Happy New Year everyone!
I’ve been thinking about the way things used to be back in the day. I’m a binder-boi at heart, so never even looked at graded card prices back in the mid-late 2000s, but I now see huge PSA10 premiums and wonder…
What were the ballpark figures for now “vintage” chase cards in PSA10 back then? Gold stars, Delta Species etc.
Alternatively, if anyone knows of a website where the sales data goes back 20 years, let me know!
Thanks!
Parallax
Not quite the ‘00s but this thread is always a blast to scroll through:
I’d love to know the date (and cert #) of the first PSA graded ‘mon card.
There’s some PSA sales figures in there too. Just in case the thread preview seems like a dud, haha. It’s totally not!
A complete PSA 10 1st Edition Base set with red cheeks pikachu was available for 10k on ebay around 2007-2010. By available I mean it was one of those “overpriced” listings that sat for ages.
Keep in mind grading was not much of a thing until maybe 15 years ago. Outside of Base set, you had a few japanese promos cards. PSA didn’t even distinguish between Shaowless for years.
The funny thing is, back in the mid to late 2000s, PSA graded cards were very much on the outskirts of the hobby. If you looked at YouTube back then, the videos mostly all revolved around opening packs, showing off your binder collection, and actually trading between folks (TCBM, “trading cards by mail” videos were semi-popular). Very few people were showing off their PSA slabs, and the hobby was centered on the card themselves, so you as a “binder-boi” would’ve fit right in. So for me, even though I was fairly active during that time period, I don’t remember PSA slab prices at all. What I remember most is “overpaying” for a very clean, raw gold star Charizard (overpaid cuz it was a friend) for $100, scooping up many sub $100 unlimited base set booster boxes to crack open for special events (I opened 2 for every birthday from 2009-2011), buying up 1st ed Neo Discovery booster packs for $2 each to chase the Umbreon/Espeon, buying up ~400 FRLG blister packs for $2.50 each and getting free POP 5 packs as a throw in. I remember all those prices and many more, but I don’t remember a single slab price, because slabs were just reserved for the super nerds like smpratte. The hobby was just dominated by “binder-bois” and degen pack rippers like myself.
Not a PSA card, but this video comes to my mind alot.
The total price on all of these today would be around $150,000 or so if we are going by the market. Definitely a fun video to look at for nostalgia.
I also like this one:
“If anyone wants to buy these, they’ll be £1.50 a pack”
When did PSA start to distinguish shadowless from unlimited? Does that mean the shadowless PSA 10 Charizard pop is higher than reflected on PSAs website?
Awesome info. So bizarre how the hobby has evolved.
Well put. The thing is that most of us quit Pokémon in 2001, because we were getting in a different age-group. Also, the E-reader cards didn´t do it for me at all. Then, when you find out that life isn´t ´that´ interesting, you start to look back at the things that did make you feel something, and that happened to a lot of fans in 2016. So yeah, those years between 2002 and 2015 must have been a quiet, but special time.
