Every card sits in Courtyard's own insured vault and cash-outs usually reach Venmo in minutes. Here's how to choose between the buyback and its fee-free marketplace.
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By the time you finished reading this sentence, someone on Collector Crypt would have ripped another pack.
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All 19 Mega chases from earlier regular sets with enough launch-week sales fell by day 90, 12 of them by at least 40%.
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Spend a little more per rip and you get access to different odds, from Conservative to Full Tilt. Read on to learn how it works.
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Delta Reign brings the same chase to American shores on Friday, but keep in mind that its Japanese twin spent the fall sliding.
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Its 90% buyback is one of the best rates among rip sites. Here's how to check the estimate behind your offer against real sales.
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One of only 141 PSA 10s of the four-armed 2010 card sold for $4,980 on Oct. 29.
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The Game Boy Advance e-Reader era of Pokemon is thriving for high-end collectors
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Pokémon's stamped holiday reprints sell for about $2 to $4 raw.
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Pokémon set the pace, but most of the volume came from smaller sales.
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Paul's PSA 10, the only one PSA has graded, sold at Goldin in February after a detour through a fractional platform that left some token holders unable to withdraw their money.
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He says the flagged PSA 9 came from his own submission, which lost more than 100 cards in the FedEx truck theft.
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The sealed 2004 box went for nearly five times its last eBay sale.
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A PSA 10 sold there for $104,920 in April.
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Plastic Pokémon toys come back for the first time since 2018, with two random reprint cards in every Happy Meal.
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Grail Break sells digital packs that pay out graded slabs from a vault, then offers to buy most of them right back. I went through its odds, its buyback rates and two weeks of pulls to see how the game works.
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Thieves took 6,451 items from a FedEx truck carrying PSA customer orders on Oct. 13. Our search covers every cert on PSA's list and prices 1,922 of its 3,916 different cards by grade.
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A 1st Edition Jungle Snorlax just sold for $180,000. Here's what to pull from an old card box before the holidays and how to find what a card sold for.
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The PSA 5 closing on eBay tonight sold for $18,950 two weeks ago and already has bids past $20,000.
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That bid sits between the two copies that sold on Thursday.
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Vintage Pokémon collectors spent the past year paying up for higher grades on Jungle, Fossil and Team Rocket holos while the shadowless Base Set holos lagged behind.
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The card is the 2002 Legendary Collection reverse holo, and the first copy sold on Oct. 18.
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One collector turned it into a $42,000 buyback offer.
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Thieves cut through the wall of the H&R Block office next door to a Phoenix card shop on Oct. 12 and left with about $70,000 in cards. Here's how to protect your collection at home, at the shop and on the way to PSA.
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Someone broke into the truck in Santa Ana as it carried freshly graded cards back to collectors. One of them says his 104-card order alone was worth more than $100,000.
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Graded copies of the Pokémon card now sell on eBay several times a day while raw copies go for about $40.
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A PSA 9 of the 2000 holo sold for $4,800 on Oct. 17 after selling for around $2,050 in January and February.
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For Pokémon's 30th birthday, these are the top 10 Pokémon cards to buy in October.
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Members of Japan's Daisuki Club earned the 2010 promo by collecting 7,200 points.
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It opened at $250,000 at Goldin on Oct. 5 and has drawn 31 bids.
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PSA has graded only 20 copies of the English 2001 promo a 10.
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Goldin has one of 98 PSA 10s live in its Pokemon 30th Anniversary Auction.
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The Mega Evolution set comes out November 6, with prerelease events from October 24.
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The 2004 Team Rocket Returns card went in a Fanatics Collect weekly Sunday auction.
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Goldin says it was a first-place prize at Pokemon's first official TCG tournament.
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A CGC 9 Illustrator Pikachu outsold Ohtani's rookie autograph and the Black Lotus.
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PSA points buyers at two decades of reprints while the crowd watches the new Pikachu ex chase.
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The card sold for more than $140,000 USD in a Landry Pop auction, CGC said.
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A simultaneous Japan and English launch skips the usual head start before a correction.
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The 2011 holo Lugia sold at Goldin for $367,220 USD on 49 bids, Auction Report reports.
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Ten established cards with real history and broad demand. Buying all ten raw costs about $381 at October prices.
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PSA handled 70 percent of the cards graded in September. Its 10s still sell for more than double the same card in another company's 10.
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Chaos Rising displays now sell near $200 USD against $161.64 USD retail, a thinning flip margin.
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The ex star series opens with Mega Lucario Z ex; 2027 Worlds moves to Singapore in mid-August.
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The PSA 8 first edition now asks half of what it did on August 28, an offer window, not a crash.
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Card shows, new products and even Fanatics Fest's tour for new collectors teach kids the price of a card before the player on it. I'd bring back cheap base-set packs and give kids their own space at shows.
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Worlds and PokemonXP run in San Francisco, with a pop-up and PSA drop-offs on site.
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Pokémon is printing more cards than ever and PSA is grading more than ever. Since August, PSA 10s of newer chase cards kept sliding while the 1999 Charizard held its price through a reprint.
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