I tend to agree that necro posts are better than new posts on an old topic. On a lot of forums, questions are met with “did you search?,” but often those threads are going to be older. Sometimes questions linger for years
I don’t trust people selling $500+ raw cards. Why won’t you grade it yourself? Any card worth that much raw would be worth 2-10x that amount graded most likely. I just have to assume after you’ve looked it over in person you’d rather try to pawn it off as an “opportunity” for someone else to grade, but you already know the gamble isn’t worth it.
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From the rules:
1.5. Bumping threads that have a last post of over 2 months ago is against the rules. There are exceptions to this rule:
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As long as you’re providing new or relevant information to the thread, it’s fine to post regardless of how old the thread is, as long as you’re aware that the previous information in there may be outdated. Unfortunately many necroposts add nothing to the discussion and are simply commentary or throwaway one-liners, so we do need to lock in that case.
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I hate how some people who are selling a card for, lets say $1000, but only accept trades in their favor for over $1000. I’m all about fair trades for both parties so this irritates me
They probably place a higher value value on their card than in cash? This is pretty common most hobby communities
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I consider accepting a trade to be worth less than cash. With cash I can buy exactly what I want, where as a trade I may accept things I don’t necessarily want or need. Because of this I’d want more in trade.
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I understand that, but if the seller doesn’t want to take a fair trade then they should just take the cash
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Reverse foils are a pain and boring to try and collect for a full set.
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For mint cards? 100% agree. But for a 7-8-quality card, you can often get more just selling it raw (at least for the cards I have experience with). I’ve had zero issue getting between PSA 7 and 8 prices for NM raw gold stars, for instance.
I can also say that I cracked tons of PSA 8s (and even some 9s) to build my EX binder sets because I wasn’t able to find raw NM cards for cheaper. This stopped being the case in mid-2020, but looking at recent sale prices of PSA/CGC 8s and 8.5s, it might actually again be the case now. I’m not seeing much of a premium (if any) for grades below 9 (again, at least for the cards I follow).
Not every raw card is bought as an opportunity to profit from. Some people just like collecting raw cards. As long as the people selling raw cards portray them accurately, then I don’t see the issue with that.
Tropical islands would like to have a word with you 
Depends on the era for me. The current swsh reverse holos are my least favorite ever. But legendary collection and lots of ex series have great reverses.
It also gives a bit more of a chase to collecting more common cards with great art.
Doesn’t have a non reverse counterpart
Base and fossil Zapdos art is far too similar. It’s the same pose, color scheme, and everything, with just a small variation in the background.
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Indeed, even though I prefer the fossil one. I think that Vending Zapdos and Rocket’s Zapdos the epitome of the thunderbird
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Not really about Pokémon more about cards but I don’t like side loading binders, really fidgety getting the card in,normal top loading binders just feel so much smoother and nicer.I find it amusing when people say this binder is great I really like it beacuse it protects from dust better ect then proceed to awkwardly put card in not going in straight and card hitting top and bottom and then lifting up sleeve again to get it in a little bit more. I do the same
I actually quite like multi-level marketing’s card design and artwork. I’m just really off put by all the ‘hype’ and speculation investment surrounding it. I’d definitely pick up some packs for fun if I saw them at target or walmart.
EDIT: I realized after the fact that this thread is specifically for pokemon unpopular opinions, just wasnt thinking. my bad 
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I’m not sure if this is really an Unpopular opinion, but here goes:
The Gym Heroes and Gym Challenge sets have terrible art/design. In my opinion its the worst by a huge margin.
Really? Just taking Sugimori art (which is awesome on its own) - And just sticking it onto some background for the ENTIRE SET/s 
But look! At least they tilted Blaine’s Moltres sideways a little!!
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I think most people would be in agreement on this.
The thing that bothers me most about the Gym sets is that there is nothing unique about the artworks that would make you think, “Oh! That’s Misty’s Gyarados!” They are just Sugimori stock arts that you can find in a player’s guide. How exactly does that make them look unique to a gym leader?
If anything, the Team Rocket set artwork is the direction they should have gone with the Gym sets. At least Dark Charizard, Dark Blastoise, Dark Magneton, etc. look specifically unique to Team Rocket. Seeing things like “Giovanni’s Machamp” have the same artwork as the original Pokemon Red and Blue Strategy Guide is just silly.
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VS is the perfect gym set tho
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@pom89, i’ve finally decided to revisit this thread aannd
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