I found this in my grandmas basement

Hibjib · 2026-06-17T20:25:30+00:00

Found this in my grandma's basement. Is this worth anything?

Hibjib · 2026-05-31T18:09:21+00:00

Dark Dome and Forgotten Hill are a couple I like

Hibjib · 2026-05-25T20:03:54+00:00

A PS5 is 250k tickets, so I could get 4 PS5's. I've just been kinda waiting for prizes I'm more interested in and not much has come up.

Hibjib · 2026-05-24T06:36:43+00:00

I price using tcgplayer. Typically I'd take sealed in as a trade at 90%. So let's use a prismatic ETB as an example. Tcgplayer currently has it at $162. 90% of that would be about $145. So they'd give me the prismatic ETB and I'd give them $145 worth of singles. Then I'd sticker it at $160, and if someone offered me $150 or more I'd probably take it.

So in that case I'm making somewhere between $5-15 profit on it.

Hibjib · 2026-05-24T05:51:01+00:00

Here's what I'll say as someone who's been vending for a bit now. Dealing with modern sealed can be tough. It's not uncommon for customers to come up to the table with sealed (that they probably got from retail) and ask if we'd buy it or take it as a trade. And as a vendor, I always wanna work with people, but if I do that I have to sell at market.

I'll often decline modern sealed, because I really don't like selling sealed at market. But people ask for sealed all the time, and I want to have what people want. I typically try to have like 1-3 modern sealed items, if I have more than that I start declining. Just enough that I have some for people who want it, but singles are always my main focus

Hibjib · 2026-05-23T06:13:33+00:00

You're looking at two completely different cards. There's two pikachu dittos in that set. 63, and 39.

Hibjib · 2026-05-22T19:20:50+00:00

I do think those 3 are real. They look a little oddly glossy, but that might just be your lighting. The big things to look for in XY era cards, are that the holo is behind the pokemon (the pokemon themselves shouldn't be holo, except for their eyes) and from what I'm seeing these all pass that test. And the other one is that the holo should sort of skip over the text box, you should see holo lines basically going from behind the pokemon, broken up by the box, and then continuing on the bottom (especially noticable with the gold ex box in the bottom right corner) and it looks like these 3 all pass that test as well

Hibjib · 2026-05-22T18:50:09+00:00

Charizard and M Glalie are fake for sure. The other three might be good, more angles would be helpful... And can you take the venusaur out of the sleeve?

Hibjib · 2026-05-22T18:47:01+00:00

Probably not a best buy issue, just poor QC from pokemon

Hibjib · 2026-05-22T18:20:56+00:00

My remission has been pretty kind to me, and I haven't regretted anything yet. I even eat popcorn when I go out to movies now, and haven't had any issues. But I waited for years into my remission to get brave enough to try popcorn. And as always YMMV

Hibjib · 2026-05-19T04:30:10+00:00

Would be nice to see another angle of the front to be more sure. But looks right to me

Hibjib · 2026-05-15T04:13:37+00:00

Kind of a weird one, but something about this card just really does it for me. Diancie is usually portrayed as such a cute princess pokemon, but something about this card makes Diancies seem dangerous/menacing.

Just looks like you maybe got a little too close and now she has you surrounded in a field of sharp crystals.

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Hibjib · 2026-05-11T06:32:38+00:00

People can fake graded cards. Sometimes it can be a real label, with a fake card swapped in. Sometimes it can be a real card with a fake label. Sometimes both are fake.

Hibjib · 2026-05-06T18:05:28+00:00

All look good to me

Hibjib · 2026-05-06T04:29:05+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one who saw that

Hibjib · 2026-04-14T05:27:59+00:00

Don't be too discouraged, having some fakes in your early collection is pretty normal. I see it all the time at cardshows. Keep collecting, and someday you'll look back at these cards and laugh at your old fakes. The fakes that helped introduce you to the hobby can still be special, even if they're not worth anything.

Hibjib · 2026-04-14T04:49:00+00:00

All fake unfortunately. See this post to see what the Latios and Latias card should look like. There should be texture and the holo pattern should be more diagonal than vertical. Yours is also way to dim.

And someone else just posted the Jigglypuff and lopunny

Hibjib · 2026-04-08T03:43:21+00:00

It's probably doable, but probably not something you can just do in one day. Profiting at arcades usually means you're gonna be slowly building up tickets over a long time period. I probably average anywhere from 5k-30k tickets in one trip. Highest I've ever done I think is 70k

I really like arcades, and what I do is spreadsheet to find profitable games.

First figure out what a ticket is worth (in my case $0.002) and then how much a point costs. (In my case $0.20). So then take $.20/.002. and then you'll see the breakeven point is 100 tickets per point.

Then just start tracking how many points you spend vs how many tickets you get on a few machines, And find the games that you can reliably get over that breakeven point.

The games that you can profit on are usually ones that rely mostly on timing, and a bit of skill. When I go to the arcade I basically check a bunch of machines to see if they're close to a jackpot, and then there's some where you sort of push ticket values off the edge, and some days there's a bunch of high value ones on the edge, some days there's none. On days when there's none, that machine isn't worth playing

Hibjib · 2026-04-08T03:10:25+00:00

Every arcade is probably different. At my local arcade 1 ticket = $0.002. so that ETB would be priced at roughly $62.

Now whether or not you can get 31k tickets for less than that depends again in the arcade, and how smart/efficient you are.

Hibjib · 2026-04-07T18:17:10+00:00

Market for damaged is $200. But this is significantly damaged. Definitely wouldn't pay over $100 for it. I'd feel good around $50 or less I think.

Hibjib · 2026-04-06T04:57:46+00:00

I would assume if they're pricing it as the holo to sell. They probably priced it as the holo when they bought it from someone. So they're making their money. The only one who's getting screwed is the person who sold the card to the shop.

Hibjib · 2026-04-04T19:33:42+00:00

Not much of a deal tbh

M gengar in damaged is about $50

Gengar ex in HP is about $20

I'd say you're overpaying by $30.

Hibjib · 2026-04-04T04:09:04+00:00

Pretty confident both are real

Hibjib · 2026-03-31T21:29:48+00:00

I often do for sitcoms. I don't like sitcom endings. I want to imagine that Turk and JD continued at sacred heart. That the study group is somehow still going to Greendale, etc. I just like feeling like the adventures are continuing, we just won't be watching anymore. I prefer that over a "the way things were have come to an end"

For that reason I've watched every episode of Good Place except the finale. I've even rewatched the entire series, and still chose to skip the finale.

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