We Got Our Pokémon Cards Valued
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มี.ค. 2018
- Business Insider UK spoke with Roy Raftery, a trading card expert and manager of Sneak Attack Games London. He valued our childhood Pokémon card collections. He explained that the original 151 Pokemon cards will always be worth money, but how much money?
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So basically you should just keep your cards and not sell them because the sentimental value is worth more than 50 pounds.
*Unless they're actually in near mint- mint condition
For most people, yeah. And the people that kept them in good nick, there's a good chance they wouldn't let go anyway. I've got a few thousand pounds worth of cards kept in folders, boxes, etc. A few misprints, early set 1st Eds (apart from Base Set 1, obvs). I'd never let go of them tho.
When u spent $1000s on them first round. Had them for 20 years then get a $120offer it’s like haha your kidding right? There is 11,000 cards here lol
I have a bunch of mint condition first edition cards. Like they look like they've never been played with. My grandma got them for me at a yard sale and I have no idea what they're worth lol
in 30 years a thousand dollars will really be worth what a hundred is today lol.
Says original Japanese cards aren't worth buying...... Bro what????
Exactly
I have so many Japanese cards
Some of them worth around $200
japanese cards are for collectors, however a retail store won't buy them because they sell the cards for tcg and in order for that to work then have to sell English cards.for a collection people would pay good money for a rare japanese cards however for he tcg people want english cards in the west
KEKW
EXACTLY!!!!!
I don’t know Pokémon prices, but the way he’s handling the cards makes me want to scream
dil The pickle ugh i just wanted to smack him. He’s also lying about a ton of those cards. He’s a fraud.
Totally agree the cards are really worth thousands of dollars
Cards are handled the way they’re presented.
@@evaleeconklin9226 Their cards aren't worth that much.
Those cards aren’t worth shit. Just because you saw some bullshit news article say that you can sell your 1st edition charizard for £6,000 doesn’t mean it’s true. Crappy news media makes money from people clicking on their articles to the point where they’ll just make shit up. This guy’s a professional and he knows what he’s doing.
*Why does this video feels like BuzzFeed and why wasn't the card "expert" wearing gloves?*
It's not required
The Steadfast Duelist heya, pro tour Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic TCG player here, rarely do any of us handle cards, sleeved or otherwise, with gloves, most cards are really not worth enough to warrant it, the oils on your hands won’t damage the cards, certainly not in the probably 10 or fewer minutes the vendor handled them. I am very good friends with all the people at many LGSs in my area, and personally help at two of them, and have never seen anyone well acquainted with TCGs wear gloves in order to handle a card besides some very highly valued and rare cards. In MTG circles I know Vintage players who occasionally wear disposable kitchen gloves to handle their 20000 USD Alpha Black Lotus and similar immensely valued cards (and one guy who wears fingerless biker gloves while playing because he thinks it looks cool) but besides those very rare cases it’s simply unnecessary. I regularly sleeve, unsleeve, and double sleeve cards without gloves, including my 3100 USD legacy deck.
hes not an expert, he's a scammer.
Sam Wasee that is almost certainly just false
@@samueltom4044 Nope, he's trying to scam people
anyone else bothered on how he totally failed to wrap it with the rubber band?
DMT 〉👽 that was on purpose to show how kids did it
He didn't fail or or do it how kids do it, he wrapped them in a wierd way so that the band was coming around both corners. Just not the regular way you would bundle something with a rubberband.
It probably dropped the psa grade from a 5 to 3. That’s like reducing the price of the card by 40%. He tried to make a statement, but he did it in the most idiotic way possible.
A psa 7 sold for $1800. It’s crazy to think that there are people in this world would rather get them valued by a con artist rather than doing a one second google search to see how much these cards can actually go for.
www.ebay.com/itm/PSA-7-Near-Mint-Pokemon-Game-1999-Base-Set-1st-Edition-Charizard-Shadowless-Holo-/254040800510
So... Kids don't even manage to even wrap the cards nowadays? Lmao.
@@jasonhuang8791first edition shadowless , the ones he valued were neither.
No one ever really played with pokemon cards, they just collected and traded them.
Principal Skinner I did 😃
Dude, they have frickin tournaments now and MANY videos on this site about the game. (Do your statement was kinda stupid.)
yea but most who got pokemon cards didnt really play it.
One word "wrong"
I'm guessing you're a bit younger. The people who only collected them were the minority. It's a card game.
Gamestop would offer a better price than this “professional”
Lazor Wulf frl
He doesn't want to buy the real Japanese version? wut?
"real" you can get those card in stacks of 200 at he flea market.
It doesn't really matter for old cards, but you cannot play with Japanese cards at any sanctioned event without a Japanese passport (and it's the same case with any other card language). Additionally, these aren't really worth much.
@@singami465 Not sure where you heard that. Any card so long as it's not a proxy is legal in any event, this goes for MTG and Yu-Gi-Oh as well. However Pokemon cards printed in Japan had a longer printing than English cards did. They're still worth something just not quite as much as English cards. Newer cards aren't really affected by this because these card games are quite established and most will know what the card does without having to read it.
Exactly!
J
They're probably like gamestop. You trade in 25 items that originally cost you over 800 total and all they give you is 50.
Basically if that value is that low in good conditions then it was never worth what you payed for to begin with and companies are ripping you off. In games, well considering the time money and rescources it is to make one, and prices to buy one, i disagree. Never sell games to gamestop would i. so far ive only traded in my friends old ds games they didnt care about or want cuz they were mostly junk. they gave us 8 bucks to get another game. ...that is not how i expected it to go. I was led to believe they take the value of each indivual game and you can get 1 game per game that has the same or less value of that 1 game. (so 4 games to TRADE should have been 4 games of same or less value.) Nope. it was 2 games out of 4. and had to use some of my own money to get.
simply this. i laughed when he said those Japanese cards had no value... lol crazy
@@BlackSt0rm90 Well, they are less worth than english cards, cause only their native language and english cards were allowed in tournaments. Also it sucks, if you can`t read the text of the card. But it`s still worth something, only less.
Exactly. A couple of years ago i went to a store to sell a Limited Edition of Ogre Battle: The Marsh of the Black Queen on the PSone in pristine condition. The guy offered me 5 bucks i was like WTF are you serious do you even know what you are doing. I sold it on Ebay easily for 80 bucks if i recall correctly.
@@TheParaTropper What gave you the idea that had any impact on their monetary value? You're talking about their eligibility in gameplay...rarity is really the main factor in any collector's item's value.
This dude ruined my retirement plan for the future
Ulquiorra Cifer bro me too
Ulquiorra Cifer he didn't notice that charizard is a shadowless which goes for more on ebay
Lol same
Ulquiorra Cifer No he didn't ruin it, he gave you a heads up for a plan you thought of but never would work, and now at least you know that it won't work so you can figure out something else. For me it'll still work ;)
Ulquiorra Cifer bro ichigo destroyed your ass 😂
those people thinking he's a real professional.
professional scam artist. buying for pennies then as soon as you leave his shop he marks it up 1000%
Troll and toad is my professional
your grammar should go to a professional.
@@skilly-9865 *you're
@@kimeojin6447 learn english... you're = you are
Is he really professional?
He is rubbing the cards against each other, which makes me cringe a little
Yeah I was thinking the same actually
NOOOO
The fact that he's not handling them with gloves makes me skeptical about his professionalism.
Ivan Ooze Oh yeah, he should definitely handle the €1 cards with gloves.
Pulling great condition base set charizards out of a binder then putting his grubby mits all over it, scuffing the sides, bending at it...
This guy should be in prison.
deIlluminati, did you watch the video about the values? And anyway, even if they aren't worth much, he should still be professional, you obviously don't understand that.
Yeahh, he actually say the price he would buy them, to resell them... the fucker. The second binder is way more valuable !
Ivan Ooze he's a store owner
The notion that Japanese cards are "just for nostalgia" just because his shop doesn't happen to buy/ sell them is pretty stupid.
PAXperMortem he's right though Japanese cards don't sell like that.
Noel López Some of the most valuable cards on earth are only available in Japanese since they were never even released outside of Japan. People from all over the world travel to places like Nakano or Akihabara to buy cards at shops such as Mandarake and others.
PAXperMortem that's from a collectors point of view if you run a business that mainly is kids that get the cards they don't even know how to read Japanese so they will most likely not want it (not saying like I do though)
PAXperMortem THEY ARE WORTH EVEN MORE IN JAPAN .!!!
@@PAXperMortem thats if the guy had an illustrator card then yes but 95percent of japanese cards aint worth shit majority of the market want English sets which is easier to read by most countries and easier to get a hold of ...
I looked after mine. I stored as many as I could pocket and never once touched the surfaces apart from the edges. I still have them all in a folder. NFS though lol. The more damaged ones are through trades.
Oki
This 'expert' just lowballs people so he can flip it for double the profit. Dont sell to vendors!!
sextuple the profit
@@jamesdahydro4337 EXACTLY
Does this guy also work for GameStop?
you must be one of them people who thinks it worth 500+
These aren't valuable though...
@@DasVERMiT what
@@DasVERMiT Thats kinda bullshit my dude, these cards are worth 2-45k a piece.
It is my opinion and he is more informed than me but some of these prices seem off. I am sure my mind is littered with PSA prices but why would you buy German and French cards but not Japanese when it is the original founding country what a lot of people don't know is that 1996 was the first year pokemon cards were produced in japan a full 3 years before they were brought to the U.S. That in itself has value imo.
Jeff Tygart His shop seems a bit more steered towards actual consumers rather than just collectors and more people speak German or French in the UK than Japanese.
if u wanna sell japanese cards, u have to sell to collectors...this guy wants to sell cards that he buys(a vendor)
collectors would pay good money to get those cards
ikr
Yea I would say you right about that. I wonder how many people actually buy these old gen cards to play with? If I were to start playing the card game I would start new.
That is true . Thanks for the feedback.
bruh this dude if he bought the 1st edition charizard that he said was only 25 pounds I bet he'll sell It for a higher price like 150 pounds
It wasnt first edition. First edition psa 9 charizard worth 9k
1999 Pokemon 1st Edition Charizard Holo BGS 10 Sells for Over $40,000 to $55,000. There were a 1st edition charizard sold in ebay for 45k not too long ago.
Wasnt the First Charizard presented here a shadowless one? I mean still in very Bad condition but sure worth more than 5 pounds no?
@@nightcoon5374 not shadowless you can clearly see it (to determine whether shadowless you look at bottom/right side of the border between the image of the pokemon and the rest of the card and check if there is a gradient/shadow which is visible at 2:03)
@@dmonkush4447 no not really, PSA nine goes for about 1300 to 1600 that's a 10
I feel this guy was low balling them 🤷♂️
Mr Random he’s doing worse than lowballing, he’s completely undermining the values
He needs to profit because it's a business.
Pokémark TCG he said a mint 1st edition charizard was 50 quid more like 10k but nah he wasn’t low balling them (psa 10=55k psa 9=15k) so really a mint card is worth more then 10k
@AlmightyFox a first edition charizard is not 44 pounds or dollars a holy shit low price is 25,000 hes a idiot and a thief
@@Killernuck profiting almost 24,000 dollars is not "making a reasonable profit"
Scratching them up as he slides them to his other hand. Good job
yeah such an "expert"
that doesn't scratch the cards!
Scratches the holo, doesn't really matter since all of his cards were shit anyways. But still fucks them
Cards were in
Awful shape anyway ??! I'd rip them off and throw
Them in the trash
doesn't even wear gloves
But if no one wants "Mew" because it has 10 attack damage wouldn't it be more expensive now because it's harder to find? I don't understand his logic...
he was completley wrong about the mew card. that mew card is pretty common. it doesnt sell for much because its a bad card, but because its common and easy to find. if pokemon cards worked like that, then the base set charizard would be worthless. considering its just a flat out bad card in play
Many people collect only Pokémon cards that are good for playing. So they don't care if the Charizard card is not in a mint condition - they only care if it is a genuine Pokémon card so they can use it also in the official tournaments (if there are games where the old card sets are used). If the card is rare or pretty it does not matter to those people if the card is awful when used in a game. There are plenty of other trading card game cards that are not rare but the players still pay ridiculously high prices to get them for their playing deck.
The Mew is cheap for other reasons too, but here's the logic to what you're asking/he's saying:
Because it's a bad card it was played less, hence put away and so more cards remain around and in good condition today, because they were put into binders/storage.
When they came out, people collected them because of how they looked and all. If you listened to the intro, that's not why people buy these cards today...
No-one wants to buy this card that has 10 attack therefore it is a cheap card
That guy would be a great gamestop employee. "You'd actually have to give me £3 to accept these."
5:52:watching it as a yugioh player....
I regret giving my collection away.
Daaamn me too
Robin me too. I gave all my 1st Edition Jungle cards away... all mint in a binder.
Lol same here I had a 99.99% mint condition charizard
My mum binned mine
Crazii Defuse say to mom that we will be millonaires but too bad dood
70£ for a Collector's Book full of old holos ..... are we at pawn stars ? Or wtf is that here?
This dude is rambling. the king of Rip Off..
xiiyaenxzi 😂
ikr
Collector:
Its a book full of gem mint 1st edition shadowless charizards.
Rick:
10 pence nothing more im taking a huge risk.
Just because a card is old and shiny doesnt give it inherent value
He ain't touching my cards I'll tell u that much
I doubt anyone would want to, they're not worth shit
@@funoff3207 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@funoff3207 that aged badly.
Thank you for emphasizing the importance of condition!!! It's something any collector takes really seriously and a ton of people who are trying to sell their stuff don't often understand because of flashy news headlines about how "valuable" their stuff might be.
zard isn't valuable just because of condition, all super expensive ones are 1st ed/shadowless which represent way fewer cards. other charizards are common.
Lmao did they get this man off the street? He’s not a professional at all
Jman Rip shut up cavy
Cav x iq
@@Sam-jb2gk cav is thicc
He undermined the hell out of the value of those cards
I know right
There are two types of Pokemon TCG consumers: players and collectors. Generally, players won't buy old cards because they can't play them and collectors generally only buy cards that are in MINT condition. So yeah, this store owner is absolutely right: most of these cards are near worthless. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's rare or valuable.
ReplayStation what you’re saying makes sense, but didn’t the guy in the video say players want the original cards so they can play the game in its original form? 1:30
Jeremy Niewinski My family were players and generally we didn't go out of our way to play with old cards. Most of the time with the old cards the only use we'd get out of them was to use them if they were cards that came into rotation again such as potions or copy cats, basically old versions of cards that have a new version that plays the same exact way as the old card. Or energy cards since those always remain the same. Even then, we wouldn't buy them if they were for sale more than the new version of the card was. Besides, we never really bought cards, we mostly just bought two boxes every set and usually that gave us enough to set up whatever broken deck was popular at that point.
Jeremy Niewinski I'm sure there's some vintage format players out there, but I have yet to meet any. The majority of players play standard format and some play expanded but I've never seen a vintage event.
Definitely not true, I sell cards as a hobby and yes the condition definitely decreases the value, but some of the nostalgic collector don't care about the condition they just want the card for a lower price and they're just going to keep it in a binder and not be looking at the condition.
Two types of modern consumers.* Don't forget the millions of kids that followed the fad when it blew up in 99-00 who bought a shit load of cards and just stuffed them in their school bags and pocket who weren't collecting NM+ condition cards or even playing the TCG.
0/10 expert wasn't maxmoefoe
Lol
Ffs a good quality 1st edition charizarr is like a few hundred to 1k or so
Correct
@@cheeseboy4673 There are a few Versions of this charizard and every is like at least 100-200 bucks
@@cheeseboy4673 lol you didnt know what you were talking about obviously. A gem 10 standard base set is 1500$ market.
75 for old school cards what is this GameStop??
Andre Films he overpriced them. The cards are worth less on tcgplayer
@@alexkrasnic3850 tsg player is crap. Get a life
ENRAGED DOGGO it aggregates data of actual sales of the cards to give you average price that the card sells for. It's not based on guesses or fools on eBay asking for tons of money. It's based on what people are actually paying
Old school does not mean worth alot. Way to many people overprice
Andre Films no they are first edition they’re worth a lot because you can’t get a 1995 card but yes they remade them but with a 2016 © if it’s a 1995 © then it would be worth it
This guy’s fraud don’t sell your cards to him he just gonna resell them higher
TheTrueSonofSparda that's what stores do. If you want the retail value you have to sell them on eBay and wait for a buyer. Stores give you less because you turn your collection into cash right away rather than wait to maybe sell them for retail
No hes literally ripping them off, there is value buying and then there is lying, and he was lying about certain card values there. That Charizard was worth more than double what he was saying.
you ever heard of buylisting? Metis1337
a damaged base set Charizard is $16USD
True,he is just lying
Thats what i was thinking
Spends £300 in pokemon cards.
Tries to sell collection "I can only give you 7.69 quid".
The true value in the card is the sentimental value. Me and my wife just enjoy opening packs and finding good rares.
this guy has no clue what these are worth lol
I know right!
@@vesperowl3626 i think he is pretty accurate
I'm sure they are worth less. I had a similar folder filled with first edition holographs and i thought they would be worth between 3 and 40 dollars each, probably 6 dollars each on average, i went to a few places that i know bought and sold rare cards for collections, they wouldn't even buy the entire folder for 5 dollars lol, they didn't want to cheat me into selling them gold for scraps, they literally thought about it when i offered them the entire folder for 5 dollars just to cover the bus fare, and they said no and started laughing heartily (at the cards not me lol).
ikr charizard 1st ed. in damaged condition (bent, coffee stain, etc) is worth $50 NM can range
rex it’s worth that, but the guy is giving prices that people would actually pay so they could resell the cards. He’s just a pawn seller.
so called "expert" bending cards and rubbing them off one another..
Ieaun Powell you just fly in from stupid town
alex krasnic no why?
Ieaun Powell because your comments were 100% wrong
alex krasnic how so?
Forget it. This guy is clearly uneducated.
He is so old he called it a folder it is called a binder old man
3:44
what is this binder called? It looks nice, I'd wanna get one
The paper on which these cards were printed is quite lucky.
ikr
So first, at 2:00, the guy says a (shiny?) Charizard from the first set is worth 45-55 pounds in mint condition. Later he says he'd give about 20-25 for the mint condition one he has in his hand. What a cheat.
paddotk first of all that wasn't mint condition and second he has a shop, he buys to resell and make profit like everyone else in the world
It IS in mint condition as you can clearly see, and it doesn't matter if he want to make profit. He says he'd give 44-55 first and later he says 20-25 when he does actually see that flawless card.
It's not mint condition for sure lol, probably something exc- (not clear edges)
it's near mint imho. Mint would be almost brand new from what i understand.
Don't ever open a business. You'll end up completely destitute since you believe that you need to purchase your inventory at the same cost that the consumer pays.
The reason cards get warped (bent) is moisture. It doesn't matter if you've kept them stored and unplayed it can happen. If you're storing cards always keep a few desiccant packs with 'em regardless if they're in sleeves in a binder.
Sold a ton of my cards on ebay in lots/binders according to the generation that they came out from when I collected up until 2005. Surprised at how much people paid for those in bids.... it was a little crazy like if I was sitting on gold all these years lol Out of my 15 lots, my highest lot someone paid for was no joke around $1,500, the other lots varied from $500 - $900 that people paid for. The highest one was the cards with the E series letter and scan on the side of the cards.
Condition makes all the difference when it comes to collector items like this. But I’ll be honest with you even though I kept my cards in a binder I loved actually using them on decks to play against friends rather than just keep them in a binder to stare at.
Half the fun was acquiring cards to build a strong deck to compete against others.
Shame my parents binned my cards in a clean up. RIP :/
FeelsBadMan
I had a raichu mint edition card worth $7000, it got lost :(
I had a base set charizard and it was binned
@@Plasmoo what does binned mean?
Seth Martin trashed
Anyone else watching this in April 2021 and laughing with the prices quoted?
They are worth as much as someone is willing to pay you.
that dude was already off as fuck
mint condition, Base set Charizard(not shadowless/1st ed) can easily get sold for 70 bucks NM/Mint (it can go much higher if the card is minty as fuck)
Trust me, I just lost a bidding war for one of these this morning.
so how much will david's 1st ed cost actually? i wanna know
He's pricing them in British pounds, if you convert 45 pounds to dollars it's pretty close to $70
A PSA 10 (the mintyest of mint cards) 1st edition can fetch around $8k - $15k but apparently a Beckett 10 (they had stricter marking grades than PSA do so a 10/10 card is more rare) sold for $55k but idk if that's true or not
MiniKronos SG Thats first edition shadow less.
Ihsan Amin I mean I guess but if it's 1st edition then it's always shadowless so you don't really need to say 1st edition shadowless unless you have a 1st edition machamp because they have shadows and the 1st edition stamp but like he said in the video they are worth nothing. However, there are also shadowless 1st edition machamps and they are worth a little more I think they are around $20 so that is probably the only card you would need to specify if it's 1st edition with or without shadow. Hope this helps :)
And They Say whats in collecting Those!!!
ikr
Shubh Gupta unless they are graded, they arent worth as much as theu should. Getting it graded is the difference between getting $10 to $50-10,000. For instance I have a Tapu Lele GX that went for around $18, got it graded and got a 10 and now price is up to around $200 which is the most someone has paid for the card on eBay.
That's only because Tapu Lele is played in almost every pokemon decks currently, aka part of the meta. Just like Shaymin EX was. Once the set rotation comes, the card will drop in value incredibly much.
Well honestly it’s still not worth it
For example, the folder collection for sure would have costed hundreds of dollars trying to buy packs just to get those only for it to be worth less than a hundred, I know how hard it is because I would buy them as a kid
You'll never get as much for your collection of cards as you paid for it in the store.
0:04 that binder is lengendary.
Every single 1999 Pokémon card is worth at least 3 bucks
This guy has no idea
Cheese Boy yeah because every rare in good condition from 1999 is worth 13 dollars
Obviously you know exactly what you’re talking about (we don’t need to talk about the fact that some cards are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars, yeah that doesn’t count)
Cheese Boy my mint psa graded base charizard is worth £200
You wish
lol what a scam i sold my cards for 220€ in the same condition for very similar cards on the Internet
The prices this man names are not right. This man is not a proffessional.
yeah its kinda offensive
ULTIMATEGAMEDUDE Exactyl, I call rubbish
nope! All right! check ebay!
Bailey Finnigan non of these in the video are 1st edition Charizard, they aren't even shadowless - but still £10 for that Charizard is ridiculous... it's easy worth like £60 or more
MiniKronos SG wtf are you saying ??? For 60 you could buy a perfect condition charizard , that
One was in HORRIBLE shape ... if you think it's worth that much I'll sell you one for 40 and you make "at least " 20$ out of it okay ??? 😂😂😂😂
the first edition shadowless cards is where the money really starts piling in...but you have to get it PSA graded and all that shiz. Mint score 10 shadowless FE charizard is worth like 10k+...if you can find one that's graded 7-8 it's still worth alot of money.
He isn't a professional 1st edition cards are always worth more then 50 bux
Except there aren't any non 1st edition Machamps, and they were one of the most widely available rare cards from Base Set because they were a part of booster boxes that gave you 2 practice decks, one of them containing 1st edition Machamp.
1st edition machamps were missprinted so they suck
Sold all of mine for $400. I had a few Shining cards like Shining Charizard, Shining Mewtwo, Shining Gyrados, Shining Magikarp, along with the original Charizard, and a whole book of other holographic cards.
John Smith Depending on the condition of the cards, you got jipped, my friend. 1st edition Mint Shining Charizard alone cost more than that.
Jo King Nope, I didn’t take much care of them. They were scratched when I bought them from a friend, with bend marks, and none of them were 1st edition. I looked up all there values, and got more than what they were worth, especially in there low condition.
You really think someone who sells things for a living would buy them at a profit loss? You got ripped off...
3:09 Wow, that guy struggled way harder than he should have to wrap that rubber band around those cards lol
even then it wasn't even on right xD
"professional"
Centorea 88 yes, professional, no TCG enthusiast uses rubber bands to hold their cards, he’s not used to doing that. At my LGS new players are often given free cardboard or starter collection deck boxes for their cards, it’s safer. In all probability, he gets one maybe two ex-collectors in his store a week, a quarter of which bring their stuff into the store wrapped in elastics, and he probably hands them back the pile and the elastic so they can wrap their cards back up themselves.
I keep all my old cards that I have collected in sleeves and away from other stuff.
You really have to get them graded right out of the pack for them to be worth anything.
*He is a reseller telling you the value of your cards. Auction them off yourself and see what you get offered.*
Hate when people say "90's" kids or whatever only know this stuff. Most people born up to about 2005 probably had a similar experience.
xXGhost DragonXx nobody said anything about only 90s kids enjoying it
2006 and had the same experience with yugioh. Pokemon wasn't sold in bulk for cheap and yugioh was cheaper.
Am from the 2000s kids . So far in high school the future looks fucked up .
4:46 ya they only made 2 booster boxes where i live
I bought three $80 cards from them three fantasmas for all Yu-Gi-Oh players out thereand what it told me in an e-mail is that they're currently shut down for business after I had already bought them I never got my cards don't buy from sneak attack games
Did anyone else's school ban Pokemon cards? We used to sneak them in our pockets and hide them under the table at lunch. If we were caught with them our teacher would take them at put them in her prize box and you got put in a raffle for being a good kid and at the end of the week she would draw from the raffle and you could choose from the prize box... Needless to say I got quite a bit of my collection from that prize box and I even got a Dark Tyranitar because some kids were trying to trade their best cards and one got caught and I was the cream of the crop from then on and everyone wanted that card.
It's funny cause these days these things will be seen as totally wrong and like an act of thievery. In jy school was banned too also play european football (and I live in italy)
If they were seen on grounds it was confiscated for the day and they mixed up which ones we owned
Isint the tearcher doing that stealing
My school did and some teachers used to tell us that they contained "satan's dust" in them. Can't believe how ignorant some educators are now that im grown up.
Ok our school did ban them but that is straight up thievery! They only told us to put them in our bags and don’t bring them back
2:22 Sounds like something a scammer would say
El buen sabio
Yup.
He is scammy. Gem 10 n above Charizard is so hard to come by could easily cost that amt or more.
Most exp charizard card i known sold for 2k.
RonLarhz apparently a Beckett 10 1st edition Charizard sold for $55k but I only ever see the PSA 10's go for about $8k - $15k
El buen sabio Wrong. They aren't even first edition.
Lol these idiots... he overpriced them. Those charizarda were not 1st edition psa 10...
"just trust me ok"
Wow!
My big brother has a lot of these cards!
Never knew they have a price...
mine all went from pack to display case mint ..... and in evolutional order from 20+ years ago...
Bah. He's just trying to scam people
Lapu Lapu
He certainly looks like it.
Plus, buzzfeed actually found the legit guy before. So idk why is this made with a different guy...
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Ps: the prices should be for graded cards tho. The vid is non graded.
because there can only be one!
the cards in the buzzfeed video are probably 9 or 10 grade while even the guy with the file's cards are probably only 5 or 6 and the first guy's cards are probably 1 or 2
He was on point. If anything overpriced them
I can tell that that person is not a professional at all. He's just a normal guy guessing the prices.
spellcaster 595 he was close but he overpriced then a little compared to ebay and tcgplayer but that could be because hes in england
Spellcaster595 I agree with u cos u can really tell he has NO logic on Pokemon vintage cards! I wasn't even born when the first Pokemon cards where released since I'm only 13 AND I COLLECT AND KNOW MORE THAN THIS ADULT MAN WHO CALLS HIMSELF "EXPERT"
Legendary Plushy Yea, I bet that's not true.
What's the cost of a mint condition first edition shining Gyarados card? And a mint condition Bellsprout card coz only 2 people I knew had it. I didn't play with them, just collected so all are in very good condition, not mint for all but in good condition none the less...
i sold my cards (stopped collecting at geo...or neo) for $151 (the irony) i sold some pretty cheap but never had like a charazard. though did have a dark charazard holo 1st edition which I did sell a good ammount. couldve sold collection for more but i was happy. they went to a good home. but now i always double, then triple check value on stuff i collect now (comics, old power ranger toys, etc)
Would've been nice if someone here actually had good conditioned, decent cards. Some of the oldest cards now are going for $100s of dollars.
Now £1000s-£10000s
GameStop 2.0
That folder is worth soooo much now
American here; I collected the entire base set when it was in original circulation in the late 90's. I put EVERY card in its own clear sleeve, and then put every card into 3x3 sheets like in this video. I haven't touched them, they are mint. It is NOT the 1st edition set, but the "unlimited" or whatever base set right after. What would the entire set be worth???
Mine are all mint. I don't know if they are first edition. Mostly booster pack stuff. Should I get them appraised? All first generation, like 20+ years old btw.
Yep, some of this is going for ridiculous prices. (Normal common cards from 20 years ago going for like £100 in mint and some holographics going for 3-45k in good condition.
Don't let morons set prices for you. Set/sell your item for whatever it's worth to you. People will buy it or they won't.
Please don't sell for what they are worth to you. You're either gonna waste space in some search result, or get underpayed.
It is not hard to figure out what a card is worth. Google is your friend.
SypherSeven I don’t recommend blindly valuing your cards, asking a few Local Game Store workers and checking sites like Troll and Toad and TCGplayer will give you a good estimate of your cards’ values, from there you should decide what price you want from them. The guy in the video isn’t a moron, he does this for a living, he’s offering them about 60% value which is what most LGSs buy cards for, selling them to other collectors directly is the only way to get retail price, it’s harder to do, takes more effort, and often turns up zero results.
3:44 that binder is probably worth more than any of the cards here
Pokemon was so good back in a who ever played Pokemon indigo or vortex in middle school or elementary the whole school used to play it
Kids are not only messy and mostly don't know how to take good care of their things, but back in the day they didn't know that the cards would be worth so much today.
If he is an appraiser why is he not wearing gloves? They probably picked some guy off the street for this episode with such a blatant error.
Aasinp gloves fir what? Hes handeling worthless and 1$ cards
It's still a process. To keep the cards *c l e a n*
alex krasnic he does not know that though
Ok something I see
2:18 that charzard it’s not first edition, it doesn’t have a stamp on it and it’s shadowed( for people who don’t know their were three first sets printed, first edition with a stamp the shadowless without the shadow on the side but also without the stamp and then the shadow the lowest set) so it’s on,y worth what he said but first edition charzards can actually be yes $600 pounds and whatever
Any way to get my collection appraised? I have the entire base set. Everything non holo is mint, the holos are relatively ok, but I am missing venusaur. My charizard is better than the first but not as good as the second. I do have base2 set cards in better condition. My jungle set is about 90% complete, same with fossil and my rocket and gym heroes 1-2 are about 80%, all near mint. I played with them but always in sleeves.
I like this guy he is real. Everyone says how much cards are worth but the true value of something stems from how much OTHERS are willing to pay for them.
* And what you originally payed for it, and what it is to you. If you payed 40+ $ for something brand new when it was loaded like nuts on the shelves.. (or at least a fair amount -LE's/specials/rares) then wait 20+ yrs, take damned good care of it and its NO LONGER in print, and people want it because of such rarity value. you could sell logically from 15-50+$ imho. Value drops from original price if its used and worn. But Rarity / No longer in the makes boosts it back up, like gamecubes. etc. - Another value booster is if you got it rated and "Proof" its a real card or official or a "misprint". People be selling money for money cuz of misprint lol
I've researched charizards and this dude don't know anything about them
What makes Maven awesome you don't know anything about them lmao. This isn't shadowless or first edition. It's a plain ass charizard. Worth about 50 bucks
nah that zard is not worth more than 50 gbp, not shadowless
And if you're asking about the nine-tailed it does 80 attack I think 90 I don't remember any of the go back to the depart case I put it in
I have alot of first set energy cards holographic and regular i dont know who to sell them to
“Proffesional”
Are you sure about that?
Going through the comments I see some common gripes thrown around and I’d just like to clear some up to defend this poor LGS manager.
Most common issue is the “oh no these cards are worth thousands in the right condition, this liar!” Which just are wrong. In gem mint, the Charizards shown would sell for about 70£, they aren’t graded, AND they aren’t the originals. The 3000 USD Charizard is from what is essentially the trial run of this set of cards, a printing that had no black “shadow” on its art boarder (the yellow box surrounding the photo of charizard, not the yellow around the whole card). This is what people mean by shadowless, not a charizard with no shadow, but a card frame without one.
Next, his grading of the cards. The most basic explanation is that no camera is good at picking up the tiny scratches and knicks that add up to devalue a card, it’s just much easier to see in person and his appraisal is almost certainly based on shit we can’t see. Beckett graded cards are worth slightly more with good grades, or much more with exceptional grades, but these loose cards MUST be valued at a percentage of their accepted resale value, you can’t treat a card you think is perfect as a Becket Pristine Mint, they’re scale is based on not only the damage, but even the factory’s printing of the card, a card a few millimetres off centre loses .5 of a grade instantly, you can’t possibly appraise that on your own in a few seconds, certainly not through a video.
Last thing I’ll defend is his offer of 25£ for a valued 45£ card. Tl;dr his store needs to make a profit. The cards will most likely sit around Sneak Attack for a few months before a collector who would buy them will show up. They’re beat up, ungraded, unsleeved, and not very rare. Collectors do like these kind of cards, but only in very good condition, a collector who will buy even a lightly played card is hard to find, because the cards are too easy to find. What real collectors want are either high quality versions of the original shadowless cards, or Near-Mint or higher versions of the cards in the video.
Kinda sad to see all the misinformed people in the comments screaming about how he is scamming them not valuing the 2nd Charizard thousands, bet they are the same kind he has to deal with in store and break their dreams that their cards are just words a few dollars.
Yep. But Pokémon prices have surged in past months due to demand. PSA 9 Charizard First Edition going for 45k+. PSA 10 First Edition Charizard sold recently for 180k+. This does not mean that terrible condition cards are worth a lot. But cards with good centering and no dings or dents can get PSA 8 or 9 pretty easily. Even first edition normal holos are worth a lot graded highly.
@@velociraptorgames7703 you may notice this video is 2 years old and my comment is also more than 1 year old, “in recent months” means nothing to the evaluation in this video which people were complaining about at the time
@@samueltom4044 Yeah, Pokémon cards were a lot less valued back then. I just wanted to comment so new people who are watching this video can have a better understanding from some newer comments. Enjoy your day!
I have base set charizard in mint. As soon as I got it I put it in a sleeve. How much is that worth.
How would I value the cards? Is there some kind of way I could see how much my pokemon cards r worth.
Back when i was young we used to play pokemon and yugioh cards and watch power rangers on tv and also play crash on the ps1 ahh good old memories😄
IGalaxy X hell yeah bro
For all you Americans out there,
*1£=US$1.30*
And for all Canadians out there,
*1£=$1.69*
I have all of them mentioned in the video, just saw the thumbnail and now watching the video as We speak.
Hi i have a miss print pokemon card that inwould like to know the price on it
People always think their crap is worth Da Vinci money. Its still really impressive if your items value has raised 10 times. Even if its a one dollar item. Expecting something that has been mass produced to be worth a fortune is overly optimistic.
All tcgplayers be like did he just say it's called a folder it's a binder reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
For the first edition machamp, what if it is sealed?
One time I was offered like 3 bucks (Them saying it was generous) for my issue 1 Firestorm comic that had almost no wear and tear. Not mint, but better than "very good" condition. It's like, read a couple times condition. When I compared mine to ones online in the same condition, they still go for at least 10 or 15 dollars. Later I come back to find one in only slightly better condition priced at like 55 dollars.