I bought a few PSA 9 Dark Charizard holos for around $200-$225 each over the past 6 to 12 months. The only reason I was buying them because IMO $200 for that card is stupid low. It’s been going for $350-$400 as of late.
I havent paid much attention to these cards over the past year but I feel like PSA 9 Base Charizard and PSA 9 Japanese Base Charizard are going for a few hundred more than they were.
Actually paid? Or shilled like everything else
This is a fairly popular Twitch streamer who usually doesn’t cover anything related to Pokémon.
I hope Pokémon isn’t turning into another financial hype again.
Unfortunately, IMO, we’ve been in financial hype since 2020. Felt like we were making our way out of it around the start of Scarlet & Violet but turns out we didn’t lol.
I’m not sure about PSA 9’s, but I know that PSA 8 base Charizards have jumped from ~$500 to over $600 over the last few months.
Every other mainstream streamer was doing Pokémon TCG during 21, but I haven’t seen them jump in the boat atp. Sign that the market can STILL go up some more or that it’s at the summit and about to slow down?
Yea sadly my goal of shadowless zard has gone up seemingly like $800 in the past week. So many cards have exploded in literally the last like 10 days. Markets moving quick lol
The 9’s gone from $1k to $1.5k in the past couple of months.
no, it is maybe 10k or so higher than the last few comps tho
new ez money trick, find a storage unit, label some boxes pokemon do not open, ???, profit!
Did your account get hacked? You forgot to include your signature emoji at the end of your sentence: 
I don’t know if it’s an error or if someone actually sold 50 E3 Yellow Cheek Pikachu PSA 10 to Gamestop, but there’s 50 listings available for them.
Total Pop of 191 PSA 10 so if it’s somehow real, then Gamestop has over 25% of the pop.
Even the Costco Guys are opening packs and pulling the ES Umbreon VMAX. The modern hype has been here for months and is almost entirely price focused. I went to a local TCG convention some weeks ago and almost everyone there was using some app that “tracks” the “value” of their collection…but it somehow uses data that isn’t consistent with TCGPlayer or eBay sold, so it gives wildly inaccurate estimates. Whenever these app users buy cards, they immediately scan them into the app to watch the value of their collection increase. So many people going from vendor to vendor asking for Twilight Masquerade boxes specifically. ATP I’m convinced the greater culture around modern is entirely permeated by value obsession.
Yeah I was wondering about this as well, hence why I’m back commenting again even though I’ve been absent for a while 
I was just checking ebay and seeing that Jesse and James is selling around $100 now. I was pretty confident I had gotten mine for like $7, so it kinda threw me through a loop.
I’d heard other rumors of the market doing some weird stuff again too. How are people “pumping” stuff like this? Is it just a group of YouTubers and influencers agreeing to all start hyping them up to the nth degree?
It just takes one youtuber to mention something like “this is a cool card and it’s only $7”
Then a few people buy it because they like it. Others buy it after seeing the chart go up and to the right. Then it makes it in another video of “hottest cards on the market” and it goes to $100 from there.
Yea basically what eeveeteam said. Out of nowhere started seeing people tweet like “this card is so amazing 
” “everyone forgot about this card its so sick” or like “everyones hyping pristmatic but no one is talking abt this 
” then the price goes up a bit, then people start going “wow crazy price movement 
i told u it was undervalued get in now!!” And then everyone who follows those accounts goes and buys it speculating itll go up, not realizing theyre the ones driving the price up, then u got the “tru collectors” who start fomoing and freaking out and here we are. I witnessed this process practically occur overnight like a week ago.
I always get the impression that the people who try rly hard to draw attention to specific “underrated” items on social media probably have a lot of it that theyre trying to sell and for whatever reason, it didnt get the rise with everything else they were hoping for
Also, there are plenty of Instagram accounts that post auction results and imo have large influence.
“This card just sold and confirmed paid for $300, how soon before it hits $500?”
Then the next 10 auctions each outperform eachother
If the internet and social media was 20 years behind where it is today, modern would be so chill.
What if it’s full of gi joe cards
