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, 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.
Yes, there were some exception to junk wax, but certain manufacturers made pretty much exclusively junk. For example, Donruss 1990 baseball is always what I think of when I think junk wax. Idk if Donruss made anything worth while for much of the late 80s and early to mid 90s.
Thanks, so is it really fair to call it a junk wax era?
I know nothing about sports cards, but surely not every card in previous eras was not junk. Like modern sports cards is surely filled with junk.
Seems like the term may have been misused by people who don’t understand the differences in the minutiae? Like rarity types, companies involved, type of releases etc
I think it’s fair to call it the junk era. There are late 80s and 90s football and baseball boxes that you can buy sealed today, in infinite amounts, for $30 each.
Are you referring to people who call this era in Pokemon a junk era? In that case, yeah I think it’s overstated. With only one manufacturer for Pokemon, and the supply demand issues we have, I don’t see a reality where you can buy even S&V base for $50 at any point in the next 20 20-30 years. I use S&V base as a semi random example for less desirable sets.
I think the fixation is on a junk card era than a junk sealed era. Nearly all modern bulk cards are hyper abundant, their prices stagnant or near worthless, and virtually no one will wait 20 years for them to go up like WOTC (which was technically also a junk card era)
I feel like there are posters here who never interact with modern cards who think that modern chase cards individually are in the millions or some absurd larger number when they see 11-12b cards printed when the reality is that 90 to 99% of that are just bulk cards and energies.
Take a SWSH Evolving Skies booster box with say 10 “hits”. That’s 2% of the 396 cards in the booster box spread out between 105 cards of RR rarity and above. As you said, 98% is not worth anything now and will never be, so it’s not like there’s some artificial bubble that will implode their value. It was junk out of the gate and everyone knew it.
Then we get to the rest of the cards and if things continue as normal (which I don’t think it will, but that’s a society wide problem not Pokemon related) the most sought after cards will not be going to zero.
I agree that there’s a lot of fluff in sets that generally speaking nobody is going to want in the future. Think we started down that path a while ago when sets got so big. Big sets+record print numbers year after year just makes it worse.
I get differentiating between a junk sealed era and junk card era, I think there’s enough good art and desirability to stop it from being generally considered a junk era as a whole like late 80s/90s sports
