Hello. I am fairly new to Pokemon cards, but have been buying/selling/playing with various card games (mainly Magic) for about ten years now. I recently came into possession of a fairly large collection (by my standards at least) of Pokemon cards and am fairly at a loss on how to begin selling them. I have browsed through EBay and various forums, but figured I would post here with a couple of questions to try and get started.
First of all, is there a rule of thumb for how to tell if Pokemon cards are fake? I believe that these are all real, but I would like to be close to 100% positive before going to sell them.
Do any of you know of any place I could go for other Pokemon related memorabilia besides cards specifically? The collection has various other things in it that I’m not quite sure if they are worth anything or are just garbage.
Is there a quick way to ‘grade’ Pokemon cards? I have some experience with grading MtG cards, but it is a bit different due to the foiling differences. Any rule of thumb here?
Can any of you think of anything else to inform me on that could help me in my quest of selling all of these cards? I have yet to decide on selling them as full sets or as individual cards. I’m thinking of selling the sets where I can simply for ease.
Here is a list of what I have categorized and counted so far, I have yet to really delve into the Japanese cards, as they are harder (for me) to write down and organize:
Sets:
Basic 1st Edition - Complete Set
Basic Unlimited - Complete Set
Basic Unlimited Shadowless - Complete Set
Jungle 1st Edition - Complete Set
Jungle Unlimited - Complete Set
Fossil 1st Edition - Complete Set
Fossil Unlimited - Complete Set
Base 2 (I don’t know if there was Unlimited and 1st here) - Complete Set
Team Rocket 1st Edition - Complete Set
Team Rocket Unlimited - Complete Set
Gym Heroes 1st Edition - Complete Set
Gym Heroes Unlimited - Complete Set
Gym Challenge 1st Edition - Complete Set
Gym Challenge Unlimited - Complete Set
Neo Genesis 1st Edition - Complete Set
Neo Genesis Unlimited - Complete Set
Neo Discovery 1st Edition - Complete Set
Neo Discovery Unlimited - Missing #17 Yanma
Neo Revelation 1st Edition - Complete Set + Shining Magikarp and Shining Gyrados ( Not sure if those are part of the set or something extra)
Neo Destiny 1st Edition - Complete Set + Shining Celebi, Charizard, Kabutops, Mewtwo, Noctowl, Raichu, Steeliz, Tyranitar (same as above, not quite sure is these are considered part of the set or not)
American Black Star Promos 1-38
Other Items:
Southern Islands Japanese Sealed set (Sky, Field of Flowers, River-ride, Beach, Sea, Jungle)
Southern Islands English set - Opened - In Southern Islands Binder
Two Pikachu World Collection - One sealed - One open
Also included is assorted Japanese rares and Japanese promos that I have yet to go through. Along with lots of random memorabilia.
Anyway, any rough pricing or idea where I could go to get a pricing guide or where I could go to sell, or tips on selling these sets would be awesome.
Thank you for the time.