Purchase: PSA 10 Hiroshima Pokemon Centre Gyarados
Sale: PSA 10 English Gold Star Alakazam
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Biggest single card purchase was ÂŁ2000 for PSA 10 Gold Star Mew in May 2020. But Iâm a fickle bugger at the best of times - ended up selling it a few months later to spend the cash on JP promos I wanted more 
Biggest single card sale was a PSA 9 1st Ed Neo Lugia for ÂŁ4250 GBP in 2020.
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My biggest transaction is I had a psa 8 skyridge crystal holo charizard that I traded to someone for a psa 8 shadowless charizard plus he added 2k cash.
I wasnât too particularly attached to the crystal and I had already had three deals fall through for a shadowless zard over the year before plus I bought one that had a major scratch, so I was more than happy to make that trade. Plus the cash helped with a few other collection goals.
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My biggest purchase was about a year ago for $3,300. I bought a full holo bleed 1st Edition Base Set French Charizard (Dracaufeu) in a CGC 9.5. Itâs a gorgeous card with the holo showing through Charizardâs body. Itâs now a CGC 10.
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Love the foreign language base set cards 
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Also love the user name 
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You do not mention the German Black Star Pichu that was given out as winner prizes. I believe it is at least as expensive as the German Birthday Pikachu, no?
It might be equally as rare, but itâs not even close to this price. Rarity != value in most cases. I doubt PichuCollector spend more than a couple hundreds bucks for his copy (when he was still collecting), which he bought around the same time as I bought my German birthday Pikachu.
The Flug-Pikachu and Surf-Pikachu (or Spanish Pikachu Volador / Surfista) which Iâm still missing might be even rarer than the German birthday Pikachu, but I wouldnât be willing to spend this amount of money for any of them.
With these four cards, money isnât really the issue though. Itâs finding them⊠Iâve been collecting Pikachu cards for eight years, and Iâve only seen them twice each. Both in hands of collectors who wonât sell them. 
Greetz,
Quuador
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Ah, the struggle of finding rare niche cards no one else cares about.
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Thanks, it would be interesting to know how much he paid! I know of one private sale last year that was a graded 9 copy for 3k. It makes some sense when you consider that cardmarket ask prices start at 2.4k for raw: https://www.cardmarket.com/de/Pokemon/Products/Singles/Wizards-Black-Star-Promos/Pichu-WP35
I always thought this Pichu was more expensive that the B-Day Pikachu but I think I was just very (!) lucky when I bought the latter for 350 about 1.5 years ago. I know it was cheap but I had it more in the price range of 1k, tbh.
This is exactly the comment you get from an art collector when you tell her you collect Pokemon cardsâŠalways a matter of perspective. For most people, Pokemon is a niche that no one cares about.
Someone snagged mine for âcheapâ compared to recent sales, either way, no one paid close to this when it came out, so I really cant complain 
It hurt me to sell my vault, but I got addicted to LorcanaâŠ
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Youâre selling your high-end PokĂ©mon cards to buy Lorcana cards?
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Yeah, im dumb, but it is what it is lol
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Biggest purchase so far, also the second biggest purchase of any one item ever (right behind my car). Card was bought for ~$3300 earlier this year from fellow E4 member shizzlemetimbers.
Biggest sale for ~$2200 in July 2020 (yep, hanging onto it wouldâve netted me another 10k on that one):
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I think my biggest single purchase was a sealed Mew ex PLAY promo in 2021. IIRC it cost me ~ÂŁ1750 when all was said and done.
Biggest sale⊠does it count if the âbuyerâ filed a chargeback? 
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Hoping this will be my biggest purchase soon 
great card
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My biggest purchase was this year at $40k. I shouldâve bought this way earlier instead of focusing on set cards.
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Beauty. Congrats damn
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