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Site Update 001

Well, as you can see the shop is now functional. I’m slowly adding cards. Opus XII is done minus the Legacy Full Arts. They will be added soon. Opus XI is getting added as we speak. For the most part. All the Fire cards have been added. Tomorrow we start with Ice.

I decided to work backwards. The recent sets will be added first till we get to Opus I. After that I’ll also be adding Opus I Wave 1, and finally the promos, and the cards that are exclusive to the Starter Decks. Not much of a variation in those cards. The only difference is how the category looks. You probably noticed after Opus IV how the category changed. A minor difference, but if you want a full complete set of all the cards, well, you’ll need to get those as well.

And as always I’ll always be trying to get every single card that has ever been printed. Even that elusive A-002. Well the first one I get my hands on is mine.

If anyone has any ideas, or something you would like to see, just shoot me a comment on this post. Or an email. Or just hit the Contact button up on the menu.

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Bad Cards, or Bad Decisions

How did this all start?

Well, I guess it was one day that we had gone to the flea market. And we found some Pokemon cards, going for a dollar a pack. I don’t care what kind of cards they are, (not to knock Pokemon or anything) but at a dollar a pack I’ll be buying it. My first thought was that if they can sell them for a dollar, how cheap are they getting them. There must be some money in that, I can buy these dollar packs and sell them for two, and double my money.

We ended up buying a bunch of packs, Easy Money. Or, so I thought. When we got back to the house, we cracked those packs to see what we got. I noticed right away that the quality was terrible. I was thinking, this Pokemon company is printing this garbage and charging top dollar for it? I always knew it was mostly for kids but, come on. Some of these are even blurry, where’s the quality control?

I didn’t  realize it at the moment, but I knew something was wrong. So, I grabbed my sons Pokemon cards and took a closer look. They looked nothing like the cards I had just bought. These are all Fake. How could they do that to me? Who would have thought that they’d be selling fake cards at the Flea Market.

Lesson learned. But, at least I got off cheap. All I Spent was 4 bucks on those packs. And, a lesson. It was pretty easy to spot the differences once they’re next to each other, but sometimes you can tell right away just by looking at the cards. I spotted some fake cards in my Godson’s binder just flipping through the pages. I asked him what he traded for a certain card and was disappointed when he said he gave a Full Art for it. The word Fake on the bottom didn’t have much meaning after all.

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And, I thought I was done

And here I thought, that building the website would be easy. Well it was. Thanks to all the different plugins available and free themes and what not. It was fairly simple to get this website to where it is now. Not that were anywhere near finished, but we are on our way.

Trying to set up the storefront for the website took longer than I thought it would. Just because of all the cards I had to post to the website. And that’s one thing were still not done with. I sorted through all the cards, from the boxes that I opened and now it’s time to count.

Inventory.

128 different cards. 128 foils, and 21 Full Arts. All need to be added to each page, along with figuring out the price.

That doesn’t even make sense. I’ll just take a nap for now.

But, Nope.

Did not work out the way I planned it would. As soon as I went to post this post. Or, should i say article? I noticed that WordPress did not want to co-operate. Instead of a nap, I got to figure out what was wrong with the site. I was getting a blank screen whenever I tried to post something, or edit an existing page or post. Off to the help center I went. And for a couple of days, I was trouble shooting and trying to figure out what was wrong.

Changing themes, deactivating plugins, clearing cache and cookies.  All to no avail.

And, finally, I read somewhere that I should just install the Classic Editor. And that was all it took.

Now, it’s time for my nap.

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Niko’s Soap Box

Welcome to Niko’s Soap Box.

What is this, you ask? Well I don’t know yet. Probably just a place to post my thoughts and talk about cards. Tell you about the journey I’m taking on the way to opening up my card shop.

Slowly building our online presence. You can find Kardboard Korner on Instagram, and YouTube. Soon we’ll be adding our Facebook page, maybe even a Twitter. The YouTube channel is mostly unboxings of Booster Boxes. There’s our Bucks or Skunks daily video, where we open a pack a day.

The Instagram page is mostly showing what I picked up. As I’m still a collector. It’s always nice finding a deal, on the internet, Ebay, or at a random garage sale.

Well, I hope you’ll stick around, cause we’re on a journey.

Will you join us?