Long story short, he sold me a card with a title that included the dreaded “PSA 10?” description. When I received it, there was a crease. I had to return the card and he did not end up refunding me for my shipping. Then he recently relisted the very same card and did not mention the damage. I called him out on this on Virbank to warn others not to buy it. He has since changed his eBay username. The card still sold for almost $1k anyway.
I do not know whether his current cards are being shilled, but I think this seller is super shady and I wouldn’t put it past him.
I see 5 bidders who do lol. It’s up to $56 already, I wouldn’t be surprised if it went past $250/$300. Does anyone else remember these floating around back in the day? I remember making a horrible trade for it during 5th grade recess. Something like my charizard/blastoise/venusaur for it
I shared a conversation with the guy who sold this. Told me he had a bunch of old cards that he got as a gift in this condition. He felt bad about it so we joked about it. Told him I’d try to win it off him since it shows all the things that go WRONG in collecting:
2 others sold on the same day for $50 and $49.99. Even with this sale factored in, on average they sell for $51.28 according to PSA’s APR page. I’m guessing the winner won’t have actually paid > 20 times this amount.
I was being sarcastic, as it is worth $50, and the seller seems to shill. So I thought either the seller double shilled the item, or someone trolled them for constantly doing that. Either way, I was just trying to be funny, which is why I posted this in ebay garbage.
I really hope someone doesn’t waste their money at this valuation, if the card had any chance of being authentic, the seller would send the card to PSA first.
the value of the cards would double, triple, and possibly even quadruple if they would get them authenticated, and I don’t understand why they wouldn’t otherwise.
I bought the CD Promo set! They’ve already refunded me saying they sold it too low though, lol. Super, super disappointed, but nothing I can do. My guess from their perspective is that they don’t deal in Pokemon autographs very often and didn’t understand the value or why authentication would be necessary if they don’t have to do it for their MTG autographs.
Ah, maybe that’s the case. Super unfortunate that they refunded you though, because that would have been the deal of a lifetime if they were real. I know what I would pay for them if they were authenticated, but it seems that that’s why they are relisting all of those cards at a higher price. Kind of messed up, but I understand why they would.
