So for those who don’t know there was a couple of signing events and tons of info flowing around them today, and I will be addressing the other con and a couple minor discrepancies tomorrow. Thank you everyone who pointed that out, and that doesn’t change the ton of the video. The same thing happened both places as I will show you 🙏🏽
Well said, makes me so sad to hear artists being taken advantage like this with all the kindness and hard work they put in. 100% agree on folks doing this for money instead of the love of the games/cards/art/etc.
The first signatures of legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki fetched up to 500,000 yen at auction. When he caught word of this, he vowed to never sign any more memorabilia. The only exception he made was at a childrens hospital for victims of the Tohoku earthquake where, in his eyes, the sold signatures would be used by children who he knew would use the money to help better their lives. It’s disgusting to see how people are trying to squeeze every last penny out of the hobby.
Jesus. These people are sick. I met Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo’s Japanese voice actor) at Otakon a few months ago, and he signed a secret rare Dragon Ball Super card of Piccolo & Gohan from the new movie that’s worth $200 for me. I had him personalize it and he wrote “let’s go, Gohan!” on it in Japanese. I NEVER intended to resell it, and it has been on display on my nightstand since I got back from the convention. It’s one of my prized possessions and my favorite card in my entire collection. So many of these people lack any kind of compassion or true care for the hobby, and end up poisoning the well for others who genuinely love it.
It’s obvious who it is too, because the money signs are in their damn eyeballs when they talk about it man… they wear it on their sleeves and tongue 👀 thank you homie 🙏🏽
I was in the General Admission line all day that day. I will say, from what I was able to observe personally, what you describe in the video is mostly accurate. I especially feel embarassed about the fans who tried to cut in line, cheat the convention by scalping fast passes, and even chanting and shouting at other fans in line. It was a really sad day. These kinds of events shouldn't be 'pay to profit' opportunities. I was one of the few in the GA line who managed to wait it out and get a signature after they expedited the process, and I am grateful for the opportunity, but I'll probably never do something like this again unless an event organizer can nerf the monetary incentives that allow for these things to occur, and the fans culturally no longer put up with those who would solely profit from these signings. I believe for the most part, Arita put the date of the signature on the cards he signed, so if you see the '17.9.22' timestamp, do the fandom a favor by not buying those cards on ebay or anywhere else. Don't support these autograph flippers.
The whole event seems crazy. I'd be pissed I saw people cutting in line. Hopefully one day I have the chance to meet Komiya, I've started collecting his cards because of how trippy and psychedelic they are.
Komiya would be an awesome one! The event was apparently worse than even I reported on so I feel bad for the good homies who were just chilling there… thank ya 🙏🏽
Happy 69!!!! But dear lord people can be so rude and scummy. They forget someone is a human when they want something from them. I’ve experienced this on a MUCH SMALLER scale. Can’t wait for the follow up; that look in your eyes when you said you know who these people are OMG
Congratulations on hitting 2K Bud! The lines at events like these to meet people can be ridiculously long. Definitely experienced that at the 2 Collect-a-cons we went to this year. My son got his Pikachu hat signed by Jason Paige and we’d never sell it because it holds a very special memory. Shameful that people are doing this. Great video!
Good to know how to identify the fake Arita & Saitou “fans”. thanks Opossum 🤭 Pokemon events should keep the personalized signature policy to make it obvious who’s there for the artists’ work.
I'm guessing Gary is being dethroned. Who gives a flying piglet what Gary says now seeing most of his other projects are all failing. It's good to have the artists enthusiastic about the fans but there were probably more of sellers there instead. Now artists are being harassed for signatures to get some money before the hype dies down. What a shameful and disrespect. Hope Arita does not get pissed off and not do signatures anymore. The event organizers should learn from this and have better security checks.
Gary is kinda yesterdays news, but the things I feel that were said about artists in that time ring loud and clear now personally 🫤 if that harassment is true that’s fucked 😡 appreciate ya tuning in man truly
My favorite is making the card out "to trainer" to make is as generic as possible for resale XD and then they write the words in Japanese so you not tell its made out to anyone specific
Exactly, the best arita signatures are the ones with his name and sketch alone. Once I see a personalization or date I instantly know it’s not worth it.
2019: Pokémon cards with signatures are a thing? 2022: Pokemon cards with signatures is EasyMoney and my family needs them now! The struggle is Real!, Great post 🤝🏼 as always.
These people are absolutely goofy as heck! I don't understand the lack of respect from some "community" members... another great video from the greatest possum!💯🙌🏼
Wild that it's been 69 already 🤯 also not surprised about a lot of this unfortunately. Super disrespectful and this is the kind of stuff that kills a creator's drive
There's always gotta be people taking advantage of situations like this...just sad man. 🤦♂️ Can't wait to see those pop up on eBay just to prove how wack these fools are🤣
I am fine about reselling but don't try to surpass the limit of autographs rule. Personally, I will have 1 to display in frame, 1 in a safe, and possibly 1 for sale.
I agree with a lot that you said but as someone who has made my personalization out to as "to collector" I don't think that devaluing makes any sense by restricting personalization to only names besides limiting demand. Those cards are gonna outlive all of us. If you don't care fine but why not have your cake and eat it too down the line if you ever sell your collection?
It was personalized to keep that mindset out… to combat reselling, but people just wiped it off. This eating of cake is fine, but it’s what people are willing to do to get the cake that’s awful
Ty for putting this video out and blasting these people... I live in ocala and stood in like from 10am until 7:30 that night and had to be given a ticket to come back and get a spot in line... and yes we stood there forever and the line never moved watching vip going over and over and brought it up to securities attention but nothing happened. Hopefully if he comes again it can be better ran, but again I'm glad you made the video showing how people f**ked people actually getting their meaningful cards signed!!!!
Scalpers, speculators, and greedy con artists, love to come in and ruin hobbies for their self interest gains. Same thing is happening/happened with retro games. The sad part is the people who ACTUALLY love collecting to OWN and have a piece of history are the ones who get fucked.
Happy I went to Ocala on Sunday it was much more chill and well organized. Got in at 10:45 with VIP and with the fast pass waited around 2 and a half hours for 2 cards to be signed instead of 3, which is what I paid for. Im a little annoyed with the organizers tbh because the VIP tickets were sold out when I first heard about the event a couple weeks ago. Then they reopened the VIP pass sales up until Thursday or Friday of THIS week which allowed them to oversell the shit out of those tickets. Gunna keep it real bro If I had been able to get 3 cards signed, I would have probably tried to sell one to help cover the ticket price and gas expenses etc, but I literally can’t bring myself to sell the cards I got signed after meeting the legend and watching him put a sketch on my expedition box topper and I’m sure ALOT of people feel the same way even if they had the intention of flipping before they went. The Day 1 fuckery was sad to hear about and kinda ruined it for the rest of the people in the line and the next day but also a lot of this is on the event not the attendees for the most part. Allowing the same access to perks for a $40 vs $250 ticket is kinda insane to me. If general admission was allowed 1 signed card I doubt it would’ve been such a shit show and a lot more people could have had a chance to meet him and enjoy his work on the cheap. Thoughts?
This makes me so sad. i heard about it on instagram (they had left with no signatures) but didn't realize it was so bad. I would love to get one of my cards signed.
Don't get me wrong I feel bad for the others that couldn't get the card signatures but I feel awful for what Mitsuhiro had to go through and at the very end was the most disrespectful thing I've ever heard and I'm willing to place a bet it was the same people that were so greedy to get even more signatures
Lets talk about how people in line already knew he wasn’t going to sign blank cards but still tried to present it to Mitsuhiro thinking they would get away with it. Tasteless vultures
Autograph collectors most of the time i find annoying. I don’t even pay attention when these events will be but I always know because outta nowhere I see people buying cards that are by one illustrator. People that I have never seen them even mention an illustrator ever now they want cards by them. When I got into the hobby years ago I was so innocent 😅 i always got happy seeing people talk about the artists and after time you notice how some only do it if there’s an event happening. I hate the vibes that they give off, is all about getting the value and the autograph more than actually appreciating the art and the artists.
It straight up is more value than the artist, people last year didn’t say this stuff. In fact they laughed at people valuing the artists signature 🫤 just crazy how money changes it all
@@OpossumBud yeah and even with the people who are fans of an illustrator but they never post anything about it, with them I’m like you try to show more appreciation/support to them and it does not only have to be when they do these Events. By only mention something about the illustrator when they do these evens is inviting people to just mention them when they can provide more to your cards other than the amazing artwork they already made.
@@OpossumBud also the personalized Things I hate how people are doing that and I have seen it before. Back in 2019 I remember that you can send stuff to Yuka morii to get autograph and I saw a few that where like “To Pikachu” on a Pikachu card. Illustrators are too nice because I would be like you trying to be a smartass so no autograph for you 🤬
Another funny one to look into is the super duper Danny. She did videos where she trades a coin all the way up to like vintage packs from what I remember. Including Signatures from you guessed it. It's so silly. I don't know how she thought that was ok. Also obviously there's cameras around whether you know her or not... People will easily flex more and let themselves get robbed to advertise themselves.
Oh yeah I’ve seen that one for sure! It’s goofy as hell and dumb but I’d only be poking light fun at that 😂 it’s a flex a con for sure for her though lol
@@OpossumBud Yeah it was cool just she got a free signature from Sarah. I think it would have been nicer to her fans if it was a little bit more realistic. I definitely like the Idea though fo sho.
it really is a shame! i would be so happy to have one of my cards signed by a legend for my collection! would wake up everyday looking at my signed card and start smiling!
These folks need a trade school application, community college, apprenticeship, or need to serve in the military. If your life decisions led you to flipping TCGs, you’re down horrendously bad. If you got mad at that then we both know you’re just mad at yourself. I dont mean if you own a business. I mean if you are camping out hard body and buying up everything and selling it at “market”. Go back to flipping sneakers. As always good stuff bro🤙🏻
Trade school is what a lot of these soft handed people need 😂 can easily tell they don’t know what actual work is if they think standing in line is the hardest thing they ever did to make money lol
Saitou was at Baltimore, where Regionals took place. Ocala (where Arita was) was just a regular convention. Great video, I wasn't aware of what happened with the Arita event.
So I just checked my stuff, I got a bit confused at first because the same thing happened in both places, like almost identical stories. I’ll address this in tomorrows video and thanks for pointing that out, just the events almost mirrored each other 🤯
honeslty only in pokemon have i ever heard of getting an auto graph with a To: on it i understand the personalization part but in any other signing like jerseys or books or just anything really most celebrities just sign their name and that is all so to be mad at people who wouldnt want it made out to anything is silly a pokemon card is like collection a poster i wouldnt want it to say to: my name im getting it signed for the celebrity not me.
Omfg I would love him to sign my charizard I’ve had it since I was a kid and have my daughter meet a living legend get her a auto on her face card too omg I’m so jellous of people who blew that shit just to flip for profit so lucky to even meet him and him take the time out he could be doing such better things with his time but he knows how much his art does mean…this is such a bummer has there ever been a event like this in St. Louis Missouri or Comic-Con? Never been but would love to go and kick it just to see what f I see someone interesting to get a auto…I’d Carry a Polaroid like back in the day and beg for a pic and them sign it before it even develops lol…I wish people didn’t fallow him to his hotel tho it will make him think twice about attending more events in the same area :(
I live a hour away from there didn’t go was at something else in town but I know a few of my ppls got there zard signed I’m not to impress not really a fan of getting Pokémon stuff signed but yeah
Please there needs to be a follow up video there was so much more that went down. Overall a great time like a good pizza just a few anchovies here and there trying to ruin it.
Love the content keep the game going 👏 btw you need new 🎤 😁 get this guy a go fund me account so can do something about all this crap going on. Keep the light on the darkness I'm loving it 😀
Why even put the name of the character lol. They should just have his name that's it. Not flip it yet keep it for my own collection which will be more valuable to me.
If you HAVE to make money from autographs, you could do a more honest approach and be a middle man for people who WANT a personalized autograph from their favorite artist but can't go do it themselves, so you provide a service and someone gets a signed card they genuinely want. This sly "To Pokémon on the Card" so they could flip is so chicken shit man.
Hey just wanted to add. Sarah natochenny. She ruined an event that was in New Jersey. I spoke to a veteran that runs shows like that. She was overcharging for signatures. The guy I asked had some terminology he used but I can't remember. It's something similar along the lines of. "She flushed the whole place out" meaning I guess he's seen that before where someone charges a really high signature price and it kills the vibe. Her prices were like $150-$300 for most cards. It was hard to get a card that was a $100 signature in her opinion. I passed on it. I thought it was absurd.
$150-$300???? What the actual hell is that price? 😳 I bet it flushed people out it kills peoples mood and morale 😡 I will look into that thank you dude 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud You're welcome it's facts and I could back it up. Some of my friends paid I think $150 or something can vouch. The Card show like shut down like 3 hours early. It was lively at first. I think some people were telling us that she started raising the prices quickly.
Lol... you realize all celebrities have agents that work with shows and those shows have price guarantees? And if those guarantees aren't met, the show pays the remainder? It's not Sarah inflating those prices, you dummkopf.
Dude. I sold my friend a Beckett Eevee slab, she went to go get it signed and Natochenny was like OHHH WHAT IS THIS?! I don't know but 200$ PLEASE. So like she'll charge what she thinks is fair when you bring her a card. Legit, if you want stories, I got one 😂
@@Bobertbleh That's so messed up. Yeah I know opossum Bud believes me on this one. but yeah I told him that it's so easy to prove it. My friends could vouch for it too It was messed up. Thanks for confirming this.
I try to see the best in people but WHAT IN THE BLEEP BLOOP?! Who attempts to follow an already hard working exhausted man to his room? I love a lot of Saitou and Arita's work, just makes me sad when people take advantage and don't truly appreciate the artist.
That’s always a shame, and the events at both signing events mimic each other, but now it seems Baltimore might’ve been worse… I’ll discuss it tomorrow and thanks for tuning in 🙏🏽
This is so sad. I would love to just meet Saito or Arita or Sugimori. Getting a card signed by them and personalized to me or my son would put us over the moon! The way these people think they can treat the artists like robots is insane. This is one of those things you hate to see in the community. Nice video though Opossum 🤘
Yeah I hate doing this about something that should be a blast but hey…. People, staff, and venue failed, but not the artist. He tried his best. Thank you truly man 🙏🏽
As an artist myself, this is fucking disgusting. Thank you for bringing this to light and calling out these leeches. Looking forward to the next video. I can hear in the voice of Gary Oldman, an altered speech, "Because he's the hero Pokemon deserves, the one it needs right now. So, the fakes will hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's our hero: He's not a silent guardian, but a watchful protector... a Dark Knight"... AKA BATMAN NOIVERN! ✌💀
Noivern is the homie and he for sure can take it! What an awesome speech! And as an artist yourself I hope you never deal with this garbage… thank you 🙏🏽
Yeah it’s very funny how fast that changes when the money follows with it. Like I said a lot of people there were having fun, but some people were not 👀
😎 happy 69th! And yeah this event was very messy. However, I don't agree with what you said about people wanting signed cards without personalization just wanting to flip. I think plenty of collectors just think it looks cleaner having his name rather than his name + yours. Especially with cards being so small and the personalization taking up a decent amount of space. I got my Arita card made out to my name, but a buddy of mine got a Duskull card made out to the Japanese name of that Pokemon because he's a Duskull collector and thought the Japanese kanji would look nicer than his name I suppose. He's not a flipper, it was just his preference for his collection. And about the guy talking about how autos should be worth decent amounts. I don't know the guy but I did repost that on my IG haha. I think me and you just took his words differently. Recently I've seen allot of people seemingly grossed out by autos being worth any amount more than raw cards because it's just "ink on cardboard" or whatever. I took that person's story as them kinda defending autos being worth a little more because people actually want them and these events have not been easy for many people to get what they want signed. I didn't take it as him complaining and feeling obligated to go just to make money. But maybe I'm wrong and misunderstood what he was saying, if so that's my bad. No disrespect to the artists, they're what comes first with these events. Sorry for the wall of text lmao, just a discussion I'm very interested. Appreciate the video as always even if we disagree on a few things!
So I disagree with the personalization thing. You might like the clean look of it but I’m telling you, most people here want it less personal to flip it. I’m sorry but to blastoise is just not what someone will do if they want the card genuinely. And secondly, a year ago people told average collectors signatures didn’t mean anything and that they add nothing to the card, to the point where it divided our community and made average collectors feel artists weren’t valued. I appreciate your feedback but since I have two events that almost mimic each other, I can safely say people want to have less personalized to flip. 🤷🏽♂️ I’m glad you and the good folks don’t and just like cleaner looks but you also made a video to show people how to remove signatures to sell and restore the cards. I unfortunately can’t look at that and not think you’re playing to the value strengths. No offense and thank you for the feedback 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud That’s fair. I do think people getting a bunch of charizards signed “to ash” and stuff like that are planning to flip but I just don’t think it’s everyone who does it. Some definitely yes, but certainly not all in my opinion. And yes I did make a video on removing personalizations, but my intentions weren’t to show people how to remove them so they could sell them for more. As I said in that video, unfortunately some people may use it for that reason and I can’t stop them. I was hesitant to put that video out but spoke to some members of the community to get their takes before I released it and ultimately I decided it was best. Basically I thought the pros out weighted the cons. The truth is people have been / were going to do that regardless of my video, and many buyers didn’t think it was possible. I had heard multiple times it wasn’t possible to remove marker from the card once it dried. The main goal of my video was to show the massive amount of new people entering the autograph market, this is easily possible and don’t over pay on non-personalized stuff. And to also show people who just want non-personalized stuff for their collection how to do so. Basically I thought the pro of warning the new buyers was worth the con of some bad apples using my tutorial for bad business practices. I take no offense and appreciate any constructive feedback or criticisms. It’s no hard feelings here and I hope the same to you. I understand if you didn’t like my video or thought it was in bad taste, but I hope you can at least see where I was coming from when I made it
It’s not that I don’t like your video, I just think your video will enable and promote bad practices here, especially with altered cards circulating here. I don’t personally think you are the problem here, but it can’t be overlooked that some people will use that and the non personalized autos with Pokémon and ash on them to make money and flip unfairly 🤷🏽♂️
Honestly as someone who has some “valuable cards” now, I’d be 100% alright with the crash. I didn’t buy them or open for money or clout, just for fun… miss 2018-2019 times in Pokémon for real
This morning seeing all the flexs with signed cards on my feed with them being written out to Blastoise and BS like that was pretty whack. I still remember that king Pokemon vid where he dissed the signature and allllll of a sudden now the signature is worth it. Those type of people are complete twats
Legit messed up. I feel bad for Arita because these people definitely could give two craps about his art or his autograph, it’s just about making a quick buck. I also think that because the market has gone down, autos are just a way for these “poke elites” to inflate prices.
those types of people are "investors" el oh el. It's all a tactic for fame and fortune. Some people actually appreciate Arita and some just lowkey using his "unique" signature for their own purposes. i def agreed with you, if ima get something signed im def asking TO (my name), to Charmander just sounds sketchy, time will tell tho. if you see those cards for sell somewhere ..well then..🤣
There are some people who don’t like the personalized signature or the more personalized I get that… but to Blastoise? Nah fam that’s to flip 😂 appreciate that homie 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud that’s what I’m saying!!! this is why I’m slowly moving to weiss cards. I’ll take a SINGLE machine printed signature of the artist/voice actor and I’m floored happy. (but also, I can’t escape the flippers high values on anything signed) 😂 but at least it’s less toxic.
So for those who don’t know there was a couple of signing events and tons of info flowing around them today, and I will be addressing the other con and a couple minor discrepancies tomorrow. Thank you everyone who pointed that out, and that doesn’t change the ton of the video. The same thing happened both places as I will show you 🙏🏽
Well said, makes me so sad to hear artists being taken advantage like this with all the kindness and hard work they put in. 100% agree on folks doing this for money instead of the love of the games/cards/art/etc.
Not all but definitely the shady ones using Pokémon names and cutting in line, and god forbid following people back to hotels 🫤 thank you 🙏🏽
The first signatures of legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki fetched up to 500,000 yen at auction.
When he caught word of this, he vowed to never sign any more memorabilia. The only exception he made was at a childrens hospital for victims of the Tohoku earthquake where, in his eyes, the sold signatures would be used by children who he knew would use the money to help better their lives.
It’s disgusting to see how people are trying to squeeze every last penny out of the hobby.
Jesus. These people are sick. I met Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo’s Japanese voice actor) at Otakon a few months ago, and he signed a secret rare Dragon Ball Super card of Piccolo & Gohan from the new movie that’s worth $200 for me. I had him personalize it and he wrote “let’s go, Gohan!” on it in Japanese. I NEVER intended to resell it, and it has been on display on my nightstand since I got back from the convention. It’s one of my prized possessions and my favorite card in my entire collection.
So many of these people lack any kind of compassion or true care for the hobby, and end up poisoning the well for others who genuinely love it.
It’s obvious who it is too, because the money signs are in their damn eyeballs when they talk about it man… they wear it on their sleeves and tongue 👀 thank you homie 🙏🏽
I was in the General Admission line all day that day. I will say, from what I was able to observe personally, what you describe in the video is mostly accurate. I especially feel embarassed about the fans who tried to cut in line, cheat the convention by scalping fast passes, and even chanting and shouting at other fans in line. It was a really sad day.
These kinds of events shouldn't be 'pay to profit' opportunities. I was one of the few in the GA line who managed to wait it out and get a signature after they expedited the process, and I am grateful for the opportunity, but I'll probably never do something like this again unless an event organizer can nerf the monetary incentives that allow for these things to occur, and the fans culturally no longer put up with those who would solely profit from these signings.
I believe for the most part, Arita put the date of the signature on the cards he signed, so if you see the '17.9.22' timestamp, do the fandom a favor by not buying those cards on ebay or anywhere else. Don't support these autograph flippers.
The whole event seems crazy. I'd be pissed I saw people cutting in line. Hopefully one day I have the chance to meet Komiya, I've started collecting his cards because of how trippy and psychedelic they are.
Tomokazu Komiya 🔥🔥🔥 very trippy indeed!
Komiya would be an awesome one! The event was apparently worse than even I reported on so I feel bad for the good homies who were just chilling there… thank ya 🙏🏽
Happy 69!!!! But dear lord people can be so rude and scummy. They forget someone is a human when they want something from them. I’ve experienced this on a MUCH SMALLER scale. Can’t wait for the follow up; that look in your eyes when you said you know who these people are OMG
I do know who they are 👀 thank you truly and thank you for the super chat again you’re way too kind 😭🙏🏽
I agree Kimmy
Congratulations on hitting 2K Bud! The lines at events like these to meet people can be ridiculously long. Definitely experienced that at the 2 Collect-a-cons we went to this year. My son got his Pikachu hat signed by Jason Paige and we’d never sell it because it holds a very special memory. Shameful that people are doing this. Great video!
Hell yeah I’m glad to hear that and that’s a cool signed piece! Thank you truly 🙏🏽
Good to know how to identify the fake Arita & Saitou “fans”. thanks Opossum 🤭 Pokemon events should keep the personalized signature policy to make it obvious who’s there for the artists’ work.
100% agree, but as we’ve seen people remove it and have been selling on Whatnot and eBay one day after the events 🫤 it’s sad to see personally
I'm guessing Gary is being dethroned. Who gives a flying piglet what Gary says now seeing most of his other projects are all failing. It's good to have the artists enthusiastic about the fans but there were probably more of sellers there instead. Now artists are being harassed for signatures to get some money before the hype dies down. What a shameful and disrespect. Hope Arita does not get pissed off and not do signatures anymore. The event organizers should learn from this and have better security checks.
Gary is kinda yesterdays news, but the things I feel that were said about artists in that time ring loud and clear now personally 🫤 if that harassment is true that’s fucked 😡 appreciate ya tuning in man truly
If you are stalking the artist back to the hotel room, I hope someone holds you down and unsleeves all your holos.
That’s just uncalled for big homie 🫤 like damn let the man rest
My favorite is making the card out "to trainer" to make is as generic as possible for resale XD and then they write the words in Japanese so you not tell its made out to anyone specific
Exactly, the best arita signatures are the ones with his name and sketch alone. Once I see a personalization or date I instantly know it’s not worth it.
Man if I could get him to draw two small pokemon on a card 69ing my life would be complete
I mean 👀👀
One of them has to be gardevoir, though…or both??
Lol
2019: Pokémon cards with signatures are a thing?
2022: Pokemon cards with signatures is EasyMoney and my family needs them now! The struggle is Real!, Great post 🤝🏼 as always.
Realest comment on here honestly 👀
These people are absolutely goofy as heck! I don't understand the lack of respect from some "community" members... another great video from the greatest possum!💯🙌🏼
That’s the thing, no respect for the artist, the cards, or the community anymore. Just money 💰
Opossum Bud for President of the Pokémon Hobby
Wild that it's been 69 already 🤯 also not surprised about a lot of this unfortunately. Super disrespectful and this is the kind of stuff that kills a creator's drive
Dude right I was like no way I’m almost at 70 vids 😳 thank you and it means a lot man 🙏🏽
Starting a GoFundMe to fund a new pair of headphones for OB 😭 (congrats on 2k big dog)
No these are my lucky headphones! 🍀 thank you 🙏🏽
There's always gotta be people taking advantage of situations like this...just sad man. 🤦♂️
Can't wait to see those pop up on eBay just to prove how wack these fools are🤣
They’re already there 🫤
We move further away from Arceus everyday.
You ain’t wrong you aint wrong 🫤
Signings used to fun when the artist would just sign their name. Or The company would print the autographs in gold plating on cards. Good ole days.😎
That sounds better honestly, and back in the day it was more fun, more real fans and less “hustlers”
@@OpossumBud the term collector to used to mean old guys who had good stuff that was old plus rare. Now I feel collecting is saturated with Fluffers.
I am fine about reselling but don't try to surpass the limit of autographs rule. Personally, I will have 1 to display in frame, 1 in a safe, and possibly 1 for sale.
😳😳 they followed him to his hotel? That's not creepy at all.... Selfish Mofos.. great video Bro, keep bringing us the News 🗞️
This sucks man I hope it comes around! Been watching here and there for a while but dam it you got some good vids! Keep ‘em coming man!
Mad appreciate that homie thanks for giving me some of your time 🙏🏽
I agree with a lot that you said but as someone who has made my personalization out to as "to collector" I don't think that devaluing makes any sense by restricting personalization to only names besides limiting demand. Those cards are gonna outlive all of us. If you don't care fine but why not have your cake and eat it too down the line if you ever sell your collection?
It was personalized to keep that mindset out… to combat reselling, but people just wiped it off. This eating of cake is fine, but it’s what people are willing to do to get the cake that’s awful
Ty for putting this video out and blasting these people... I live in ocala and stood in like from 10am until 7:30 that night and had to be given a ticket to come back and get a spot in line... and yes we stood there forever and the line never moved watching vip going over and over and brought it up to securities attention but nothing happened. Hopefully if he comes again it can be better ran, but again I'm glad you made the video showing how people f**ked people actually getting their meaningful cards signed!!!!
That's funny when they add in all these extra things in which one chose to do.
I’m so glad i found this channel
Hur hur Get dat bread 🥯🍞🥖🥐🥨🥪 🚬🧢
Scalpers, speculators, and greedy con artists, love to come in and ruin hobbies for their self interest gains. Same thing is happening/happened with retro games. The sad part is the people who ACTUALLY love collecting to OWN and have a piece of history are the ones who get fucked.
That’s the thing we got so many that love to collect and some that just are here to reap… they blend in sometimes unfortunately 🫤 thank you homie 🙏🏽
Happy I went to Ocala on Sunday it was much more chill and well organized. Got in at 10:45 with VIP and with the fast pass waited around 2 and a half hours for 2 cards to be signed instead of 3, which is what I paid for. Im a little annoyed with the organizers tbh because the VIP tickets were sold out when I first heard about the event a couple weeks ago. Then they reopened the VIP pass sales up until Thursday or Friday of THIS week which allowed them to oversell the shit out of those tickets. Gunna keep it real bro If I had been able to get 3 cards signed, I would have probably tried to sell one to help cover the ticket price and gas expenses etc, but I literally can’t bring myself to sell the cards I got signed after meeting the legend and watching him put a sketch on my expedition box topper and I’m sure ALOT of people feel the same way even if they had the intention of flipping before they went.
The Day 1 fuckery was sad to hear about and kinda ruined it for the rest of the people in the line and the next day but also a lot of this is on the event not the attendees for the most part. Allowing the same access to perks for a $40 vs $250 ticket is kinda insane to me. If general admission was allowed 1 signed card I doubt it would’ve been such a shit show and a lot more people could have had a chance to meet him and enjoy his work on the cheap. Thoughts?
This makes me so sad. i heard about it on instagram (they had left with no signatures) but didn't realize it was so bad. I would love to get one of my cards signed.
That’s ridiculous that people followed him back to his room!! Wtf.
Never called for 😡 give the man his space
Don't get me wrong I feel bad for the others that couldn't get the card signatures but I feel awful for what Mitsuhiro had to go through and at the very end was the most disrespectful thing I've ever heard and I'm willing to place a bet it was the same people that were so greedy to get even more signatures
Yeah if Arita never came back in for sure wouldn’t blame him, following him back is never ok… appreciate the support homie 🙏🏽
This is disgusting behavior. Some people are absolutely shameless! They think the world revolves around them!
Yup seems like they think artists exist purely to make them money and to raise their cards value at will 🫤
The audacity of some people.
Agreed some peoples kids 🫤
Lets talk about how people in line already knew he wasn’t going to sign blank cards but still tried to present it to Mitsuhiro thinking they would get away with it. Tasteless vultures
Autograph collectors most of the time i find annoying. I don’t even pay attention when these events will be but I always know because outta nowhere I see people buying cards that are by one illustrator. People that I have never seen them even mention an illustrator ever now they want cards by them. When I got into the hobby years ago I was so innocent 😅 i always got happy seeing people talk about the artists and after time you notice how some only do it if there’s an event happening. I hate the vibes that they give off, is all about getting the value and the autograph more than actually appreciating the art and the artists.
It straight up is more value than the artist, people last year didn’t say this stuff. In fact they laughed at people valuing the artists signature 🫤 just crazy how money changes it all
@@OpossumBud yeah and even with the people who are fans of an illustrator but they never post anything about it, with them I’m like you try to show more appreciation/support to them and it does not only have to be when they do these Events. By only mention something about the illustrator when they do these evens is inviting people to just mention them when they can provide more to your cards other than the amazing artwork they already made.
@@OpossumBud also the personalized Things I hate how people are doing that and I have seen it before. Back in 2019 I remember that you can send stuff to Yuka morii to get autograph and I saw a few that where like “To Pikachu” on a Pikachu card. Illustrators are too nice because I would be like you trying to be a smartass so no autograph for you 🤬
Could've gotten an okacheke autograph
Or a sowsow
Wasn’t there 😭
The new Arita autos with the dates and personalization look stupid honestly. Nothing beats the older English Arita sig and zard head only autos.
You spoke no lies
Thank you truly gurl and you already know 😎🙏🏽
Another funny one to look into is the super duper Danny. She did videos where she trades a coin all the way up to like vintage packs from what I remember. Including Signatures from you guessed it.
It's so silly. I don't know how she thought that was ok. Also obviously there's cameras around whether you know her or not... People will easily flex more and let themselves get robbed to advertise themselves.
Oh yeah I’ve seen that one for sure! It’s goofy as hell and dumb but I’d only be poking light fun at that 😂 it’s a flex a con for sure for her though lol
@@OpossumBud Yeah it was cool just she got a free signature from Sarah. I think it would have been nicer to her fans if it was a little bit more realistic.
I definitely like the Idea though fo sho.
when r u gonna show us your collection bro
Thanks for raising awareness to these blatantly disrespectful and abhorrent “fans”. This kind of behavior is not warranted in our hobby and fandom.
You’re welcome and I’m here for you, this isn’t acceptable I agree 😡
OH-KALUH 🤣
I’m convinced y’all just are saying the city wrong 😂
it really is a shame! i would be so happy to have one of my cards signed by a legend for my collection! would wake up everyday looking at my signed card and start smiling!
These folks need a trade school application, community college, apprenticeship, or need to serve in the military. If your life decisions led you to flipping TCGs, you’re down horrendously bad. If you got mad at that then we both know you’re just mad at yourself. I dont mean if you own a business. I mean if you are camping out hard body and buying up everything and selling it at “market”. Go back to flipping sneakers.
As always good stuff bro🤙🏻
Trade school is what a lot of these soft handed people need 😂 can easily tell they don’t know what actual work is if they think standing in line is the hardest thing they ever did to make money lol
Pull out a 100 dollar bill for the artist and you will get what you wanted signed. Florida is full of greedy ass people. Great video my dude.
Saitou was at Baltimore, where Regionals took place. Ocala (where Arita was) was just a regular convention. Great video, I wasn't aware of what happened with the Arita event.
Yeah I realized I said that after the fact, you right big dawg 👍🏽
@@OpossumBud the Saitou event was a shit show too. Keep up the good work 👍
So I just checked my stuff, I got a bit confused at first because the same thing happened in both places, like almost identical stories. I’ll address this in tomorrows video and thanks for pointing that out, just the events almost mirrored each other 🤯
The way you pronounce ocala lmaoo😂
oh-KAL-e 😅
Real shit though bro it’s fucked up that they got Arita to write “To Blastoise” on a Blastoise card 😞😞
Yeah I can read Blastoise on a card in Japanese but I can’t pronounce city names 😂 yeah man I thought it was ass personally 🫤
You are a lot of fun to watch! 😂 Subbed for sure!
Thank you truly and glad I was worth your time 🙏🏽 I’ll try to keep that up!
people are only in it for the money man and its really sad
honeslty only in pokemon have i ever heard of getting an auto graph with a To: on it i understand the personalization part but in any other signing like jerseys or books or just anything really most celebrities just sign their name and that is all so to be mad at people who wouldnt want it made out to anything is silly a pokemon card is like collection a poster i wouldnt want it to say to: my name im getting it signed for the celebrity not me.
The more you sign.. just cheapens .the man..
Can’t wait to see these signed cards on Liquid Marketplace 🤣🤣🤣
Following anyone after a show is some creep shit smh
Man I wish I could have gone
Absolutely infuriating
👏👏👏on point dude, well said!
Thank you truly friend 😁🙏🏽
Omfg I would love him to sign my charizard I’ve had it since I was a kid and have my daughter meet a living legend get her a auto on her face card too omg I’m so jellous of people who blew that shit just to flip for profit so lucky to even meet him and him take the time out he could be doing such better things with his time but he knows how much his art does mean…this is such a bummer has there ever been a event like this in St. Louis Missouri or Comic-Con? Never been but would love to go and kick it just to see what f I see someone interesting to get a auto…I’d Carry a Polaroid like back in the day and beg for a pic and them sign it before it even develops lol…I wish people didn’t fallow him to his hotel tho it will make him think twice about attending more events in the same area :(
Yeah following him to his hotel is just awful, ever called for… thank you 🙏🏽
I live a hour away from there didn’t go was at something else in town but I know a few of my ppls got there zard signed I’m not to impress not really a fan of getting Pokémon stuff signed but yeah
Please there needs to be a follow up video there was so much more that went down. Overall a great time like a good pizza just a few anchovies here and there trying to ruin it.
1yr later.......
Turns out to be the dude making this video 😅
Rock on!! This info needs to be told! Just subbed to ya too
Keen on the 2 parter
Looking forward to you putting them on blast lol
Oh it’s coming my man it’s coming 👀
Reason why I don't get anything signed unless it's a Funko Pop can't deal with our toxic ass community.
Most of us are just trying to get by too it’s then rotten few ruining it for everyone… let me find out who was following people to their hotel rooms 😡
Nice video man, way to get on those pieces of s%*%t. I just started collecting a month ago and people like that are gonna get me off this hobby.
Omg look it’s not moist critikal
OMG look it’s a comment!
man baltimore sucked too ngl
Yeah I heard man 🫤
@@OpossumBud dms open if you need clarification for a potential pt 2, i was there for almost all of it
Actual 69th.... Nice.
Like legit 👀
Congrats on #69.
Thank you truly big dawg 🙏🏽
Wooooooo
For real though 👀
Nice 🤓
Nice 🏅
Love the content keep the game going 👏 btw you need new 🎤 😁 get this guy a go fund me account so can do something about all this crap going on. Keep the light on the darkness I'm loving it 😀
Why even put the name of the character lol. They should just have his name that's it. Not flip it yet keep it for my own collection which will be more valuable to me.
Can’t wait for part 2
If you HAVE to make money from autographs, you could do a more honest approach and be a middle man for people who WANT a personalized autograph from their favorite artist but can't go do it themselves, so you provide a service and someone gets a signed card they genuinely want. This sly "To Pokémon on the Card" so they could flip is so chicken shit man.
Hey just wanted to add. Sarah natochenny.
She ruined an event that was in New Jersey.
I spoke to a veteran that runs shows like that.
She was overcharging for signatures.
The guy I asked had some terminology he used but I can't remember. It's something similar along the lines of. "She flushed the whole place out" meaning I guess he's seen that before where someone charges a really high signature price and it kills the vibe.
Her prices were like $150-$300 for most cards.
It was hard to get a card that was a $100 signature in her opinion.
I passed on it. I thought it was absurd.
$150-$300???? What the actual hell is that price? 😳 I bet it flushed people out it kills peoples mood and morale 😡 I will look into that thank you dude 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud You're welcome it's facts and I could back it up. Some of my friends paid I think $150 or something can vouch.
The Card show like shut down like 3 hours early. It was lively at first.
I think some people were telling us that she started raising the prices quickly.
Lol... you realize all celebrities have agents that work with shows and those shows have price guarantees? And if those guarantees aren't met, the show pays the remainder? It's not Sarah inflating those prices, you dummkopf.
Dude. I sold my friend a Beckett Eevee slab, she went to go get it signed and Natochenny was like OHHH WHAT IS THIS?! I don't know but 200$ PLEASE. So like she'll charge what she thinks is fair when you bring her a card. Legit, if you want stories, I got one 😂
@@Bobertbleh That's so messed up. Yeah I know opossum Bud believes me on this one. but yeah I told him that it's so easy to prove it. My friends could vouch for it too It was messed up.
Thanks for confirming this.
signatures should not be worth more maybe even less imo its funny some one cares that much about it to pay more kind of sad really
I try to see the best in people but WHAT IN THE BLEEP BLOOP?! Who attempts to follow an already hard working exhausted man to his room? I love a lot of Saitou and Arita's work, just makes me sad when people take advantage and don't truly appreciate the artist.
That’s always a shame, and the events at both signing events mimic each other, but now it seems Baltimore might’ve been worse… I’ll discuss it tomorrow and thanks for tuning in 🙏🏽
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We hustlin out here
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Making that bread baby 🤑
This is so sad. I would love to just meet Saito or Arita or Sugimori. Getting a card signed by them and personalized to me or my son would put us over the moon! The way these people think they can treat the artists like robots is insane. This is one of those things you hate to see in the community. Nice video though Opossum 🤘
Yeah I hate doing this about something that should be a blast but hey…. People, staff, and venue failed, but not the artist. He tried his best. Thank you truly man 🙏🏽
Poor Arita 😔😞I would love to just say hello to him. Horrible how fans are treating his time
I went to an Arita signing once! He’s such a nice guy - I got him to write my personalized one “to fatboy” 😂 I’ll never sell that thing
That’s sick and I’m happy you has that experience man! Dude is super nice and it’s a shame how some of that played out 🫤
You a real one bro, the trash that have him wrote to trainer, Charizard, or some other crap can choke on a pp.
Gonna be hard to get autos going forward I think
I think so too unfortunately, they won’t want to come back
As an artist myself, this is fucking disgusting. Thank you for bringing this to light and calling out these leeches. Looking forward to the next video. I can hear in the voice of Gary Oldman, an altered speech, "Because he's the hero Pokemon deserves, the one it needs right now. So, the fakes will hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's our hero: He's not a silent guardian, but a watchful protector... a Dark Knight"... AKA BATMAN NOIVERN!
✌💀
Noivern is the homie and he for sure can take it! What an awesome speech! And as an artist yourself I hope you never deal with this garbage… thank you 🙏🏽
They definitely didnt care a year ago now all of a sudden its worth it 🤦🏻. I would of been hype to have my name signed
Yeah it’s very funny how fast that changes when the money follows with it. Like I said a lot of people there were having fun, but some people were not 👀
Thats crazy man. These flippers ruin it for the people who actually went for the experience
😎 happy 69th! And yeah this event was very messy.
However, I don't agree with what you said about people wanting signed cards without personalization just wanting to flip. I think plenty of collectors just think it looks cleaner having his name rather than his name + yours. Especially with cards being so small and the personalization taking up a decent amount of space. I got my Arita card made out to my name, but a buddy of mine got a Duskull card made out to the Japanese name of that Pokemon because he's a Duskull collector and thought the Japanese kanji would look nicer than his name I suppose.
He's not a flipper, it was just his preference for his collection.
And about the guy talking about how autos should be worth decent amounts. I don't know the guy but I did repost that on my IG haha. I think me and you just took his words differently. Recently I've seen allot of people seemingly grossed out by autos being worth any amount more than raw cards because it's just "ink on cardboard" or whatever. I took that person's story as them kinda defending autos being worth a little more because people actually want them and these events have not been easy for many people to get what they want signed. I didn't take it as him complaining and feeling obligated to go just to make money. But maybe I'm wrong and misunderstood what he was saying, if so that's my bad. No disrespect to the artists, they're what comes first with these events.
Sorry for the wall of text lmao, just a discussion I'm very interested. Appreciate the video as always even if we disagree on a few things!
So I disagree with the personalization thing. You might like the clean look of it but I’m telling you, most people here want it less personal to flip it. I’m sorry but to blastoise is just not what someone will do if they want the card genuinely.
And secondly, a year ago people told average collectors signatures didn’t mean anything and that they add nothing to the card, to the point where it divided our community and made average collectors feel artists weren’t valued.
I appreciate your feedback but since I have two events that almost mimic each other, I can safely say people want to have less personalized to flip. 🤷🏽♂️ I’m glad you and the good folks don’t and just like cleaner looks but you also made a video to show people how to remove signatures to sell and restore the cards. I unfortunately can’t look at that and not think you’re playing to the value strengths. No offense and thank you for the feedback 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud
That’s fair. I do think people getting a bunch of charizards signed “to ash” and stuff like that are planning to flip but I just don’t think it’s everyone who does it. Some definitely yes, but certainly not all in my opinion.
And yes I did make a video on removing personalizations, but my intentions weren’t to show people how to remove them so they could sell them for more.
As I said in that video, unfortunately some people may use it for that reason and I can’t stop them. I was hesitant to put that video out but spoke to some members of the community to get their takes before I released it and ultimately I decided it was best. Basically I thought the pros out weighted the cons. The truth is people have been / were going to do that regardless of my video, and many buyers didn’t think it was possible. I had heard multiple times it wasn’t possible to remove marker from the card once it dried.
The main goal of my video was to show the massive amount of new people entering the autograph market, this is easily possible and don’t over pay on non-personalized stuff.
And to also show people who just want non-personalized stuff for their collection how to do so.
Basically I thought the pro of warning the new buyers was worth the con of some bad apples using my tutorial for bad business practices.
I take no offense and appreciate any constructive feedback or criticisms. It’s no hard feelings here and I hope the same to you. I understand if you didn’t like my video or thought it was in bad taste, but I hope you can at least see where I was coming from when I made it
It’s not that I don’t like your video, I just think your video will enable and promote bad practices here, especially with altered cards circulating here. I don’t personally think you are the problem here, but it can’t be overlooked that some people will use that and the non personalized autos with Pokémon and ash on them to make money and flip unfairly 🤷🏽♂️
Really wish pokemon cards never got the insane value, so many scumbags in the hobby solely for the money aspect, makes me sad
Honestly as someone who has some “valuable cards” now, I’d be 100% alright with the crash. I didn’t buy them or open for money or clout, just for fun… miss 2018-2019 times in Pokémon for real
This morning seeing all the flexs with signed cards on my feed with them being written out to Blastoise and BS like that was pretty whack. I still remember that king Pokemon vid where he dissed the signature and allllll of a sudden now the signature is worth it. Those type of people are complete twats
And the next day you see Ig sales and Whatnot sales and eBay listings 🫤
Bro you can sign my Noivern V Alt Art any time we ever meet
Happily do it for you man but you don’t want my sig 😂
Greed? In THIS hobby? Color me shocked.
Yeah I know it’s crazy right?? 👀
Unfortunately scalpers are everywhere.
Everywhere and pretending to be everything unfortunately 🫤
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Thank you truly and welcome aboard 🙏🏽
Legit messed up. I feel bad for Arita because these people definitely could give two craps about his art or his autograph, it’s just about making a quick buck. I also think that because the market has gone down, autos are just a way for these “poke elites” to inflate prices.
Same man Arita didn’t deserve that garbage and the things people do to make their cash is pretty messed up 🫤 thank you truly 🙏🏽
Damn man this is messed up. Good work putting this out there. Can't wait for more on this.
Thank you for tuning in and I got more coming soon! 🙏🏽
On point as usual. Gonna start a go fund me to get our boy opossum a new microphone.
Nah that’s my lucky mic!! 🍀
those types of people are "investors" el oh el. It's all a tactic for fame and fortune. Some people actually appreciate Arita and some just lowkey using his "unique" signature for their own purposes. i def agreed with you, if ima get something signed im def asking TO (my name), to Charmander just sounds sketchy, time will tell tho. if you see those cards for sell somewhere ..well then..🤣
There are some people who don’t like the personalized signature or the more personalized I get that… but to Blastoise? Nah fam that’s to flip 😂 appreciate that homie 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud that’s what I’m saying!!! this is why I’m slowly moving to weiss cards. I’ll take a SINGLE machine printed signature of the artist/voice actor and I’m floored happy. (but also, I can’t escape the flippers high values on anything signed) 😂 but at least it’s less toxic.
Saitou was not at Ocala lmao
Pinned comment and next video addressed this 😂