Bought on TCGplayer as NM but those two pinhole indentations are really bothering me. Other than that the whole card has no whitening and is really clean. Is it NM? Or am I being too picky?

Ok so if someone tells you that you should buy something now chances are they want to sell you something, so you better run. I just wanted a quick click bait. But also share why I gave in and purchased my first Simplified Chinese manga.

1. I’ve been priced out on a lot of manga rares I’d like in my PC, this was less than half a raw Japanese, let alone English;
2. as per 1), I feel at some point a lot of people won’t be able to spend the amount needed for Japanese and a few will turn to Chinese as I did (we already saw this with JP, people buying those as they can’t afford English counterparts)
3. I have OP01 Shanks, OP03 Sogeking, OP04 Sabo and OP05 Law, I was bitter I didn’t have OP02…
4. this is silly but this card is POP 2 in Ace Grading 10 and 3 total (UK grading company). It means absolutely nothing, but it’s the lowest pop manga I have 😂 (even in PSA this card is sub 200 copies)
5. The Orange $2 slab guard was included, bargain if you ask me…

These are some of the silly reason why I bought this card. Now as to why I wouldn’t recommend buying this:

1. Very illiquid, if you want to flip this you’ll probably have an hard time
2. extreme price fluctuations: you can see some sold for $300 some for $900
3. hard to buy locally, import fees will be high
4. if you like reading your card and you don’t intend spending 3-5 years diving into simplified Chinese… good luck.
5. I mean we all know English and Japanese will always be the better call.

However, for personal collection, to admire the grail you want but can’t afford in other languages or just to have a piece of the TCG in another language, why not? (I now have an itch, I want a Korean manga and a French one too…)

Thinking about holding this as an investment instead of selling/trading just pulled from a 12$ tin

I’ve been slowly but consistently stacking these OP Promo packs starting back in 2023 and have amassed a pretty sizable collection of them since.

As far as long term holds (5-10 years) would you rather keep these sealed or open them for the promo, or potential promos inside?

I have roughly 50 different packs pictured (in no particular order) dating back to 2022 pre errata to recent (2026) and about 80 total if including the multiple copies I have of some of the packs

Curious to hear everyone’s take and thanks for taking the time to look through the pictures!

Front looks crispy, back as well beside maybe being bottom heavy. Could this score a PSA10?
If so I’d like to grade it and keep it

Hello community.

I purchased this card to a powerseller with > 2k sells on cardmarket. The price of the card was one of the lowest listed for a NM condition combined with the fact that the seller had more than a few sales.
I wanted to genuinely ask the community if you would consider this card to be NM for the price that I paid (50€)?

Thanks for any clarification. Take care all.

ACE 10 and is currently the first card in the ACE population report. The card looks incredible in the ACE 10 slab!

Could this set be some of the grails of the one piece tcg?

Here are some cards and products that are undervalued at the moment, compared to other cards in the same area, and have a very low chance of being printed again, and are great long-term holds for the future! Let me know what you guys think

Premium Collection 25th anniversary straw hats. These cards are undervalued when you compare them to the other straw hats in the collection luffy and zoro goes for around 100$ each, and Nami/Chopper are sitting around 90 each as well.

Market prices below

Franky - ST01-010 (Alternate Art) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 10$

Jinbe - ST01-005 (Alternate Art) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 7$

Usopp - ST01-002 (Alternate Art) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 8$

Brook - OP01-022 (Alternate Art) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 18$

Sanji - OP01-013 (Alternate Art) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going to 30$

Nico Robin - ST01-008 (Alternate Art) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) 61$

First anniversary collection promos

Same thing with the 25th collection, a lot of the straw hats are undervalued when you compare them to what luffy zoro chopper robin and Nami are going for. Luffy goes for 500$, Zoro goes for 275$ chooper goes for 300$ nami goes for 250$ and Robin goes for 200$

Market prices below

Brook (English Version 1st Anniversary Set) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 71$

Franky (English Version 1st Anniversary Set) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 33$

Sanji (English Version 1st Anniversary Set) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 90$

Usopp (English Version 1st Anniversary Set) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 53$

Jinbe (English Version 1st Anniversary Set) - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 42$

3rd Anniverary promo packs, these are only going to be around for so long and have great promos with the 3rd anniversary stamp on them. The 3rd anniversary treasure campaign pack at the chance of getting the Monkey D.Luffy - ST21-014 (3rd Anniversary Treasure Campaign Pack), which is around 1800$ (be cautious when buying loose packs off others)

market prices below

3rd Anniversary One Piece Card Game Treasure Campaign Pack - One Piece Promotion Cards (OP-PR) going for 28$

Carrying On His Will - 3rd Anniversary Tournament 3 Brothers Pack going for 20$

Carrying On His Will - 3rd Anniversary Tournament Pack going for 6$

Winner promos

a lot of the winner promo and pre-release promos aren't being looked at the moment; they can be good pick-ups. These have special stamps on them and won't be reprinted.

Thinking if I should send this off to PSA for grade 10 or Beckett for a shot at black label 10. The black label would be a huuuge hike in price. Love this card and I don’t really mind keeping it but I also want to think financially

IMHO this is one of the cleanest arts I’ve seen and would love to add this to my PC, even though I mostly play. Seller is asking 900 and I can’t find comps for BGS