Collectible Cards - What once was nerdy is still nerdy but possibly worth something now

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I have a cousin who collects the older Pokemon cards - the Wizards of the Coaat sets - and he and I are both amazed at the crazy spike in prices. Him as a buyer, me as someone who sees grown as men get into fistfights over box sets of new cards at Target that 2 years ago would have been collecting dust.

Like others, this has to be a massive bubble, but for how long? Fuck if I know. I do wonder if the older cards will collapse when it bursts... not like somebody is making any more of those after all.
 
Boston Brand said:
I have a cousin who collects the older Pokemon cards - the Wizards of the Coaat sets - and he and I are both amazed at the crazy spike in prices. Him as a buyer, me as someone who sees grown as men get into fistfights over box sets of new cards at Target that 2 years ago would have been collecting dust.

Like others, this has to be a massive bubble, but for how long? Fuck if I know. I do wonder if the older cards will collapse when it bursts... not like somebody is making any more of those after all.
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Definitely a bubble for modern english, a massive one at that. Prices may never go all the way back down but they'll drop substantially. Old WOTC cards will probably drop as well, but probably not by a huge margin like modern English.
 
Kujo Jotaro said:
Definitely a bubble for modern english, a massive one at that. Prices may never go all the way back down but they'll drop substantially. Old WOTC cards will probably drop as well, but probably not by a huge margin like modern English.
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Any bets on how long that will take?
 
Boston Brand said:
Any bets on how long that will take?
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For modern? Its already peaked for sure, at least for the foreseeable future. I sold a booster box I payed $80 two years ago for about $600 like 3 months ago now. The same box is selling for $100-150 less than that now consistently. It probably won't enter free fall until the new print facilities are up and running, but I'd expect a steady decline in modern English over the next 6-12 months.

Old Wotc cards have also declined a bit since their peak a few months back, though if past experience proves pertinent those higher prices will be the standard a year or two from now. Right now the market is oversaturated with Wotc cards because everyone's trying to make a quick buck, but when the music stops the prices will drop a bit more. Probably never going back to pre 2020 prices though.
 
This happened before in the early late 80's to early 90's. I remember after the craze about 92 or 93. Being a kid and buying boxes of Nintendo, Bill and Ted, Sports and any other novelty cards you can think of for a buck a piece. History repeats itself.
 
As someone who has cashed in on past-spergery, this is an amazingly niche market.

Value might be assigned to a piece of spergery, but it does not mean you can easily get someone to pay the going rate. You will most likely sell at far lower than the market "value."
 
I have a bunch of cards from various card games which are worth a couple hundred, the active card games seem to do reprints fairly often to tank the prices.

I had a bunch of Chaotic cards as a kid and those are expensive. A couple of mine go from 300-400, I see some going for up to 700 and some promos going for 2000. But that game was always expensive enough that it isn't crazy, for context most meta decks were probably around $1000 since the games launch if you were to buy singles and you were discouraged from buying singles due to scannable codes on the cards to play online.
 
Is there a go-to site to look up the value of all my ancient Pokemon cards? I wanna know what I have that's worth the big bucks so I can feel smug and then never get around to selling it and then feel like shit when the bubble pops
 
Pissmaster said:
Is there a go-to site to look up the value of all my ancient Pokemon cards? I wanna know what I have that's worth the big bucks so I can feel smug and then never get around to selling it and then feel like shit when the bubble pops
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I use https://www.pokecardvalues.co.uk/.
Intuitive UI, and has nearly every type of card. You can search quite easily using the card number \ edition \ trading set, and create a database based off that of cards you own or wish to own - with the prices varying based on quality.
It details how much your card is worth, with links to eBay (i.e. What price has your card at your quality sold for recently on average). I export the database to excel (a built in feature) for reference.
There's also visibility on your unique \ total card count, and what proportion of each set you own.

It's in £ though, which is good for me but perhaps not for others.
 
Traditional Tet said:
I use https://www.pokecardvalues.co.uk/.
Intuitive UI, and has nearly every type of card. You can search quite easily using the card number \ edition \ trading set, and create a database based off that of cards you own or wish to own - with the prices varying based on quality.
It details how much your card is worth, with links to eBay (i.e. What price has your card at your quality sold for recently on average). I export the database to excel (a built in feature) for reference.
There's also visibility on your unique \ total card count, and what proportion of each set you own.

It's in £ though, which is good for me but perhaps not for others.
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I could have gone to sleep but instead I am sorting through a couple of pokeyman starter boxes I've had on my shelf since, apparently, 1999. Thanks asshole
 
Gimmick Account said:
I could have gone to sleep but instead I am sorting through a couple of pokeyman starter boxes I've had on my shelf since, apparently, 1999. Thanks asshole
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If they're unopened, pls think twice before opening. Unopened packs from that period can fetch big money... And if you do open, have a sleeve ready immediately for storage - any handling \ damage can knock off value.

Any time! Happy to help someone else waste their time (though, honestly, I view it as an interesting 'hobby'. As opposed to video games or staring at a digital screen which is bad for you).
 
The pokemon card market is artificially inflated to shit and back. Last year or so it started but before that you could easily find the og ones for dirt cheap on ebay (unless they're charizard.) The fact its the standard ass mass produced ones fetching crazy prices and only from select few "approved" sellers and not the weird limited extremely event exclusive or promo cards like ancient mew or mecha mewtwo really shows how fake and gay all this is. I got a fuckload of the originals somewhere in my house in like a binder or drawer or some shit, hell I found 2 of the japanese versions they used to sell at hobby shops literally on a shelf I hadn't touched in years and I have np clue how in the fuck they ended up there. They look like they did way back in the day so I'm guessing wherever the fuck my others are they're also in similar condition. When i was a kid I mainly just got them for the cool art and shit the game wasn't fun to me back in the day compared to the actual video game. I had like 3 mewtwos and IIRC rarity wise he's the one just under charizard in terms of most rare which somehow made him dirt cheap in value because arbitrary "rarest card" prices inflated the charizard price.
 
I'm not a fan of reposting images but I feel it's worth doing here since it really shows how badly this trend is affecting the modern TCG scene. Note that ALL of the listings here are from ones that have either ended or have sold.
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This is for a set that's coming out in couple of weeks and with preorders for said products being sold out EVERYWHERE and, like its previous holiday set, reprinted to heck and back. The only products that probably won't get reprinted are the Gigantamax Pikachu box (because lolfigure) and the Pokemon Center-exclusive Elite Trainer Box (Regular ETBs have historically only have had one printing session but Shining Fates has had multiple waves and the three most recent ones can be found for MSRP if you look carefully).
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And here's one for a set that won't be released until NOVEMBER. The box prices are sadly the norm now but the ETB is a good $15 markup before shipping. It's worth noting that lots like these actually violate eBay's preorder policy (order has to be shipped in 30 days).

I actually prefer selling Pokemon TCG promo cards and accessories over the stuff from booster packs, you'd be surprised to see how much some sleeves (especially Japanese sleeves) and League promos will sell for.
 
Cliff Booth said:
It's fucking crazy man. $20 NBA retail boxes you used to easily be able to grab at your local Wal-Mart or Target are selling for $80+ on Ebay and card-specific sites.

I've heard some Big Lots have MTG and sports cards, but the one time I went to the one near me, all they had was an absolute fuckload of Pokemon packs. My local Walgreens has some Pokemon and MTG packs, but within the last two months or so they moved them all behind the counter.
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The stuff you see at Big Lots, Walgreens, and other drug stores/dollar stores type stores aren't proper Pokemon packs but repackaged commons/uncommons sold by groups who produce such "bargain" packs in new packaging for such discount outlets to trick casuals and soccer moms to buy said cards rather than paying regular prices for them at comic/hobby shops or Walmart etc.
 
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