I finally just gave up on finding one for a decent price. Bought a sealed one for 25 usd. I don’t think prices will go down. Especially if you live in North America
I decided to open two game stamped pikachu to send to PSA. The first one had some major peeling on the side along with some edge wear and some sort of streak/smear running across the front. It can only be seen once out of the wrapper under proper lighting conditions. It looks like a some sort of printing defect. A PSA 2 no doubt.
The second had some edge wear and the same kind of smear printing defect on the front. Mostly likely a PSA 4 but maybe a 5.
Totally disappointed with the quality control. I was expecting 8’s at the least. The peeling on the first card may have been caused by the resellers packaging but I doubt it. The streaks on both cards is no doubt a manufacturing defect.
I’m fucking bummed. Anyone else run into these smear/smudge/streaking printing defect?