PokemonTrader
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True but why buy single cards when a couple hundred more just buy the whole set. This means your spending way more money than you need to.
You don't have all that money to spend at once?
True but why buy single cards when a couple hundred more just buy the whole set. This means your spending way more money than you need to.
no if someone is going to buy 1 card for $30 like Karen's Umbreon and its not a promo but part of the set, they got a couple hundred to fork out for the complete set.
WHAT? ^
That to me is nuts.
Thats the mentality that collecting brings especially to VS set cards that I have seen anyway.
What gets me is I got VS Rocket's Tyranitar numbered 142/141 I think it is, the one that comes out of the theme decks, go on ebay look for that card and you wont find it, you find the Umbreon more, do you think the Tyranitar sells for more? probably not, its just how retarded the collecting market of Pokemon has gotten. I havent even been able to move the VS Steel Energy holo I got either, perhaps because its an energy.
Since coming back to game, I havent been too fond of the collecting market and where it has went. Everything is half ummmmm backwards.
Since coming back to game, I havent been too fond of the collecting market and where it has went. Everything is half ummmmm backwards.
The point being that popularity often decides prices. Cards like Pikachu and Charizard will always out sell other cards of the same rarity. Ridiculous, I know, but it is the truth
Since VS cards are popular though, what about Team Rocket? Mostly speaking on the Japanese? You think it would be like VS cards, but perhaps because it was released in the U.S. and VS cards wasnt, that maybe thats where the surge of popularity is for VS, but then again why is the Vending set ignored?
This collecting market, though I am new, I've learned a lot by talking to the mods, collectors and players around. Though you seem to not like to be a friendly, talkative collector, and more of a thinker...
Thinking one of the most known collecting sites was an conspiracy about collecting...?
- Also I bulbapedia'd it, and both sets were released in english?
Reason its not the case is the fact how much certain cards stay up there on ebay untouched.If people were collecting certain Pokemon or for its art, I understand, but that dont appear to be the case either.
Thinking one of the most known collecting sites was an conspiracy about collecting...?
No the thing is, I started in this in 1999 and went with it until 2005 in or about, tried getting back into it again in 2007 and it just wasnt there until 2 months ago when I came back.
I simply dont like what I see in the collectors world and I was more a collector in those time periods than a player and it was more tamed back then. Most collectors I see now is simply nothing more than players collecting left over cards that are only tournament legal. What collector do exist or more so the demand for some cards just leaves me baffled.
anyone ever remember a time when JPN Birthday Pikachu was valued at $500 and on Ebay it was $100+ card to obtain, this was probably 2 years after its release, Grand Party JPN Promo often would sell for less, its a trainer card.
FFWD to now, JPN Birthday Pikachu (1st holo pikachu produced and is hard to find sometimes) is now like a $40 card while Grand Party is now $100 card.
Stuff like this does not make sense. If people were collecting certain Pokemon or for its art, I understand, but that dont appear to be the case either.
But the Vending series wasnt and that was very unique set with some good artwork, its got one of the best Articuno arts ive ever seen on any card as well, it was never released in the U.S.
Yet, no demand for it.
Reason its not the case is the fact how much certain cards stay up there on ebay untouched.
Umbreon pricing is high, but one poster earlier is right, its cards up there never moved for months.
Most known? since when?
I have already exposed one of them for shill bidding and the fact someone has rare cards you dont send in to PSA for grading has that smell of cabbage coming from the pot.
I honestly don't know where you are looking then for collectors? I can name off hand atleast 10 active pokegymers who collect RHs, japanese, cards that have been rotated out, as well as many other members I know on different sites...
One collects Marills, another, anything to do with Juniper (Munna, Minccino)
Hrm, my thoughts here are either...
1. When you first saw the pikachu, it was new and highly wanted by everyone, but as time went on, people realized it was just "O.K" and not worth spending and arm and a leg for it, because there were other cards...
2. When people get something they need, and they are satisfied, they won't get a second or third. A card is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay, in this case, after the first few people got theirs, no more need...
3. Since there are many pikachu themed items, pikachu collectors, might have stopped collecting flats for different reasons....(-cough- 5 grails) or because there are too many cards to collect.
People have different opinions. Vending cards are nice, but they don't have the same feel, that the VS cards do to myself.
VS Cards feature gym leaders, and I may be an odd collector, but I like things like the gym leaders over the main character. The thought of owning a card, that Ash may have had to beat in order to get a badge is awesome. (Lt Surge's Raichu, Whitney's Miltank, etc)
Vending series, I have to admit has some good artwork, but nothing spectacular to myself, as well, sheets are hard to come by.
If you say collectors don't know what's going on in the TCG world, try speaking to smpratte, dogma, viper.fox, etc.
Their knowledge is beyond exceptional.
Politoed666: A card is worth what people are willing to pay for it.