About Garbage Rips 585
Subscribe →Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card channel from Rochester, New York. One guy, a camera and a pile of packs. Every rip ever filmed has its own page on this site, and wrapped around them is a guide to the rest of it: what cards are worth, where to buy them, how the game is actually played, and what to get a kid who has never opened a pack.
A Pokemon card channel from Rochester, New York
Welcome to Garbage Rips 585, where Pokemon packs get ripped like a late-night Garbage Plate after the bars close.
It is a YouTube channel, running since February 2026, and it goes up every single day. Not most days: every day. There have been 213 days since the first rip and all 213 of them have one on them, which is the whole run with no gap in it. There are 330 rips up so far, across 39 different sets, and every one of them has its own page here with the video on it, so nothing on this site sends you to YouTube unless you want to go.
Rochester, NY is not incidental to any of it. This is the 585: Wegmans, the Public Market, High Falls, lake-effect weather that arrives sideways in November, and a dinner nowhere else in the country makes. The channel is named after the dinner. Around here chaos is a lifestyle and ripping packs is just part of the routine.
None of this is new. I have been ripping Pokemon packs since the cards first landed here in 1999. I remember them being $2.99 at the EB in the mall, bought one at a time with whatever was in my pocket. I watched the anime before school, and I have played every Pokemon video game since. That is why the channel opens packs instead of buying singles: the part I liked as a kid is still the part I like.
What actually happens on the channel
Packs get opened. Most of them are garbage, which is where the name came from. Single packs, booster bundles, ETBs, whatever overpriced box was sitting on the counter, and every so often an imported pack nobody in the room can read. When something good does fall out, the yelling is real. We celebrate every rip, the good ones and the bad ones, because a wall of hits is not what opening packs is like. The bad ones have a name here and it is the channel's: those are the garbage rips, and they get the same airtime as the hits. That is where the line every video opens with comes from: Garbage Rips Only! Let’s Go!
Then the wrappers go in the bin, and the bin is the other half of the channel. There is a Trubbish trash can on the desk and every rip ends the same way: the empties, the packaging and the bulk get fed to him on camera. It happens in every single video, and it is one of the things people show up for.
The can itself is not a prop we made. It is a Pokemon Center item, sold for a limited run at the Pokemon Center in Tokyo and never here, and this one was imported from Japan to sit on a desk in Rochester, NY and be fed booster wrappers. Which is either the correct use of an exclusive collectible or the worst one, depending on who you ask.
Nobody is going to be smug at you here. If you have never held a card and you want to know what the little star in the corner means, that is what the guides on this site are for, and asking is the whole point of them.
One rule everywhere: a thumbnail never shows the pulled card. Every video sits behind a sealed wrapper you have to rip open, because the whole point is not knowing.
Why this site exists
The channel is the fun part. The site is the part that answers questions.
Every question a new collector has is answered somewhere on the internet, and it is answered in twelve different places, half of them trying to sell you something and almost none of them saying where the number came from. You should not have to bounce around six sites, or interrogate a chatbot, to find out whether forty dollars is a normal thing to pay for a booster bundle.
So this is one place, and it is all in one spot on purpose. How the game is played. What a card is worth and who says so. Where to buy, and what each place charges on top. What grading costs and whether it is worth doing. Which of the video games came out when. The most valuable cards and the most expensive sealed products. And, since we are in Rochester, NY, where to get a Garbage Plate.
There are 1,503 pages on the site as it stands. Most of them are one card, one set or one rip, and nobody needs most of them. The 46 pages listed further down are the part you would actually read.
If you are buying cards for a kid
This is the question I get asked most, in person, by parents who do not collect and are standing in an aisle with no idea what any of it is. It usually arrives with an apology attached, and it should not. Nobody explains any of this in the shop. Half this site exists because I have given the same answer out loud a dozen times and would rather hand over a link.
Roughly what it should cost
Pokemon suggests a price for everything it sells and that number is public, so there is a right answer to "is this a rip-off". One booster pack is $4.49. A booster bundle, which is six packs and nothing else in the box, is $26.94. The big Elite Trainer Box that looks like the obvious birthday present is $49.99. Those figures were read August 17, 2026 from Pokemon's own shop and from the price references that agree with it.
A shop asking more than that is not running a scam, it is charging a markup, and you are allowed to put it back. The MSRP check prices 26 kinds of sealed product against the suggested figure so you can do the sum in the aisle, pack prices covers single packs by set, and how many packs are in that is the number you divide by before any of it means anything.
What to buy first
It depends on which kid you have, and there are two of them.
- If what they love is opening things, buy packs and nothing else: a mini tin at $9.99 or a booster bundle at $26.94. Everything else in a bigger box is dice they will lose and sleeves they will not use.
- If what they want is to play the game, do not buy booster packs at all. My First Battle at $9.99 works for a young kid straight out of the box, and Battle Academy at $24.99 is three finished decks and a rulebook for one who can read. You cannot learn this game out of booster packs, and almost everything else on that shelf is booster packs.
- If it has to be one box that is obviously A Present, the Elite Trainer Box at $49.99 is the one, and it is the one shops mark up hardest.
What should I buy? walks through 6 situations with a photograph of the actual product and the price on each one.
Where to buy it
Target, Walmart, GameStop, Costco, the grocery store and the local card shop all sell this, and they do not stock the same things or charge the same for them. The shop-by-shop list says what each chain actually carries and which aisle it is filed in, with a page of its own for 9 of them. Buying online covers the marketplaces and what each one adds in fees. Card shops near Rochester, NY lists the 7 local ones, which is where to go if you want a person to explain it rather than a page.
Two things worth knowing before you spend
Nobody publishes pull rates. Not Pokemon, not us. Anybody quoting you the odds of a good card is guessing, and this site never states them. What it has instead is what actually came out, which counts the results of every pack opened on this channel and says in as many words that observed results are not odds.
And fake cards are real, mostly sold online, and often sold to somebody buying a present. Eight checks that work can be done with the card in your hand and no equipment at all.
Trubbish and Garbodor
Rochester, NY has no official Pokemon. Nobody at City Hall has voted on this and there is no plaque. But if this city ever does get a vote, this channel has already cast one and it was not close. A place whose most famous dinner is a pile is not getting an elegant mascot and should stop trying for one.
The joke works because we did not have to invent the punchline: the Pokedex files Trubbish as the Trash Bag Pokemon and Garbodor as the Trash Heap Pokemon, which the Pokedex facts page prints with its source. So around here they are ours, and we celebrate them.
Pokemon artwork from pokeapi.co.
Trubbish is the one on the front of the wrapper, sitting on a loaded plate, and on this site he has one job: he is what you get when there is nothing in it. A search that finds nothing, a filter with no videos left, a rip that produced no hits, a page that does not exist. Garbodor is the other kind of nothing, the one that means we went through the whole heap and it genuinely is not in there.
And we feed him, which on this channel is not a figure of speech. There is a Trubbish trash can sitting on the desk, a Pokemon Center exclusive from a limited run sold only in Tokyo and imported to Rochester, NY for exactly this. He is in every video, and the last thing that happens in a rip is the wrappers going into him. All the bulk, the packaging, the bad hits, the garbage hits, every card that is never going in a binder. It all goes in and he loves it. That is how he lives. He lives off garbage rips.
Garbage Plates
The Garbage Plate is the one food Rochester, NY is known for outside the city. Two sides on the bottom, meat on top of them, a spiced meat sauce poured over the lot, then raw onions and mustard, with bread and butter on the side. Nobody eats one with a plan.
The name is a federal trademark, held by the restaurant it came from, which is why everywhere else in this city sells you a trash plate, a junkyard plate, a compost plate or a sloppy plate instead. Same dinner, different two words.
There is not much good writing about it. What exists is listicles and one origin story repeated from page to page with nobody sourcing any of it, which is exactly the gap this site is built to fill. So the Garbage Plate guide puts a source and a read date on every claim it makes, two of them primary: the trademark file itself, and the restaurant's own printable order form, which is where the labeled drawing of the six layers comes from. It cites 11 sources, carries 11 photographs, lists 11 places around Rochester, NY that serve it with the hours each business states about itself, and prints 5 things people repeat about this dish that we could not source at all, out loud, rather than dropping them quietly.
How the numbers here are worked out
This is the boring part and it is the reason to trust the rest of it.
- Every price says where it came from and the day it was read. A card value is a price guide value, a suggested price is Pokemon's own shop, and a marketplace price names the marketplace. Those are three different things and the pages never blur them.
- Nothing gets published off a single read. The ranked price lists are read twice, by two different parsers, and a row where the two disagree is held back with the disagreement recorded rather than quietly averaged.
- Pull rates are never stated. The Pokemon Company does not publish them and we are not going to invent them.
- Where something could not be sourced, the page says so and lists it. Saying what we do not know is the cheapest way to be worth believing about the rest.
- Prices move. If a figure here looks wrong it may well be: check the date printed beside it, and tell us on any of the socials, because that is how it gets fixed.
Every guide on this site
1,503 pages get built here, and this is the shape of them.
- 1,025Pokemon, one page each
- 330Rips, one page per video
- 53Guides, tools and top-level pages
- 42Set guides
- 22Playlists
- 13Sealed products
- 9Retailers
- 5Small games
- 4Section index pages
46 of those are written for a person rather than generated for a card, and they are grouped below by the question rather than by where the files live.
If you have never opened a pack
- Start hereSix questions in the order they actually come up, with a short answer to each and a page behind it.
- How to playHow a game is set up, what a turn looks like, and the three ways to win. Written for somebody who has only ever opened packs.
- Rarity symbolsWhat the circle, diamond, star and the rest in the bottom corner mean, shown on real cards.
- What set is this fromLook a card up from the number printed on it.
- Card typesAll eleven, and what each one is strong against.
- The code card in every packWhat the extra card in every pack is for, and how the free official game works. The fastest way to learn the rules is to let software enforce them.
What a card is worth
- Card searchEvery printing of every card, with a price guide value on it.
- The 100 most valuable raw cardsRanked on an ungraded price guide value, with a link on every row so you can check whether the figure still holds.
- The 100 highest PSA 10 valuesThe same catalog asked a different question: what a perfect graded copy is worth.
- The 100 most expensive sealed productsBoxes and collections rather than cards.
- 1st Edition, Shadowless or UnlimitedWhich 1999 Base Set print run a card in your hand came from, and why it matters to the price.
- Topps Pokemon cardsThe Pokemon cards that are not TCG cards at all. Most collectors have never knowingly held one and several are worth real money.
- What it costs to complete a setPriced nightly, and the argument for buying singles instead of opening packs.
What sealed product should cost
- The MSRP check26 kinds of sealed product against the price Pokemon suggests, so you can work out in the aisle how far over you are being asked to go.
- Pack prices by setWhat one booster pack of each set costs, priced nightly.
- How many packs are in thatBox, ETB, bundle, tin or blister. The number you divide by before any of the above means anything.
- What is comingRelease dates and products for the sets that have not landed yet.
- Restocks this weekWhat the trackers expect and when, said plainly as a guess, because no retailer publishes a restock schedule.
Where to buy, and where to sell
- Buying onlineShipping thresholds and buyer fees read off each company's own page, plus what recourse you have when a card turns up wrong.
- Which chains stock cardsGameStop to Dollar General: what each one carries, which aisle it is filed in, and a page of its own for 9 of them.
- Card shops near Rochester, NYThe 7 local shops, with league nights, prereleases and hours.
- Card showsEvery upcoming show around Rochester, NY, Buffalo and Syracuse, with dates, venues and admission.
- Where to sellWhat each venue takes off the top, because the fees are the whole decision.
- Local vendorsWho is set up at the shows and markets around here.
Grading, and telling a real card from a fake
- What grading costsPSA against CGC, BGS and TAG, with the break-even math on real cards. Most cards are not worth grading and the page says so.
- Will it grade a 10Centering tolerances from all five graders, the flaws that cost a grade, and how to check a card at home before you pay.
- Spotting a fakeEight physical checks you can do with the card in your hand and nothing else.
The channel's own numbers
- Every ripAll 330 of them, filterable by set and by what kind of product it was.
- The Card Hall of FameEvery card that has come out of a pack on this channel. Nothing hand-picked.
- What actually came outObserved results from the rips, broken down by set and product. Not pull rates: nobody publishes those and this site never states them.
- Most wantedThe cards we are hunting right now.
- Playlists22 runs, each one playable in order on this site with its total runtime on the front.
- Sealed products openedOne page per kind of box, with every rip of it in one place.
Pokemon beyond the cards
- Set guides42 of them, English and imported. How many cards are in a set, what is actually rare in it, and what the chase cards are going for.
- The Card PokedexA page for all 1,025 Pokemon: every card that prints it, what those cards cost, and, where we have opened the set, the rips it came out of.
- Every set in orderThe whole run, 1999 to now, in one table.
- Every video gameThe whole official timeline from 1996, with cover art, platforms and release dates.
- Evolution chartEvery line, and what each stage actually takes.
- The eight EeveelutionsHow to get each one.
- Pokedex factsIncluding the entry that settles which two Pokemon this city should have had.
- Decks people actually playReal decklists in the format the official app imports by paste.
- Small games5 of them, for the restock line.
Rochester, New York
- The Garbage PlateWhat is on one, where it came from with a source on every claim, and 11 places around Rochester, NY that serve it.
- Card shops and where to playAddresses, hours and what each one is good for.
- Shows around the regionRochester, NY out to Buffalo and Syracuse.
- Other people doing this locallyRochester, NY, Buffalo and Syracuse.
Questions people actually ask
Who runs Garbage Rips 585?
One person, in Rochester, New York. There is no team and no shop behind it: it is one guy with a camera, a table and a lot of packs. The quickest way to reach him is any of the channel's socials.
How often does Garbage Rips 585 upload?
Every day. There have been 213 days since the first rip and every one of them has a rip on it: no gaps, no days off, 330 videos so far. Some days there is more than one.
What is the Trubbish trash can on the channel?
It is a real Pokemon Center item, from a limited run sold at the Pokemon Center in Tokyo and never released here, imported to Rochester, NY. Every rip ends by feeding it: the wrappers, the packaging and the bulk all go in, on camera, in every single video. It is not a prop and it is not a bit that comes and goes.
Where is Garbage Rips 585 based?
Rochester, New York, which is the 585. The channel is named after the city's own dish, the pack art has a Rochester plate on the front of it, and the site carries a local section for card shops, card shows and vendors around Monroe County and out to Buffalo and Syracuse.
Is this site affiliated with Pokemon?
No. Garbage Rips 585 is fan content and is not affiliated with The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, Creatures or Game Freak. Nothing here is official and nothing here speaks for them. Where a price comes from Pokemon's own shop, the page says so and links nothing else.
Do you sell Pokemon cards?
No. Nothing on this site is for sale and there is no affiliate code on any link. The pages that tell you where to buy are telling you where to buy, and the ones that print a price are printing it so you can check what you are being asked for.
What should I buy for a kid who is just getting into Pokemon cards?
It depends on whether they want to open things or play the game, and those are two different presents. For opening: a mini tin at $9.99 or a booster bundle at $26.94, which is six packs and nothing else. For playing: My First Battle at $9.99 for a young kid, or Battle Academy at $24.99 for one who can follow a rulebook. Neither of those two contains booster packs, which is the point: you cannot learn this game out of booster packs. Those are the prices Pokemon suggests, read August 17, 2026, not what a shop has to charge. What should I buy? goes through 6 situations with a photograph and a price on each.
Why is it called Garbage Rips?
Three reasons and they are all the same reason. Most packs are garbage, which is the honest description of the hobby. Rochester, NY's own dish is the Garbage Plate. And the channel's mascot is Trubbish, who is a bag of trash with legs and who is fed every bad pull, every wrapper and all the bulk.
What is a Garbage Plate?
Two sides on the bottom, meat on top of them, a spiced meat sauce poured over the lot, then raw onions and mustard, with bread and butter on the side. It comes from one restaurant in Rochester, New York, and the name is a federal trademark, which is why everywhere else in the city sells you a trash plate instead. The full guide sources the history and lists 11 places to eat one.
Do you publish Pokemon pull rates?
No, and nothing on this site ever states one. The Pokemon Company does not publish the odds for its paper packs, so any number you see quoted for them is somebody's guess. What this site has instead is a count of what actually came out of the packs opened on camera here, labeled as observed results rather than as odds.
Grab a fork. Let's rip.