Price check sealed Pikachu 102 DP-P

[picigipi024]

As the title said, what is the right price for the card? The other cards in the miniset are about 20 to 50 each sealed, but i never find a 102 DP-P for sale and the PSA Pop report is 1. Thanks

[smpratte]

This is by far the most difficult copy to find from the 5. Honestly it is whatever price you find. Luckily it is still somewhat niche, so most are unaware of its rarity/scarcity.

[woolsluk]

I sold a sealed copy in november for £175 but it had a little corner wear on the actual card so it was probably a psa 9 worthy card.

[cinnaminhbun]

@smpratte

This is by far the most difficult copy to find from the 5. Honestly it is whatever price you find. Luckily it is still somewhat niche, so most are unaware of its rarity/scarcity.

What makes the Fukuoka one rarer? Was the center just newer/less visited/etc.? This is so interesting!

[quuador]

As mentioned by @smpratte , the 102/DP-P is way rarer than the other four for some reason. As a Pikachu collector I had been looking for one of these for 1.5 years before I finally found one for 300 USD (sealed). Of course, as is always the case, two more popped up for sale in the two months after that… (I actually bought one of those two and still have it somewhere among my duplicated cards that I have to sell one day…)

I talked about it when I added it to my collection. One reason might be the lower residence count for the city it was released in when we compare it to the other four. Whatever the reason, the 102/DP-P is a lot rarer and harder to find than the other four.
I will quote what I said in my collection thread at the time here:

@quuador

A very special addition again, which arrived today:

The 102/DP-P Pokémon Center promo (still sealed).

This card is part of a set of five, here is an image for the entire set from my collection:

So, a little backstory:

These cards were only available in five of Japan’s Pokémon Centers between June 16th, 2008 and July 31st, 2008 until the supplies ran out:

• 098: Tokyo’s Pokémon Center (8,945,000 residents in 2010)
• 099: Yokohama’s Pokémon Center (3,689,000 residents in 2010)
• 100: Osaka’s Pokémon Center (2,665,000 residents in 2010)
• 101: Nagoya’s Pokémon Center (2,264,000 residents in 2010)
• 102: Fukuoka’s Pokémon Center (1,464,000 residents in 2010)

I myself didn’t collect during that year, but I estimate that after the first craze, these would all five be worth less than 30 USD in the upcoming few years. Now, 9 years later, I’ve seen the following prices / availability (although I haven’t searched for these cards in particular after I got them, I do look for “Pikachu card” on a daily basis on eBay and Yahoo Japan so I come across them sometimes):

• 98: Usually around 25-50 USD. I’ve seen 3-5 for sale these past 1.5 years on eBay.
• 99: Usually around 5-25 USD. This one you see pretty often. I’ve probably seen 5-10 for sale on eBay these past 1.5 years, but about 1-3 pop up every month on Yahoo Japan these past 7 months since I discovered YJ and Noppin (surprisingly enough there are currently none for sale… ).
• 100: Usually around 15-30 USD. I’ve seen 5-10 for sale these past 1.5 years on eBay.
• 101: About the same as the 98.
• 102: I’ve seen none for sale this past 1.5 years, except for one a couple of weeks ago. The auction for that one is still live: Sealed 5/5 set for 1250 USD. I contacted the seller if he was willing to sell the 102 separately, but unfortunately he was asking 800 USD, a bit above my budget for this card. In his description he also mentions the following:

We sorted through over 872 Japanese retail stores, and only ever found 1 of these cards sealed from our consignment purchases.

They don’t pop up at all on yahoo auctions or ebay.

It also came to my attention that Scott (@smpratte ) has the complete set in PSA10 (including 102/DP-P) returning from PSA as we speak. He was more than willing to break his set for that same 800 USD price-point, even for the PSA10 version of the 102/DP-P. Personally I estimate the value of this card around 200-600 USD, which is a very large margin and it’s basically equal to the following: “I honestly don’t know; there are too few of these sold to estimate its current value.”
Well, I’m glad to say that even though these so rarely pop up for sale, I’ve got one now. I’ve been contacted by someone on reddit where I left a similar post as my Pikachu wanted list on E4 with the stated price of 300 USD.

Glad to have this set complete, and once again I’m one step closer to a complete Pikachu collection. After the arrival of a few more incoming cards, there are ‘just’ 72 out of the 810 existing Pikachus left to find.

As mentioned in the quote before. The value is: “Personally I estimate the value of this card around 200-600 USD, which is a very large margin and it’s basically equal to the following: I honestly don’t know; there are too few of these sold to estimate its current value.” This was the case when I received it in April 2017, and this is still the case today.

Greetz,
Quuador

[smpratte]

@cinnaminhbun

@smpratte

This is by far the most difficult copy to find from the 5. Honestly it is whatever price you find. Luckily it is still somewhat niche, so most are unaware of its rarity/scarcity.

What makes the Fukuoka one rarer? Was the center just newer/less visited/etc.? This is so interesting!

That has always been the assumption. In general the market was much smaller during their release. But the 102 appears significantly less as Kevin mentioned above. I have a listing on ebay of the full set PSA 10, and have received multiple questions about breaking the set for the 102.

[justinmew]

Unfortunately because the pop report is 1, you’re at the mercy of smpratte. This card seems to be incredibly rare and very few people are willing to pay what the card is truly worth.