eBay Publishes Pokemon TCG Stats for 2023!

[Water Pokémon Master]

To capitalize on Pokemon Day, eBay held a “Catch 151” campaign on Tuesday where they partnered with certain sellers to start Pokemon card auctions at $1.51. (Don’t feel bad if you missed out, most of the auctions sold above market price.)

To promote the campaign, eBay released several stats regarding Pokemon TCG sales on their platform. Their stats give us some insight into how well the Pokemon TCG is performing.

In 2023, eBay users searched for Pokemon items more than 400 times a minute globally, on average.
In 2023, the most-searched Pokémon character on eBay globally was Charizard, followed by Pikachu and Mew.
The top three most expensive Pokémon items sold on eBay in 2023 were:

PSA 10 GEM MINT Charizard Base Set 1st Edition Shadowless Pokémon Card 4/102 ZM1 (November 2023, $217,500)
1999 Pokémon CGC 8 NM-MT Charizard Disco Holo Test Print Shadowless Base Set 4 (August 2023, $125,000)
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[Yaginku]

The whole of Europe uses Cardmarket so I can't judge, but every story about some high-level scam seems to take place on eBay. Isn't there some North American equivalent?

 

[Dan88PA]

The whole of Europe uses Cardmarket so I can't judge, but every story about some high-level scam seems to take place on eBay. Isn't there some North American equivalent?

Tcg player, but that’s just as bad. Also eBay owns tcg player incidentally

 

[Grim Thoughts]

Searches for ‘Pokémon 151’ increased nearly 11,000% in January 2024 compared to January 2023.

This made me chuckle

 

[Nintenfreak]

Disco Holo test print? Qu'est-ce que crap?


Weird I've never heard of that, but the Disco Holo was used in the Donkey Kong TCG in 1999, I'll get an image

 

[freedomfightre]

Also eBay owns tcg player incidentally

TIL

 

[piyuv]

Tcg player, but that’s just as bad. Also eBay owns tcg player incidentally

Cardmarket is very _very_ good. I'm sad for non-Europeans (for once).

 

[Porygonbail]

Can confirm that cardmarket is indeed very good and relyable

 

[ShinyNoivern]

Tcg player, but that’s just as bad. Also eBay owns tcg player incidentally

Wait for real?

 

[ColinFerguson]

Wait for real?

Yes, purchased a few years ago. Actually that says a lot about how well TCG player was doing that a company such as eBay took notice.

 

[RioCamuy]

The whole of Europe uses Cardmarket so I can't judge, but every story about some high-level scam seems to take place on eBay. Isn't there some North American equivalent?

As an American living in Europe I dream for a Pokemon cardmarket to come to North America and South America. How we do not have anything remotely as good bothers me when we have so many collectors. Though It would be challenge many other markets like the Tiktok Shop market and other type of easy access ways to get stuff from lets say Japan.