Worst Pricing Mistakes?

[towertycoon]

@qwachansey

In terms of margin –
In 2011 I sold all my NM/MT e-series / ex series reverse holo bulk to Troll and toad at 10 cents each.

Ouch. I feel that. I remember selling my reverse holo (and some holo) e-readers for super cheap too. But it’s not all bad because like someone said earlier, I just rolled that in to collection and got stuff I couldn’t get now.

[mewtuw]

@modestmudkip

sold my psa 8 1st ed charizard like a month before all this happened like 1500 less than if I waited a month

Thanks again !

[modestmudkip]

@mewtuw

@modestmudkip

sold my psa 8 1st ed charizard like a month before all this happened like 1500 less than if I waited a month

Thanks again !

Hahaha you love reminding me of this! Its alright though by the same account I bought a shining charizard 1st ed a week before the seller doubled the price. The universe will balance out!

[qwachansey]

@towertycoon

@qwachansey

In terms of margin –
In 2011 I sold all my NM/MT e-series / ex series reverse holo bulk to Troll and toad at 10 cents each.

Ouch. I feel that. I remember selling my reverse holo (and some holo) e-readers for super cheap too. But it’s not all bad because like someone said earlier, I just rolled that in to collection and got stuff I couldn’t get now.

Unfortunately I probably spent it on a Magnezone Prime or some other now-worthless playable card

[fourthstartcg]

@nostalgiaoldbird

@fourthstartcg

I sold a PSA 10 EX Emerald Milotic ex for $285.

Oh gosh, when was that?

Early 2018, probably one of the least hype times to sell for ex cards. It went towards my car which was great but today it could pay for half of it on its own!

[cosrob]

Sold a PSA 10 1st Gym Challenge holo set for 3.5k and the booster box for 2.8K last year ;(

[sealedgrace]

@teraz

Sold my 1st edition LOB sealed box two years ago for $1k. Thought I got a decent price, now they’re around $10k. Ugh

I hear you. A few years ago I sold 3 at that price point.

[pokeaddict84]

I sold all my psa 9/10 gold stars and 1st edition gym holos in Janurary. Don’t even need to say the prices to know that they doubled. At least I was smart enough to sit on my crystals…

[qwachansey]

Reading about that case fresh Gym box… Guy on Instagram had a case of holon phantoms few years ago. I don’t know if he sold every box. But good lord what that would be worth today. Sorry Ryan if you’re reading this.

[rarecards]

I sold a gold star Treecko for a $2.50 BIN when I was first starting on eBay (and I think several other GSs in different lots for around the same price). I remember thinking “Wow, that’s a cool gold star. Might be worth a little more than the black star rares”. Didn’t price check or really know how to at the time.

What really hurt is the 1st edition shadowless Venusaur I auctioned that ended at $0.54. Don’t know what went wrong with that one.

[sacari]

@rarecards, That sounds so painful. You might win this thread.

[shizzlemetimbers]

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

Unsurprisingly, all of my biggest mistakes were related to purchases I wish I had made. Pikachu Illustrators, an extra PSA 10 Trophy Kangaskhan, extra 1st ed Base Charizards, complete PSA 10 Neo / e-reader sets, etc… I passed on them because even though I thought they would be good investments I didn’t want to be *too* heavily invested in Pokemon in case my predictions for future growth turned out to be wrong. Now of course I wish I had been just a bit more ballsy.

Among items I actually sold, my biggest mistake was probably selling a truly mint complete Japanese Base Set for $650 in 2016 when all the cards in the set would have easily graded as PSA 10s and PSA 9s.

Same here, you just reminded me I passed on a deal for 6 Japanese Base Set Booster boxes for $6000AUD in 17/18. #noregrets

[budget]

My mistake was to spend money on anything that wasn’t Pokemon cards.

[rarecards]

@sacari

@rarecards , That sounds so painful. You might win this thread.

Alexa, play Suffering From Success by DJ Khaled

[peacock]

Not me but I know a card store that sold a sealed Neo Destiny box for like $100 back in 2002

[donny]

Sold my PSA 10 Shining Charizard for 1100 $ in November. Almost had a heart attack when i saw its current price a few days ago

[mykel]

My brain stopped working and I bought a card for $400 that sold for under $300 like half a week before lol

[gottaketchumall]

PSA pricing a $7.50 bulk pokemon special during a pandemic, with a million plus card backlog, while on reduced staffing…

Someone somewhere will ship out cards in 2020 that they won’t get back until 2022. I’m gonna submit a couple thousand cards this quarter to do my part in making that a reality.

[sgpokecollect]

@budget

My mistake was to spend money on anything that wasn’t Pokemon cards.

this hahahaha

I wished I was single over the past five years…would be a couple hundred grand richer and I’m still back to single today anw

Don’t date girls that need michelin meals and annual ski trips guys. relationships are temporary but pokemon cards are forever

[mcorey777]

@sgpokecollect

@budget

My mistake was to spend money on anything that wasn’t Pokemon cards.

this hahahaha

I wished I was single over the past five years…would be a couple hundred grand richer and I’m still back to single today anw

Don’t date girls that need michelin meals and annual ski trips guys. relationships are temporary but pokemon cards are forever

Sorry to hear that man. But if it was the right girl she would be supportive of you. My fiance use to get mad about me buying cards but she’s much more supportive of me now. She even learned the eras and the styles of cards and Pokemon names it’s cute. I tell her she’s a first edition wife haha