Good point, I am not sure if they printed equal quantities of each holo. It should be out of these 4 and I know I already pulled a Sneasel 25 years ago.
i think its more like 10-20x less in 2026 
You can buy stuff from pokemon center? Cool flex
I haven’t bought anything from PCJ since they did the whole phone verification thing way too boomer
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Finally wrapping up the 108 of the main vending series set and started looking at what the masaki promos are looking like in 2026 and holy hell, is the dream dead? I remember not being ready to pay $400+ for the Gengar a few years ago and today everything is more than 10x that.
I’m not looking for graded and am definitely willing to compromise on condition on these
Should be chilling then, Homes! Still will have to pay a bit for the Gengar even in raw nowadays, but others should be obtainable if you can stomach paying above previous years’ prices.
Wish you all the best in your search 
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Im having a hard time picking psa 8-9 of the “normal” vending series. Can’t imagine the prices on the Masaki promos.
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Ya you don’t want to look at those prices nor a great financial decision ATM… but yet again buying anything in this market isn’t a great financial move either lol.
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Raw Gengars are all (all) listed at above $4000, some of which are selling. A few are slightly cheaper on Mercari JP. All wild.
This guy reminds me of Tokyo, and it isn’t the pfp either…
WARNING: @fourthstartcg gave me express permission to do this if it helped me get a Ray GS. Got a offer for 1,500 for my rayquaza pokepark blue in a PSA 9.
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You are right but then again, all of these cards have low pop reports, some of them less than 500-1k psa total.
Not sure one might be able to find minty copies of these for a fraction of the current asking price in the years to come,
That’s always the Achilles heel of this market. LOW POP. A good way to look at it is how much of the pop is represented in today’s market vs how much could come to the market to push the price down.
AKA a very niche card such as a Master’s Scroll. POP 30. At that point, whoever has a copy can really ask for whatever price. Even if 10 or 15 copies are in “forever homes” that means only 15 other copies are EVER coming to market. At that point, price memory and the “market” doesn’t matter. Just whatever the lowest listed is at (Which is 90K).
In that scenario it is either Buy or Bye 
For other cards such as Van Gogh, it follows more closely the market. There is always a PSA 10 for sale and will not move as volatility like the sub-1000 pop cards. It will incrementally move up or down. But if just 5% of Van Gogh pikachu sellers want to move out of their position, well there is a lot for it to drop and very rapidly depending on market conditions.
So in conclusion, yes POP matters but it shouldn’t strictly dictate the price. I would speculate a lot of these “Low Pop” grail are flipping potentials held by vendors, not by people who want to hold onto the card past 1 year.
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Take that if it helps your goals. There’s some dude trying to sell his on eBay repeatedly with a reserve on and it’s gotten to nowhere near 1500
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strong offer given what the 10 is currently going for, and the lesser multiplier kinda makes sense since the overall pop is so generally low
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What is the 10 going for right now?
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we’ll find out, at least one for auction to add to the other BIN/BO listings, I think recent sales were just north of $5k
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