Niche card set of 4x Unsigned Imakunu's Bakaboom set BGS

These are some of my best niche cards and I know some people on here can give me a better understanding. I have seen the Beach Scene card sell for 400$ raw a few years ago when cards were slightly cheaper. Also, I only found the comp because I had bought the card myself otherwise would never have known about it. Not sure if the sold copy was signed or raw can’t remember.
I had to resend the Imakuni back to BGS because they didnt grade it the first submission but the second submission the three pictured were indeed graded. I’m also waiting on a few other cool niche japanese items sticker sheets etc not sure if they will be graded or not.
Would it be smart/wise to even auction such type of cards? I would hate to sell them for some really low price because I know I wont ever find them again and don’t have lots of connections within the hobby.

When I first bought the set along with a bunch of lower end Imakunis!? I’m sure this isn’t the easiest question but I doubt Fanatics / Goldin / HA will give me an estimate or value if anything especially since none have really been sold recently graded or ever.
PSA does autenticate Imakunis signature but no sales on these cards. From my understanding none have been sold at auction or fixed price. Unless there have been private sales which do happen often especially with these kinds of kinds of obscure/niche cards. Maybe in the future PSA recognizes these cards but for now they don’t along with the person who sold theirs a few years back PSA denied it as they showed the M11 or similar type of denial to grade/encapsulate.






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Tagging @hcd since I believe they have a lot more info on this subject.

Cheers!

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Thanks man appreciate it mrbubbles :right_facing_fist:

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Thanks for the tag @mrbubbles ! I previously wrote this guide: Imakuni's Bakaboon: An Overview

These look great in BGS slabs. I would recommend to put these as buy it nows as I think they are way too niche for auctions. There’s a very small market interested in these so auctions would likely end much lower than you’d want.

PSA does recognize these cards btw, see the examples on my other thread. Here’s one of mine too: https://www.psacard.com/cert/97303475

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Yeah that was my logic seems too niche to be worth an auction. Yeah really like that signature much appreciated hcd maybe I will just hold them dont have tons left anyways. Maybe they will grow in popularity later on maybe one will go for sale at some point. Then we’ll have an idea seems like the 400$ sale. I saw a few years ago raw would sell atleast double or more now. I just like how there different than the characters that’s why I enjoy them so much. I also went heavy into the CoroCoro Mangas and now I’m also holding those long term 5-10 years. Got most of the best prints at a fraction of what Pokemon cards are selling for as far as “chase” artwork/covers . Appreciate the insight again your thoughts on these I would like to have both copies one day signed and none signed.

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