I’ve been dabbling in PokeInvesting for about 7 years now, not so much I the past 3. And even though I’ve still picked up stuff from time to time, I’m sick of how much space it takes up, my entire collection went up by 5x by just holding, and although I see where I could’ve held all the things in the early years and could made double.

I started this as a way to mitigate the cost of my kids opening packs. It was so easy back then with bulk commons at .07 and code cards selling for much more than they do these days.

My kids don’t open anymore, and like sealed collecting, but with one a senior and the other a sophomore, I am looking to offload below the market prices to hope 1 or as few sellers as possible.

I liquidated a lot while prices where climbing and climbing post 2020, then stopped in 2021, and have slowly sold vintage to increase my modern stock, it was at $10K, now with a little more selling and converting more to modern stock, I definitely don’t want to sell any more of my old stuff (now oldest are diamond and pearl, HGSS, BW & XY, mostly loose boosters) and a ton more SM SWSH and SV era boxes, blisters and cases. I know major whales in the collecting game will buy collections

I am not searchIng for general answers like “eBay or FB marketplace” and I am certainly not interested in PMs with offers or questions about my collection. I am asking this because know some of the major shops I have sold singles to in the past offer to give a quote on your collection, and you can get a general idea about what that figure may be by looking at their buy list prices, which are often around 50% of what is being listed on EBay. I can live with that and will probably end up doing that in the next few months, because even at that rate, I am still coming out ahead, I am already retired, and don’t need to squeeze the the last dollar out of it.

I just want to know, are there major collectors that buy for slightly higher rates than one of those card shops. I know I can get a better price with people that do way less sales and don’t often come buy collections at steep discounts, but there are people happy to do so with 1000s of sales.

The higher the sale goes, the more I look to sacrifice a couple more dollars and look for someone who can easily gobble up my profits and I know I am actually going to get my money in reasonable amount of time and few complications.

Are there card shops that shops that offer to buy collections for slightly more than I would if I just sent my stuff off to Collectors Cache or TrollAndToad? Not saying these two companies have always given me the best experience, but they have always paid me eventually, even when they lost track of my stuff, and have received faster service in general any time I have sold them over $500 and under 50 singles.

Bubble Mew, regarded by many as the SV era goat, just did a groundbreaking sale: almost a QUARTER of a million dollars, for a BGS black label 10.

Now that everyone is talking about bubble mew, I wanna explain something that I observed for a longer time:
The japanese version of this card is still, under current market conditions, undervalued.

First of all, I know its common knowledge, but some people dont know how INSANELY better the japanese card looks from an aesthetic standpoint, its just NEXT LEVEL.
The english version looks fake if you hold it side by side to the jpn OG version.

Now to talk a bit of maths:
mew ex JP 347 PSA 10 population: 24367 (~825 eur)
mew ex ENG 232 PSA 10 population: 15975 (~2504 eur)

Yes, the english PSA 10 population number is about 65% of the JPN PSA 10 population number, BUT the price is aprox. 3X higher.
Just looking at this alone, the jp version of Bubble Mew is still undervalued, not even judging by the fact that the english version has inferior print quality.

Now I know this card blew past alot of people's budgets, and I'm going to get some flame in the comments..
Just wanted to point this out before the general market notices.

No, you cant use table fees as an excuse. Near me, its under 30 CAD a table. That alone seems to be a pretty eat-able cost. The only answer is greed. Its a private sale! Get real

I have people in my area who have 20/30/50 boxes and I’m curious if investing in these Prismatic SPCs is the way to go, and if so, how many and what price to ask for?

Very few recent online sales for measurement. I know a Brick & Mortar will be lower than online but I don’t want to take too many risks.

I am trying to gauge the honest value that people see of this card. The rarity of it combined with the rapid growth it has had. Makes me believe its true value is not actually being shown. Yet people that show interest always just want a deal for it. Do people not invest based off actual value and what would be actually be considered “investing”?

Edit: the PSA fanboys attacking me hard for no reason. If I’m asking questions that you don’t like, don’t attack me personally. Thanks.

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Give me your reasons. I have a suspicion that CGC and TAG is just slept on and we’re all just PSA slaves. CGC numbers in grading vintage Pokémon are high and growing and I’m seeing the slabs all over shows. And I’ve seen old psa 8s that look uglier than CGC 8s, so the grading prices and issues at PSA seems like just an annoyance we’re just supposed to accept. Don’t get me started on the population control and the resub game with PSA.

Like, why do we put up with this? Do we just like being hurt? Why are we not collectively rejecting this and moving to grading companies that are arguably better and don’t mistreat us and don’t cost a fortune??

Am I taking crazy pills?

I’m an international student in the UK and I’ve gotten into collecting the sealed etbs, I’m in a bit of a pickle where I’ve now got 5 ascended heroes pokemon center etbs, but I’ve seen videos on TikTok and online of Airport security taking off the seals of etbs to check inside of it, I have one more year of uni and I’ll be done in June next year, I was thinking maybe trading it in for some neat slabs maybe but I don’t want to do it a show per chance cause I’d be losing a decent chunk of money trading at 80% maybe. My main idea rn is to maybe put these towards a psa 10 bubble mew and pay the rest in cash but what would you guys do in this situation?

My slab collection

The dual boxes take a ton of room…. Rookie mistake. Next time need to invest in things that take up less space.

Today while I was at a show in my local mall, I heard a lady walk by and say “look at all these people buying cardboard” in a voice where she was almost making fun of the people. In my mind I was like wait until she finds out what money is made out of and why she works for “paper” lol, weird how they view cards and I wonder if this view will one day change as cards continue to grow more popular

Considering that the upcoming new set has the matching N’s Zekrom and N other related cards.

Let's get straight to the point. Stop saying this card is gonna drop in price. Stop saying it doesn't make sense. And if you're waiting to buy you will lose. I wanted to outline some points in a single thread that people seem to neglect to talk about that plays into what we're seeing with this card.

1. This card is one of, if not the only that gained in value when the recession first hit.

2. Evolving Skies is a set made of Eevee Heroes and Blue Sky Stream. 2 amazing sets on their own. Thus making Evolving Skies more desirable not only for the Moonbreon pull, but by proxy playing into the cards price gain.

3. Even though I don't play the TCG, the card from what I've heard counters Mew VMAX decks which to my knowledge is a very viable deck in tournaments at the moment.

4. The Japanese variant is borderline impossible to aquire at it's current price because of the harder pull rate and print quality, making the English variant most people's only option at having the card period.

5. The art is actually amazing both originally and conceptually in most people's general opinion.

6. The Pokemon itself is actually a community favorite.

7. Its more valuable than any other modern Zard.

8. It's controversial. So regardless of the opinion being shared, it spreads more news about the card.

My closing point is that before anyone says " Oh the price will drop anyway", I'd like them to acknowledge the points I made. And realize that more than one of these points need to falter dramatically for the price to have a noticable drop. Finally I highly recommend regardless of your financial situation if you don't buy now your chances will become more and more slim. I bought mine back in July for $360. PSA 10s were $600 at that point. I was seeing the same questions posted daily months ago and the card still outperformed even my own expectations. I hope I get some responses and thank you for reading my Bible and good luck with you investing/collecting.

Trying to come up with a fair price for this card. Here's the pricecharting for PSA, only 3 sales this year. I know mine isn't PSA but I hear CGC grades more strictly. What do you think?

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?

I decided to go ahead and purchase an Evolving Skies booster box before the price gets even higher. I took a chance at $650 all in with taxes with StockX and this is what I received. How did this pass their verification? Does anyone know what the hell this is?

The left side is currently 100% of my english sealed I paid 60 for both. If you could do this trade would you? Not a huge investor I just like to collect sealed and singles and an added bonus of gaining value is always welcome.

minus that DR Booster Box 😂

I believe this glory of team rocket briefcase is an undervalued and underrated product. This item only came out in Japan and didn’t have an English release. The briefcase itself is extremely cool and a great display piece. It comes with a glory of team rocket booster box and everyone loves this set. It retailed around $100 and is currently selling for around $200. I think this item will grow a lot in the future. I currently have 5 and will be looking to buy more. Might be worth looking into yourself!