Hey, if you're new around here, my name is Max, and this is the full story of how we went from side hustle to signing the lease on our very first Pokémon store. I documented every step of the journey, the wins, the losses, all the weird moments. Um, and this is the complete series all stitched together into one video. So, if you're into building businesses or you really like Pokémon, then this is the video for you.

Okay, so over the years, I've tried my hand at a few different businesses, and every single one has taught me something completely different. My first proper business was a gym clothing brand, and it didn't really go the way I hoped. Then there was my sunglasses brand, which actually went okay, but I realized it just wasn't something that I could see myself building long-term. And then eventually, I found success with my design business, working on websites and apps for some pretty big companies. But no matter how well things went, I always just had this urge to just build something truly personal to me that I could actually pour my passion into. And for me, that passion's always been Pokémon. Pokémon's been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and even now, it's something I've never really grown out of.

As you can probably tell, I'm going to be starting really small with literally just my personal collection. But I am going to be building this from the ground up, all here on YouTube. So, I'm going to be taking you guys along on the journey with me. So, if you're here because you love Pokémon or you just want to see how this all goes, let's get started.

So, starting off, we're going to need some money. And I think the best way to do that as a collector is just to go through what cards and what products you have already. So what I'm doing here is I'm just digging out all the cards I've got laying around the house, and I'm going to sort them into different piles. First pile is I'm going to try and find the obviously high-value cards. So think the Charizards, the special illustration rares, the all arts, everything that I think holds an obvious amount of value. Then after that, I'm going to work out which of these cards I think are potentially worth grading. Now, I'm sure a lot of you are already aware, but cards like this typically are worth a considerable amount more when they are graded in a 10 with PSA. So, I'm going through and I'm just looking at the card centering, what the surface looks like, and I'm just estimating which ones, in my opinion, are likely to get a 10.

So, I wouldn't say I'm necessarily going to sell all of the cards that I grade. Um, a lot of them do have a little bit of sentimental value, and I do think I'll probably hold on to a few just to watch and see if the value goes up over time. But there are a lot of cards I am going to look to sell or maybe keep to use as prizes in whatnot streams later down the road and things like that.

Then comes probably the longest part of the process, which is going through almost every single card in this collection and checking the values. So, what I'm doing here is I'm just seeing what the raw value is on price charting. Um, and then I'm putting that into a big spreadsheet. Then on the cards that have a high enough value in a PSA 10, so things that are maybe over like $100 in value, I'm checking the centering of surface again and adding those to the grade pile if I think they're worth sending in. These ones I'll definitely sell as I think that we can boost the value of them by getting them graded, and then that will net us some extra cash. This process honestly took me a good couple of days to go through. When you do stuff like this, you realize quite how many cards you actually have. I found about 15 of these Charmander promos, and I don't even remember getting them. And I definitely would recommend doing this as you go with collecting and not leaving it all to do at once like I did. That was just a huge mistake.

Once I got the cards into different piles, it was then time to actually get some photos done for the eBay listings. Now, as you can imagine, this also took quite a long time to do. Um, however, once I got into the swing of things, it was fairly smooth. So, I set my lighting up in my studio, and that way I could just cycle the cards through, take a photo of the front and back, and then move on to the next. I also opened up some Japanese packs that I found because I'm still a pack-opening degenerate at heart, don't get me wrong. Okay, so I've now moved that out of the way. Now got all of those uh pictures done. It's it's boring, man. I can't lie. It takes a lot of work, but um yeah, we got some really cool cards in there. I think I've probably done through a lot of these. Um but yeah, they're they're ready to go. Ready to start listing on eBay, which as you guessed it, took ages. But again, once I got into a good rhythm with it, I just smashed them all out. The cool thing about listing so many is that we had a lot of 151 singles that were just flying up in price. So, it was basically as I was listing those at the buy it now price that everyone else was selling at, they were selling almost instantly. So, before I'd even finished going through all the listings, we already had some sales under our belt. That's when I packed them up into some envelopes, chucked in some of the freebie cards that weren't worth listing. So, we're going to give it a few days, and we're going to see if these cards actually sell.

Okay, so it's been about a week, and we're currently sat around £800 in sales from about 60 orders, I think it was. Yep. So, £794 from 61 orders, which I don't think is too bad at all really. That was actually enough for the grading costs of the cards that we're going to send off to PSA. So, I've already sent those off in the background. Normally takes about 2 to 3 months to actually get those back. So, we're going to be waiting a little while for those. But we do have some budget leftover, which means we can actually go ahead and buy some products and prizes for our future whatnot stream. So I've got a good friend who already runs a live streaming shop, and we've decided to partner up and start streaming together. So this Tuesday I'm going to be over on Alpha Collectibles whatnot, and we're going to be running a stream over there. So I'm just buying the stock in order to run our stream, and I've managed to get hold of some Surgeon Sparks ETBs. I've also got a booster box of the Japanese version uh electric breaker and probably the coolest prize that we'll be running for this, which is a vintage fossil pack. I really think this is going to be a fun stream, and I'm really looking forward to growing this business over time too. Stay tuned for the next video where I'll probably be showing the behind-the-scenes of actually setting up the stream and things like that. And yeah, I hope you enjoyed this uh different type of video today, and I'll

Okay, so my dream with this series was to build a Pokémon business that I can be really proud of. And this week we took the very first step by running our first whatnot stream. And let's just say things didn't go as well as I thought they might.

Welcome back. If you're new around here, I'm Max, and I'm going to be documenting my entire process of starting a Pokémon business here on YouTube. And in today's video, we're going to be going behind the scenes of running my first ever whatnot stream. Some of you in the comments last week were a little bit confused about the type of business I'm going to be running or what whatnot actually is. So, let me get started with the plan of action for the [Music] business.

So, now that we've got some budget to get the ball rolling, it's time to figure out what business model we can actually scale. My main goal with all of this is actually to open a brick-and-mortar store near where I live. There's just no local card store. I think there's a little bit of a lack of it in the UK in general, and I just think it's such a waste. But to get there, we do need to start small, and that is where whatnot comes in. Now, whatnot is a live stream selling platform. Basically, imagine if eBay and TikTok had a baby. It is fast-paced. You can join in on the streams, and you can make bids on the items that you want.

Now, there are a few ways that people sell on whatnot. There are uh things called singles auctions. This is where someone sells an individual card. Um, they'll hold it up on screen, and then people will essentially bid for that card until they win it. I don't know if you've ever seen Storage Wars, but exactly like that. People stand in front of the big unit, and they're like bidding for that that unit. It's kind of the same. Someone just holds up a card, and people are live auctioning that card. Then there are things like box breaks. Someone might buy a vintage box, and then they will auction off the packs inside, giving people a chance to kind of have those vintage packs without having to buy an entire booster box, which as we all know can be very, very expensive. And then finally, there are chance-based streams. This is probably what we're going to be doing mostly. You pay normally for an entry, which is called a dip or a spin if they have a wheel. And then you will be in with a shot of winning the top prize that they have.

The cool thing with the chance-based streams is the kind of risk and reward factor. You could spend £10 on a dip, for example, and then win a vintage pack worth like £200. For me, the main reason why we're going to be running this type of stream is I don't have access to a Pokémon distributor. So, we can't really get sealed product or anything like that for a good price. Everything that we're going to be buying for these streams is going to be at the cheapest retail price that I can get it at. So, with the chance-based streams, it's actually one of the only ways we can really make a good profit. I don't really want to go buying something for like £9 and selling it for £10, especially on whatnot. We're just going to get eaten up by fees. We're just going to be making no money.

That being said, there still is a potential risk with the chance streams on our end. So, if the top prizes get pulled really early in the stream, people just completely lose interest. There's no reason for them to keep buying chances if all the prizes are gone. So, it's a risk, but I do think it is probably the best way for us to get started for now, so we can build an audience um and kind of build that community around the [Music] business.

I've gone ahead and I've made this Google sheet which has a calculator in which helps us set up the uh prizes and work out the profit. For this stream, I'm thinking of running about 60 dips. Thinking of putting about 10 prizes in there, which obviously makes the odds around 1 in 6, which I think is actually pretty good going. Now, I want the price of the entry to be really approachable as well. So, we're going to go around £10 an entry. I think that's just a nice round number that people can jump in at. I want to look at this at a kind of moral way as well. I feel like paying £10 for an entry, a chance of winning a fossil boost pack is pretty good. Um, for me anyway, I'd be pretty happy paying that. So, I'm happy with that. Gives us a base revenue of around £600. So, working off, let's say, 30% gross margins, we don't really want to be spending more than £400 on the prizes themselves. So, I've picked up the top prize already, which is the fossil pack that we got from eBay in the last video. That was around £130. Um, and then I wanted a couple of other pretty good prizes. So, I ended up getting some surging sparks ETBs for around £45 each. Then I filled the rest of the top prizes with triple blisters. I really like triple blisters because they have a bit of a higher perceived value than just getting three packs of cards. You do get the promo card, you sometimes get a coin, you sometimes get stickers, things like that. Like, it's just a little bit of a nicer prize to get. And then that leaves us with about 50 dips remaining. Uh which we're going to fill the rest with. Uh two packs of Japanese pack. Then also I've got a booster box of Scarlet and Violet. I don't really want. So we're going to be putting a pack of that in some of the cards as well. Look, there has to be some winners and some losers. That's just the way it goes. That brings us up to about £427 spent, which is a little bit over the budget, but I think the main thing about this is just getting people in the door, getting them following the account, knowing who we are, and just getting them to come back later. So, I don't mind that we're going to kind of not make as much profit really with this. As well, though, if there is still a prize left towards the end, the dips actually start to increase in price. So, if we're selling them at £10 each, but then suddenly there is one prize card left in 10 dips, the price of those 10 dips are not going to go for £10. They're going to go for way higher cuz the chance of you getting a fossil pack in those 10 dips means you're going to pay a lot more to try and win that prize, if that makes sense. Their odds of hitting a ticket increases. So, they then want to pay more for it. So this number is never truly correct, but it is a nice target to to shoot for [Music] really.

Okay, it's finally stream day, which means we have to set the studio up so that it's ready to go. I have a load of these crazy lights that I bought for YouTube, and although they would be really great for the stream setup, it will get crazy hot in this room. Also, I think my electricity bill would probably kill off any of the profits we actually make. So, I'm going to be sticking with these Elgato key lights that I've got. They're super powerful for the size of them, and it just means that we can get some really nice crisp lighting for the stream. I think the main difference that we want to achieve with this stream versus everyone else's streams is just the quality. Like, there's such a vast amount of streamers on whatnot. And I think while they're all really good at what they do, I think there's a big gap for someone to come in and make really super high-quality streams. Um, and that's exactly where we want to position ourselves. Then I set up the scene with the prizes available and of course put that fossil pack dead center so people can see that right away when they join the stream. Slight problem. The triple blisters just didn't arrive for the stream. Uh which is in a couple of hours. So I've now got to drive 40 minutes away to go get some from the nearest shop and then drive another 40 minutes back. So yeah, we're under a bit of time pressure here. But yeah, should be able to get them in time. Yeah. So there was luckily no traffic. Managed to get myself into Argos, and I ended up picking a absolute ton of these up. So, haven't got to worry about this in the future, and we can get the stream in.

Okay, so the stream is ready. I've got my friend Jacob over who's actually being a part of the business as well, and we're both pretty nervous here as it's basically our first time streaming. Let's see how it all goes.

Okay, so the stream is over. Um, and we got quite a lot to talk about. It went well in regards to actually doing the stream. We had so many people join in, and uh they were all interacting with us. We were having a laugh, but and it's a pretty annoying butt. The tickets ended up going really early in the stream. I don't know how they did it. The people just said the number of the card they wanted, and it seemed like every single time someone picked one it was a top prize, which is obviously fantastic for them. I'm so glad we could give people a good deal, but for us running a business it's not good at all. So effectively all our top prizes went, and I'll show you the numbers. So we got ourselves about £324 in sales. So after whatnot fees it's around £276. Now, if we look at our numbers that we actually put into the stream. So, we put around £430 quid into the stream, and we only got out £276. So, uh yeah, it's about a loss of about £150, which is actually quite a big hit for us uh quite early on. But, you know, we move on. I think next time we stream, we'll have a better idea of how things run so things like this don't happen again. This was definitely a learning experience. Yeah, definitely going to have to think about this a little bit more than I previously thought. What do you think I could have done differently? Let me know down in the comments. I would love to hear your thoughts. Next week I'm going to be planning and running our next stream. I think as well in the upcoming videos I'm going to actually talk a bit more about setting up the business, the back end, looking at the branding, um, and just all the kind of intricacies of it and actually doing this properly. So, so yeah, make sure you subscribe, and you can follow along on the journey as well.

Last week we were unlucky with the business and we lost some money, but this week could not have gone more differently. [Music]

If you're new around here, my name is Max, and I'm documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube. And before we dive in, I just want to say a massive thank you for 1,000 subscribers on the channel. The channel has grown so much recently. I didn't think there'd be that many people that are as interested in this as I am. So, yeah, thank you. So far on our journey, we've tested the waters with a few different stream ideas and coming up with ways that we can make money in the business. And yeah, now I think it's a perfect time to introduce the rest of the team and what we're planning on doing for the next couple of weeks. So this is Jacob. He's been my best mate since way back at school, and he loves Pokémon just as much as I do. And this is Luke, also known as Alpha Collectibles over on TikTok. So, we all got on a call one evening, and we all realized that we had the same dream of opening up a brick-and-mortar Pokémon store, and it was just one of those let's just go for it moments. Now, initially we were just going to jump in and just get a brick-and-mortar store going uh maybe through an investment or if we're a loan of some sort. Then, we figured it made a lot more sense to actually get the stream going in the background so we could build up that income and really have like a a good safety net behind us moving into the store. Luke already runs a pretty successful TikTok store, and he's got a pretty decent-sized audience as well. So that's really jump-started everything for us. So our plan at the moment is to really grow the whatnot as big as we can over the next few weeks by streaming more frequently and more consistently.

Now probably the hardest part of all of this was coming up with a name for the business that we were all happy with. We were stuck on this for days, throwing ideas around, and then we were rejecting like 99% of them. All we knew is we didn't want something that was too obvious like Pokéstore, like anything with Pokey in the name is just a no. We had Full Restore, which I thought was kind of funny cuz it's like Full Restore in the game, but no. We had Collector's Corner, which I think was kind of all right, but it was a little bit too close to Collector's Cardhouse, so we moved away from that. But we finally stuck on Grail Gallery. A lot of the stores and whatnot are very generic, and they have like Pokey something or they have loads of Pokémon in the logos and stuff.

This week was full of new challenges, and we got a lot to talk about, but first, let's talk about our new branding, Triple Back. Welcome back. If you're new around here, my name is Max, and I'm documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube.

Over the past few weeks, we've been quietly building up our streaming platform off the back of my business partner's existing brand. But this weekend, we finally got back our own branding. So, this is Tom. He's first of all one of my really good friends, but he's also a fantastic graphic designer. And we came to him for help actually before the business was even set up. So, it was a few weeks ago now, and we asked him to create our new logo and colors for Grail Gallery.

It was a bit of a hard sell to the guys because it's a bit of a luxury to splash out on a really high-level brand design this early on into the business. I mean, we didn't even have a business at this point, but I have said it before on the channel. I think one of the unique selling points of our business is going to be in design. We really want this to feel really well done and polished and something that we can grow into as we expand.

Tom came back with a few different concepts, but one of them immediately stood out to us. The design really captures that premium collectible vibe that we were going for; that's clean, bold, and recognizable. We also locked in a color palette, which will be the foundation for everything from our stream setup to future merch, packaging, everything like that. This branding is going to be the heart of everything we do moving forward, and I couldn't be more excited to build from here. Also, how sick are these icons of the different Pokémon types? So, yeah, he's done an awesome job, and it means we got a lot to work with moving forward. It's crazy to me that just a few weeks ago, Grail was just this small idea that we had, but now that we're seeing the logo for the first time, it's really making that feel real.

Now that we've got that out of the way, we can finally get on with this week's stream. But that is where the problems start.

So, I've just been, as normal, planning out the stream and organizing our top prizes and what will be available for sale when we do run the stream, which is when I stumbled onto this Espion slab from Eevee Heroes. We had such a good response from the week before with the other Eeveelutions and, of course, with the release of terrestrial festival, terrestrial, everyone is so hyped about these cards, and I just feel like it would make a really great set of prizes that will really interest people. So I've gone ahead, and I've ordered that on eBay along with these three as well. So we've got the Umbreon from I believe Brilliant Stars, and then I guess the matching Sylveon from Brilliant Stars also. And finally, this Eevee, all in a PSA 10, which is even better. Who doesn't love a perfect condition card? Then, yeah, I rounded it off with the normal triple blisters, which still give me nightmares. And then also, I'm going to be bundling up some packs of Eevee Heroes as one of the top prizes. They're about £7ish a pack right now from what I can see. So, I think if I bundle them up, they'd actually be a pretty nice prize. So, yeah, that is now all ordered, and we just got to wait for it to arrive.

And that is exactly what we did. We waited for everything to come in. Days passed, and still no packages. I kept refreshing tracking updates. I was messaging sellers. Nothing. And the closer that we got to stream day, the more it started sinking in. This might not happen. Well, this isn't ideal at all.

So, it is stream day, and I can confirm that one of the slabs has arrived, which is this Sylveon, which does look just as nice in person as it does in the pictures. Literally nothing else is here, and I've just been stressing the last 10 minutes trying to work out how we can actually make this stream work, how we're going to deal with this. Obviously, I'm running this business with a couple of mates, and this kind of falls on me to do. So, I don't want to have to rearrange and let them down. Also, don't want to let down the people in the community that were waiting for the stream and have it bookmarked and things like that. Just a few hours left. I had a bit of a decision to make, and that was cancel the stream, don't run it, or dip into my personal collection. I normally find the planning and running of these streams the most fun bit. But letting go of cards that I've been collecting for years did sting a little bit. But I know I got to do it so the stream can go ahead. Sometimes building a business just means making some sacrifices. That's just how it is. But I want this business to do well. And I know that when I look back on this video in a year's time, none of this will even matter. But going forward, yeah, definitely going to look at a more reliable way of sourcing prizes because I really don't want this to happen again.

After that speed bump though, I built up the stream setup, which weirdly feels a little bit harder than it should, but I think it turned out pretty good. Now that we've got the branding done, we can look at getting some custom stuff printed for the backdrop and really get the setup looking perfect. How are we feeling? Tired. It has actually been a nightmare this week, genuinely.

Okay, we got a lot to cover in this one. The stream was for sure a little bit slower than normal, definitely slower than the other ones we've done more recently. This week we tested running around 100 dips, which was actually our biggest stream to date. The problem is when a 100 dips is split into two piles of 50 like this, I think people are slightly more hesitant to jump in because finding one of the six prizes in a stack of 50 obviously seems a lot more difficult than finding five in a stack of 40 or 35, for example. However, once we sold the multi-buy options in our store, so we normally have three or four buy 10, get 10% off dips and stuff like that in our buy it now section. Once those multi-buy discounts were sold off, people were more likely to jump in and start taking the lower amounts of stuff, and everything kind of went smoothly right after that. So, there was a bit of a lull right at the start, but then once we got over that hump, everything was fine after that really. So, yeah, it did mean that we had to stay on the stream a little bit longer than normal. Normally, we're kind of in and out in about an hour and a half. This one was about 2 hours, just over 2 hours. So, what I'm wondering is if there's a way of incentivizing those bigger purchases to buy way earlier on in the stream without kind of impacting our margins too much. I'm thinking of maybe chucking in some like unique extras into their orders that you can't really buy, but they don't also cost that much, if that makes sense. Things that are laying around in my collection that I don't necessarily care too much about. I know that someone else would value it. But yeah, if you have any other ideas, please let me know down in the comments. I need your help on this one.

So, the bit that you've been waiting for this week, if I just get my numbers up, we did about £1,100 in revenue, and after fees and the cost of our stock, we did about £300 in profit, which is another solid week, despite the issues we had setting up the stream. If this week has taught me anything, it is that I need to plan these streams way earlier and find more reliable suppliers. It's not just about profit; it is about the consistency and running those streams on time. We are making pretty good progress though, so I'm excited to see where the new year takes us. I think the next step for us is probably building out the online store. Now that we have the branding locked in and the streams picking up, we can move on to actually selling stock that we can get hold of online. I think as well we need to probably try and make a push to get a wholesaler or a distributor so that we can actually buy the products at a cheaper price to then sell them on cuz otherwise we're just going to be buying products at retail price and trying to sell them at a higher price, and no one's going to buy. So yeah, next week I'll share exactly how we're going to make that happen. So definitely hit subscribe so you don't miss the next video. You can catch last week's video by clicking this video up in the top right here. And yeah, I'll catch you in the next one.

This week we've made one of the biggest investments in the business so far. It's been a mix of excitement, nerves, and a few surprises along the way. But first, let me show you what we've been working on this week and how it could change everything for us. Welcome back. If you're new around here, my name is Max, and I'm documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube.

We've really hit our stride with the business the last few weeks. I mean, if you remember back to our first video, we were selling singles just to get enough money to fund our first Whatnot stream. Now, we are comfortably making enough profit each week to cover the next stream and the next stream. So, we're pretty much recycling all of our money and just putting it back into the business each week.

Probably the hardest part for me in all of this is managing the stock levels. So, we always buy an absolute ton of packs, and then it looks like we've got loads and loads of stock, but then by the time we get to running the stream, everything's pretty much gone all at once. I mean, we sell so many packs in a 2-hour window; it's actually crazy. What is important to us, though, as we grow the business is creating new and different income streams. The way we have it currently with myself, Luke, and Jacob, is we can only run a certain amount of streams each week. I mean, don't get me wrong, if we really really pushed ourselves, we could probably stream twice a day every day of the week, which is still pretty ambitious, but we could be pulling in like 4,000 5,000 profit each week, which would be amazing right now. In reality, we're just going to get burnt out, and we don't really have the audience size for that right now. So, we've been brainstorming different ways that we can grow the business besides just streaming. And that's where the idea for our new product came in.

Right now, streaming has been great for us, but it is still a gamble. If the top prizes end up going early, then it slows the stream right down, and we just risk losing money. So, we wanted to create something that has a guaranteed margin that's still fun but also really scalable. And since we don't have access to a distributor or a wholesaler still, we have to be pretty creative with how we sell the products, which is when we landed on the concept of mystery packs. You've probably seen similar ideas from Poke Rev, Poke Vault, Poke Chloe, Pokey, Poke Pokey, but they where they have packs where buyers get a guaranteed number of packs, and then they have a chance at getting a really super rare pack as well. So, how it works is each set will contain a set number of Scarlet and Violet booster packs. In our case, we're probably going to do around four packs. And then inside, there's also a mystery item which is seeded at different rarity levels. For example, one in 25 packs might have a base set pack worth hundreds of pounds, while the others are kind of split across the lower tiers. This means every buyer has the chance of getting something great, but only a few are going to walk away with something absolutely crazy. And to make sure that it's all balanced, we're only going to run maybe 100 packs in the first run. If it takes off, then we can scale it up from there. Don't worry, we're keeping it all transparent. Each pack is packaged and then shuffled completely at random, so we're not even going to know what's in there. And honestly, I might even open a couple of them up on the channel just because I love these things so much. So, with that being said, let's jump in and design the product.

Yeah. So, the first thing we did is we worked out the numbers. So, the last thing I want to be doing right now is designing a

Whole new product that isn't even profitable for us. I got in Google Sheets and I started building out a new calculator for this product. I started by working out what it is that we need to know now. So, we need to know how many packs that we're going to be running, what the costs are going to be for those packs, and how much we're going to sell them for, fundamentally.

After that, we then need to know what it is that we're actually buying. Then, I just went ahead synced up everything using some formulas, which I'm sure you guys don't want to hear all about. So, on the left here, I can put in the number of packs that I want to make. And then once I put that in, the sheet will update and let me know how many of each tier that I need to buy.

For this product, I think it makes sense to start off with a small run of around a hundred of them. We could end up putting loads of time and money into this just for people to not really care about it and not buy it. So, I think with anything business related, if there's an opportunity to start small and then scale, you definitely should do that. For example, with this, if we make a hundred of them and then we have people asking us for more, that's way better than if we made a thousand of them and then nobody buys any of them. You can always make more; you can never make less.

What the sheet also does tell you as well is whether you have enough packs or not for the tiers. So, as you can see, I haven't put any of the packs here in and it's showing as red. Then, if I just change this to put in enough packs to cover it, it goes green. So, yeah, it is very simple, but it does work.

Then, for the next hour or so, I went through all the stock that we do have, and then also went on places like eBay just to pick up some of those more unique vintage packs. So, in this one, we've got a base set pack, for example. We've got a Team Rocket pack. And then in the next tier, I've added in some really cool X and Y packs. We've got Sun and Moon in the next, and then Sword and Shield for our minimum guarantee, which still has some really cool packs in it, too. So, there is still a chance you get things like Evolving Skies or Fusion Strike and things like that.

I'm keen to ask you guys what you actually think of this product. Would you want to see more chase tier packs in there, or should we keep it balanced like we've got it now? Let me know down in the comments. This is as much as it is for you than it is for us.

So, now that that's done, we can come over to the final part of the sheet, which tells us how much money we're making. So, with everything factored in, we're spending around £3,000. So, I think a nice profit margin for us to work with would be around the 30 to 40% mark, which would be around £45, which I think puts us in a pretty competitive range compared to the other products in this type, but I guess we will have to see how people respond to it.

Next up is the fun part, which is the design of the packaging. So, I really wanted to get the new branding across of these and just make them look sick. So, I started sketching out what I think they should look like. I got the logo front and center and I got the big packs on there as well. I think what would be really good is actually showing people in an example of what the packs are that they could be winning. So, I'm going to put the four Scarlet and Violet packs on the front and then have the big chase dead center in the middle. On the back, we're going to show the exact contents of each tier so you can actually show what you could win. And also, I've just put this QR code as well. One of the key things for us is growing the customer Discord. So, we really want to use these as an opportunity to get people from places like Whatnot and TikTok to buy these products, and then find their way into our Discord so they know when we're going live, when we've got new products, things like that.

So, once I had the wireframe all drawn out, I then started adding in the actual content. And I started playing around with some colors and different compositions until we finally reached this. I'm super happy with the result. I think these look sick and I think when people take a look at these in our store, they're going to want to get involved. This is by far the single biggest gamble we've taken yet. And if it doesn't work, it could set us back by quite a few months. It is very hard not to feel nervous about making a decision like this. But every business has to start somewhere, right? If this works, it could open so many doors, not just for us, but for our community and what we can offer as well. So yeah, make sure you subscribe to see what happens with that product in the next few videos.

And with the mystery packs ready to go, it was time to turn our focus back to the stream. This week feels like a bit of redemption after last week's chaos. So, if you remember back to our last video, we ordered in these Eevee Lucian slabs and basically nothing arrived at all and I had to start using my own personal collection items to run the stream, which, you know, it worked out good in the end. I think it is going to make this week a lot easier for us as we already have everything here. Like, everything has actually arrived now. So, we don't really have to plan too much for this week's stream. It means we don't have to panic about things arriving or not arriving, which seems to be a common problem on this channel. So, we've got the Eevee Heroes packs. We've got the slabs. By the way, how sick is this Espeon card? Like, honestly, when it arrived, I kind of just wanted to keep it for myself. Uh, we've also got some more triple packs to chuck in as well. Overall, I think this is going to be one of our better streams. Definitely. Uh, yeah, it definitely feels like we're improving week on week with the streams, so that's really cool to see.

So yeah, it was a lot more relaxed this week, which was nice, especially as it being the run-up to Christmas. Um, so yeah, we really just took our time writing out the cards, building the stream setup, and making it look really nice. Definitely in the new year, we need to invest in some of those acrylic stands that you see people have where you have the different uh levels so we can really show off all the prizes at once. Uh, I definitely find at the moment, we're trying to find places to stack these slabs and different prizes and it does fall over quite often. So, I think it would be good to get yeah, one of those stands, a few different stands, actually, just to make it all look a lot better.

This week as well is actually going to be Jacob's first time running the stream on his own. Uh, not entirely on his own. I will be out in the background helping him pack. But yeah, he will be in the driver's seat chatting to the the stream, which is going to be a little bit weird for me. I'm personally pretty bad at delegating tasks. Um, not because I don't think people can do it, but mainly just because I just like doing everything. I'm a bit of a control freak. I think Jacob will naturally be quite good at it; he is a very outgoing person and I think once he's warmed up to it it's yeah it'll be fine. Also looking ahead when we do have more people that are able to run the streams then it means it takes the pressure off everyone else to run all of them. It means we can run more of them throughout the week. Like I only see this being a net positive long term. So I think that's really good. Uh so yeah I'm going to dash. I'm going to go set up the last parts of the stream and I will catch you afterwards and let you know how it all went.

Okay. This stream was a big one. Jacob ran his show for the first time and let's just say things got pretty interesting. So yeah, things started off pretty slowly. One thing that we've learned to do recently is run a raffle in the Discord for the first handful of dips. As I'm sure you're aware of me saying in the last video, we were looking to incentivize people to go in a bit earlier so that we can make the stream a bit more fun and get it going. So this really helps with that. Um it definitely gets things moving. So yeah, we rattled through the first 10 and then we just sat and waited for other people to jump in, which is when we had a couple of really cool buyers enter the stream. We had one guy with a Santa profile picture join and he just started gifting entries to random people in the chat like just like Father Christmas, I guess. So that was really cool because for one, it got the stream pumping. People started getting really excited and the dips started getting primed as tickets weren't getting pulled and stuff like that. And two, it meant that it got some people involved that maybe weren't going to get involved in the first place. So, we do have some people that join in from the YouTube and things like that. They don't necessarily spend money, but they're there to support and they were receiving gifts, so they were able to actually join in in the stream when they might not have necessarily been able to do so before. It's just overall really cool. So, yeah, shout out Santa. We love Santa.

Once all that craziness was over, uh the energy did dip a little bit, which is as expected really. Once one of the piles goes, it's kind of hard to get people interested in the other one as it's normally got lower odds. But that's when we started auctioning off some at a discount. And I think overall, we want to give people the best deal that we possibly can. Yeah. Then by the time we get to the end, they start kind of ramping up in price anyway, which is yeah, what happened. We made near enough what we wanted to with this stream. So, we pulled in a revenue of around £1,200 and profited around £350 plus the raffle. We were looking at about £450 to about £500 of profit, which is pretty good. We're pretty much turning around about the same amount of profit week on week now off of what we still consider to be pretty small streams. Jacob as well was great. You could tell that he was a little bit nervous, but he definitely warmed up to it throughout the stream as it went on. And I think after a couple more, he's definitely going to feel a lot more natural with it. Streaming is always so much harder than people think. It's exactly like YouTube. Once the camera starts rolling, it's so tough to keep the same energy throughout. You should see the amount of retakes I do in these videos. It's It's kind of mad.

All right, I just wanted to use this last section of the video to go over how this year's gone, both for me, the channel, and the business, and just talk about kind of our plans for the year moving forward, really. So, I started this channel back in January this year, and the intentions were really to get myself a little bit better on camera. I've always been a pretty reserved person. So, yeah, jumping on a camera has never been easy and it still isn't. Uh, but I love YouTube and I love video production. So, I've always wanted to be able to do something like this. And that's when I figured that I could use Pokémon as a way of doing that. So, I've already spent a lot of my own money on Pokémon and it only made sense to start filming that. Otherwise, I'm just sitting in my room opening up on my own and like what's the point? And then maybe in the future be able to pay for a portion of it through the YouTube if I ever got to that stage.

Now, admittedly, the opening videos didn't really take off for me, and I think that's mainly down to the fact that there's already a number of really great Pokémon YouTubers um who have access to sets early. They're able to spend obscene amounts of money on really cool videos. And it gets to that point where it's like, why would I watch this random British guy open 20 packs of the new set when I can watch Mystic Rips open 500 of them? And like, yeah, I mean, fair enough. I totally get it. I really found my stride with these business type videos, which has been totally by accident. I just thought it made sense for me to mix all of my favorite things together. So, video editing, Pokémon, business, and design, stuff like that. So, yeah, I mainly just wanted to use this section to thank you all for over 2,000 subscribers, which has come really from the last four or five weeks. It's just so unbelievable to me. I think I had around 600 subscribers when I posted this first one. Uh I never had a video go over 3,000 views before. And now we have videos going way past 10,000 views. When I started this channel in January, I never imagined we'd be here. It's definitely been tough, but seeing the support from you guys all the way through it has made it worth every minute. So, I hope you're still enjoying the journey with me. I think next year I'm going to try and introduce some new content. So, mainly around the topics we cover in these videos cuz I think that's what you guys like. So, the business and Pokémon related stuff. Uh, and also we'll occasionally be dropping in the opening type content just because I still need an outlet to do that. Plus, we do have all of our PSA submissions from the first video coming back in the next week or so. So, I definitely need to do a video on that.

From the business, I think we're just going to keep doing what we're doing and improving it week on week. We really want to ramp the streams up while still keeping them accessible to the people that want to support things like that. We obviously have the new product coming in, so that's super exciting as well. We will also need a place to sell those. So, I think it only makes sense to be building out an online store as a kind of next step. So, probably talk about that in the next video a little bit more. Our main goal is still to open the brick and mortar store, which is obviously going to take a lot of funding, and we're probably way off it now, but we're still going to be shooting for that. Maybe next year, who knows? We'll have to wait and see. Yeah. What's been amazing this year is just building a community that loves Pokémon as much as I do. Whether you're buying dips, joining the streams, or just leaving comments, it's made this journey so much more rewarding for me. I really truly mean that. I mean, look at some of the comments I've had in the last few weeks. I I don't even know what to say.

And that is pretty much it for now. So, I just wanted to thank you all for an awesome year. What kind of videos do you want to see in 2025? More storydriven ones like this, question-answer type stuff. Let me know down in the comments. I really hope this is the start of something big and I hope you all stick around to see it through with me. Definitely hit subscribe if you've enjoyed today's video and I will catch you next year.

So far in 2025, we've had our biggest stream ever. We had over 100 consecutive viewers in one of our streams and broke our sales record. And that's not even the craziest part about this video. We also got back our PSA submission from our very first video and we're going to be going through all the grades [Music] today. If you're new around here, my name is Max and I have been documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube.

First of all, happy new year. I hope you guys enjoyed some time off over the festive period. The last couple of weeks, the business has absolutely exploded and it has been busy. So, the reason this video has taken a little longer to come out is purely down to the fact that I have just had no time at all. Myself, Jacob, and Luke have really doubled down on the streaming, and we've been trying to stream as much as we physically can without making ourselves ill. There's been a ton of late nights, and I don't really think that I've got my sleeping pattern back in order quite yet, but it has been totally worth it. So, I just wanted to cover off some of the highlights of the last few weeks and uh really focus on what's been working for us and what we've decided to cut back on.

I don't think I've said this actually, but myself and Jacob actually live a couple of hours away from where Luke lives. So, we actually run all of Grail remotely, which I think is pretty impressive. Uh, it does definitely cause a few issues sometimes, but that's a video for another time, I think. So, what we've been doing is letting Luke take the money from the streams, and we've essentially been recycling every penny that goes into the business into more products and making each stream bigger and better. And he's been picking up some crazy stuff. So, we spent maybe £3 to £4,000 on a load of slabs, including some of the ones like this. So, we've got the first edition Gyarados, first edition Aerodactyl, and then we have some modern stuff like this Magikarp and the Zapdos. And that's only naming a few. Then we also have a load of older sets like Steam Siege, Crimson Invasion. We've got some Evolutions ETBs and Evolutions packs. Now, I know Steam Siege might not be the most popular set in the world, but Luke came up with this really good idea. He's introduced these kind of pack bundles which are going to serve as the new floors in most of the streams that we run. Really, we want to start giving people older packs as well as having, you know, like the two Japanese, two English packs type thing. We want people to come back to us and think, "Oh, yeah, that's the place where I went in to try and get the big prize, but I still walked away with a pack that came out in 2015." What you've noticed is it just makes the stream much more appetizing and way more enjoyable for viewers, which is a plus for us.

Anyway, the reason I'm mentioning this is because we had our best ever single stream last weekend. It was crazy. Luke put together this really sick stream where there was top prizes that were basically all graded Charizard cards, which I mean already has quite the appeal from the title of it, even if they weren't huge cards. But the thing is, they were huge cards. So, we had a base set Charizard in a PSA 8, which is maybe like £500-£600. We had a sir Charizard from the Japanese Palan Fates which is again like £200 and then a couple of other ones which I mean you just wouldn't say no to, let's put it that way. And then he added in the floors as the pack bundles as I just mentioned. So things like Crimson Invasion and then a couple of English packs. Uh he also chucked in like Terrestal Festival and a couple of Japanese packs and stuff like that. And then to top it all off, we also had two buyers giveaways. So we had two graded Pokémon comics which were amazing. It was definitely a risk as always to put together as there was a lot of new things to do going into the stream like the bundle, the buyers giveaway, the midstream buyers giveaway, but he headed on and we just watched and waited to see what would happen. And let's just say it went absolutely mental. So Luke started running a few of them at a discount, started running them around £25 each and more and more people started getting these bundles. People started jumping in as they wanted a shot of the top prize, but they also knew that they would be getting these really nice consolation prizes if they missed. But that's when things started getting really, really crazy. So, as I'm sure a lot of you are aware now, the format we were running was the dip box. You tell us a number, we pull out that numbered card, and then you win whatever is on that card. Then there are these top prizes called tickets. Uh we reveal who has won that top prize once all of the tickets are pulled.

Have been pulled. And in this stream, we had 14 tickets total. We didn't pull a single ticket in nearly 40 attempts, which means the odds of pulling a ticket were increasing at an alarming rate. Everyone was trying to get their hands on the next go in the stream. So, the bids just kept going up and up and up and up, reaching averages of nearly £50, which was just outrageous to us. We have never done numbers like that at all. I think the most one went for was like over £100, which is just absolutely mind-blowing.

All in all, it just went amazingly. We hit over a hundred viewers at one point, which is a first for us. We've never done that before. On sell out of the stream, we ended up doing around 4,000 in sales in just 3 hours. It's crazy to think that a month ago, we were pulling from our personal collections to try and scrape a stream together. And now seeing numbers like this just absolutely blows my mind.

Massive props to Luke, by the way, for putting that stream together. I feel like I don't talk enough about the work Luke actually puts in just because we're not in the same room together all the time, but he is a huge reason for our current success and things can only really get better from here. We're now at about 3,000 followers and whatnot, which has been massively boosted by you guys coming in and supporting the stream from YouTube. You guys showing up in the streams or even just watching these videos makes all the difference. Like, we're building this business together.

So I just wanted to give you guys a quick snapshot of the business and show the kind of revenue that we've done in total to give you guys a good idea of what's possible with whatnot. So we started under Grail Gallery around the end of November, I believe it's the 22nd, and now we're up to the current date, which is January 8th, and we have managed to push through over 28,000 of sales. I can't believe I'm even reading that number. Now, not all of that is profit, but it is incredible to see how quickly this is scaling, and we're learning to make it more efficient every single day. We're so excited to put bigger and better streams together for you guys, and I hope you're all excited to watch the journey with us. So, if you're enjoying the journey so far, make sure you hit the like button, and don't forget to hit subscribe so you don't miss any future videos.

Next up is the long-awaited PSA return. [Music] Okay, I am so excited for this one. If you guys were here for the very first video, you will remember that we sent off about 50 cards to get graded by PSA and they are finally here. So, what I was just going to do in this segment was literally just go through the cards, uh, see if we can guess the grade, things like that. I have already opened the box purely because my address is on this side, uh, and I didn't want to give you guys my address. Yeah, let me just clear this out and I'm going to pull all the slabs out. There's so many packing peanuts in here. It's actually pretty mad. Uh, where am I going to put these? Okay, let's get these guys out and to one side. I think they're face down, so we're not going to be able to see the grades, which is good. Which side do we do first? Let's do—see if I can see. Okay, I think the one—this one has a big card on it. So, let's do that one second. We'll do this one first. Do this in a way where I don't see the crates. That's going to be the hard bit cuz that's the back of the card. So, let's do them this way. Oh my lord. Right, that is our first stack. I reckon we just go through this from the back. So, if I take this and cover the grade. Okay. So, we got the Pikachu from Crown Zenith. I don't really know what you call this one. Kind of a trainer gallery type type Pikachu. It looks—it looks clean from the front, maybe. Yeah, I think that's just where the container is. I reckon we got a pretty good chance of getting a 10 on this one. Let's have a look. First 10. First 10 of the video. Probably going to do like an ongoing tally somewhere on the screen just to show how much we've spent on the grading and then—Oh man, it's a nice one. Okay, we do have a lot of really big cards in here. So, these are kind of—I'd say like mid-tier range. Most of the cards I sent in I am kind of expecting at least a nine or a 10 in. There was a couple that we sent in that—uh—Yeah, mate. Another 10. We'll take that. Very nice. Okay. Yeah, a lot of the ones you sent in—um—I've got a very good chance that they are going to get nines or tens, but I think there is a couple in there that I sent that are more kind of sentimental valuey type ones. Um, which I will say before I show them. Um, but yeah, a lot of these we are planning to just put back in the business—either sell or use in streams as prizes and things like that. So yeah, that is eight. How many—how many tens are we going to get in this video? Let's get a 10 count. That's three so far. Okay. Oh, we got a really nice one now. We've got the uh Sneezler again. This just looks good, you know. This just looks good. And it's another 10. And what is that? Four for four. We're four for four right now. Ah, nice. Okay, we have got some very different ones in here. So, we've got the Venusaur from the Celebrations Classic Collection. I think I just sent this in just because it looked good. Like the centering was really good. I know the centering is quite hard on these ones. So, maybe I am a spotting 10 is my thing. That's five for five. Damn. Okay, next one. Mr. Mime from 151. Uh, it would be a nice card to get into 10. I do think possibly it's maybe a little heavy this side. Actually, the bottom's kind of heavy, too. If you see there, the top is quite thick and the bottom is quite small. Um, but it looks—it looks okay. It does look okay. I wouldn't be surprised if this was maybe a nine. I don't think it'd be an eight. Yeah. So, we got a nine in there. That's fine. That's fine. We'll take that. Still not a very nice card. Now, I think this is one of the ones we sent in because it'd be worth a fair bit in a 10. Um, so it was a little bit of a risky one to send in. It is a nine, sadly, but still, I imagine that still goes for a decent amount. Uh, maybe not grading cost, but we'll see. You'll let me know with the counter of wherever I've put it on the screen. We've got the Nida King illustration rare. Again, it looks pretty good. It does look pretty good. I'd maybe say there's a tiny little white dot here. Apart from that, it looks—maybe up here a little bit, too. It does look quite good though. And it's a nine. Okay. I'm happy with, you know, I'd want to get 10, but I'm pretty happy with nines. I think nines is pretty solid, too. Um, especially in 151. Uh, okay. This is a weird one. Okay. This one was a UK McDonald's promotion, so you could actually go get packs in McDonald's. I thought I'd just send this in. I think it was worth like 50 quid or something in a 10. So, there's definitely some whitening on the edges. Uh, I—I don't think this is going to be a 10. No, it's a nine. Okay. You know what? Uh, so far we've still got more tens than we do nines. We'll take that. Okay. Oh, very nice one now. So, we've got the uh Scarlet and Violet base curlier. I sadly don't have the rest of the set. Otherwise, I probably would have sent them in as well, but—um—still one of the cards. It does look very nice. There's maybe a little whitening at the top there, but you might be able to get away with it. We have got away with it. Very nice. There's another 10. How many tens do you normally get back in a submission? Cuz I feel like I want a 10 in this one, man. This is one of my favorite cards. I don't even think it's worth like a crazy amount, but it's so nice. The Glacium Vstar from Crown Zenith. It just looks really cool. I think any Glacium card just looks pretty good. Um, again, it's looking good, man. It's a 10. I'm really happy with that one. I'm really, really happy with that one. That one's sick. Yeah, that's awesome. That one might have to go in the personal collection. I don't know yet. We'll see. Uh, Charizard EX from uh Obsidian Flames. This is the—the chase card. Mate, can we get a 10 in this? It does look a little bit off center. These are all cards that I've basically pulled from—um—just packs and videos I had on the channel before I started doing the business stuff. So, they do all kind of have like a bit of sentimental value. It's a nine. It's still a sick card, though. It's got that kind of crystal print on it. It's really cool. Okay, this is a big one. Now, me and Jacob were sat on my sofa one day and I just ripped the temporal force pack just cuz I had it and just pulled like one of the biggest cards in the set. So, if we can get a 10 on this, that would be huge. Uh, you know what? It's got a chance. It definitely has a chance. Let's have a look. Oh, mate. That's a big one. That is a big one. I think that's worth quite a lot—um—from memory. I don't have like a database of how much cards are worth in my head, but I know that that's a—that is a really nice card. Uh, nice. Got the Obsidian Flames Hyper Rare, the gold card. I'd be very happy if this got a 10 too, mate. This is—this could be actually one of the best PSA submissions ever. I'm telling you. Okay, this is nice. This is from the UPC, the Charles GPC. I think I have the whole set in this submission. So, if we could get a 10 in all of them, that would go crazy. Feel like the top maybe is a little bit dinged. There's a little white dot in the corner. There's—it maybe has a chance. It's a nine. You know what though? It's not an eight. It's not a seven, you know. I'll take that. Okay. Yeah, I do have the—the whole set in here. The other one. I'll do it in a sec. It must be the other one. Um, we going to get any more tens? It's a nine in that one as well. You know what? Nines are still cool. Nines are still cool. I will take that. Okay. And the last one, I reckon we probably have a nine if it's anything like the other ones. They all came out the same UPC. So, okay. We have got 110. We've got 110. We have got 110. That's pretty sick. Okay. Got a lot of Charizards in 10, which is what you like to see. Okay, so Luke sent me this one. Actually, uh before we started doing the business stuff, he sent me a mystery box from his old company. So, I thought, you know, I'll just send it in—uh—just to see what it would get. And I remember thinking it was pretty clean. Um, I know it wasn't perfect. I was kind of hoping for like an eight or something. Six. How is that a six? There must be some sort of like bend in it somewhere, but it looks so clean. There is some really weird submissions sometimes. That is a—that's a weird one. I'm going to keep that one over there. Okay, the Okeyokei. This one is one of Jacob's sent in. So, he's got two. So, I imagine they're probably next to each other. He's got the Okeyokei illustration rare. And he's got a 10. Jacob's got a 10. GG's, man. I imagine this is probably one of Jacobs as well, so it should be a Blastoise. It is. Okay. So, we got the Blastoise uh sir from 151. And let's just see what we got. Man, it looks good. Ah, there is like maybe a little bit of—I don't know if you can see that little bit of whitening just on that corner that might let it down a little bit. Let's see what we got. It's a nine. You know what though? You take that. You do take that from 151. That's pretty good. Oh, and the Alakazam from 151. This is one of my ones. Um, I hope it's a 10. The centering doesn't—maybe it's just me. The centering looks a little bit off. It's not—it's not too bad. There's a little bit of whitening as well. I reckon it's probably a nine, but it—it could get a 10. Let's see. It's a nine. Okay. I was kind of expecting that. That is the first half. Now, there was not even that many big cards in there. I've—I'm kind of expecting to see all the big cards in this second one. Now, now there are some absolutely massive cards in here. Be very careful with that. And let's see what we've got in the first one. Okay, so it is the Charizard Full Art from 151. Uh, I reckon this goes for at least like over £100 in a 10. Uh, most of the Charizards from that set do. It's looking pretty good to me. I can't really see any problems with it. I reckon we've probably got a 10 on our hands. We do. Okay, that is a fantastic start to the set. I really want to get as many tens as we possibly can in this side cuz there is a lot of really big cards coming. Okay, this is—this is huge. Okay, the Latius EX from Surgeon Sparks. So, if you—a lot of you probably haven't watched my old videos. We actually pulled this when Surgeon Sparks came out. Um, and I sent it straight into Grin. So, I am really hoping for a 10 cuz this card is massive in a 10. Um, this could be really, really big for us. And it looks good. It does look really good. Okay, moment of truth. Let's see. No way, man. Okay. Uh, we've got a Latius EX S and a 10. Oh, it's such a nice card as well. We could not have done better with this. That's huge. Okay. I'm going to put that one on the 10 pile. Jesus. I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what to say. That's crazy. Okay. Oh, okay. This one is one that I sent in more for a bit of fun. Uh, it is one of my older cards that I found—uh—just kind of digging through all my old stuff. Uh, so I'm not expecting anything huge. It did look all right. Like it wasn't a bad condition card, but it might be one that has like a bend in it or something like that that I've not seen. Uh, there is a little bit of a bend there. I can see like a tiny little crease which is going to definitely dock some points off it. But let's see. A five. Okay, let's—let's just put that one there. Send it in anyway. You never know with them cards. They're worth a lot in a 10, so you take your chances. Uh, there's another one. The Jolon holo from Delta Species. So, the thing is with the old Delta Species cards is the hollowos were like all the card—like kind of like how reverse is now. Yeah, they were just quite sick. Um, this is another one that would be really nice if we could get it in a good grade, but I just doubt it. There's a little bit of whitening in the corners. Um, it's not actually like in the—it feels like it's moving about. Maybe not. Let's see what we get. I—I would be pretty happy with anything over like a six with this. An eight. You know, that's actually pretty good. An eight in a card from 2005 is actually pretty good. I'm impressed with that. That's good. All right. Decent. I'm—I'm happy with that. That was good. Okay. Up next, the Ivysaur from 151. Illustration rare. See much wrong with the front. The back looks pretty good. It's maybe a little bit kind of skewed, a little bit, but we'll see. We'll see. A 10. It's another 10. Bro, we're stacking tens right now. I didn't think the biggest pile as well. I didn't think the biggest pile that we'd have would be the 10 pile. So, maybe I've got an eye for it. This looks pretty good. Maybe a little tiny dot in the back there that could probably dock some points, but we'll see. Yeah, it's a nine. I was kind of expecting that. When I saw that little knock on the corner, that kind of made sense. Uh, all the Persian. Um, I still can't remember the name of the set, which is embarrassing, but a really nice card. Uh, I think it's worth quite a bit of money in a 10 as well. And I can't lie, guys. This card looks pretty good. There's tiny tiny little marks in the corners, but it might be okay. I reckon this one's probably a nine, guys. How many is that? How many tens is that? I don't understand. Okay. Okay. This—this pile just gets better from here. Okay, there is some crazy crazy stuff in here. Okay, so we got the Zapdos EX Special illustration rare. This is one of the first cards I actually pulled on the channel. Uh, there is a couple of them in here, so I reckon the next one's probably the same card, but—um—this is one of the cards I pulled very very early on when I started YouTube. So, it's been in a top loader for a very long time. So, we're going to see if we actually get a 10 on this now. Oh man, that's a biggie. That's a biggie. That's such a nice one to get in a 10. Um, so I reckon this one's probably the same. I think I sent in two. I did. Okay, they look—they look identical. It's got to be another 10, surely. Maybe the back's like scuffed. Let me have a look. Man, this one looks cleaner than the last one. No, man. How have we got two? Crazy, crazy, crazy. Okay, we're—we're making some serious money with this return. Um—Oh, okay. This one I pulled from the—I opened up all the shiny sets from the last like few years. Uh, and we pulled this from Hidden Fates, which is—it's like a top five card. Maybe the top and bottom look a little bit off center. The back looks clean there. I reckon it's probably a nine cuz I know the front centering is quite important, but let's see. It is a nine sadly, but you know what? It's still a sick card. Like look at that. It's so nice. Which is—I'm not even mad at that to be honest. It's better than—better than nothing. Okay, I think I have about three of these. So, these are the Pokémon Center stamped uh ETB promos. These would be very nice to get in a 10 just because they're worth quite a lot of money. So, uh we could sell these off. Yeah, would be a nice one to get in a 10. Got one in a 10. I think we have two more. We do. Okay. Again, it's looking pretty good. It's looking pretty good, mate. Two 10. We—we're printing right now. We are printing money right now. Okay, last one again. Looks pretty good. Should we just do it? Should we just do it? Okay, man. Man, look at that. I am—I am good at this spotting 10 business. I'm telling you. You need to get me looking through your collections and telling you which ones are going to get a 10. I'm telling you, I'm good at this. Okay, we've got the uh Charmander from Palan Fates, the baby shiny, and again, it's looking good. I need to show you this stack of 10 we have after this. It's crazy. It's actually crazy. Okay, a big one. Got the Pikachu 151 uh illustration rare. Let's see what we can get on this one. So, the front looks pretty good. I know these uh illustration rares are a little bit harder to grade cuz they do get scratched up a little bit. You know what? Oh, there is a little bit of whitening on that corner, but apart from that, it looks pretty good. It might dock it some points, though. It is. It's a nine. You know, I'm—I'm not upset. Nines. I think nines are still cool, but we're here for the tens, really, aren't we? Squirtle, another really big one in a 10. It's mainly why I sent it in, but I think it's quite hard to grade in a 10. Uh, just because of all that—that hollow that's there. Um, I can't lie though, it looks pretty good. Uh,

Maybe a bit of edge wear there, but apart from that, it looks good. It's a nine.

I have another one, which I'm hoping like we can get at least 110. I don't know about this one. I feel like this one looks cleaner than the other one, but there's like a white bit here. Apart from that, it looks fairly good. I don't really see too much wrong with this one. An eight. An eight. Why? What's made that an eight? Oh, mate. I don't understand PSA sometimes. Uh, we've got I was hoping for at least 110 in that, but that's fine. That's still There's still Okay, this is the big one. This is the big one. Uh, I This is a very I'd say one of my most sentimental cards. So, I wanted to send this in because it was such a mission getting this card. Like, it was so difficult to get a hold of. Uh, me and Jacob were actually going to fly to Amsterdam at one point just to actually go and try and get one of these. So, the I always thought the centering looked pretty good. I couldn't see anything wrong with the front really. And then the back. Yeah, it just looks clean. It looks It looks nice. I think we've really got a I do think we've got a chance with this one. I'd be upset if it was a nine, but I do I do think we got a 10 here. Excuse me. A five. Why? Why is that a five? What? What? I'm I'm so confused with that. I can't see. I've got some really strong lights on right now. And I can't see a thing wrong with this. I have no idea why that is a five. That uh that sucks quite a lot to be honest. I really thought we had something good there. A five into the uh the five pile. It goes a five, man.

Uh okay, last three cards. I know exactly what these are because we haven't got them yet. It's the Charmander, the Charmeleon, and the Charizard illustration rares from 151. So, these are big ones. Let's go through this. So, we got the Charmander. I was always a little bit worried about this cuz I thought the top looked a little bit heavy compared to the bottom. I think it's fine on the back. I think it's just the front. Uh but I was never really expecting 10. So, we'll have to have a look and see for this one. It's definitely looks like it shifted to the left maybe. Yeah. So, that's a nine. I was kind of expecting that. Next one. Charmeleon. Okay. So, this one I thought looked pretty good. Didn't really see much wrong with this one. Unless the back was a bit scuffed. You know, maybe like there's a tiny little bit of corner damage, but it's like such it's so small. Like we've had 10s in here that have had the same corner damage. So, I think it's possible that we we could get a 10 with this. Um, but let's see. Oh, it's a nine. That's not filling me with hope.

The last one, this is the biggie for me. This uh anybody that was around, I doubt any of you were, but any of you that were around watching me do my openings on the channel, I chased this card for so long. And uh we finally hit it. This is quite a big card for me. I'm really hoping for a 10 cuz that would just be huge. Um to pull a Charizard SIR in a 10 yourself is is mad. I have always thought that this looks pretty good. There was a little bit there. I don't know if you guys can see that. There's a little white mark in the corner there, but I was just hoping that we'd get away with it. Should we just rip the band-aid off because I don't want to look. Nah. Okay. Okay. We got a 10. We got 10. No way, man. Out of all of them. Okay. The Pikachu did make me a little bit upset. The Van Go Pikachu. But out of all of them, this one probably means the most to me just purely because of how long it took me to get it. And to get a 10 on it, it's crazy. That's so good. Guys, we got like we got like half the submission in a 10. All of these are a 10. So, another great couple of weeks under our belt for the business. We have a load of these slabs to sip through to work out what would be good to run on our streams and what would be good to keep or sell. Let me know down in the comments if you like the look of any of those graded cards. And who knows, you might see some pop up in a stream. Make sure you are subscribed so you don't miss out on anything in our journey. I've also added memberships to the channel. So, if you feel like supporting me and you want to get some free perks out of it, you can head over to the membership tab and join today. Be sure to let me know down in the comments what content you want to see in our streams or what you want to see on this YouTube channel. And I will see you in the next one.

It's taken me a little while to get this video out. January has been one of the weirdest months ever for the business, but we have made a change that might just turn everything around. [Music] If you're new around here, my name is Max and I'm documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube. So, where do we start today? January has been such a shock to the system for us, which is an understatement really. If you remember back to our first video of the year, we were putting up numbers that we have never done before, from hundreds of viewers to our biggest ever stream, hitting nearly £3,000 in sales. Well, the second half of the month has been pretty dreadful. Okay, I say dreadful. We're still profiting, but just at a way slower rate. We've been running formats we normally do, which are the dip boxes mostly and wheels and things like that. And these have been pretty profitable for us leading up to this point. And people seem to really like the value that we provide and stuff like that. So, we had a couple of really nice prizes booked in. And based off the start of the month, we went out and spent pretty much all of our money in the bank on prizes to run for these streams. But almost every single time we went live in the middle of January, it has just been silent. Either just a lack of people jumping in and being willing to buy at a price that makes us money, or people just not joining the streams whatsoever. There's streams lately where we've been sat there with almost under 20 viewers, sometimes even under 10 pretty consistently, which I mean it isn't necessarily out of the ordinary, but going from streams with hundreds of people to barely scraping 10 viewers feels like such a gut punch. It was like all the momentum that we had is just disappeared overnight. We actually had to stop the stream halfway through because there was just no way we were getting to the end without having to sell all the entries way under the price that we budgeted for. That was easily probably the worst day we've had in the business. So, we've been pretty stuck the last couple of weeks on what to actually do. We originally put it down to the fact that January just feels like it has like 14 weeks in it between the December payday and the January one. But, we ran a stream last night which was actually February 1st and the exact same thing happened. What it has done for us though is allowed us to try out some different formats that we maybe necessarily wouldn't have tried before. So, we did get hold of some Prismatic Evolutions packs. I think we had 200 in total. So, we were able to run a couple of rip and ship type streams. And in all honesty, I love those. They were just so much more chill and it doesn't feel like I have to sit there and really try and sell them because people already want them and we're just selling them at a fair price. Plus, I get to rip open a load of packs of the new set, which is actually pretty sick. We actually managed to pull this gold Pikachu as well for someone on stream. Uh, no Eevee Lucian SS throughout the entire 200 packs, which I think is mental. We also ran another single stream again, which is just so much better in my opinion. We try and include really interesting prizes and keep the flaws as valuable as we can so that everyone feels like they're getting something out of it. But with singles and packs, it's just a lot more relaxed. I don't feel like there has to be any losers. Whereas with dip boxes and wheels, there has to be losers so that people can win essentially. The problem with singles and packs is one, we don't have a distributor, which makes it quite hard to get hold of packs at a price that we can make money from them. We do have some really good friends in the streaming space though, like the real Pokétop. They are always sending us out products for us to sell, which helps us a ridiculous amount. So, be sure to go and give them a follow and whatnot if you're not already. Ideally, in the next few months, we want to be focusing more on the rip and ship and rip through your hit type streams as I feel people will take Grail more seriously as a business then and it's a lot more sustainable for us. But until we're able to get a distributor or wholesaler, that is pretty difficult to do. Secondly, as well, to run singles, we have to be able to access singles in volume at a good price. We've pretty much just been using singles from our personal collection to sell the whole time. So, it's been pretty like relaxed. But if any of you do have collections at home that you're looking to sell for a good price and you're based in the UK, give us a DM on Instagram. It's going to be down in the link below. Also, give us a follow if you're not already because we're going to be posting there a lot more soon. Finally, we tried out these uh wheels I've been seeing around whatnot, like this elimination wheel format we first saw from our friend Pokey Jason. So, the idea here is that there's 12 slots on a wheel. You sell off each slot on the wheel and the person that lands on last wins the top prize. Everyone else wins a floor prize. So maybe that's an English booster pack or something like that. So we had some success with this format, but again the prices were just going so low that we were barely profiting and sometimes we even broke even or lost money on it. So yeah, it was a bit of a weird one.

Overall though, I think January has taught us a lot of things about the platform. I do think things will pick up from here. I think overall January is just a tough month for everyone, but hopefully we can find our stride as a business again. If you're a seller and whatnot, how has your January been? Drop me a comment. Let me know. I'd love to hear from some of you. So, for a quick recap on where we're at, as I said, we've definitely bumped our revenue right up this month, but the profit margins just weren't there. So, I can comfortably say to you, we are at least profiting, but let's just say this number is not reflective of what we have sitting in the bank whatsoever. But yeah, on to the exciting bit. Let's talk about the mystery packs.

Okay, I've been super excited for this this weekend. Luke has come down to stay as we're off to a London card show, which I have loads of content coming out for. So, make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any of that. After months of calls, voice notes, and late night planning, Luke and I finally met in person for the first time. And what better way to celebrate than by launching our very own product for the first time. We got a load of work done whilst he was down and it was good to just be able to sit and talk business in person, not just over the phone. One thing that is a bit difficult with how we have things set up is obviously we have stock here. Luke has stock with him. So, it's hard to track what we've actually spent our money on, if that makes sense. So, being able to run some streams with him was really great. And it was just pretty funny. I don't know if any of you got to join at all this weekend, but we were just having a great time. It was actually really great timing, too, because our mystery packs that we had been putting together really close to Christmas finally arrived. The packaging was not exactly what we wanted. Partly my fault for putting the order together wrong, but let me off. I was so tired. Still though, the packaging is sick. We've got the design on the front showing some of the packs that could be available, including this really cool base set pack sitting front and center. Then on the back, we have some information about what's inside the bag. So, we have four Scarlet and Violet era packs as standard. Then you also get a mystery bonus pack. So, this is what people are buying them for. These packs are seeded. So, no matter how many we make, the odds are consistent. So, for this batch, the minimum guarantee is a Sword and Shield pack. So think things like Evolving Skies, Silver Tempest, Vivid Voltage, Lost Origin, and all that good stuff. The next is the Great Ball Packs, which gives you a Sun and Moon pack. So maybe things like Hidden Fates and stuff like that. Then we have Ultra Ball, which is an X and Y era pack. One of them being a Phantom Forces pack, which I'm so jealous about. And finally, the big one, which is the Master Ball, which gives you a Wizards of the Coast booster pack. We've got things like base set packs, jungle packs, fossil packs, all sorts in there. So, in the background of one of our quieter streams in the week, we had Luke running the stream. Then we had Jacob on the packing of the orders, and then I was just in the background getting to work on these mystery packs. So, we kind of had like a proper little factory going all out of one room, which was pretty cool. I am going to go ahead and come clean. This is not the most fun task of all time. I had to lay out all the bags that we wanted to fill. And then I had to grab four different booster boxes of pack. Then it was just a flow of grabbing an assortment of four packs and then putting them inside every single mystery pack over and over again. I can 100% see why people give this job to other people, but we wanted to make sure that they were done properly. Once I smashed out a few hundred of these, yes, I said hundred. I then got to work pretty much doing the same thing, but with the mystery bonus packs inside. So, we had these black insert bags and the idea was we're going to stick one of these Pokéball variants on the top of it and then add the packs inside those. So, we have the Poké Ball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, and Master Ballable packs. Then, it's simply a case of just filling those up, giving them a big shuffle in this box. Just look at how many of them are in there. Then, it was time to add a pack to each of the bigger mystery packs. And once that was done, we finally got to heat sealing every single one, which started off pretty fun, but very quickly became extremely boring. I can't lie, it was worth it though, just to see the final result. These look so cool. I know I said I wasn't too happy with the packaging, but now that they're actually made up and ready to go to our customers, they just look so good. I do think next time we're probably going to want like glossy print instead of the matte finish, that was a misclick from me. And also, they don't have like the pouch bottoms, so they don't really stand up. So, we want to make sure they do that. And I think maybe making them a little bit smaller so they're easier to ship and have on the screen in stream would pretty probably be quite good. What we did do though is hold one back for myself, Jacob, and Luke as kind of a keepsake. I think when we eventually open up the brick and mortar store, it'll be so cool to have one of these in a display case somewhere as like a bit of a look how far we've come moment, you know?

But then with all these mystery packs produced and ready to go, we decided to do a late night stream after we got back from day one of London Card Show and see how they performed with our followers. If you don't know already, we primarily stream over on a platform called Whatnot where it's essentially like a live card show all day every day. There's loads of different TCGs on there from Pokémon Magic to One Piece. Then there's even things like designer clothes and trainers. There's really something for every type of collector on there. And what's great about it too is you can talk directly to the sellers and each stream is more of a show. It's just like a really fun buying experience. So if you're not on there already, definitely head down to the description and sign up using my link and get yourself £10 to spend to try it all out for free. We're on there multiple times a week and have a bunch of other YouTuber subscribers in the chat. So come along and see for yourself. I'm going to be completely transparent, right? So, I've always thought that these mystery packs were a really good idea, but I was really hesitant about them as well, purely because of all the backlash people like Poke Rev get for selling these types of products. And it was just so important to us that we keep these as fair value as possible so that people get really great things out of them and we're not just overpaying for things. But as soon as the stream started, we'd already sold like four or five of them before we were even ready to sit down and start opening them. They were flying out the door on stream and it was honestly just so cool to see, especially given how slow January has been for us. This was just such a weight off our shoulders. It's been so tough recently putting together streams and this one just was good vibes all night. I think we started at like 11:30 p.m. and we were going until like 2:00 a.m. or something like that. We had a guy called Johnny come in, buy over 20 of them, which is actually mental. He got so much cool stuff out of them, too, including this long crimp jungle pack, which is just sick. The stream was going so well and we were just giving away loads of stuff, too. We had slabs going out the door. I think we ran some Hidden Fates packs for free. It was just awesome. So, overall, it exceeded our expectations and we're pretty much looking at building the next version of these right away. We were talking in chat 2 about the idea of making these, but with graded cards. So, we haven't looked at all the logistics yet, but we were thinking of having a bunch of really high value, desirable slabs as chases, and then filling the rest with different tiered slabs. So, very similar to what we have with the packs, but graded cards. So, what do you guys think? Should we do a graded version of these, or do you have another idea that we haven't thought of yet? Drop a comment. I try and reply to every single one. I know a lot of you were really excited about these mystery packs, too, and we have a limited amount left to buy. So, I've put the link to our product in the description of the video if you wanted to pick up a sealed one for yourself. They won't last long though, so grab them whilst you can.

So, overall a bit of a weird month for us, but we've got a big month ahead. I've just come back from London Card Show this weekend and I've got so much content to sip through and start editing. So, make sure you hit subscribe so you don't miss any of the videos I've got coming up. Also, we'll be streaming again this Wednesday over on Whatnot using some of the London Card Show pickups. So, be sure to use the link in my bio, get yourself £10 for free and bookmark our show so you don't miss them. And I will catch you very shortly in the next one. Whatnot just dropped a major update that is changing everything about live selling. Some sellers are losing money and some are just struggling to adjust. But could this actually be the best thing to happen to

Us? If you're new around here, my name is Max, and I've been documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube. And if you've been following along for a while now, you'll know that Whatnot is a huge part of what we do right now. It's where we make the majority of our money. It's essentially a live stream selling platform for collectors where you can auction off cards and packs in real time to viewers.

But recently, Whatnot dropped a massive update, and it's forcing us to completely rethink how we run our streams. Up until March 10th, sellers on Whatnot could use wheels to sell chance-based products. So, for example, you could pay £5 or £10 for an entry into a wheel spin. Then, whatever it lands on is what you win. It could be things like a single booster pack or, if you got really lucky, it could be one of the top prizes. So, it could be things like a graded card. It could be a booster box or something really big.

And for a while, these streams were the most popular streams on the platform, with almost every streamer running their own variation of it in their own way. But there is no denying that some sellers started abusing the system, you know, like rigging things, tweaking odds mid-stream, or running setups where customers are almost guaranteed to lose out. And obviously, Whatnot caught onto this. And they have now introduced something called surprise sets.

Now, if we're being real, they're basically just wheels but with one big difference. It's all run by Whatnot itself. Instead of a seller manually spinning a wheel, they actually upload 100 items into the surprise set. And then when a customer buys in, the Whatnot system randomly picks their prize. So there's no mid-stream tweaks, no sneaky prize removals, and no way to manipulate the odds in any way. Plus, as an added bonus, customers can actually see what's left in the set live as the stream goes on. So, this makes the whole process so much more transparent, and you know exactly what's still left up for grabs.

Now, I don't know what anyone else thinks, but I think this update is massive. For one, it just looks so much better. The entire system is built directly into the platform instead of feeling like some hacked-together workaround. But more importantly, it makes packing orders a breeze. Like, instead of manually tracking every single win, the list updates in real time. So now, instead of scrambling at the end of the stream, we can just pack orders as we go, saving hours of work. Yeah, we've tested surprise sets a few times now, and if I'm honest, I just definitely prefer them. There's no stress, no questioning whether the wheel was fair. It's just clean, simple, and way smoother to run. And if I'm honest, the update could not have come at a better time.

By the way, if you like this kind of behind-the-scenes stuff, make sure you're subscribed. I document everything we do with Grail Gallery right here on the channel. So, if you're into the journey, you don't want to miss it. 80% of you that watch these videos are not subscribed. So, go down there, hit the button, and you won't miss anything that we [Music] do.

If you remember a couple of videos ago on the channel, you'll remember that I said that we want to break away a little bit from the chance-based streams. Not completely, but we have noticed that streamers that do more singles and breaks are taken a little bit more seriously on the platform. And obviously, as we grow Grail Gallery, that is what we want to be doing. So it makes a little bit more sense to shift in that direction, which is where breaks have come in clutch for us.

Now, if you've never been in a break, they work a little bit like surprise sets, but slightly different. So basically, we list all of the spots in advance. So take something like, uh, Surging Sparks, for example. Instead of selling packs, we sell Pokémon spots. Each spot represents a Pokémon from that set that has a hit card. So you've got things like Pikachu, Latios, Latios, Alolan Executor, Serperior, you know, you get the idea. Each of these spots starts from just a pound, and then we auction all of them off. When someone bids and wins, they get given a random spot in the break. So the surprise set element is that wheel. It spins, and it will spit out a random Pokémon for them, and then that assigns them a slot in the break. Then we start ripping open packs, and if we hit that Pokémon, then they get to keep all the cards that they hit. Then as the lower-tier Pokémon start getting hit in the bids, the higher tiers like your Pikachus and your Serperiors and things like that start to increase in price just because they are easier to get. Like the odds have gone down for them, if that makes sense.

But the absolute best part about breaks for us is it doesn't even matter what price they sell for. So typically with surprise sets, we're always trying to, you know, hit that break-even spot, but with breaks, it just doesn't matter. Instead of relying on high bids to make money, we base the number of packs we open on how much money has gone into the break. So, let's say we picked up, uh, Surging Sparks booster packs at £4 a pack, and we wanted to make a 30% margin. That means we price our break at £5 per pack. So, let's say every £50 spent on the break, we add in 10 packs to the break. That means that our margin is always locked in from the start. So, we don't need to stress about trying to push the bids higher. And for buyers, it actually benefits them more to spend more money. Like, if you think about it, if you land on the Pikachu, which is so hard to pull, you're going to want to spend more money on the break to increase the number of packs that we open because more packs equals a higher chance of getting that hit. It's just a really cool concept, and it feels so much more aligned with the hobby. And personally, I just prefer these streams more. They're just so much more chill. They really feel more like collecting, and they don't have that casino feel that a lot of Whatnot streams do have.

So, we've been leaning into these heavily, especially the Japanese 151. We managed to get a ridiculous amount of 151 boxes, not even at a good price, but just because we knew we wanted to open these up with our community. We knew that they would go down really well. We even hit a god pack the other week as well, which is crazy. Right now, our record for the amount of packs opened in a single break is 100, and I really want to break that record. So, if you think you can help us do it, here's what you can do. You can click the link in the description to sign up to Whatnot or scan the QR code on screen and get yourself £10 completely free to spend on one of our breaks when you sign up. We've got Japanese 151 coming this week. We've got Obsidian Flames. We've even got Power Up Evolve, which is going to go crazy. So, make sure you bookmark all of our upcoming streams so you get notified when we go live and come and get involved.

I wanted to take a second to talk about where we're at with Grail Gallery, what our priorities are, what's been stressing us out, and how we're trying to keep things moving forward. It's definitely been a grind lately, and that might sound weird considering we sell Pokémon cards for a living, but behind the scenes, there's way more to this than just ripping packs on stream. There is sourcing stock, negotiating with local game stores, managing orders, dealing with customers, tracking finances. It never stops. And then there's packing. Oh my god, the packing. If you've ever sold on Whatnot, you already know how long this takes. With breaks, it's even worse because every order has to be triple-checked. Each customer gets specific hits from a specific break, and when we're trying to run five or six breaks in a single stream, it gets pretty overwhelming pretty fast.

Managing finances has also been a challenge. So, we recently had to register for VAT in the UK, which means 20% of our margins now go straight to the government. And it's not just as simple as charging an extra 20% because we deal with new and secondhand product. And there are different VAT rules depending on whether we're selling sealed products or singles or graded cards. So keeping track of all of it gets quite complicated and takes a lot of time.

But honestly, the biggest challenge right now is balance. Both me and Luke are still working full-time jobs on top of running Grail Gallery. We haven't taken a single penny from the business yet. So, every bit of profit we've made has been reinvested into more stock, better setups, and future-proofing the business. Right now, our main focus is getting the business to a stable point where we can actually pay ourselves properly without slowing everything down. And to make that happen, we've been building out a proper streaming schedule so we can run the business more efficiently instead of feeling like we're constantly playing catch-up, if that makes sense.

At the moment, we're aiming for Mondays for breaks, Wednesdays and Fridays for surprise sets, and then extra singles auctions or breaks mixed in in between. Having set days does mean less stress, uh, more time to plan ahead, and better budgeting already. It's starting to make things feel a lot more structured. It's also given me much more time to focus on this YouTube channel, and I've hired an editor for these videos, which has been a game changer, too. Not having to edit everything myself has freed up so much time for me.

But even with these improvements, it's still a grind. Like most of my days, my routine is the same. I wake up, I plan and script videos, I then go to my job as a full-time UX designer. I get home, I go to the gym, I eat, and then I got to stream. And then I got to pack orders until midnight. And then it's basically time to sleep. And then I got to wake up and do it all over again. It is exhausting. Like, please know if you get into this business, it is exhausting. But I know it's going to be worth it in the end, in 6 to 12 months when YouTube and Whatnot has grown to a point where we can just fully focus on that.

On top of that as well, my house is an absolute mess. There are Pokémon cards and shipping supplies and stock boxes absolutely everywhere. I barely have time to clean because every spare second goes into streaming, packing, or editing. That's why we're really pushing to build out this website because we need a way to make sales that don't just rely on live streaming. The site is definitely still a work in progress, but once it's up and running properly, we can sell stock in the background without needing to be live. Orders will come in automatically, and all we'll have to do is pick, pack, and then ship them.

So, that's where we're at. The last few months have been non-stop, but we're making progress, and every small step forward is bringing us closer to where we want to be.

If you stopped by the stream recently, you might have noticed that things look a little bit different. I've been trying to put a lot of effort into leveling up the production quality because, honestly, Whatnot is seriously lacking high-end streaming setups. There are a few sellers who do it well, but overall, I think there's a massive gap for a more polished, professional-looking live stream. Better overlays, better thumbnails, better audio, all that stuff, and it just makes the stream feel like an actual show. And that's exactly the gap that I want Grail Gallery to fill.

So, we've been tweaking with the setup, and let me tell you, getting it all running smoothly has been a nightmare. We're currently running everything through OBS, and at first, I had it set up on my MacBook, but for some reason, the audio just refused to work no matter what settings I changed it. It just didn't work at all. So eventually, I gave up, and I moved everything onto a dedicated streaming PC, and now it finally works properly.

So here's the current setup. I've got the main camera which captures the card openings and the hands-on part of the stream. Got one of these Osmo Minis as a face cam. This little thing is a game changer. It has built-in tracking, so it literally follows me around the room automatically, which is weirdly helpful because now I don't have to worry about staying in frame. We've got some sick graphics running now showing things like our social media handles and this YouTube channel, so new viewers can actually see where to follow us. And then finally, what you can't hear now is we have direct music integration. So, we can now play music directly into the stream, which means no more awful tiny audio from a laptop speaker, making it sound like the music is being played underwater. So, that's a massive upgrade.

Honestly, it's been a huge step up in terms of production value, but there's still one major problem. Some viewers join, and they've been experiencing lag when we go live. And at this point, I just don't have any idea how to fix it. And the problem is there's not really a ton of support online for this kind of setup, especially not for Whatnot streams at least. So, if you're watching this and you know your way around OBS or you run a Whatnot stream with OBS and have figured out a fix for this, please DM me because right now I am struggling.

Yeah, overall, I think things are going really well. We're keeping up with streaming. We're slowly building up money and stock for the future. And every day we're getting closer to making that dream of opening a shop a reality. But what I'm really excited about is Whatnot Card Show happening from April 3rd to April 6th. We've got some huge giveaways planned for that. And trust me, you are not going to want to miss it. So, if you haven't already, click the link in my description and sign up to Whatnot. Make sure you're following us because these giveaways are going to be crazy. I'll be sharing all the details as soon as I can. So, make sure you're subscribed to the channel so you don't miss out. Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you in the next one.

Since November last year, we've been trying to build our very own Pokémon business out of thin air with no fancy startup funding. Not really any solid plan, just a dream to one day open up our own Pokémon store. So, when Whatnot asked us to be a part of their biggest event of the year, we did what any sane, well-prepared team would do. We said yes immediately, then gave ourselves about 10 days to work out what it is that we were actually going to do. This is the story of the biggest, most chaotic, and most important stream we've ever done.

Okay, so if you're new around here, my name is Max, and I have been documenting every step of building my Pokémon business right here on YouTube. Some of you know this already, but a lot of what we do is we sell over on a platform called Whatnot. Now, Whatnot is basically a live selling platform that lets you buy things like booster packs, singles, graded cards, and basically it's just a way to spend probably too much money on shiny cardboard, which, to be honest, it's what I always end up doing.

Now, we use Whatnot mainly to build up cash and a bit of momentum whilst we're in the process of trying to get our own brick-and-mortar store. Now, you're probably wondering what makes this event so different from everything else. This is What Not Card Show 6, a weekend event that takes place once a year where the whole app is taken over by sellers trying to outdo each other with massive streams. It's filled with huge giveaways and a lot of money. Whatnot reached out and asked if we wanted to be a headline part of their event, which basically means that the entire time you're live, your show gets pushed to the top of the list, which means a lot more reach, a lot more potential customers coming into the stream and seeing what we're all about. If we pulled it off, it could be a big boost in followers, a load more regulars to the channel, and a lot more fuel in the tank to grow the business. So, all we needed was an idea. We'd left ourselves what, maybe 10 days to do this, which was a bit of an issue because sourcing Pokémon right now is an absolute nightmare.

We knew we wanted to do something unique for the stream, but actually coming up with the idea was somehow the hardest part of the whole thing. The first idea we landed on was something I feel like everyone does, a vintage box break. So, think stuff like Jungle, Fossil, Team Rocket boxes, things like that. So, anyone that came into the shop that night and bought something would be entered to win a pack from the break completely for free. So, we started making calls, asking around, and trying to find a box that we could actually get in time. But no one was letting go of their sealed vintage. And if they were, it wasn't arriving in under 10 days. What? No, you can't have a shower at mine. It was like 1:00 a.m. one night, and I was scrolling Facebook Marketplace, and I was genuinely considering driving 4 hours to pick up a Jungle box from a guy called Darren who had zero profile picture and typed it in all caps. That's when I realized we'd lost the plot. So, yeah, that set us back. We lost days on this idea, mainly just because we didn't want to let it go, even though it clearly wasn't going to happen. So, eventually, we shifted gears, and we started looking at modern sets instead. And then it hit us: Evolving Skies. What if we gave away every single Eevee VMAX from the set, all graded a PSA 10? I had genuinely no idea how much that was going to cost us, but it sounded so cool, so we ran with it. Now we just had to actually find them.

Next up was buying. And timing-wise, we got lucky because one week before the stream was CardCon. [Music] We had a decent bit of cash behind us, so we'd been streaming consistently leading up to the event, so things weren't looking too bad on that front. Plus, we had some stock that we'd been slowly building up over the last couple of months, which would be perfect for a stream just like this. The goal was to build out a stream with a proper structure. So, having a few products that could act as main events to the stream and then getting a few filler items to kind of run as quick flash sales to keep the stream moving. We were mainly looking for the good stuff, you know, like high-end booster boxes, graded cards, vintage packs, things that would really get people going when they come on screen. We did have one main priority, of course, which was picking up all of the Evolving Skies Eevee VMAX cards. Without that, the whole idea just falls apart. I actually filmed a separate video for this where I try and buy them from different vendors all in one day, and you can watch that by clicking up here. But whilst that was happening, we were also looking for everything else. So things like packs, graded cards, slabs, anything that we thought would hit well on stream. And we were haggling, trying to buy smart from these vendors without being too annoying, which is a pretty fine line to walk at a card [Music] show. By the end of the day though, we left with two cars filled with stock, including all the evolutions, which was mad. It was probably the most productive convention we've ever done, but also probably the most expensive as well.

Here is some of the stuff that we picked up. We got about 10 of these Evolving Skies booster boxes. We're going to be giving away sealed boxes of this, not just the packs, the actual whole sealed boxes. We found this Unified Minds ETB, which is like just crazy. So cool. We got some mid-air packs as well. So, we got Black and White Plasma Blast. We got XY packs. We've got things like Unified Minds, Unbroken Bonds. We've got some Hidden Fates as well. We found an Eevee Heroes box, which is so cool. We're going to be running some breaks on that. We also got a Long Crimp Jungle pack. And then even better than that, we got four Long Crimp Team Rocket packs. I'm hoping people rip these. And then second to last, we got this Team Up booster box, which is mad. These things are so expensive now. And finally, probably the coolest pickup was this Pokémon edition Nintendo 64, which we're also going to be running as a buyer's giveaway as well. So, we're giving this away completely for free. I miss CardCon. Not the actual experience of being there, but just because it was probably the last time all of this was pretty calm. When we got home, everything started spiraling work-wise, so we had to get

The entire stream was ready. Every single item had to be added to the store. We had to take photos of everything. We had to plan out the order of appearance of the items so that we could get the flow right. We had 10 buyers' giveaways to run, 10. Uh, not including the N64 either, because we bought that on a whim. Um, so we couldn't just wing it and hope that it all came together. We actually had to plan out when things were going to happen, which we're famously not very good at. We ended up mapping a giveaway out every 30 minutes, with a highlight or a big thing happening in between, and flash sales to help people get into the giveaways at the last minute.

Which, in theory, sounds pretty easy, but in reality, it meant someone—me—was basically up all night creating product images, making listings on the store, which meant setting all the pricing and the shipping information, the titles and descriptions, everything. The entire flat was covered in cards and cables. Um, mild resentment, but it was coming together slowly. Then we needed to get the actual setup ready. [Music] [Music] I moved the desk out of the office and into the lounge because I'm not sitting in a dark cupboard for six plus hours. The problem with the office is it's quite a small room, and it is right at the back of my flat. So, there's no windows in the room whatsoever. So, when you're sat in there for like more than two hours, you go a little bit crazy. Um, I don't think it's a good idea to have me and Luke both streaming in that small of a room for six plus hours. I just think it's going to be so uncomfortable.

And this is where we ended up with [Music] all. Now, it was just a case of actually running the stream. Um, and this is where it hit me, probably a bit late, but I really had this overwhelming feeling that we'd overspent for this. I've been told by Whatnot that we should plan to make this our biggest stream we've ever done, which we definitely did, but I couldn't help but feel that maybe we weren't going to get the traffic that we needed to actually sell everything. Or maybe people just wouldn't even like the stock that we'd picked out. I think with all the time and effort put into this, if we were to go live and nobody wants to buy anything or we had under like a hundred viewers at this point, we would be extremely disappointed. We put a lot of pressure on this moment, uh, and basically emptied the vaults to be able to afford all the stock. So, we really, really needed this to work, and that's when we went live.

Okay, so we went live around 6:00 p.m., and we were immediately flooded with viewers. We'd been gassing this stream up for weeks now on Instagram and on other streams. So, a load of our regular buyers all turned up. But then the real numbers started kicking in because of the Whatnot card show main stage feature. We were sitting around 200 to 300 viewers consistently, pretty much the whole stream, which was a massive confidence boost because if like 30 people turned up, I don't know what I would have done. We'd have like £3,000 of free stuff and be giving it out to a small room of people, but it wasn't like that at all. The chat was popping all night. People were buying. The first few giveaways landed perfectly, and everything felt like it was actually working. There was this one moment where I glanced over at the screen and I saw we had nearly 300 people watching us sell singles, and I don't know, something about that hit me like it was actually going to plan.

The main goal of all of this was to grow the account with new buyers, and we definitely achieved that. So we ended up running about 500 singles, which is crazy. We cleared out all the vintage packs. So every single one of those Rocket packs sold. We sold hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of packs below retail price, like to get everyone a really good deal and to get a bin on the buyers' giveaways. We did a booster box break of Team Up, which was insane. We definitely lost money on it, but it was so fun. We even had people ripping their packs, which was just so sick. So shout out to those guys that did that. Then, of course, we were giving out the Eevee slabs for free every 30 minutes, and we ended with the big Nintendo 64 giveaway right at the end.

By the end of the stream, I was pretty lost for words, really. Um, we ended up doing a total of £23,000 of sales in a little over six hours. And I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how much profit we made on that, but the main goals for us were ticked off. So, we wanted to make it the biggest stream we've ever done. We wanted to give people really amazing deals on Pokémon products and introduce as many new people to Grail Gallery and show people what we're all about. And I think we achieved that. Like, I think we smashed it out of the park. As soon as that was over, I went straight to bed because I knew the next day was going to be mental. Here was the state of my lounge the next day. So we had 1,700 orders and 297 packages to post. I booked the day off work to do it, thinking that it would only take me a day. Uh, I ended up having to take the next day off work as well. I think in total it took us around 15 hours to pack everything. But we did it. We did it in the end. We got the car loaded up with 297 packages and took them all to the post office. And with that, all the planning, all the effort, it was finally over.

I originally made this YouTube channel with the sole purpose of trying to get a little bit better on camera. I've always wanted to make YouTube videos, not to be famous or anything, but more for the creative side. So, the editing and the filming and the storytelling, that kind of thing. But for years, I shied away from actually posting anything, mostly because I just didn't want to put my face out there. I've always been a pretty introverted person. Uh, but eventually, I realized, how was I ever going to edit or create anything if I didn't just start and turn on the camera? So, I picked up the camera and I started filming tap openings. It made sense at the time. I was already spending a load of money on Pokémon cards, so why not film it and also get some reps in on the camera at the same time?

Now, of course, YouTube is pretty saturated when it comes to pack opening videos. So, those videos never really took off. And that's when I started slipping into the same trap that I think a lot of creators do, which is starting to chase views. I'd look at the numbers after every single upload and get really bummed out and then just go back to the drawing board and try and come up with the next big idea that was going to blow the channel up. Some of you people who've been around for ages are going to remember this, but I once made a video where I had to spin a forfeit wheel every 10 Pokémon packs that we opened. I ended up doing like 300 push-ups in a video. I have no idea what I was doing. But a few months later, I had a moment of clarity. And I asked myself, why did I start this channel in the first place? And the answer wasn't to go viral. It was a creative outlet, a way to make videos that I loved and to improve myself. And that's when I started documenting the business side of Pokémon because I love the hobby and I like trying to create these little cinematic moments, even though they're pretty amateur. So, it just made sense to blend the two, to take you guys on a journey of building this business and telling the story the best way that I possibly can. And that brings us to now.

When I take a second to think about how far we've actually come, it's kind of mad. Like, the first videos on the channel were literally just me sat in front of a camera scrambling to sell a few bits of stock and praying we didn't lose too much money on stream. And now, fast forward to here, we're running six-hour shows, selling out vintage packs, giving away PSA 10s, and hitting $20,000 in a single night. I think sometimes when you're so focused on what's next, it's quite easy to forget about how far you've come in the first place. And man, we have come so far. None of it would have been possible without you guys being here to support us along the way. So whether you've been here since the early videos or this is the very first video you've seen, thank you genuinely. You've given me a platform to express myself and to share the things that I love doing, and I cannot thank you enough.

Lately, I feel like I've lost that purpose a bit. Like I used to make videos because I wanted to, and right now I feel like I've been making them because I have to. And I think that's started to come across when I've been uploading my videos. It's only really just hit me now, which is why I wanted to tack this on to the end of this video. I want to get back to making the videos that you guys love. So, the transparency of the business, the real highs and lows, and the effort that you subscribe for. Somewhere along the way, as things got busier and the business started to grow, priorities just started to shift. But starting now, I'm resetting. I'm making videos that I enjoy. But that also means that not every single video is going to be about building the business. Sometimes I just want to come on here and rip some packs. And other times, I might just sit down and talk about what's going on in the hobby, for example. And I'm okay with that, cuz that's stuff that I enjoy. Something that actually means something to me, and hopefully it does to you too.

I met a few of you at CardCon the other weekend, and that's actually kind of what sparked this. Just chatting with some people who watch the videos and follow along and support us. It really reminded me of why I started doing this in the first place. It's not about numbers or algorithms or sponsors. It's about this community that we're building. And someone saying that they love the videos or they look forward to each one means more than I can ever explain. So, from here on out, I'm going back to making content that actually matters to me, the kind of stuff that I would want to watch myself. And if you're here for that, please hit the subscribe button. I'm also giving away a glory of Team Rocket Booster Box on my Instagram right now. So, head over to Match Does Pokémon on Instagram. I'll put the link in the description. Thank you guys so much for all the support. This video has been really hard to put together, so I appreciate you being here and watching, and I will catch you very soon.

We've been building a Pokémon business for a while now. And when we started this channel, we were just selling cards from our personal collection to get by. I was working full-time, and Pokémon cards was just a side hustle. But we've always had one big goal from day one. My main goal with all of this is actually to open a brick and mortar store. Our main goal is still to open the brick and mortar store, and we're probably way off it now, but we're still going to be shooting for that. Maybe next year. Who knows? We'll have to wait and see. Well, today I've got some exciting news to share with you. Let Let me explain. Can you give it a rest, mate? Jeez. Yeah, whatever. Let me [Music] explain. Welcome back.

If you're new around here, my name is Max, and I've been documenting building my Pokémon business from scratch right here on YouTube. Uh, and I can't really believe I'm saying this, but we're getting a shot. It's not just a future goal for the business anymore. This week, we officially started the process of signing the lease for our very first brick and mortar store. And here's exactly how we got there. This is the Graded Gallery, not to be confused with Grail Gallery, our own brand. They're a local trading card store based in Birmingham, and we've been working with them for some time now. Luke has been building up a good relationship with the store owners for the last few months, and it's actually where we get a lot of our stock from. For example, when Journey Together launched in the UK, we were able to run live box breaks on stream, and it was probably one of the coolest streams we've done to date. If you do want to check out some of our live streams, by the way, you can do so by clicking the link in the description or scanning this QR code, and you also get yourself £10 free to spend on your first stream. We pulled some crazy cards that night, too. Basically, all the big hitters that people were hoping for. They've helped us get sealed products. They've helped us get graded cards at really fair prices for our stream, and we definitely wouldn't be able to run the types of streams that we do or even get to the place that we're really at now without their support. So, we've always had a lot of time for the guys over there at the Graded Gallery.

They ended up approaching Luke and I—it's got to be a few weeks ago now—with the idea of opening up a franchise of our own with their help, as they're looking to expand their business, and we're obviously looking for a shop to get some experience in running one ourselves. As you can imagine already, me and Luke jumped on the idea. In fact, I pretty much dropped everything, packed a bag, and drove to Birmingham, which is about three hours away from me, which was actually really tough because I was still working at the time. So, obviously, I had to do a lot of coffee shop hopping, trying to jump on the Wi-Fi so I could actually do my job, you know, reply to people, be in meetings, and things like that. So, being that the original store was in Birmingham, we wanted to choose somewhere that was a bit further out, but not too far, uh, and somewhere with a growing retail market. We weren't too focused on high foot traffic areas. Uh, I think stores like this usually attract people who are already into the hobby anyway. Plus, I'm hoping that a lot of our audience comes from YouTube and Whatnot, where we've built up numbers already. Um, assuming you guys actually want to turn up to the store.

For example, though, the original Graded Gallery store is not in a really busy high street. And then other stores like Collector's Cardhouse, for example, are not in really highly populated areas. Not saying that we are nearly as big as Dean and Chloe, but I do like to think that we would get a draw from YouTube and Whatnot and things like that. So after all our research, we landed on a small town called Rugby. Rugby is a town just outside of Coventry, which is where Luke already lives, and it's also got really reasonable shop prices. So we booked in some viewings with a local estate agent, and we started looking around some of the [Music] places. The first one we looked at was this old hairdressers in one of the high streets. We actually liked this one straight away. It had a load of natural light coming through the big front window. There's also a really big open space at the start, and the actual floor space for the price was really good. It's not just this big main room as well. Also, if you walk through to the back, there is this back room that we could definitely use for something. Not too sure what quite yet, but it's a really cool space, so there's quite a lot I think we could do with it. It did have a basement as well, which did kind of draw us in from the start. But after having a look at it, a lot of these shop spaces that we visited did have basements, but they all seem to be liable to flooding. And, you know, cards and water, um, they they don't really mix. And then it also had this office at the back, which I think would be really cool to turn into a permanent streaming setup for Whatnot. So, yeah, really like this one. I think the space was just really open, and you know when you walk in somewhere and you can kind of picture how you kind of want things. I got that in this one. It was really cool.

Next up was this unit, which was a bit of a beater. There's a lot of work that we need to do here. There was a leak in the ceiling. The walls were pretty ruined, um, and covered in these weird metal sheet things. So yeah, this one really wasn't for us. Again, there was a basement in this one, but it felt like we were going to fall through the stairs, so we gave that one a miss. It had this upstairs area, too, but it all just felt a bit too old and beat up, so we didn't really rate this one. Then, finally, there was this last space that we looked at as well. It's basically a big rectangle space that had a decent spot in the town and a big window up front. The only problem with this one is that was pretty much it. There wasn't any sort of back room or office. It was just this. And I mean, we talked about adding in some partition walls to create an office and storage room, but but the space just didn't really feel big enough, sadly.

So, out of the three we looked at, it was pretty clear that we had a winner. This one just ticked all the boxes for us. It was a really good price. The space was insane. Like, the actual size of it was really big. It was probably the best condition of the three of them as well. I know it is going to take a little bit of time for us to fix it all up, but we won't have our work cut out quite as much with this one. Also, I think we can do some really cool stuff with the back room and the office as well. So, yeah, we wasted no time. We went back to the Graded Gallery guys, and we ended up putting an offer in straight away, which sat pending for a really uncomfortable amount of time. We did kind of put all of our eggs in one basket with this one, and we really set our hearts on it. Plus, I was back home and back at work at this point, so I didn't really have the time to go back up there, do more viewings, put more offers in, things like that. But luckily, a couple of weeks later, the offer was accepted, and we're now currently waiting on the lease terms to be written so that we can sign them and get the keys.

Now, I really wanted to end this video with a cool shot of me going to collect the keys and showing you guys around properly, but I was too keen to get this video out. I've already been telling people over on Whatnot that we're getting a shop, so I had to tell you guys the news properly. It's only kind of hit me now that this is all happening. Um, and look, I want to be real with you guys. I quit my job last week. I've still got my notice to serve, which is around three months. Um, so I've still got some paychecks coming in. There's a little bit of security. Uh, and there is still a little bit of work to do as well. But this is very much real now. And because of where we decided to open the shop, I am three hours away, which means this week I've been trying to sort out moving out of my flat. I know the Max Pokémon casting couch is going on a road trip. So yeah, I'm looking for new places to live up near the shop, moving away from family and friends, uh, and completely moving my whole life for a Pokémon business, which sounds absolutely crazy to say out loud. One, because it's Pokémon. If you told me last year I'd be packing in my very secure job and moving three hours away to open and sell Pokémon packs, I would call you crazy. But that is exactly what's happening right now. I always knew deep down that we'd eventually get our shop, um, purely based on the work that we've put in. Like me and Luke are super dedicated to this, but I just thought it was going to be months, maybe even years down the line from now. But here we are, and I'm going to take you guys on the entire process with me. It's not just about having the shop as well. Like we wanted to build something that feeds back into the streams.

And something that makes the YouTube content better that grows the whole thing as a brand. The shop is a step towards that, but it is a much bigger picture. I have always tried to be as transparent as I possibly can on this channel. Um, I think that's the real reason why a lot of you do like the videos in the first place.

So, I'm going to be documenting all of the process. I'm going to be showing you guys the design of the store, how we end up fitting everything, the cost of everything, more importantly, stocking the place, and of course, actually opening up the store so you guys can come and visit and say hello. I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet, whether it's going to be through like daily vlogs or more videos like this one where it's like the more traditional recap of the business week and things like that. I also have no idea when the shop is actually going to open. Um, but what I do know is this is the biggest thing that we have done yet, and I cannot wait to go on that journey with you guys. So, if you're not already, hit the subscribe button, and you can join us for the ride.

A quick one before you go, too. We've just put in an order for the new Grail Gallery Mystery Packs version two. You guys loved the last one so much, and I can't believe it's taken us this long to get version two out. But in these packs, we got four booster packs from the Scarlet and Violet era, plus a mystery bonus pack, which is seeded as follows. We've got the Poké Ball tier, which is your minimum guarantee. So, you're guaranteed at least a Sword and Shield era pack. Things like, uh, Brilliant Stars, Evolving Skies if you get lucky, things like that. The Great Ball tier, which is one in five, and that gets you a Sun and Moon era pack. Uh, we had Team Up in there last time, Hidden Fates, and all the other favorites. The Ultra Ball tier, which is 1 in 10, that gets you an X and Y era pack. So things like Evolutions, Primal Clash, really cool packs like that. And finally, the Master Ball tier, which is the big one. That gets you a guaranteed what's pack, which is sick. So things like Base Set we had last time, Base Set 2, Fossil, Jungle, there are really big ones in there. We had a load of fun with these last time when we sold these.

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