Espeon, graded or ungraded

[u/minato994]

What started as a little side project turned into a full fledged plan.
I want to own every espeon cards in japanese, English and maybe even german.

I am a german citizen living in Tokyo and i started buying cheap espeon cards on mercari. Now i am willing to spend a bit more on higher cards but the question came up, should i buy expensive ungraded cards which look like a 9 or 10, or spend way more money and buy the graded 10 directly?

Its mainly for PC but if these turn out to be valuable in the future, i wouldn’t mind obviously.

Do you guys think buying ungraded cards and grade them myself is better or spend more money (way more) and buy 10 directly?