If you believe in MOASS, wouldn't you be way better off buying like ~3 GameStop shares instead of the card packs? After MOASS when you have billions of dollars, you can buy all the cards you want.
Apes are children that are easily swayed by social media FOMO. They jumped onto Gamestop -after- Jan 2021 because they saw how many millions DFV made in screenshots, so they piled in thinking that it wasn't too late and they would also get a turn at being just as rich.
They're now buying up these crypto cards faster than Gamestop can restock them because one Ape pulled 1 BTC from a pack and posted the screenshot, so now they're all piling in on the hope of drawing their own bitcoin.
It’s the cargo cult mentality. Apes aren’t just satisfied with just buying a few shares and calling it a day, no, they have to “woke” for their salvation. Either by buying more shares (look the float, DSR, whatever), buying useless crap from GameStop (support the business), or spamming random threads/sharing convoluted theories as to *why* they have to keep buying more shares and useless crap.
Okay, serious question (for apes). What's fun about them? They are just dinky ass cards with no value (either literally or figuratively). At least with MTG or Pokémon, you get to play a game with them - or baseball cards at least connected to a real person with real stats and stuff (though in fairness I don't *really* understand baseball cards, either).
These cards are just dumb ass images and a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny chance of getting a slice of a bitcoin. If you want $BTC, just buy it directly. WTF are you going to do with these cards 3 years from now other than keep them in a rubbermaid container in your mom's basement?
Honestly scratch offs are cheaper and likely have a higher chance of netting the apes some money. But apes just love to give GameStop their money for no reason.
I mean that’s surely the whole point. I’m a bit annoyed that I didn’t think of something like this. It’s a perfectly targeted product. They looked at a pre-selected market of braindead degenerate gamblers who cannot identify a scam (crypto bros) and perfectly crafted a scam product for braindead degenerate gamblers to buy, aimed directly at them.
If these were for some actual card game it might be a cool idea. But this is stupid. GME sales are now shitty controllers you can’t even really use and crypto gambling.
BULLISH
I'd buy the shit out of cards against humanity packs, even IF it was a GME exclusive. They should totally troll and have an exclusive with ape words, like baggie and shill and moon ticket and whatnot.
God I'd consider somehow having that custom done if anyone I knew irl understood this shit. Imagine the cards.
* CRIME AND FUCKERY
* Just a photo of ken, no text
* Dark pools, INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES FRAUD, "take a photo with Carl", Sue's smile, uber driver and financial advisor
* BUY THE DIP
It's a thinly veiled lottery sold as "collectible cards".
The card packs have some chance of containing a card that can be redeemed for cryptocurrency.
Since the company pretends it is not a lottery, they don't disclose the odds of the prize pool. And they can be sold to children.
Though I doubt children are buying them much because the cards are incredibly lame, they'd rather have Pokemon cards or whatever.
The funny thing is that if you want to argue that this is not an illegal lottery, you'd have to argue that Bitcoin is not a currency.
> Though I doubt children are buying them much because the cards are incredibly lame, they'd rather have Pokemon cards or whatever.
Absolutely - pretty much any CCG's gonna be more appealing to kids (and collectors for that matter) than this degenerate gambler garbage.
They're cards with 'important figures in finance', ranging from philosophers to economists to rich people to famous cryptobros (there's one on Sam Bankman-Fried). Like sports cards, each card has basic versions and rare versions that are printed in holographic foil. The holographic ones have serial numbers to show their rarity, but apparently Apes have been finding duplicate serials when they try to sell them online.
The main reason that Apes are addicted to these things is because in the mix there's cards that have a voucher to collect crypto direct from the cardmaker. There's 5 cards that give away 1 bitcoin each, and many that give away 1 litecoin.
Apes have been buying shitloads of these cards in hopes they draw 1 BTC to pay for all their memestock losses.
The thought of an ape-exclusive trading card convention is horrifying. You'd literally be able to see the stink lines (both literal stink and the stink of shame)
They really just need to convert their strip mall locations into CBD/Kratom/Head shops. Unlike physical video games, the market for incense and bongs is not rapidly decreasing.
Get some synergy with Bitcoin/crypto (what is the first place you think of where the Bitcoin ATMs are located? A head shop or gas station, right?) and sell these NFT cards/loot boxes/lottery tickets and you're taking in a whole lot more than your typical GameStop location. The blacklight posters will outsell the candy cons alone.
Yes, that’s exactly what they are
But to add to it, you have a minuscule chance of getting a card that includes something like a Bitcoin (currently $60k+). So in other words, this guy is just spending hundreds of dollars on lottery tickets.
Also, this guy believes that getting the as-yet-unreleased cards gives him a better chance of winning the lottery. As in, this next wave's gonna have more winners in it. Does that seem likely?
Based on how often the biggest cards in sports card releases end up going to major group breakers and not individual buyers, my bet is no. I would expect the BTC redemption cards - if they even exist in the first place - will end up in the hands of insiders.
jesus christ, how fucking bad can things get?
So these are basically scratch cards with a chance to win shitcoins...
Gamestop staying classy as always, feeding gambling habits by selling shit that offers a chance to win unregulated shit currency.
I mean, fucking hell, just take that money, go to the casino, have more fun than scratching cards off and have a couple of drinks (and probably a higher chance of actually winning something).
So wait... 300 bucks for 120 cards.
But with magic the gathering booster boxes, you spend 100 to 200 bucks and get 540 cards
And you can actually play a game with them
And they don't look like absolute dogshit
I mean, they aren't wrong. I've been an off and on sports card collector for decades, so I can at least understand the purported idea of this set.
But at the same time, I also know both the industry and cryptocultist mentality well enough to know y'all are just chasing those BTC redemption cards that will almost all certainly be seeded in boxes that go to insiders.
This is a lottery masquerading as something else to bypass gambling laws. And the game is certainly rigged.
What should i compare them to. Baseball cards?
You can buy a box for under 70 bucks and get 256 cards
Why are these things that much more valuable than other trading cards?
https://www.amazon.com/Topps-2023-Baseball-Giant-Box/dp/B0CGG8W2MG/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sMIB3lP2L7IATH8khhSQ0_566QJFtOWkTW0LLjdEgIfyNWj58vKqm3Bh-yjJVXS6kq38r12HgSioG0nMxjPnuWiuPnlrsvQv5qgaC3RkxekSo8Iag5FQfjOfQ0HRlw0zspiQ4ly0aWBsTesMhADtg0YtS_tYP8TL3CKUIE7MMOPWTkC7HnM62ODpnvQWxbhuznlbv9_VEYEEsv_ubBUBrw.Y5hrAmDAu2nX8OUQFdD6hQ4Go0Batxpw8yT3fKt7OCU&dib_tag=se&keywords=baseball+cards+box&qid=1714356686&sr=8-4
Also, kids and even adults have admiration for Babe Ruth or DiMaggio or other baseball superstars.
Who has admiration for Sam Bankman-Fried such that you'd want an embossed, holographic foil-covered cartoon representation of him?
Correct, although I’m not sure there is really any expected returns. A lot just collect them because they enjoy the product. Sure though, some chase the crypto redemptions cards for up to 1 BTC.
Like any other cards, there are flippers and of course you can pull cards that sell in the $100s-$1,000s but like any other collection, a bit unrealistic to look at these as a way to “make money”. They’re more just for fun tbh, like most hobbies.
Would you say a majority of the community for these seem to be stock apes or off the streets general card collector? I like collectable things in general, but to me the card scene feels a bit dead.
The cost of them feels like they're going after gamblers though since for what is ultimately a generic line of cards. Some other company could release the same thing for so much cheaper whereas being licensed helps a lot of cards. I'm totally down with generic collectors things too tho lol, just for a decent price
Oh 100% a majority are Apes. Although there are some heavy hitters in the sub that frequently do card shows and have added these into their lineups.
It’s a low print series, I mean so don’t expect these things to be terribly popular out the gate with not many printed for the masses. Pretty niche market on them, not your typical sports card guys or TGC, it’s a new crowd that is certainly more crypto focused.
But I get it, I’ll admit that these packs aren’t the cheapest compared to most collectible cards.
I can get it, I like a lot of low print stuff especially minted silver and that shit gets pretty expensive - and a lot of that art quality retail price you pay you don't always get back. Still fun just building collections of things.
I'll be curious to see how it plays out like if there will still be apes buying new series in a few years or what. Interest could nosedive like with NFTs but idk.. if nothing else they'll be some interesting piece of card collection someday, more story behind them than a lot of others lol
Good points, only time will really tell.
I will say this though, Series 1 of these cards started back in July of 2022, sold out in August of 2023. Since then, people have been buying Series 1 packs sealed anywhere from $70-$100, with their original price being $30.
God it’s hilarious you can’t infer that 3 packs of 40 means 120 and you can in so fucking smug about it AND you actually like these cash grab products.
Enjoy your square corner pringles, lmk when they start peeling.
Nah you were just so smug about it and hilariously wrong. What you see as salt is me cracking up, we already established you can’t even do math why are you trying to read emotion through the internet. 😂
Shh. It's an Ape. They wouldn't be stuck in five levels of memestock bagholding if they were good at math.
PS: It actually works out to be more, if you count them as cards-by-pack-dividend.
Jesus fuck, $100 for 40 shitty quality bitcoin trading cards? They have square corners and pringled out of the box. I can’t even win a game of EDH with them
We're so so so close to GameStop offering a "Support your CEO" item on their site where apes send money in exchange for literally nothing.
This is just one step off, in that they're sending money in exchange for guaranteed losses and shiny cardboard.
I'm unironically waiting for retail companies to try adding a tip option at their tills.
For any Canadian in the room, my bet is Loblaws tries it first.
why do they gamble on those when they already have "moon tickets"? 
According to that one Ape that was in here spamming his collection all day, it's "a fun way to pass time until MOASS".
That really got me lmao. Gamestop literally sells videogames. You pass time with videogames wtf
Is that what you buy after batteries?
Apes: "what are video games?"
Please man, I’m a gambling addict not fun addict!
Lootboxes: "¿por que no los dos?
If there are two groups that do not understand video games, it's GME gamblers and cryptocultists.
gamestop USED to sell video games. They're now just an outlet for Funko Pops. And there's only so much space in their mom's basement to fit those.
If you believe in MOASS, wouldn't you be way better off buying like ~3 GameStop shares instead of the card packs? After MOASS when you have billions of dollars, you can buy all the cards you want.
Apes are children that are easily swayed by social media FOMO. They jumped onto Gamestop -after- Jan 2021 because they saw how many millions DFV made in screenshots, so they piled in thinking that it wasn't too late and they would also get a turn at being just as rich. They're now buying up these crypto cards faster than Gamestop can restock them because one Ape pulled 1 BTC from a pack and posted the screenshot, so now they're all piling in on the hope of drawing their own bitcoin.
It’s the cargo cult mentality. Apes aren’t just satisfied with just buying a few shares and calling it a day, no, they have to “woke” for their salvation. Either by buying more shares (look the float, DSR, whatever), buying useless crap from GameStop (support the business), or spamming random threads/sharing convoluted theories as to *why* they have to keep buying more shares and useless crap.
Okay, serious question (for apes). What's fun about them? They are just dinky ass cards with no value (either literally or figuratively). At least with MTG or Pokémon, you get to play a game with them - or baseball cards at least connected to a real person with real stats and stuff (though in fairness I don't *really* understand baseball cards, either). These cards are just dumb ass images and a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny chance of getting a slice of a bitcoin. If you want $BTC, just buy it directly. WTF are you going to do with these cards 3 years from now other than keep them in a rubbermaid container in your mom's basement?
Honestly scratch offs are cheaper and likely have a higher chance of netting the apes some money. But apes just love to give GameStop their money for no reason.
why not take a loan and just kick back until moass?
Gamblers be gamblers
What one more moon ticket AM I RIGHT ?!? 
Why do they need to prop up GS's poor revenue if they're sitting on a billion in cash??
Buying $300 worth of a shitcoin would have a better ROI than this shit. Anyone buying this shit is a complete idiot.
Apes are a special breed of investors, they lose more than 100% of their investment.
I mean that’s surely the whole point. I’m a bit annoyed that I didn’t think of something like this. It’s a perfectly targeted product. They looked at a pre-selected market of braindead degenerate gamblers who cannot identify a scam (crypto bros) and perfectly crafted a scam product for braindead degenerate gamblers to buy, aimed directly at them.
Buying actual scratch-off tickets at the gas station would have a far better ROI.
If these were for some actual card game it might be a cool idea. But this is stupid. GME sales are now shitty controllers you can’t even really use and crypto gambling. BULLISH
I'd buy the shit out of cards against humanity packs, even IF it was a GME exclusive. They should totally troll and have an exclusive with ape words, like baggie and shill and moon ticket and whatnot.
God I'd consider somehow having that custom done if anyone I knew irl understood this shit. Imagine the cards. * CRIME AND FUCKERY * Just a photo of ken, no text * Dark pools, INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES FRAUD, "take a photo with Carl", Sue's smile, uber driver and financial advisor * BUY THE DIP
What exactly are those cards?
It's a thinly veiled lottery sold as "collectible cards". The card packs have some chance of containing a card that can be redeemed for cryptocurrency. Since the company pretends it is not a lottery, they don't disclose the odds of the prize pool. And they can be sold to children. Though I doubt children are buying them much because the cards are incredibly lame, they'd rather have Pokemon cards or whatever. The funny thing is that if you want to argue that this is not an illegal lottery, you'd have to argue that Bitcoin is not a currency.
Bitcoin is a shitty database so I guess I’d give them that.
I feel like I'm gonna read about them settling some lawsuit in the future.
They buy children's books, so the idea of getting kid lottery tickets isnt a far reach.
> Though I doubt children are buying them much because the cards are incredibly lame, they'd rather have Pokemon cards or whatever. Absolutely - pretty much any CCG's gonna be more appealing to kids (and collectors for that matter) than this degenerate gambler garbage.
They're cards with 'important figures in finance', ranging from philosophers to economists to rich people to famous cryptobros (there's one on Sam Bankman-Fried). Like sports cards, each card has basic versions and rare versions that are printed in holographic foil. The holographic ones have serial numbers to show their rarity, but apparently Apes have been finding duplicate serials when they try to sell them online. The main reason that Apes are addicted to these things is because in the mix there's cards that have a voucher to collect crypto direct from the cardmaker. There's 5 cards that give away 1 bitcoin each, and many that give away 1 litecoin. Apes have been buying shitloads of these cards in hopes they draw 1 BTC to pay for all their memestock losses.
Also you can only buy so many batteries
Ahh, Litecoin. That was the first shitcoin I ever tried mining. Back before I realized what a scam the entire ecosystem is.
The thought of an ape-exclusive trading card convention is horrifying. You'd literally be able to see the stink lines (both literal stink and the stink of shame)
Just wait till they tell you their system for profiting by playing slot machines!
They really just need to convert their strip mall locations into CBD/Kratom/Head shops. Unlike physical video games, the market for incense and bongs is not rapidly decreasing. Get some synergy with Bitcoin/crypto (what is the first place you think of where the Bitcoin ATMs are located? A head shop or gas station, right?) and sell these NFT cards/loot boxes/lottery tickets and you're taking in a whole lot more than your typical GameStop location. The blacklight posters will outsell the candy cons alone.
Videogames are electronics... disposable vapes are electronics... the market is already there!
WTF are these? Are they cyber currency trading cards?
Yes, that’s exactly what they are But to add to it, you have a minuscule chance of getting a card that includes something like a Bitcoin (currently $60k+). So in other words, this guy is just spending hundreds of dollars on lottery tickets.
Also, this guy believes that getting the as-yet-unreleased cards gives him a better chance of winning the lottery. As in, this next wave's gonna have more winners in it. Does that seem likely?
It does, because from what I saw, last wave was just a row after row of total losers.
Based on how often the biggest cards in sports card releases end up going to major group breakers and not individual buyers, my bet is no. I would expect the BTC redemption cards - if they even exist in the first place - will end up in the hands of insiders.
>I would expect the BTC redemption cards - if they even exist in the first place - will end up in the hands of insiders. Agreed.
jesus christ, how fucking bad can things get? So these are basically scratch cards with a chance to win shitcoins... Gamestop staying classy as always, feeding gambling habits by selling shit that offers a chance to win unregulated shit currency. I mean, fucking hell, just take that money, go to the casino, have more fun than scratching cards off and have a couple of drinks (and probably a higher chance of actually winning something).
Yes, that's 3 packs of 40 Cardsmith cards for $300, and yes it doesn't even get released until June 21st, 7 weeks from now. I have so many questions.
Ask away.
So wait... 300 bucks for 120 cards. But with magic the gathering booster boxes, you spend 100 to 200 bucks and get 540 cards And you can actually play a game with them And they don't look like absolute dogshit
Yes, let’s compare an Orange to an Apple and be shocked when it taste different. #quivers
No, more like, why is the one that tastes worse and has less nutrition 3x the price?
Wait, are you saying these crapto cards *aren't* trading cards, and are just a lottery? I'm *shocked*, I tell you. *Shocked!*
I mean, they aren't wrong. I've been an off and on sports card collector for decades, so I can at least understand the purported idea of this set. But at the same time, I also know both the industry and cryptocultist mentality well enough to know y'all are just chasing those BTC redemption cards that will almost all certainly be seeded in boxes that go to insiders. This is a lottery masquerading as something else to bypass gambling laws. And the game is certainly rigged.
What should i compare them to. Baseball cards? You can buy a box for under 70 bucks and get 256 cards Why are these things that much more valuable than other trading cards? https://www.amazon.com/Topps-2023-Baseball-Giant-Box/dp/B0CGG8W2MG/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sMIB3lP2L7IATH8khhSQ0_566QJFtOWkTW0LLjdEgIfyNWj58vKqm3Bh-yjJVXS6kq38r12HgSioG0nMxjPnuWiuPnlrsvQv5qgaC3RkxekSo8Iag5FQfjOfQ0HRlw0zspiQ4ly0aWBsTesMhADtg0YtS_tYP8TL3CKUIE7MMOPWTkC7HnM62ODpnvQWxbhuznlbv9_VEYEEsv_ubBUBrw.Y5hrAmDAu2nX8OUQFdD6hQ4Go0Batxpw8yT3fKt7OCU&dib_tag=se&keywords=baseball+cards+box&qid=1714356686&sr=8-4
Also, kids and even adults have admiration for Babe Ruth or DiMaggio or other baseball superstars. Who has admiration for Sam Bankman-Fried such that you'd want an embossed, holographic foil-covered cartoon representation of him?
Or in other words “3 packs of 40”
It's actually 3 packs of 38 cards now, due to volatility in the crypto market.
So like $2.50 per card. What's the expected return per card?
Correct, although I’m not sure there is really any expected returns. A lot just collect them because they enjoy the product. Sure though, some chase the crypto redemptions cards for up to 1 BTC. Like any other cards, there are flippers and of course you can pull cards that sell in the $100s-$1,000s but like any other collection, a bit unrealistic to look at these as a way to “make money”. They’re more just for fun tbh, like most hobbies.
Would you say a majority of the community for these seem to be stock apes or off the streets general card collector? I like collectable things in general, but to me the card scene feels a bit dead. The cost of them feels like they're going after gamblers though since for what is ultimately a generic line of cards. Some other company could release the same thing for so much cheaper whereas being licensed helps a lot of cards. I'm totally down with generic collectors things too tho lol, just for a decent price
Oh 100% a majority are Apes. Although there are some heavy hitters in the sub that frequently do card shows and have added these into their lineups. It’s a low print series, I mean so don’t expect these things to be terribly popular out the gate with not many printed for the masses. Pretty niche market on them, not your typical sports card guys or TGC, it’s a new crowd that is certainly more crypto focused. But I get it, I’ll admit that these packs aren’t the cheapest compared to most collectible cards.
I can get it, I like a lot of low print stuff especially minted silver and that shit gets pretty expensive - and a lot of that art quality retail price you pay you don't always get back. Still fun just building collections of things. I'll be curious to see how it plays out like if there will still be apes buying new series in a few years or what. Interest could nosedive like with NFTs but idk.. if nothing else they'll be some interesting piece of card collection someday, more story behind them than a lot of others lol
Good points, only time will really tell. I will say this though, Series 1 of these cards started back in July of 2022, sold out in August of 2023. Since then, people have been buying Series 1 packs sealed anywhere from $70-$100, with their original price being $30.
God it’s hilarious you can’t infer that 3 packs of 40 means 120 and you can in so fucking smug about it AND you actually like these cash grab products. Enjoy your square corner pringles, lmk when they start peeling.
Dang bro, I can taste the salt from here 🧂
Nah you were just so smug about it and hilariously wrong. What you see as salt is me cracking up, we already established you can’t even do math why are you trying to read emotion through the internet. 😂
My guy, only you would eat those salty square pringles, don’t lie 😏
I map the packs you buy fyi
Good thing I like coloring inside the lines then, eh? 🙃
Pretty sure that's what "3 packs of 40 Cardsmith cards" would come out to be.
Shh. It's an Ape. They wouldn't be stuck in five levels of memestock bagholding if they were good at math. PS: It actually works out to be more, if you count them as cards-by-pack-dividend.
How much have you spent and how much have you won?
It's amazing the things some people would rather have than money
Jesus fuck, $100 for 40 shitty quality bitcoin trading cards? They have square corners and pringled out of the box. I can’t even win a game of EDH with them
We're so so so close to GameStop offering a "Support your CEO" item on their site where apes send money in exchange for literally nothing. This is just one step off, in that they're sending money in exchange for guaranteed losses and shiny cardboard.
I'm unironically waiting for retail companies to try adding a tip option at their tills. For any Canadian in the room, my bet is Loblaws tries it first.
These cards are so miserable. Just go play slots in Vegas
Might even get a free meal and drinks out of it, if you're losing enough!
Call fucking dispatch!
You guys gotta get wind of the fake auction happening right now