My guess is that they’re in line with the Extra Battle Day Hau from the SM-P set where the card is nothing more than a participation prize. Those sell for around 300 JPY now ($2.70) but when they were first released they were selling for highs of around 6,000 JPY ($55).
Right now the going rate in Japan for one of these is around 3,000 JPY ($27).
Being fairly newish to the prize style cards - is there anyway to determine rough population number?
I assume it’s as simple as knowing how many went to the tournament, how many got to each stage etc?
Sometimes reports are published on the Japanese Pokémon website detailing attendance of certain locations, but really it’s mostly guesswork for stuff like this. I’ve not looked too much into the card but I’m assuming it’s a generic Pokémon Gym thing - off the top of my head there are over 240 different Pokémon Gym locations in Japan. If it’s a participation prize we’re probably looking at 10,000-20,000 copies but if it’s a battle winning prize we’re probably looking at half that number, then if it’s a tournament winning prize we can work out the number by finding out how many age divisions there were (usually 3) and multiplying that by the number of participating Gym locations.
Yeah, as for this one,it is a participation price so it should be more common. The only caveat is that in this case, it is a much more popular character (Cynthia) and the art itself is pretty good.
But yeah i was thinking $50-70 would be an ok price if the card was not that common but due to the availability of this one, ill just focus on other promos.
Why havent detective pikachu booster boxes stonked yet?
Maybe because the cards are ugly…
And the most expensive card in the set is worth $10, as well as completing the set by opening 1 booster box.
That means there isn’t much to chase, doesn’t give great incentive to try and open the box for a valuable card.
Yoshida, charizard gx, mewtwo gx, arcanine, jigglypuff all graded are decent value as 10s
Not to mention pikaaaccchhhuuuu
Fading makes an insane difference in prices, wew
Woww sold for a lot less than what I had thought
Faded or not, this is a genuine trophy card that could have sold for a lot more, especially considering the fact that a couple of the non-awarded “extra” TMB prints each sold for nearly double the price of this card last year.
The seller made a couple of critical errors that probably cost them a few hundred thousand — maybe even a few million — yen.
First of all, the auction was scheduled to end just past noon on Sunday. Bidding activity on Pokemon cards is generally very low at that time and day of the week.
But even more significant was that the seller didn’t set the auction to auto-extend if bids were placed during the final 10 minutes of the auction. There were three active bidders in the final minute, during which time the price jumped 500,000 yen. I have little doubt the bidding would have continued had auto-extend been turned on.
how are so many trophy cards sun-damaged. its so sad…
Maybe? But also faded have impacted prices REALLY hard in the past, trophy or not. And believe me if someone really wanted it, they’d have bid more.
I think that it would have sold for a lot more if it were listed on a global platform such as Ebay.
It is indeed sad. But the sadness was preceded by great joy. These cards were won by children, who proudly displayed them on the shelves of their bedrooms. Anyone who has ever won a trophy as a child knows how good that feels. 
Been browsing, searching, and branching out for a lot of Japanese promos over the last couple of months.
Starting to feel exhausted. They are very difficult to search. Between the language barrier and regional naming conventions there is no uniformity to how cards are listed which necessitates multiple searches to review what may be available for the same card. Lots of cards are listed incorrectly because they are so similar to their variants. Lots of language we use in English does not properly translate to the language used in Japan, making it a guessing game how some cards might be referred to in Japan. Almost nothing is sold in sets or subsets and cards are just mixed together. Condition is also generally poor among the limited results.
The cards are beautiful. Getting them in feels amazing. However it is a laborious, tiresome process.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Japanese collecting. If its any consolation, I have experienced the same issues.
I accept that it comes with the territory. I knew it would be a challenge when I got in to it. But I admit it’s more taxing than I anticipated considering how hard I have to work just to identify one card in the correct condition, especially someone like me who cares about centering and makes it that much harder on myself. I thought I’d be able to get a lot of cards pretty quickly to start but that hasn’t been the case at all.
Any idea what they call the trade evolution communication cards in on Yahoo Auctions? 
