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Prerelease raichu unearthed???

Usually if interested to sell they don't mind the activity. Now if they don't want to sell sometimes no price (within reason)will change their mind.
I built five PSA 10 base 1st Ed holo sets for a fellow and then I found a buyer for the sets at 5 times the going rate...and he wouldn't do it lol.
 
I've seen some comments about the Raichu being deliberately made by WotC as a "conspiracy" to sell a "fake card".

If they did make it deliberately, that doesn't make it any less of a real card, just the origin story changes.

If they were going to make them just with the intention of selling, they would have used genuine Raichus and the genuine stamp. Why would they risk doing anything different and being found out?

Not that I think they did, because if that was the intention, the others wouldn't have held onto them for so long.
 
DJGigabyte said:
I've seen some comments about the Raichu being deliberately made by WotC as a "conspiracy" to sell a "fake card".

If they did make it deliberately, that doesn't make it any less of a real card, just the origin story changes.

If they were going to make them just with the intention of selling, they would have used genuine Raichus and the genuine stamp. Why would they risk doing anything different and being found out?

Not that I think they did, because if that was the intention, the others wouldn't have held onto them for so long.
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Absolutely makes sense...
 
And in point of fact, not even the one that was sold to William was put up for sale by its owner.
William was looking for it.
He had an agent looking for high value cards for him.
That agent knew that I might be aware of who had some high value cards.
I contacted the owner and asked him if he'd be willing to part with it.

While you may not be calling me a liar, you would be calling a number of ex-WotC managers liars, planning a grift years and years in advance, so low key that they had to be prodded into triggering it 10 years later.

Oh, and one of them is a current Pokemon manager.
So you'd be calling a current Pokemon manager a liar as well.
 
PokePop said:
And in point of fact, not even the one that was sold to William was put up for sale by its owner.
William was looking for it.
He had an agent looking for high value cards for him.
That agent knew that I might be aware of who had some high value cards.
I contacted the owner and asked him if he'd be willing to part with it.

While you may not be calling me a liar, you would be calling a number of ex-WotC managers liars, planning a grift years and years in advance, so low key that they had to be prodded into triggering it 10 years later.

Oh, and one of them is a current Pokemon manager.
So you'd be calling a current Pokemon manager a liar as well.
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Let's not strip anyone of credit here.
crazypokemon did this first.
 
PokePop said:
While you may not be calling me a liar, you would be calling a number of ex-WotC managers liars, planning a grift years and years in advance, so low key that they had to be prodded into triggering it 10 years later.

Oh, and one of them is a current Pokemon manager.
So you'd be calling a current Pokemon manager a liar as well.
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Lol...I've been dealing with WOTC managers since the first Alpha MTG boxes came out 20 years ago and the pedestal you have them on is, quite frankly, laughable. The nicest way I can put it is, not all were beyond reproach;)
Their turnover rate those first half dozen years was quite telling. The biggest complaint was very low pay, well south of the industry standard (ie; Topps, Upper Deck etc.)

I was never beholden to any of them though. All I expected were my orders on time and product support equally distributed between me and my competitors. Unfortunately that wasn't always the case so a little bitterness remains;)

I'd really prefer this to be a little less personal though. I'd love to flush out a few of these cards and get more detailed pictures of different ones. Poke people have an interest in this supposed anomaly. There's not only interest in Alakazams immense strength and speed lol.
After all, this category is for discussions/opinions on collectibles. All our opinions count and most of us are enjoying the conversation.
 
Nice insight Gary! Its cool seeing someone who was involved back then.

About the interest in the anomaly part, I honestly have little to no interest in the Raichu. If anything the PreRelease Raichu perfectly represents how bland and unoriginal most english cards are. Adding a common stamp to a common illustration does not sound like the Holy grail to me.

The point here is that I know it is a real card and I could care less about the mystique. In fact, I had an opportunity to purchase the card but passed. Mostly because the source, who is legitimate, told me outright that he knows the guy who puts the stamps on the card...

Ultimately, I really have nothing personal to gain in the card being real or not. All I know that the copy I saw was indeed real.
 
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smpratte said:
Nice insight Gary! Its cool seeing someone who was involved back then.

About the interest in the anomaly part, I honestly have little to no interest in the Raichu. If anything the PreRelease Raichu perfectly represents how bland and unoriginal most english cards are. Adding a common stamp to a common illustration does not sound like the Holy grail to me.

The point here is that I know it is a real card and I could care less about the mystique. In fact, I had an opportunity to purchase the card but passed. Mostly because the source, who is legitimate, told me outright that he knows the guy who puts the stamps on the card...

Ultimately, I really have nothing personal to gain in the card being real or not. All I know that the copy I saw was indeed real.
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Hmmm...could that mean my square cut, no stage error Blastoise is the Holy Grail? :eek: It's a perfect example of the no stage error with all the proper ink dots...great condition and square cut??. I better raise that price up:biggrin:
Maybe ill start a thread asking which you would rather have the raichu or my blastoise lol.
 
garyis2000 said:
Hmmm...could that mean my square cut, no stage error Blastoise is the Holy Grail? :eek: It's a perfect example of the no stage error with all the proper ink dots...great condition and square cut??. I better raise that price up:biggrin:
Maybe ill start a thread asking which you would rather have the raichu or my blastoise lol.
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I feel like ALL OF THIS was just to raise awareness for your Blastoise.
 
The Blastoise doesn't really have the mystery and background of the Raichu though. It's really unique but... It's no Prerelease Raichu lol
In my opinion, the blastoise really only appeals to people who specifically go after errors.
I like it and I would love to own it. Would I pay $10,000 for it? No
 
smpratte said:
Nice insight Gary! Its cool seeing someone who was involved back then.

About the interest in the anomaly part, I honestly have little to no interest in the Raichu. If anything the PreRelease Raichu perfectly represents how bland and unoriginal most english cards are. Adding a common stamp to a common illustration does not sound like the Holy grail to me.

The point here is that I know it is a real card and I could care less about the mystique. In fact, I had an opportunity to purchase the card but passed. Mostly because the source, who is legitimate, told me outright that he knows the guy who puts the stamps on the card...

Ultimately, I really have nothing personal to gain in the card being real or not. All I know that the copy I saw was indeed real.
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I have to agree all early English Holy Grails are errors with the same re used artwork over and over. The English cards are really de-valued can't think of anything similar to the trophies, illustrators or Snap cards in English.

I mean Charizard was always the rarest card fro example it was re used twice 3 times if you include unlimited run.

I think in japan there was much more respect for the game and it wasn't just a money making machine, we saw time and time again WTOC was only about making money which meant over mass production, they made so many base set cards they were around as shelf products for a very long time.
On a side note one of the best examples of their money hungry attitude think triangle error packs cant think of anything even close happening in Japan and the quality of card just pull a fresh booster of the same set from each language and you'll understand what I mean. Big rant i know but i feel we were let down with the early English release sure it sold but it had no heart :p
 
anonspaz said:
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I think in japan there was much more respect for the game and it wasn't just a money making machine, :p
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Lot of good points but the above wasn't one. Media Factory, Bandai, Meiji etc , all Pokemon manufacturerers sold out the game like nothing ever seen. You cannot mention anything that didn't have a Pikachu on it and that includes passenger jets and condoms.
They all did an incredible marketing job and as a capitalist I admire them all;)
 
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Well this makes me think of how the 1st edition Charizard PSA 10 is the most desired card in the whole pokemon universe. A PSA 10 Charizard is at around $4000 which is astonishing but the demand is so crazy for it. It is also the easiest card to sell for at a high price in my opinion since it has such a big following. A year or 2 ago if I was asked "do you think a PSA 10 1st edition Charizard was going to sell for as much as most of the Japanese trophy card"? I would of said HELL NO. Demand is a huge part of any type of collecting.
 
Definitely! The average person, not even a collector knows about charizard. The average person doesn't know a trophy card.

With that said, prices are up
with everything.
 
anonspaz said:
I have to agree all early English Holy Grails are errors with the same re used artwork over and over. The English cards are really de-valued can't think of anything similar to the trophies, illustrators or Snap cards in English.
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There are English trophy cards that go for thousands of dollars...
 
smpratte said:
Definitely! The average person, not even a collector knows about charizard. The average person doesn't know a trophy card.

With that said, prices are up
with everything.
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Yes...
And it's very safe to say that the 1st edition Base Charizard is the King of all the worlds set cards and maybe in the top 10 of all Pokemon Cards.
 
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