Mostly cause people on FB are not informed and were thinking a PSA9 and BGS9 were the same. I did try to defend his asking as it seemed fairly fair.
www.facebook.com/groups/gradedpokemoncards/permalink/679663699341074/?sale_post_id=679663699341074
Found the page asking 42k per zard with sequential Certs. Now I must rest.
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Oh wow. Isn’t there a PSA 9 posted for something like $48k at the moment? This would seemingly not make sense in light of that.
Okay just checked again. It seems the one I was thinking of has been delisted or I was misremembering from an old listing. There is, however, a $52.2k PSA 9 available this very moment (233721434400), so the $60k BGS 9 is perplexing unless that BGS 9 is particularly strong.
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The BGS 9 Raichu going for $2.2k was especially surprising to me given that the last BGS 9 Raichu to sell went for ~950 last month or so iirc.
$12100 for PSA 9 Fan Club Magikarp, that’s over $4000 more than recently ended BGS 9.5 auction. As a owner of same card I’d like to see this happen but I still have a feeling it will be relisted in next block.
Seems like a lot of 9s went for crazy (record?) prices. Shadowless Venusaur $1625, Shining Mew 980, Japanese Base Zards 1009 & 1075. If anything it feels like there’s a second wave of growth.
*One exception would be stage error Blastoise, but the listing title didn’t mention the error.
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@caughtatpoint, I believe stage error has hovered around that price range for awhile. The current investing climate for base unlimited seems to favour grades over population/“scarcity”, which tells you something about who are currently paying these prices.
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$5,150.00 was the final bid! Two 400+ feedback users bid above $5,000 and another legitimate-looking user bid above $4,000.
It’s great that these are finally getting some attention. This is the highest an individual Pichu card has sold for publicly to my knowledge, beating the $4,500 unlimited Japanese E1 PSA 10 Pichu from a few months back.
I’m hoping this will bring a few more out of hiding as I know a lot of people who are after cards from this set - although I’m sure we’ll have to see some more graded before certain copies appear for sale.
I’ll probably look back on this post at some point as a reference: I can confirm that the pop report hasn’t changed for these since I wrote my article about them in July. For those of you who don’t want to look at my blog for whatever reason, here is the pop report of this set in chart-form:
In total only 51 of the supposed 1,300-card distribution have been graded by PSA so far (compare that to 253/1,000 for the 2010 contest). The low points are pops of 3 and the high points are pops of 5.
Not a bad profit for whoever bought this for $950 back in November last year, but when you consider how rare this card is compared to some of the other cards in this PWCC block which sold for more I think even at $5,000 it was a bit of a steal really.
Congratulations to the winner!
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The 60k BGS 9 1st Edition Base Charizard looks shilled but what about the four other BGS 1st Edition Base Charizards that just finished? Well, let’s have a look (yes I had fun with the arrows).
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He’s a prophet 
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How does this confirm it’s shilling? He did not cancel his bid once he was top bidder did he? Perhaps it was just what he’s prepared to pay?
Some would say he’s the greatest pokemon stonker of all time
This made me curious & I went to check the bidding activity. I found this. Interpret what you will, though.
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Why would you pay more then you could’ve?
Ah… thanks. PWCC will restrict him from bidding in the future I hope.
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I think I am beginning to like him 
He’s all talk, as suspected.
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He’s the Dan Bilzerian of Pokemon. It’s common knowledge that most people who like to show off or talk the loudest are usually the weakest, poorest, and least confident. I learned this first hand in the military where the most BAMF in special forces were often the most quite and unassuming people you met. They talked more about their failures and of the success of other people rather than trying to boost themselves up. It’s a lesson I think a lot of people could use in era of social media.
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The PWCC Auction Archive is a great resource. They only post items once they are actually paid for. Block 9 will be listed in a few days and the sales data will start coming in. After any surprising or unusual sale I check the archive over the next few weeks to see if it gets added to the list; if not, it was not paid for.
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What’s more important is that most of the higher end auctions were won by a single person not an upper end accused shill who finished second. 150k can’t get a PSA 10 deal. 30k can’t get a psa 9 deal. If those two 42k psa 9s get bought or negotiated soon he may be right about Xmas 75k. Waiting to see what he sold his BGS 9.5 for today… Pass the 
. I am not a seller yet.
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