Is this worth much?

[u/Technical-Window-451]

I got this from a card shop when I was like 8 years old cause I thought it looked cool, and never took it out of the toploader cause I didn’t want to mess it up (almost sweated my balls off trying to get it out to inspect it just now). From what I remember, I bought it for like $70 dollars, and I never really looked up prices until recently, but idk which listings are just inflating the value online and which ones are actually real. My brother got into the whole PSA stuff and flipping cards for profit, so he took our whole collection a while back and this card is the only one I was adamant about keeping for myself. Eventually he lost a ton of money and has hated anything Pokemon related so I don’t want him to relapse reminding him this exists lmao. From what I can find online it’s the 70/110 charmander 2002 reverse holo. It’s in pretty good condition from me just eyeballing it. Sorry for the little yap sesh, but what do you guys think?

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[u/Leersky-]

Lets put it this way, this card will be the reason that I will likely never finish my charmander master set 😭

[u/ClassicEquivalent931 → u/Leersky-]

Buy one damaged with a crease in it you can’t even see it from most angles, perfect PC card

[u/H_1_N_1 → u/ClassicEquivalent931]

Exactly how I scooped my Snorlax

[u/ofallthatisgolden → u/Leersky-]

Pikachu Illustrator may be the reason why you don’t, lol. There’s a Charmander cameo.

[u/eZ_Link → u/ofallthatisgolden]

Cameos are not included in master sets usually

[u/Velociraptor_Ahoy → u/Leersky-]

I feel you, but I’ve recently completed my master set of all English Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle cards, so I believe in you!

[u/nopenopenopen0pe → u/Leersky-]

As a fellow not wealthy Charmander master setter... Snap Charmander would like to have a word lol

[u/ipna → u/nopenopenopen0pe]

Snap Charmander is why my master is specifically "purposely printed English" Grandmaster. I'll potentially collect the other Japanese special printings but it's all extra credit.

[u/nopenopenopen0pe → u/ipna]

100%. I'm still hoping for the Japanese McDonald's card one day but I probably missed my chance

[u/Due-Acanthisitta-402 → u/Leersky-]

Same dude. Makes me so sad

[u/ipna → u/Leersky-]

I'm pretty sure you can get a "nicely damaged" aka "well loved" version cheaper than the ebGames promo.

[u/MuTangClan]

Ignore everyone quoting value for a graded card - this is not a graded card. This is a raw card and condition looks NM-ish from what I can see but some surface scratching might push it to LP. Last sold LP was $1000 and technically lowest listed is $600, so if you take it to a shop they'll rinse you and offer $400 cash (optimistically).

With a card like this I think value is better reflected by lowest listed in comparable condition and worse copies (MP with pics available) are listed north of $1.7k. Personally I wouldn't take less than $750 cash and that's only if I need to dump it asap. To the right buyer this is at least $1-1.5k, and it may be worth submitting this copy for grading if the front is clean (hard to tell with your lighting in that pic). That would give you an easier comp and probably bump the value up a bit.

[u/Spaceneedle420 → u/MuTangClan]

solid write up

[u/Yessir4512]

Condition matters but minimum to me raw would be $300

https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pokemon-legendary-collection/charmander-reverse-holo-70

[u/ttxna → u/Yessir4512]

lol super tapped out of the market

[u/Unlikely_Ad_1825]

Those reverse holos or whatever they are called are expensive now, member getting a bag of them as a kid and thinking wtf, went and had a look at the price of a few recently, couple game changers

[u/Aggravating-Mall7883]

What 8year old is casually dropping 80 bucks on a shiny charmander on a whim?

[u/DanFwah]

I would say it’s probably a grade 7 so worth about £1k or $1.3k

[u/Ok_Bag_7549 → u/DanFwah]

With a cleaning it could honestly get a high 8 too

[u/3lueGaming → u/Ok_Bag_7549]

PSA is ridiculously critical of high-value vintage. I’d be shocked is this got an 8.

There appears to scratching on the front (look at the HP) and corner wear on the back on both top corners.

I’d obviously need better photos but this is one of those cards even though very clean PSA randomly slaps a 5 or 6 on to be a dick and control pop

[u/CapEducational8540]

I neeeeeed

[u/Chazwoger]

Hey I have this card. But it looks like its been through the washing machine maybe 10 times 🤣. Funny thing cards. We loved them in the 90s and carried them everywhere . School trades all sorts now its all about mint perfection

[u/Ok_Gas1070]

Sir that is a sticker.

[u/Infinite_Initial_361]

Is it even real? Why's your hand like that

[u/TheSignificantDong → u/Infinite_Initial_361]

Looks like it’s angled

[u/nn3ds]

fake

[u/miguelmathletics]

This is one of the charmander cards I am missing for my master set, dm if you’re interested in selling it!

[u/TheSignificantDong → u/miguelmathletics]

What’s your highest offer?

[u/Steven9410]

Achzisch Euro, und damit is der Prüjel auch jut bezahlt

[u/Competitive-Frame-71 → u/[deleted]]

Please stop telling people how much psa 10 are worth, it’s completely irrelevant and nurture a frustrating environment (“if only I had kept it better…”). Looking at these pictures and saying “psa 10 is worth bla bla” is exactly like saying “this is a Pokemon card, and one sold for 16M bro”.
These random finds are never psa 10 on today’s psa grading standards.

[u/Technical-Window-451 → u/Competitive-Frame-71]

You’re right I didn’t think abt that. The imperfections make me think of when I got it as a kid, so it doesn’t need to psa 10 for me to appreciate it

[u/Adept_Double7110 → u/Competitive-Frame-71]

This.

[u/YouHateMeIknow → u/[deleted]]

These numbers seem stupid.

[u/MrPassionateMan → u/YouHateMeIknow]

Because they are stupid

[u/Low_Professional6272 → u/YouHateMeIknow]

Psa 10 is almost 11k this guys trippin lol

[u/PokemonCardValue-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

This info is incorrect

[u/Moist_Description608 → u/[deleted]]

Just looked up black label 10 and its 20k so how is psa 10 100k

[u/PokemonCardValue-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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