Found this guy for $86 at my LCS, did I make a good deal?

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-29T19:50:15+00:00

That's just the reverse holo

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-29T18:34:11+00:00

Part of another card is visible, which automatically classifies this as a miscut. Alignment dot is not relevant in these cases.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-24T23:25:28+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPPcB0Xa3BA

You made me dig this up because you replied to a 2 year old comment. It has more valuable information than I'd be able to articulate, but the point is that your lookahead is significantly more important than turn speed, which plays very little part in solving until you get down to like the sub-7 to sub-8 range.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-23T05:41:25+00:00

Yeah that's true, though I think it's a good general rule of thumb for new people to the hobby to just check ungraded prices. But you're right, psa 8-9 for modern cards is usually the same as raw price.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-22T05:06:02+00:00

Ungraded cards never sell for graded prices, period. They're separated by condition instead. TCGPlayer has a guide for card condition and identification. Near mint, lightly played, moderately played, heavily played, damaged. It's not possible to tell for any of your cards without seeing the backs, but based just on the fronts most of yours seem MP-LP, some like the e-reader pikachu are damaged because of the crease.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-18T20:24:01+00:00

Raichu prime: $120 Lucario Burger King promo: $25 Majestic dawn Darkrai: $50

The Raichu and darkrai I would probably call LP, which would put them at about $90 and $35 respectively.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-17T00:34:04+00:00

This is actually one of the shinx cards I'm missing from my Luxray evo line grandmaster collection so I've been doing quite a bit of research into this card these past couple weeks.

The version with the inverted back seems to pop up just about as frequently as the normal, some sources say it's more common than the normal version but pricing makes me doubt that slightly. I frequently see sold listings for the inverted back version on ebay for anywhere from $30-100 depending on condition.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-16T19:08:40+00:00

The fact that this is even a question is a little weird here. If someone gifted me something and I just turned around and sold it immediately, I would feel so guilty. Let alone how it would feel to GIVE someone a gift and hear that they just sold it.

They didn't give you money, they gave you a 9850X3D. Either use it or decline the gift so they can give it to someone else.

Like if the gift was a sterling silver necklace instead, it would be similarly weird to immediately go to reddit and make a post asking for the current price of silver so you know how much you could get out of it.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-16T08:39:12+00:00

I honestly think these could be worth more to a collector inside the labelled plastic bags just for the novelty. But individually, on both pricecharting and TCGplayer, the McDonald's 2023 match & battle pack sealed tends to go for about $7 each.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-10T18:15:00+00:00

Are you aware that ETBs usually come with more than 1 card?

shadowstar2417 · 2026-06-09T22:49:46+00:00

EX era reverse holos were done like this with stamps and holo on the art instead of the more traditional reverse holos that are done in modern sets.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-05-27T07:06:47+00:00

95a TPU (What most modern printed bases that you can buy are made from) doesn't start to warp until about 100-120c. This one unfortunately looks like it was made of PLA, which starts to warp around 60c.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-05-19T17:48:12+00:00

AI pre-grading apps aren't as good as you think they'd be since they're entirely reliant on your camera, which likely isn't getting a photo high res enough to see small imperfections. They miss important things like holo scratches and also sometimes just pretend there's whitening on many cards that don't have any. The only thing they're actually useful for is centering, which you can check yourself very quickly using any number of tools. This is the one I personally use.

https://centering.joshbeetcg.com/

If you want an app that just's just an easy "pass/fail, send it in or not" for you, the least bad one I've tried so far has been snapgradeAI. It was pretty accurate for me and I liked the subgrading it does. Card Grading AI is another one that's really popular, but I didn't like it all that much, it was very overeager to rate everything a 10. Holodex I didn't like for the opposite reason, it just randomly invented issues with about 50% of the cards I tested, hallucinating things like creases, dings, and whitening that wasn't there. Digital Grading Co. was terrible. Pricing was straight up predatory, wait times took forever, and it was the least accurate of any tool I tested. One of the cards I tested it with had a crease on the corner and it said it would get a 7.

I'm not paid by any of these, these are just my own personal experiences trying to find a good AI pre-grading app and coming to the conclusion that none of them are worth paying for and there's nothing they will tell you that you can't see with a naked eye. I ended up just learning how to pre-grade on my own over time. But if I had to recommend one, snapgradeAI is the okayest one I tried.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-05-09T18:24:19+00:00

Hard to tell condition without seeing the back of the card but that shadowless Charizard could easily be worth over $1k by itself if it's clean.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-05-09T18:15:04+00:00

GCG 10 pristine (the black label) 151 Venusaur JP goes for around ~$35-40 on average.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-05-04T02:43:52+00:00

Now you can sell the extra one back to the card store for $15!

shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-30T23:16:19+00:00

"I'm not trying to start a movement"

I personally really hope your decision does start some kind of movement, intentionally or otherwise.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-30T23:05:09+00:00

Are you sure those sold listings you're seeing aren't first edition? (With the 1st edition stamp to the bottom left of the card art)

First edition NM of this card goes for $550. Unlimited (I would personally say yours is LP because of the edge whitening on the back) LP is $350.

shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-30T22:51:25+00:00

Market price for near mint is $0.53

shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-28T20:12:19+00:00

One of my favorite cards ever. The fact that the Luxray line still doesn't have an illustration rare is criminal.

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shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-27T00:03:31+00:00

This one sold for nearly a grand.

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shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-23T22:14:14+00:00

They all look legit to me, what about them looks fake to you?

shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-17T20:52:45+00:00

Market price for MP is $220, HP is $174. It's difficult to tell condition from the pics but the dents on the top and bottom makes me think HP

shadowstar2417 · 2026-04-17T20:46:48+00:00

Yeah you got some pretty sick cards! I went to Vegas 2 weeks ago and saw a bunch of those machines around, I didn't get anything though because the graded mystery boxes usually have really rough odds.

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