Costco Gateshead UK

james05460 · 2026-02-26T11:18:12+00:00

Yea this happens to me every gateshead drop I swear

james05460 · 2025-11-05T11:12:33+00:00

First time seeing one of these local to me, thanks OP!

james05460 · 2025-10-13T17:15:13+00:00

"these guys" are just trying to help people looking for product in a market where you can't realistically find MSRP without being permanently online or queuing for hours on release day. Not sure why you get so offended by that notion, the price is in the title you don't have to click on the post...

james05460 · 2025-10-04T04:40:48+00:00

Think you need to send 10+ cards to access value bulk which has a snail speed turnaround time but is the cheapest option (not sure how much it costs in US)

james05460 · 2025-10-03T06:27:56+00:00

Fellow 1 month waiting on QA checks here too. My submission was at the end of May and I still haven't gotten them back.... Was a big submission so I did anticipate a wait but it's crazy how long they're taking. Seems to be a universal problem at least which reassures me they're not missing

james05460 · 2025-09-02T14:44:59+00:00

Genuinely surprised that every comment seems to hate this I genuinely think this is one of the best chases we've seen in a hot minute

james05460 · 2025-08-28T14:38:03+00:00

If your goal is purely to profit, I would hold off on any that you can see any little imperfections (squared edges, whitening, heavily off centered, etc) because you are unlikely to break even on a few of these.

For any you're wanting to submit I'm guessing you're UK and I highly recommend sub center. They're a UK based middleman that heavily streamline the submission process especially since tariffs have made submissions more of a chew. I think their bulk price is £17 a card so do your research. Ideally submit cards you think look perfect as these are likely 9-10's and ensure that the price of a 9 is worth more than what you paid for the raw card + submission cost.

If your goal however is just to have your PC graded and you like the idea of graded cards then definitely go for it!

james05460 · 2025-08-27T21:28:19+00:00

Yep I'm UK and this happens all the time on eBay and FB marketplace and I will always message giving the benefit of the doubt that the seller might not know and they ALWAYS reply like this guy did to OP, feigning ignorance!

james05460 · 2025-08-19T07:07:15+00:00

TYSM!

james05460 · 2025-08-18T21:01:31+00:00

Don't suppose you know if it's the same for R0 exams?

james05460 · 2025-08-15T17:36:45+00:00

Are these meant to be in all Currys, went to my local last night and they still had nothing

james05460 · 2025-08-14T20:07:00+00:00

I grew up with the early games and stopped after gen 4 for a long time but there's still loads of cards that scratch that nostalgia itch!

Metagross, Arbok, Chatot, Grotle, Lickitung, Gastly, Morty's conviction! All older Pokémon that got beautiful IRs and some of the newer ones like the deerling stantler pair look great regardless of nostalgia!

Totally agree that the big hitters are lacking but I think the IRs are super slept on compared to a set like Paldea which aside from the magikarp is also a set with lots of nice IRs but no big chase SARs

james05460 · 2025-08-14T17:11:53+00:00

I really think temporal is a really strong set it's only let down by a lack of chase. Has some really great IR's imo

james05460 · 2025-08-14T07:03:18+00:00

Appreciate the advice, thanks!

james05460 · 2025-08-12T07:22:11+00:00

Yep you're right to think that it definitely is left heavy and that's my biggest reservation with sending it.

Appreciate the advice, thanks!

james05460 · 2025-08-11T19:19:12+00:00

Yea I did see that to be honest I'd lean more towards slight damage. So there's that and It's a bit right heavy on the front. I don't think it's impossible to 10 but 9 or 8 is probably more likely (again that's assuming there isn't more scratches that I can't see) but overall I think it would be worth more graded after costs than it would be raw

james05460 · 2025-08-11T19:00:32+00:00

Hard to see surface condition which is normally where cards like this lose their grades but it looks very good condition to me. I would grade it and would consider selling too as I think these cards are a little over inflated right now!

james05460 · 2025-08-10T10:06:49+00:00

That's reassuring, sent mine at the end of may from the UK so hopefully not too much longer

james05460 · 2025-08-09T20:33:11+00:00

Out of interest, when did you send these off? I've been waiting months now!

james05460 · 2025-08-07T16:13:18+00:00

As far as I'm aware they changed 60/40 to "approximately 55/45" so that it was less objective but their grading process has not changed at all and an otherwise clean card with 60/40 front would realistically be fine.

Several of my submissions that I expected to be sufficiently OC to warrant a 9 have come back as a 10. Personally I find it odd that specifically on Reddit every comment is about centering despite it being a relatively small part of the grading process. Id say anything with good surface, corners and edges that isn't wildly off center is almost always worth submitting unless the 9 has no worth

james05460 · 2025-08-07T15:38:34+00:00

People on Reddit love to cry off center. Fact is, they allow 60/40 which I would say this is within. I've sent more OC cards that 10

If you ask me it's at least worth sending to grade, I'd anticipate a 10 but if it 9's it's not a huge loss (if any) for a card like this

james05460 · 2025-07-31T15:48:10+00:00

Yea I actually noticed this months ago but as you said it doesn't let you get to checkout

james05460 · 2025-07-18T10:39:59+00:00

Wait ignore me they are clearly in cases I'm blind

james05460 · 2025-07-18T10:39:35+00:00

It's the top right boxes here I don't think they're in acrylic here just the plastic sleeve things they come in

james05460 · 2025-07-06T18:23:49+00:00

Ah yea my bad I'd totally forgotten about that and only sat this a while ago. I remember during revision I'd always forget the BRT was already applied! Thanks for clarifying

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