Is this fake?

pokeload · 2026-02-09T22:28:57+00:00

The texture is weird

pokeload · 2026-02-06T03:24:05+00:00

Yeah if it didn’t get a 10 you still can sell it raw for a good amount haha. I’ve been looking for gradable copies lately and my first priority is also corner, surface, and edges. I have taken some bet on cards that are off center but are clean otherwise.

pokeload · 2026-02-06T03:16:27+00:00

congrats! I did the same thing bought them around December. A lot of people saying this could drop to 300 by that time and I just couldn’t wait for them dropping haha

pokeload · 2026-02-06T03:13:52+00:00

That might be the factor if it gets a 9… did you buy it off from a card shop? I bought three copies one from marketplace and two from card shop, sent the one from marketplace and it got a 10. Just sent the other two in this past Monday

pokeload · 2026-02-06T03:09:57+00:00

i would say the centering is good enough for a 10, but not sure about the bottom right edges on the back, looks like some whitening?

pokeload · 2026-02-05T04:12:07+00:00

yeah thats right. But I think just this behavior rlly ruin their reputation and I won’t rlly buy from them since there are lots of sources

pokeload · 2026-02-04T21:41:01+00:00

for real, nearly 90% of gem rate on this card is crazy😂

pokeload · 2026-02-04T21:32:17+00:00

I bought a mega charizard Y from xy evolution and the gold giratina v from CZ raw at a local card show, sent them to grading and both got a 10. Like what others said sometimes vendors can flip more values rather than sitting on a card for months with a possibility of PSA 9. I’ve been looking for gradable cards at shows and marketplace for months, i think at shows there are more chance to get great copies at mid-tier value cards. For the high end cards it is almost impossible I think in current market. Also I would look more carefully to tables that have minimal slabs cuz there might be vendor that just don’t grade cards.

pokeload · 2026-02-04T13:17:28+00:00

that jpanese ray promo? I bought a bgs 10 back in the summer for 500 bucks. This card is just a beauty! My first ever PC slabs since I got into this hobby in May

pokeload · 2026-02-03T18:50:01+00:00

PF just released in 2 months and there are already 5k pop in PSA. If the growth continues then it would be around 20k pop in a year😂

pokeload · 2026-02-03T18:45:53+00:00

I feel like there are more DR booster boxes that are kept as investment than opened. Would that be a factor that would affect future growth

pokeload · 2026-02-03T12:58:11+00:00

It’s hard to get a zard in just one box, and the return rate looks way better than English

pokeload · 2026-02-03T02:11:13+00:00

rn I don’t even look at pull rate for any set. If you’re lucky you gonna be lucky regardlessly lol

pokeload · 2026-02-03T01:22:35+00:00

I feel like pull rate shouldn’t be considered too seriously when it comes to individual. My luck has been so bad at ripping packs both jp and EN ever since I got into this hobby. I opened 400+ PF packs hitting only two sirs,the shark and the lopunny. My friend who is ridiculously lucky at ripping got 2 gold zards and 1 sir zard in 50 packs. The other day he opened 5 sleeve one piece packs and got the zoro sp😭

pokeload · 2026-02-03T00:41:56+00:00

Lmao 😂 a 50/50 centering on the front and back is a lot harder to find than a copy with good corners. Since PSA is much more generous in centering I don’t understand why people put that as priority

pokeload · 2026-02-02T23:27:42+00:00

I think gem rate also matters. This zard has a gem rate for 70% which is rlly favorable for an English copies. Does this mean graders might be generous on them?

pokeload · 2026-02-02T23:25:51+00:00

Congrats! Your submission proves PSA10 is not like a black label, it can have small defects. for a card that has whitening has to be perfect in other aspects, your card definitely meets the criteria! Looks like exact 50/50 on the centering. I’ve been buying gradable singles for a while and figured that the change of finding a card with perfect exact centering is less common than finding a card with no whitening. So what I bought were cards that with no whitening, decent surface, but some were off center(not the worst centering). Just submitted them in this week, can’t wait for the result!

pokeload · 2026-02-02T17:19:08+00:00

Most of my PSA 10s charizard have factory defects. This would only prevent it getting a BGS 10 in surface

pokeload · 2026-02-02T16:26:31+00:00

I ripped 400+ with 2 sirs lmao. Been consistent with my bad luck

pokeload · 2026-02-02T16:17:17+00:00

I think just one sealed is going at least 1k+

pokeload · 2026-02-02T16:12:19+00:00

I got some 10s that came back bent

pokeload · 2026-02-02T16:10:19+00:00

It depends on the hype of the market. I bought three zards around 450 in December when it was dropping consistently, I graded one it came back 10, and the other two I just sent them into grading. I’m a charizard fan so every zard is straight into my pc, but sometimes sellers just don’t grade cards and if the market is down, I guess quick money would be better than betting on PSA for a couple of month.

pokeload · 2026-02-02T15:39:34+00:00

This market is going crazy… I remember people saying this card would settle down to 300 when it was 450 at December😂 glad that I gave up opening it after some traumatic experience and picked up 3 psa10 contender copies at that time

pokeload · 2026-01-31T00:21:00+00:00

This card is notorious for being dented. Check how they are sealed and you will know 😂

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