Every single bid after this one was from the same account with zero feedback.

For those of you who sell cards on eBay, what has your experience been like? I’m especially curious about what protections eBay offers sellers if a buyer claims a card never arrived and how you handle those situations. I bought a ton of vintage during COVID when prices were still reasonable, and with prices up, I’m considering selling off my collection. I’m not in a rush to sell, but I’d like to hear from people who have actually gone through the process and any tips or things to watch out for.

I have a sealed collection worth $40k that I have absolutely no attachment to… I have a buyer lined up willing to purchase at 85% or $34k

If I sell one of these cards I can put a hearty down payment down without touching my savings (50k)

Rayquaza is the EU print and to be honest the back is pretty ugly for a 7… all in cost is about $10k

Lugia is an older cert I scooped it in an eBay auction back in early 2023 for $1500

My three options are sell lugia, sell Rayquaza, or keep both and pull another 30 K out of savings. What would you do…?

I guess technically I could keep renting, but I’m starting to get sick of that

I graded the umbreon myself and Mega Charizard is my favourite card but im unsure if its worth it

Saw this on home country fb market and asked dad to buy it and bring it back. Was it a good price?

Looking to see if anyone might be able to help give me a value on this! I’ve had since I was a kid (it was a birthday present and I got 2, opened one and kept the other). I know roughly what a sealed NiB one goes for but it’s hard to find any information on one in a blister pack. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

WHAT I’M TRADING:
PSA 9 Van Gogh Pikachu #085 — $871

Pokémon 151 Blooming Waters Premium Collection (Sealed) — $326

Pokémon Center Paradox Rift Roaring Moon ETB (Sealed) — $219

Pokémon Center Paradox Rift Iron Valiant ETB (Sealed) — $191

Total market value I’m giving: $1,607

WHAT I’M RECEIVING:
PSA 10 Lugia V Alt Art #186/195 (Silver Tempest) — $1,244
Cash — $200

Total value I’m receiving: $1,444

Difference: $163 in favor of the other person.

Values are approximate, using PSA estimates for graded cards and TCGplayer market prices for sealed products.
Would you make this trade? Is consolidating into one PSA 10 Lugia worth giving up the extra value? Which side would you rather have for long-term holding?

Obviously mid era is blowing up and this card has risen significantly but are we about to see the Tyranitar ex holo from Pop series 1 explode even more with the first sale of a PSA 10 since April 2025? This is one of the lowest PSA 10 populations I’ve seen. Lowest list for a PSA 9 is $45000. How high could PSA 7’s go is my question? Could this reach gold star level similar to Mudkip? Probably not but worth speculating.

I came across this recent video from Goblin - the thesis is basically that companies like Gamestop are driving up value by placing outrageously high bids on slabs to package into their card packs. Gamestop recoups the difference between their bid and the "true" market value by selling lottery slots across many users for the slim chance of obtaining the slab. Not only that, Gamestop is actually incentivized to make outrageously high bids to pump the recent sale values to justify their pricing for card packs (i.e., making users believe that if they got the hit, they would actually be making their money's worth or more). Am I out of the loop and is this already well known? I'm also surprised this doesn't violate FTC regulations - the odds and expected value disclosures for these card packs are built on recent sale prices, which Gamestop is directly inflating in the first place...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n0cuohbQT0

Hello, Everyone!

Hopefully this is the right sub for this, if not let me know and I can move it

I have this Pikachu that is clearly way off center, and I noticed the words that are usually on the bottom are cut off on the bottom of this card. And the words from the bottom of another card are at the top of this cards. I tried my best with the pictures, but hopefully you can see what I mean.

Would this be considered an error or misprint? If so, is it considerably more valuable because of this?

Thank you for any insight you can provide. Also, if I can take any other pictures that can help you out let me know, I’ll be happy to do so.

I’ve been wanting to buy a first edition charizard for a while now and I’m finally in a position to be able to put out the money to get one. Ideally I would have liked a higher grade than a 6 but at this point that’s my budget for this card. Pop on it is 859 which seems high to me. With the recent prices of vintage is now a good time to buy this card or do we think prices may go down?

I am unsure if it's worth spending money on grading them or not and just selling them as is. I had opened these cards when they first released and forgot they existed, then recently I looked them up to see how much they are worth and I would be dumb to not sell them. So I would like some advise on what would be best to sell them.

In all of LC, Mewtwo stands out as a long-term jewel given that:

1. The artwork, by Christopher Rush (Black Lotus artist) is an English language exclusive art (released as black star promo non holo, identical English card released in Japan as stamp rally promo, and also non holo legendary collection)

2. The LC fireworks holo is notoriously an English only set/holo treatment

The layers of exclusivity and history behind this card in particular are unlike any other card in the set which have all been printed many languages and/or sets.

Prediction: What you’ll see in the coming years as big US money enters the space is the rise of English exclusives rather than the traditional Japanese exclusives of which there are many.

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The next card(s) to highlight is the Kids WB set: this set has already priced in its rarity as an English exclusive awarded set. Also distributed in the United States only.

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Lastly, the 2010 Pikachu World Collection US print (blue back) is a completely overlooked set containing another double English exclusive - English only USA Pikachu with EN back.

Hiii. Just wanted to know if it’s even worth it. Or should I only aim at cgc pristine / Psa 10

I would like to sell some of my collection in order to fund better investments with lower pop. Which of these should I prioritise selling? Are any worth holding?

• Gengar tg
• genger pre release promo swsh
• shining lugia
• shining jirachi
• Dark Flareon
• Espeon Deoxys Tag teams

For the record I already have this Marill

Has anyone managed to find the Pokémon Celebration Packs at Lawson in Tokyo today?
They were supposed to go on sale at 7 AM this morning (October 16), but I’ve already visited five Lawson stores and couldn’t find them in any of them.
Am I looking in the wrong place inside the stores, or was I just unlucky?
Has anyone managed to buy them in Tokyo today? If so, which Lawson location did you find them at?
Thanks for any tips

What is going on with Shining Gary? I've been agonizing over selling mine for weeks. Almost accepted an offer for 8500 yesterday but got cold feet. It just keeps going up....

Hey guys.

I just got this slab in the mail from eBay. The back has a deep scratch that was not shown in the listing. Would you let it be or contact the seller?

I have some sealed collections($3k-4k and a binder of cards($3k) for a total of $6-7k ish.

Has anyone else had success buying CGC 8s/9s with the intention to crossover in the future, specially LV.Xs, B/W, X/Y stuff? I also like buying CGC to atleast get past the games played with raw condition on eBay since literally anything passes authenticity now when it comes to raw condition, the extra money to go CGC over raw but still cheaper than PSA is worth it to me, what do you guys think?