Hello, I was just randomly checking the population of the 1998 Japanese CD promos, and the population number shocked me. Its in the 4000s for the starters in PSA 10, and 10k overall. Is there a reason why these have been graded so much, personally I woulda thought Base Set Unlimited holos would be graded the most. I think they came in sealed, maybe thats why?
@garyis2000 can explain, I won’t steal his thunder.
Is this an interesting story, did he grade 4000 CD charizards?
Lol…
This was done in partnership with the home shopping network and the Media Factory.
We graded and sold all those over a 2 month period which amounted to 16 1/2 hour shows.
It was done in 1999 simply to take advantage of the Pokemon explosion. It was nearly impossible to buy any base set product in most parts of the country so the market was in a frenzy. This helped to relieve some of that pressure to those who could afford it.
An interesting note…the PSA fee was 3.25 per card;)
One more note…one of the cases returned from PSA containing one gross of graded cards(144 slabbed cards) went missing and has never turned up.
I wonder if any of those missing cards have sold over the years! Only thing to go by would be the serial I guess…unless they fell off the plane over bermuda triangle
Mailmen must’ve had time of their life carrying all those orders to your place. Hopefully no one didn’t sprain their back. 
I’m missing a connection here, @not zelda gilroy which of these companies did/ do you work for 
?
They didn’t go to my house. I was one of the investors.
At that time I worked for neither.
Why all the questions though? You don’t work for the IRS do you? Lol.
It makes it more interesting lol.
@garyis2000 any recollection of what the retail price was on a set of 3 PSA 10 starters at the time?
Sorry Gary but could you please dumb it down and perhaps give a historical context. Maybe I’m missing something but were these Japanese CD promos released in America?
i too would like to know this!
I remember seeing these on TV when I was a kid waiting for school in the morning, I remember the sets being somewhat expensive…Good times. These, beanie babies and those Sports bears that were trying to be beanie babies were on like every morning.