“Magikarp used Splash. It’s super effective!” Honestly a great price for what is one of the rarest raw Pokémon cards to have ever gone on auction in the history of the TCG. And then to think there’s potentially 14/19 more copies swimming in a pond somewhere. I’m just glad to have been able to be in the audience for this auction. I’m sure it went to a deserving collector. History in the making. Just wow!
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I know its unlikely but it would be hilarious if the middleman chose conbini payment.
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Can you share the Instagram link please? Thank you.
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Can confirm, I know the person it’s being middled to 
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I’m curious how many of these were printed. Has that been acknowledged anywhere?
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at current market prices, what are the prices for
Heavy japanese base set unlimited pack
Light
Unweighed
I saw someone ask 600usd for a heavy pack but it seemed quite high, but not very familiar with Japanese market
Also would anyone be able to refer to some reputable sellers of Japanese packs?
Thanks guys!
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I believe all Japanese Base Set packs come with a holo, so there wouldn’t be a need to weigh them. Would like someone else to confirm though.
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Unlike most of the early sets, Base is not guaranteed holo per pack
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yes @qwachansey is correct.
Unlike other early Japanese packs, Japanese base has a 1 in 2 chance of containing a holo (30 holos on average in box of 60 packs). However 600USD for a heavy pack seems high considering you can get a Japanese Base set starter deck for less or the same prices. And the deck has one holo rare and one non-holo rare and an additional 58 cards. So better then 2 Japanese base packs ( one light and one heavy). I know 
? bizarre ? I can’t understand why people go with the booster packs ? Sealed collection purposes or are the cards inside the deck boxes not as good condition? I doubt the second reason, but I wouldn’t know as I don’t like opening my sealed items. Regardless, don’t overpay.
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Interesting auctions ending today:
No.3 Trainer with Certificate
page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/1033102644
PSA 9 Masked Royal Full Art
page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/u1032777523
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There are very few Snap cards “lying in wait to go on the market” so I don’t think prices on them will change much unless someone is SUPER eager to complete a set now that they have Magikarp. If they only wanted Magikarp the others are irrelevant. For example there are some Charmanders available and I doubt people are suddenly willing to pay more for them due to the Magikarp sale; the Magikarp was an anomaly since it was the first public sale. If one or two more Magikarps & Pikachus appeared it could create competition to complete a set. Regardless I would not sell my Chansey for the price Magikarp sold for.
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Would you sell your Chansey for any price? Assuming you were not able to buy back a replacement. I am not one of the number, but I assume that if that level of money is available to a collector, an item like that is priceless.
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Theoretically yes; if someone wants to give me $10 million dollars for it I would accept. Realistically no, no one would plausibly offer enough to match my personal value. If I sold all my Chansey cards I would be able to afford to go to grad school and put a downpayment on a house, two things I would love to do, but I have zero interest in sacrificing my collection for that. So the quality-of-life trade off would need to be immense.
That said I don’t have any children and my family is in relatively good health. Those are things that can change and there are things more important than Pokemon. But thankfully I have many other cards and in a worst case scenario my Chanseys would be the last cards to ever go.
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The seller of the Masked Royal Full Art canceled the highest bid (1.7 million) and relisted the card. A zero-feedback bidder had bidded it up until it reached the high bid, then conveniently stopped bidding.
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shill?
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Difficult to say. The seller has 100 percent positive feedback. It could be they were just disappointed the bidding didn’t going higher. Either way, it’s disappointing. Unless the seller sets a reserve, canceling an auction when it doesn’t reach a desired price is just as sketchy as shilling.
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A seller on YJA is putting a SSB 1st place PSA 9 here, after selling booster boxes (base set and jungle) for 160k and 100k yens in one day auction yesterday (pretty sure some bids were cancelled, it was much higher a couple of hours before the end).
Pretty sure there’s something shady going on here, but the seller has a good feedback rating?
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The photos in the auction for the Jungle box were taken by me about four years ago.
Who uses somebody else’s four-year-old photos to sell a product they have in their possession?
page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k1033455561
By the way, the same photos have been used by scammers on eBay.
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