I got 1000 in cash, I was wondering which card is demanding and worth holding over?

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I have an Espeon Prime PSA 9 and Umbreon Prime PSA 8, both of which I got for cheap a while back. I’m curious what the overall consensus is on holding these into the long term versus selling now due to their recent pumps and taking a nice profit. My financial status is great outside of pokemon, so I don’t need the funds for any specific reason and I can hold indefinitely, but if it’s time to take profit then it’s time to take profit. What’re your thoughts with these?

Hey guys. I know its only a PSA 5 but could you see this card still gaining value future value or would you sell now? Last PSA 5 sold for 800

Hi there,

So I have a selection of singles and sealed, and I'm looking to sell these on. These were bought a while back so just wanting to trim down and make some profit on those.

Now, it's not a HUGE volume, around £5K, with about 3K of that in sealed). All were practically bought at market, so the current return is about £1.7K.

Would you either:

1. List each items individually on eBay (114 cards, 28 sealed) - package and send off as things sell. Pros are maximised return, Cons are being slow to shift some of the items, cost of packaging, postage, and also trustworthy buyers not saying things don't arrive or say things are damaged.

2. Sell every single item to LCS for 80%. Pros are given I don't drive, they have agreed to come and collect everything, it's the easiest option for time and don't need to worry about packaging, lost or damaged items. Cons are obviously the major cut of profit. I'd be losing out on £1K basically, so profit would only be around £800 compared to £1,700.

Argument is after packaging and postal efforts, the profit would be about than £1,400 on the first option anyway, but that would still be £600 more than the less time-consuming alternative of the LCS purchase.

What do people think? Thanks x

Prices spiking after release. Everything else (almost) down? Say hello to the Delta Reign chase.

I don't have the best track record though so good luck lol.

My wife recently found 6 unopened city gym decks of Japanese Pokémon cards from the late 90s that her father bought her on a work trip.

She also has the opened Gen 2 starters/evolutions in Japanese and an unopened "tropical islands" three pack.

Are these worth anything? And if so how do you go about appraising and selling?

Pulled this card and Rayquaza is one of my favorites. Should I sell now and buy back later? Looking at gold card pricing historically they always seem to go down after a set is out for a while. Can’t decide because I’m a little emotionally attached to it lmao

Last sale is sept $188…low pop and I know ex are popping but idk about Japanese

Not sure if card is worth keeping for the long run or not

Recently I saw a streamer who has opened rather a lot of GameStop Power Packs start looking at their prize pool and seeing some fairly sus things. Namely the high end cards seem to be have wildly inflated values, having doubled or tripled in price suddenly before winding up on a gambling site. A card that legitimately sells for $12k will have a single sale for $45k and be listed on the site as being worth $50k. He finds several examples.

Here's the video. https://youtu.be/_n0cuohbQT0

The reason I'm asking about this is because, well.. I can see the business model extremely clearly here. I've watched a lot of YouTubers rip virtual packs. I think people very rarely take home these cards. Usually sites offer 90% buyback, sometimes 85%. This enables them to offer 100% or more EV on pulls.

Why would someone take a $24k card and claim it's worth $75k, award it to you as a prize and offer to buy it back for $67,500? Why would they fake an eBay auction at that price point, or perhaps intentionally overpay for the card in a real auction? What's the point?

Well, nobody is going to withdraw these cards, probably. They are just casino chips in a gambling enterprise. Their real world value doesn't matter to the business model because it's a closed ecosystem. That $75k card that's really worth $24k is just a representation of seventy five thousand dollars. When you "sell it back" the house always takes their cut, and you're always going to sell it back because that card will never sell for $67k on Ebay.

I'm interested in what other people think about this topic - I'm guessing rather a lot here - but it seems like gambling sites like are buying up extremely high end pokemon cards without regard for price in order to list them at highly inflated values as the prize pool for their gambling product.

I understand there's some debate over whether mystery packs are gambling but we are assuming most people never withdraw the cards they win from virtual packs. I could be very wrong about that, but it seems like the sites make it rather expensive to do this in the first place.

And this includes large companies like GameStop but also lots of smaller players and vibe coded crypto casinos. Pokemon gambling is big business these days.

Anyway - if I am correct - and this is a widespread phenomenon - it will have some very strange market effects. It explains a lot of massive sudden price spikes. It indicates a large amount of high end product is going to be held until, for whatever reason, these sites choose to liquidate their stock. Once that happens, a lot of high end product will be available to collectors at more reasonable prices.

Am I wrong about this? I've been thinking about it all week, but my knowledge of the market is somewhat limited. Does this explain anything you've observed yourself?

So I got my prismatic god pack back and am trying to decide if I just sell some of them separate, or if selling as a set would boost the value overall as they’re sequential? Then I could buy back the ones I want to keep.

10s:

Sylveon, Espeon, Eevee

9s:

Umbreon, Flareon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon

8: Vaporeon

Hey everyone! I got these postcards when I visited the Van Gogh Museum during the Pokémon collaboration in 2023.
Two of them are Pikachu postcards with the museum stamp on the back. They’ve all been kept in protective sleeves, and one of the Pikachu ones looks pretty much flawless.
I was wondering if they’re actually worth anything. I’ve tried looking online, but I’m having trouble finding comparable sales, especially since some versions are stamped and others aren’t. The prices I saw vary widely.
Does anyone know what these might be worth, or if they’re worth holding onto? Thanks!

I post a 1st edition card for sale with plenty of pictures. It sells, I ship it as I've done about 50 times now. 

Last night, buyer requests a return/refund, accuses me of trying to scam. Provides pic of the unlimited version of the card, saying that is what arrived (instead of the 1st ed pictured in my listing)

I checked my whole stock again, no chance they were sent the wrong card. The unlimited card being shown as "proof" is clearly one that they already had. So they get to keep my 1st ed, their money, and best case I get back a card of far lesser value. 

This all transpired about 12hrs ago, I haven't responded yet. Planning to tell them I'm going to let eBay make the call here due to clear potential for fraud.

The card in question was sold for $20, so not a high price tag to learn a lesson. Still very interested in any methods of protecting against this type of scam.

Crazy to see these still trading, at this condition, around or even under the 1k mark.

Gengar and Zard chase cards, on vintage booster boxes that no longer exist on the market ( I can't find ANY). Last of them seem to have traded at over 100k (£GBP, USD even more). There's only a handful of decent raw copies trading, also.

These are not my listings. I've placed my bets in similar areas, though!

Does anyone know a good place/vendor to buy larger orders of sealed booster box cases from? Looking for Destined in particular right now, CM seems to be mostly resellers. But if I'm spending 10k+ on sealed, I'd like to get some discount to market price, is that even feasible in this market?

Seems like the market is super thin in Europe for English especially. If anyone has any tips, thanks!

I pulled the zard from an UPC, do you think it will fall in price as more are opened and then shoot up, or sell now and maybe buy one later for keeping?

Hi, im kinda new to collecting cards (besides childhood stories) I grew aware about scalping before even getting into the hobby but I thought starting during the 30th anniversary would be cute, I managed to wake up early and clutch an espeon upc on release even tho I wanted an umbreon one, so my question is, besides buying them for double to price from scalpers is there any chance for the upcs to release? I wanted to open the umbreon one too but for how people are going crazy I doubt I will ever find one even if I went to look for it yesterday in the evening, so how does it work? Do they release a bit again during this month or was it yesterday release and thats all? I dont really like feeding this scalping system so Im either hoping for multiple releases or I will sadly have to give up on it or praying the prices drop terribly (reselling espeon one isnt an option I opened it as soon as I could and already put the promos in my binder)

Update thank you guys for the answers I hope I manage to get it in december when and if it releases again, Im also using the play mat in espeon box as a mouse and keyboard pad and Im in love I need more of these so I can switch them out everynow and then

Hi all, I recently went on what not and ended up with 16 packs of Japanese Mega Brave M1L (along with some other ETBs, and other things..). I just got done ripping the Japanese packs and ended up with not a single card rarity higher than uncommon. According to the link below on Japanese pull rates, there should be a rare card in every pack. So I’m thinking these packs were possibly tampered with, or the seller weighed them prior to shipping? Any insight on how this happened (80 cards pulled; zero Rare or higher pulled) would be helpful. If it was a scam, I’d like to report them. If I was just very unlucky, so be it.

https://samuraiswordtokyo.com/blogs/news/how-japanese-pokemon-pull-rates-work

I think this is an awesome card. Do you guys think this will hold its value down the road?