To be honest I haven’t done any reserved list buyouts, being in Australia makes it hard due to shipping costs and a lot of TCGPlayer sellers don’t ship to Australia so you can’t completely buy out a card most of the time. I do actively try to trade into and acquire certain reserved list cards though and I have had substantial gains on those cards because of buyouts and natural growth.
@chok Yeah it’s crazy when I think about it, I often just sit and look at my spreadsheets because the numbers are just unbelievable especially since it’s just my hobby and not an actual job.
That’s how the market works. Or that’s how I have seen it work so far since I’ve come back to collecting. When an item becomes limited, price goes up. It will come to that point where that specific item you won’t be able to find anymore. At that point either collector’s will try wait it out or move on to the next best thing. 1st edition becomes harder to find and costly to purchase. Next is shadowless then after unlimited. It will eventually come to a point where the original set will become a legendary set. So rare that nobody can get there hands on it. Anyway to wrap it up, when collector’s can’t get there hands on the thing they want due to cost and/or scarcity they move on to the next thing that will soon be near impossible to attain.
That one you had listed looked absolutely perfect. Good color, great centering, no white spots, really nice. However, I will never pay $2000. If it means never acquiring one, so be it. It’s funny because a few months ago I was going back and forth with a seller for around $5-600 and didn’t end up buying it because of our price difference. You can’t win em all.
There has been a private sale in Australia recently for $1,500US. It sold on Facebook within 15 minutes of being put up and by the comments alone, the seller could have sold multiple at that price point.
$2k for an unlimited Base Zard is fair price imo for the current market. I honestly can’t see it going down.
Honestly, I listed mine up for 2k because it was twice what I had auctioned one up for the month prior. I didn’t think it would sell, but was okay if it did for that price.
Sweet jesus 2k is this legit?! The price difference between a 9 and a 10 is pretty crazy, although there are 2654 at the 9 grade and 265 at the 10 grade. 10 times the number almost bang on.