I REALLY don’t want to ever sell this.
8 Likes
3 Cards
PSA 10 Lugia 1st Ed - First card i ever graded a 10
PSA 10 T17 1st Ed
PSA 9 Crystal Zard - Childhood copy that brought me back at the right time.
3 Likes
You can pry my buzzwoles from my cold dead hands
3 Likes
I have a separate box in my collection space that contains only cards that were gifted to me. I cannot imagine a circumstance in which I would find it appropriate to sell those. Anything that I purchased would move if someone wanted to be silly with their money.
If you want to exempt life-changing offers in grand excess of the value of the item, there is a considerably larger portion of my collection that I simply would not sell. You can’t offer me anywhere near “market value” on my rare cards and expect that I would be willing to sell a piece of my collection. In general, it would be difficult to get me to sell anything from my “core collection” without agreeing to purchase everything in it at my full 10±year speculative consideration of it.
One thing I know I’ve typed out here in the past and to friends in the hobby is that I consider the opportunities to actually get my rarest cards incredibly fleeting. Unless you can help me overcome some substantial life obstacle, there’s just no point in selling because I can navigate life just fine without selling. I didn’t sell when I was homeless ~11 years ago, why would I sell when everything is going great? You might have gotten something off of me when I was getting married, but now that is gone. Might have gotten it when I needed a house, but now I’ve bought that. And you might have gotten something when I was setting up my firstborn financially for life, but that’s also already been accomplished. All of those were paid for with Pokemon, too. So now, it’s getting tough to imagine what you’d have to do to get me to sell something close to me. Because my prices aren’t fixed to other peoples’ opinion of the value of the card. They’re fixed to the utility that the sale provides me for improving the amount of joy in my overall life. And the more financially established I get, the higher that price tag becomes.
27 Likes
This thread is for high rollers only.
Jokes aside, always great to hear what pokemon has helped you accomplish Charlie
2 Likes
God damn. I’ve seen your other unikarps, but that is a hell of a story. I wouldn’t have believed my eyes.
Do you have that same outlook towards most of the lower valued Pichus in your collection? For folks who are very attached to their entire collection(s) (as opposed to maybe a few cards they treasure), I’m curious if the sentimental value is driven by a few key cards (and how you’ve obtained them, or if you feel like every card is just as special to you
The high roller - My most prized set, they’ve been with me for 10+ years.
The sentimental - My first ever Japanese cards, which started it all for me.
12 Likes
@pokemonpuppy, god damn. I’ll trade you 3.5 raw Bidoofs for your design contest slab collection?
What’s the story behind the Japanese cards? Would you consider getting them slabbed (maybe with custom labels), or are they forever binder cards?
1 Like
Yes, pretty much. Just because something is lower value doesn’t mean it’s easy to replace. If someone is going to offer me some silly amount above the market value for a card I can go and replace straight away without any trouble then sure, I’d be more than happy to make that quick profit, but otherwise I’m not going to intentionally put myself into a position where I may struggle for years to patch up the hole that remains.
At the end of the day I know that I’d take more enjoyment from my Pichu collection than any amount of money.
3 Likes
I may sell my sets eventually, but it’s an all or nothing deal.
Not a high roller though, etc
I’m not a high roller either but for the right price I would probably sell most anything. With the exception of my base set Machamp holo which is in horrible condition, I’ll keep that forever. Its the only card I can say for certain came from the 2 player starter set, the very first Pokemon product I ever got as a kid back in the day. The one that started it all.
There are a lot of sentimental cards I wouldn’t sell for any “reasonable” price. I also rarely have a price on any card I own - it’s just one of those things where you know the right price when you hear it.
Mm, yeah I agree for the most part. I think there’d be items that have enough sentimental value that one would never sell it – regardless of the offer. Imagine, for example, if you pulled your favorite Pokemon with late immediate family member or significant other
I don’t buy into that. If someone slaps down 1million dollars cash for a sentimental card I’d cave in seconds. Frankly, it would almost be insulting to the person who you share this sentimental experience with to not take that level of money. Surely your significant other would appreciate a higher quality of life and certainly the dead family member would have been happy for you in this situation (and if not maybe you should reassess why you thought so highly of them).
Talk is cheap and it’s easy to say you’ll never sell a certain card because this situation is not realistic to begin with. But if actually faced with this opportunity I’m skeptical that anyone wouldn’t take the money unless they were already really well off.
7 Likes
I don’t have any sentimental cards. Not a single card in my collection mean anything to me on that level.
unless they were already really well off
True. I think it depends on what life stage you’re in and your financial wellbeing. I’d be more disposed to selling a sentimental card for an obscene amount of money now.
Dang okay
Art Academy Gourgeist.
You can expect for the next *googles male life expectancy* 50 years that PSA pop might as well be considered one less 
2 Likes
I don’t think I’m alone. I’m sure many people do have sentimental cards of all kinds, no doubt about that, but I’m equally sure many people just think it is somehow obligatory to feel a certain way about certain cards because they are “supposed” to, and then they conform to that concept.
Sneak into my house and swap the oh so precious light played Jungle Venomoth in my basement for a similar copy, I won’t shed a tear.