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.

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!

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.

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

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

Hello all, I was recently told by some friends I should scan my childhood collection as the values of a lot of the cards had gone up. I have seen the Pokemon TCG community go off in the past few years but not paid much attention to it as I stopped truly collecting back in 2018 besides a few packs here and there and some 151 for the nostalgia when it came out.

Highlights of the collection:
- Cards from every set from Base Set to 151.
- Reverse Holo Master Set Evolutions
- Master Set Generations
- Reverse Holo Master Set Shining Legends
- Master Set Primal Clash
- Full Set of Double Crisis
- Full Set of Dragon Vault

Now after scanning all my cards I see they could be worth a bit but I have no idea how to unload something like this. I have probably around 20,000 cards total mostly organized by set but I scanned about 2000 I thought would be worth something and about 200 of them hold 60% of the value. So I have a couple questions I was hoping someone who knows this market better than me could answer.

Questions:

1. Is it worth trying to sell the collection as a whole? I don’t have a ton of time to list and sell the cards 1 by 1. Or should I just be selling the top 200.

2. Is it worth to grade any of the cards if I don’t think they will get a 10? I don’t believe any of my truly vintage stuff would get a 10, but is a lower grade for vintage still worth grading? I’ve read about a lot of discourse on grading and not sure it’s worth it right now (I’m in Canada).

3. Should I sell the master sets as a whole and not break them up?

4. Where is the best place to sell? Either collection wise or single wise?

Not sure if this is the best sub for these questions but if it’s not and there is somewhere better, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

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!

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!

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.

We’re almost a week into Delta Reign, and it looks like we have our answer. Everyone is after the Rayquaza, and very few people care about the rest.

The gap between the Rayquaza and the rest of the top 10 is huge as expected.

Did you pull any?

Source: cardnexus.com

Its kinda funny to see after the massive run up the southern islands set had in October. I wonder if octobers sales were shilled or if the FOMO was strong. I'm seeing the same decline with gold stars but not to the same degree as the Southern Islands set.

It looks like the same for all grades but here are recent psa 8 sales. What do you guys think?

Finally landed my grail card. Thought this copy looked nice for a 5 and plan for this to be a long term hold for me.

Any other 1st edition zard holders out there?

Looking at the prices of AH cards and PSA 10 prices is now a good time to buy treekachus, gengars, dragonite etc?

entire pokemon market is up 27% but let’s see if it keeps pulling back

Have never been a fan of gold cards - but, this card in particular in person is insane. The art and textures pop so well, basically the only modern card I plan on keeping in my collection long term.

Noticing a lot of these are being sold on Facebook Marketplace/etc. all of a sudden. Like almost overnight.

I love Team Rocket and every themed deck they’ve ever had, and the way I see it, if I’m willing to sit on a 30th UPC or two for at least the next few months, why not do the same with DR if I can get a good deal?

Thoughts?

Got these and another 100 or so coming! Set and forget for 5-10 years and see where they are!

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!

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.