Your Pokémon Cards Could Be Worth Thousands
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2021
- Remember those Pokémon cards thrown in the back of your closet? They could be worth $100,000 or more.
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Losing your Pokemon Cards is the original "I had bought bitcoin but lost my key".
looool you're not wrong
That would be the Baseball cards..Worlds most expensive cards are still Baseball cards.. But its a close 2nd.. lol
This comment 😂😭🤔😭🤔
My parents sold my whole binder including several 1st edition holos for $20 at a yard sale in 2010. I am still not over it.
@@thejman36 bro if it makes u feel good my mom started going to church and a lady told her Pokémon was the devil , she made me throw all my 1998,1999,2000 cards to the trash I had multiple cards of all the first gen Pokémon ):
I lost it when he said “I’m actually a Pokémon professor “ lol 🤣
The test is 5 questions and a background check to make sure your allowed to be around children.
My mom threw away all my Pokemon Cards because I failed maths. I was so upset, and I still am upset.
Show her this video 😂
what a boomer !
Broooooo I stole $5 from my moms purse when I was a kid she threw all my books of Pokémon cards away I knew damn well I had some charzards in there LOL!!!! Dying inside
Show her the video
I left my Pokémon cards at school spilt all over the floor because idk made i was having a big kid moment but anyways my dad bought me a pack or 2 every day and
I even knew they were on the ground and it was the last day of school at dismisole. I felt super guilty ever since
I wouldn't keep that much money in my house then feature in a documentary
And? Lol
its not gold... unlike cody's lab, nile red, etc..
@Daan Made in Holland eh idk. not everyone down to accept pm or magic cards as payment, i dare you to find someone not willing to take gold. isnt counterfeiting pm cards a problem in china? all in all theyre both intrinsically valued. about as worthless as carbon, depending on what alotrope you have, supply and demand, etc. that new pm card, its a full art hollo trainer in japanese... maxmofo pulled like 4 of em a couple vids ago.. anyway, the pokemon co. could and do manipulate the fans and market to set the value. $400 au or something like that. hooray for capitalism baby! does anyone who collects even watch the anime anymore? seemed a bit overdone/soldout. theyll literally _never_ run out of bad names to call new pokemon to buy alls im sayin
@Daan Made in Holland wait, they're not serialized? or have anti-counterfeiting protection? Hold my beer
By the time this came out on CZcams that money is put somewhere else.
Every 90's kid was basically a millionaire wth man.
“Get into it for the nostalgia but don’t get into it to make money” at least someone knows
Take that scalpers!
That girl really loves that top
Me too
@@hectorlopez-si3hw 🤣🤣
you mean her masks that keeps falling off?
That be a pair of Arby's Roast Beef Mommy Milk Truck badonkers, my guy
@@josh77577 what mask?
The immense feelings of regret from the Pokémon card trades I made during my 1990s childhood came storming back.
No one could really guess these cards would be this valuable 20 years later. Not to mention a lot of those old cards would have to be in mint condition to get good money.
That awkward moment when a toy card is worth more than your life...
I like this interviewer, he is smart with his questions
Not sure how he didn't get distracted while interviewing the couple
@@contambrah she was meh... no face.
It’s amazing he can speak Chinese too
Don't smoke weed and watch this
@@contambrah oh I get it now
Thankfully I still have all my Pokémon cards from 90s early 00's. Thank you mom and dad for trying to make me happy.
I do too but can’t get them to sell .
Im looking for vintage collections if youre interested in selling
@@jron702 I have a machop hollow graphic in plastic how much can I get for it?
Hmm... cap
@@jadenyuki3138 cap 🧢 what? Are you interested in buying?
I was watching something about Pokemon cards then I got distracted....
Lmaoooooo same bro
What was this video about again???
I think i know what ur talking about
How bout them chesticles, huh?
All you desperate weirdos should get out more and socialize, maybe find a girlfriend,it will do you good
I remember getting a 2nd edition charizard and I also remember my little brother stole it to trade with some neighbor kid. He's never gonna be forgiven
Base set 2 not second edition.
I remember stealing a chansey card from my friend and sold it for $5 to one of my classmates... 😭😭😭
I remember getting a 2nd edition Charizard?! Bro! Lol 😹 disrespectful af. Gtfoh!
Charlie Hurlocker became who despised most as a kid. Rocket leader Giovanni
Somebody noticed cashier dancing at 10:15
2:44 *_BRHUUU_*
cocaine is strong with him
I'm like a semi hoarder, I saved all my son's collections of everything, he's 14 now but I have collections save from the time he was born! He didn't even know where his pokemon cards went, I got his back. 😁
wooow lucky kid!!
Just wow.
Good mom
My mom did this for me with unboxed first edition power ranger figures.
@anonMS dawg Wrong, we bought from adults that were selling their cards and new packs 😁
I'd like to see you cover original comic book art collectors next.
funny thing, I started thinking about that when we were in Paul Cavasos' shop! I saw a few comic books that I have copies of (I have the entire run of the Funeral for a Friend when Superman died in '93, in decent quality). Didn't look like they were worth much unfortunately. I'd definitely be down to do comic books sometime though!
Keep dreaming
Logan Paul hasn't put old comic books on his stream so its unlikely they will do it cause there such cloats suckers.
I got a blue-eyes white dragon worth 4,000 dollars.
That ain't Pokémon bro. Throw it away.
@@andrewwells6323 Ill throw you away
Someone stole my blue eyes white dragon at school when I was a kid. Was heartbroken for years.
@@antondoty6056 steal their life
@@andrewwells6323 Actually Yugioh cards do hold value as well but a yugioh card's value is more driven by the competitive players than collectors. Official Yugioh card tournaments are very strict on a card's quality to prevent cheating. As a result, pro players spend good money on mint condition playable cards.
My box of wrecked up Trainer Cards and Type Boosters:
"My time has come."
I was thinking the same thing. I got a box full of pokemon cards from the 2000
@@jamalb67ify 1st edition starter pokemon non holo PSA 10 can go for $1500 +
Remember Pawn Stars and the collections of Charizard?
That sure aged well lol
That dude still has the biggest 1st edition psa 10 charizard collection in the worth ( each of those is selling for over 300k now) and the value is only going up, he also has THE ONLY 2 BGS 10 charizards in THE WORLD, millions ....millions
@@kaarmanyachadha1376
Word was he already sold the whole thing to some lucky bastard after the Pawn Stars show.
I just watched it again recently.
They are pawn dealers though they would have sold the cards not kept and invested in them.. 🤷♂️
Crazy how to think the way we as humans attach value to things.
did you just trip ?
Pretty easy tbh. Define a trend during a period of time where a large % of children are within the same age range and the event is culturally significant. I’m be off GoT mercy will be wildly collectible
Man, I had all my cards stolen from me back when I was a little kid, that thief not only stole my cards, if he kept them he might be rich now...
same happened to be, kid was a punk, and now is some fake wannabe mall cop/security guard
this hurts to watch knowing that my mom gave away all my cards because she thinks she's marie kondo. My holo charizards :*(
noooo!! (respect to Marie Kondo tho)
Damn
Around 2016 my sister got an xy evolutions pack and got a reverse holo charizard and she thought it was bad because it was not a ex she had 1 iq back then
Some Kid mugged my Chari .Because let him hold it. He refused to give it back and ran away.
damn
She’s the reason why they’re worth so much now.
$400 per pack, I can do without!
In 2019 I learned that a family friend was getting into Pokemon, I gave him a stack of like 200 cards personally selected from my collection. I hope he got to go to school and show all his friends and wow them with his vintage cards that they probably never saw before. It's such a wonderful thing to share between generations. I am hoping my Charizard comes back from PSA a 9 or 10 so I can finally have my own place to live.
Awesome bro really awesome!!
that's amazing - have you already sent your cards in for grading? If so, please update this thread when they come back, I'd love to know what they rate!
Would also love to know!!
Who remembers playing the game Pogs or marbles in the playground
@@Kigoz4Life I have few slammers in a box in my garage 😄 good times
Pogs are freaking old. Last time I saw someone flip a slammer was like 20 years ago.
i have a collectors edition wood stick and rusty iron ring from 1920s. only $100
Lol I was just talking about pogs earlier today, what a weird bit of synchronicity. Good times....
man's trying his hardest not to stare 🤣
That young lady couldn't wait to bust out the Jigglypuffs
I had a holographic Charizard back when I was a small child and I took it to school to show my friends. I also had the ones in Japanese writing and kept them on me at all times. Just touching the surface of the cards, swapping them with friends, heck even just looking at each one in my stack was extremely satisfying. Needless to say, the teacher Nazis were on the hunt for Pokemon cards and found out I had some and confiscated them. I threw a huge tantrum and screamed my head off then they called my mom and I got punished. Cried myself to sleep. Woke up the next day depressed AF. I sincerely hope my 3rd grade teacher falls and skins her knee to this day for what she did because that was future money I could have had today at 27 years old.
If it makes you feel any better, unless you kept the cards in those hard plastic sleeves and binders I don’t think the value would have held very much. If you’re talking about running your fingers over the surface it doesn’t sound like they were in sleeves. The title for this video makes it sound like if you have any old cards at all they might be worth a lot but that’s only for cards that haven’t been played with very much or at all. I have a garage with a bunch of old Japanese cards in tins and lunchboxes and while they’re from the 90s and most are in sleeves I don’t think they would be worth very much because just from being in those tins with other cards they got somewhat curved or bent even though I didn’t play with them much at all and just looked at them.
Basically don’t feel too bad because it’s hard to actually be sitting on a goldmine even if you still had them today.
The damn scalpers! Haven't bought a box in 6 months 🙃 😪
Yup. Last Pokemon product I bought was a Vivid Voltage booster box back in Dec. Lucky enough to find it in a small card shop.
I hear ya, got one etb in the last like 6 or 7 months. It’s all about money to these people, can only hope the fad dies out so the people who truly enjoy it can keep collecting affordably.
He’s definitely a great interviewer and his voice fits the mood
This really drives home the idea that cost and value are not the same thing.
I bought 3 random packs all with the same cards in each pack. 2 cards out if those packs alone are worth 200 dollars and every other card is worth hundreds so i spent 9 dollars and made a couple grand
31 years old, found my old collection at my parents house. Brings back great memories but the money as an adult is even better. Have sold about 10k worth so far.
Very cool, what platform did you use to sell them? I have many 1st editions still sealed and didn’t know where to post them
@@johnkliamenakis8411 Ebay
@@johnkliamenakis8411 Get all those 1st editions graded asap.
@@newyork4311 considering they’ve never been played with and stored in hard plastic containers is it even needed? Some are still factory sealed from 1999
@@johnkliamenakis8411 Well first off do you have 1st edition base set? Cause there are many different sets like Jungle, Team Rocket, Fossil etc. And do you have individual cards or booster packs?
I had a great collection but my sister gave it away : (. All good though I hope they enjoy the money.
My cat is my Pokémon. I spend all my money on HIM 😹😻😼
#Chinpokomon
I love it when the money people get involved who don’t have a real clue.
Pokemon & Yu-Gi-Oh Greatest Card Games Ever!
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Bitcoin is the future, investing in it will be the wisest thing to do especially with the current rise
2021 online stock is just difficult and unbelievable, I'll rather invest my money on crypto
People are ignorant of the profitability in Bitcoin investment and that has been there major issue limiting there investment
For real it's true, this could be the wisest word I've heard, you got my points
Nice words 👌
*Me wondering about the millions I'd be sitting on right now, if my mom didn't throw away all those thousands of Pokemon cards I was crazy about.*
Thankyou mom.
Me 😶
Damm. Thats how I feel about not getting bitcoin back in 2011.
I feel your pain. Back in the early-mid 90's my mom tossed out my 2 shoeboxes of hockey cards that contained 3 Wayne Gretzky Rookie cards plus other big-name rookie cards including Mario Lemieux, most of which were 9/10 condition or better.
@@HigzyTeflon Dammm son
Wait pokemon cards are worth money? I literally have hundreds of cards from like over 10 years ago, from when I used to collect them as a kid
But did you store them properly? If not they aren’t going to be worth much now
definitely not worth anything but you can mail them to me
Use tcgplayer.com the guys above me are douche bags
@@tomriddle7679 nah if anything you are the douche giving dude false hop on his cards that are probably not even psa 4
@@thawhiteazn I stored them in a little mettle box I have, they look like new.
I remember back in early 2000's we had thousands of those cards at home. We used to "gamble" with them on rounds of rock-paper-scissors, with neighbors and class mates. The most sought after cards were actually Mew and Mewtwo, charizards were decent but not nearly as impressive (at least where I'm from). God knows how many charizards we had lying around.
Thumbs up for the brother in the Deftones Worldwide hoodie
Those big zongos finna fall outta that shirt
in high school i turned a good number of my old cards into a table top for beer pong.... gave the rest to my cousins but at least whenever I see them we play with them.
I was 10 in ‘98. There was nothing like opening up a brand new pack of Pokémon cards and playing Blue version for endless hours . Still have some of the first cards I’ve ever bought. The cards have been safe in a binder ever since and still have that “brand new” smell to this day. Never letting go
You're definitely doing it right 💪🏾💪🏾
Big facts homie. I was 6 in 98. I still have a few binders of cards. My mom held on to them all these years. Damn I'm happy I'm saw this video today lol
We NEED a VICE video on Pokemon scalpers. A closer look inside their filthy homes with all the happy meal boxes everywhere.
The nostalgic feeling is number one. The excitement of getting new cards is a part as well. I personally love them as art and enjoy looking at my collection. I even just enjoy going through my stacks of base jungle non holos from our childhood.
4:06 "trading cards for money"
You mean SELLING?
i like how the first charizard shown at 1:55 is a fake card 🤣🤣
Legendary collection the set you missed
It's legit. That's a unicorn. A reverse holographic charizard from legendary collection.
@@MrRIcyC ohhh mb
Or they could be worth absolutely nothing, guys dont fall for the hype most of the time your cards arent going to be worth much so please do your research
This^. Goes for Pokémon or yugioh. Do your research, you likely don’t have a rare card.
@TrySomeVitaminD press x to doubt
@@n64central to be honest if you’re in your 20s or older you probably do have cards worth a good amount, but they’re also probably too damaged to be worth it’s proper value
Loser mentality lol shooters going to shoot anyways 👀
@@bigbonghits4428 exactly. At least for yugioh, a lot of the newer cards are worth more.
Lolllll I remember when I would save and buy full cases of cards as a kid. This is crazy, honestly had like 7 1st edition Charizards. But I can't imagine carrying them for 22-23 years.
Sorry Johnny
I def still have all my cards in binders lol. Haven’t looked at them in sooo long.
i still have mine from the 90s, early 2000,s and 2004, but i write my name on them with pen so i dont think they're worth anything now. lol
20 years later that could've potentially cost you thousands of dollars lol
i know im pissed lol
that couple on the couch with their oversized diaper masks.
I was yelling "pull up your goddamned masks"
Pokemon company: your only allowed to use one Pokemon's name in your documentary.
Vice: oH K cHaRzaRd
02:49 i see you found yourself some nice pokeballs huh 👀
Lol everyone is commenting about Pokemon, all I thinking is "damn I want some milk"
@@outdooroperator714 i had to scoll for ages to see if anyone noticed lol
Please don’t remind me, I regret selling them all :(
My friend had a thousand and his dad made him shred them all. Cost him hundreds.
@King Charles I feel your pain, some of my good yugioh cards were thrown out because my family thought they were worthless
Seems like this is a really common experience for people. We eventually reached older childhood or adulthood and voluntarily got rid of or were forced to get rid of cards
@@NATOnova I actually hid some of mine so I didn't have to throw them all away 😂 but I know a lot of good ones were thrown out by them
I’m selling my collection from 02’ due to covid
Buddy said "Dont get into it to make a buck" , says the white boy with money.
Yo
Shut your mouth Jose
Lol dang guy, whats his race have to do with his opinion and how can you tell he has money? He's buying random pokemon packs, a kid working at McDonald's could afford those.
@King Charles Lmao I'm white. It's about him having a nice home and crap. I'm white in an apartment in the hood. The man has money, I dont so I sell the cards. Still love buying them.
@@TenchuTesshu A kid working at McDonald's doesn't buy booster boxes buddy and his race has nothing to do with it. You guys just dont know what it's like to be poor and collect cards so I sell them as well. You the one complaining about the race though.
The guy at 9:00 who's filming the inventory is up for a heist I guess WHAHAHAHA
I remember when I was a kid. I threw all of my holographic Pokémon cards including Charzad and Blastois into my grandparent’s fireplace because it made a big flame.. oh well lol
I have so much rare cards in storage! I know I have 2 Ancient Mews, Some D/P cards, I might have a 1st Edition Venasaur or XY Evolutions, most likely 1st edition since I'm pretty sure my brothers stopped getting Pokemon Cards when B/W came out. I'm scared because they've been in storage for a long time and yeah...
ancient mews aren't rare and are pretty much worthless sorry to say
@@ZackWilliams_TheProducer Oh oof lmao.
Pokémon is the best franchise of all time.
This is so crazy. I have a folder full of cards from the 90's.
10:10 the guy in the back 😂
I had a fuckton of those 1st edition Charazards as a kid . . . and I sold them to some other kid for like $20. I'm going to get very drunk tonight after watching this.
You probably didn’t have a lot of them
I feel u everything from our childhood is worth money now
once it turns 30 in box its bank
@@bud_kleric2771 bruh tell that to my digimon cards. It ain't worth crap, it's all based on the hype behind the brand. Digimon never went as mainstream compare to pokemon
When I was in school, I threw all my cards up in the air in the middle of the playground, all the children ran towards them and grabbed them up. I just wanted to see how desperate people were, now I regret it.
I deadass have one of those old charizard cards still🤣😭, have a few championship cards too from 2006-2008
I left my binder of cards on the floor and our new puppy at the time peed all over them...total loss. He ended up being a part of our family for almost 20 years after that, and it hurt when we put him down but as the vet was sticking in the needle I was sad but couldn't help but laugh thinking "...this is for that time you pissed on my Base Set 1st Editions you little turd..."
Just got all my 90's pokemon cards back from my moms house in Mexico!!! Thank God she didn't toss them 😍
Congratulations
damn i needa find mine.. had a shoe box full of em since jr high i think.. don't think i have any really expensive ones tho...
I will be here waiting for a Yu-Gi-Oh! boom.
we dont love Yugioh.
Still have a bunch of both. Now if I could just find somewhere to sell 'em....
Prices of vintage yugioh have gone up a ton, maybe you should look into that
Ive been halfway looking for an original change of heart card for like 10 years now
Blue shirt guy in the background starts dancing when the beat drops lol 10:12
Does anyone know a good place to sell Pokémon cards in New England? I have hundreds (and a few dozen that might be worth something) of cards but don’t know where to sell them.
I love that the old guy turned his dying business of sports cards into this insane collection of Pokémon cards.
God I kinda hate this reminder. I used to have fucking first edition cards in protective coverings and everything. My mom decided that pokemon was apart of the devil, took it away from me and my siblings, tore them up and banned all things pokemon from the house.
I'm close to 30 now and I have 1 pokemon shirt from a thrift store. It's hard getting over that hell.
were you a jw?
2:44 BOOBA 👶🍼 GOO GOO GA GA
I have a ton of Pokémon cards from when I was a kid but I have no idea how to sell them or where to start. How does one get their whole collection appraised?
My son, 7, has been introduced to Pokemon by some of his friends several months ago, actually just before the pamdemic. I can't find a single pack of cards anywhere at the big stores (Target, Walmart), only at hobby shops and comic shops. Hobbies shops can be too expensive and are price out these poor kids. We were lucky enough to find packs at a comic shop not too far, but they didn't have a lot of packs. He was waiting weeks to buy just a pack or two with his own money. He was so excited. Growing up collecting sports cards myself, I want him to experience the same excitement and fun of purchasing his own packs, taking them home and opening them up. This damn greed in this craze is stealing that joy for this new generation of kids. It may be nostalgic for a lot of people and reliving their childhood, hoping to get an amazingly expensive card, but they are also stealing away that excitement from these younger kids. If I find packs, I buy them up just to save for my son. Haven't seen a pack in a big store in months.
Toxic part of Pokemon TCG atm. People are buying out Pokemon products to buy and flip em. Because of the pandemic Pokemon is not meeting the demand.
I hope the fad ends, filter out the fake fans hopping on a trend making it more expensive for the people who really enjoy it
Me: I got Pokemon Cards still from my childhood....I wonder how much they are worth lmao
Im looking for vintage collections if youre interested in selling
Ryan @ clapthebins at the end lmfaooooo
Feel sorry for all the young kids who are priced out of the market.
Don’t, you can only play competitively with the 10 latest series. So they can trade into these valuable cards. Kept it in my showcase binder and now my efforts being in tcg paid off. Pre release events when a great time to trade for cards you suspect will be valuable or would work in your deck
Yeah you can still buy regular prices pkmn cards from like Target and Walmart.
That guys mask is about effective as wearing a plastic grocery bag hung on your ears. If you arent going to wear it right dont look like a clown and just down wear it
Lmao
the mask is meant to protect the cards from your saliva when you talk or sneeze
What's the best site to sell ??
Nostalgia sales like crazy, ive been buying, fixing and selling PSP's over the last year, most requested games are GTA, Need for Speed and Pokemon.
I’ve got a 90’s charizard, I don’t think I’m going to sell it tho. Looks exactly like the one the owner has too
Same here, I worked in a comic shop during that time, and even though I never played it, I had to run tournaments for the store. I had a full set, but I sold it on eBay around 2005 for like 150 bucks. Wish I would have kept it.
I still have a foil Charizard and a bunch of promo cards that were given out for the movie. Thinking about sending the Charizard away to get it graded, I've had it sealed in a plastic hard case for 20 years.
2021 the everything bubble.
the social network bubble...
I have a full binder of pokemon from old to new. And honestly I've been debating if I should sell some cards or keep them til I pass them on 🤔 what should I do ??
I would sell them all. Cash in on profits and when the hype goes down rebuy them. Do what you think is best though
My relationship with pokemon has changed 😆😂🤣 sad part is I got rid of boxes of these knowing they would be worth a ton
That’s exactly the kind of misguided BS we expect from you guys! 👌
Stop being a hyna
@@adrianacev7579 you think, and that shows what you actually know compared to what you assume and claim. 👌
thanks for watching anyway!
Not surprised, since Anomaly's collections worth than a grand
"Dont get into it to make a buck, thats wrong" do they live in moms basement?
Imma go back looking for my old Pokémon cards. Lol
Logan Paul have ....
I have a bunch of cards from Pokemon from many years ago where can I get them price checked? I'm not in the US so I have no idea
2:50 my man got the real deal of pokeballs
Like I'm supposed to know about collecting cards when I was young 😂 I had a bunch of blue eyes and first eds that are now expensive.
@2:50 - Nice!
That 2nd interview, wow lol
Pokémon is the best. Born in 93 me and my classmates we would talk about Pokémon shows and cards nonstop. Best moment
Wish my mom didn’t throw ours away when I was younger
I had a grip
Of charzards