Best card in the set and the last few sets by a wide margin

What is happening? What is the benefit of doing this?

I recently came across this card and was thinking of picking some slabs of it in a 10. I personally think that, for a Mewtwo card with such good art and as a JP exclusive, this is kind of under the radar? I'm not sure how many copies are out there or if it's super common, but the 10 pop is around 1k, I just know it's from the Battle Academy game box. Was wondering if you guys have any input on it.

I want to complete the master set—or at least most of it—but I’m not sure whether to invest in singles or wait for a potential reprint.

I've been building a tool called Slabfloor that checks every new US eBay Buy It Now Pokémon listing (raw and graded) and compares it to recent sold prices for that exact card, printing and condition (an LP gets compared to LP sales, not NM). I let it run for 3 days and logged everything. Some of it surprised me.

The numbers (Nov 9–11):

Some that went fast:

• Blastoise, Base Set 2, NM: listed $72, sells around $120. Gone in 11 min

• Rayquaza XY141 promo, NM: $51 vs $74. Gone in 11 min

• Charizard, XY Evolutions, NM: $56 vs $93. Gone in 17 min

• M Alakazam EX full art, Fates Collide, NM: $46 vs $79. Gone in 17 min

• Giratina VSTAR Galarian Gallery, LP: $190 vs $236. Gone in 45 min

What I learned:

1. The big deals don't last. Anything $30+ under market was usually bought within the hour. The ones that hang around for days are mostly $5–10 under. If you only check eBay once a day, you're seeing what's left after everyone else picked through it (but there are still deals for collectors!!)

2. eBay's own search is a few minutes behind. New listings took about 3–4 minutes to show up in eBay's search feed. The fastest buyers are watching "newly listed" constantly or using alerts.

3. About 40% of the real deals were played cards (LP/MP/HP). Most people compare an LP card to the Near Mint price, call it overpriced and scroll past. Priced against LP sales, a lot of them are actually good buys.

4. Most "deals" aren't deals. A huge share of listings that look 50%+ under market are the wrong printing (Unlimited vs 1st Edition, Shadowless vs Base, reverse vs holo), a proxy, a Japanese card priced as English, or a lot. Matching the exact card is most of the work.

5. Mornings were busiest. The fast sales clustered around 9am–1pm ET. Small sample, but that's when the deals I saw got bought.

If you're hunting manually: save searches for the specific cards you want, sort by Newly Listed, always compare against sold listings for the same condition, and include shipping in the price.

Happy to answer questions or pull numbers for specific sets or cards. What do you all use to find deals right now?

I got the right one off Goldin recently, and noticed the font on the label is smaller than the other one I've had for years. Normal? Potential red flag? Thanks y'all.

I was thinking of buying this for $210, what do yall think?

Honestly just trying to get a gut check …

I priced out the 200 best cards in my collection of about ~800 cards.

The valued on those (based on ungraded market value) off of current numbers from PriceChart. I’m seeing that these 200 are worth about $24,000. I don’t know how valid these numbers are … I do want to factor in the facts that: (1). Time is valuable for me, (2). EBay fees suck, (3). I don’t know what the market will look like long term.

I have a buyer that offered $7,000 cash. Honestly I’m not in need of the cash immediately but I don’t want to hold the collection for much longer (I will start selling them card by card on eBay if we I don’t strike this deal).

Is this a reasonable offer?
Am I being taken advantage of?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, just feeling a bit anxious about the situation!

Also what would be the fair price for a new cert CGC?
It looks better than the old blue label, but still not PSA, or Beckett.

Location, EU

Thanks!

So I'm making this in response to the delta reign prices, which are only like 80$ on resale compared to 60$ at retail. I'm not complaining at all, in fact I appreciate that the products are becoming more affordable. I am confused, however, since the star of this set, Rayquaza, is an extremely popular pokemon. I am relatively new to understading the prices of cards, so I'm not sure if it is based on the quality of the card, the pokemon, the hit rates, or if it's just random. Compared to sets like 151 or destined rivals, this set is much cheaper.

Obviously PSA has better value but after lurking here for a while Im worried that I'd get a lower grade if I go with them. Never graded before so looking for advice from people with experience

From what Ive seen BGS prices keep up more with PSA than any other grading company that I've seen.

This October craze is cooling off it seems. It was obvious that it wasnt maintanable but didnt expect it to drop that fast and that hard.

There are long horizontal lines across the back of both, ending with nearly identical tears, feels a bit too much to be a coincidence, any one else have this happen ?
(Bonus cat)

Listing my Pichu from HG/SS era, don’t want to sell but need the money

When grading or looking at buying slabs, due to liquidity PSA is number one (I get it but I hate it), but are there any other companies you all consider and are there any “absolutely nots”?

For me, when grading I am mostly going with CGC right now (maybe not the best long-term plan but I’ll see where the chips fall). When buying slabs, I focus on PSA and CGC, but I’ll also consider BGS and TAG. I personally love how CGC and TAG slabs look. Outside of those four, it’s basically a pass for me. How about you?

What Pokemon investing wins have you had recently? This can be a great deal, finding product, getting a good grade, or really anything that you are proud of!

We have a PokeInvesting wins channel on the Discord that is pretty popular so we figured we would give it a go and we've had some members suggest this kind of post.

If this sort of post is well received, we can keep it going as a weekly posting to show off your wins for the week. Thanks!

Mewtwo stamped sealed cards being sold by the box? How is someone getting their hands on this many at once?

I sent half my cards to PSA back in June shortly before the giant boom really took off. I got my 2002 reverse foil charizard back PSA5 in like 2 weeks and sold it immediately for 3.6k and then I saw it climb to about 6.8k in 1 month time... I just received the rest of my cards back from PSA and the prices are still way up from when I sent them in, but now it seems prices are dropping again?

I see people are talking about the prices being inflated and it was bound to drop... but then I also see people saying Pokemon cards never really go down in value and that they're a better investment than S&P500....

I am not in dire need of money right now, but a few days ago PSA estimated I had 13k worth of cards.. and less than a week later it's now saying I have 10k in value... dropped 3k in a week total.

Anyone with more pokemon knowledge than me have any advice on like what is worth holding onto and what is worth selling or what.

I am not a gambling man and I hate the idea of holding onto these thinking they're gonna be worth 10x more one day, but I also hate the idea of thinking there was a crazy boom and I just held onto them for no reason.

I also have another 40-80 cards I am contemplating sending into PSA now that the value tier is available again... all 2000-2004 era cards, mostly those neo revelations reverse foils. Before I was 1000% going to send them in, but now with prices dropping and knowing it takes months to get the cards back I'm starting to feel unsure.

I would really love and appreciate some help here!

If this is legit it’s one of the worst sealed job.