Tracking 1999 Pokemon PSA 10 Base Set 1st Edition

[pokecollectoramy]

@lowpopping

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

Good luck with that one man. The best discounts in the hobby being found on items with poorly written titles is a tradition as old as the hobby itself, but finding those deals with cards that valuable is pretty rare. Someone lucked out.

Yeahhhh, I’d be all over getting one at that price man! So sad I missed out on it Had I just known!

You would have paid $27k for a “10” card with that much damage?

[admiral]

Venusaur ended at $22,100

Exact same price as the last one

[pierce]

With all the recent auction data this is reasonably accurate now for 1st ed base, jungle & fossil
www.pokemonprice.com/TotalSetPrices

Base is listed at $629k, probably slightly lower than Jeremy’s total as the calc does some averaging if there’s been multiple recent sales of cards within a 30 day period.

[lowpopping]

@pokecollectoramy

@lowpopping

Yeahhhh, I’d be all over getting one at that price man! So sad I missed out on it Had I just known!

You would have paid $27k for a “10” card with that much damage?

I would be very happy to buy a ‘weaker’ version of the same card at a 40% discount

[lowpopping]

Ebay, best offer Alakazam 1st Edition PSA 10 accepted for 19,000 USD.

www.ebay.com/itm/1st-Edition-1999-Pokemon-Base-Set-1-Alakazam-Holo-PSA-10/233764207391?hash=item366d6ebb1f:g:-roAAOSw-IRfnbSj

Days after the PWCC auction ended at 15,100 USD, fascinating!

[bigal]

@lowpopping

@pokecollectoramy

You would have paid $27k for a “10” card with that much damage?

I would be very happy to buy a ‘weaker’ version of the same card at a 40% discount

Then buy a 9 for an even greater discount

[lowpopping]

@bigal

@lowpopping

I would be very happy to buy a ‘weaker’ version of the same card at a 40% discount

Then buy a 9 for an even greater discount

I see your point haha! I rather go for a weak 10 then a strong 9 personally!

[crow]

@qwachansey

Absolute nonsense @hyruleguardian

Besides being often used in Haymaker, Chansey was also used in Alakazam Damage Swap, another top tier deck, along with various stall decks in 2000-2002 era, and of course Metal Chansey in 2002. It was the non-trainer non-energy card used in the *most* tournament winning decks in every format until rotation. Good luck playing Haymaker in 2002, you’d be laughed at, while Chansey remained the star of the show three years after release.

Damage Swap was bad in base. You had a 30 HP basic and a terrible stage 2 with 3 retreat cost and an awful attack. That deck was just asking to lose on turn 1 or get gust of winded into oblivion. Pretty much all stage 2s were bad in base except for Blastoise.

It’s not really meaningful that Chansey can OHKO Hitmonchan but not the other way around. Zard can OHKO everything except for itself but Chansey but still sucked. What was great about Hitmonchan was 20 damage on turn 1. Chansey needed 2 turns to do damage, needed 2 DCEs (which you could have only 4 of in your deck), and could attack only twice before it KO’d itself.

[EnlightenedBulbasaur]

Just in case there was any doubt, pretty much all of the PSA 10 1st edition Base Set holos from the last PWCC auction have already been archived, which means that they are confirmed to be paid for. That includes the Charizard for $295,300.

www.pwccmarketplace.com/sales-history?completed_items=&search_option=title&q=pokemon+1st+base+psa+10&view=grid&auction_id=&sort_by=price_high&page=1&items_per_page=50

[jeremypadawer]

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

Just in case there was any doubt, pretty much all of the PSA 10 1st edition Base Set holos from the last PWCC auction have already been archived, which means that they are confirmed to be paid for. That includes the Charizard for $295,300.

www.pwccmarketplace.com/sales-history?completed_items=&search_option=title&q=pokemon+1st+base+psa+10&view=grid&auction_id=&sort_by=price_high&page=1&items_per_page=50

Enlightened… when does the auction kick off ?!

[pokecollectoramy]

@jeremypadawer

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

Just in case there was any doubt, pretty much all of the PSA 10 1st edition Base Set holos from the last PWCC auction have already been archived, which means that they are confirmed to be paid for. That includes the Charizard for $295,300.

www.pwccmarketplace.com/sales-history?completed_items=&search_option=title&q=pokemon+1st+base+psa+10&view=grid&auction_id=&sort_by=price_high&page=1&items_per_page=50

Enlightened… when does the auction kick off ?!

New pwcc starts tonight around 10pm

[jeremypadawer]

@pokecollectoramy

@jeremypadawer

Enlightened… when does the auction kick off ?!

New pwcc starts tonight around 10pm

Good luck to all.

Are we really back in a situation where all 16 holos have 10 seconds between each other?

[EnlightenedBulbasaur]

10 seconds? Lol I wish, I’ve been begging them, but change is hard to make happen. I think there will probably be something like 4 seconds between each of my PSA 10 1st ed Base Set Thick Stamp holos.

I plan on telling interested parties to create a Gixen account for snipe bids. It’s free to make an account and easy to use.

It’s certainly not a perfect solution since I know that some people would like some but not all of these cards and can’t just place snipes on everything.

As crazy as it sounds it’s still *possible* to participate manually with careful tab management. Just keep 16 open tabs (or however many of the cards you’re actually interested in) and manually enter the bidding amounts beforehand, and move through the tabs adeptly like a wizard.

Oh PWCC…

[newcollector]

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

10 seconds? Lol I wish, I’ve been begging them, but change is hard to make happen. I think there will probably be something like 4 seconds between each of my PSA 10 1st ed Base Set Thick Stamp holos.

I plan on telling interested parties to create a Gixen account for snipe bids. It’s free to make an account and easy to use.

It’s certainly not a perfect solution since I know that some people would like some but not all of these cards and can’t just place snipes on everything.

As crazy as it sounds it’s still *possible* to participate manually with careful tab management. Just keep 16 open tabs (or however many of the cards you’re actually interested in) and manually enter the bidding amounts beforehand, and move through the tabs adeptly like a wizard.

Oh PWCC…

NGL I’ve done the whole tab management thing before. Not fun.

[admiral]

Does Gixen do something like

“If snipe fails on X auction, snipe on Y”, or is it only good on sniping single card lots?

[primordialaa]

@newcollector

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

10 seconds? Lol I wish, I’ve been begging them, but change is hard to make happen. I think there will probably be something like 4 seconds between each of my PSA 10 1st ed Base Set Thick Stamp holos.

I plan on telling interested parties to create a Gixen account for snipe bids. It’s free to make an account and easy to use.

It’s certainly not a perfect solution since I know that some people would like some but not all of these cards and can’t just place snipes on everything.

As crazy as it sounds it’s still *possible* to participate manually with careful tab management. Just keep 16 open tabs (or however many of the cards you’re actually interested in) and manually enter the bidding amounts beforehand, and move through the tabs adeptly like a wizard.

Oh PWCC…

NGL I’ve done the whole tab management thing before. Not fun.

I did it for 18 consecutive cards last time, def. not fun. pure scramble

[lowpopping]

Making a purchase as easy as possible is important for the consumer!

[chrispy]

@lowpopping

@bigal

Then buy a 9 for an even greater discount

I see your point haha! I rather go for a weak 10 then a strong 9 personally!

A cheap weak 10 over a strong 9 all day any day

[EnlightenedBulbasaur]

@admiral

Does Gixen do something like

“If snipe fails on X auction, snipe on Y”, or is it only good on sniping single card lots?

I haven’t done this myself, but this is a Q&A from Gixen’s Website.

"Question*: Can I schedule group bids where the remaining bids are canceled once an item in the group is won, like eBay’s Bid Assistant?*

Answer*: Yes, simply choose a group number from the [Bid Group:] drop-down box. All items with the same group number will be grouped together and remaining bids canceled once an item in the group is won. Do not use Bid Assistant together with Gixen groups, these two are not compatible and using them both will cause your snipes to fail.*"

So it sounds to me like if you take the time to make different “Bid Groups” you can make sure that you only bid on certain items if you lose certain items.

[fourthstartcg]

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

@admiral

Does Gixen do something like

“If snipe fails on X auction, snipe on Y”, or is it only good on sniping single card lots?

I haven’t done this myself, but this is a Q&A from Gixen’s Website.

"Question*: Can I schedule group bids where the remaining bids are canceled once an item in the group is won, like eBay’s Bid Assistant?*

Answer*: Yes, simply choose a group number from the [Bid Group:] drop-down box. All items with the same group number will be grouped together and remaining bids canceled once an item in the group is won. Do not use Bid Assistant together with Gixen groups, these two are not compatible and using them both will cause your snipes to fail.*"

So it sounds to me like if you take the time to make different “Bid Groups” you can make sure that you only win bid on certain items if you lose certain items.

Especially with PWCC, this disclaimer on Gixen is key:
*Warning: Bids you want to exclude each other should be in the same group. Do not group items that end within 2 minutes of each other. In doing so you may win them all.*As PWCC tends to group similar items together ending in a short period of time, the grouping feature has not served me well for PWCC in the past.