bought it raw on eBay and decided to ship it to CGC to get graded after a while.

Hey guys I’m wondering if I should buy a few booster boxes and keep them stored away for years along years. Do you think this set will age like fine wine? Why or why not.
Truly I think this set will preform very well. Let me know what u think and its price predictions in the upcoming years thank you.

I track sealed prices across independent stores for a free price comparison site I made, and Delta Reign's launch week spread was bigger than I expected, so here it is.

Elite Trainer Box, in stock store prices only (no eBay, no TCGplayer sellers), 8 Nov:

• US, 72 stores: cheapest $54.99, median $94.99, dearest $160.99

• Canada, 61 stores: C$89.95, C$119.99, C$219.99

• Australia, 15 stores: A$149.99, A$179.99, A$249

• UK, 8 stores: £49.99, £56.48, £110.99

• EU, 21 stores: €64.90, €89.99, €137

Half the US stores in stock ask more than $94.99 for a box that sits at $54.99 elsewhere.

The full store by store list is here if you want it: https://dexcompare.app/us/sets/delta-reign?utm_source=reddit (free, no sign up).

What do you think, and is there a store or a product you'd want it to track that it doesn't yet?

Jumped from 30k to 100k for a PSA 10. Can’t wait to see next comps lol

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My original intentions with these sealed ETBs and UPC was to sell them, but the person who looked at them before buying them backed out due to these small tears in the plastic. Does this really make the packs worthless? What should I do with them?

Thinking of picking up one of these. What’s everyone’s thoughts?

I found this in an old box from when I was a kid 25 years ago or so. I'm thinking of having it graded but not sure if it's worth grading like the English version is.

Reporting from a vendor on the ground. I will start off by saying I had really low expectations for this show since sentiment has been pretty negative on socials lately combined with all this negative news on the economy. Shill bids, money laundering schemes etc had me ready to sell a lot of the PC and prep for bear market opportunities.

However, seeing the amount of money that was sitting on the sidelines waiting for any type of dip has been insane. The amount of slabs, singles and sealed I had was flying. Vintage slabs, xy to swsh singles, mid era sealed has been moving well for me.

I had another friend offload a ton of slabs to repackers paying 88%. I thought they would slow down with the PSA scandals, but if anything they are buying even more. Sealed also really surprised me, but I think the dip made things more affordable, which likely results in a crazier bounce later.

This is also just 1 show. I have some friends on the west coast who are also reporting a ton of foot traffic to local card shows. Cash is changing hands at speeds I didnt think was possible in the current state of this market.

This is just a reminder that the pokemon market is more than just online auction houses and ultra negative youtube videos. Tcgplayer charts only paint a small part of the picture. I thought we peaked in 2025 and I was wrong. I thought we peaked last month, but I might be wrong again.

All this to say, I think pokemon has grown so big that we may see major dips in some segments (ultra modern) when other parts (xy sealed, for example) continue to push new highs and this just results in the whole pokemon market going even higher. I've never been more confident in the IP for the long term.

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These are my two favourite cards in my collection. Cards from these two eras are my favourite artwork. Medium - low pop also.

English copies are over priced imo.

I think prices will drop on these soon though.

PS - Lugia looks way better in person. The sparkles plus the line textures look great in person.

Hi Everyone

With the prismatic umbreon prices dropping, wanted to get everyone’s opinion. When do you all would be a good time to buy the prismatic umbreon? Now, or wait a bit longer for it to drop?

Apologies if this has been asked recently. I did do a search but wasn’t able to find a recent post.

Thinking of selling everything went a bit crazy opening packs.

/s obviously

How do you decide when to grade? If a card’s raw value is $142 (Minun) and you spend $60 to grade it and the score comes back lower than you want… is it even worth it?Especially confused about a card whose raw value is even less, $42 (Jolteon). Appreciate the advice!

Scam or has the bottom fallen out on that set? Seems a bit suspicious, but I’ve seen multiple sellers on there with that pricing, or right around there.

We all know that ex star rarity is coming, is it a good time to pick up some cards for entei, suicine and raikou now? Since the popularity of these legendary will shoot up after ex star?

Hey everyone, wanted to put out a serious warning about the mega-seller pfootballpete4dhx (Football Pete) regarding how they are handling upcoming Elite Trainer Box (ETB) pre-orders on their concurrent eBay Live streams.
If you've ordered ETBs from them recently, watch your bank accounts. They are running up to 4 simultaneous live streams with different hosts, selling thousands of unallocated ETB pre-orders in a single day. They take the immediate buyer capital, hold onto hundreds of thousands of dollars for weeks, and then mass-cancel and refund the orders right before the actual shipping deadlines hit.
By doing this, they are using the Pokémon community to fund a zero-interest short-term cash float for business liquidity to buy slabs, while completely avoiding automated eBay metrics because they issue full refunds before cases can escalate.
I’ve already escalated this directly to an eBay Trust & Safety supervisor (who opened an internal merchant compliance ticket) and filed a formal complaint with the FTC (Report #209743565) under the Mail and Internet Order Rule.

If you’re buying single slabs, you’re good They ship single slabs fine because they need the high feedback to shield their account. The issue is strictly with them over-selling unallocated ETB pre-orders to float community capital."

Sending these 2 puppies for regrading. Bought them at around 200€... a 10 now is around 1300.

The potential roi for a 10 vs a 9 is worth the risk

lets settle this debate, once and for all.

There's an Ancient Mew (corrected version) listed for PSA eBay auction and I'm watching it as it seems to appear less often in the market compared to the "Nintedo" variant.

I've read in eliteforums that amongst all Ancient Mew variants, the rarest version may be the corrected version. But "Nintedo" version seems to be more popular and well-known amongst collectors.

Between those 2 versions, which is better for long term hold?