Flash-Back to 2009 / 2010 - This Hurts...

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My mom is in the process of creating a scrapbook with all of our family pictures from over the years. A few days ago, she asked me if I could try and recover all the pictures from our old computer - which has been sitting in the basement collecting dust for YEARS! To my surprise, the computer actually started right-up - mind you, this thing is running Windows X.P.! LOL

I was able to transfer all of our digital pictures onto a flash-drive and onto her computer. As we started looking through the pictures, I stumbled upon HUNDREDS of pictures from when I used to sell on eBay back in high-school - 2009 / 2010. While the majority of this stuff was in-fact for re-sale (wasnā€™t the avid collector back then - more into the business side of things); it really brought back A LOT of memories - man do I wish I had a time-machineā€¦ Haha

Anyway, I wonā€™t bore you with everything, but here are a few of my personal favorites:

HUGE STACK of Burger King 9-Card Sheets: Sure, these still donā€™t hold much value today; however, you really couldnā€™t give these sheets away back when I first started-out on eBay - nobody wanted these!

Japanese Base Set Booster Box: I actually purchased two Japanese Base Set Booster Boxes (both opened) from the person who just ran a bunch of PSA 9 Shadowless Holo Auctions (triumphtrsix). I used to do a lot of business with him!

PSA 10 1st Ed. Base Set Venusaur 15/102: I vividly remember purchasing this card off eBay Auction for somewhere around $500.00 - $600.00 - that was a good price (even back then); not a crazy deal or anything though. I forget how / when I actually re-sold this card.

PSA 9 1st Ed. and Shadowless Base Set Charizard 4/102: I was actually attempting to build a 1st Ed. and Shadowless PSA 9 Holo Set at one point; however, like I said, I wasnā€™t an avid collector back then - eventually sold-off on eBay for something ā€œbetterā€.


SHIT TON of 1st Ed. Base Set Non-Holo Cards: If you look closely, youā€™ll notice all of those cards are 1st Ed. Base Set! I really donā€™t remember owning all those 1st Ed. Base Set Cards! LOL Legit, I had completely forgotten about those! I know that I used to purchase a few 1st Ed. C. / Un. Sets from ebirdman every once in awhile - heā€™d have the set of 70 E. / C. / Un. Cards listed for around $80.00 BIN.

eBay Sale I 100% Regret to this Day: This is one eBay Sale that Iā€™ve never forgotten - and the one sale that I have always regretted! Just in-case you didnā€™t realize, those are all Shadowless Base Set C. / Un. Cards (NM/M and MINT Condition) placed inside 100 Ct. Plastic Card Boxes - majority of the E. / C. Boxes were FULL! Iā€™ve always loved the Shadowless Base Set - even more than the 1st Ed. I would hoard all of the Shadowless R. / Un. / C. / E. Cards (only those in NM/M and MINT Condition) that I picked-up through purchases.

I forget how many cards were there - it was A LOT!!! When I stopped selling on eBay (when I started college), I thought I was going to be done with Pokemon forever - so everything was sold-off. I sold this collection as one lot on eBay Auction for DIRT-CHEAP!

Some of the Rare Cards to go along with the above. I could have sworn I also had A LOT more Rare Cards thoughā€¦

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Boy do I know how you feel:(

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I can relate to this. Me and my girlfriend bought some booster boxes occasionally during 09-11 just for fun and I regret not getting more invested into collecting back then, because some cards wouldā€™ve been much cheaper than now.

On the other hand I think that the hobby somehow grew up with its community. Look, Iā€™m 27 now, Pokemon started when I was about 8-10 years old. As an 8 year old you arenā€™t interested in keeping the cards in perfect condition and donā€™t care about 1st Edition, shadowless etc., therefore there didnā€™t remain any of these in my possession over the years. When I got older I grew out of Pokemon as a hobby, sold many of my cards and had other, more ā€œmatureā€ interests. When I rediscovered Pokemon in my young adulthood I hadnā€™t the funds and patience to seriously start collecting, just did it for fun and on occasion. Now Iā€™m grown up (hah!) and have financial stability/disposable income, I can get more invested and so do others.

Of course not everyone is the same and not every Pokemon collector was born in 1990, but I do think I belong to quite a big part of the community demographic wise and many of the recent collectors may have made similar experiences.

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Do you know the prices for bulk c/u shadowless base and team rocket please?

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Alsoā€¦ouch dudeā€¦:confused: I feel for you! and ive never owned those cards aha

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I feel your pain, OP. As a new collector, I just wish I could rewind back 1 yearā€¦ even 6 months. :grin:

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Maybe 1.50 for shadowless if nm/m or better.
Not sure with TR