Not bad grades for vintage that was actually opened over 20 years ago! Just a note on PSA grading process - It's renowned for being inconsistent at times. There are really good guides on UA-cam for what specifically to look for when submitting to give yourself the best chance, but there's never a guarantee. Also, Japanese cards have much higher print quality that English cards so if you have more of them I'd definitely recommend submitting them as there's a good chance the grades will trend higher than the English cards.
Thanks for weighing in! I have about 10 more, but I'm looking at the prices and its likely they would not gain much value if I got them at an 8. I'm going to try to sell a few of these ones first and see if they fly off the shelves, but its good to know that the Japanese cards grade so well comparatively. I'll look more into the grading process for next time though. I have all these 151 cards I need to think about as well, especially the Charizard and Alakazam.
@@acegamestv Japanese vintage is a double edged sword. Because the print quality is higher it means the average grade on the market is higher, so lower grades are worth even less. Most vintage japenese packs also had a holo guaranteed in every pack, so they're a lot more common.
always a good idea to get them graded if you like the card itself for the personal collection! makes it look way prettier and it protects the cards fully so you cant damage it anymore accidently. also PSA and all other grading companies are super inconsistent so dont feel bummed out. i had 7s go to 10s with PSA its just luck of the draw with the grader.
Ya I won't really be planning on keeping any of these but I really do like the PSA slabs. My next fascination is to use the money I make from the cards to reinvest into the 151 PSA cards.
PSA looks scuffed. I heard this of almost all the grading companies though. Send them in again and you get different results. Considered sending my Magic cards in to another company, but after seeing this, I definitely wont. Worst part is that there is no reason given for those numbers. Can't be that hard to send a certificate with the exact ratings for each criteria... But what do I know about transparency, right?
Ya sadly, they are able to get away with it because of how popular they are. There are companies that do give full transparency. But I believe it can swing both good and bad so from the seller's perspective its not the end of the world.
ye i think on the cards where u thought they were in really good condition and would have been thousands of dollars, u might want to consider sending them to a different grader. a view years back when there was this tremendous hype for pokemon cards i watched streamers open old unopened booster boxes, litteraly surgically opening the packs and putting the cards in sleeves and sending them in for grading, and even then they did not even get a 10 and most of them were 8. to me all that grading from psa seems rly fishy
Ya sadly don't think the resale value is anywhere near as good for the other companies. Pretty much has to be PSA or a 9-10 on the others. These cards I expected 7 MAYBE 8 on, so that wouldn't really help me with another company.
Those 5’s must have some tiny dents or something. If a card has even the slightest indentation PSA won’t give any higher than a 5, even if it’s otherwise in good condition. Still a very nice haul, love that Dark Charizard
i'm waiting until psa sys free grading day with max 10 per person or something. they need to promote more like this for me to grade cause their fine in my top loaders binder rn
Ya, sadly it seems like a huge rip off if you actually intend to sell cards. There are cards that SHOULD sell well, but PSA charges so much they will never be valuable.
nice video, you had bad expectations psa is very hard on vintage for one. secondly any whitening like that blastoise on the top is going to drop it to at least a 6. if it has more wear than obvious whitening like that will continue to drop in number. never have expectations on vintage unless its pack fresh. its hard to see with the naked eye. you have to use super bright light just like psa does to get a glance at any of the damage.
Gotcha, I took the advice of some one early on in the process and I guess I got my head up in the clouds. He thought the Blastoise was at least a 7 so I just compared all the other cards to it haha. Ya live and ya learn! They are still selling well even at 5 so it's all good.
Oh, ya well that's a good thing! You have your whole life ahead of you. If you are serious about collecting cards now, talk to your parents or guardian and let them know its a passion of yours and your goals. Any parent wants to see their child happy, and if you communicate accurately, they can help you reach your goals easier before you eventually have the funds to buys stuff for yourself.
On that Rhystic study you were doomed from the start, if you look at the black boarder around the card you can clearly see it's way thicker on the left side than it is on the right (You can really immediately notice it when you look at the bottom right corner of the card and then compare it to the bottom left corner) It might even be slightly rotated counter clock wise as you can see in the bottom right the black margin clearly gets thicker left-to-right and the top black margin gets thicker right-to-left
Also the reason Seadra got graded lower is again the boarders, look at your haunter and then look at Seadra; you'll see Seadra's top boarder is way thicker than the bottom boarder; it's a matter of bad setting of the card cutting Atleast it was less bad compared to the Rhystic study's rotation, so i'd imagine that's why it didn't lose more
Ya I didn't really know anything about his process when I sent them in frankly. The magic cards just don't seem to be something worth grading anyway unless they are super old.
Pretty cool return. Vintage cards like these are great in any grade as long as they arent tore the hell up.
I agree for sure! Just shocked at some of the scores haha
Not bad grades for vintage that was actually opened over 20 years ago! Just a note on PSA grading process - It's renowned for being inconsistent at times. There are really good guides on UA-cam for what specifically to look for when submitting to give yourself the best chance, but there's never a guarantee. Also, Japanese cards have much higher print quality that English cards so if you have more of them I'd definitely recommend submitting them as there's a good chance the grades will trend higher than the English cards.
Thanks for weighing in! I have about 10 more, but I'm looking at the prices and its likely they would not gain much value if I got them at an 8. I'm going to try to sell a few of these ones first and see if they fly off the shelves, but its good to know that the Japanese cards grade so well comparatively.
I'll look more into the grading process for next time though. I have all these 151 cards I need to think about as well, especially the Charizard and Alakazam.
@@acegamestv Japanese vintage is a double edged sword. Because the print quality is higher it means the average grade on the market is higher, so lower grades are worth even less. Most vintage japenese packs also had a holo guaranteed in every pack, so they're a lot more common.
@@zachosrs9330 Oh that's interesting. Had no idea about that holo part.
always a good idea to get them graded if you like the card itself for the personal collection! makes it look way prettier and it protects the cards fully so you cant damage it anymore accidently. also PSA and all other grading companies are super inconsistent so dont feel bummed out. i had 7s go to 10s with PSA its just luck of the draw with the grader.
Ya I won't really be planning on keeping any of these but I really do like the PSA slabs. My next fascination is to use the money I make from the cards to reinvest into the 151 PSA cards.
PSA looks scuffed. I heard this of almost all the grading companies though. Send them in again and you get different results. Considered sending my Magic cards in to another company, but after seeing this, I definitely wont.
Worst part is that there is no reason given for those numbers. Can't be that hard to send a certificate with the exact ratings for each criteria... But what do I know about transparency, right?
Ya sadly, they are able to get away with it because of how popular they are. There are companies that do give full transparency.
But I believe it can swing both good and bad so from the seller's perspective its not the end of the world.
ye i think on the cards where u thought they were in really good condition and would have been thousands of dollars, u might want to consider sending them to a different grader. a view years back when there was this tremendous hype for pokemon cards i watched streamers open old unopened booster boxes, litteraly surgically opening the packs and putting the cards in sleeves and sending them in for grading, and even then they did not even get a 10 and most of them were 8. to me all that grading from psa seems rly fishy
Not defending PSA here, but there's a lot that can be wrong with a card before it's ever removed from a pack, especially vintage.
Ya sadly don't think the resale value is anywhere near as good for the other companies. Pretty much has to be PSA or a 9-10 on the others.
These cards I expected 7 MAYBE 8 on, so that wouldn't really help me with another company.
Those 5’s must have some tiny dents or something. If a card has even the slightest indentation PSA won’t give any higher than a 5, even if it’s otherwise in good condition. Still a very nice haul, love that Dark Charizard
Oh really!? That makes a lot of sense then, because its hard to understand how visually these cards are all the same quality.
i'm waiting until psa sys free grading day with max 10 per person or something. they need to promote more like this for me to grade cause their fine in my top loaders binder rn
Ya, sadly it seems like a huge rip off if you actually intend to sell cards.
There are cards that SHOULD sell well, but PSA charges so much they will never be valuable.
nice video, you had bad expectations psa is very hard on vintage for one. secondly any whitening like that blastoise on the top is going to drop it to at least a 6. if it has more wear than obvious whitening like that will continue to drop in number. never have expectations on vintage unless its pack fresh. its hard to see with the naked eye. you have to use super bright light just like psa does to get a glance at any of the damage.
Gotcha, I took the advice of some one early on in the process and I guess I got my head up in the clouds.
He thought the Blastoise was at least a 7 so I just compared all the other cards to it haha.
Ya live and ya learn! They are still selling well even at 5 so it's all good.
My results was nothing. Because the cards got stolen😭 Sent in $2800 worth of cards
wth, what did you do about that haha
The blastoise qas a 5 and the snorlax was a 5 even though there was massive scuffs on the top of the card what the hell
Ya, seems really inconsistent. Hard to know if this went good or bad.
This is a dream of mine is to send my pokemon cards into psa.
Oh ya, well it was certainly overpriced, but otherwise nothing that you can't do yourself! It was a fun experience for sure!
When u have fingerprints in the cards the grade it low. Clean cards before send
How do you recommend cleaning them?
Any advise on cleaning?
@@acegamestvmicrofiber cloth
Pikachu is real and not a hat...
In this case, Pikachu isn't even featured!
Maybe you can get me Pokemon cards please
Anyone can get them, they are freely bought and sold in both retail and the secondary market like Ebay. That's where I listed these ones!
Im a kid i ma11
Oh, ya well that's a good thing! You have your whole life ahead of you. If you are serious about collecting cards now, talk to your parents or guardian and let them know its a passion of yours and your goals.
Any parent wants to see their child happy, and if you communicate accurately, they can help you reach your goals easier before you eventually have the funds to buys stuff for yourself.
On that Rhystic study you were doomed from the start, if you look at the black boarder around the card you can clearly see it's way thicker on the left side than it is on the right
(You can really immediately notice it when you look at the bottom right corner of the card and then compare it to the bottom left corner)
It might even be slightly rotated counter clock wise as you can see in the bottom right the black margin clearly gets thicker left-to-right and the top black margin gets thicker right-to-left
Also the reason Seadra got graded lower is again the boarders, look at your haunter and then look at Seadra; you'll see Seadra's top boarder is way thicker than the bottom boarder; it's a matter of bad setting of the card cutting
Atleast it was less bad compared to the Rhystic study's rotation, so i'd imagine that's why it didn't lose more
Ya I didn't really know anything about his process when I sent them in frankly. The magic cards just don't seem to be something worth grading anyway unless they are super old.