PLESE HELP Unkown pokemon card collected 20 years HELP!!

My guess is you could price quite a bit more than other promotional cards like the Burger King cards or the lunachables cards as the card you posted is not easily available (assuming you can find out if they’re official). I’m sure someone would pay 20-50$ for one.

It is hard to put a price on something that you and me have no idea whether it’s fake or not.

This is the 30k bulbasaur model.

Collectibles guru will pay top dollar

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My kids artwork isn’t for sale either. I’ll sell it to you for 1k a drawing.

I’m not saying this isn’t a licensed card. But I haven’t seen this one.

The problem is you sometimes see these types of posts as debuts for bootleg card productions.

step 1. Claim to have found a card draped in mystery.
step 2. Wave it around and find that no-one knows where it is from.
step 3. Start offering the cards elsewhere and point to the created thread as the only point of reference, showing interest and presenting the idea that the card is scarce.
step 4. Profit.

In my mind, if we can’t find the history of a card’s printrun then it is a bootleg until proven otherwise.

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Another thing to think about.

Let’s say it’s real. Let’s say it’s really scarce.

The fact that you can’t find any info on it, likely means there isn’t demand. So void of demand, how is it valuable. Why would someone pay thousands of dollars for something that they don’t care about.

There are really rare phone Pokémon cards, and other really rare cards, that literally sit for sale. Because someone thinks that since there are only a few copies it’s worth 10k+ or whatever. Generally, the really rare stuff has a unique story, and provenance that makes it more desirable to collectors and increases its value.

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this has been in a binder for almost 20 years im 31 this is not bootleg or fake i can tell you that

and you say there is no demand yet no one has seen it or has them so how can there be demand when they dont no it exist?

Your word is as good as anyone else’s who says it could be bootleg. Just because you say it isn’t doesn’t mean it isn’t. And just because someone says it is doesn’t mean it is. Since no other copies have shown up and no one has given an origin, then anyone would be hesitant to buy it since the possibility of it being fake is there.

So there is no demand…

Hey, are you looking for genuine help? Answer my question. Where are you located. These are usually very region-specific licensed promo products / product insert cards.

im in AZ now but i grew up and like in SOCAL as a kid and where i got all my cards from closest i have found to anything looking like it was out of a book that has the same exact thing on my car for where to find pokemon from the first game but these are the cards i understand me saying there not fake is just my word but if they where it would have happened like 20 years ago honestly

They’re not fake… they’re just not official TCG cards. When Pokemon came out and there was PokeMania, many Western companies started licensing IP from them to create promo and marketing stuff… (they do this less now — are extremely selective to who gets their brand licensing rights) but AZ is a start! I love a good mystery to solve… I’ll see what I can dig up :blush:

thank you to you and everyone

C Guru just tried to sell a 375k 1st base box that was ‘in a safe with two other boxes for 20 years’ they open it and find 2020 energy cards in it. Word means crap once dollars are involved unfortunately
@quuador , @quuador ,

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Been a few months any luck?

They’re still worthless

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I thought the title meant a Unown Pokémon card lol

Looks like it’s unauthorized 3rd party to me for several reasons… if I had to give an estimation of value, or what I’d pay for it I’d give a conservative $1, maybe $1.50 if I was feeling generous :wink: remember OP, rarity =/= value

  1. It looks unbelievably generic, especially the front. I know this is mostly subjective, but the official Pokemon merch/promos have never (afaik) just been a plain white piece of cardboard.

  2. The “Find” and “Catch” boxes make absolutely no sense. In 1998 you couldn’t find or catch Bulbasaur in any zone under any circumstances. I don’t think you could catch him in the wild in Kanto for another 20 years lol. To me it just looks like meaningless filler. Red dot? Blue dot? What do they meannnnnnnn

  3. The copyright looks very fake. This is what stands out to me the most. It just says “1995, 1996, 1998 Nintendo. TM & ® Nintendo.” . Putting periods after Nintendo is very odd, and I don’t think official Nintendo has ever done that. The fact that they typed out TM instead of using the trademark symbol, ™, is also super weird. The registered trademark before the second Nintendo is also incorrect I think. Looking at other official 1998 English promos, they have no registered trademark symbols, only the common law trademark symbols and copyright symbols. I also think that it doesn’t credit enough copyrights, someone correct me if I’m wrong but in 1998 they should have Nintendo, Nintendo Creatures(or just ‘Creatures’), and possibly GAMEFREAK credited in the copyrights. Wizards wouldn’t be on there since this clearly isn’t tcg. One last thing that I don’t like about the copyright is the date listing. In every 1998 or prior promo I’ve seen that have multiple dates they list them as “1995, 1996, and 1998”. This card leaves out the “and” and while that’s not a huge red flag, it is another deviation from the norm of official Pokemon cards so I figured I’d note it. You can look at the Moltres and Mew 1998 dated promo cards below and see how hugely different they are from this. Side by side OPs card looks super fake

Looks like bulbsaur’s business card

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Oh shoot. I just realized. This might be a no rarity. :exploding_head::exploding_head::exploding_head::joy:

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