# skiwi's collection - updated 11/8 with GS and Crystals **URL:** \ **Category:** Collecting\ **Tags:** collection\ **Created:** [August 9, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409 "2017-08-09T21:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/1 "2017-08-09T21:19:32Z")
I figured it’s about time I made a collection thread here as well, not surprisingly coinciding with my PSA returns two days ago! This batch was mainly to test the waters and see how much I know about grading as these are mostly ungraded copies bought from the market, overall quite happy with them! And learned that centering really matters a lot. ![](http://i.imgur.com/Hgb2vtI.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/DsVV1o0.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/DMx10X8.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/uiy9Zx2.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/UrsAWKS.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/unrGTtZ.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/vTAatV6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![xzini](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/xzini/32/404_2.png) [@xzini](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/xzini)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/2 "2017-08-10T06:27:53Z")
Very nice first submission, keep it up! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/3 "2017-09-25T18:43:32Z")
Sneak preview of my next post 😊 ![](https://i.imgur.com/ChKTJX6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/4 "2017-09-25T19:56:39Z")
I’ve spent the past months gathering a nice set of cards and I intend to grade them soon at PSA, here are the pictures in a higher quality 😊 ![](https://i.imgur.com/poJGG7c.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/S0hlT4s.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/SnnInYP.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/sTHPQNl.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/dociRhw.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/zVCjLL9.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/S6hhIGK.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/xbPEmiL.jpg) Enjoy 😊 ---
**Author:** ![styluspt](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/styluspt/32/682_2.png) [@styluspt](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/styluspt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/5 "2017-09-25T20:40:09Z")
Wish you the greatest of grades for them all 😁 ---
**Author:** ![cinnaminhbun](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/cinnaminhbun/32/780_2.png) [@cinnaminhbun](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/cinnaminhbun)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/6 "2017-09-26T05:25:57Z")
Straight 10’s on the Delta Species holos, let’s go!! Beautiful cards. 😁 Good luck on them all! Especially the FRLG Charizard. That’s my favorite Charizard in the TCG… wish I could find a PSA 9-10 worthy copy to grade. ---
**Author:** ![pfm](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pfm/32/254328_2.png) [@pfm](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/pfm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/7 "2017-09-26T05:38:18Z")
Good luck with the grading! Looking forward to the results ---
**Author:** ![lelas](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/lelas/32/820_2.png) [@lelas](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/lelas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/8 "2017-09-26T07:39:07Z")
Wow nice cards Frank, did you picked em up here in the Netherlands? ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/9 "2017-09-26T16:10:00Z")
> [@lelas](#): > > Wow nice cards Frank, did you picked em up here in the Netherlands? Haha no, that would be very very difficult 😛 Sadly I missed grading them this month (via Ludkins) so I’ll have to wait one more month 😛 But better to organize them without hurry than to make mistakes in a hurry 😊 ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/10 "2017-09-27T16:15:35Z")
> [@cinnaminhbun](#): > > Straight 10’s on the Delta Species holos, let’s go!! Beautiful cards. 😁 Good luck on them all! Especially the FRLG Charizard. That’s my favorite Charizard in the TCG… wish I could find a PSA 9-10 worthy copy to grade. The odds on 10’s are pretty high I think! Maybe two of them will be 9’s, having some more doubt about those, mostly centering I believe. Unfortunately all of those cards have ‘raised’ edges, which after checking out on here seems to be a normal factory thing and nothing to worry about at all, so hopefully it doesn’t affect it. These are the backs of the cards: [i.imgur.com/1H7QkVV.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1H7QkVV.jpg) Don’t mind the loads of dust/particles there’s on the cards, though I do see quite some white specks… But they didn’t seem to bad in person to be honest, not sure how it will affect the grade. About the FRLG Charizard… I don’t think this one is going higher than a PSA 7 🙁 Kinda a shame, I hoped better before purchasing it, I gambled a bit too much but I still got more value than what I paid in the end. The Blastoise ex has a chance on a 10 though, and the same seller also sold a Charizard ex but somehow I missed that one 🙁 Kinda sad because it was only marginally more expensive. ---
**Author:** ![lelas](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/lelas/32/820_2.png) [@lelas](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/lelas)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/11 "2017-09-27T21:36:37Z")
Those unlimited charizards go for 2k if you hit a PSA 10 on them. Have you checked the holos in halogen? I’d wish you the most luck on those! Getting a 10 on those cards is huge. I still have a lot of baseset to grade but baseset seems hard to get in good grades for me. I guess i got mine most by trading back in the day. My later sets are boosterpulls. One more reason why baseset is so expensive in PSA 10. edit: last psa 10 unlimited sold for 1.4k and you can buy them now on ebay for 2.5k. Hard to say what the real price is. ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/12 "2017-09-28T18:38:11Z")
> [@lelas](#): > > Those unlimited charizards go for 2k if you hit a PSA 10 on them. Have you checked the holos in halogen? I’d wish you the most luck on those! Getting a 10 on those cards is huge. > > I still have a lot of baseset to grade but baseset seems hard to get in good grades for me. I guess i got mine most by trading back in the day. My later sets are boosterpulls. One more reason why baseset is so expensive in PSA 10. > > edit: > > last psa 10 unlimited sold for 1.4k and you can buy them now on ebay for 2.5k. Hard to say what the real price is. Those Charizards are somewhere between PSA 6 and 8, nothing special… I hoped I would be able to get better ones, but it’s really difficult nowadays. They will still continue to rise in value for a fair amount 😊 ---
**Author:** ![cheaterbug](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/cheaterbug/32/262_2.png) [@cheaterbug](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/cheaterbug)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/13 "2017-10-05T22:30:26Z")
Hi, fellow kiwi here 😊 keep up the good work. ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/14 "2018-04-27T15:01:15Z")
So I posted my returns of the above post a while ago already and 1-2 months ago I received my cards back from PSA via Ludkins finally! My overview photo ![](https://i.imgur.com/o3KrtPg.jpg) Close-up pictures ![](https://i.imgur.com/0JYf9Ul.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/u5GagVI.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/PvWRxI5.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/14jl0I9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/15 "2018-05-07T19:43:15Z")
Special for @nauticads! ![](https://i.imgur.com/OTBIDj9.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/sLmnuqA.jpg) I was optimistic 😉 Centering looks great one and good on the other, and edges are very clean, unfortunately they both have quite severe holo scratches warranting a 7, and the 6 has a ding at the front lower right corner, probably what is causing the 6. Both cards have a printing defect though! Can you spot them? And I just saw that awesome swirl at the PSA 6 one 😊 ---
**Author:** ![skiwi](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/skiwi/32/556_2.png) [@skiwi](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/skiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/16 "2018-08-11T17:42:23Z")
Some cool cards that I picked up today! Conditions are varying though, but I’ll likely grade them all except the Piloswine probably. Will also be a first introduction to grading with BGS. ![](https://i.imgur.com/AbKLP5v.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/ZWddm2E.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/JUpF07F.jpg) And I’ve got this for free as extra! Really cool 😊 ![](https://i.imgur.com/CF6wBCp.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![gott006](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/gott006/32/1066_2.png) [@gott006](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/gott006)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/skiwis-collection-updated-11-8-with-gs-and-crystals/17409/17 "2018-08-11T22:08:09Z")
Good luck! Love the gary!