yea i was wondering if it was just me getting really bad luck with Yu Nagaba lmao i bought like 10 sealed and 7 of them were literally bent, with one looking like someone kneeled on it
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It’s probably because of the way the Pokemon Center shipped the cards. They were literally taped to the inside of the cardboard box containing the merchandise that was purchased to qualify for the promo card.
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gives the 10 a decent chase i guess lol… ( ( silver linings ) )
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I would be quite uneasy bidding on that booster pack as a sealed collector or having it in my collection. It is quit common for short packs to have bad/nonperfect seals, however I have never seen a short jungle pack seal that bad. It was early times for pokemon and packs weren’t prefect, but all the short packs I have owned and seen have had a much better seal then that. I would be very Sceptile.
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Hi Guys! Need advice, my wife’s Uncle who use to own a gas station here is South Florida use to sell Pokémon cards, specifically Japanese pokemon cards. He sold his business back in 2000 and keep his unopen packs and boxes that he had packed up in his house. My 10 year old son recently went over and told him he collects and he gave him all these packs/boxes. When he got home I was floored! Do anyone know what these things are worth, he opened like 30 packs…
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Not the expert here (will leave it to the seasoned vets to give accurate estimate), but it appears to me theres at least a good 40k usd there if most of those boxes are still sealed…
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@frcjr22 , I just did some basic eBay sold listing searches, so someone else with more knowledge might be able to provide some more info. But based on recently sold items,
A sealed Team Rocket box (black and orange) sold for $10,000 - yours is a little beat up so expect a little less.
Team Rocket packs are individually selling for $170-$180 each.
Fossil packs (in your last picture) are selling for $150-160 each.
Gym Heroes packs (in your third to last picture) are selling anywhere from $150-180 each.
The sealed Neo box has no recent sales on eBay, so someone else might know its exact value. But I would say its worth at least more than the sealed Rocket box (I could be wrong).
My advice is obviously don’t let your son open any more packs, but also don’t sell anything right now. Put it away until he’s ready to go to college or trade school or move out or whatever, and sell it off then. ESPECIALLY don’t sell it for yourself. Your son might be upset for a moment if he can’t open the packs right now, but he will love and appreciate you exponentially more if you save everything to help him out later in life.
If and when you go to sell, make sure you do your research and are aware of the risks, as well as ways to minimize said risk. It can be complicated when the value of the items are high and the nature of the items are what you have (sealed vintage), so you might be best looking for a reliable middleman. Assuming this forum is still active in a few years’ time (I don’t know why it wouldn’t be), you’d be welcome to ask people here for help selling when the time comes.
Oh, and make sure he doesn’t go to school telling all his friends how he just randomly acquired a 5-figure Pokemon card collection. The last thing you need is a potential burglary, or any of the stress related to the mere thought of one.
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Amazing to see all these 20+ year old booster boxes in one photo, so nostalgic. So what we’re looking at here are 2 booster boxes of “Mystery of the Fossils” (Japanese Fossil), 3 booster boxes of “Rocket Gang” (Japanese Team Rocket), 1 booster box of “Challenge from the Darkness” (Japanese Gym Challenge) which is filled about halfway with booster packs from “Leaders’ Stadium” (Japanese Gym Heroes) and finally 1 booster box of "Gold, Silver, to a New World… " (Japanese Neo Genesis). First off be sure to keep all the sealed boxes sealed. Then make an inventory of the contents of the boxes that are already opened. From there you should be able to make a good estimate of value through a couple of quick searches of recent sales. You’re sitting on a real goldmine, that much is for sure. Congratz!
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As neat as it is to read these comments about the value, there is also the reality that your wife’s Uncle and consequently your inlaws may resent you for the rest of his life if he hears you sold for $X. He surely didn’t realize the value of these. Of course, I don’t know your relationship, so I could be off the mark. And maybe you plan to keep them regardless. But among my own extended family it would inspire much bad blood.
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Wow, what a find! I love to see this sort of stuff (and also clench my teeth with envy, just a little bit).
All those packs are conservatively worth $150 each. Each box, if sealed (plastic wrapped) or full, has 60 packs inside. I’d recommend not opening anymore packs, or boxes, until you understand what you have.
The three black boxes that have the number 4 on them are the Team Rocket set, the two orange/brown boxes with the number 3 on are Fossil set, the red/green box with number 2 on it is Gym Challenge (aka Gym 2), and the golden/yellow box is Neo Genesis (aka Neo 1).
The gold box, Neo Genesis, looks to be sealed and in nice condition, be careful with that one. Their condition determines their value, so try to keep everything as you found it. If it was me, I wouldn’t stack the sealed ones on top of each other, and keep them separate.
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Nice spot.
I can see what you mean about the curling, but I don’t think it’s a negative indicator. The ^^^^ pattern in the top/bottom foil look consistent, and I’d think that would hard to maintain if it was resealed. Also, what is there to gained by resealing? The value of these is the pack itself rather than the cards.
I’ll check my packs and see what they’re like.
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Hi, wondering if anyone can confirm this is the case. I purchased a few of those new CoroCoro Pikachu full art promos. I received this message from the seller:
“Hello.It’s a Pikachu card, and as you can see in the image, there is a thin line where the red frame surrounds it.In Japan, the latest cards often have this line to prevent resale, and 3 out of 10 cards have this line.Is it safe to ship it as is?”
I received an earlier order of the pikachus today and sure enough, the lines are there on the first couple I checked. It’s more faint on some than others.
I first noticed this a couple weeks ago too on some of the Japanese Legend Arceus cards I purchased from Japan. Pretty much all my Arceus promos have a vertical and horizontal faint line. Basically a big cross on the card that does not resemble typical print lines.
You can see the horizontal line easily and the vertical line is more faint in the pics.
Is Pokemon really now putting intentional “print” type lines to reduce resale since it will affect the grade or something? This may be old news, but this is the first I’ve heard this.
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Which one sounds more likely
“The largest media franchise in the world is putting single print lines on cards to prevent 3rd party reselling”
or
“Pokemon quality control has always been bad and print lines on V cards/full arts is just the most recent example like 1st ed stamp variations, holo overlapping the evolution box on base, and countless other common print errors”
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Don’t know where that guy got the information or if he was trying to rationalize/make an excuse. I will say I ordered 200 of these just to hold on to for the future and every single one of them had this line.
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Well, I think you make a great point. But he didn’t pull it out of thin air, a Japanese source told him that.of course, it could just be a rumor swirling around there.
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I hear there’s a mew under the truck in Red version
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That hypothesis is testable. Which, again I see your point. But we’ve seen lotteries, breaking sealed wrap on boxes. This seems realistic. I’m not gonna marry myself to it, but I’ll keep an open ear.
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Id assume Japan ramped up printing and had to forgo some quality control in order to meet demand. Especially if they are using a new printing method for these textured holos. They likely cant afford to stop all printers and debug them to find the error. we will likely just see better print quality of these cards when they have more experience printing mass quantities of them.
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They have printed a confirmed 1,000,0000+ of those Pikachu cards in a time where they can’t keep product on shelves for more than a couple hours without drastic measures like breaking seals and lotteries, and reprints are taking 6 months to deliver. It’s hardly surprising that quality control went down the toilet.
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Some of my S9 Star Birth ultra rares have the same print lines also - Hopefully it’s fixed for Battle Region and the Sparkling Pokémon…
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