Getting Out of the Game, Card Selling Questions

RE: Getting out of the game, questions about how to go about it.

Athena said:
StormbringerGT said:
And.... how do I tell the difference between shadowless and regular versions of the trainer cards? I assume all mine are Unlimited, but I had a few shadowless rares it looks like.
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Right here is a wonderful guide to tell you which edition your Base Set cards are. :)

Also, according to this thread, your Electrode card is, indeed, a known error.

Jungle First Edition 2/64 Electrode A number of cards from the First Edition printing of Jungle had the Base Set Electrode artwork instead of the Jungle artwork Limited Error
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I'm not sure how much this changes the value, but it might be worth selling separately to a error collector.
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Thanks! That's the guide I used to identify them. But as far as I can tell the trainer cards don't have shadows like the Pokemon cards do. So I just went off the font for the HP at the top of card to tell the difference. :D
 
RE: Getting out of the game, questions about how to go about it.

Sorry that I can't help you, but I wanted to comment on one of your posts:

StormBringerGT said:
I miss being a kid though. Opening a pack and looking through each card admiring the art and marveling at your favorite pokemon. Nowadays you flip right to your rares and the rest get tossed to the side without even a look. I guess that is just change that comes with age you know?
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My brother and I used to buy a pack every other week; which breaks down to a pack coming into the house a week. Let's just say that those Saturdays were always looked forward to. It was like an event each time. We'd sit there, looking at every card countless times before trading, "playing", and finally putting them into our collection binders.

Those were some great times. Feels like forever ago. Which is funny, considering I'm not even an adult.

But anyways, I still purchase two packs of each set (unless the pack art sucks, in which case I just grab the art I like the most) and I find I actually appreciate the art (and therefore each card) a lot more now. I'm not buying them to play, and really I'm not even buying them to "collect", it's just to keep a sort of tradition alive. Less than ten dollars every few months, and not even the price of a game in a year. I just feel that the day I throw cards out entirely is the day I let the part of my childhood die. I... don't really want to do that. It seems I would regret it later on in my adult life.
 
RE: Getting out of the game, questions about how to go about it.

SotS said:
I just feel that the day I throw cards out entirely is the day I let the part of my childhood die. I... don't really want to do that. It seems I would regret it later on in my adult life.
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You will regret it. I say that in confidence because I can tell how much it still means to you, how you keep that childhood tradition alive and how you sense that you'd regret it if you were to toss them out. I'm 27 and I still have my Base-Neo sets (I quit collecting/playing after Neo, but got back into collecting during the tail end of HGSS). I've recently gotten into playing again competitively, but I only collect new cards to sell as complete sets. I don't think I could ever sell my childhood sets though, maybe only if I fell on really hard times and desperately needed cash, but even then, it would be very depressing to see them go.

Even though nowadays I try to get my packs online because they're cheaper than retail stores, I do still buy the occasional pack from the big box stores because it takes me back to when my dad and I would go to Target about once a week to get a couple packs. Once we bought them, we'd go back to the car. I let him open the packs and he'd show me each card, one at a time, starting with the commons to build up the excitement to the rare. I would go nuts if it was a holo, and be utterly disappointed if it was a rare Trainer.

So, yep, I guess that's my story.
 
RE: Getting out of the game, questions about how to go about it.

Wow its great hearing stories like these!

And yes the day you get rid of your cards will be a huge heart breaker to you. Trust me on this, as I'm doing just this.

That being said, tucked away in my closed, I am keeping one of every card from each set from base on to next destinies. Each of those sets are complete and neatly arranged in binders for me to gaze at. the 16,600 cards or so I am parting with are the remainder. ;)

Still as I got older I realized that the magic of opening them fled. Especially as I started to play competitively. Heck I played against people who were not even Pokemon fans. They were Collectible Card Game fans and were just there for the numbers printed on the cards and the competitions...

I did not want that to become my way of thinking. Which is why I am getting out now. It was a wonderful part of my life and I will always chersih the memories I made and the fellow pokemon trainers I met.

Its not the end though. I still enjoy the video game tremendously and luckily I have a group of adult friends who also enjoy the video game as well. When we were younger we were pulled in by smogon and the dark lure of power. Those years are behind us as we got older and more laid back. Heck last battle I had I won against my friend with my MVPs being a Persian and a Noctowl... It was some of the most fun I had playing Pokemon. There were no entry hazards. No EVs no IVs. No Spinners or walls or anything like that. Just us playing with our favorite 6 Pokemon. We were kids again playing red and blue. It was a blast

Heck we are each working on a starting a GYM for each other to face. I picked a ghost gym and i got to say I am extremely excited to pick my team of 6 ghost Pokemon based on how much I like them and not what their stats and move pools are. I'm already starting to narrow it down and there is not a spread sheet to to found!

Anyway I digress. I am not at all talking down competitive playing of the card or the video game. Not at all. I am in competitive archery still today and play a number of other game competitively. Pokemon means something else to me. It speaks of a casual competitiveness. Of an enjoyment of the journey.

Bah thread started with me asking the value of my cards and it leads here. These cards are worth more than money to me. Not the extras though. ;)
 
RE: Getting out of the game, questions about how to go about it.

Well, you can piece it out which would most likely yield the greatest returns. But as you've said previously, it is a lot of work. An alternative option is to list is in one large lot at a fair price (commons and uncommons alone sell for $0.05-0.10 apiece). Try not to focus on selling it quickly because that can cost you a lot in potential earnings. These collections do sell as people like myself enjoy piecing through them to complete their own sets (and perhaps finding a few gems here and there). You have to wait for the right buyer, though, and truly "sell" the vastness of your collection.
 
The-Kaiser said:
1-5K i guess

though im interested in your non card tcg stuff still
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I haven't forgotten yet, I'll PM you the pics of the stuff I got, not worries. Just been busy with work the past few days.

You only curious in the old stuff or some of the newer stuff like my plushes?
 
Depending on how close to Indianapolis you live, you could drive to Nationals (like you said, money [for hotel and gas] is not a huge issue for you) then you could sell all of your cards to the vendors there in bulk. Also, I'm sure a few PokeBeach members (myself possible included) will lend you a deck to play in the tons of side events there, because the main event require play points.

I don't know sorry if this is too fantastical it's just an idea. But, you could save a lot of time by getting them all gone at once and then having some fun at the side events.
 
That sounds like a great idea! One last hurrah! I'm not too far from Indianapolis, just a couple hours, since I'm from Chicago.

However I got offered $1642 for the cards (don't worry not here, on a different site), do you guys think that is a good deal, I'm thinking I'm going to bite to move the whole lot. Like everyone has said I'm sure I could make more by selling random lots online but there are a few things that make that unappealing:

1. It would probably take a a few years

2. Immediate time as well. I am already gainfully employed. So all the time it would take to sell these out in mini lots would really crunch my free time.

3. No idea how to do "random" lots. Some of those seem like a huge ripoff (to the buyer), but that may be because I have no idea how to sell them.
 
For those of you who wanted a peek, here are the pictures I took for the potential buyer!

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Spoiler added for large images. ~Athena

Also here is a link with all the pictures so I don't flood this with like 9 photos lol.

Pokemon Collection
 
And its gone. Sold everything but the plushes and the figures and the toys.

What did I get? $2200. Could I have gotten more if I sold it as minis, heck yeah most likely. He offered $200 for my tropical beach that was not included in the lot so I guess $2400 total.

The money is nice, but let me tell you what, that was sad as heck boxing it all up. So many memories running through my head...
 
Thanks for all the advice and input selling my massive collection!

Got a few more questions about selling off what remains.

I got about 1100 energy cards I found after the fact. Its all Grass, Fire, Water, Lightning, with a very little bit of dark energy. No Fighting, No Psychic. How much do you think that would be worth? Probably gonna sell it with a Pokemon Play Deck box i have as well.

Okay I also have all those plush. Not sure the worth on those.
These are the rarer, Pokemon Center plush that came from the Official Pokemon Center Store:
Zorua, Zoroark, Emolga, Minccino, Notch-Eared Pichu, Celebi, Ho-Oh, Kyorge
These are the other plush:
Scraggy, Pignite, Drillbur, Sandile, Pidove, Snivy, Zorua, Pachirisu, Oshawott, Dewott, Tepig

I have 30 something tins to sell through as well.

Oh and the little toys that came out in the 90's. I have a shoe box worth of those. Then some of those toys that had little circle stands that came in those boxes and what not.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Here are some more pics of the collection. Other pics are found above in an earlier post.

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Okay I also have all those plush. Not sure the worth on those.
These are the rarer, Pokemon Center plush that came from the Official Pokemon Center Store:
Zorua, Zoroark, Emolga, Minccino, Notch-Eared Pichu, Celebi, Ho-Oh, Kyorge
These are the other plush:
Scraggy, Pignite, Drillbur, Sandile, Pidove, Snivy, Zorua, Pachirisu, Oshawott, Dewott, Tepig
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Are any of those Japanese? By the tags, they look like they're American releases (from Nintendo World or other stores) They're not really "rare" per say (maybe Notch Eared Pichu, I'm not sure/I can't remember), you can find these plush for sale on sites like eBay/pkmncollectors. In general, Pokedolls go for about $20-$30 depending on certain aspects I outline below.

Check sites like eBay or Google "pkmncollectors itemnamehere sales" to get accurate price checks. With plush, the condition matters. Along with tags (tush tag/hang tag & the condition of them/whether or not it has those.) Also region, if it was a Japanese release (which are rarer/more expensive) than American releases. (year matters too! at least to collectors) You can usually tell what region it was released in by the combination of the fabric, pattern, tush tag, and hang tag. Oh and fabric too, there's minky and velboa. Minky is the more sought after out of the two, it's very soft, as opposed to velboa which is kind of rough.

I'd totally be interested in the Celebi, but I'm not that familar with how buying/selling works on Pokebeach... :p

If you have any questions about plush, let me know! (If you couldn't tell... I know a little bit too much about collecting Pokedolls...)
 
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