Recent content by Shrike

Sticking my head back in here as I got my three XY4 boxes finally. Damn SAL takes a long time, think I'll try to be less frugal in the future. Box 1: 7 Holos 2 EX 1 Full Art Average box, miss getting 3 EX and an FA both though. Box 2: 5 Holos (Low...) 2 EX 2 Full Art (?!) What...

Seismitoad, Heracross, Dragonite, and Battle Reporter. I don't collect all the FAs as they're just worth too much to keep when I don't like the Pokemon featured, so of those I'm only keeping Dragonite. Shame I couldn't have pulled a Lucario with all that, but that's what trading or...

RE: Shrike's Japanese Card Trading Thread! (H/W: Rising Fist!) Only the ones I list in my wants; I've already got the others I'm looking for. No, sorry. I've finally gotten in the position where I'm only collecting one set at a time, no more backlog for me! Ooh, I'd be willing to...

I'll do the honors of the first Rising Fist pull rates: Hawlucha EX box: R: 3 RR: 1 SR: 1 Total: 5 (out of 8 packs) Booster Box 1: R: 7 RR: 2 SR: 1 Total: 10 Booster Box 2: R: 6 RR: 3 SR: 1 Total: 10 Booster Box 3: R: 6 RR: 3 SR: 1 Total: 10 Yes that's right, I pulled a fullart in EVERY...

RE: Shrike's Japanese Card Trading Thread! (H/W: Rising Fist!) And at 3AM in the morning after blazing three three booster boxes and the Hawlucha EX promo box it's that time for me to return to trading again before I resort to selling/buying cards! Still got some X/Y and Wild Blaze stuff left...

It looks to me like those were just low quality sleeve pages, causing the plastic to warp over time. High quality pages such as UltraPro platinum shouldn't have the same issue. I had some cards in ancient Ultrapro pages actually that weren't kept in a binder (the pages were loose), and despite...

I think most of all I want to see Absol EX (and its FA) and Mega Absol EX. They better make it appropriately pretty! Of course, also anticipating the next Eeveelution set which will be the first one to have Sylveon in it. A new Mew card would be cool too!

RE: AmiAmi Shipping To clarify, it depends on the credit card. Mine doesn't have any FTF fees, but if yours doesn't advertise it loudly (it's a bit of a bid deal when they don't have it), you probably will be pinged with one.

RE: AmiAmi Shipping Looked up my last order and no, doesn't seem to be a fee for this. I think there only is when you use the send money feature, rather than being invoiced from a business.

RE: AmiAmi Shipping There's no custom charges for stuff like this in the US, no matter what method you use. Those are EU countries that have to worry about it. Also, keep in mind that with AmiAmi the shipping you choose now isn't locked in, you can change at any time before your order is...

RE: Shrike's Japanese Card Trading Thread! (H/W: X, Y, WB) My Delphox, Trevenant, and Diggersby are not 1st edition (The Collection X boxes AmiAmi have are unlimited now apparently, got to them a bit too late). All of those would not be worth both promos for me anyway, but I'd be willing to...

So with the pull rates as they are and the resale value of EX cards, would those who bought a ton of boxes such as SoulWind and BlastoiseRules1 say that doing so is a better value to get the entire set versus just buying all the SR and UR cards? Considering doing that for the next set since at...

I opened two boxes each of Collection X and Y and three boxes of Wild Blaze. I didn't keep track of what I got per box, but the totals are: Collection X (Two Boxes): 14 R 6 RR Average: 10 rares per box Collection Y (Two Boxes): 12 R 6 RR Average: 9 rares per box Wild Blaze (Three Boxes): 20...

RE: Shrike's Japanese Card Trading Thread! (H/W: X, Y, WB) I'm aliiiiiive. And I've dumped my entire old haves/wants list because... I no longer collect English cards! I've been converted to Japanese cards and while I don't see many people trading them here, doesn't hurt to try.

Can't, the preorders sold out sometime in the last few days. If I see them come back I'll consider it though. Whatever comes after Wild Blaze I should definitely be able to preorder then no problem though.