As we are all collectors, what is your holy grail / chase card? For me my holy grail is the original Tropical Wind Japanese card. I cannot even find a last sold for this, but there is one PSA authenticated for sale for 25k euro's My current chase is the XY-P Pokekyun promo which is around 300-500 euro's currently

Are you considering buying it? Do you think prices will rise or fall? Its official price is €400 and they are already offers in the web even more expensive. I'm waiting the release to buy it for Christmas gift, although I haven't seen it in my usual stores.

Last year we had the craze around the Charizard UPC. Pre-orders were going for €150, €200, €250 or even more. Then it came out, and Pokemon showed it had taken a different approach than with the Celebrations UPC. They printed, and printed, and printed.... and printed. Quickly the price dropped to €100 on cardmarket, which in my understanding is way below MSRP. Today (almost a year after release) it's still available for €100 😂 Now back to the Mew Pokemon 151 UPC. I see a similar scenario playing out. It's already being sold below MSRP (for €120) on Cardmarket and it JUST released. I mean the demand for 151 is insane, the product is amazing, but still... below MSRP within a couple days after release. I wouldn't be surprised if it dropped below €100 very soon. What can we learn from this? The Pokémon Company International has stepped up their game in adding more supply to deal with the insane demand. This is a good thing, now we can all get product more easily and enjoy the amazing cards they are releasing currently. This is also the role modern products play in the eco system of Pokemon. They are supposed to be readily available, get people engaged and into the hobby. The lesson Investing wise, is for me that it's not as simple as buying a UPC on pre-order and waiting for the value to go to the moon. The balance of supply and demand in English modern Pokemon has shifted from insane demand and low supply, to insane demand and insane amounts of supply 😅 All in all I do like developments like this. This is when the real collectors/investors that love Pokemon get to thinking and shift their approach/strategies and when the easy scalpers drop off cause theres no more easy money to be made.

Hello everyone, my name is Alexander and I'm living in Belgium. My main motivation to join this community is to learn more about the investing in Pokemon card investments and share personal experiences so far. When I was a kid, I really loved collecting Pokemon cards and since the pandemic I came back into it. Not only for the cards, but also the data analytics and selling/buying side of the hobby really intrigues me. For my favorite cards I would say my metal Charizard, celebrations Charizard and reverse holo dark Blastoise from Legendary collection. My biggest fail so far was when I was a 10 year old trading my shiny Gyarados from Neo Revelations for an Entei Promo card of the 3rd movie 🥲

I would like to grade a bunch of cards at PSA for the first time. Looking for some experiences from others in this community - Directly at PSA or via middleman (which middleman/country) - Average cost per card (depending on value ofcourse) - Waiting time - etc Looking forward to your responses 😃