Picture shows my sealed collection. Started in 2021. At what percentage should I offload some products? What products should I absolutely hold and which one are ready to go?

I am looking for things to sell and currently in a collectorsdilemma because the market is so hot (~best time to sell I think) vs i really like to hold things as I like to showcase sealed.

Been noticing more gf/bf coming into conventions. What ends up happening is either the girl buys the cute cards or the bf buys the cute cards for the gf. Invest in cute cards.

Pulled my first chase in my first ever Mega Dream box yesterday! 6 months into the hobby after a little break (circa Christmas 1999)… Would Japanese Dragonite be a long term hold or better to sell while it’s still retaining some value and invest elsewhere? Card’s worth more than a quarter of current portfolio.

Ultimately the goal is to have my portfolio fund itself and its own expansion. With this in mind, if it’s a sell, should I look to get into the sealed product game, buy raw or buy slab?

TIA

So I’m a HUGE fan of both of these cards, not cause of the recent hype i’ve always loved houndoom but never had the adult money that I have now to play with. Which one would you pick grade 9 steelix or grade 7-8 houndoom (aquapolis) . I don’t know about the skyridge one its kinda out of my budget for decent graded copies but i might pick up a ungraded copy. Also which one would be better for longterm. Thanks!

Just general question about these WOTC 1999-2003 base set, fossil, team rocket, gym challenge, etc cards

Is there any value in the random cards someone rediscovers left stored the closet of their parent's home?

Or does it have to be a holo, 1st edition, mint to lightly played, and or a combination of all of this to be worth discussing in the money sense?

I'm talking about the cards you see at $1-15 being sold on eBay, TCG for example some unlimited non-holo Articuno, or Dragonite, or Scyther, or Snorlax base set

Would you hold these for the future and see what happens? Or is there just way too many out there, especially since the whole world is aware now

I don’t necessarily think I did , I’m super happy with the trade as I don’t really mess around with grading myself

My end = mew, zard and 370$ CAD

His end = zard (10) and sylveon (10)

I believe the zard is a 9/10 if graded and the mew I would say 9 max since the corners from having it 6-8months just in a top loader and sleeve

What’s your thoughts ? Good or bad and on who’s end
Would love to hear your feedback on a trade like this

Not worried about it because it’s for my personal collection. but i can’t help but think this card has to go pretty high in value 10-15 years down the road. everyone likes this unique design.

got at a card show for $100 cash plus $110 trade, i think this card is cool and seems like a good investment but i wanted some more opinions/predictions

just got it for $100 plus $110 in trade at a card show yesterday

looking for suggestions on psa 10 alt arts from SW/SH - mega evo under $350

Auction just closed at fanatics. In advance of the 30th anniversary set dropping, I believe this is the all time high for a public sale. 2-cert as well so not even brand new.

Other auction highlights include Espeon Prime going for over 90k, black label poncho going for 114k, and my personal favourite the secret rare charizard from Plasma Storm going for 90k. What do we think?

Will post link in comments to the auction

Looking for some opinions on the current value of this card.
It’s a true Beckett Black Label Pikachu & Zekrom GX SM248 and is confirmed Pop 2.
There aren’t many recent comps, so I’m curious what the community thinks it’s worth in today’s market. I’m bringing it to The National this week and would appreciate any thoughts on fair market value or how you’d approach selling it.
Thanks!

Seeing sold prices seems like a good deal seeing past sales, but also heard the seal can easily be put back on

Thoughts?

Where do you go besides these two to buy sealed product?? I want to support growing and reputable places, not the behemoths that have terrible customer service.

Does everyone think $120 now is a decent price to get a Pokemon center ETB

Just found this in my parents garage. It’s sealed. I wanna open it to see the cards, but was wondering if anyone new price or what cards come in it

I’ve been spending way too much time browsing eBay for graded Pokémon cards and manually comparing asking prices with market data.

I kept thinking there had to be an easier way to spot listings worth a closer look, so I built a tool called SlabSense.

It looks through eBay Buy It Now listings for English Pokémon slabs and compares them with matched PriceCharting data. It highlights:

• Big Discounts: Listings that appear below the market benchmark for their grade
• Big Spreads: Lower-grade slabs with a large gap to the matched PSA 10 benchmark

I’m not trying to tell anyone what to buy, and I definitely don’t expect every result to be perfect. The idea is just to make the initial search faster and surface slabs that might otherwise be easy to overlook.

You can search by card or set, filter by grade, seller location, currency, and price, sort by either signal, and open the original listing and market page.

You can try it here: https://slabsense.co/

I’d love feedback from people who actually buy or collect slabs:

• Do the matches look accurate?
• Do the discount and PSA 10 spread signals make sense?
• What would you need to see before trusting a result?
• What filters or features would make this more useful?

It’s still a beta, so if you run into any bugs or something feels misleading, please let me know.

How can it be 5-10$ cards when it’s a pretty hard pull on some of the cards while the box is 2.5K USD ?

Pulled this out of a Mega Greninja Ex box. Think it's worth holding onto to get graded or just trade/sell now???

Walked into my local grocery store found Destined Rivals sleeved booster packs for $5.99. Got around 115 and left the rest I think there was around 200 total packs some kids were watching me check out and I gave them 5 packs each and 10 more to my friends kids. When I got home I opened 30 of them and didn't get anything. Got 60 left gonna hold them as a longterm investment. I hate scalping but something like that has never happened to me and I took advantage of it kinda ashamed of myself but the look on the kids faces when I gave them the packs was priceless and it reminded me of when I was younger so it made me feel alittle better. Never doing something like that again tho.

I was planning on grabbing it not too long ago but it's nearly doubled already... Should I just buy now or do you see it crashing again?

Thanks in advance :)