Surreal moment.
Today we celebrate our grand opening.
The day couldn’t be complete without picking up a breakfast burrito from my favorite local establishment!
Will see you out here!
Let’s go.
Today a lightbulb clicked for me.
Whenever you open an Elite Trainer Box the inside sleeve of the box is set artwork.
I’ve keep the box sleeves of several ETBs just because I always thought I would find a use for them.
Today, I decided to attach that various artworks to the
Trading Card Shop Update:
It is with great pleasure that I officially recognize today as the day that I am completely moved into the new card shop. Next step - our Grand Opening.
I recorded this video today which is a detailed walk thru of the space. It’s worth the watch.
I
Super pumped for today. Just signed the paperwork and took possession of 1280 sq ft of commercial real estate located directly across the street from a Wal-Mart, Target & Lowes. Plan is to open my own brick and motor card shop. Grand opening planned for Sept 1st.
#PokemonTCG
We are not officially open yet, but I had my first family customer stop by while I was working at the shop installing TVs.
I decided to open the shop up for them to shop around. All of the kids were into Pokémon and they all got packs.
We sold some evolving skies, brilliant
I can’t tell you how many packs I’ve opened now and have been waiting for this day.
I have personally ate through so much supply of my remaining evolving Skies stock, but it was so worth it.
Still shaking.
Let’s go.
Another amazing pokemon collection buyout from a local collector.
This is probably one of the most well organized collections that I have seen so far.
Check it out.
We have been open to the public for 30 Days.
It has been an amazing month filled with so many awesome memories.
Grand opening weekend was a high success. The next week ushered in the release of Pokemon 151, followed up by wave 2 of Pokémon 151 which brought in the UPCs.
Our shop is closed on Thursday, but I came into the shop today to prep for Paldean Fates dropping tomorrow.
I have my son a job. Build me a pyramid of ETBs. He is 5 years old.
He was so proud of his work and had a blast.
I then let him open 6 packs of Paldean Fates and he
This bad boy arrived just in time for my grand opening.
The cold brew coffee keg is installed.
The custom artwork wrap turned out fantastic.
Still need to get some shelves in and I haven’t received the actual coffee cold brew keg delivery yet. Hopefully by next week I will
Yesterday was an amazing day.
I mentioned in my previous post that we did just over $3,000 during day 1 of collect a con.
What I was expecting is that we did another $3,000 in sales last night during our soft launch party at our new shop.
We are back at it again today. Stop
Reminder,
We are having our soft launch today via an community night at our shop from 7-9 pm.
Come join us:
We will be ordering pizza. Based on how many people we have met at collect a con today I suspect there to a some turnout.
We’re always making improvements to our shop.
For those that play pokemon competitively I love the way our trainer organization setup turned out.
It’s awesome being able to say that we have every single trainer and regulation in stock and organized for players to come in and
Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been hard at work creating the ultimate Pokemon trading card shop that I hope to share with all of you.
Here is a video showcasing what I have been up to.
Still - lots of work remains. 💪
Let’s go! Retweet & follow progress!
#PokemonTCG
#Pokemon
Big card shop update:
Today I took delivery of six 4 person game tables and 24 bar height chairs for the shop.
I had some family help me assemble everything. After having spent all day putting everything together I am ready to give you all the grand reveal.
I’ll have room
Heads up everyone,
Looks like there is a new wave of fake cards circulating.
As a local card shop, we take in a lot of trades so we see quite a bit of fakes, but we haven’t yet seen this version of counterfeit cards yet.
Eyes up everyone.
This customer spent $50 on these
The day has turned out to be a huge success. We’ve been steadily busy all throughout the day. The Kansas City area really turned out to support us.
Tonight, from 6 to 8 is our first live stream.
Going to be opening 144 booster packs of fusion strike. We are going Gengar
All systems are go for tomorrow, the release day of Pokémon 151 nationwide.
If your local to the Kansas City area come grab yours tomorrow or Saturday.
First customer of the day.
@KantoKarp
blessed us with his presence.
He picked up some awesome goodies.
2 cosmic eclipse packs
2 hidden fates packs
Hidden fates charizard tin
Evolving skies sleeved booster artwork set.
Even though I’ve had dozens of sales to customers
I’m in the middle of building a prototype coffee table that will allow me to better display my sealed product and graded cards. It’s still a work in progress but I hope to have it finished this week.
#pokemonCards
#woodworking
My Pokémon sealed product wall got upgraded today.
The Neon signs were an awesome addition.
I also installed LED tape lights for the uplighting of the product.
It looks even better in person.
My son is spending a few hours with me at the shop today.
I gave home 10 silver tempest and 10 fusion strike packs to open.
I’m working and letting him do his thing. He sorts his cards so well. I taught him to put all of the SHINY ones in a pile.
I decide to scan through his
Top 10 Pokemon Cards from the Sword & Shield Era:
We have crunched the data and here are the top 10 cards across the Sword and Shield Era. This listed is ranked based on Ungraded card pricing, but we also included PSA 10 Pricing as well.
About Sword and Shield Era:
There are a
Why should you get a booth at collect a con or any trading card/ collector store?
It is not just for selling product. It is also for making trades and buying product from future customers.
I had a gentleman come by my booth with 3 suitcases filed of product. In total he had 32
Big trading card shop update today:
My exterior store front sign went up today. Still need to get power ran to the sign. Once that is done I’ll post some pics of the sign lit up at night.
I have also continued to make progress on the interior of the space. More to come soon.
Trading Card Shop Update:
I’m thrilled with how the vibe of the shop has turned out now that I have a few TVs hung up.
For the last few years, I’ve spent countless hours watching several Pokémon content creators on YouTube.
It’s very rewarding seeing some of my favorite
Hey everyone,
Now that my shop is open I am going to start live streaming from the shop.
Pack breaks, booster box breaks, covering new sets, market pricing updates, etc.
I’m excited to offer up the more than 250 unique sealed products from my store inventory as purchasable
Here is my first ever trading card shop tour.
The shop isn’t don’t yet, but it is far enough along now that I have had requests for a tour so I decided to put this together.
At the end I talk about my plans for an painted wall mural on the long white wall that incorporates all
Big Card shop update:
I know I haven’t posted much in the last 2 weeks, but that’s because I have busy getting things ready. In terms of working inside the shop I have been working on some of the more tedious carpentry work.
- I custom built an counter top that seamlessly ties
I posted an update this morning that detailed all of the shop build out to do items that were on the agenda for the next 30 days.
A video is worth a 1000 words they say so I decided to put this together while I was at the shop today.
This should explain what I have on my
Pokemon Trading Card Shop Grand Opening Highlight Thread:
We had an amazing turnout yesterday. Well over 200 people turned out to show us support. Here are some of our favorite highlights that we captured of the day.
To kick things off, look at the excitement of these two
Yesterday our card shop got to witness what an official Pokémon set release day looks like.
Our expectations were high and we knew it was going to be an exciting time, but honestly our expectations were far exceeded. Not because we sold most of of 151 stock in a single day, but
This customer came into our shop today on a quest to purchase one of every Gen 1 and Gen 2 character card.
Didn’t matter what set or era. All that mattered was that she had one unique card from each generation.
We thought that was such a cool collection and it goes to show
Card shop update:
Things are getting real - I got this mock up back from the exterior sign company I am using for what my store front sign will look like. Waiting on landlord approval. I would love to also paint the awning blue to match but not sure if they will allow it.
I was blown away today.
This young man came into the shop with a surprise for us.
He made us a custom engraved wooden sign of Pokémon on the front and our logo on the back. We’re going to have to get it hung up somewhere in the shop.
There’s a bright future in store for this
This past weekend the guys and I spent some time inventorying our products.
We made the bonehead mistake of not doing a good enough job keeping track of the inventory that we sold at the last collect a con trade show we went to. As a result, our inventory counts were wrong and
Happy thanksgiving y’all.
We just finalized an amazing collector buyout from one of my followers here on X/twitter.
Amazing $11,500 collection. That’s not what we paid, but their collection was awesome.
If the price is right and the product is what we are looking for we are
Thanks to everyone who came and visited us at our soft opening today.
We still have a lot to do to get the shop in tip top shape, but tonight was an major step in the right direction.
Highlights included selling a unified minds and unbroken bonds booster box for $1100 total.
I wasn’t planning this, but just did my daily morning Twitter browsing and realized that i was sitting at 1000 followers.
Milestone moment for me. Next step is 10,000 - here we come 🙏😊📈🚀
Thanks for all the follows. I hope everyone has been enjoying the content that I’ve
Top 10 Cards from Pokemon 151
Here is the way to early to tell top 10 list from Pokemon 151.
Any surprises here just yet?
Today in the shop we have sold the majority of our inventory of Pokemon 151. Our tables here at the shop are full and customers are ripping packs. We
Huge shout out to
@pkmndotgg
for the inspiration of framing the oversized Pokémon cards and hanging them on the wall for art.
I’ve decided to take that idea and run with it. Right now I have 130+ unique oversized jumbo cards and I am going to start hanging them on the long
Personal project that I’m working on.
Installing 33 Vault Air carbon fiber slab display frames at my home office.
I’ve been working on collecting the top 100 cards from the Sun and moon, sword and shield, and scarlet and violet era in either a grade 9 or 10.
Im about half
Trading card shop update:
This has been an incredible journey over the last 3 months.
I’m 90% complete with the ground up DIY card shop build.
What started as a concept turned into a design and before too long I was I hitting the ground running. I made several changes to my
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I was able to snag 53 of the top 100 cards from the SWSH era from collect-a-con kc.
I have these cards ordered by market price. These will be on display at my shop.
This is worth the watch.
Hey Poké Twitter,
Help - I’m wanting to buy $2,000 - $5,000 worth of singles that are V, VMax, EX, Full art, alt art, TG, or better for the shop.
This week was the first weekend at the shop that we have had singles on sale at the shop. They were a huge hit.
I want to feed
Top 10 Pokemon Cards From The Sword and Shield Base Set:
We are back again with our 2nd installment of our market price updates. Today, we are taking a deep dive into Sword and Shield Base Set where we explore the top 10 cards from the set looking at market pricing data for both
Here is a video update on what I’m planning to do inside the card shop for live streaming, customer live pack breaks zones, shopping terminals, etc.
I’m not sure if other card shops are doing this but I suspect having camera areas for customers to come hang out and open packs
So it’s a small world.
How small?
Well I’m at the shop right now. There is a Vapor World next door to me. The night manager of the store was closing up and he saw me and asked when we were planning to open. He is a huge Pokémon fan. He told me he wallet wasn’t going to like
I have over 500 Pokémon playmats from the crown zenith morpeko special collection boxes.
Is anyone interested in purchasing these at a next to nothing cost?
Tcg player has these at a $6 market cost. I would sell them for $2 per playmat plus shipping for anyone interested in
Good morning everyone,
The oversized Pokémon card art wall is looking fantastic. Straight fire 🔥!
I’ve only hung about a 1/3 of what I plan on hanging, but I’m loving the look already.
I might still try to incorporate a painted mural on this wall somewhere, but I’m super
I need to commission some artwork to get done.
I want to get vinyl graphic sheets applied to the face of these windows. The 4 uppers and lowers.
The 4 upper windows measure 65.5” x 35.5”
The lower 4 windows measure 21.5” x 35.
Looking for the graphics to be Pokémon themed
I decided to buy one of these card vending machines for the new card shop I am opening.
This is just one of the ways I hope my card shop can bring enjoyment to those that visit it.
#PokemonTCG
#pokemonCards
I’m still plugging away at trying to get the card shop open to the general public.
If you saw my other post from a couple days ago you know there is still lots to do.
I decided to take a pause on the construction to work on getting some of my product organized.
In this
Was anybody aware that the 2022 trainer toolkits that Pokemon came out with last year had evolving skies packs of them?
I completely was oblivious to that. Once I found out, I bought 90 of them from one of my distributors. Today we’re breaking them down for loose packs to sell
Trading card shop update:
Good evening everyone,
Here is some commentary from today after I got done installing the lights on my sealed box display wall.
I had just powered up the lights for the first time and was still basking in the glory of everything SHINY.
The shop is
Ok everyone,
I’ve been making a big push to get my card shop in somewhat of an presentable state to host an collect-a-con KC after party this Saturday at my new shop.
Tomorrow I plan on moving product into my store.
If you are planning on attending collect-a-con this weekend
Just your ordinary Saturday at a Pokémon card shop.
When we had our grand opening back on September 15th 2023 I was always dreaming of this day arriving.
Finally got our hands on what childhood dreams are made of.
Let’s go!
Anybody interested in doing some live pack breaks?
Trading card shop update:
Today I custom built this sign for the inside of my shop. It turned out much better than I expected.
I had a hard time deciding whether to paint the sign white/black or if I should stain it. In the end I decided to stain it with the hopes that it
This past weekend we hosted our first birthday party in the card shop.
I wasn’t sure what to expect.
One thing is for sure though. For anyone that thinks Pokemon is dying or on a downward trend I would say they’re vastly mistaken. What I witnessed on Saturday was an entire
Huge update coming:
I’m at the shop today organizing my graded cards.
This is the moment that I’ve been waiting for:
It’s time to put away the goodies.
By the end of today I’ll have so much eye candy on display it will be tough to ever leave.
Card shop update:
Today I finished installing the first phase of my wall shelving and took delivery of a large lumber, plywood and hardwood materials order that is needed for the next phase of the project.
Next up is one of the more excited parts of the build out which is
For you One Piece fans we just took delivery of Wave 1 of the new EB-01 Memorial Collection.
We have these listed on our site right now for $125 per box.
Market price right now on TCG Player is sitting at $165 so we have these priced $40 below market.
We will get these
I finally got around to installing security cameras for the shop.
I should of had these up the day I moved my inventory into the shop, but late is better than never.
I might get one or two more. I’d prefer to get better coverage of the countertop area. I prioritize the
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Finally getting some Pokémon product moved into the shop.
So many different ways to organize product.
Do you think I should organize product by expansion set or by product type?
In other words - should I display product grouped with tins next to tins, ETBs next to
We finally got Japanese product available to sell in the shop.
We now carry 13 different sets.
For you Japanese collectors - we did this for you.
Thanks everyone.
Hey everyone -
I’m trying to finalize my trade in policy.
Before I do can anyone that has a LGS nearby share what their policy is for trade ins.
I would like to be competitively priced for trade in while at the same time taking into account the amount of work it takes to
Trading card shop update:
I have continued to make steady progress towards completing the display cases
In addition, I have installed most of the front shiplap which I decided to accent in black.
Let me know your thoughts on the color scheme I have chosen.
#Pokemon
Ok,
So I’m not sure if I should be ashamed of this or not, but I started collecting Pokémon in the summer between the 5th and 6th grade.
At the time, base set unlimited had just came out. For my birthday I ended up getting 5 booster packs as a present from my grandma and on
We’re ready for waved two of Pokemon 151. Are you?
All orders have been shipped to customers who placed online orders.
We’ve got a decent inventory remaining for local customers. With that said, I do suspect that will be sold out by end of day tomorrow.
This has been a super
Card shop update:
This are starting to take shape
With this update hopefully you can start to visualize how the display cases will look like. I will have led lighting inside the glass cases to light things up as well. I’m satisfied with how this design is turning out.
Card shop update:
✅ Paint is finished
✅ Floors are installed
Currently working on installing a custom card display setup.
These small full extension drawers with felt pad liner will be the perfect solution for displaying and organizing loose cards!
#PokemonTCG
#Pokemon
Major update just rolled out at our card shop.
We have streamlined the trade in process for customers at our shop. Our new process should cut down on the time it takes to appraise cards by over 90%..
It will be nice to test this out this weekend.
In this video by explain our
We are gearing up for our grand opening and are expecting a full house on Friday Sept 15th.
Yesterday, we spent the entire day retrofitting the store with pricing labels for all products.
Initially, I wasn’t going to put pricing labels on products. In this video I explain why
For 2.5 years my basement has been used as storage for Pokémon product.
Today, I’m taking the very last load of product out of my house.
Kinda odd not having a single Pokémon product in my house any longer.
I salute you last remaining tote. Time to spread your wings and
At the shop today,
Had a customer come in and we negotiated a trade.
Umbreon vmax psa 9
For
Gold star celebi
Shining charizard
Leafeon Vmax
Togepi&Cleffa&igglybuff gx
Thoughts? Solid trade? Which side got the better deal?
Card shop update:
This is not as glamorous as an update as some of the other things that I posted in the past, but it’s definitely a necessary one.
I’ve spent the last week thinking through and building out the solution to operationalize all of my packing, fulfillment and
Here is one of the display cases at my shop.
Every booster pack artwork from sword and shield base all the way up to obsidian flames.
I won’t mind looking at this until I find some better uses for the space.
Eventually, this display case will be for high-end singles. Cards
Who uses these card sorting trays when opening packs?
I picked these up about a year ago and they are a game changer.
I sort my bulk by energy as I am opening packs. The amount of time this saves me when storing my bulk in an organized manner is awesome.
Highly recommend.
Well, this post absolutely flopped.
Probably once of the worst reach posts I have done. I put a lot of work into this post too.
Are people just not interested in hearing about market updates across various Pokemon sets or did the post flopped just because this is Sword and
Top 10 Pokemon Cards From The Sword and Shield Base Set:
We are back again with our 2nd installment of our market price updates. Today, we are taking a deep dive into Sword and Shield Base Set where we explore the top 10 cards from the set looking at market pricing data for both
The 1/1 ring has been found.
Two thoughts on this.
1) I wonder what this card being found does to the pricing market of sealed product. I suspect since the chase is over prices plummet. The current TCG Player market price is $356 per booster box. Look for this to start
The graded card tray isn’t painted yet, but this will give you an idea of the look I was going for for the card shop.
Painting these will be an pain in the a** but the final results will look great.
Got my first shipment today of Obsidian Flames.
More product on the way but this is a good start. I love seeing the lineup of the goods. 👀
Should I sell these or should I just opened everything on stream?
If you’ve been following along, I haven’t streamed anything yet, but I
Super pumped for today. Just signed the paperwork and took possession of 1280 sq ft of commercial real estate located directly across the street from a Wal-Mart, Target & Lowes. Plan is to open my own brick and motor card shop. Grand opening planned for Sept 1st.
#PokemonTCG
Trading card shop update:
I made significant progress this past week. Finished all carpentry work on 15 display cases for my new shop.
It was a heavy lift that took me 3 weeks to do. The effort was worth it. IMO they turned out beautiful.
Next steps is for me to wood
If you are into Pokemon then you should dig this video update.
I’ve had this idea for artwork for my card shop for a few months now. I’ve been waiting two months. Finally came in.
THEY LOOK SO GOOD!!!!
Wait on the video for reveal. It is worth the wait!!!
Card shop update:
This weekend I took delivery of all of the electronics for the shop that will allow me to setup and configure my live streaming studio along with 2 live pack break zones.
My plan is to allow customers to break packs live in the shop and record the footage
Our shop is closed today to customers, but we’re still hard at work prepping for the weekend.
Here is an inside look at what we do occasionally to make sure we have loose booster packs available for our customers.
I know that I mainly post about Pokemon and that’s what my store will specialize in, but I will also be carrying other products as well.
How is everyone feeling about one piece?
It seems like a hot TCG at the moment.
I should be getting 75 booster boxes of OP-3 pillars of
Trading Card Shop Update:
I built the cabinetry for 2 built in fridges.
The small spaces to the left and right of the fridge is for 10 in glass shelves. Most likely I’ll float poke balls in that space.
The big center space is for a built in kegerator which will house cold
One of my distributors had a small restock of Fusion Strike Sleeved Booster Packs.
I was lucky enough to snag 10 cases. There are 144 sleeved packs per case so I just got in 1444 sleeved packs.
I’m getting my grand opening sale items prepared and most likely will be running
It was cool having the leading Kansas City newspaper out to my shop to interview me and cover my shop opening.
Thanks
@KansasCityStar
for the write up. I hope to make Kansas City proud.
You one piece fans are crazy.
Just like that all damaged boxes are gone.
Sold 120 boxes today in about 45 mins. For everyone that bought from us for the first time. Thanks!
Good morning everyone.
Shout out to
@LaprasKnowsBest
for stopping by our shop this morning. He drove over 3 hours to make some killer trades. Enjoy your weekend in Kansas City. Have fun at the NASCAR race!
This was our first trade in using our newly created trade in policy
Even though we’ve been open for just over 30 days now we still aren’t done improving the shop.
We have been working on getting our singles binders on display.
As of now we have over 2000 cards on display.
We have a $1 binder, Two $3 binders, a $5 binder, an binder that is
Even though our grand opening is not until September 15 we’ve had a lot of customers swing by the shop to see if we’re open.
We would never consider turning a customer away.
Good luck on those evolving skies packs.
Trading card shop update:
Finally working with my CNC Machine to get the graded card pull out trays manufactured.
It’s a hot day today, but I have 18 hours of machine run time ahead of me to get all 15 graded card trays made.
Stay tuned for the finished product. The results