So tonight a PSA 1.5 shadowless charizard ended in auction on eBay at $153. While looking through eBay sale data within the last 2 months I see the same card sold 2 weeks ago for $212. I’m assuming the buyer backed out from the original purchase and the guy put it up again. Here are the other sales for shadowless charizards in the last 2 months all selling in auction on eBay.
PSA 2 $81
PSA 2 $112
PSA 6 $137
PSA 6 $163
PSA 6.5 $175
PSA 2 (with a PSA 9 unlimited) $176
PSA 8 $190
PSA 7 $225
PSA 7 $228
PSA 7 $280
So my question is Why? What makes that 1.5 sell around the same amount or more than PSA 6s consistently and the original auction reaching psa 7 price? If this were just a one off I would say 2 people who didn’t care to over pay got in a bid war but it’s happened twice in 2 weeks and this one didn’t have any bids in the last hour. Why didn’t the 6.5 go for more? Are shadowless charizard prices just that wonky in the current market? I see heavy play and damaged copies sell for sub $80 pretty consistently so I definitely did not expect to see this auction break $100.
Elftan was that you lol
I lost by $3.50 Feelsbadman. At least my PSA 1 Shining Gyarados came in
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Because people that collect psa 1 cards probably have pretty large collections already and are finding ways to expand it
And those kind of people tend to be price inelastic
Also, strictly speaking, psa 2 pop is lower than mid psa levels, which probably affects a little
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Word of the day… Great word when used in economics;)
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Fires up the economics loving side of me. It is fascinating to me that you could shift the whole macro environment for the Charizard in unlimited/shadowless/1st edition, Gary. You hold so much power!!