Price check sealed Pikachu 102 DP-P

[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