Little offtopic: Where do you look up the number of printed copies of each card? Thanks.
In the grand scheme of things there’s only a handful of cards with a known number. You can see some of those in the spreadsheet linked in this topic, but I don’t think there’s something as comprehensive and easy to use for all cards with known numbers that exceed 1,000 copies.
I wish PSA did more with the data they have (i.e. making a chart showing how many of each card + grade were graded over time so I know when best to buy).
We could build this into a github repo and have a basic CSV data dump that could be imported into excel/numbers. I don’t know if it would allow hosting images for every card for free but that could be done separately.
I’ve actually already begun making the database 
Working on part of it
I wish there was a way to pinpoint who owns a specific card for the purpose of making offers on it. I understand there are all sorts of issues with this from a privacy/morality/security standpoint, but I have cards I have been trying to track down and I wish I knew who owned the bloody thing lol. The search continues.
Agree with others here, a definitive and ideally tpci-produced (ie official) list of every printing of every card that is searchable. Not just the Eevee thread getting 50 new replies when another surging sparks variant gets released
I wish there were internationally accessible marketplaces for cards in all languages. It would need to be easy and rewarding to list cheap cards.
I can’t stand how difficult it is to track down some ostensibly “cheap” cards just because I don’t live in Thailand or Indonesia, and no one cares enough to look through their bulk or put them up for sale.
here, use wisely.
I really like the existing Pokémon museum and archive sites out there, but I’ve always wished for a more polished, centralized version. Something that brings everything together — high-res scans, print history, prototypes, test prints, oddities, proper provenance — almost like a true digital museum that keeps evolving as new discoveries pop up. And honestly, it would be great if more people were involved in contributing to it.
I also wish the grading companies would finally start grading uncut sheets. That alone would open up a whole new lane of documentation and preservation.
I want a tool where you can select any Pokemon card, and then be given a spreadsheet with every single cert# for that card in each grade.
Benefits would be that newly graded low pop cards with scans will be put through higher scrutiny by the community.
Downsides obviously includes counterfeiting
So basically an eBay Watchlist, but across every marketplace and smart enough to know variants/condition.
I would subscribe.
This is such a great idea I really wish they provided statistics so we can rely less on sites like collectr to track pop growths and gem rates.
As my understanding goes, they don’t include images of card variants because it’s technically impossible to find them all (which is true), but I think they’re interested. Also, I think that they want to focus first on other aspects of the site (which is good actually)
I gave @Kob a card image of a Latin American Spanish card, he replied:
Ye, TCG Collector doesn’t want variant images (for now, but who knows in the future eheheh)
I’m currently a volunteer in TCG Collector … I edit card scans/photos. Despite they only work with standard variant, I have offered to give images of card variants and also, images in other languages … (offer is still open btw)
I wish there was something similar to CardMarket or TCGPlayer for Latin America (at least for each country) … Trying to find Latin American Spanish cards can be difficult … Most of them spawns in local Facebook/WhatsApp groups. Is basically asking a lot of people.
Absolutely true … And is sad, actually …
To add to Omanyte’s post, we’re still adding missing cards in our database (Japanese) and are missing a lot of other regions such as Indonesia and China (both Trad and Simp) that have their own set system/cards.
Once that’s done, we would like to have images of most variants in our database as well. Although we do offer a description for most of the variants we currently have in our database, we still find ourselves getting emails of folks saying we’re missing a Normal Holo variant for a common card, when they actually have the Reverse Holo variant of a MEG card. It would be better for us and for users to just be shown which variants are which.
It’s unlikely that we focus on that aspect soon though, other updates are already planned in our roadmap.
I personally just wish there was a small hardcover book that that card scans, descriptions, and distribution methods explained on each page for Base, Jungle, Fossil, Base Set 2, Rocket, Gym Heroes & Challenge and some of the Black Star promos cards. (Basically every card with “Wizards” on the copyright information at the bottom).
This would include obscure variations (black flame ninetales), preproduction errors (evolution box wartortle), and Japanese cardstock English cards (Grey Star promo Pikachu).
A fully comprehensive collectors guide and essentially check list for the earlier part wotc cards.