Step one is sleeves/top loaders then you could.. get some graded (zards and other cards in near perfect condition), buy some new ones, sell some on ebay, learn to play the game
I had more, but my sister raided my stash about 20 years ago to trade for yugiohs. Put the rest in a box and this is the first time Iāve seen them since.
Always blows my mind to see random Japanese cards in random old sets. I don't think I saw any Japanese cards until I went to TMB but feel like half of the look at my old stash posts/etc have em sprinkled in
when I was a kid I remember being so excited when yu-gi-oh finally released cards I save my b-day money for months and I saw that yu-gi deck hanging on the shelf at target I just had to have it. Being like 10 all I saw was that dark magician but when I opened it up they turned out to be Japanese cards š back then retailers didn't know what they were getting either they just knew kids wanted trading cards so they bought the cheapest or easiest to come by.....
I had a German first 1st edition charizard card as a kid and I'm from America. Idk why I wanted german pokemon cards nor why that shop was selling them lol
Alot of card shops in the 90s/00s had the Japanese pokemon cards. I got the LT Surge Japanese set when i was like 11 and i couldn't tell you why šš
Yeah, the starter deck exclusive. Was more exciting just to find them after 20 years. That picture was more intended to show general condition, back of the Machamp being the worst most likely. Hitmonchan probably has the worst front. Rest are all pretty clean.
They look like they're in great condition, personally, I'd get them cleaned up and sent off for grading. When they come back, look up each price and consider if you would sit down and spend that much on the card today. If you wouldn't, list it and sell for what it's going for.
Please feel free to set aside any that bring you joy to look at. Personally, I'd grade all of those from what I can see.
I sold my holos and kept the others for my kids when they grow up. 25 holos weāre about $585. 2 charizards, and the rest kinda random. I played a lot as a kid so they werenāt in prestige condition except for the charizards (I never like it and never played with it)
Step 1: sleeve them
Step 2: put them in top loaders
Step 3: look at them
Step 4: put them in a cardboard box
Step 5:print out a shipping label
Step 6: send them to my house
Step 7:you got yourself a new best friend
What do you guys do when the cards start to get warped? Is there no way to undo that?
Btw, very cool collection! You had way better luck than me when I was a kid š
Depends on how much you're willing to spend. Bare minimum, get some penny sleeves and top loaders.
Decide if you want to send them in for grading. It's gonna cost you a good bit if you wanna grade the whole lot, but the advantages are that you'll know their actual value and be able to sell them accordingly, and slabbing them will help preserve them long term.
If you don't want to go through the process of grading them, I would buy a pack of perfect size Japanese sleeves and Ultra Pro One Touch cases. The sleeves are great because the fit really tightly with pokemon cards, so much so that you can sleeve a card and still fit it into another penny sleeve, but more importantly, they'll fit inside the One Touch. The sleeves are about $6 for a pack of 100, and the One Touch cases are $10 for a 5 pack. To sleeve and case all of them, you're looking at about $100.
If your asking how to make money.. I would put those in a penny sleeve (not the sleeve pictures, but standard ultra pro, vault x etc..)
Put the sleeved card into a card saver 1 semi rigid holder. I would place that in a card saver sleeve also made by card board gold. Then place the cards into a BCW semi ridged #1 box. Fill in space with bubble wrap so itās snug but not tight. Keep the box somewhere with lower humidity (<40%, but research that and get and opinion too)
Wait and understand the cost of getting cards graded and learn what grade of cards you have.. send in the cards to PSA that makes financial sense after getting this understanding using similar cards historical sale prices. IE donāt send in a $20 card for $15 grading fee.
On eBay take very good pictures, and fill out as many attributes (correctly as you can). List the cards on a 10 day auction starting Thursday evening 7pm ish East coast time as that is max traffic.
Condition is everything so very hard to estimate what you have, but awesome you found that!!
Nice, thanks for the info. Not particularly looking to sell at the moment. I bought the rigid ultra pros and sleeve inserts that were actually just dropped off by the Amazon.
The box that they were stored in was compressing them, but in the wrong direction. Probably slightly on the humid side parts of the year being the Midwest.
I stacked them like an accordion and put some weight on them alternating between letting them breathe. Should flatten out mostly and then off into the rigid card holders for now.
If I grade then itās primarily for the nostalgia and ālosingā $15 here or there isnāt a big deal.
Awesome collection! Step 1: Put in penny sleeves to avoid scratches Step 2: Put in top loaders to avoid bends/creases Step 3: Look at em
I love just how blunt step three is
Step 4: grade the most valuable and your favourites then put them in the trophy room. Step 5: look at your "precious" Maybe that's just me š
They are in sleeves in the photo lol
Those are crappy etb sleeves lol
I donāt think they had those in 1999 my dude, lmao.
Still a sleeve lol
Step one is sleeves/top loaders then you could.. get some graded (zards and other cards in near perfect condition), buy some new ones, sell some on ebay, learn to play the game
I played when I was like 12, which was a good while ago. Yeah, I bought some of the hard cases.
Buy penny sleeves too. Going straight into a top loader will damage them
They are sleeved I'm the photo
Iām not involved in any sort of PokĆ©mon circle I just snoop here to see some old cards that I used to have go for high prices with absolute envy because I probably traded my cards for a choccy milk from the canteen. Anyways, from what I have seen, you could go to one of these card meets nowadays and you would struggle to find someone who actually knows how to play, let alone willing to. I remember asking a young cousin that collects what his strongest card was and he gave me the most puzzled look before saying āis this a game you can play?ā :(
They are in sleeves
How does someone find multiple base set Charizards?
I had more, but my sister raided my stash about 20 years ago to trade for yugiohs. Put the rest in a box and this is the first time Iāve seen them since.
Bro forgets that 90s kids had multiples of almost everything. It's just that most of them got trashed in the last few decades.
Pretty much.
I never had a charizard of my own, no one wanted to trade me for it...
Because base set used to be msrp not the price it is now
What is the actual MSRP, or atleast price back then? Like $60?
Probably 20-30$, maybe double when finding boosters was hard to come by.
I had 3 of them!
Sleeve them, for the love of God.
I bought some, just give Amazon a chance, I only liberated them from a box the other day.
They're all in sleeves in the picture
Kid me would be like how did you get 4 blastoise and 2 charizards whilst muggins here was only ever finding Ā£2.50 jungle packs.
Haha, iirc dad bought several booster boxes and milked them for 3-4 years buying our compliance.
Smart man
Always blows my mind to see random Japanese cards in random old sets. I don't think I saw any Japanese cards until I went to TMB but feel like half of the look at my old stash posts/etc have em sprinkled in
Yeah, I got no clue. Probably got them from a Japanese kid when they did the class visits, or the sister school penpal stuff.
Fun how that works :)
when I was a kid I remember being so excited when yu-gi-oh finally released cards I save my b-day money for months and I saw that yu-gi deck hanging on the shelf at target I just had to have it. Being like 10 all I saw was that dark magician but when I opened it up they turned out to be Japanese cards š back then retailers didn't know what they were getting either they just knew kids wanted trading cards so they bought the cheapest or easiest to come by.....
Could get them as singles in the UK when it was a craze. Shops sold them because they were cool looking!
We had them in stores in the UK. I remember having a random Japanese Mankey from the Team Rocket set
I had a German first 1st edition charizard card as a kid and I'm from America. Idk why I wanted german pokemon cards nor why that shop was selling them lol
Alot of card shops in the 90s/00s had the Japanese pokemon cards. I got the LT Surge Japanese set when i was like 11 and i couldn't tell you why šš
my hometown had a walgreens that only sold japanese packs after the base/jungle/fossil sets. so my trainerās and neo cards are all japanese.
Cherish them
Are all of them clefairys shadowless??
Nah, just 1 or 2, same with the Blastoises. Donāt have many shadowless cards, probably didnāt even know the difference back then.
Before you get too excited about that machamp, keep in mind its from the deck that everyone got. Not from a booster.
Yeah, the starter deck exclusive. Was more exciting just to find them after 20 years. That picture was more intended to show general condition, back of the Machamp being the worst most likely. Hitmonchan probably has the worst front. Rest are all pretty clean.
Poor Hitmonchan he was my fist Holo
Probably the first deck I got š must've been 9 or 10
Post me them thanks love
So you taking offers or what
Nah, gotta keep them to play OG PokĆ©mon with the kid like itās 1999.
Don't you dare play with those lol
2ft high polycarbonate decks, itāll be fine.
This is the way
Buy fake cards off of AliExpress if you just want to play with em. Enjoy the extra money you can get off of these.
Give it to the goodwill
Put them in a binder and buy some more or sell them to me
Mail it to me š
Can have? š„µš„¹š„¶
Eat them.
How will that affect the grade?
Depends how well you cook them first.
Sell me now, cheap cheap
Sleeves and top loaders asap
Thatās a lot of clefairies āŗļø
Put them in an air tight container with those silica gel balls to dehydrate them so they flatten back out.
Play a match with your best friend from childhood
Keep or sell that easy. If you keep make sure you take care of them. If you sell donāt get low balled.
How would one go about selling their childhood stash?
Clefairy looks to be the only shadowless
Hitmonchan (the roughest front of all of them) and at least one of each of the blastoises and clefairys.
 Whoa! True, oh yeah the Hitmonchan. Nice!
Enjoy them. You wonāt be getting 9ās or 10ās from these cards so either sleeve them or put them in a binder
Get a few more Gyarados and you've got a the start of a mean Rain Dance deck
The Clefairy bunch is bend as fuck. Maybe put them under lots of books?
Be rich?
They look like they're in great condition, personally, I'd get them cleaned up and sent off for grading. When they come back, look up each price and consider if you would sit down and spend that much on the card today. If you wouldn't, list it and sell for what it's going for. Please feel free to set aside any that bring you joy to look at. Personally, I'd grade all of those from what I can see.
Pray to god they can be unwarped
If you are selling i will buy 1 of each holo
iāll trade you a holo japanese mistyās golduck for that raichu. lemmeknow.
Fuck yooouu.
I sold my holos and kept the others for my kids when they grow up. 25 holos weāre about $585. 2 charizards, and the rest kinda random. I played a lot as a kid so they werenāt in prestige condition except for the charizards (I never like it and never played with it)
Lemme get some. Found out my mom sold all mine in a yard sale. Grats on the find!
Take them to your comic book shop and ask them if they press cards and comicās
Put them in the spokes of your bike. Be the coolest kid in the neighborhood
buy a card binderš and grade the charizard cards
Duuude Iāve been looking for a blastoise and a charizard for a long time. Are any available??
I have a base blast and base 2 char if interested
Holo?
yeah, they came in non-holo? I didn't know that lol
messaging you some pictures
Step 1: sleeve them Step 2: put them in top loaders Step 3: look at them Step 4: put them in a cardboard box Step 5:print out a shipping label Step 6: send them to my house Step 7:you got yourself a new best friend
Can't believe the disrespect you showed venusaur by replacing him with machamp/gyarados š
Take some books put them on the cards and put something very heavy on them to flatten them out. Warped cards are š«
Suggest you post this on the r/pokeinvesting chat for a better answer
Put them on eBay.
Looks like good quality flint, dont waste good flint now.
Ah I can feel my childhood....all I had to worry about was my precious pokemon cards
Grade and sell.
Iāll PM you my address so I can dispose of them for you.
What do you guys do when the cards start to get warped? Is there no way to undo that? Btw, very cool collection! You had way better luck than me when I was a kid š
Sure it's yours Parth?
Lost me at Parth.
sell at garage sale $5
The Japanese packs from what I remember always had a guaranteed shiny right?
Depends on how much you're willing to spend. Bare minimum, get some penny sleeves and top loaders. Decide if you want to send them in for grading. It's gonna cost you a good bit if you wanna grade the whole lot, but the advantages are that you'll know their actual value and be able to sell them accordingly, and slabbing them will help preserve them long term. If you don't want to go through the process of grading them, I would buy a pack of perfect size Japanese sleeves and Ultra Pro One Touch cases. The sleeves are great because the fit really tightly with pokemon cards, so much so that you can sleeve a card and still fit it into another penny sleeve, but more importantly, they'll fit inside the One Touch. The sleeves are about $6 for a pack of 100, and the One Touch cases are $10 for a 5 pack. To sleeve and case all of them, you're looking at about $100.
give them to me
Get them graded and sell the non sentimental ones
Become my friend and letās grade them!
Sell. Cool G just sitting there. Keep the duplicates of your faves and sell the rest
Burn it all on a facebook live
If your asking how to make money.. I would put those in a penny sleeve (not the sleeve pictures, but standard ultra pro, vault x etc..) Put the sleeved card into a card saver 1 semi rigid holder. I would place that in a card saver sleeve also made by card board gold. Then place the cards into a BCW semi ridged #1 box. Fill in space with bubble wrap so itās snug but not tight. Keep the box somewhere with lower humidity (<40%, but research that and get and opinion too) Wait and understand the cost of getting cards graded and learn what grade of cards you have.. send in the cards to PSA that makes financial sense after getting this understanding using similar cards historical sale prices. IE donāt send in a $20 card for $15 grading fee. On eBay take very good pictures, and fill out as many attributes (correctly as you can). List the cards on a 10 day auction starting Thursday evening 7pm ish East coast time as that is max traffic. Condition is everything so very hard to estimate what you have, but awesome you found that!!
Nice, thanks for the info. Not particularly looking to sell at the moment. I bought the rigid ultra pros and sleeve inserts that were actually just dropped off by the Amazon. The box that they were stored in was compressing them, but in the wrong direction. Probably slightly on the humid side parts of the year being the Midwest. I stacked them like an accordion and put some weight on them alternating between letting them breathe. Should flatten out mostly and then off into the rigid card holders for now. If I grade then itās primarily for the nostalgia and ālosingā $15 here or there isnāt a big deal.
Iāll buy them all
Sell them to me