We Got Our Pokémon Cards Valued 

Says original Japanese cards aren't worth buying...... Bro what????

anyone else bothered on how he totally failed to wrap it with the rubber band?

I don’t know Pokémon prices, but the way he’s handling the cards makes me want to scream

*Why does this video feels like BuzzFeed and why wasn't the card "expert" wearing gloves?*

So basically you should just keep your cards and not sell them because the sentimental value is worth more than 50 pounds.

No one ever really played with pokemon cards, they just collected and traded them.

Gamestop would offer a better price than this “professional”

He doesn't want to buy the real Japanese version? wut?

They're probably like gamestop. You trade in 25 items that originally cost you over 800 total and all they give you is 50.

The fact that he's not handling them with gloves makes me skeptical about his professionalism.

those people thinking he's a real professional.

I looked after mine. I stored as many as I could pocket and never once touched the surfaces apart from the edges. I still have them all in a folder. NFS though lol. The more damaged ones are through trades.

Does this guy also work for GameStop?

The notion that Japanese cards are "just for nostalgia" just because his shop doesn't happen to buy/ sell them is pretty stupid.

bruh this dude if he bought the 1st edition charizard that he said was only 25 pounds I bet he'll sell It for a higher price like 150 pounds

Is he really professional? He is rubbing the cards against each other, which makes me cringe a little

This dude ruined my retirement plan for the future

Scratching them up as he slides them to his other hand. Good job

I feel this guy was low balling them 🤷‍♂️

That guy would be a great gamestop employee. "You'd actually have to give me £3 to accept these."

But if no one wants "Mew" because it has 10 attack damage wouldn't it be more expensive now because it's harder to find? I don't understand his logic...

I regret giving my collection away.

This 'expert' just lowballs people so he can flip it for double the profit. Dont sell to vendors!!

He ain't touching my cards I'll tell u that much

It is my opinion and he is more informed than me but some of these prices seem off. I am sure my mind is littered with PSA prices but why would you buy German and French cards but not Japanese when it is the original founding country what a lot of people don't know is that 1996 was the first year pokemon cards were produced in japan a full 3 years before they were brought to the U.S. That in itself has value imo.

70£ for a Collector's Book full of old holos ..... are we at pawn stars ? Or wtf is that here?

5:52:watching it as a yugioh player....

Thank you for emphasizing the importance of condition!!! It's something any collector takes really seriously and a ton of people who are trying to sell their stuff don't often understand because of flashy news headlines about how "valuable" their stuff might be.

75 for old school cards what is this GameStop??

Lmao did they get this man off the street? He’s not a professional at all

0/10 expert wasn't maxmoefoe

Spends £300 in pokemon cards. Tries to sell collection "I can only give you 7.69 quid".

Shame my parents binned my cards in a clean up. RIP :/

There are two types of Pokemon TCG consumers: players and collectors. Generally, players won't buy old cards because they can't play them and collectors generally only buy cards that are in MINT condition. So yeah, this store owner is absolutely right: most of these cards are near worthless. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's rare or valuable.

Ffs a good quality 1st edition charizarr is like a few hundred to 1k or so

Anyone else watching this in April 2021 and laughing with the prices quoted?

The paper on which these cards were printed is quite lucky.

this guy has no clue what these are worth lol

He is so old he called it a folder it is called a binder old man

The true value in the card is the sentimental value. Me and my wife just enjoy opening packs and finding good rares.

This guy’s fraud don’t sell your cards to him he just gonna resell them higher

Condition makes all the difference when it comes to collector items like this. But I’ll be honest with you even though I kept my cards in a binder I loved actually using them on decks to play against friends rather than just keep them in a binder to stare at. Half the fun was acquiring cards to build a strong deck to compete against others.

You really have to get them graded right out of the pack for them to be worth anything.

That folder is worth soooo much now

so called "expert" bending cards and rubbing them off one another..

So first, at 2:00, the guy says a (shiny?) Charizard from the first set is worth 45-55 pounds in mint condition. Later he says he'd give about 20-25 for the mint condition one he has in his hand. What a cheat.

They are worth as much as someone is willing to pay you.

The reason cards get warped (bent) is moisture. It doesn't matter if you've kept them stored and unplayed it can happen. If you're storing cards always keep a few desiccant packs with 'em regardless if they're in sleeves in a binder.

And They Say whats in collecting Those!!!

Sold all of mine for $400. I had a few Shining cards like Shining Charizard, Shining Mewtwo, Shining Gyrados, Shining Magikarp, along with the original Charizard, and a whole book of other holographic cards.

For those of you wondering, this guy is a professional at determining prices for retail stores, not card collectors. Card collectors will easily take the better condition Charizard in the video for about 1 - 10k dollars.

Going through the comments I see some common gripes thrown around and I’d just like to clear some up to defend this poor LGS manager. Most common issue is the “oh no these cards are worth thousands in the right condition, this liar!” Which just are wrong. In gem mint, the Charizards shown would sell for about 70£, they aren’t graded, AND they aren’t the originals. The 3000 USD Charizard is from what is essentially the trial run of this set of cards, a printing that had no black “shadow” on its art boarder (the yellow box surrounding the photo of charizard, not the yellow around the whole card). This is what people mean by shadowless, not a charizard with no shadow, but a card frame without one. Next, his grading of the cards. The most basic explanation is that no camera is good at picking up the tiny scratches and knicks that add up to devalue a card, it’s just much easier to see in person and his appraisal is almost certainly based on shit we can’t see. Beckett graded cards are worth slightly more with good grades, or much more with exceptional grades, but these loose cards MUST be valued at a percentage of their accepted resale value, you can’t treat a card you think is perfect as a Becket Pristine Mint, they’re scale is based on not only the damage, but even the factory’s printing of the card, a card a few millimetres off centre loses .5 of a grade instantly, you can’t possibly appraise that on your own in a few seconds, certainly not through a video. Last thing I’ll defend is his offer of 25£ for a valued 45£ card. Tl;dr his store needs to make a profit. The cards will most likely sit around Sneak Attack for a few months before a collector who would buy them will show up. They’re beat up, ungraded, unsleeved, and not very rare. Collectors do like these kind of cards, but only in very good condition, a collector who will buy even a lightly played card is hard to find, because the cards are too easy to find. What real collectors want are either high quality versions of the original shadowless cards, or Near-Mint or higher versions of the cards in the video.

The prices this man names are not right. This man is not a proffessional.

3:09 Wow, that guy struggled way harder than he should have to wrap that rubber band around those cards lol

I keep all my old cards that I have collected in sleeves and away from other stuff.

“Proffesional” Are you sure about that?

that dude was already off as fuck mint condition, Base set Charizard(not shadowless/1st ed) can easily get sold for 70 bucks NM/Mint (it can go much higher if the card is minty as fuck) Trust me, I just lost a bidding war for one of these this morning.

*He is a reseller telling you the value of your cards. Auction them off yourself and see what you get offered.*

We also did trading. But then it was banned in our school due to some people stealing. But then a black market started, and there were fighting, stealing, and also selling charizards at ridiculous prizes like 10 bucks which was insane

Says first edition Charizard is around 70 dollars... Yet cards rated at a PSA 9 go for hundreds of dollars and PSA 10s go for thousands.

lol what a scam i sold my cards for 220€ in the same condition for very similar cards on the Internet

2:22 Sounds like something a scammer would say

He's just roasting these dudes cards gottamm

All tcgplayers be like did he just say it's called a folder it's a binder reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Did anyone else's school ban Pokemon cards? We used to sneak them in our pockets and hide them under the table at lunch. If we were caught with them our teacher would take them at put them in her prize box and you got put in a raffle for being a good kid and at the end of the week she would draw from the raffle and you could choose from the prize box... Needless to say I got quite a bit of my collection from that prize box and I even got a Dark Tyranitar because some kids were trying to trade their best cards and one got caught and I was the cream of the crop from then on and everyone wanted that card.

Kids are not only messy and mostly don't know how to take good care of their things, but back in the day they didn't know that the cards would be worth so much today.

Insider employee: guy i got video idea lets value my Pokemon card. Insider: OUR CARD.

If you want to find out the prospective value of your cards; go to pokecollector.com or ebay and check SOLD listings. That's where you will find a more accurate value, but you still have to find someone to buy it (which isn't hard if you have rare cards)

Would've been nice if someone here actually had good conditioned, decent cards. Some of the oldest cards now are going for $100s of dollars.

Hate when people say "90's" kids or whatever only know this stuff. Most people born up to about 2005 probably had a similar experience.

If they're that cheap, how come I can never find them for that price?

3:44 that binder is probably worth more than any of the cards here

I can tell that that person is not a professional at all. He's just a normal guy guessing the prices.

I like this guy he is real. Everyone says how much cards are worth but the true value of something stems from how much OTHERS are willing to pay for them.

0:04 that binder is lengendary.

American here; I collected the entire base set when it was in original circulation in the late 90's. I put EVERY card in its own clear sleeve, and then put every card into 3x3 sheets like in this video. I haven't touched them, they are mint. It is NOT the 1st edition set, but the "unlimited" or whatever base set right after. What would the entire set be worth???

Bah. He's just trying to scam people

If he is an appraiser why is he not wearing gloves? They probably picked some guy off the street for this episode with such a blatant error.

See this every day with vintage video games.

Certain Pokemon cards can be worth a lot of money, especially if they are PSA 10 graded which means they are absolutely perfect, from the condition and the printing alignment. If you look on Ebay a shiny PSA 10 graded Charizard would be into the £1000s. It is a professional level of grading which far exceeds a shop owner giving a quick glance saying it is in x condition. These PSA graded cards are extremely rare as from the second the perfectly printed ones were opened in the 90s, they've barely been touched and sealed for so many years.

Mine are all mint. I don't know if they are first edition. Mostly booster pack stuff. Should I get them appraised? All first generation, like 20+ years old btw.

Just make those subtitles turn off-able

i remember going to school with Pokemon cards and everyday at lunch we'd go to the library and dump them on the floor and trade/compare eachothers cards

Every single 1999 Pokémon card is worth at least 3 bucks This guy has no idea

For all you Americans out there, *1£=US$1.30* And for all Canadians out there, *1£=$1.69*

Now I realized how dumb I am as a kid coz I burned all my Pokemon cards 8 years ago......

Technically 4 things, power rangers, dragon ball z, pokemon and Jurassic Park. All the products are pure nostalgia.

this guy is like the gamestop of pokemon trading cards

Dude the charzards were on pawnstars for hella bread

anybody interested in buying a ancient mew card its just 25000 pound

He kinda look like older version of Tom Holland

I get triggered when someone bends my cards, I keep my cards in a tin in piles and no rubber band and I remember some one was playing with my cards AND STARTED BENDING IT I never let them play with my cards again

He isn't a professional 1st edition cards are always worth more then 50 bux

GameStop 2.0

wow, who would have thought some well painted cardboard would be worth pretty much nothing. Seriously though, this is pretty accurate. Only limited print cards, special batches or cards with uncommon manufacturing mistakes go for hundreds or thousands. Just keep your stuff for sentimental value. Give them to your kids if there into the game there related to. There worth more for the memories.

I've researched charizards and this dude don't know anything about them

Don't let morons set prices for you. Set/sell your item for whatever it's worth to you. People will buy it or they won't.

Anyone here after Logan Paul got crazy into Pokémon?

My brother has all 151 in perfect condition wrapped in their own plastics and at least 90-95% 1st edition. He even has the Mew and Mewtwo the ones they gave out at the movies when the 1st Pokémon movie came out.

It has tears and edgeds Him: smack card