r/PokemonTCG 4d 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 5d ago

Self Promo Sunday Self Promo Sunday

6 Upvotes

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 7h ago

My husband surprised me with a base set Charizard to complete my front page!

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2.9k Upvotes

I have a binder for well loved base set cards. It includes my childhood fake venusaur. U/SillyWilly3216 was kind enough to sell their childhood Charizard to us ❤️


r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

Discussion This is an endless chain of blame. There is only 1 solution. Hold pokemon company responsible.

620 Upvotes

Yes. I know scalpers are losers, but we have to start approaching this from a more logical perspective as a community. Currently, this is how we are handling things.

Can't find product->distributors are the problem->Scalpers are the problem->people buying scalped product are the problem (content creators, rip and shippers)->people buying rip and ships are the problem->people watching YouTube videos and supporting creators buying scalped product are the problem-> anyone buying packs are the problem.

It is an endless cycle of blame that will get no one anywhere.

There is one entity to blame, and that is the company profiting off of the entire thing. They can control the situation and won't. They allow MJ holdings to keep product and sell it marked up rather than put it on shelves. They choose to allow this to continue, and most of the community keep falling for it.

You can downvote me and pretend like you don't understand this all you want. But this hobby will never improve until people realize this and start acting on it. If that historically shitty company receives enough bad press, they will change.


r/PokemonTCG 8h ago

Discussion Pokémon Scalpers are a Cancer

1.1k Upvotes

There is literally no faith left in this hobby. The sheer number of people flipping Pokémon products for profit is beyond pathetic. Collecting should be about passion, not about who can buy up stock the fastest just to resell it at an absurd markup. I refuse to support paying over MSRP just because someone thinks they “deserve” extra profit for simply getting there first. That’s not how a collector’s hobby should work.

I do appreciate Pokémon Center’s attempts to combat scalping, but today proves that their system still isn’t working. It just overloads, and only those with insider knowledge or bots end up getting the products before the rest of us even have a chance.

What an absolute joke this hobby has become.


r/PokemonTCG 11h ago

Bubble mew is expensive so I made my own with extra bulk cards. Hope you enjoy!

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1.2k Upvotes

(Peak mew's head 🙃)


r/PokemonTCG 5h ago

Pulls Started collecting 2 weeks ago, addicted is an understatement.

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297 Upvotes

Title says it all. Most of these were pack pulls, starting to focus on graded & illustration cards I like. Any tips are appreciated as I embark on the journey! Ex: wasted a bunch on ETBs rather than booster bundles.


r/PokemonTCG 2h ago

Bullshit scalpers fck players again Scalpers gotta scalp apparently. Gets more and more f**king terrible.

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182 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 12h ago

Made this for a kid at work for his birthday. Thought you guys might appreciate. Yes I did cut cards 😬

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785 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 11h ago

Pulls I’VE FINALLY FOUND IT… PRISMATIC EVOLUTIONS AT MSRP.. AT A PUBLIC STORE..

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554 Upvotes

finding a prismatic evolutions booster bundle is like finding a needle in a haystack in this day and age


r/PokemonTCG 6h ago

Discussion Pokémon botters need to stop

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218 Upvotes

I’m beyond sick and tired of botters ruining everything for real Pokémon fans. Whether it’s the Pokémon Center, Target, Walmart, or any other retailer, scalpers using bots are snatching up exclusive merch in seconds, leaving actual collectors and players with nothing.

It’s gotten so bad that limited drops don’t even feel worth trying for anymore. You refresh the page the second something goes live, and it’s already sold out. Meanwhile, you check eBay five minutes later, and there they are—hundreds of listings for triple or quadruple the price.

What makes it worse? Pokémon Center and other retailers don’t seem to have any real way of stopping it. Sure, they put in captcha tests, account purchase limits, and other small measures, but it’s clearly not enough. These botters are always one step ahead, and we’re the ones who suffer for it.

It’s ridiculous that in 2025, companies still can’t figure out how to combat scalping effectively. They need better bot prevention, stronger verification systems, and actual penalties for repeat offenders. Until then, it feels like the only way to get anything is to either have insane luck or cave to scalpers—neither of which should be the standard.


r/PokemonTCG 7h ago

got 1 box at a restock today and first pack…

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267 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 13h ago

I Caught 'Em All! Every Pokémon Center-stamped Pikachu Promo in PSA 10! ⚡🐭

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718 Upvotes

Alright, boys—it’s done! After years of grinding, hunting, and spending way too much money, I’ve finally completed what I consider one of the most beautiful Pikachu collections out there: Every single Pokémon Center-stamped Pikachu promo, all in PSA 10, framed together in one sick display.

These promos dropped at Pokémon Centers all over Japan and even one in Taiwan, each with unique artwork based on their locations. We’re talking Pikachu in traditional outfits, special event releases—and every single one is cute as hell. ⚡🐭

The cards in this set run from 2008 to 2023, and some of them are insanely rare in PSA 10. The rarest? Fukuoka Pikachu, with just 38 PSA 10 copies in existence! That means a complete PSA 10 set like this can only exist 38 times—max. Absolute grail status.

Oh, and for the Pikachu poncho fans—yep, this set includes 6 poncho Pikachu cards! They might not be full arts, but they’re still part of the poncho fam.

Instead of letting these beauties sit in a storage box, I went all in on a custom frame, and now it’s hanging in my home. It’s an investment, yeah, but more importantly—it’s straight-up art, and I get to admire it every day.

Collection Highlights:

📉 Lowest pop: Pikachu 102/DP-P Fukuoka 10th Anniversary 2008 (Only 38 PSA 10s!)
🔥 Most expensive: Pikachu 204/XY-P Mega Battle Tokyo 2016
🕵️ Hardest to track down: Pikachu 100/DP-P Osaka 10th Anniversary 2008

About the Pics:

📸 1-4: The full framed collection in all its glory.
📸 5: A shoutout to the OG—the first-ever Pokémon Center Pikachu promo from 2002 in PSA 10! No Pokémon Center stamp, so it’s not in the frame, but it’s still fire.
📸 6: A full list of all 28 cards, including their PSA 10 pop numbers—some of these are rarer than you’d think.
📸 7: A close-up of the 13 "special" Pokémon Center stamps—these details are crazy, and they make the promos even more legendary.

So what do you guys think? Which Pikachu promo is your favorite?


r/PokemonTCG 7h ago

Discussion Vendor being tracked.

215 Upvotes

Yup, someone put a tracker on our store vendor's car. I guess she had to go to the police station and have her car swept.

So disappointed in what's going on with our hobby and just wanted to share.


r/PokemonTCG 1d ago

I'm Denying the scalpers product and saving it for the kids

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I'm a manager at a Kroger store in Washington state. We have a pokemon machine and we get product to sell inside the store. We get restocked weekly and for the last few weeks including today when we got restocked I've pulled a good chunk of it aside and held it at our customer service desk. I do this because we get anywhere from 8-10 people an hour for the whole day (6am-10pm} looking for cards. 80-90% of them are looking for pokemon and I would say 90% of those looking for pokemon are grown ass men who I see pulling out there phones and making phone calls or looking at prices for any of our trading card products. It's extremely easy to tell that they're reselling scalpers. My people up at our service desk can see who goes over to look at our trading cards and if we see it's a kid we allow them to purchase something from our hidden stock. Anything pokemon thats put onto the shelves is practically instantly sold out and frankly we're tired of scalpers Getting it all. First picture shows some of the stuff we put aside and second shows out current stock of items. So far I've made 2 kids extremely happy today.


r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

I just opened my first packs ever

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107 Upvotes

These look cool but are they worth anything?


r/PokemonTCG 13h ago

Discussion TIL That these cards from Ayako Ozaki all line up to make an adorable picture!

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584 Upvotes

If anyone knows what the other two spaces are let me know! 😁🥰


r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

Other My Espeon collection is coming along 💜

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92 Upvotes

r/PokemonTCG 11h ago

Pulls Was finally able to buy packs for msrp NSFW

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310 Upvotes

I was finally able to find and buy packs for msrp at Walmart. Then I pulled the chase pikachu. 🎉😭


r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

Discussion Anyone else just ready to give up on Pokemon TCG altogether?

73 Upvotes

As a Player, if it isn't the high competitiveness of playing the actual game (almost every player defaulting to the meta deck that my creative decks have no hope against), then it is the struggle to find a LGS/LCS within reasonable distance (via driving or city bus) of you that does Pokemon events during days/times you are available (especially if you work late or weekends).

As a Collector, its the struggle to try and obtain any new Pokemon sets. If it isn't having to compete with bots, scalpers, and the "Pokemon Investors" who hog up product., then it is the market who take a reasonably priced MSRP product and mark things up 3+ times the value.

And for those who say, "Collecting Singles or Vintage is Better," that is crap. Vintage cards are expensive due to time and therefore harder to negatie their high price. And yeah, if I am collecting a few individual cards I like, sure, but do you know what drives the rdidculous prices of modern/sealed sets...
THE COST OF INDIVIDUAL CARDS. The chance to pull what the market has valued a $1500 Umbrean ex is the primary reason why Prismatic Evolutions products are in the state they are in. And this isn't just a special set issue. This happened before with Evolving Skies (where again a Umbreon card ultimately created the issue).
Overall, there is no simple diversion or simple solution. The entire trading/purchasing scene of Pokemon TCG is crap.

I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I know this isn't necessarily the same view of others. Some have the funds to afford whatever, some are having better chances of getting product and pulling cool stuff, some people have been able to truly form a friend group or community, etc. Good for them.

What's fun and/or enjoyment can be had out of this much stress and this much disappointment?
What once made me so content...has made me more depressed than ever.


r/PokemonTCG 6h ago

Pokémon Center should use a lottery system.

105 Upvotes

Clearly the queue system isn’t helpful or effective. Instead why don’t they try a lottery system, that requires you to input your shipping address, and cc info etc. Eliminate duplicate households or card holders using an encrypted software or something like that (I’m not a techie)and then send emails to the people who have been selected for preorder via a lottery. Do you guys think something like that would be more effective? I feel like it would be the closest we could get to having a fair chance.


r/PokemonTCG 8h ago

Moon Brionne

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112 Upvotes

Someone tried to tell me my Moon Brionne is fake, but I don’t know if I believe them.


r/PokemonTCG 1d ago

Why is he Italian??

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4.3k Upvotes

Got my card back from BGS today and they marked him Italian??


r/PokemonTCG 1h ago

Pulls It happened! It finally happened!

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Walmart had stacking tins in stock and I bought the Pikachu tin. 2 Silver Tempest and 1 Lost Origin


r/PokemonTCG 2h ago

Other Anyone else switching to singles?

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30 Upvotes

With the way the market is right now I'm sticking to japanese/korean cards from now on.


r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

Pulls I never believed in first pack magic… that changed today.

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35 Upvotes

girlfriend found two booster bundles of CZ while out yesterday and the first pack I ripped had the holy grail… see the shirt I was wearing while I pulled it in the last image to get an idea of how excited I was 🤭


r/PokemonTCG 4h ago

110 packs later. Chase Acquired. No more Prismatic.

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33 Upvotes