 Today we're finding out if my $1,000 TCG player investment was worth it. What's up guys we're back with another epic video. One year ago today-ish I bought $1,000 worth of cards on TCG player. Throughout this year we've been checking to see how my investment has been doing and so far it has not been that great. We kind of picked a bad year to invest in cards because at the beginning of the year they're pretty hot and they've definitely cooled down since we started. But in this video once and for all we're going to find out if my investment paid off. We will be having a giveaway today as well. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications and let me know down below if you think my picks were worth it or not. If not tell me some I should invest in maybe next year. Maybe we could try this again or maybe we'll change it up a little bit. Let me know any ideas for that in the comments. The winner will get a $50 TCG player gift card and if you're international I'll probably send you $50 because you don't have TCG player. All right let's hop right into it and let's see what we've done. So here's our spreadsheet. We have all of our cards that we bought. Some of them came in at light play condition. I probably should have returned them. That would have helped our investment a little bit but here are all the stuff we have. The original costs are all right here. Then on May 12th we checked in on the prices. We kind of had an update there. Then later in August, August 1st we checked in on as well. So now it is December 20th so I'm doing this a little bit early due to logistics and all that the holidays. So I'm recording it slightly early. It hasn't technically been a full year but it's been a 10 day short or 11 day short so we're very close. First we're going to check on the Blue Eyes Wide Dragon. So as I mentioned before in these other videos go check out the playlist if you want to see all the updates of like the first video and then the check-ins on it and then you could finish with this one if you want or you can go back to them later but I've talked about this before. This is the only Ultimate Rare Printing of the Blue Eyes Wide Dragon in English so very cool. That's kind of what our ideal was investing in it. Oh yeah it's the first ever you know the only one. So let's check out on it. I think we got a Nearmint Unlimited. That is now $4.75. Let's see. Originally we bought it at $7.94 so it is down. So yeah that's not good. We also bought a First Edition Ulti. It was supposed to be a Nearmint. It came light play but we're going to check it out. That being light play definitely hurt us in that one. First Edition Nearmint is let's check light play first. $5.40. Yeah terrible terrible because Nearmint is up at that's Italian so that one doesn't count. $18.69. That's a lot higher obviously. Then we spent $25.99 so we got absolutely killed on that one. Definitely not good for the light play. What was it? $5.40 so we definitely got hurt a lot on that one. So as you can see we lost about 80% of our money on the First Edition one. A lot of that was due to it being you know the wrong condition. We didn't return it but also it did it went down anyway. We down like 12 bucks or 10 bucks something anyway. This one we lost 40% of our money so like this is these are horrible numbers. Like this is a big big loss. Like if you put something into a stock or something like that this looks like crypto numbers. Let's be honest. Let's say it out is. This looks like if you put your money in FTX or something that's this is what would happen. All right so let's hope something else is better. Silent Swordsman was another one that we ordered and it came light play unfortunately. Nearmint I think we'd actually probably be doing good on that one. Let's check it out. Silent Swordsman Level 5 Ultimate Rare. This is lightly played. All right here we are. Silent Swordsman Level 5 Ultimate Rare Flaming Eternity. So this one came light play. We got First Edition $31.25. Let's see what it would be if it was Nearmint which was what it was supposed to be. Oh we'd be doing so much better. $143 but unfortunately ours is light play so $31.25. So we got $31.25. That puts us at losing $55. We lost 64% of our money. If it was actually the right condition though we would have made $50 which would be so much better and that actually would have made up for the other two. So that's kind of a bummer. If I just returned it and bought one that was actually Nearmint you know we'd be a lot better shape. The next one is Leviathan. I know that this has gone way down but we're going to check it out and see what it's at. All right Leviathan Dragon. Let's see what it's at. $55. No 55. So we spent double what it is now. $109.95 is what we spent. Even in May it was more than this. It's gone down steadily so it was at $65 so it went way down. Then it went to $62. Now it's at $55. This card just keeps getting cheaper. I don't understand. It's not that easy to pull. That is insane. We lost $55 and we spent you know it's $55 now. We literally lost half. We lost 50% of our money almost right on the dot. So far our total loss is not looking so good. All right next up Lightning Storm Starlight. I have a little hope for this one. Maybe this one's gone up. I think at one point it did and then it went back down. Lightning Storm. Let's see if we can find it. Come on. Please be. Please be good Lightning Storm. Be good to us. It just had a reprint so probably not. Nearmint first edition. $290. I think we might have spent more than that. How much was it? $298. Oh no. $290. So in this one we only lost $8 which was 2.8% of our money. It's about the same as what it started at so it really hasn't lost that much money which is good I guess. But it hasn't made anything back. So far we're negative on literally every purchase so far. We don't have a plus on any of them. We're going to have to keep this in mind for next year when we decide what we're going to buy. Okay so so far not looking good. Let's go to solid morning. This is an unlimited ulti. So we went unlimited on this one. Interesting decision not to go first. I don't think I had enough money at that point to go first. Because first heads are crazy on this card. Come on. Be something decent. Come on Nearmint. I think we spent like $70 on this. Oh $52.46. Oh $52.46. We spent $69.68. This is steadily. Okay this one went down and came back up. Look at the lightning storm. This thing was way expensive and it came all the way back down. So we lost $17. $17.24.7% of our money. So far we are down to 56% of our money that we paid. That is not not good. Evil Hero Dust and Gold I know is not going to help either. So let's see what that got. Okay Brothers of Legend and Dust and Gold. Wait what? Oh no. This one threw me off because they do direct and they put like this crazy price up there which is like a terrible price. They know $350 and they put they're advertising a $9 one which is annoying. I was like well might have gone up. No $350 it didn't go up. Gave me hope TCG player. You gave me hope for no reason. We lost. We spent $12.99. Oh we lost 73% of our money on that one. Oh my goodness this has been absolutely terrible. We only have three things left and we have not made any money on a single one. I'm not feeling too good about this. This is going to be a disastrous end. Like it's gotten much worse because normally we at least have a couple that have made money like lightning storm made 66 bucks last time which was pretty solid and everything else was kind of bad but lightning storm this year lost money so not good or at least this time. Elemental Hero Stratos. Come on the Ulti. We got to believe in the hero players. Come on hero players. Let's go. Elemental Hero Stratos. Come on baby. Ultimate Rare please. Oh no look at that. This is us all here getting crushed. Oh no. 133.99. Oh no it's gone down. We've lost 16 bucks aka 10.67% of our money. This is bad. We've lost 42.4% of our money. This is not going well at all guys. This is not going well. Two more items. We need to at least make money on one of these right. Two more items. Send me some luck in the comments. I'm going to need it. Red Eyes Flare Metal Dragon Nearmint Ghost Rare First Edition. Let's see what it is. Okay. Come on. First edition. Nearmint 160. Maybe that went up. Yes. We made money. This thing went up 21.15% so it looks like Nearmint First Edition Ghost Rares. So far the best thing because I mean look at our Star Light stayed pretty even so not too bad. Ultis. We kind of got waxed on those. Some of that was because of the condition. I think the Ulti Silent Swordsman actually would be up so that would be pretty good. The Stratos fell down a little bit but it's not doing too bad. So yeah, the Astral's not great. So that one was really bad. We're down to one thing left. So far we've lost 26.4% of our money. That definitely helped a lot in terms of the percentage. Where's Triumph Deck? Let's see if it's gone up or if there's even anyone listed any in the last year. All right. Where's Triumph Structure Deck? It is still $100. I think that's exactly what we paid right? We paid $99.74 so we technically made 26 cents on this. That's 0.00261% increase. Not bad. We'll take it because I mean we'll take positive where we can get it. That means that we invested $1,063 and we ended up with $836.35 so we ended up losing $164.16.4% of our money. When you're looking at an investment and you lose 16% that is not good. Now we do have to keep it in account that like the trading card scene has definitely fallen in terms of value and a lot of the stuff has gone down which you know that happens and maybe this next year will be a better year to invest because the prices are lower now so we could potentially actually have some increase. So I'm considering that if we do this again let me know in the comments if you want me to do this again. I've had a lot of fun checking on this and I kind of want a second shot at it because I feel like we picked some stuff that I shouldn't have picked last year and I kind of want to pick some better stuff so if we should do this again let me know. Let me know what you think about my picks. So far some of you guys have told me in the last few videos what you thought and it's definitely gotten worse throughout the year. You can see the first check-in we actually made 27 bucks which was awesome and then we the next time it was down to 935 and now it's down to 836 so it's not going well and also maybe we could do this like monthly potentially. I don't know if we could do it a little bit more often just to kind of see the variance a little bit better but I can't believe it's been a year since we started this it's actually insane so I've had a good time doing this it's been a fun experiment we didn't do that well though. But if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content and let me know down below what you think about it. Shout out to Toe Info Show, Daxter, Tomato Juice, JT Show, TCG Trust of Cards, Puffins of the Doom, Ernesto D'Anda, Dizzy, Flexi Boy, Hoppus, Choice333, Miss Cycle, James Jantz, Frankie Martinez, An Anatai Show, Christopher Ward, Ian Musa, Junior Barting, Mike Nance, Mimegeko, Shadowfall, and Thomas McLean. 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