This block had some large price swings both ways. Interested to see where the market goes from here.
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Lost all 3 items I had on my watchlist 
Didnt expect the Mewtwo Box Topper to go for $1500
For the third straight month the only thing I won was a CGC 9.5 VS Common.
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I saved $1000+ by bidding on the second card listed whenever there were duplicates of what I wanted listed, in my exprience the first card always goes for more and shouldn’t be bid on.
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Yes this auction was fun. Reminded me of precovid where I could get a bunch of 9s for less than 20$ per. This auction I got a few CGC 9.5 for less than 20$ of the Japanese gym promos.
Agreed. I somehow won this auction for two thirds the price of the other PSA 10 listed. Honestly didn’t think I’d win, but I’ll take it.
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Of all the cards in the block which have been paid for I think this one is the biggest surprise to me:
Vivid Voltage was only released just over 6 months ago and you get 3 Charmander cards as guaranteed pulls in Vivid Voltage’s Charizard Theme Deck which in the UK is readily available for £13.49 (~$19).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Someone had A LOT of Charmander inventory and needed to make a market? Lol. Really no explanation for the stupidity. The other one listed went for $58 which was equally as stupid.
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Maybe it’s just someone with a decent amount of disposable income that doesn’t want to wait a year+ or pay $300 to grade their own copy? It’s not always just about the dollar cost to do it yourself, sometimes it’s just easier to have all the work done for you. Same reason you would hire someone to paint your walls instead of doing it yourself and saving money.
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Some idiot paid $185 for a PSA 2 Charizard ex (just didn’t think through my initial bid well at all). How bad did I do with that? Excited to own the card I always wanted when I was younger, though.
People do things for many reasons. Why are we defending stupidity though? Someone was so desperate to have a graded copy of a 2021 common card that’s worth 10 cents raw in mint condition that they paid double what someone else paid the same night for the same card (which was already stupidly high)?
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I think folks tend to forget, if a card sells for a certain amount it doesn’t just mean someone was willing to pay that… it also means someone else was ALMOST willing to pay the same thing. Collectibles are dynamic, as long as it makes sense to the person writing the check, that’s all that matters.
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Is $130 a lot of money to you?
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How about before anyone buys anything we come and ask you for approval first
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Weird flex but ok - $130 is a lot of money to a lot of people, but that’s besides the point. It’s not about the specific dollar amount, per se. It’s about how two of the same cards in the same grades sold, and one sold for twice the amount of the other. And neither of these cards should’ve been graded at all, let alone deserve a premium of 50,000% - 120,000%, when there are millions and millions of opened and unopened copies out there in the exact same condition.
It doesn’t matter how much money this individual has when the point is, the $120 (or $60) dollars spent on this card was not the smartest buy. A bit of patience would have most likely gotten them these cards for much, much less money down the line. Forget the money, its about the impatience on behalf of the buyers and anyone who also bid on the cards.
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Yes, exactly the point of my post 
carry on pfm
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Thank you for taking time for this post. Much appreciated.
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Is it cool if i buy this? www.ebay.com/itm/224301205362
No, why would you want a scarce, valuable card when you could have 5 vivid voltage charmanders instead for the same money. Think about it
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There are price discrepancies all the time when identical items end seconds apart, this is nothing new. Of course there will be high levels of variance when a very small number of people are making split-second decisions and bids.
You imposing arbitrary rules on what cards should be graded and how much they should sell for. The reality is people like Charmander and maybe some people collect all the artwork in PSA 10. The other reality is that the minimum cost to send one to PSA today is $300. No one said this was a fiscally intelligent purchase but collecting is rooted in emotions and there’s no requirement for purchases to be financially efficient. Someone wanted a graded bulk common and they valued the immediacy of owning it over the $100 they would have saved by waiting 2 years. It’s not a hard concept to grasp. Believe it or not, some people in the hobby are not here to make or save money and just have set goals they want to complete. If you can understand why someone would pay Uber surge prices in a moment of high demand instead of sleeping on the ground and waiting for the next day to save money, it’s not hard to understand why someone would pay this much when it costs $300 to grade it yourself today.
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