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Do you collect carddass or topsun? 
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I ll show you mine if you show me yours 
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Bingo
Cominâ out swinginâ
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You actually beat me to a similar comment. I received a crazy offer on my GS ray psa 10 today and people wouldnât even believe me even if I posted a screenshot lol
I would like moderators to help make this thread go back to what it originally was â âGold Star and Neo Shining PRICE trackerâ. If people donât want to believe prices being posted, either public or private, letâs move that discussion to a âCan private deals be considered real?â
You guys have no idea the deep pockets in Asia offering crazy amounts for these cards. Will that last forever? probably not. But these prices are real
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preach it
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Most people here like gold stars a lot.
I believe a good bit of the private sales/offers. But some healthy skepticism is important when something goes 800% in 2 months
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This. I understand there are private sales but history if it has taught me anything is to trust actual proof. Anyone can say they sold this , they sold that for how much mula but show me that proof. You donât have to but if you want actual data to try and sell at these prices for gold stars especially, then show me the proof of purchase or itâs just he/she said to me.
Some of these âPrivateâ sales also do not mention trade + cash so thatâs also another thing depending what those trades were valued at.
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Iâm not sure thereâs any point to tracking it if the prices are just gonna go up 50% a week even for cards bent in half
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Private sales tell me that a single person is willing to buy a card at a specific price. Thatâs interesting, but it doesnât tell me what the actual market value for the card is.
You see real market value via auctions. This is because it maximizes the valuation and purchasing power of multiple bidders (dozens, hundreds, thousands). If private offers were accurate, they would show up as realized auction prices too (i.e., more than one prospective buyer agrees on the price and has the buying power to complete the transaction).
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Weâre not necessarily questioning the validity of the dollar amounts being thrown around in public sales, (though we should absolutely question a bulk private sale that is around double what it should be) rather weâre questioning the rationality of these purchases, and what it means for the long-term health of this subset.
As others have touched on earlier itt: what are their expectations and purposes for these cards? Are they expecting these to soar up, and up, up forever more? Expecting to one day sell their washing machine PSA 1 for tens of thousands? Expecting to stonk bigly on a card they just spent 5 figures on, when all these cards were sitting on eBay for a fraction of the price just earlier this year? I think thatâs hopeful at best, perhaps ignorant at worst.
6 months ago these cards were a niche topic, as they had been for years. Today they are on every single instagram page, every single store front, being used as a blatant flex tool to drive page traffic, because the majority of the market is extremely impressionable.
Last week a I saw a guy on r/pokeinvesting commenting how he had just bought a complete GS set despite only having been in the market for less than a month. Even today on this very forum we saw a rookie collector stumbling around with a near 5 figure slab, unsure of its validity. Iâm just not sure how anybody can see whatâs happening right now as natural, healthy demand. If people want to speculate on the set, nobody is stopping them, but weâre allowed to reverse speculate our concerns about people getting burned in the long run from these ATHâs.
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This isnât true at all.
Gold stars have been coveted for a long time, and their price reflected that pre-2025. In the past 5 years, certain gold stars were some of the most valuable set cards that you could purchase in Pokemon.
The hype around gold stars has ballooned beyond rationality in 2025, but letâs not kid ourselves on their desirability or popularity. They werenât niche or pushed to the wayside - a lot of vintage collectors and species collectors took them as seriously as their 1st Ed Base, Shining cards, Crystal cards, etc.
If you donât believe me, look at the historical market data and compare it to the other chase cards from Gen 1 and Gen 2.
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Perhaps niche wasnât the perfect word, but I donât think itâs completely innaccurate if weâre using the word as a means to compare GSâ to both more prominent sectors of the market, or even comparing them to themselves from 6 months ago to today.
My main point was that their market had been relatively quiet and stable for a long period of time, at least from my perspective. Stable would be the better descriptor in regards to the point I was making, I suppose.
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Yes, stable is probably the best word. Almost all vintage chase cards were stable or still declining from 2020-2021 highs during the down market in 2022-2023.
And not all gold stars were created equal. Some were obviously much more desired / prized than others. You can tell we are in an insane market when even the ugliest gold stars are popping off and heading to the moon. 
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This is very true. I remember going through one of my childhood binders for the first time since childhood roughly 12-13 yrs ago and the only two cards in the entire binder that were worth a meaningful amount were a GS Torchic and a GS Gyarados. Everything elseâincluding WotC holos and my beloved exsâwere worth basically nothing.
Thatâs the first time I even learned that gold stars existed. As a kid, I never noticed they were distinct from regular holos (whereas exs were the coolest thing ever). I never really cared about shinies. Clearly, though, collectors have cared about gold stars for a long time. Gold stars are definitely particularly trendy right now, but theyâve always been popular, even when Pokemon cards in general werenât.
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I dont believe it! That sticker looks sus. lol jk nice pick up my friend.
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haha thanks. I made a mistake asking for $20 off because of the slight crease. They fired up the laptop and were less than enthusiastic about their asking price but they honored it so kudos. I just gave em my money and ran after that
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