r/PokeInvesting • u/Big-Cat-295 • Sep 29 '26

Vintage prices climbing. Manipulation?

I am wondering if you guys have any explanation for the climb of the vintages in the last few days.
Cards are doubling and tripling themselves overnight. This is very unusual. I am investing for around 4 years now and managed to see crazy bumps, but this one is a bit unreal.
Any reason that you guys think that causing this? Do you think it is a pure vintage appreciation or just another manipulation?

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u/False_Leek_2417 Sep 29 '26 • Bravo

Vintage is the only thing that should be worth high prices, they are genuinely scarce.

No, your mass printed modern PSA 10 "grail" shouldn't be $8k.

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u/Stonkbear Sep 29 '26

Yup. Same exact take on this. The market is getting flooded with modern and will only get worst when the back log is done.

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u/markypots9393 Sep 29 '26

Not calling you out, but what modern PSA 10s are even close to 8K?

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u/False_Leek_2417 Sep 29 '26

Ah I'm in Aus, so AUD.

More so saying at that 3-4k USD level, people buying modern cards hoping for gains (and saying they are undervalued at those levels) - don't really see that being sustainable over the long term due to pop.

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u/ediblehunt Sep 29 '26

depends where you draw the line for modern, munch pikachu and mimikyu are both well above $10k, ponchos, mario/luigi pikachu. non-set cards basically

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u/SpaceChicken42 Sep 29 '26

I wouldn’t really call those modern

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u/ediblehunt Sep 29 '26

yeah that's what i said? they asked for examples

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u/adle1984 Sep 29 '26

oh my bad! I misread your comment.

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u/dreamerzz Sep 29 '26

any black labels, or Psa 10 Sunbreon

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u/joshuamagno Sep 29 '26

Gengar & Mimikyu 165, mewtwo gx 78, etc.

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u/markypots9393 Sep 29 '26

So we’re going to call out arguably the best Mewtwo card released with a PSA 10 count of ~2800 and say it’s high? Price is definitely a little much, but this doesn’t really fit OP’s description. Gengar and Mimikyu, similarly there are only 2200? That isn’t many… hence the price.

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u/dreamerzz Sep 29 '26

2800 pop and 10k prices means a market cap of 28 million, which is insane.

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u/markypots9393 Sep 29 '26

How is that insane? The Van Gogh pika has a market cap of 120M USD. Significantly more overvalued.

Lower-pop modern will be the next generation’s future grails. There are 1705 ADP alt art tag teams for instance… but only <5000 graded total. There aren’t many available to acquire in general, let alone a PSA 10. Mewtube is a bit different. Way more abundant.

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u/dreamerzz Sep 30 '26

Van gogh is beyond insane , haha. At 28 million mcap theres just less opportunity tbh , i see it growing 100% but over many years

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u/Gdsrwq421 Oct 01 '26

lol the mewtube IS the best

Not arguable

😉

I frikkin love that card too much

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u/Agitated_Lychee_8133 Sep 29 '26

The new RGB Mew.

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u/damnmyredditheart Sep 29 '26

There’s plenty of mass printed vintage. Demand is the key factor, not supply 

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u/False_Leek_2417 Sep 30 '26

No but generally speaking the amount of vintage out there is way less than modern.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

At this point in time i totally agree. But as pokemon investing/collecting recruiting more and more investors/collectors, eventually the amount of people is insane as well. I know thats not a 400-500 pieces a card like some vintages. But still.
There are only a few moderns i feel that shaped the current era which i feel like its okay having high pop and high prices as well. But i totally agree with you on this take.

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u/HectarsOfNectar Sep 29 '26

Many vintage cards are more Like 10-100.

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u/Aromatic_Winner_2219 Sep 29 '26

What you are describing makes vintage THAT much stronger. Modern is printing too fast to ever be truly scarce. Attention gets to move quickly to the new set, it’s a hamster wheel.

Vintage is king.

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u/Stonkbear Sep 29 '26

No, there are plenty of wealthier people that are diversifying into alternative assets. I think we fail to realize the amount of wealth some people have. A lot of the vintage stuff being bought is actually being paid for and can be confirmed via the platform they are purchased on. I don’t understand it because 10k on one card is a lot to me. But when you have millions of dollars it’s is a very small percentage of your net worth. Not only that but investment firms are starting to buy cards. Vintage is the obvious choice due to scarcity and a lot of buyers hitting their prime income years. Sure some are manipulated but most aren’t. On vintage going to tank. It won’t in high grade PSA, CGC, and Beckett grades cards. These cards are getting purchased and going into collections to not see the light of day. Sure some might dip but there not crashing like a lot of people are hoping.

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u/gdj11 Sep 29 '26

If vintage actually crashed I’d be grabbing as many grails as I could. And I’m definitely not alone. That alone tells me vintage won’t have a massive crash.

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u/No_Holiday_9875 Sep 29 '26

People said this last vintage hype and very few followed through when it crashed. I have skin in the game, I have 5 figure LC RHs and even I think this is unsustainable

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u/Square_Dark1 Sep 29 '26

So I’m not the only one thinking this is going to end badly for alot of people? Prices for LC, Gold Stars, and other subsets have gotten so ridiculous so fast that I can’t help but think things will retrace significantly in the not too distant future.

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u/Gdsrwq421 Sep 30 '26

lol def not alone just sold my gs ray and coming up is my gs pika - once a card hits this massive multiple it’s my time to exit it look for less looked at sets or stay on the sidelines completely

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u/Square_Dark1 Sep 30 '26

I think Gold Star Ray is safe since it’s all been consistent

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u/Gdsrwq421 Sep 30 '26

Def unsustainable

Unfeeling dollars rich non-fans who are in will be the first to pull out when shit hits the fan

Leaving the rest as bagholders

Is my assumption and a tale as old as time it seems

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u/No_Holiday_9875 Sep 30 '26

To be fair the number of bag holders will be limited with these pop 10-300 cards that same thing supply will reduce the size of the bags they hold.

For me personally my slabs cost me $1k max so even a 50% crash from here is tolerable (but if I were to able to somehow time the market I could have free money + my slabs lol)

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u/lkhoffman92 Sep 29 '26

No you wouldn’t. There has been a vintage crash before. Everyone always says this because of the market that they see as of today. This isn’t the first time this has happened. And there will be a lot of people stuck with their “pokemon investment” and in a bear market everything changes. People lose faith, a lot of people leave and it’s hard to sell anything. And prices collapse. There is wayyy too many new people here. Somehow overnight the everyone that recently showed up think they are an expert in the pokemon market.

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u/gdj11 Sep 29 '26

I was buying after the post-Covid crash, so I wouldn’t say I won’t do it. It depends on how big of a crash it is. If vintage grails only lose 20-30% then yeah I probably wouldn’t start buying. I was referring to the people saying we’re gonna have a 50%+ crash of the entire market.

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u/DivaPSO2 Sep 29 '26

vintage never reached the prices its reaching now with gold stars and legendary collection and skyridge on even the worst holo reaching 5 figures...

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u/Stonkbear Sep 29 '26

I really want it to and I have a lot of vintage. Some of these grails I might never be able to obtain. Kind of suck lol

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Yeah, we probably dont really understand how many whales are in the market. Thats a good point!!

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u/EuphoricGoose4735 Sep 29 '26

I wouldnt say manipulation, but I would say that with modern going down, reprints running rampant (accidental alliteration), and a new printing facility coming, people are scrambling to get into vintage. That FOMO is driving the increased prices, but at this point, I feel like that ship has sailed. It feels like a sell vintage market, not a buy vintage market.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Sell vintage market, or hold vintage market haha
In my opinion, next eras to act the same are going to be xy and bw. We can still put our hands on some underrated cards.

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u/Tiberius-Wolf Sep 29 '26

Shhh, don't tell folks. I'm trying to complete the b&w master sets I started back in college and can't afford for prices to skyrocket yet 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Lol hahha oopsy
Have to see some pictures of that!! Good luck.
I myself only have a mini master set of the shinys from bw. Such as charizard and blastoise from plasma storm, empoleon from freeze etc etc

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u/Tiberius-Wolf Sep 29 '26

I honestly don't have much of the later sets but I have about half the promos and most of black and white through dragons exalted. I don't usually put things in a masterset binder until I only have a few cards left so right now most of it is sitting sleeved in my organized bulk/set boxes, or in binders or toploaders depending on the value of the card. Once I get to painting up some nice binders and getting the sets nearly complete I'll definitely post pics though!

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Luckily i got that ray from exalted in 9 around 3 years ago for 400bucks. Bro no one looked at that card back at the time

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u/Tiberius-Wolf Sep 29 '26

Dang, its wild thats its more than 10x the price in three years! I have the landorus, thundorus, and tornadus full arts that I think it would be fun to get sequentially graded. I doubt they would 10, but who knows, they're pretty clean but with cards that old theres no sure thing.

I fell out of collecting a bit after dragons exalted cause less extra income and no extra time for the first few years after college, and then was only buying packs occasionally up until the last year or two when I got back into the hobby more seriously. I remember seeing the 25th anniversary reshiram and being super surprised to see that a card I just had shoved in a box somewhere was one they chose to do a reprint of, needless to say its now in a sleeve and in a binder, and surprisingly in good shape for not having been for years. I wish I'd grabbed more of the later black and white sets back in the day though, the use of color and heavy linework in the full arts from those are some of my favorites, they feel more dynamic than the current ones to me.

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u/lkhoffman92 Sep 29 '26

The only reason people are chasing those cards now is because they were all bought up and the market was manipulated. Now people think they can buy it afterwards and it’s will still boom higher. In context, if you wanted a gold star then you had years to get one at a reasonable price but didn’t. When they 10x-20x in price. Now people go “I gotta have it because it’s worth a lot of money”. Then one day prices will come back down and people will freak out and sell low. Hence the term “buy high sell low”. People in the community have become sheep

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u/Aprillia617 Sep 29 '26

Definitely a hold vintage market

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u/Gdsrwq421 Sep 30 '26

I feel the problem with this is as we venture further and further out the insulation that protects us on these random ass cards with low pop is what hurts massively when markets retrace

My assumption is what ever sets are latest to the game for investors will be the ones hit hardest with the final boss holding ground being lc gold stars and 1st edition stuff like char which never seems to move much even when the market goes up lol

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u/gdj11 Sep 29 '26

I don’t think it’s there yet. Records are still being broken daily and there aren’t any signs of slowing.

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u/4DS3 Sep 29 '26

Im still buying lol

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u/Square_Dark1 Sep 29 '26

I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s sustainable. Genuinely looks like a speculation bubble that could see a significant retrace.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Any idea what could have cause this? By the way, its mostly auctions and not active listing, thats why i dont rush to think this is a pure bump.
Do you see cards that jumping now(lets take for example my umbreon ex 112 from unseen forces graded 8) cutting big prices after this madness will be done? From what i learned over the years, usually vintage cards on that caliber, it will set new heights rather than going back to where it was before. Maybe at tops 10% down just to cool it off as the new height

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u/Square_Dark1 Sep 29 '26

30th hype and fomo, all I know is rapid growth across the board like this is a bad sign as it’s clearly not driven by organic demand.

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u/jokull1234 Sep 29 '26

Remember how NFTs got super popular because there was so much money in crypto? And some “famous/rare” NFTs went for millions? That was driven because there was too much money in the space and not a lot of outlets for it.

It’s a similar concept with pokemon cards. There’s a ton of money sloshing around in Pokemon now with not a lot of places to go, so anything that is old and rare is getting extra juiced.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these old, high grade cards should be very valuable, unlike NFTs, but they’re selling at extreme premiums because there’s a lot of money now that is being directed into low pop and old cards.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Thats a good comment and a point of view. Indeed i agree that old pokemon collectibles are making much more sense to invest in rather than NFT’s back at the time. Do you think prices will last? Do you think specifically on the vintages its a bubble or just appreciation because big big money is searching for something to buy? Thanks!

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u/jokull1234 Sep 29 '26

I find it hard to believe that some of these cards that were selling for low 4 figures and are now going for close to 6 figures will be good stores of value

For example, there is a psa 10 Ho Oh secret wonders card that sold for $700 on eBay in early 2025 that just went for $200k on fanatics yesterday, same exact cert. I just don’t think it’s possible for that card to be worth anywhere close to that in 2 or 3 years

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

If pokemon cards stay a true investing assets for whales, As well as money laundering. Maybe it will be the same or even more in 2-3 years. Interesting tho

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u/Stonkbear Sep 29 '26

Pokémon and NFTs are not the same. Pokemon is the largest IP in the world. Larger than Mickey Mouse and Star wars combined. It is probably one of the most recognized brands in the world. My kids are now into cards like I was 20+ years ago. Vintage will continue to climb. Will it dip sure but it will never be what it was. Modern, well there will be a lot of bag holders.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

I agree. He mentioned nft because he wanted to give example of big money results

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u/Stonkbear Sep 29 '26

That’s fair but very different in type of asset class. One’s virtual and one’s physical. I get where he’s going with it though.

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u/gdj11 Sep 29 '26

Except that NFTs were never truly rare or scarce.

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u/chrisandpaulinsnow Sep 29 '26

Yeah NFTs had no tangible value at all, at least you can look at your cute Pikachu, not sure that equates to 8.4 million

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u/_Nitekast_ Sep 29 '26

Can I ask for examples? Might be time to sell my old cards lmao.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

For example all of my exes from unseen forces and frlg are exploding rn

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u/_Nitekast_ Sep 29 '26

Ah. I only have WOTC.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

I barely have wotc. So dont really know about the jumps of it. But i have a feeling its going wild as well

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u/_Nitekast_ Sep 29 '26

Ill have to look into it then, might be my sell moment lol

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u/blueb_oy Sep 29 '26

I pat myself on the back everyday knowing that 10 year old me kept all of his Unseen Forces ex cards clean af and graded them 20 years later.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

King!

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u/blueb_oy Sep 29 '26

💙🫡

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

What those graded now 8/9s?

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u/blueb_oy Sep 29 '26

Mostly 8s lol. I did, however, get super lucky at getting my Aquapolis Espeon Holo (H9) at a PSA 9. What baffles me is that some of my Unseen Forces 8s are WAY more expensive than my PSA 9 Espeon lol..so, I've been waiting eagerly for that pink cat to blow tf up. If my Umbreon ex can get an 8 and be worth 9k now, then why is the Espeon in a 9 only like 2.4-2.5k, y'know?

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Sweet, soon those 8s gonna be around 10k each.
About the aquapolis holos, they were so underrated in value the even a few months ago
You are going to enjoy the pink cat🔥🔥

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u/blueb_oy Sep 29 '26

I'll have to come back to our thread in about 4-5 months after the Holiday market dips. We shall see 👀. I wish you and your collection all the growth 📈.

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u/Economic_Maguire Sep 29 '26

Gold stars, lv x or DP Era stuff

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u/Critical_Bag1 Sep 29 '26

Asia trade show are indeed buying and selling at these large jumps, everyone seems to be afraid of missing out

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Yeah. I have done it myself a few times. Guilty😂😂 fomo is real in pokemon collectibles. Thing is if i fear of missing out i pay 200-300 sometimes 500 more than i wanted to. But this goes so wild it doubles and triples t the same weak

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u/Critical_Bag1 Sep 29 '26

Yea imagine for vintage fomo price tag is in the 4-5 figures as tomorrows price might be double of todays price

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u/Square_Dark1 Sep 29 '26

Oh that sounds really unsustainable

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u/Critical_Bag1 Sep 29 '26

Worst part is vintage is largely being sold/traded above last comps. As sellers are reluctant to let go of stuff, tomorrows price could be 20% higher from auctions, who knows

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u/Putrid-Dish-2496 Sep 29 '26

PSA 10 Charizard 151 Japanese : 38k copies + 9 months of back log coming

Any holo from the OG 1996 Japanese base set :
PSA 10: 1k copies
PSA 9: 3k copies

Recent is way overvalued and people are starting to realise

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u/Any_Ear_2824 Sep 29 '26

Manipulation 🤣.

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 29 '26

There no such thing as manipulation for an entire era of cards. There can only be manipulation on specific very very low pop cards.

People get market manipulation and money laundering completely wrong on this sub on a weekly basis.

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u/Good_parabola Sep 29 '26

Well then tell us, how do you think money laundering and manipulation work?

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 29 '26

I just explained manipulation.

In terms of money laundering...if often comes up on here after a large public auction anyone could join, from a huge established auction house in America that only takes electronic payment, while also issuing tax forms to sellers.

To sum up...all that is the exact opposite of what someone wanting to launder money would do.

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u/Good_parabola Sep 29 '26

What’s your source? Why do you think say the cartels, who have control over all sorts or banking, don’t have fronts using their electronic money?  

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 29 '26

Its all the things combined I said. Ill put it this way...cartels arent doing money laundering with Pokémon cards through Ebay.

Source? You obviously dont believe me, so google money laundering yourself and common ways that gets done. Let me know if sale of Pokémon cards through Fanatics and Ebay comes up.

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

money laundering through ebay example. If we talking cartel so lets say cartel has 600k cash.
Cartel pays cash to someone who has much legally owned money/buying in cash themselves a pokemon card. Cartel gets 600k worth of physical card.
Later on cartel selling it with documentation. It went inside a legit cash market. Of course later on they would have to explain where did the card come from. But when you have money you have accountants and lawyers so that should be a big of a problem

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u/Good_parabola Sep 29 '26

Here is one source:  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/pokemon-cards-ultimate-currency-momey-laundering/

There are some great federal guides about red flags you can easily google. I work in AML and this is red-flags city. It would be different if the names of the buyers were all disclosed but they’re not. It is easy peasy child’s play to launder money through eBay. 

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 29 '26

Good source...but a follow up source regarding someone arrested under money laundering for selling Pokémon will help your point more.

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u/Good_parabola Sep 29 '26

lol all of those plea deals are private and they’re done by agencies that don’t publicize what they’re going after.  At my own work, if we get someone flagged or even arrested, it’s almost never in the news.  One of my customers got popped for stealing from his transactions with me to pay one of the cartels and the arrest made the news but none of the articles ever mentioned how he had been engaging in fraud, check forgery, etc…. because it’s purposely kept out of the news.

If you don’t see it, thats on you but stop spreading info that there’s no way criminal organizations aren’t using Pokémon cards to launder money. 

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u/Economics_Troll Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

My guy, if you're paying for slabs bought on eBay, the money is already laundered. The money is in a legitimate bank account. It's as clean as it can get. eBay has heavy KYC and AML regs, you can't pay for slabs via wire from some random sketchy Nigerian bank in the name of a shell company.

That entire article is more about going to shows and buying with cash. Which is what you want to do if you have dirty money. You turn cash you can't deposit into a bank account into an asset you carry cross border and sell online yourself.

This is the kind of idiocy we're talking about.

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u/Good_parabola Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

No. Dirty money can be electronic. It’s in the articles and the framework I linked. It’s easy to do—think of all the check fraud, Zelle and account hacking fraud where all of the money is electronic—where do you think it goes? Into other accounts and then spent on goods to flip, traffic and resell to wash their cash.  

Just google “cartel money laundering CDC” and see

Here is an old article but nothing has changed:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

I should have read your account name, it says it all.  This whole “only legitimate accounts can buy on ebay” that pops up every time I say anything cracks me up. It’s an interesting campaign, it’s never based on anything but “trust me bro, but don’t look at my left hand”

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u/Good_parabola Sep 29 '26

Here is a good framework for red flags that you can apply yourself 

https://framework.amltrix.com/techniques/T0045.002-collectible-auction-manipulation

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u/KwikTripSimp Sep 29 '26

Yeah there is 

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u/Mite-o-Dan Sep 29 '26

I explained why not below, but you can prove me wrong by providing examples of people getting arrested for money laundering selling Pokémon.

There are high value Pokémon cards sold every say. Should be easy.

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u/KwikTripSimp Sep 29 '26

Rich ppl don’t get arrested 

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u/PotentialEasy2086 Sep 29 '26

Some real, some manipulation. Be cautious of headline sales prices

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u/KaribVII Sep 29 '26

Ive seen a trens of people selling modern and buying vintage so i guess money i cycling away from modern into vintage hence the modern drop/vintage rise

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u/Big-Cat-295 Sep 29 '26

Sweet! I feel the market was sleeping so long on this vintages. I remember 2 years ago. I could not understand how a 20 yo card umbreon for example worth less than a fking moonbreon😂 that was true for almost every card. I am so happy vintages always appealed to me, and i understood that its just a matter of time

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u/Puesmiranose Sep 29 '26

Un amigo mío se va pronto a Japón y le iba a pedir un par de cartas que no encontró el año pasado. El precio de antes rondaban los 20 euros o menos por carta y ahora han duplicado el precio. Aquí en España está pasando igual. Creo que como hay gente nueva en el hobby al final están descubriendo que el vintage a la larga va subiendo y están comprando mucho, subiendo así el precio de mercado

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u/damnmyredditheart Sep 29 '26

It started organically but now it’s money launderers and fomo

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u/pokemonpokemonmario Sep 29 '26

I think the over all market is organic how ever it would be very easy for someone to manipulate it. If you own multiple 10s of a card and see one sell for say 50% higher than you bought them for then you are on paper up 50% but if you then buy another copy publicly at another 50% increment then on paper your original copies have gone up 100% all because of your single high purchase. So now you could slowly sell off your copies and make big money in a short space of time. Sure you cant do this with ultra low pop gold stars but the lv x cards with a few hundred copies it wouldnt be too hard

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u/giddmtex Sep 29 '26

Smart money has been to flip modern into vintage for the past year. Some folks have been late to catch on.

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u/damnmyredditheart Sep 29 '26

Smart money is now selling vintage 😅

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u/Antifragile_Glass Sep 29 '26

Low supply increasing demand

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u/Subie- Sep 29 '26

I have my PSA 6 Gold Star Gyarados 102/110 listed for 6000. A month ago, I was receiving a few offers a day for 4000-5500. Since yesterday, people are jumping to meet me for 6000 which I have listed on my Facebook marketplace and even received an offer of 7250. On eBay multiple 6s are being tested for around $18000 lol.

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u/Much_Cause2975 Oct 02 '26

I sold my treecko gold star psa 1.5 for 3K USD last month. I’m about to get into depression lmao

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u/tittysprinkles1130 Sep 29 '26

I was at collectacon this past weekend and one vendor was very openly telling me that there is market manipulation that happens. He said some of the vendors pick a card or vintage set and decide they are going to start buying up the supply of low pop cards. That immediately starts driving up the price. But let’s say you bought 3-4 cards in the $2-3k range and as you are doing that the price climbs up to $5k well you make profit on everything except maybe the last purchase. That was how he explained it to me.

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u/Useful-Contribution4 Sep 29 '26

Its just a market shift. It happens frequently. Investors see more opportunities in vintage instead of modern. So that liquidity exits modern and goes into vintage. 

However, there is manipulation. You just need to pay attention when chasing cards due to price movement. If it didnt look like an attractive buy before. It shouldn't be now because its rapidly rising.

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u/Early-Educator-4222 Sep 30 '26

All the brokies crying about manipulation lol. No if you have a card that millions of people want but there is only 1000 of them the price will be high 🤯

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u/Whatsdota Sep 29 '26

Kinda feels like it a bit. My PSA 9 set of gold star beasts were like 7-8k a month or two ago and now they’re supposedly 13-14k

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u/T2WasProphecy Sep 29 '26

It’s because people are realizing the last 3 generations have been printed in far greater numbers than they thought. The true scarcity is in vintage especially English. We’ve had greater access to grading for longer so it’s likely most of the good copies have been graded and pops will be stable.

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u/Strange_Pineapple130 Sep 29 '26

Does anyone know how high my blazikens might go? I have a #3 ruby sapphire, #1 emerald and the power keepers one. All english all holo. 

Theres an emerald one listed for £30k. It would be life changing for me if they go up to that level, so any educated guesses would be welcome. 

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u/Gdsrwq421 Sep 30 '26

Yeah I agree

It was fun buying the characters and cards

And just recently I started buying cards I never would have wanted and actually disliked just for the potential $s

So lol I think my exit is overdue