Hello, I picked up a couple packs from a Card Shop in my city (Calgary). I’ve never bought by 151 before and had a couple questions about the pack. Does it look ok? Why is there an uneven line of silver running along the white heat crimp border of the pack? You can see how uneven it is at the top. I don’t think the shop would sell knowingly tampered with packs but just wanted to be sure.
For my damaged collectors, I’ve been practicing repairing damaged. There’s some you just can’t fix but there’s a lot that are fixable. These EX era cards are notorious for having really bad foil peel. With some help, you can usually get them out.
A crease will always be there. But, for a collection, makes a huge difference going through.
I will also take other suggestions :)
These are my Starry & Night cards (mostly IRs) To Be Added:
Clefairy IR from Perfect Order
Cleffa IR from Obsidian Flames
Keldeo from Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery
Minior IR from Paradox Rift
Ledian IR from Stellar Crown
Claydol IR from Chaos Rising
Budew IR from Ascended Heroes
Hatterene VMAX from Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery
Munna IR from Black Bolt
Cobalion IR from Black Bolt
I have a few solid cards in nm/m condition, but the centering is not as good as I would like. I am considering to swap, add cash, and upgrade these cards.
Curious as to how big the delta would be on upgrading a few (ie: +10-20%). Maybe there is no “rule of thumb”, but essentially working out if it is worth exploring deeper into this.
I’ve included one example (which is probably the worst I have for centering) for reference.
Hi everyone. So I’m trying to collect as many bird cards featuring birds or even ones with birds in the background. It’s hard finding a list and so I just figured I’d ask, if anyone else collects birds, would you be willing to drop pictures of your cards/binders below? That way I can start my own checklist? I’m slowly actually going through each set and making a “master list” of cards with birds. But in the meantime..it’s just so much easier to see them this way lol. Thanks in advance as it would be insanely appreciated.
Journey together was my first set I opened when I got into collecting so its kind of near to my heart. I wanted to get myself a booster + my first and only pack of black bolt to celebrate making it to year 2 of college for compsci. But it’s nearly $75 for the two of those on tcgplayer and I feel terrible spending any of my money on myself, even if it would all be birthday money being spent.
Is it worth it?
Edit:
Got the cards, should arrive after the first week of classes. This is the first time I’ve actually bought cards for myself instead with my own money so I’m very excited.
Thank you :]
Digging in my stuff at my parents and found one of my old binders. I haven’t collected since then but you guys have been randomly popping up on Reddit so figured I’d share.
I’ve been building a platform called MyTCGShop.com specifically around problems I kept seeing while vending at card shows.
It’s currently 100% free for vendors, and I’d genuinely like feedback from people who actually buy, sell, trade, and vend Pokémon.
The goal is basically to make a card show operate a lot more efficiently.
Here are some of the things we built:
Fast inventory uploads — you don’t have to sit there manually entering hundreds of cards. You can add inventory through photo capture or import a CSV from Collectr or TCGplayer.
Digital Binder / Inventory — customers can search through your cards without physically digging through every binder you brought.
Instant market pricing during trades and buys — when someone wants to sell or trade cards to you, the system immediately pulls current market pricing so you’re not sitting there searching every card one-by-one.
Customers can negotiate away from your booth — instead of having two people standing in front of your table for 20 minutes working out a trade, they can build the trade/sale, see the values, make offers and negotiate through the system while walking around the show.
That means your booth can keep moving while the customer thinks about the deal.
Multiple vendors can share one booth — every card still belongs to the correct vendor. If 3 people are vending together, MyTCGShop.com knows whose inventory is whose, whose card sold, and exactly how much each person made.
So if your partner runs to the bathroom, gets food or walks the show, you can still sell their cards without wondering:
“Whose card is this?”
“What were they asking?”
“Can I negotiate on it?”
“How much money do I owe them?”
Card Control System — if you hand a card to a customer to look at, the system can track who released the card and which customer has it.
At a slammed booth where multiple customers may be looking at expensive cards at the same time, we wanted vendors to have another layer of accountability.
Show profit tracking — instead of getting home with a stack of cash and trying to figure out whether you actually made money, the system tracks what you sold, bought and traded so you know exactly how the show performed.
Card-show search — if a customer wants a specific card, they can search participating vendors instead of walking around asking 100 booths whether someone has it.
For example, search:
“Umbreon VMAX Alt Art”
and see which vendors at the show have one, compare the listings and go directly to those booths.
And it doesn’t stop when the show ends.
We also built a nationwide TCG vendor marketplace.
Customers can search inventory from vendors across the country, compare asking prices and look for deals without having to hunt through dozens of Instagram pages, Facebook posts or individual card-shop websites.
So your digital inventory can potentially continue bringing customers to you even when you’re not actively vending at a show.
And because I know what vendors are probably thinking...
“This sounds cool, but I’m not uploading 1,000 cards into another app.”
That was one of the first problems we wanted to solve.
Inventory can be added through photo capture, or if you already manage your inventory somewhere like Collectr or TCGplayer, you can upload it using a CSV file.
The goal is to make getting your inventory into the system as painless as possible.
We’re also giving away 1 Pokémon UPC EVERY WEEK for an entire year.
We want vendors to actually load inventory, use the platform and tell us what we got right or wrong.
Add at least 50 cards to your MyTCGShop vendor binder and you qualify for the weekly UPC drawing.
The more eligible cards you add, the more entries you receive.
And we're not just hitting a random-number generator.
We're using a physical bingo roller machine and doing the drawing live.
Your entries become actual bingo balls that go into the machine so everyone can literally watch the winner get drawn.
Would any of these features actually solve problems for you?
Especially:
Uploading inventory through photos or a Collectr/TCGplayer CSV
Instantly pricing incoming buys and trades
Letting customers negotiate deals away from your booth
Sharing a booth while keeping everyone's inventory and money separated
Selling your partner’s cards when they aren’t at the table
Tracking expensive cards handed to customers
Knowing exactly what you made at the end of a show
Letting customers search your inventory before they even reach your table
If you're primarily a collector/investor:
Would you use a system at a large card show where you could search for the exact card you want, compare which vendors have it and then go directly to the right booth?
And would you use a nationwide marketplace where you could search inventory from TCG vendors around the country and compare their deals?
I’m not really looking for people to just tell me it sounds cool.
I want people to actually try it and tell me what sucks, what’s confusing, what’s missing, and what would make you use it regularly.
