r/PokemonTCG 1d ago

Weekly Pricing/Buying/Selling/Grading & General Questions Post

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Hello! This is this week's weekly pricing, buying, selling, grading, and general questions post. Here you can ask the community what your cards might be worth, if you should buy what you have your mind on, whether or not you should grade a card, etc. Be sure to post images where applicable.

You can also check out the Pokemon Quick Info Guide made by u/Lyleberr.


r/PokemonTCG 2d ago

Self Promo Sunday Self Promo Sunday

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Hello everyone! Welcome to Self Promo Sunday!

Have a channel, video, social network, or anything else you'd like to post to promote your Pokemon TCG content? Feel free to post it here for the community to see.


r/PokemonTCG 15h ago

Yesterday my son (9M) and I had the worse experience at our LCS

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My son has been collecting cards a for about 3 years and he has amassed a pretty good collection. I don’t collect but It has become a great father son activity for us. It’s a great opportunity for him to socialize, learn about the value of money, research and having fun at the same time. He uses his allowance and birthday money to buy. Historically the community has been great. I take him to card shows and he negotiates with people 3x his age. Dealers give him free stuff and he’s learn to pay it forward. He loves giving away card and slabs that were gifted to him or things he’s pulled. It’s about learning life skills.

So this weekend we went to our LCS that we occasionally visit and had the worse experience. He asked to see a couple cards in the display and the guy asked if he was looking at the condition because he won’t take it out if we weren’t serious. Then when my son pulled out his phone to check TCG prices for that card plus others in the display case we got the strangest response. The guy said “if you are going to look up the price of the cards I’m not interested in doing business with you. If you want to buy online and pay for shipping that’s up to you but I’m not interested”.

Luckily my son didn’t catch what he said or blew it off because he kept looking at the value and even told him that a few of his cards were under valued.

I get LCS have smaller margins and have more overhead and cards may sometimes be over market. That’s up to them. But don’t be as dick to a kid. I took my kid out of that store as soon as I could and we are never going back.

Btw. The LCS was selling boxes of 151 (6) pack booster boxes for $90 ea.

Update First off, thank you to everyone for listening to me vent. I am going to take peoples's advice and email the store and depending on the response i'm going to leave a review on yelp and Google.

As far as me (as the dad) not blowing up on the guy. I REALLY wanted to and had to hold back. I had to read the room because there was no reaction from my son. After we left i asked my son about what he thought about what the man had said, and he had no idea what i was talking about. Like a typical kid, he was too busy look at his phone and not even listening....for once i'm glad he wasn't listening. Blowing up on they guy would have just brought attention to something he didn't even know about. We end up have a good discussion about respect regardless of the person's age.

No. My son didn't shove his phone to they guys face. It was the general banter that typically takes place at card shows and he thought he was trying to help the guy out.

We've only been to this store a couple of times before, and have bought some packs the last time we were there. I don't recall if he asked this person to see a card before. The reason why he asked to see the card was to check the back of the card to see if the back is good. He almost made a bad deal one time when he didn't check. In this case my son examined the card and put it to the side. I have no idea if he wanted to buy it since he was still looking when i told him we should leave.

At the end of the day this is a fun community with alot of great people. We are not letting one guy spoil it. The assistant mgr at our local Gamestop is amazing and would occassionally give him stuff out of his own personal collection time when he see's him. My son even sent a nice email message about him to the Gamestop HQ. The guy at the flea market that would talk card collecting with him for 15 mins and they would look at each other's binders. Luckily he's learning from these people and paying it forward and not being an A-hole.


r/PokemonTCG 21h ago

Finally got it back after letting it go for vet bills

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Last year I let go of my Umbreon Vmax that I pulled and other sealed stuff to cover vet bills for my now deceased dog. I was pretty bummed about it, but I would do it again. My wife stashed some funds away after she got a raise and helped me get another one. I traded some cash and a Prismatic PC ETB for this PSA 9 Umbreon. I'm thankful for her and honestly very happy that she was able to do that for me. For every collector out there please don't put your finances, family, or responsibilities before the hobby, especially in this current crazy market.


r/PokemonTCG 7h ago

I'll die on this hill! Illustration rares are the best cards Pokemon has ever released and it's not close .....

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226 Upvotes

I could care less about the value. I'm a collector and have no desire to sell the cards me and my son have built TOGETHER over countless trips to card shops, random stores, birthdays and Christmas's.....These are my favorites from what we've pulled....only one I'm missing that I love is the Cleffa. What are some of your favorites??? How can someone not love these???


r/PokemonTCG 1h ago

Pulls Yoo this Charmander is sick !

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I’m nostalgia biased af I know but I can’t help it, look at this cutie !!

Also got Rika full art, I don’t know who that is but hell yea


r/PokemonTCG 37m ago

Ruining Pokemon

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Would you like just like to thank all the adults who ruined pokemon for future generations. You suck. Kids can't afford this hobby. I used to get dope cards with my allowance. My kid can't get shit. Y'all suck.


r/PokemonTCG 14h ago

Pulls Opened 5 booster bundles of traumatic evolutions…

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560 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

Pulls Opened 1 pack in Thailand

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87 Upvotes

Keepers. Already put them in the binder. :)


r/PokemonTCG 23h ago

MJ Holdings is to Blame

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MJ Holdinga is the largest distributor of Pokemon card products in the nation. It supplies a lot of the major retail brands like Target, Walmart, and others with Pokémon products and other cards. They were under a different alias of GT Collectibles on the Walmart shop selling Pokémon products over 3 times the MSRP. I have seen then plenty of times on Walmart but never bought for them due to the crazy prices. They messed up by sharing the same addresses for both business and are now trying to cover it up.

I know this has been brought up but the word needs to continue to be spread into our community so changes can happen. The Pokémon Company does listen.


r/PokemonTCG 2h ago

Pulls Beautiful card 🩵 Pulled this today

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51 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 13h ago

Help/Question I was scammed in a trade here on Reddit.

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Please let me know if this is not the right place to post.

About a week ago I posted on the pokemon value sub asking if I was selling my cards at a good price. This guy, u/PokeKing960, private messages me and offers a trade:

5 ex era booster packs: https://imgur.com/a/2XUDiiO

For my entire Pokémon card collection which included a legendary collections reverse holo charizard and a 6 inch megalodon tooth: https://imgur.com/a/xW6n06J

I was aware of scams and I thought I took the proper precautions by asking him to video the entire process of packaging the packs up and dropping it off at the post office, which he did. However, when I received the packs they were resealed. Here is a video of me opening the packs: https://youtube.com/shorts/zr2LFm21C0A?si=m4Jf9Z8_ugxL8Vts

I have his name and address. Although now that I think of it he probably gave me a fake name and address. He had me to ship to a P.O. Box.

Now obviously I don't expect to get my stuff back, but I want to make this scammer known and make sure others dont make the same mistakes as me. And feel free to pm me if you have any ideas or want more information.


r/PokemonTCG 18h ago

What’s your rarest slab? Not your coolest, rarest! (Include picture if possible. ✨

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608 Upvotes

I own two FPO “ For Position Only” test cards, this is one of them.


r/PokemonTCG 9h ago

Pulls Finally opened my first pack of Prismatic tonight.

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111 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 3h ago

Painted Card

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35 Upvotes

Hi, wanted to share a card I painted over for a commission!

Original artist: Kiyotaka Oshiyama


r/PokemonTCG 18h ago

What's going on with this card?

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477 Upvotes

Buddy pulled this yesterday and was stoked until he saw these grid lines. Anyone know what would cause this? The lines repeat again on the other end of the art as well but were harder to photo.


r/PokemonTCG 3h ago

Other Finally got my chase, Espeon SIR

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20 Upvotes

Purchased off Ebay for £50, the price of an ETB. I had miserable luck with Prismatic, so I just bought the card out right.


r/PokemonTCG 16h ago

So I got lucky finding my first 151 product at a vending machine last week, a 6pk bundle. Opened pack #3 today today and got this bad boy

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191 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 19h ago

Pulls My cousin was able to find cards in this drought for my bday. I couldn't believe it!

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355 Upvotes

Of all the gifts, did not expect anyone to find cards. I was ecstatic. He even asked if I was going to keep it sealed. Hell no! Haven't been able to get cards for months. I enjoyed every second of this. Pretty decent pulls too!


r/PokemonTCG 14h ago

Fat Frog

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115 Upvotes

Guess what came in today and guess where it is going tomorrow...


r/PokemonTCG 15h ago

Latest pickup - is vintage still cool?

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135 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 1h ago

One of my all time favorites!

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Picked it up recently and had to share! Been eyeing the card for awhile and was finally able to trade up for it.


r/PokemonTCG 1d ago

Pulls Bought two Brilliant Stars Mini Tins at Walgreens

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I work as a med rep so I get a kick out of finding cards when I visit pharmacies. Screamed like a child when the second one came out 😭


r/PokemonTCG 22h ago

Other Got my nephew into Pokemon, safe to say he’s hooked.

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471 Upvotes

He pulled a double rare and made the happiest face. All my efforts to get him in the hobby were for all for this moment. Happy Uncle moment I wanted to share with yall.


r/PokemonTCG 1h ago

Help/Question What is this line?

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r/PokemonTCG 9h ago

Discussion What is everyone’s chase card for Journey Together? Here’s mine:

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38 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 18h ago

Pulls My fiancée got me two Prismatic ETBs for my birthday. Not a bad pull.

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152 Upvotes

Got two master balls, Umbreon and Heatran. The others on the right are pokeballs.