasn’t a scheme by Pokémon to get all the “investment bros” to buy them all up thinking they were gonna be a great investment or easy flip.

@BigKatz451 3 ай бұрын

I am wondering if the people on here saying this should have been the same price as a UPC have ever seen this in person? The quality of the board/case, deck boxes, and the damage counter/accessories is top notch. I bought two of them. One to open and use, and the other to keep sealed in my collection. The only thing that upset me about this purchase was Pokémon making the exclusive cards available somewhere else after many people had already preordered this.

@TheProfessorJoakTCG 3 ай бұрын

It’s unfortunate the North American version didn’t have the Japanese boarders. I think that would have made it more collectable and might have raised more chances on people buying it. Made a massive mistake there

@Linkophere 3 ай бұрын

It was a good idea. What wasnt a good idea was overcharging and making an objectively worse version compared to the japanese version. These are gunna hit 250 easy cause it cost 240 from distributors and even then they may need to take a loss and sell below 250 after a few more months.

@ma1t0u 3 ай бұрын

only issue is that its not premium enough... Wish I had waited until now to pick it up when its selling at 75% msrp.

@TheMultigladius 3 ай бұрын

Love your insight man, thanks 🎉

@Classat12 3 ай бұрын

The quantity released was a mistake. Need limited supply for a limited buyer base. Instead they printed them to the ground AND reprinted even though demand wasn’t there.

@emberpowertcg7692 3 ай бұрын

Still think they should release some base set decks independently and they would probably sell well, create a closed format

@fawfulmark2 3 ай бұрын

A Base Set 3 that has a "Greatest Hits" collection of all the major cards from Base-Gym Years(and maybe even NEO) with the proper Erratas to fix the slipups from the WotC years would be the most absolute fire product to release this year.

@DH-ff6kg 3 ай бұрын

I picked up the japanese version for 400 and sold the playmate and deckholder for 150, so in total 250 for the cards, the cards are beautiful

@munchrai6396 3 ай бұрын

Cannot wait to get my hands the Combined Powers Premium Collection next weekend, that Mr. Mime is adorable and those tools are super sick for casual play

@Rawbchu 3 ай бұрын

i would of been game for this if all the cards was the original base set... not base set mixed with modern cards. it is just a weird mix of cards, glad it did crap lol

@pokenips 3 ай бұрын

I've seen photos and it looks massive.. and the cards don't appeal to players and the product doesn't appeal to collectors. There's no "experience" with this. You are basically buying fake decks (like the $15 London ones), and a gigantic board. Most players like to stretch their dollars and collectors like to display reasonably sized items and to store an "experience." There's no packs or anything for collectors to open or whatever. They should have "Japanese Gold Boxes" this and had 5 chase packs.. or gell, maybe a couple stacks of prize series. I like that people tried to scalp it and failed, though. So, should have stung people that immediately tried to flip them. That's the only upside.

@teamvikavolt2856 3 ай бұрын

Maybe if the cards in it were legal for organized play, it would've seen some purchase for the energy alone.

@GhostinACrackedJar Ай бұрын

I believe the energy is legal

@YorkshireMon 3 ай бұрын

I honestly expected this, I mean how many times have they reprinted the EXACT cards they've released in this product?? You could probably build the whole decks for 150 taking into account reprints in celebrations/evolutions etc then just buy the accessories which are lowering on UK ebay every week! It seems like more a novelty item to me

@YorkshireMon 3 ай бұрын

Probably much cheaper than 150 in fact now I've had a quick check on ebay & tcgplayer!

@death2hope 3 ай бұрын

Like everything it will always start out high crash and then when everyone runs out of stock. It will shoot up. I got one for sealed collection for cheap.

@fawfulmark2 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm thinking we are about to be in the "able to buy Earthbound from Bargain Bins" phase, but like Earthbound it might be years before it reaches insane value if it all so getting it when it drops currently is best.

@BrokeAssCollector 3 ай бұрын

@@fawfulmark2it's only best if you feel like having a babysit this large box in your house for a decade meeting you have lots of room in space for these kinds of things cuz even if you're hoping to sell this it $1,000 just barely over twice retail and it's going to take 10 years you can make a lot more than that and a lot of different ways bad for investment

@PokePadre 3 ай бұрын

I want the English version, but $400 is way too much, and $300 is still ridiculous, so I haven't got one yet.

@dl804 3 ай бұрын

I did purchase this collection. I didn't psy $400 but i wish it was the Japanese price. I believe that this was over priced. The card borders not matching was a mistake. I do enjoy that it's a portable play area for two. I bring it to friend's houses to play. It's fun and honestly that's how i planned on using it.

@scottrogers2186 3 ай бұрын

$200-$250 is a fair price for this based on the value of the cards inside. It's tough product for retailers to deal with because it's so huge and heavy. Poor earth as many of these are going to be in land fills when people just pull the cards out.

@Uri_93 3 ай бұрын

The shoutout was cool!!! Thanks dude!!

@RadarHawk 3 ай бұрын

$400 was an absurd price, and TPC was banking on people's nostalgia to sell this product. You could've bought a current gen console for the same price.

@lordxmugen 3 ай бұрын

You can buy one of the older LCD Steam Deck Models for that price. Which do you think will be worth more in the long run?

@anth4584 3 ай бұрын

I live in Australia, and if my memory serves me correctly, it was in the $800 range. Now, to put that into some perspective, for $818 you could buy (at RRP); a Nintendo Switch OLED, a pro controller, and both Zelda: BoTW and ToTK. I can’t remember exactly how much it was, but I know it was over 800. It was also only stocked twice, and both times it somehow sold out the same day preorders went up

@Tropicards 2 ай бұрын

Eb had them for 800 i recall, i've never seen one around though. Piss take of a price though lol

@tcrilly9247 3 ай бұрын

One of the local shops around me was selling them for $299 plus a free Crown Zenith Morpeko V box. They are pushing them hard since they aren’t selling much.

@timstram 3 ай бұрын

Hey man, people paid that price and even higher when they thought it would be a limited print. I think it was a GREAT idea. Print a cheap set and milk the scalpers. People who had any clue knew it would be under 300 in less than a year and held off buying the hype.

@poke_hoard422 2 ай бұрын

Actually looking into it more there are more cards that come in this spedial to this set. Some cards that werent holo are now holo i think there is a total of 103 cards in the set even the energies are cool but other than the big ones i got all the carsa i wamt off tcgplayer for $30 including 3 mr mimes. Alot are under $1

@jonfrancis8596 3 ай бұрын

This channel produces the best content. Informative as well as getting to hear from a genuine fan. Keep up the great work.

@poke_hoard422 2 ай бұрын

Reallly thinking on it. This shouldnt be more than $150-$200 market imo

@officerjazzi 3 ай бұрын

Remember how I felt the Pikachu in a Felt Hat promo "fiasco" was an attempt to combat scalping? I think this was another attempt to combat scalpers by the Pokémon Company. Because who would want this product in the west? If it was priced decently, and/or had more exclusive items in the set, a lot of longtime, hardcore TCG/Pokémon fans would want it. But that price tag, along with the fact that there wasn't much extra flashiness in this set, it just seems Pokémon was deliberately telling western scalpers to F*** off. Is their execution of this plan affecting long-time end-user consumers? Sure. But I am happy to see the majority of people who were buying up all the good stuff during the 25th anniversary now turning away from buying big ticket items, because there's no resale value. So I will always support that.

@lollercoaster4 3 ай бұрын

It's greed, all it is is simply greed. This should've been $199.99 tops. It doesn't cost substantially more than your typical UPC to produce, it's gross they're trying to get 3x that for it. I'm glad they're stuck with a ton of them, eventually they'll be clearanced to the price point they belong: $179.99-$199.99. Hold the line!

@sonofyou9086 3 ай бұрын

I think it’s a very underrated product. I’d much rather keep this sealed than a booster box of evolving skies for about the same price

@BirdKeeperToby 3 ай бұрын

I mean yeah £400 is ridiculous for what is essentially the Pokemon Battle Academy presented nicely. That product is £30 The item tries to appeal to collectors and players alike and ends up failing to work for either. You have to open it to get to the cards to sealed collectors are out. The cards in English don’t look special so who cares?? But it’s far too expensive to just play, video games board games and even just buying 2 decks are cheaper. If you wanted the classic pokemon card playing experience you can just buy the OG cards for some of the old theme decks like Zap or Overgrowth and it’d still be cheaper than the retail price. Charizard Blastoise and Vensasur from base would have been a problem if they weren’t all just in celebrations last year so for the upper quality and novelty of it we can move up from Battle Academy’s £30 but I truly think £100 is a reasonable ish but expensive product and even £150 is a bit of a stretch

@kobecollects 3 ай бұрын

I love it, I have one sealed and one opened. Not every product is for everyone

@dvandal674 3 ай бұрын

The problem I have with the classic set is that the cards are not playable in tournaments except the energy cards. The nostalgia is great, but very highly priced…

@grafzeppelin4069 3 ай бұрын

I think pricing it so insanely high AND also making all the cards non-holo was a horrible mistake. The mat, damage counters, and coin-flip-ball-roller thing look fine, but aren't remotely practical. As-is, I'd buy it for like 40 bucks. An English version of the Japanese one? Probably 100-ish.

@Thisisfuckingawful 3 ай бұрын

The cards are holo just not the borders. They don’t look anywhere near as nice as the Japanese cards but much better than the stock photos used in the video here.

@mullet_muffins 3 ай бұрын

Just remember folks, Wossy was saying this was worth buying on the days leading up to release 😊

@nicocchi 3 ай бұрын

I loved this product but I didn't love its price, so I didn't buy it. It's still nowhere near crashing where I live though, so still have the choice between a PS5 or some nice cardboard and plastic

@Saythra 3 ай бұрын

The price probably was a major point. The other, honestly I keep forgetting the collection even exists. And I would think there's people like me out there.

@SunriseRss 3 ай бұрын

The collection is not worth £300-£400. Max £120 like upcs. I don't think Pokémon company are bothered. It will go up in value at some point

@2mccue4u27 3 ай бұрын

Waaaaaay too expensive. If it had been $100 and the set had the quality of the Japanese version, i'd have bitten. But, I don't regret passing on this.

@whatwasthequestion4051 2 ай бұрын

I do like the top 3 of this set over a evolutions set. Everything else i dont care to much about. The gold is perfect.

@jamiecarr8143 3 ай бұрын

Why would I buy this when I can buy 2 or 3 booster boxes of paradox rift?

@PringerXYZ 3 ай бұрын

I feel robbed...

@teemomain8268 3 ай бұрын

Im guessing this includes the Energies not being Tournament legal,Correct?

@michaelgeorgemcdonald5927 3 ай бұрын

Reason this was not a "hit" is because 151 was a better choice at the time. You could buy so much 151 product with 400 quid.

@kyuremcjn8406 3 ай бұрын

Holy smokes just saw how much there going for, $200 to $250 it’s crazy how this pokemon classic crush so much, I remember 2 months ago they where at $600 to $800 and now we here

@kylefrinak7474 3 ай бұрын

The all in cost to make this is no where $400. This is just the Pokémon company getting greedy.

@kaijutraps 3 ай бұрын

Cool product just too expensive wouldve been a great buy had it been affordable for a normal person

@bigboba5099 3 ай бұрын

Id pay no more than 100 for. Its a joke. Also my friend opened and half the decks are damaged print line's are horrendous. No where near the value of 400😂. Play board was cool but definitely not 400 cool so...

@TreshToons 3 ай бұрын

They wanted to squeeze the fanbase as much as they could, but didn't realize that the people that want reprints with no value, being sold at high values, isn't really what people want. The set was way too expensive for the average consumer.

@16362549 3 ай бұрын

Products that were not well received at release tend to go up in value in the future.

@louiepikmin3184 3 ай бұрын

Yeah no, that's usually not true 💀 Sure, there's always exceptions (An example being the Detective Pikachu set,) but most unwanted products/sets just... Barely go up in price. I'm not saying this won't be expensive in the future, I'm just saying that if people didn't want a product at launch, they probably still won't want it in the future

@16362549 3 ай бұрын

@@louiepikmin3184 steam siege, crimson invasion, evolutions, generations, and many many more

@rostoneto 3 ай бұрын

It was waaaaay too expensive, no one in my community (even the people that has every card in max rarity) show any interest on it.

@nickthebeardedwonder 3 ай бұрын

Honestly because anyone who knows anything about cards, knew it would bomb.

@michaelnorman8581 3 ай бұрын

I think it should be a 150 dollar product on Pokémon’s side, they just seem stingy with that current price

@Jok3rsFaVor 3 ай бұрын

Still at least $90 bucks overpriced.. but it was a nice 'Concept'.. If the focus weren't clearly on this being a 'money raking product', it could have been an affordable and official Orica set of Classic Cards.. A pretty product, but makes you see the company for what it is a bit too clearly.. Not the way to keep consumers addicted these days, These Corpos are becoming a tad too ignorant in their wealth/comfort throughout the decades I thinks... 🃏

@CopingContinuous 3 ай бұрын

I’ve just been buying the Japanese cards I specifically want from Classic. The super holo is incredible. No reason to own the specific decks or play material for me personally.

@TheFriskySquid 3 ай бұрын

People want the cards but not the $200 box (especially since the box is made to play on, and nobody is going to play with cards that cost that much that are exclusive and not even tourney legal to begin with). If the 3 decks were $100 they would have sold like hotcakes. Instead they tried to shove a $250 ultra high quality box down our throats and nobody bought it.

@squirtletrainerzero5620 3 ай бұрын

Oh I would use a stronger word but it’s not safe for a comment. They really messed up with the English release. Having the price and quality be so lackluster compared to the JO version infuriated me. I will never buy the EN version. They can not continue making lesser quality and more expensive products and think I’ll buy it.

@Imrfreemason 2 ай бұрын

I like both english and Japanese but i want to buy the english because the cards look like old wotc but with a modern look

@Goat-tb9re 3 ай бұрын

The problem is that they did a wave 2.

@Penterror 3 ай бұрын

When they said things will be reprinted they killed the product

@bad_atgames 3 ай бұрын

yeah for scalpers i guess lmao

@Penterror 3 ай бұрын

@@bad_atgames You can want things to hold value without being a scalper.

@freedomgaming9987 3 ай бұрын

Like Magic 30 the price was way higher than the product was actually worth.

@Martumal 3 ай бұрын

The JP one was better and cheaper. Someone at marketing really messed up

@brandonborrayo5065 3 ай бұрын

I got one of these on ebay with out the cards for 40 bucks and i love it but for 40 bucks 😅

@jzsn8947 3 ай бұрын

Of course, this thing at that insane overprice was a fad. It is a souvenir type of item at best that should be a quarter of the original price.

@naturesepyon 3 ай бұрын

I'd rather buy the original base set cards as opposed to reprints.

@BrokeAssCollector 3 ай бұрын

280 on ebay all day and night

@39Lords 3 ай бұрын

If product becomes cheaper, then it wasn't a mistake.

@pokerei 3 ай бұрын

Couple of points for me, it's way to expensive! Even if it was 150 I wouldn't be interested. The Japanese version is cleary superior but even then the cards used are not only vintage they are a mix that visually don't pair well so it's not really "Classic". Also who is this for? Collector's or players? The accessories look really nice but who would pay that much for those and the card choice personally doesn't justify the price either.

@craigmoore524 3 ай бұрын

From someone who prereleased it at £380...it feels like a mistake. Its in my loft unopened, it may take 5-10 years to make my money back. Oh well, such is the life of collecting.

@G0ldfishOnFyre 3 ай бұрын

The bad idea was charging that much for a literal kids game made of paper and cardboard

@seansmith2650 3 ай бұрын

I got this 100 off at launch so I'm not mad

@_RiseAgainst 3 ай бұрын

I said $250, im sticking with it! 285 on tcg player

@jordanjoestar76 3 ай бұрын

Shocker…

@ozzypuff8957 3 ай бұрын

This is the biggest scam TPC has tried to "sell"

@TrickyPanda65 3 ай бұрын

This should have been a 100 dollar product

@seanmatias1360 3 ай бұрын

Product is awesome, price is wayyyy to much. $150-165 would be a decent price.

@big_june209 3 ай бұрын

Best buy drop it down to 300 for a sell

@redven25 3 ай бұрын

Using nostalgia to overprice this. The target demographic had to be adults over 35 with disposable income and/or content creators. Can’t convince me that this was necessary for the price at release.