 I spent $1,000 on TCG player, let's see how it's going. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video and at the beginning of this year, I spent $1,000 on Yu-Gi-Oh cards on TCG player just to see like how our money would do by the end of the year. And we've done one update so far about five months in and now we're about eight months in, we're getting into September, so it's been eight full months. We're gonna see exactly how our money is doing. It's gonna be interesting to see because last time I think we made like 20 bucks total, you know, which after shipping and everything we probably actually lost a little bit of money. At the beginning of 2022, the card boom was still kind of in effect, but now we're kind of getting towards like a tanking period. You know, not necessarily saying cards are going to nothing or whatever, but the cards are much lower now. So let's see if that affected like the cards we spent or if we're actually doing okay. But first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away a $50 TCG player gift card which usually ends up being me just PayPaling you 50 bucks because I don't even know how to get a gift card. So $50 giveaway basically. All you have to do is like this video, be subscribed, turn on notifications and let me know what you think about this video. Let me know about the cards we bought. Should we have bought something else? What is a really good card we could have bought in January and we would have made a ton of money on? Like let me know in the comments what you think. All right, let's get into this. So the first thing we have, let's just go over what we got previously. The first card we got was a blue eyes wide dragon, ultimate rare. I think this was supposed to be near mint but we got it in light play. Is that what happened? I think I still should have marked this as near mint but it was actually light play. So the cost was $25.99 because it was supposed to be near mint. And then last time we checked it was only 11 bucks because it was actually lightly played. Same thing with the silent swords but it was supposed to be near mint. It wasn't that actually killed the value which if we'd gotten near mint cards I think we'd be doing a lot better right now. And that is something I wanted to like highlight in this sort of experiment because like when you buy cards a lot of the time they come in a different condition than you expect and you have to return them and I didn't, I probably should have for the sake of the video but I didn't. So we've got the astral Leviathan, lightning storm, starlight, solid morning, ulti, unlimited. That's like the one of the only unlimited. I guess we got the blue eyes as well. A dusted goal I thought was gonna do all, I think that card's doing terrible. We're gonna have to see. Stratos is probably one of our heroes right now. Literally, get it, Stratos, hero. Ah, ah, okay that was bad. Then we've got the flare metal dragon and the warriors triumph deck. So I still have all these cards obviously because it's for the experiment. So let's see what the update is. We're gonna go check the blue eyes, white dragon ultimate rare from the starter deck. We just graded a few of those. Maybe if we got some grade it would be interesting to see like if we graded one and it got a 10 that card's like $700. I could like make almost all our money back. So let's just see how they're doing on TCG player. All right, so we're gonna go for the blue eyes. The annoying thing about this is TCG player does this weird thing where they like have a designator as UTR as an ultimate rare. So like I kind of wanna just show you guys this just so you can see how annoying it is. Like let's say we just search like blue eyes. Like a normal person would do it. If you don't know this you're like, oh blue eyes, white dragon. Let's see what they got. Okay, first of all it saves on Pokemon for some reason. I don't know why. So we go to Yu-Gi-Oh. You're like okay let's go to the rarity. Let's see ultimate, I can't, I can't type. Ultimate, I literally can't. Oh wait, it does come up. Okay, maybe they fixed that because it used to be where like, or at least some cases the rarity's not even there. So like you have to actually specifically type in UTR to fix it but maybe they fixed that. That's actually really cool. Okay, so first we're looking at first edition. We gotta look at lightly played because ours is lightly played. Oh, and we're going with verified. So we always go with verified because like, yeah some of these guys they're probably legit, you know 100% and stuff but it's just the best to go with the verified seller to you know, pretty sure that those guys are legit. These guys not having a lot of sales. Well actually 624 is not that bad. Could be like a scammer or something. So and sometimes they're stuff listed for like a dollar. So unlimited gaming has that at 798. So that's what we're gonna do. Okay, so we're back. Hey look, we still made four cents. So oh wait, whoops I wasn't supposed to update that one. All right, so as you can see we have a .005% change since we bought it. So that we kind of lost a little bit since last time when it was at 999. Wait, oh this is first edition. Oh crap. Is the unlimited, well at least this one's near meant. So maybe, maybe a five box. Oh no, we're getting destroyed this time. All right, all right, we've already lost a ton of money so far. This is not looking good. Okay, let's hope the other stuff's better. All right, next up, what is it? Silent Swordsman level five. This is another one I think could have done really well. Okay, let's see it. Let's try this again and see if they've actually updated. Let's see if the ultimate rare is available. Okay, here's what I'm talking about. See there's no ultimate rare. Let's see if we can see and there's no option on the rarity. It should say I have an ultimate rare option but because we didn't type specifically the UTR or whatever, then it doesn't pop up, was that level three, whoops. And then this happens because there's 20 different Silent Swordsmans then there's the ultimate rares for multiple different ones. It's just very frustrating. I wish they would not do that with the designators. Just have them all in one spot and then you can filter to the right one that you want instead of having to do this. It's just kind of annoying. Like if you know it's there, it's actually pretty easy but if you don't know it's there like most people probably and me for a long time, it's just obnoxious. So we have Ulti first edition. Let's see what this thing's at. I kind of want to see what the Nirmit would be at but we'll start with the light plate 3340. So it's gone down a little bit even more. So 3340, not looking too good. Let's see what it would be if it was a Nirmit. I want to see what that would be. See, look, it'd be $124.95. So $124.95. I mean, we would be crushing it right now. We'd be up almost $40, which would be insane. So unfortunately that is not what's actually happening because we've got a light plate copy but still really nice. Yeah, okay, not looking so good so far guys. All right, next we've got the Leviathan. I paid $110 for this card. Oh, that's rough, man. That card's definitely not that high. Let's just see. Okay, Leviathan dragon, number 17. Come on, baby. I should have bought the Gosher. That would have been a lot cooler. Let's see Astral. Okay, we've got the specific designator again. Oh, okay, that's a light plate. Come on, 16. Oh, okay, that's Spanish, okay. 61.99, this thing's even lower than before. This card is doing so bad. So currently we have lost money on every single card. The change in percent, okay, I just fixed this. And now we are literally negative on all four so far. We've lost almost $50 on the Leviathan dragon. We've lost $53 on the silent source and mostly because it came in the wrong condition we'd actually would be plus on that, which is unfortunate. This is not looking good. Lightning Storm's up next. I don't think people are playing this right now so we probably are not looking too good. Our decisions so far have not been good in terms of value. So let's see what Lightning Storm can bring to us. Come on, first edition, you're mint. Oh, yes, we finally made some money. 364.90, let's go, there we go. All right, we are positive $66.49. I paid less than 300 for this. I felt good about this when we first did it just because it's a really good card and it's like, you know, it's a starlight. It's one out of 10 cases to pull, really difficult. Wait, actually at that point it might have been one out eight. I don't know if they had the throwback starlights yet. But that's still really nice. Okay, we made a little bit of money. So far we are still pretty negative. That's a 22% increase here though. I mean, we have a 61% decrease and a 69% there. So now looking too good. Those are lower value though. This is the highest value card we have. So like actually increasing there is really nice. Let's check out the solid warning. This is near-mint, ulti unlimited. If this was first edition, it'd be really nice but that would have cost too much. I really wanna do this again at some point. Probably next year we'll do it again. If you guys wanna see this again, let me know in the comments and we'll probably make it happen next year because I'm actually really enjoying these update videos, just seeing what happens, really fun. Let's go, near-mint unlimited. Okay, we might have lost a little, oh wait, six, seven, three, four plus seven, eight, shouldn't shipping? Okay, six, seven, three, four. So we are down a tiny bit. We're actually up though from five, 12, so or May 12th. So that's actually not too bad. I would say, yeah, it's hanging stable which is not bad for an unlimited card. I did buy this because like a solid morning, like can be used in older formats. It's also an ulti, it's really nice. The first edition was just way too expensive and I didn't have the budget for it, but so really cool. I'm next up, the Evil Hero Dusty Gold. I don't think this one's doing so hot but let's check it out. Evil Hero Dusty Gold, okay. Brothers of legend, let's see how you're doing. Okay, wait, am I gonna clear this maybe? Let's do near-mint, $4.50. We paid $13. This was a bad idea. This was a bad idea. I didn't really realize that this is a one-off in the deck. I thought it might've been a three-off and because it was so expensive, like 80 bucks, I was thinking, okay, this is a nicer looking like version. There's only two versions, but I should have known. It was a new card at the time. It had just come out like a month ago. Of course it's gonna go down. We can learn from this though. We can learn from this for potentially next year. Let's check the Stratos. I have high hopes for this one because Stratos did really well last time. If it can do well, maybe we can actually do something. Elmets or Stratos is not coming up with the UTR. So hopefully we can find it. There it is, okay, come on, come on, come on. Give us something good. Nearmen, okay, that's Portuguese, it's called German. That one's not verified. Verified German, verified French. Okay, 150, no, 150, all right. So we're up one cent. Literally up one cent. We paid 149.99 and it was 150. So if you include like tax and the stuff we're gonna need to destroy it right now. Okay, so that was one of our big ones last time. It was only $14 increase, but still it was pretty nice. Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon. Let's see what that thing's looking like. Ghost Shure First Edition. I actually think I need that for my binder. So I like, it was like a dual purpose for buying that. But yeah, it's a nice one. If you guys wanna see an update on my like, my Ghost Shure binder that I'm doing with the Ultimates and the Ghosts and the Secrets from like every set, let me know cause I've actually added a lot recently. So let's see how the Ghost Shure is doing. What was it, Nearmen First Edition actually? Okay, 139.97, okay. 139.97, no, last time it was 190. We made $1, everything's back to the exact same price. This is insane. Okay, all right, we're back down. Okay, we are definitely not doing so good this month. It is not looking good. All right, final item, Warrior's Triumph Structure Deck. Is there any chance this is actually like, I mean, is there a chance it went up? I highly doubt it. Let's see, Warrior's Triumph Structure Deck First Edition. It is exactly what we bought it at, $100. We made 26 cents. Okay, theoretically, let's say we had put in the Silent Swords, but we would actually probably be like dead even right now, which is surprising. Let's go look at the Blue Eyes. Let's see what the Blue Eyes Ulti is unlimited. All right, if we had actually gotten Nearmen First Edition, we would only be losing 10 bucks instead of the rest. And then the other one we would be making a lot more. So we'd have an extra, we'd probably exactly be right on the dot at $1,000. So still losing money after like shipping. And I think we had to pay like tax and everything like that. So we would definitely be getting killed right now. So next time, I don't know, we might need to switch up our strategy. I think I might have bought too many like new cards. Like I was hoping maybe like specific new cards would go up, but it didn't seem to work that well. Basically Lightning Storm is our hero here. We only made money technically over $1 once. So we made 26 cents, we made $1 one cent, we lost, lost $66, lost, lost, lost, lost. So everything else is under a dollar. So we did not do so hot on this update, but we're gonna check it again one more time at the end of the year and maybe do this again and see what's gonna happen. And then maybe we'll like, when we add 10 more next year, we'll update these as well, just to see how they do like year two. I think that'd be actually really cool. So let me know what you think about that in the comments. Make sure to enter the $50 giveaway so you guys can buy stuff on TCGPlayer as well. Maybe do this along with me. And I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content. I wanna remind you guys that in less than 5,000 subscribers, we're opening every single pack in Yu-Gi-Oh history in one video, just like we did two and a half years ago, two-ish years ago, whatever. It was a lot of fun. So if you wanna see that, make sure to subscribe. 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