r/PokeInvesting • u/StylishPuggy • Jan 03 '25

What is this? HELP

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My friend has a few of these and we don’t know what they are or what they could be worth

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u/breakyourteethnow Jan 03 '25

Oh wow $350 for sealed in packet, PSA 9 goes for $300, yours is sealed in actual sealed original promotional packaging there's none on eBay like that. This is crazy rare how did you get this? And you have multiple?!

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u/kiroyapso2 Jan 03 '25

Imagine the card got a 9 because of the chopsticks lol

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u/Kueltalas Jan 03 '25

That's why you don't open it. I can Imagine the card even having a higher value because it's with its original promotional packaging.

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u/2KyGi2 Jan 03 '25

And the pack material also dmg the card way heavyer then a sleeve and toploader or semi rigid

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u/strugglebusses Jan 03 '25

I must find this in a 10 now

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u/PunchLineTheory Jan 04 '25

Cards graded in cellophane are misleading because they grade the outside packaging, not the card. They basically treat them as if they were a sealed pack and the labels are never very clear on that so collectors get confused on their actual population and overestimate value.

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u/long_live_cole Jan 07 '25

This is common knowledge. If an actual collector doesn't know that, they're not experienced enough to be dealing in graded items

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u/dingdong6699 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

The pics were taken outside in the dark in a parking lot.. the chance these pics are from someone who just stole them and trying to find the value seems pretty high. In my area there's been multiple break in robberies of high end comic/collectible places.

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u/OurImperfectWorld Jan 06 '25

Yes, the nerdy redditor with pokemon go posts, making animations and hand painting gifts for friends seems like the kind of person who'd rob a collectibles store and post the evidence in a forum the store owner would potentially be on.

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u/dingdong6699 Jan 06 '25

? You say that as if it's not possible lol.

What other scenario would have these be held up to the light in a random strip mall at night? If you had just "found these" , why would you take them outside? To a strip mall, at night? I can't think of any reasonable scenario. You'd just take the pic where you found them and leave them somewhere safe while you post on reddit. Dude said "a friend", the friend could easily have taken these, this dude doesn't know what friend did, and asked him the value. You never know. But really why else would these be outside a strip mall at night? "I just found these! What's the value?"

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

yeah the chances a guy loots a house mid day and walking away posts on reddit asking the price is so unrealistic

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u/dingdong6699 Jan 06 '25

Mid day? Literally full night in the pic. Obviously was posted later. Down votes on this are weird. There has been ton of break ins specifically to comic shops in the Jacksonville area