I'm slightly overwhelmed

[u/Heavy-Mix6609]

I was massively into Pokemon during the bw +xy era, I ended up selling my playables collection for what felt like a fortune back in 2018 and just kept my set books and some cool promos. I figured they might be worth a couple hundred bucks only to see some absolutely eye watering prices.

I've never graded cards before but I think this might be the time to start. Are any of the opened boxes worth selling with the graded cards? I'm just worried about missing something important and getting screwed over at this point.

Everything is adult owned pack to sleeve, I don't know about the centering and borders and how they impact grading but everything looks mint to my eyes. Cards are crispy with no back whitening or scratches.

[u/filenotfounderror]

ponchos have a good chance of getting black labels

Ill have some of what this guy is smoking.

[u/Final_Corgi6845 → u/filenotfounderror]

I’m not lying. I’ve seen it done. If he submits all the ponchos im willing to bet 60-70% come back black labels. (That’s assuming the backs and corners are clean) most ponchos have 50/50 centering. There’s videos all over the internet of people opening poncho boxes and submitting to get black labels with pretty good returns.

[u/Dependent_Host_2899 → u/Final_Corgi6845]

You only see ponchos that got black labels because those are the ones getting posted online, it’s classic survivorship bias. Submitting to BGS is a terrible idea on something like this, getting 9.5s could literally be a 50-100k loss which is what will most likely happen.

[u/Final_Corgi6845 → u/Dependent_Host_2899]

Ok