Oh why didn't i get one?

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

 After telling hubs this news tidbit he turns to me and says "Your not going to buy that on ebay are you?"  Makes me want to rethink the price I just put on the Pokémon happy meals!

[onefootflipper]

Anytime grownups are going to McDonalds to get the happy meal toys to flip you can be sure that the value of them will soon be zero. 

Those 25th Anniversary Pokemon Happy Meal cards are all worthless bulk cards now, most valuable one is Pikachu, which can be purchased for all of 49 cents on tcgplayer. 

The previous years that adults were not buying can have a little value if the cards are actually in mint condition, which they likely won't be since kids opened them while eating food.  And Pokemon cards price out like sports cards not like other gaming cards so they are super condition sensitive when it comes to their value. 

[katzrul15]

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@onefootflipper wrote:

Anytime grownups are going to McDonalds to get the happy meal toys to flip you can be sure that the value of them will soon be zero. 

Those 25th Anniversary Pokemon Happy Meal cards are all worthless bulk cards now, most valuable one is Pikachu, which can be purchased for all of 49 cents on tcgplayer. 

The previous years that adults were not buying can have a little value if the cards are actually in mint condition, which they likely won't be since kids opened them while eating food.  And Pokemon cards price out like sports cards not like other gaming cards so they are super condition sensitive when it comes to their value. 

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@silverstatetreasureboxes 

@onefootflipper 

Collectors are not looking for an opened card - they want the entire set, unopened and as Silver stated, with the Mickey D's boxes, etc.   My son got $45-$50 a set full  and $5 for single ones.  Not bad for "free" toys or add-on toys at $1.89 ea.  He sold them locally on FB.  

Last fall (about a year ago now) we sold the entire Set of the original Hot Wheels release of McD's toys from 1999/2000.  There were 10 cars and we got $78 for the set on best offer.  There were also 10 Barbies from the same timeline (you picked either a girl or boy toy back then) and we only had 8 in the package.  We got over $100 for those 8 new/sealed.  These were the "once in a lifetime" series and adults were the ones collecting them - not kids when they were originally released.

Different series have different ones in demand.  But selling the entire set (incredibles was also like that) usually does really well.  They need to be new/sealed though.  

[chapeau-noir]

I wanted to put my money on Evander Holyfield for the first Holyfield v Tyson fight - I had $2k and was going to the betting shop but my then husband (a dreary fellow) talked me out of it (a dumb me). 

A great upset victory.  Missed my chance at milliunz.

ETA:  Missed out on the YouTube thing, too, but at that time I was still suffering from the dot-com crash.

[moondogblues]

" but at that time I was still suffering from the dot-com crash."

I was working for a network vendor then.  We sold a package to a dot-com start-up on Friday, showed up on Monday to start work and they were gone.  Offices empty, just nothing.  It reminded me of the early 70's when Lockheed had bought a bunch of buildings in Sunnyvale that then sat empty for decades.  Boom and bust.

[moondogblues]

I think I've shared this before but my Mom and Steve Wozniak's Mom were friends.  They would shmooze over coffee and try to send me out to the garage where Steve was playing with the components that would become Apple.  I went a few times but he was b-o-r-i-n-g.  Perhaps a really really missed opportunity.  In so many ways.