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Student sells Pokémon cards for $80,000 to help pay for medical school
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That's some crazy appreciation. Glad it worked out for him. Collectable markets can be crazy volatile.
If anyone needs some help with theirs...
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The classic Pokémon TCG market (1999-2003) is really wild right now. Need help with yours? [Finally cooling down... for now] Nintendo - Entertainment
Welcome one and all! (NOTE: We made this topic during the peak of the price surge and things have calmed down an awful lot now. Many prices have corrected back down and it's not quite the fast money it was a year ago. That doesn't mean there isn't still money to be made, though! Just come in...
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Wish I could find mine...me and my brother could get some house downpayments out of our binder maybe, lol
Good for him. Medical training takes loads of dedication and tolerance for delayed gratification, both of which Caleb is demonstrating here. I wish him the best.
PS If you ever read this, bring this story up on interviews! It is the exact kind of thing that makes applicants memorable when it comes time to rank them for acceptance
PS If you ever read this, bring this story up on interviews! It is the exact kind of thing that makes applicants memorable when it comes time to rank them for acceptance
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Has he even gotten into medical school yet? Because 80k will cover about 1-1.5 years only. I wish I was kidding.
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Nope, he's wanting to get into med school eventually
Med school tuition is crazy. Some DO schools in the midwest charge ~$80k for 1 year tuition if you're from out-of-state, IIRC.
Cool if he intended to sell them for school in the first place, but honestly really sad if it was just a general investment and he had to sell them to make enough.
Guessing the surge in interest in TCG collection is why I keep on seeing lots of people ask for the value of their honestly... very poor ygo cards as if even a single bit of edge wear doesn't knock down the value.
Guessing the surge in interest in TCG collection is why I keep on seeing lots of people ask for the value of their honestly... very poor ygo cards as if even a single bit of edge wear doesn't knock down the value.
My parents threw out all my cards from the late 90's. I had a fucking holographic charizard and the movie exclusive ancient mew
That's wild. It sucks he needed to sell them to fund medical school but good for him getting one hell of a return on his investment.
My stepson is buying up current Pokémon cards left and right these days. Here's hoping they amount to something 20 years from now.
My stepson is buying up current Pokémon cards left and right these days. Here's hoping they amount to something 20 years from now.
4000 into 80k? That is hell of a return.
Manmademan laughs everytime I bring up my chromium #1 Ravage 2099
Manmademan laughs everytime I bring up my chromium #1 Ravage 2099
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Please. Savage Dragon or bust.
AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A COMIC COLLECTOR? :P
Unopened first gen packs? Like, 1st Edition? Because those are worth 10K.
I believe I have ancient mew from the movie that they were giving away. Is it worth much?
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Not me!
I'm thankfully long done with medical school.
.........how do I know that this cat isn't you, though? 🤔
Cool story. Will help him be a bit more "unique" when it comes to getting in to school, but if he really didn't want to sell them, he should have just kept them and got a loan. Banks/loan companies LOVE giving loans to future doctors because unfortunately they make enough essentially life-time guaranteed money to always pay their monthly fees, but not usually enough money to just pay the whole thing off quickly because by the time you reach that kind of income you have kids, spouses, mortages, etc... to pay for.
$80k is peanuts unfortunately. It will cover two years for an in-state public medical school (at least in California).
$80k is peanuts unfortunately. It will cover two years for an in-state public medical school (at least in California).
That's because thar thing is worth negative dollars. You couldn't give it away
You a doctor? With access to medicines and stuff? Lord have mercy, I got to pray
My father used to be a big hockey card collector as a kid in the 40s-50s. His step mother threw them all away when he enlisted. Imagine throwing away multiple Gordie Howe rookie cards...
