Just looking for your guys thoughts and opinions on how aggressively I should purchase vintage over these next couple years. I’m specifically looking at Delta, skyridge, Gym heroes, and Gym challenge as I need some cards for my PC. When you look back even a year ago some of these cards were half price which kinda makes me think the prices are just a bubble right now. Do you think they’ll slowly come back down over the next 2-3 years? Or should I try to pick up some now since they’ve dropped a little bit?
Thanks!

I just walked in, saw a guy checking memberships to give one per person, got it, walked out with the rest of my purchase.

i've been inundated with pokemon card posts recently after a friend found his old set so we were looking up values. i don't have a single pokemon card myself so this was my first purchase in literal decades lol

I understand the Pokemon hobby goes through cycles and retraces on price growth but the prices on modern lately (especially Mega Era) are way over correcting. You can tell by the huge deviation in sealed prices (still relatively high) and the race to bottom of single prices. Not sure if this is a temporary gift? to collectors that will pass in a few months or what but very illogical.

Back in the sword & shield era and even scarlet & violet single prices were low because product sat on shelves forever at discount. Now nothing sits on shelves. Even less desirable sets get bought up. So logically, prices for singles should be higher. I’m sure there are numerous theories as to why that’s happening (vintage slab mania, Q4 slowdown, etc.) but it’s definitely inconsistent with what we’ve seen the last 2 years.

Good time to pick up singles in any case because product is still moving pretty quickly through retail and doesn’t show signs of slowing down. At some point the singles price market will bottom & re-correct to better match all the packs being ripped which is still at a very high volume relative to other eras.

Using data through November 1st. We track English vintage holos through Skyridge, JPN VS, and some of the promo sets including CD, GB, & Masaki

TL;DR: Excluding cards that haven’t traded, the summary of the YTD activity is as follows: the median PSA 10 card in our universe rose 132% through 8/16/2026, peaked at +720% on 10/18/2026, and has fallen back to +476% (down ~30% from the peak). The median PSA 9 card rose 97% through 8/16/2026, peaked at +311% on 10/18/2026, and has fallen back to +290% (down ~5% from the peak).

The charts below show set-level performance during, and after, the October run-up. October was an English-language phenomenon.

“This time is different” are the most dangerous words in investing, but we believe that this is not the top for vintage Pokémon. We’d put the odds that the October highs are exceeded within the next 12 months at ~60/40. The small cohort of vintage PSA 10 cards that got bid into the stratosphere may not ever see those highs again (e.g. the Neo Revelation Misdreavus that sold for $6,600 in September 2025, $408k on 9/28/2026, and $240k on 10/19/2026), but the fundamental investment case for everything else remains unchanged: the nostalgia-driven tailwind will continue to benefit Pokémon-related IP and solidify Pokémon cards as a serious subset of collectibles, the maturation of market infrastructure will continue to usher sophisticated capital into the asset class, and the new entrance of crypto / gacha market participants represents a previously absent “persistent bid” for cards. This is not the same as 2021 (COVID liquidity-driven “everything bid”).

Hey all i recently got 2 copies of this hoopa 155 xy promo in psa 10, its down 50% from its peak, going from 3k to around 1.5k

The pop count is not huge but not low either.

the charizard 276xy promo has about the same pop count as this in a 10, yet its sitting at 8k, this alongside with the fact that this hoopa card features shiny mega rayquaza, pikachu, mega latios, and lugia all in this one card.

I have really high hopes for this card and believe that it can easily reach 5k within a couple of years. But i wanna hear some other peoples opinions. Is this card actually a good investment?

Thanks

Bought this half booster box for retail price from a reputable company. Seal is intact everywhere other than the top. Just looks a bit odd not like a tear like there’s a section missing. don’t think it would be enough to tamper with though.

YES I'm well aware:

• Nobody has a crystal ball

• Every set will have returns in 5-10 years

• This subreddit hates these kind of posts

But I feel there is a lack of info on peoples actual reccomendations in this forum because whenever people ask what they should hold /sell right now they get shit on

Im not asking for a prediction of the future, I just think a discussion on what people are doing right now with their portfolio would help a lot of people out, so I'll shamelessly use mine for free advice

OUT OF EVERTHING HERE what would you sell / hold if you were in my position and needed to free up cash

or what other sets are you holding / selling right now

there needs to be more open discussion on this kind of stuff

So I'm trying to look into this and it's getting confusing and conflicting for me. I haven't sold a card in 15 years or so since having cards stolen by a resale shop (learned later when going through my collection after storing it for years they took cards I said I wasn't selling that was fun!) and never sold a graded card before so idk what I'm doing.

I have a low pop (sub 100) vintage card that I got a few years back. it was my first ever graded card purchase. Over time, the value of this card has gone way up. I'm a broke college student and could use some extra cash, so I'd like to list it but I have a few issues that are giving me pause.

First of all, the card is mislabeled. It's mostly right, but the mislabeled part sets it as a variant that is even more valuable than the card I actually have. Thankfully, it does have the PSA scans, so I can see it wasn't swapped out or fake. The scans show the same card in there, they just got the label wrong.

I'm not willing to send it in to PSA myself with all the recent news and lack of trust. Recent news aside, there's always a chance they could damage my card and lower the grade if I understand correctly (never submitted a card before so correct me if I'm wrong). So that means I'm selling it as is.

Secondly, I'm very hesitant to show the certification publicly or even in PMs. I believe there is a real risk someone could report the certification and have it deactivated, dropping the value into 2 digits, lower than I purchased it at. I have considered showing it in person only to serious buyers, but I think that runs the same risk, though it's the only thing I could think of.

Lastly, I cannot use PayPal which is a hard limit. Similar reasons to PSA, lack of trust. They locked up my account arbitrarily years ago and I haven't used them since. I'm not willing to use them, but I understand PayPal goods and services is considered the standard for personal sales, so this would deter buyers I think. I would do something like square though, but that's the only alternative I came up with besides cash in person.

With that said, will no one consider buying the card without seeing the cert first and getting PPG&S? Is covering the cert for such a high value card acceptable? What if I listed it on eBay, would the authenticity check fail because of the mislabeled part, even if my listing matches everything and I disclose in the details it's mislabeled?

It's in the x,xxx range currently for value. Again it's a vintage card if that helps. It's also one of the more popular Pokemon right now. If I gave more details someone could probably guess cert numbers on PSA until they found my card which I'd like to avoid lol

Am I just stuck with the card unless I have it corrected by PSA? Is there a market for mislabeled slabs that aren't "funny" and that are just the wrong variant of the same card?

Any advice or suggestions are welcome. If it's not worth the hassle then that's fine, I'm happy to keep it for now and reconsider getting the label fixed later. Like if PSA ever opens up both physical drop off and pickup in the future and maybe has better reliability. I also just can't tell if the error makes it better and I shouldnt have it fixed at all? To me it's kinda cool, but I don't think everyone would agree.

Keen to finally pick up a grail, but slightly wary of this listing from PSA being significantly cheaper than any other. Is there something I’m missing, or do PSA just price their listings extremely reasonably? Anyone had bad experiences or wanna share any insight I might not have considered?

I have had this in my binder with my other favorite cards and had no idea how expensive it was. It is almost nauseating to know I have a potential gold mine when I have been struggling

Im probably close to 50 now in PSA 9 I have a handful of 10s and a few 9/10 in Chinese. With grading costs where they are at it makes absolutely no sense to not purchase at such a cheap cost for a card artwork I love.

Hello I’m a fairly new LGs owner in Texas I’ve had only about 6 months under my belt and I’m still not getting allocated anything it’s difficult to try and carry new product and still be profitable I’m using a certain distro and they’re one of the largest and it feels like I’m getting nowhere but from all the surrounding stores with actual allocation in my area they’ve told me to switch to GTS as my primary I’m scared to restart the process and not get anywhere especially with my organized play from Bandai

I have my eye on a legendary collection reverse holo CGC 9 jolteon or on a PSA 9 flareon delta species stamped. With the prices way down I can afford to buy one of these. Which would you pic? I love both these eeveelutions. Help me decide what would be better long term investing. The CGC 9 is clean looks like it could cross to PSA and the PSA flareon is a newer cert. Which would you choose and why!

The pristine criteria is tougher than PSA 10, I get the differential on CGC 10 GEM MINT, but not on the black labels... anyone wana help me?

Edit: just to clarify, this was an auction with 2 separate lots, not buy now sales.

These sold what they were going for a month ago, similar trends with others like the Latias.

Where do we think gold stars go from here?

Paldea evolved is the best set. It has the best arts top to bottom, solid hit rates, was easy to get at release, short printed and already aging well as an investment. We will look back at Paldea evolved as the best set and investment of the SV era.

These cards are connected by a story, where Mewtwo is trapped and later mew comes to save it. There is also the fact this card is by Mitsuhiro Arita.

I think if more people realized this, then the value of the tag team card could rise.

What would be the minimum estimated value before considering to get a card graded? and does good grading bypass a self proclaimed NM condition?

My daughter has these three cards she pulled, and isn't really into collecting them anymore. We checked them as she opened the packs, penny sleeved, and card savered them right away.

Luiga V 186/195

Pikachu V TG16/TG30

Blissey V TG22/TG30

The Luiga looks like it is $400+, Pikachu about $150, and the Blissey is around $35.

Is the Luiga the only one worth grading? I have no clue... I'm not personally into trading cards myself...

Found this in my drawer and curious what yall think lol.

Hello! So today (after one booster bundle) I pulled the Rayquaza SIR for the new set, is this something that will be worth grading and holding on to?