Ebay Pokemon TCG Stats for 2023

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Pokebeach published another very interesting article I wanted to share.
https://www.pokebeach.com/2024/02/ebay-publishes-pokemon-tcg-stats-for-2023

  • In 2023, eBay users searched for Pokemon items more than 400 times a minute globally, on average.

  • In 2023, the most-searched Pokémon character on eBay globally was Charizard, followed by Pikachu and Mew.

  • The top three most expensive Pokémon items sold on eBay in 2023 were:

    • PSA 10 GEM MINT Charizard Base Set 1st Edition Shadowless Pokémon Card 4/102 ZM1 (November 2023, $217,500)
    • 1999 Pokémon CGC 8 NM-MT Charizard Disco Holo Test Print Shadowless Base Set 4 (August 2023, $125,000)
    • 1999 Pokémon CGC 5 EX Charizard Disco Holo Test Partial Print Shadowless Base (August 2023, $100,000)

  • In October 2023 – the month after Pokémon announced a partnership with the Van Gogh Museum – global eBay users searched for ‘Pikachu Van Gogh’ nearly 40,000 times per day, on average.

  • Searches for ‘Pokémon 151’ increased nearly 11,000% in January 2024 compared to January 2023.

The last stat is rather amusing because eBay doesn’t seem to know that a Pokemon 151 set released in October 2023. Either that or they thought using that “stat” would be a good way to advertise their campaign.

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I saw Pokebeachs article yesterday. Pretty interesting stats.

I do wonder though how the 400 searches per min ranks compared to prior years. Seems like a lot to me.

I think it’s safe to throw out the “Pokemon 151” stat considering the bump is clearly from the new SV set.

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The information comes directly from here

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