A single buyer moves $400,000 a month in Pokémon product — and overpays on every pack because he's three hands deep from the source. We're going to become the source. This is the plan, brother — and it doesn't work without you.
*Estimated domestic-China cost, pending your ground quote. The gap between $0.65 and $1.50 is the entire opportunity.
Our first customer runs one of the biggest Pokémon channels on WhatNot out of St. Petersburg, Florida — livestreaming 9 to 15 hours a day, sometimes two streams at once. His floor product alone moves 50,000+ packs a month and climbing toward 70,000.
He orders through a Tampa reseller who buys bulk out of China, marks it up, and ships it locally. Every pack passes through hands that each take a cut. His "wholesale" is really third-hand retail — and he knows it.
He's told us directly: get his cost per pack down and it's a "massive win." He'll split his next order so we can prove the pipe with zero risk to his supply. He's not a prospect. He's already asking.
Instead of buying third-hand, we go to the ground in China, source direct, and become the buyer's supplier — the same role his current reseller plays, but leaner, closer to the source, and priced to win.
Direct from China — domestic retail & wholesale, verified authentic on the ground
Air-freight fast lanes for drops, sea for evergreen floor stock — landed cheap
Standing US inventory, same-day to the buyer's door in St. Pete
He saves ~$20–28k a month. We keep the spread. Here's what each sourcing line yields on his floor SKU alone (selling to him at $1.10/pack — a 27% discount off what he pays now).
Figures based on the buyer's stated volume (~50k packs/mo). Sea-freight container pricing at scale is the target economics. All numbers firm up the moment the ground quote lands.
China floor product proves the pipe and pays the bills. Then we stack the verticals that carry us to real money.
Evergreen, always-selling product. Timing-forgiving, ship it cheap by sea. This is the steady base that funds everything else.
His Japanese spend is 4× his Chinese. New sets drop in Asia weeks before the West — we air-freight the speed advantage. Huge volume, and our edge is being first.
Once the pipe exists, every other US flipper is a customer. One buyer becomes ten. This is where it stops being a side deal and becomes a business.
You and me have chased side hustles together for years — some worked, some didn't, all of them taught us something. This is different. For once the math is already there, the buyer's already asking, and the one piece that makes or breaks it is the piece nobody but you can play: real eyes and real trust on the ground where the product actually lives.
The whole pipe runs through the thing money can't shortcut — a brother at the source who I'd stake this on without blinking. That's not a job description. That's just who you are.
China alone gets each of us to roughly $6k a month — real, recurring, proven. Layer in the Japanese lane and we clear $10k each. Here's the road.
Ground quote + supplier quote in hand. Buyer splits an order so we prove the pipe with zero supply risk. Target: ~$3.5–5k each while we dial it in.
Container sourcing on floors, air-freight the Japanese drops (30th Anniversary hits in September). This is where we cross $10k each.
Add a US distributor account, take the pipe to other flippers. One customer becomes many. The ceiling comes off.
One thing kicks it all off: find the cheapest legitimate pack on the ground near you, confirm it's the real deal, and tell us what it costs. That single number turns this whole page from a plan into a paycheck — for all three of us. Let's go build something that lasts.
Let's build the pipe.