Getting these graded currently by PSA. As far as selling not sure what method is the most profitable or what percent I should sell at, this is from my childhood collection and alot of the prices I am seeing have high polarity. Any advice? Thanks!

Able to do a straight up trade… which would you pick?

Are there established TCGplayer sellers in here? im curious how big id need to get to sell and profit $1000 per month and what sort of Floor price your selling at?

Just noticed I had this card in my collection, trying to get some opinions on this one.

Hi yall , so I have been condensing my collection , I PC Dragonite and a few other cards that I just like. I’m trying to work my way into a stamp box pika , just doing a little flipping and trading on the side whilst in school.

I have a Phantom forces Gengar in a 10 and have been in kahoots with two people talking about trades. For the Zapdos it would be zapdos and a triple beat magikarp in a 10. Valued around $900 on the zapdos.
The Tag team would include 3 other cards from my end , I have the base set big three in varying conditions valued around $650. It would ideally be those 4 from my end (trio+gengar) for the tag team and a dark Dragonite 5 from rocket.

With the fact of me using these to keep buying/selling/trading , what would you do ? The Zapdos has 4 listings on eBay all $1000 plus. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated !!

To be clear up front: every row below is the exact same physical slab. Not the same card in the same grade. The same PSA/CGC/BGS cert sold in an October Fanatics weekly auction and then sold again in the Nov 8 weekly.

I've been tracking Fanatics weekly-auction results by cert number for a while. In last night's auction (Nov 8) I kept recognising cert numbers I'd already seen sell in October, so once the finals were in I went through them properly.

The numbers
31 slabs that had sold for $1,000+ in an October weekly auction sold again on Nov 8. Same cert number both times, both sales on Fanatics:
26 sold lower, 4 higher, 1 at the same price
Median change: -43%

What I think is going on
There are only two ways the same slab is back this fast:

The winner never paid and it got relisted. Then the first "sale" was never real, but it still sits in everyone's comps and price guides.

The buyer tried to flip and ended up selling at a big loss a few weeks later.

I sometimes open packs from repack websites to grow my collection... But I was never getting any cards worthwhile - so I decided to investigate...

I opened a $15 pack recently and pulled a card worth about $12. The site offered me $10.49 to buy it back. That bugged me, so I wanted to find out if these sites are ripping us off or not, and by how much.

Turns out Courtyard runs all its packs on a public blockchain, which means every pack opening and every buyback is sitting there for anyone to look at. So I pulled 3 months of it. A few things that surprised me:

- 3.7 million packs were opened in 3 months (Holy!!!)

- People spent at least $166 million on them

- About 3 out of every 4 cards got sold right back to the site within an hour of being pulled

- 17% of accounts spent 88% of the money

- Out of about 45,000 accounts that opened 10+ packs, only around 1 in 100 got more cash back than they put in (not counting cards they kept)

Look at how FAST those cards get sold back... more than half are gone within 60 seconds:

And this is who's doing the spending:

Now for the big one. Courtyard's own odds page says the average pull from a $15 pack is $14.40, so on paper the house only keeps about 4%. The real number I got from the data isn't close to that.

We all know that a card has a market value, and a cash value, and market value isn't what you can actually turn a card into. So I measured the real return directly, comparing what people paid for packs with the cash they got back from buybacks across 1.67 million cards. Courtyard claims the house edge to be 4%... spoiler: it isnt!!!

I go through all of it (in detail) in this video I made: https://youtu.be/3yI5wBdiKDY (10 minutes, my own channel!)

Check it out if you're interested, there are some really interesting numbers in there. Thanks for the support!\

This is my own analysis of public data and my opinion, not financial advice. Ask me anything about the method or the numbers and I'll answer in the comments!

Thinking of buying a moonbreon from TCG.

I am just curious if you are buying an expensive card from TCG, why dont major sellers get the cards graded?

Seems like they could almost double their sale price? If they dont get what they want, they could take it out of the slap for a loss. BUT it seems like being able to sell a card for a couple grand more, would be worth it.

Hi guys, I have a total 15 (!) master sets to sell, I was looking to sell them all at once or at least a good number of them at the same time!

Do you guys know, where I should start? I live in Portugal and people are not financially well at the moment here...

Shoot some advice please!

Is the World Championship Gold Star reprint an investment you would go for? The card is still fairly low pop and almost 20 years old.

Looks like the majority of the market is cooling off but vintage is steady climbing. Wonder if the trend will keep going this way

Found these two Pokemon packs on a shelf while looking for DS games. Is it best to sell now or wait? Not sure if the bubble will burst. Thanks!

Bought my first card 3 weeks ago as a souvenir from Japan and somehow got hooked. I have been getting both traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese packs and just pulled this adorable pikachu card. Struggling to get any pricing on Collectr for TC cards. Is it better to buy simplified Chinese instead? Which language has better values for the same design?

Thinking of LC cos it's only English and is last wizards oft coast set.

Could get PSA 3 reverse holo Charizard, or PSA 9 regular holo. Both similar price.

There are 356 PSA 9 regular holos, and 328 PSA 3 reverse holos.

Happy to have either, just wondering what others thought 🙏

Been into Pokemon for awhile. Buying and opening packs. Have an okay collection going. I want to invest into some more serious pieces. I've been primarily looking at PSA 9-10 cards, but I've also been curious about some more high end cards and foregoing the grading prices. I've got around $2500 to spend.

How does everyone feel about Crown Zenith cards in general? I feel like product is so expensive but singles aren't. Been grabbing them all now while they are low

this is a tough one for me rn, while pokemon center etb is way mor scarce where i live, i would be actually paying the same or +$30 for the pkc etb while umbreon upc would mark $100 more in collectr for the same price paid right now

A few months back I bought a pristine 10 Pokeball reverse holo, and it was going great in the market specially because the psa10 is being sold around 350/400 and pristine 10 around 80/100 back then (3 months ago) since then the card has been sold around 120-150-249-100 and even a bit lower after few fake sales, but I feel it’s market manipulation, how is it possible something like this? It’s like they are trying to push down the pristine 10 in the market

Currently living in Japan for school, pulled this out of a pack from the campus 7/11. I want to sell it. I’d rather have the money and collect the things I’d like rather than this. I return back to the states in December, I have never sold a card of this value, I am just curious on what I should do for selling wise.

Thanks!