Has anyone been paying attention as to how prices for Japanese cards (especially - but not only - golden era and ex era cards) have developed over the past 5 months? Ignoring outlier cards, how is the average tendency? Was the growth similar to English cards?
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I switched to 95% collecting japanese a couple years ago, and i honestly feel like i’ve just been completely chilling these past months doing the same thing I’ve done while everyone loses their mind over english prices.
Have risen dramatically: base charizard, play promos, masaki promos
decent growth: shinings, gold star rayquaza and charizard, popular species old back (neo umbreon,espeon, lugia, typhlosion etc.), fan club
Flatline/minimal upwards: ex, lv.x, primes/legends, rest of gold stars, niche promos (like jr rally, GB, web, vending, natta wake, or mcdonald’s), PPP, Daisuki/L-P except master scroll
I’m probably wrong, if not will be wrong, on some things.
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I have no idea on set cards but promos seem to be doing really well. especially those munch promos and any pikachu or eevee promo has seem maybe a 2x growth since Feb. Some more so then others.
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The PSA graded Japanese base, jungle, fossil etc cards have seen a huge spike in prices lately.
A few months ago you could get a PSA 9 base Charizard Japanese for £90 GBP. They are now going for £250 GBP.
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I did pay attention, but mainly to Neo - e-series. They started to rise only once the surge for English was already in full effect. The PSA 10s then got picked up one by one rather quickly and supply dried up. For Neo this resulted in 200-400% rises for popular Species (Notable Examples: Umbreon, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Suicune, Shinings). Also 9s have some value now, too.
E-series wasn’t affected as much. Many of the popular species were on the pricier side before and increases for them were <50%.
But you definitely won’t find any PSA 10s from those eras for 20-40$ anymore, which was the standard for the longest time.
Regarding ex, I haven’t paid close attention, but I expect similiar trends there.
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Mario / Luigi promo cards are really climbing in value!
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Almost ALL Japanese Exclusive Promos went up 2-5x.
Japanese Set cards in PSA 10s have also went up dramatically.
Basically, after the English cards started its upward surge in March, there was a 1-2 month lag before Japanese cards see similar growth on certain cards.
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I am collecting exclusively Japanese and as @vic, mentioned it is not as dramatic as the English Prices, but indeed the PLAY promo and Masaki Collection have spiked the most. What I have also observed in Yahoo Japan Auctions is that sealed packs, and exclusive boxes, even though not being sold get a slight bump in prices every cycle of auction.
These are just my observations as well and only on YJ Auction prices.
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Possibly because the Japanese sellers don’t seem to be shipping internationally at the moment, lots of the Scream promos have disappeared, people are asking 2-3x more for Pikachu than a couple months ago for the ones that are left.
Where the common ones where under £10 each they are appearing at £20+ when they do
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Started collecting PSA Japanese cards recently and yeah, the price increases for set cards has been pretty significant for the golden era cards and some of the more sought after ex cards. E-readers are up, not a crazy amount but usually around 50-100% which isn’t that bad when the majority are still sub-250 in psa 10. Generally, the most sought after psa 10s are around 200 now i.e. neo espeon/umbreon. The old ex cards have seen similar growth, got outbid on the ttar ex psa 10 in the latest pwcc auction and i’d put in a bid that was double the last sold. Prices are ticking up across the board, the growth might not be as aggressive as English but still some solid growth. Think there’s more people crossing over to Japanese set cards since English set cards are getting pricier and pricier, same artwork and looks just as nice on display. CD promos have seen some wild growth as well, not too familiar on those though.
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L-P’s I’ve been getting some luck on lately in buys, but they’re also increasing in price as well. Sold a spare Cyrus yesterday on ebay for $250 + Tax + shipping. I’m just glad I’m able to buy some more burned towers and such while the promos are flyin under the radar. With Mcdonalds I haven’t seen a price increase on purchasing in japan, but I can’t find minty cards as frequently either. Managed to find a good looking squirtle finally. I listed my charmander on ebay (bgs10) mainly to show it off and I’ve gotten 5 offers at $350 for it. I’m keeping it though.
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Lots of the ungraded set cards have not really gone up at all. Have not seen much movement outside of the big stuff like goldstars and popular versions of popular Pokemon (e.g. Split Earth Umbreon, Charizards). I’ve been buying a lot of Japanese stuff lately because of this.
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I am always buying scream promos, they are up everywhere. Pikachu hasn’t been below $100 for a bit now, even in japan. Makes sense as they are phenomenal cards.
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I just bought another one from T&T for 89$… cheaper than from Japan. They do still have some listed, if anyone is still missing one go ahead 
Probably not Gem mint though, as average condition on these really fell off mid 2019.
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Good summary thanks
They’re gone now for anyone reading later fyi, as expected. 
Just sold a few L-P’s at record prices today. But you can still find them cheaper in Japan thank god. Web and GB is a slow ether. Same with vending.
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Speaking of Masaki if you have any of them in PSA 9 or 10 go ahead and send me a message 
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havent really looked lately but it looks like masakis have gone through the roof.
CD promos have gone up dramatically, as have the Munch cards. I remember the Eevee PSA 9 actually dropping to below $20 a few months back and now its $50.
CP6 Charizard has also grown quite a bit, used to be able to get them pretty consistently for around $15, then it shot up to around $80-90 before retracing back to $40-50.