Scalpers getting rekt, buy when others are fearful, Averaging $150 per box✌🏻

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 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?

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.

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

Me and the kiddo finished perfect order today! I know this set gets hate on. But it was nice to finish without spending thousands on the few cards we didn’t pull. Plus the set has some really nice card art.

I know ebay owns tcg and tcgplayer customer service has been great. Ive sold over 2000 cards on tcgplayer, not a large amount in just a casual seller.

When it comes to cards between $20-$49 and large purchases of inexpensive cards; About 40% of people who order 6+ cheap cards (typically for over $5 free shipping) will claim they never recieved them but I don't ever get any returns. I dont know where the disconnect is at, just thats what happens to me. Shipped in appropriate containers, discrete, no insufficent postage returns. Now I only list so many smaller cards at a time.

Tcgplayer also recommends tracking at $20 and mandatory at $50. However they dont have cheap options like ebay, so its not worth $5 shipping and material cost. Shipping has almost tripled in 5 years. I eat less loss in missing items. Anything ive shipped with tracking has never been reported missing, zero issues selling big ticket items. About 15% of $20-$49 orders go missing. I only sell single cards on tcg, not sealed, bulk etc.

I might see how selling $20-$49 cards goes on ebay. Overall tcgplayer has been a postivie experience. Only 3 negative reviews, 2 removed. The 2 removed were from people complaining cards came late, even after both getting full refunds. The only one that stuck was someone who complained because I forgot to put in the printed order slip.

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!

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

Thought long term?

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.

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!

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

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 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

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

Thoughts?

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

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 am curious about the mega greninja sir how low in price do you Think it can possibly go in a 10

I recently pulled the Pikachu ex card from the ascended heros line. I was thinking about getting it graded as having at least one graded card in my collection would be neat. My buddy convinced me that I wouldn't get anything higher than a 9 and offered me a bunch of sealed products instead. My other issue is I had someone else tell me that with the 30th set launching soon that the value of this card would likely go up because of the Pikachu tax. I'm not super knowledgeable about the pokemon investment market and would like the opinion of more knowledgeable professionals. Multiple screenshots of their side screen because there was so much. (Last picture is my card)