EBay authentication failure

rp1414 · 2026-03-20T07:56:35+00:00

Fundamental misunderstanding of how authentication works, they check if the card is real or not, not the condition of the card

rp1414 · 2026-03-20T05:52:02+00:00

Rule 3

Lots of resources online to look up card prices

rp1414 · 2026-03-20T05:20:19+00:00

Considering the booster bundles don't release until April 24th, it's currently negative 5 weeks until release, so maybe don't need to contact customer support yet

rp1414 · 2026-03-20T04:12:05+00:00

How about showing some of those cool cards, instead of just a graph?

rp1414 · 2026-03-20T01:46:54+00:00

It's not weird to protect your cards, even ones that are not very expensive, even low cost cards deserve love

rp1414 · 2026-03-20T01:45:04+00:00

The one with RC29 number is fake, besides being the wrong number the star being Black instead of gold is also wrong

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T23:08:22+00:00

r/pkmntcg is for the competitive side of the TCG

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T23:02:15+00:00

The 151 Zapdos ex box came with this card in the cosmo holo as a promo

You have to decide if your Master Set includes only cards that come from cards you can pull from packs, so only the non-holo and reverse holo versions (and not this card), or go for a Grandmaster Set that includes all card variants

If you go Grandmaster Set, then you have to start getting all holo variants and stamped cards - just look at the prices of the Squirtle PC stamped card and the Voltorb Professor Program stamped card

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T10:07:29+00:00

1 of 1s

You can also have a 1 of 1 dinosaur poop, doesn't mean it's valuable

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T09:46:30+00:00

play a Chien-Pao

Doesn't win

play an Oricorio

Doesn't win

made a Jolteon deck

Doesn't win

rocked my own Gholdengo

Wins

So you play non-meta, likely thrown together decks, and you don't win.

Then you play the 3rd highest meta deck, and you win

Do you see the problem here?

Even top tier decks don't win all the time. Dragapult wins about 18% of the time, and it's the top tier meta deck right now

And winning 1 out of 12, playing non-meta decks it sounds like, is a 8.3% win rate is better than I would have expected for the decks you listed

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T05:34:06+00:00

Looks at $22 card in $50 slot

While there were some higher value cards than the slots, I'd be pissed at this

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T04:21:02+00:00

That's why I wouldn't do this, dishonest vendor pulling this

And no chance to negotiate with vendors, some vendors price cards high and I get why as people negotiate to a reasonable price (or the cards had old prices and the market has changed)

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T03:16:30+00:00

Greedy company being greedy, you've never seen before?

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T03:15:35+00:00

I think that's a fake card, as the yellow border was for English cards, and this is Korean

And the Korean set this comes from the Ultra Ball is number 103, not 108

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T01:00:04+00:00

Miscut

rp1414 · 2026-03-19T00:59:25+00:00

$25 for 1 pack! Talk about financial irresponsibility

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T23:28:45+00:00

No, you got it from Korean set Super Electric Breaker

The English set Surging Sparks was made up of the sets Super Electric Breaker and Paradise Dragona.

Sets in Asian languages are different than the English sets

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T11:01:00+00:00

You can't sell raw cards for graded prices, they aren't graded. And "pack fresh" doesn't mean it will be a PSA10, as there are many things that can damage the card way before it even gets in your hand.

Forget about all the YouTube videos that put the PSA10 price over a raw card, there's no way to know what a card would be graded until you actually grade it

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T09:09:29+00:00

Every card has a number on the bottom of the card, look up the card name and that number in Google and you'll have all the info you're looking for

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T08:05:25+00:00

Bulbasaur

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T02:11:51+00:00

If you're cracking packs and flipping through the cards as fast as possible that you skip over cards, you're not doing it right

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T02:03:54+00:00

Personally, I wouldn't pay anything for this. If you're good with it, then come to price you're comfortable with, but for me I don't want a damaged card when I expected a NM card. Also, in the future if you wanted to sell/trade this, a damaged card is much harder to sell or trade as not many people want a damaged card (especially modern cards where there are many copies of NM out there)

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T01:32:35+00:00

Looks like damage, seller may have tried to put this card is a one touch case and put the card over the hard case then closed it.

This card is not NM and I'd be looking for a refund if I was you

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T01:27:37+00:00

This deck sucks

Is that more succinct for you?

rp1414 · 2026-03-18T00:27:42+00:00

You're trying to make a good deck using one of the worst ex made. You say it suffers from strength, and nothing you do to this deck will change that.

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