The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Today’s Question: QotD: Whats your go to card when pointing out how the Pokemon card market is irrational?
Helpful Considerations: Common cards for high values? Generic promos with no rarity? Subjectively graded cards with questionable quality? (Give an example, dont just agree)
Seismitoad. Is it a pump and dump scheme? Is it a FOMO freakout caused by people thinking it’s going to get banned for Satanic imagery? Is it both? Either way, we’re cooked
Most “reasons” used to raise a card’s price still have some connection to Pokémon TCG like “it’s Pikachu”, “it’s Charizard”, “it’s useful in decks” or “it’s only released in certain language”. This card is the first card which I still question if the reason of hyping has anything to do with Pokémon TCG to this day.
Both came from blisters so they weren’t too rare at the time. I remember them being both dirt cheap when I bought them. I sold the SM one when it was $20. I guess the answer is just Occam’s Razor: Cute Pikachu cards appreciate in value.
My personal favourite is how i tried to sell my regular umbreon & darkrai gx for over a year for something like 5€(?) but then i didn’t care to list it for sale for some months, and when i did list it again i priced it at 40€ and it sold immediately. Small fish but the multiplier felt crazy
