Wïth the current boom around Charizard and the dramatic increase in popularity that surrounds Pokemon during last few months, cards have been selling for record prices, and the Ex Era wasnt left behind.
Some cards achieved new records while others did remain stagnant, thats true. One of the most recent sales for Charizard Ex (Fire Red Leaf Green PSA10) ended up at U$S7599 plus shipping - taxes, being a record breaking price for this particular card and achieving the most expensive sale for the whole ex era.
Charizard Ex Population - PSA10: 186
Yesterday a Milotic Ex poped up on eBay for U$S10.000 and sold pretty much immediatly for U$S8000 plus tax.
Considering how scarce and hard to obtain this particular card is; U$S8.000 was either a steal, or the U$S7600 sale for Charizard was ‘‘higher’’ than expected.
What do you think about this?
Milotic is, now once again, and has been the most expensive Ex card in PSA10, the holy grail of the ex era , thats a fact.
Card had 2 solds around U$S5000 during last few months but these were private sale data, being this U$S8K the first public sale since 05/22/17’s PWCC auction that ended at U$S167!
I´d rather tend do say that the Milotic was a steal, it´s an incredibly beautiful card being from a scarce set with tons of exs and very low pop. With cards like that it´s usually not what the price is but if you can actually find them for sale.
Seller rushed the sale thats for sure, card sold really fast and some big ballers looking for the card didnt even get the chance to send an offer before it sold.
This card was a $5k-7k card even before the Pokemon boom of 2020, very surprised the seller listed it as cheaply as they did and accepted an even lower as quickly as they did. I’m sure someone would have been willing to pay full asking price, and some others even over and above the $10k list price.
This card has gained a pop of 2 in the span of one year plus it’s a really beautiful card. I agree that the seller could have gotten a better price if he waited longer or if he sent it to PWCC. I didn’t even how low pop some of the exes from that time are, damn.
I recall when I was chasing a complete PSA 10 ex set. The hardest cards to find were from ex Emerald. Many of the cards from that set were 0-1 pop. It just wasn’t a popular set to grade at the time and the cards are off center. It reminds me of the japanese dragon frontiers set.
I do think that Milotic is the T 17 of the ex series, but there are several cards that are very close in pop. I just graded a emerald deoxys and it’s pop 11. Surely that card should be at least half of the Milotic (I’m not selling it). I think Milotic is one of the most aesthetically please cards with a great color combination. I don’t think Milotic would drop in price if were to suddenly have the same pop as the next few lowest. I think that once a card has attained that allure of being hard to obtain, then it’ll always have that added premium. Maybe not quite the same amount, but I think this is how certain cards obtain a history within the hobby. Sometimes that history & story are personal to each collector and in other instances that history is universal. PSA 10 Gold Star Mudkip, Garydos and Espeon for the longest time were 0 or 1 pop. I think Garydos was the last gold star to have 0 pop. Maybe that’s just my personal history with the ex series and why I value certain cards. Time will tell whether Milotic retains it’s status as the grail of the ex series.
The Charizard EX I always thought was undervalued for years. The card in hand is beautiful and honestly the entire Nintendo Era EX cards and Gold Stars are some of the best looking cards in the hobby.
My initial thought was “that’s crazy, the buyer must be an inexperienced noob jumping on the hype train”. But after reading the comments in this thread, the card seems to be worth the money (for the right buyer, that is).
I think there is a decent buyer pool already and it will continue to grow as ex era becomes more popular. Even I as a collector with almost no connection to ex cards find it beautiful and know about its elusiveness.
If I had the spare money, I surely would’ve snagged it at that price.
I’ve considered listing this at $20,000 just to see what offers I got on it (I’d probably never sell though). I’ve had an offer of $4,000 already from maybe the 30 or so people who have seen it, so who knows if it got some exposure to the right audience. Yeah it’s not a set EX, but I know hardcore EX collectors still consider it a goal. Tyranitar is like an S tier popular pokemon now from what I can gather seeing the prices that modern 10s get. I’d definitely put the tyranitar top 4 most expensive pre-2007 EX as I doubt any 10s exist anymore. Tins are > $1200 if you can find them and chances of getting a non-damaged one are virtually 0 now.
I’ve seen almost all of the non-holo 10s so I’m 99% sure this is the only holo 10. The non-holo 10 most recent sale was $600 I believe and those come out of relatively cheap packs and are 10x easier to grade.
And yeah, P1 packs are cheap but it would still be tough to grades 10 out of those because of how flimsy the packs are. Crazy how cheap those packs are, though, lol. I didn’t even realize that they were only like $15 each…
What do you think about this?