They may also own those cards and plan to sell them soon after your auctions end, trying to take advantage of the higher last “sold”.
TBF that website is not a major outlet for pokemon. Maybe it would have earned the same price, but it at least would have had more exposure elsewhere.
All the ex boxes were record prices
Because ex is da best
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ex bad idk what you’re talking about.
Independent of prices, something selling for double the asking as a very easily found ebay listing is strange.
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Yeah HL was beyond absurd. I haven’t talked to a single person who claims it makes sense
Maybe. I haven’t sold on ebay since 2020 (not pokemon) This takes some getting use to.
Not only that but the actual yield you make on opening 1st ed is actually pretty good. I made money on a LIGHT 1st ed pack because i scored a psa10 red cheeks pikachu. Not saying to ever expect 10s but I was able to get 10s on a few starters as well as farfetch’d, pidgeotto over the years. keep in mind im not bring any holos into the equation. Even the wrapper people want and pay for. Also I’ve participated in box breaks where I end up with a light pack but i send it in for grading and actually make money somehow…
compare to a evolving cries which is pretty much vmax or bust and the pull rates are abymal. You will almost always lose
I agree that 1st ed seems comparatively cheap but a lot of that has to do with how reliant it is on charizard. Sure your box can have 1 or even 2 zards in it but if the box doesnt have one you stand to lose 6 figures! Thats why 1st ed has a hard ceiling on it. Could you imagine 1st ed box costing 500k without a zard?
if the other holos were more in line and not as top heavy, i.e. say zapdos, hitmonchan psa10s were worth $30k instead of $10k, the box would have much more value potential
I think it’s more to do with Pokemon buyers still generally having a lot of people with say 10-30k to spend, and not very many with 250k to spend at any given time.
We can all recognize the comparitive value but it does not mean we can act on it.
This market tends to undervalue stuff that’s say 100k+ and overvalue stuff that’s <10k or so. The joke people make when they compare a hundred moonbreons to a trophy card is very valid. They’re not at all historically comparable so the difference should be more, but there’s only so much money to be spent.
Just based on the consumer spending power at the moment.
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well u just dump the whole box on whatnot at like 12k a pack for “unweighed” (even tho heavy packs werent even going for that much) and make like 150k or something 
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this is true for every market even “normal” ones like real estate u can have homes that are 10M+ sit for months or even years but then ones that are like $1-2M get into bidding frenzies and ppl pay 500k above what its actually worth
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Over 4000 aud dollars for 3 sealed Spanish Fusion Strike Booster boxes, who would of thought Spanish would be popular. and bidding is not finished.
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Has anyone used probstein to sell? I emailed them questions but havent gotten a response for a couple days.
Do i just package items and put a piece of paper with my name and email like zandG and ship it to probstein?
How long after they receive it will it be listed for auction?
How long after my item sells do i receive payment, do they send me an email to give me a bank portal to transfer?
Any tips or tricks, let me know!
Yes, put a paper in there with your name and email and I like to give a basic rundown of what’s in the box like “12 PSA cards” or whatever.
They have typically get my items up after receiving within 48 hours. They almost always put the the items up for 10-11pm time frame. The payout varies but is usually pretty quick, within 10 days or so. The day after the auctions end they send a spreadsheet with the final price minus fees etc. I just get a check cause I’m old and live close but they definitely offer ACH.
Ok thank you, i wasnt sure if i needed to contact them before hand and set up the transaction or not. Thanks!
Ok, I haven’t asked this before, but it seems apt- how junk was the junk wax era of sports really?
Because now that it keeps being referenced for Pokemon, I think we might be referencing different things.
90-99% of what Pokemon prints is junk whether we are in the junk wax era or not because 90-99% are common cards, energies etc. Was this the same for sports? Are there any examples of sports cards from the junk wax era, or rather, entire rarities that actually defy the term junk wax?
I wonder how many people who don’t engage with modern at all realize how bad the pull rates are and what the quantities actually are of chase cards.
Still the most beautiful swing in the history of the game
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