Not if youre looking to sell as I find BGS 9.5s more illiquid than PSA 9s.
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They were 10 cents before the $150 grading fee. There are set collectors that want to finish their sets this year, especially if there are so few cards in the set. So effectively the graded version is not a metric ton(yet_ , and 8/9s (as those are pack fresh) should be 150.10+ as the sellers would like to pass on the fees to the buyer (not saying the cheap people would buy it but the PSA 10 SET COLLECTORS/Ballers), but whatever guys, go buy your reprint charizards
There is an Ebay seller, apronman2011, that just listed a lot of expensive graded Pokemon cards at auction. Many of the cards appear to have fraudulent PSA labels or to be someone else’s listing altogether.
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Yeah I just posted about that in ebay garbage, some of those cards are my cards and my pics so I imagine its all bs
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One of them has TCA Gaming’s watermark on it, ha
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Some interesting discussion here guys keep it coming, what a read
We were making progress with the thread being dead for 3 days
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It appears a Ebay UK Seller s account has been hacked, all of a sudden thousands of US items, have been listed.
Lots of items listed for 3000. Charizard etc.
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Is there a site or way to see the general market view, if it’s bull or bear (probably not applicable terms for tgc sorry new to selling).
Anything better than checking pokemonprice and ebay recently sold, because that’s what I do now to get a view on things and it’s slow and they both have different results, a no recent sales on pp is discouraging but might show a recent sale on ebay search,
I got a full binder so it’s too much work, got a decent collection of high volume small margin cards (depending on psas rates when their backlog is over), would like to grade when psa opens up bulk and sell on a good boom.
thx
Ebay solds is the only way really, I don’t think there are any shortcuts to finding value, there are so many niches in Pokemon there’s no simple line graph that will help you unfortunately.
I think you’ve got to invest the time in learning what you’ve got if you want to maximize the value of what you have, otherwise you might be better off selling your collection as a whole. You’ll get less than market value but will save you a huge amount of time / work. Use that time / money to make more money in other areas if you are not looking to be in the hobby long term.
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ok thanks, I am interested in the hobby long term, and I have the time to piece out and grade cards, I think it’s fun with the grading aspect (bit obsessive personaity) was just hoping there was a way to know if another 2020 is coming.
I have base set to neo genesis, all the best cards are played and lightly foil scratched and some white specks on back, silvering on sides, so I doubt I’ll get any big scores, might not even grade them unless vintage 6-8s become desireable in 10 years or so (which may happen) as the psa 10 pops will be too expensive.
but I have plenty of vintage 9,10s I think, non holo that go for like minimum $50 each so I’ll work on volume, but some common cards psa 10 aren’t even on ebay (I assume no value), but then some common mint like totodile go for $200 and I have no idea why, guess I have to start researching more and catalog values card by card.
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The bull market is over when the bulk tier reopens without crashing.
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I gotta be careful then, was waiting for psa to finish their backlog like many others, but if everyone sends in and floods them again, my cards could be as valuable as a 1990 hockey card, my only advantage is they are all vintage and there are only so many of those graded in 8-10, but unfortunately will be like years and years before these become desireable.
But if people are buying commons, trainers and energies for 50 bucks today, they might be paying more later as long as people keep collecting and Nintendo keeps supporting the pokemon franchise.
Something important to note with the current price and pop counts for vintage commons… they were rarely graded pre-2020 because they were too cheap to bother and they aren’t being graded now because grading is too expensive. So, the pops are deceptively low relative to the amount of mint raw cards out there and the prices are deceptively high due to being constrained to the relatively few cards that were already graded. There are plenty of folks (myself included) sitting on thousands of WOTC-era commons in PSA 9-10 condition just waiting til it makes sense to grade them, so the long-term price trajectory might not go the way you think if supply increases faster than demand.
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thanks for this explanation, thousands, dang, I have 300 PSA wotc 9-10 at best, might end up being just a worthless binder, or I’ll have to wait until I’m an old man to sell, anyway, will check ebay from time to time to see what’s going on with my better cards when I figure out what they are.
Celebrations Gold Charizard card, back on Ebay.
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Fusion Strike packs are weighable from a booster box. The lightest packs have all the hits, the heaviest packs are all duds.
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You would think they know how to get this right after 25 years.
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I’m sure the code cards are for their internal use to make sure they distribute the right ratios. They don’t care if people weigh stuff.
