/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>55211412
I'm more of an MTG guy, and don't know how formats, promos etc work with Pokemon. I actually had a pleasant conversation with a coworker the other day and gave her (she's in her 40s) my longbox of old pokemon cards, after pulling out anything $10+ (pic related). She got a couple Articunos and was pretty happy and said she'd give me something for everything even though I was just happy to part with the junk.
The Charizard has physical damage to it. Mint would be $450 or so, but there is a physical tear in the right edge and an impression on top the edge. I would still expect to get $60-80 for it just because it's old and rare.

>>55211459
Until like 5-6 years ago, you could do just that with MTG cards with a kitchen scale - heavier packs had foils so you'd crack them, sell the foils as singles, and then vend the loose packs at your store or online. Or if you did mass box openings, you could eventually hit patterns in the boxes (say 20 different box layouts). Once you know what box you cracked, you could immediately dive into the mythics/foil packs and sell everything else. It got pretty bad because you could buy a case of 6 boxes, open 1-2 boxes, then sell the other 4 boxes that had junk in them. This is also a problem with some other tcgs. I don't think it was Weiss-Schwarz, something else.