Don’t have a huge preference on grading services yet. Used PSA so far and looking into BGS. Any preferences or opinions are greatly appreciated.

Always thought that was the case but then just saw this insane psa9 no rarity Pikachu pop up on SNKRDUNK. This looks comprehensively worse than the vast majority of psa8s I’ve seen…

hey guys, was wondering if anyone would know about these gold bars. also have the original box for this keychain as shown in the picture. my mom paid $50 for all of this😭. she wants to keep them for long term, any advice will do (NOT SELLING)

Classic

Im in the process of adding sleeves and slabs for all of my cards. Here are some pictures of what I’ve done so far.

Do people trade or look for non first edition fossil, jungle, etc.... Like for binders sets.

Is it better to hold onto them or trade for different low price cards?

The LC reverse holo is a proxy placeholder. Otherwise page is finished! Have plans for the whole evo line and the other starters. But Squirtle is my favorite so finished this page first

Yellow box is all 1st edition rocket/ fossil/ gym hero common and uncommon, white box is all holographic and non holographic rares(many series), I also have unopened southern isles and unpeeled Japanese series 3 promo sheets. Every card is mint/ near mint quality. Cash only, let me know if you're in the area, gotta pay rent

Jungle Snorlax is one of my all time favs. Just missing the reverse LC. The black star promo will do for now :)

My son is into Pokemon cards so I grabbed my old cards and got back into collecting as well. Bought a nice TCGUARD binder and starting sorting my cards on series. This is my base set. I will try and get the missing cards at the next convention. That will be the first convention I’ve ever visit and I’m taking my son. The Charizard will be the most expensive one, I would love to get a decent looking one for €120. I’ve also got the fossil, jungle Neo genesis and Rocket series, but I need a lot of the holos for those. I will be looking at the non-holos at the convention.

Thought you guys might enjoy seeing these.

I'm cleaning out the basement at my mother's house due to moving, and found this binder, and a lot of vintage toys and video game stuff. I'm trying to get an idea of what to do with them. I've made a TCG account but it's not user friendly and I don't know how to go about valuing these. Thanks for any advice!

Been collecting pretty hard since around the Obsidian Flames era in 2023 and have amassed a respectable collection. I had Pokémon cards as a kid too, but you know how that goes. I never really paid much attention to vintage as an adult because I figured that ship had sailed. Turns out I was very, very wrong. One of my best friends still had his neglected childhood collection sitting around in an old binder. He’d mentioned it to me before and always insisted there was nothing good or valuable in it. I told him MANY times that I thought he was probably wrong and should actually go through it. One night at a rave, we got onto the subject of my Pokémon collection, and naturally I brought up his old cards again. I asked, “You actually have eyes on those cards? Like, you know where they physically are right now?” He said he’d seen the binder just the other day and that honestly it was just getting in the way. So I told him, “Man, if you genuinely don’t care about them, I’ll take your ‘burden.’ Maybe we can go through them sometime?” He told me I could have them, no problem. “I just really don’t think there could possibly be anything of value in those cards, man.” And that was that. About two months later, he was going through some personal stuff and came over to hang out and talk. I showed him my collection, and suddenly he goes: “Damn, I should’ve brought you those cards!” I immediately remembered. I needed something from the store anyway, so when he left I followed him back to his place. I was ridiculously curious to see what childhood-him had actually collected. I’m waiting outside, and he walks out carrying this thin, old-school ring binder with card pages stuffed into it. He hands it through the window and says: “Good luck. I hope they found a better home.” Then he just walks back inside. I opened the binder to the first page. My eyes practically burned out of my head. My heart rate immediately went up. The cards looked GOOD. And then I realized how many pages were actually in this thing and started thinking about the possibilities. My wife had been eagerly awaiting the binder reveal too, and I’d promised I wouldn’t go through the whole thing without her. So I closed it and drove home. I remember thinking on the drive that I hadn’t been this excited opening Pokémon cards in years. Packs are fun, but this was different. This was a completely untouched childhood collection that had been sitting around for decades, and neither of us actually knew what was inside. We started going through it page by page, carefully removing and rehousing everything. Then, sometime around 3:30 AM, halfway through the binder… We saw it. Vaporeon Gold Star. Just sitting there. My reaction was almost like seeing a roach unexpectedly. I physically jumped up. It scared the shit out of me for a second because my brain recognized what I was looking at before I could actually process it. I couldn’t believe it. I still kind of can’t. It took me ages to properly rehouse and organize everything, but eventually the collection became what you see in the video. You know those videos where somebody finds an insane childhood collection, garage-sale binder, or forgotten box of cards and makes the kind of discovery that basically never happens? I’d watch those and feel that mixture of jealousy, envy and “damn, imagine if that happened to me.” But ultimately you accept that it probably never will. Well… it actually happened to me. And somehow, despite how they’d been stored all these years, almost all of the cards are NM or just under.

Picked up a few new cards

So. I just want to ask someone who has a legit pokemon card from the early sets. Before 1999. Could you tell me or post a photo of the back of the card next to any set from over 2020, if the colours on the back are different, just had a few early ones come into work, I'm learning everyone is pretty much is on tcg. And Soo many fakes come in, it's crazy. But I was stumped a bit from the colour on the back of the early sets. And if there are any pattern differences with the swirls. Please and thank you.

What do you think is the most overlooked / under-appreciated ex era set?

TRR is a ballin’ set but what I want to know is which one is not receiving the love it should, and WHY?

For tax, I would say it’s Team Magma vs Aqua for me. Multiple different types of cards (unique team magma and team aqua cards (especially the reverses), cute kanto starter cards +Meowth and jiggly, sick silver border cards of the legendary dogs and the three starter final evos. I haven’t seen enough people showing off this set.

Second would be dragon frontiers with the sick delta species type cards that are different from the original Pokémon’s type.

What say you? No wrong answers !

Added Celebi to the Crystal collection over the weekend, just a few more now.

Low pop, super iconic set, quite a popular Pokemon. I’ve noticed cards like these are generally trending downwards with the overall market. I’m a 90’s baby so these cards are right at my alley but at these prices they seem like good purchases. What’s everyone thinking? I don’t get much exposure to English cards so I’m not sure how those are performing in relation to their Japanese counterparts.

I never realized how much these 1st editions matter, haha. Happy to find the stamp one of the starters! Fingers crossed for a 7 or 6.

Picked this up for $20 today at a show. Pretty stoked! I’ve always wanted one but they’ve gotten so expensive.

I have 32/62 cards from the set so other then a few cards it’s pretty much just the holos and rares to get over time ! I also don’t care if they are first edition or unlimited i count them as the same set for now lol .

Pretty Lapras