Yeah , I guess that makes most sense. I ask only on the cards that I don’t have. I’m looking to purchase these at some point in the future and I’m just trying to make sense of fair prices since some of them are all over the place.
When I want something, I just pay the going rate so as to be fair to the seller and in turn the hobby.
As far as waiting, I wouldn’t. No reason to think any of those cards will get cheaper.
Even if you magically knew the amount of errors to non-errors it wouldn’t change the going rate for them. The prices will already reflect the rarity and desirability of these cards.
That definitely makes sense. I guess to put it in context. I had just passed up a Butterfree d edition for $2.25 because I was unavailable to bid on it on the final day of bidding. The next sellers have it at $14 or so which is fine, it’s not going to break the bank. I was just thinking maybe it would be fun to buy a bunch of 1st edition Butterfrees (15-25 or so) for that same price and see if I get a “d edition” stamp. I know it isn’t super logical, I just thought if my chances were good enough and the population/pull rate was in my favor then why not go for it and maybe get a couple of them. Again, I know that doesn’t make a ton of sense but I’ve done things like that before and it has worked out in my favor…I was just kind of weighing my options and looking for a fun way to go about getting it.
I understand your logic, but don’t use this mindset for the long run.
Lot of collectors and pack openers used the exact same mindset for something as simple as opening old packs, and they severely bummed out/felt tricked when they don’t get anything per X amount.
If you want to try your luck in another way, you can look at newly listed ebay listings for those error cards like a hawk, and see if some people are selling them for really cheap since they did not detect the error!
I think the evolution box wartortle (in English) is the rarest of the wotc errors. That being said, I pulled one out of a collection buy last week and have another coming in the mail now that I noticed in a small lot (dumb luck goes a long way sometimes). You’d think something like the no stage blastoise would sell for more than the wartortle but scarcity keeps the price up. Not to say that there were originally more no stage blastoise printed than the wartortle but blastoise is a big holo from the base set so naturally more of those have survived over the years. There’s no telling how many error cards were destroyed because they were commons and uncommons.
I feel like the non-holo Dragonite error from Team Rocket is pretty similar to the English evolution box Wartortle. Both rarely pop up, and if they do, often not in the best condition!
That’s true! I forgot about the dragonite but very similar situation. Both cards that most likely had a similar amount printed comparative to something like no stage blastoise but are very scarce today due to being non desirable cards that were small easily unnoticeable errors. Perfect example of how something undesirable at the time becomes collectible in the future. I remember opening TR packs as a kid and would always get upset with the non holo rares. I’m sure many of those dragonites ended up in the trash.
That’s a good point. Even though ninetales isn’t a very popular holo it is a holo. Isn’t there some speculation that those were only printed in very early versions of the shadowless brushfire theme deck?
Speaking of the evolution error wartortle pull rates, what were the rates in Portuguese? To me, it seems like the error is much more prevalent in the Portuguese print runs with it being on both the 1st ed and unlimited cards? If anyone had some input on this, that would be awesome
