In the winter of 2019 I had just got accepted for a semester abroad in Denmark.
I decided to list my raw 1st edition Charizard and use the money from that sale to fun some traveling while in Europe!
I sold my zard for 1500 CAD in December which was a great price since it was ungraded with a large crease.
I was happy with the sale and looked forward to using the money to travel a bit!
And then well… Covid happened. I was only in Denmark for about a month until my school forced me to come back to Canada.
By the time I had come back there was already a slight boom in the tcg market. A similar condition zard at that time would cost about 2500.
I never was able to use the money to travel in Europe and I was 1st Ed charizardless right at the beginning of the mania.
I was never unhappy with the sale but rather the circumstances that followed.
Someone recently shared this thread so adding my sad story onto the tear train.
In 2016, I graded the rarest card I had in my childhood collection… the holo Crystal Charizard from Skyridge. Being my first PSA submission ever, it miraculously got a Mint 9. I immediately sold it for maybe $700. “Oh at least you used that money to buy something else for your collection, right?” NOPE… I used it to pay rent and there it went. RIP… (Height of covid-boom only a few years later, I think I saw a PSA 9 sell for $12k or something)
I sold my childhood collection on eBay for like 17€ when I was in 7th or 8th grade. It wasn’t huge and mostly consisted of Base/Fossil/Jungle cards, but I remember having this Arcanine cards which was my favorite back then and I still love it a lot.
