Pokemon card collection - anyone have theirs valued?

I had to laugh, my wife and her brother both had a massive collection of Pokemon cards when they were kids.

My mother in law threw them in the bin as a punishment when they were being naughty... I'd hate to imagine what the collections would be worth nowadays :cry:
 
Are they really worth that much? My stepson collects wrestling figures and was showing me a website that displays the value of various figures, but when I checked a couple on eBay the same figures sold for much less than quoted on the site, which was clearly inflating the value.
 
bainbridge said:
Are they really worth that much? My stepson collects wrestling figures and was showing me a website that displays the value of various figures, but when I checked a couple on eBay the same figures sold for much less than quoted on the site, which was clearly inflating the value.
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Yes, TCGs are very valuable - however condition is 100% everything. You also need an eye for fakes, as they are getting better and better.
 
Noakesy85 said:
My mother in law threw them in the bin as a punishment when they were being naughty... I'd hate to imagine what the collections would be worth nowadays :cry:
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Every time conversations come up on this I get depressed as many others do I'm sure... having a clearout 10 odd years ago my ex convinced me to be brutal throwing away old crap I'd moved loft to loft in house moves previously etc. I had a complete card collection in proper lined folders from when Pokemon first became a thing so quite probably 1st edition charizard etc as best I can recall. At the time full collections were going unsold on ebay asking between £50-100 I think it was and I just didn't have the time to spend selling it.... how I wish I'd just thrown them back in the loft of the new place at the time :(

Edit: I also threw away a complete Star Wars Tazo collection and a complete series 1 of Gogos Crazy Bones... at least those two are worth nothing so I don't need to feel too crazy over it :p
 
Name said:
I've been a serious collector of Pokémon cards for the past 7 or so years. Pretty knowledgeable when it comes to the older ones and I valued my collection myself based on previously sold items and demand at that time. I forget the exact number but it wasn't far off £120k
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Do you keep them locked up and in some sort of fire/waterproof safe?

Even if your valuation is 15% off, you'd still be sat on 100k. I'm not sure i'd be leaving that lying around in a drawer, or in some shoebox on top of a wardrobe.
 
GhostWKD said:
Every time conversations come up on this I get depressed as many others do I'm sure... having a clearout 10 odd years ago my ex convinced me to be brutal throwing away old crap I'd moved loft to loft in house moves previously etc. I had a complete card collection in proper lined folders from when Pokemon first became a thing so quite probably 1st edition charizard etc as best I can recall. At the time full collections were going unsold on ebay asking between £50-100 I think it was and I just didn't have the time to spend selling it.... how I wish I'd just thrown them back in the loft of the new place at the time :(
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I imagine there's thousands/tens-of-thousands of us in a similar boat. I remember throwing my collection away probably when i was like 15/16 probably from having a room change and a required clear out. At that point the fad had long died out and as i never played them as a card game they were basically just taking up room.

It's probably only a result of tens of thousands of people throwing away old collections that they've now become valuable because there's not many of them around anymore.

If there's any solace, just think of the guy who threw away an old hard drive that had a tonne of bitcoin that would now be worth something like 300mil. :D
 
Semple said:
I imagine there's thousands/tens-of-thousands of us in a similar boat. I remember throwing my collection away probably when i was like 15/16 probably from having a room change and a required clear out. At that point the fad had long died out and as i never played them as a card game they were basically just taking up room.

It's probably only a result of tens of thousands of people throwing away old collections that they've now become valuable because there's not many of them around anymore.

If there's any solace, just think of the guy who threw away an old hard drive that had a tonne of bitcoin that would now be worth something like 300mil. :D
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They estimate around 75% of bitcoin has been lost or is in cold storage.

Lots is lost every year thanks to folk dying and nobody knowing how to access it or even know they had it in the first place.

Bitcoins security is ultimately one of its biggest flaws. With no control if you lose your seed then you have lost it all.

A house fire, hardware malfunction, etc could easily see you lose it. It's why smart folk keep several backups and tell folk about it so it's easy to get to.
 
TheOracle said:
My lad has loads of these cards which he's never played with. What are the most valuable ones?

He's saving for a new bike, so could help with that
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Rares mostly - best thing is to pull those out and then check the bay. You need to be careful to check the edition (set) the card came from. Earlier the better from a value point of view.
 
TheOracle said:
My lad has loads of these cards which he's never played with. What are the most valuable ones?

He's saving for a new bike, so could help with that
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Shadowless cards are the most available AFAIK. Easiest way to tell is by looking at the copyright. If it has 95, 96, 98 and 99 then you are onto a winner worth doing further research on.

Edit: They aren't worth as much as people make out, unless you are getting very specific cards that meet certain requirements e.g. miss prints, 1st editions, shadowless. Barely anyone will have these... I believe Magic The Gathering cards are universally more valuable.

Edit: What is universally valuable in Pokemon though, is if your kid was unlike any other, and kept some sealed booster packs... £25k a pop atm.
 
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dLockers said:
Shadowless cards are the most available AFAIK. Easiest way to tell is by looking at the copyright. If it has 95, 96, 98 and 99 then you are onto a winner worth doing further research on.

Edit: They aren't worth as much as people make out, unless you are getting very specific cards that meet certain requirements e.g. miss prints, 1st editions, shadowless. Barely anyone will have these... I believe Magic The Gathering cards are universally more valuable.
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ah, I think these are quite recent ones. Thanks guys for the replys anyway.
 
Decided to buy some cards out of nostalgia, nothing fancy just one of the recent sets with some packs to open. Essentially just throwing money away but hey, the pubs have been closed for a while so I've not had anywhere else to do that :p.

Question now is do I open them for the short lived excitement before wondering what to actually do with them, or do I stick them in an air tight container and look at them on a shelf still sealed for 10 years...
 
Just to be clear for those looking at seeing, the cards achieving sickening money are. Those that have been graded, typically psa 9+. To have them graded in itself means shipping them off paying for the service and waiting for them to be returned, no guarantee of what grade they come Back as either.

Depspite there being a far lesser sports cards market in the UK its always seemed to have a decent tcg and trading card market. I used to buy sell these a lot many moons ago but there were times where it could get scary expensive so I got out of that game and sold pretty much all my collectible many moons ago

Back then the fakes were easy to spot a mile off, unfortunately recently there's been a notable increase in reports of fakes. Some side by side with legit cards being Indescernable until opened and some even being challenging at that point too. Theres also been reports of full boxes being fakes :(

You'd be proper gutted to spend 1st edition sealed box money only to find out they're fakes. With the increase in value of these fakes will only get better and better

If any of you do decide to get into the game then tread carefully!
 
My brothers got into this the past few years, more specifically football cards. Turned it into quite the money spinner from what he's told me. Sent a few cards over to the states to get graded and if they come back with the grade he's expecting he'll have profited thousands, all from 5 cards. He sent me the excel breakdown sheet but I've yet to look it over. He's got half a wardrobe of junk cards left over from opened boosters and the like.
 
DomBruv said:
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Ah, so it's really more like what happened with Gamestop, a "temporary" (I use that word loosely as I know Pokemon is still popular as heck across the globe) increase rather than a long term permanent increase then I imagine?

I'm aware of the MtG Power Nine, as a family member has them (Black Lotus, Sapphire, Pearl, Jet, Timetwister, Time Walk and Ancestral Recall unlimited, Emerald and Ruby Beta all in good condition or better) and I keep tabs on their worth every so often. But the Pokemon cards definitely came out of the blue for me.
 
dLockers said:
Shadowless cards are the most available AFAIK. Easiest way to tell is by looking at the copyright. If it has 95, 96, 98 and 99 then you are onto a winner worth doing further research on.

Edit: They aren't worth as much as people make out, unless you are getting very specific cards that meet certain requirements e.g. miss prints, 1st editions, shadowless. Barely anyone will have these... I believe Magic The Gathering cards are universally more valuable.

Edit: What is universally valuable in Pokemon though, is if your kid was unlike any other, and kept some sealed booster packs... £25k a pop atm.
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In my opinion MTG is a much better "investment" if such a phrase is even rational.
Although some Pokemon cards (first editions) are just about holding their value, the newer stuff is almost valueless. The issue is (and always has been) that the scene for playing the game is much lower than you'd expect.
For the most part the cards are treated as a collectable toy that is a companion to the Anime/Games.

Ever since commander became popular people have a reason to want old, but not too old, MTG cards. Can't say the same for the "middle aged" pokemon stuff.
 
Hi everyone
Ive come across 3 packets of unopened cards from the Legendary Collection (2002).

Im not a pokemon fan so just wanted to move them on really , what would you's value these at and what would be the best place to sell them?

Cheers
 
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