Collecting "How Much is This Card Worth?" / "Is This a Good Trade?"

Also a good source for determining PTCGO card values is the In-Game Item Exchange board on the official PTCGO forums. There are numerous "trading companies" who operate in card-for-packs and packs-for-cards. They list the values of most of the various obtainable packs, Ultra Rares, and many Holos, and from my experience serious traders in-game tend to use the trading company threads as general guidelines for card values.

Shaymin-EX reg is listed for around 16 packs on average across the various threads. So if you wanted to go this "company" route, you'd have to send them an offer (in-game or on the forum, depending) for Shaymin with 16 applicable in-game packs. Alternatively, you could "sell" them some cards and use their value to pay for Shaymin.
 
I was looking through my old pokemon cards looking for some misprints to make some cash and found this card that has a couple of spelling mistakes/misprints. Dont know if its fake or not. its a Kakuna lv 8.
one of the attakcs is called Dangerous Evolution. ( i will type out the attack exactly as it is on the card. the errors are the cards not mine)
The Defeding Pokemon is now poioned. Flip a coin. if heads, seach your deck for an evolution card that Evolves from Kakuna and put it onto Kakuuna.(this counts as evolving Kakuna.) Shuffle your deck afterward.
i cant post a pic atm but i will. it looks real.
 
Sounds like it's probably a fake (way too many typos for a legitimate error) but we'd need a scan to tell for sure.
 
i looked up the card and it all looks the exact same. also i have another card thats a chansey. its unseen forces and has a shiny star at the bottom. and the background is shiny

Also. How would i scan it ?.
 
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The EX Unseen Forces Chansey is probably a Reverse Holo, but once again, a scan or photo would be the best way to identify it.

In order to scan a card you would need a scanner and some form of digital editing software in order to save the image. If you don't have access to that, you could try taking a photo as well and uploading it, though you'd have to be careful to make a clean, clear picture so that people can see it properly.

I believe this is what a regular/real version of your Kakuna card should look like, and this is what a RH Unseen Forces Chansey looks like.
 
I can't find a price on this, but I am searching for one, does anyone know the value of a Pokebody missprint of Empoleon lvl X? SHOULD I ever see one, I want to know how much to fairly trade for it in cards.
 
Empoleon_master said:
I can't find a price on this, but I am searching for one, does anyone know the value of a Pokebody missprint of Empoleon lvl X? SHOULD I ever see one, I want to know how much to fairly trade for it in cards.
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To be honest the misprint doesn't add any value onto it. I find it hard to actually find the corrected version, as it was later one in release, when people had already bought the new set and just traded/bought what they needed. I can find one on eBay right now for £8.99, and looking at sold listings it's £5-9, so in dollars if you're working with that $10-15.

Good luck with your search :)
 
Electricbluewolf said:
To be honest the misprint doesn't add any value onto it. I find it hard to actually find the corrected version, as it was later one in release, when people had already bought the new set and just traded/bought what they needed. I can find one on eBay right now for £8.99, and looking at sold listings it's £5-9, so in dollars if you're working with that $10-15.

Good luck with your search :)
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Wait, so there was a time where they actually RELEASED the corrected printing? Wow, I had no clue it was that easy to find. And did they EVER release the corrected SR charizard in PLS?
 
Empoleon_master said:
Wait, so there was a time where they actually RELEASED the corrected printing? Wow, I had no clue it was that easy to find. And did they EVER release the corrected SR charizard in PLS?
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Yep, but most people had already bought the stuff/packs they were after, so I would say the corrected version is rarer/harder to find. I believe they did not, only the Japanese card was correct (though the misprint SR Zoroark did get a re-print, again like the Empoleon, the set had been out for a long time and most people had bought packs/cards)
 
Electricbluewolf said:
Yep, but most people had already bought the stuff/packs they were after, so I would say the corrected version is rarer/harder to find. I believe they did not, only the Japanese card was correct (though the misprint SR Zoroark did get a re-print, again like the Empoleon, the set had been out for a long time and most people had bought packs/cards)
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What missprint SR zoroark? The one from DEX? when was that a missprint?!?!?
 
Empoleon_master said:
What missprint SR zoroark? The one from DEX? when was that a missprint?!?!?
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The one from Next Destinies:

"The graphic border near the HP is the graphic used for Stage 2 Pokémon, though Zoroark is a Stage 1. The error was eventually corrected in later print runs" (Bulbapedia)

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I would like to trade my friend for his spare Shaymin EX (77/108), but we have no idea what a fair trade would be. Any ideas below would be appreciated!
 
I've been wondering what a German 1st edition base set Charizard (Glurak) is worth?
 
Celty said:
I've been wondering what a German 1st edition base set Charizard (Glurak) is worth?
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On eBay, a PSA-9 sold for $125 USD recently, and another PSA-9 sold in auction for $82. Non-graded cards have sold recently between $40-90.

Should give you a ballpark estimate. :p
 
This is simply for a friend of mine, but I was wondering what a fair price would be for unopened blisters of League promo BLW Energies. He also has some unopened blisters containing holo Energies and League Challenge promos.


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However, I've heard from some folks that someone can get in trouble for selling these items, especially if they can be traced back to a League Organizer. Is that at all true?
 
The Binder Guy said:
This is simply for a friend of mine, but I was wondering what a fair price would be for unopened blisters of League promo BLW Energies. He also has some unopened blisters containing holo Energies and League Challenge promos.


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However, I've heard from some folks that someone can get in trouble for selling these items, especially if they can be traced back to a League Organizer. Is that at all true?
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Things like this get sold ALOT. As for tracing it back, i think TPCI has bigger fish to fry. As For Pricing, less commonly used energy types have sold in the 10-15$ range, and More used energy sells for around 15-20$. Thats what i paid for my packs in 2014 though.
 
GreenPariah said:
Things like this get sold ALOT. As for tracing it back, i think TPCI has bigger fish to fry. As For Pricing, less commonly used energy types have sold in the 10-15$ range, and More used energy sells for around 15-20$. Thats what i paid for my packs in 2014 though.
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Thanks for the info. My friend gave the cards to me since I made that post, so I suppose the decision of what to do with 'em is up to me. That also means the info that a Frank and Son's vender gave us was a bunch of hot air.

One thing I noticed while I was doing research for him was that the price would be higher if I were sell 'em individually or in smaller sets ($1.20 per Grass Energy or $12.50 for 12 Grass Energies) as opposed to selling the entire pack ($20-$25).

Oh, and I forgot to include the League Challenge promos and other energies in my last post. Would 15 bucks a LC set (each pack contains three sets of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place cards) be unreasonable?

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The only ones I feel uncomfortable about selling are the Marowaks and that's because they're recent.
 
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