Efour Weekly — April 13–20, 2026
By the numbers
- New topics: 58
- New posts: 1,488
- Most active category: collecting (by post volume and thread count)
- Top contributor: @c0ll3ct0r (229 likes, 33 posts)
- Standout thread: What’s your most recent purchase? — active every day of the week, 20+ posts
- New faces: Multiple introductions in the welcome thread, including returning collectors and first-time posters
The label or the card?
I’m here on da scene for what turned out to be da week’s sharpest argument — and it played out across multiple threads without anyone quite naming it directly. The PSA vs. CGC debate is old news, but dis week it got philosophical. The grading thread on PSA 10 vs. CGC 10 for vintage grails ran long and got pointed: @pfm landed the clearest punch, arguing that past the “mint” threshold, buyers are essentially purchasing a brand name, not a condition standard. @zorloth backed that up with the observation that visibly misgraded PSA 10s still command premium prices — which is either the market being rational about brand or irrational about cardboard, depending on where you sit.
The BGS Black Label got its own moment when a Reddit-sourced analysis of 3,500 slabs suggested 80% of Black Label denials came down to centering alone — a metric that @Bellsprout called “basically random luck.” The grading company’s own consistency problem isn’t new information, but putting a number on it gave the forum something concrete to argue about. By week’s end, nobody had changed their submission habits, but the receipts were now on the table.
eBay’s new rule, and the chaos it won’t fix
eBay announced that starting May 13th, US auction winners will no longer be able to cancel bids after winning — and the forum had feelings. @smpratte broke the news and the thread moved fast. @pfm made the strongest case for why it matters even if enforcement is imperfect: defaults are powerful, and the policy will deter casual flakes even if it can’t catch determined ones. @thurco noted the uncomfortable corollary — that if shill bidding drives comps up and those comps are treated as gospel, removing legitimate bid cancellations while leaving shill bidding intact is a half-measure at best.
The Giant eBay Garbage Thread ran parallel all week as its own evidence file: @trevcatchem posted a buyer demanding a 50% refund on a Van Gogh that graded PSA 9 instead of 10 — a listing that showed the damage upfront, which the buyer admitted they hadn’t looked at. Someone covered identifying marks on a fake slab and called it undetectable. The policy change is real progress. The people, less so.
The artist’s second attempt
Drew12’s prompt was simple: find two cards by the same artist of the same Pokémon — did they improve? The thread that followed was one of the more genuinely engaged discussions of the week, drawing in @Quuador, @smpratte, @Dyl, @c0ll3ct0r, and a dozen others with cards spanning decades. @Bellsprout’s pair of Dark Slowkings — twenty years apart — drew the cleanest verdict:
This pair encompasses the vintage vs modern debate for me.
@smpratte dropped a Voltorb side-by-side that needed no caption and collected 38 likes anyway. @c0ll3ct0r offered a more pointed read on one artist: “Before he lost it, and after he (kind of) lost it.” The thread didn’t force consensus — some preferred the vintage, some the modern, some called it a tie — but it gave collectors a structured way to articulate something they’d felt for years. Dis is the kind of thread dat earns its keep.
@Vertemes and the Rayquaza grind
A new thread opened mid-week with @Vertemes officially documenting the quest for a Gold Star Rayquaza — tired of posting updates in the price tracker, spinning up a dedicated thread to chronicle the journey. The backstory had been building in the Gold Star and Neo Shining Price Tracker all week: cards graded, eBay sales processed, a deal with a parent to cover the remainder if obligations are met. @codytcas offered the most useful advice in the room — don’t settle for the first copy you can afford; wait for one you’ll be proud of long-term. @thurco’s read on the parental agreement was more direct: “I can’t believe you’ve grinded this hard just to whip out the trust fund at the last moment.” The forum is rooting for the Ray. The receipts are being filed.
Quiet wins, collected
The most recent purchase thread moved steadily all week with genuinely notable pickups. @martin ticked down to 9 WotC holos remaining on a long-running completion run. @Professor_Broke made it out to an untapped local store three days running, pulling Dratini line additions, mint vintage, and “just cuz I like it” cards each time. @tealdawn landed a Pop Series 5 Pikachu — a set notorious for inverted back errors and atrocious print quality, with no PSA 10s across any grading company — with exceptional front condition. @MarkySharky quietly completed the Pokémon Go base set, 078/078, only realizing it after the fact. @Bellsprout is becoming the Bellsprout guy and has made peace with it. The E4 Vintage Thematic Set Event kept building too — hand-sculpted Natu in clay, a very angry Golduck, and a Manaphy relaxing at a waterfall all landed this week as community card art entries.
That’s da week — Meowth out, and youse better check dose comps before ya buy.