buy the grade
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Vintage Japanese packs are rapidly disappearing. It seems like hype and finite supply have finally made the golden cross. I don’t know where the ceiling is when the physical supply dries up and demand is at an all time high. Interesting times.
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I went to my first in-house Pokémon auction on Pokémon day. I don’t follow market trends but will post the information here just in case it is relevant for anyone 
(This data is from an auction house in the United Kingdom)
Buyers Premium is 26.5% (+VAT) on top of hammer price.
For bidders online, an extra 2% (+vat).
Link for the full auction here : https://hansonslive.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/auctions/catalog/id/778?page=1
Notable sales:
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About time these are starting to get some love. $400 for a Flareon or Jolteon 6-7 months ago was an absolute joke. I bought as many jungle 10s as I could
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The love in question: 
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Notice how no one is happy when they get some love before they get to buy it.
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Early WOTC Japanese 10s still feel cheap but aren’t as available right now. Not a bad time to buy some still if do enough digging
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It has to stop at some point… right?
Genuinely just insane. I know nothing should shock me anymore, but every day I am, well, shocked.
I remember selling my PSA 10 Eevee for 13.2k a couple years ago and people thought that had to be a fake sale. Man, things are so crazy now.
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Making 10-20x on a once 250$-500$ Gem Mint S-Tier Japanese Promo or Shining in 2021-2023 was nice, but some of these cards are now 100-200x those prices, which stings lots. Wild times indeed.
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alot of fanatics sales are fake asf and u gotta wait like 3 weeks before they actually remove them (even then they might not remove it 
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So glad i picked my whole VS set just last year when it was “cheap”. Still was easy to find NM copies even of holo/rare ones.
TBH, karen’s umbreon was a bit “bound for a market correction”. Don’t get me wrong, jumping so drastically in price is kinda unusual but that card was legit rare in today standards, it just needed a push.
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You’d think! Its a weird market to navigate for sure though.
The crazy thing is that these do not even look like they have PSA 10 centering.
Typical 2 cert. Have you seen the 10 Masaki Gengar that’s at $84k auction on Fanatics right now? I wouldn’t even buy it if it was an 8