Looking for non holos, psa 10s only, the list I need is fairly large so shoot me a message if you have them, looking at around $25 for commons and I still need loads, will pay more for starters so please message me if you can help me! also if you have psychic and water energies I will pay $30 for the pair.
Uncommons or rares message me also but I’m not sure on my buy prices for these at the moment.
“I am not dropping stupid money on it”
So you’re not going to complete it?
To complete this set requires serious investment and also time, however best of luck with it, just cards going only one way in value currently!
Something to keep in mind, these cards were selling near $100 each a couple years ago. Supply is somewhat high right now. But Definitely spend what you feel comfortable spending.
I looked through sold listings and they have been going for within my price range especially cards like poliwag, sandshrew, onix etc. By stupid money I was referring to cards like wartortle, I will be fine with a 9 for £30 than a 10 for £300+. The holos are a part of the set so I need them but again I will probably end up with a mixed 9/10 set.
9s are a great investment right now, as far as I can see. I have always felt 9s were underrated in the short run for original URs.
I wish you the best of luck! I know at the moment I can not afford them. I wish I could!
i valie a complete 10 set above 20k… prolly about 25k realistically. anyways i have quite a few 10s for commons and a bumch at psa right now waiting to come back. so keep me in mind when you may decide to buy some
Sold my blastoise 1st ed shadowless mint 9 last year for 300 
… Sold my 1st ed shadowless blastoise for 900USD end of last year
If going for the holos, peeps better star laying out that cash now, because this is getting out of control lol. Shadowless psa 10 sold privately for 500usd not to long ago, and now it just ended on auction for 1275usd which dam nirly 1/3 of the price higher of total of a 1st ed shadowless blastoise psa 10 was selling for in september 
Anyone else thinking that the prices may be a bit too high at the moment with a lot of people paying out as they’re getting somewhat close to set completion?
I just dont think the demand will be sustainable to continue this huge upqard trend. At what point will the vast majority see this as a 25k journey and say “start 1st ed base set? Fuck that noise…”
What is happening overall with the 1st Ed base set is not a flash in the pan. Just about every holo card almost instantly evaporates when listed. I would say they are too high if they only occasionally sold, but Charizard is like crack in the 80’s right now.
I think the set will require more planning and will be a longer term goal (mostly concerning mint rare-holo cards). The set also probably piques the interest non-pokemon collectors as well.
While I would agree with this assessment for most items within the hobby, I don’t think it will be true for the base set.
I don’t have to make points about base set being THE set, nor do I need to reiterate the desirability of the set relative to others. I think you’re all familiar enough with that. But perhaps it’s easier to understand why these values are less like the bubbles we’ve witnessed in the past couple years and more like an overdue value increase when we consider the perfect storm surrounding them.
-People who collected as kids are entering the labor force largely around this time
-There is an increasing draw to Pokémon cards from other similar investment pools, as evidenced by PWCC auctions success, SMR article, trophy card sales to unknown collectors around the world
-Pokémon as a franchise is the most profitable it has ever been INCLUDING the 2K hype
-PSA grading is rapidly increasing in popularity within the Pokémon community
-PSA POP reports are increasingly at a slow rate relative to demand, as evidenced by the continued purchase of the cards at higher prices WITHOUT immediate reentry to the market*
From what I can tell, all of the signs point toward this being a natural market value increase as a clean result of low supply and high demand. Another plateau is inevitable, but neither decay nor permanent flatline seem likely.
*I wanted to expand on this a bit more than was fitting as a bullet point. This is a huge difference versus, say, the gold star bubble. When these auctions are ending, they rarely go right back up for sale on another seller’s page. These are being tucked away and dispersed. It is a sign that quick flippers are a minority of the purchasers, which bodes well for long-term value. When stable, investing collectors hold cards for long periods of time, they increase the market scarcity of the cards and drive the value upward. This is a sustainable pattern as well so long as they sell them in intervals, as is often the case.
also Pokemon cards seem to be more and more popular as time goes on as well. my store sold out for all the fates collide boosters and theme decks within weeks
I don’t like to list the holos on eBay cause I get so many private sales to regulars I don’t want to run out for them. I’m already waaaay down on some numbers. I don’t sell my Charizards and only I Blastoise and 2 Venus. The prices are climbing and most the supply is very thin. I’d rather people wait but as a buyer i’d get to work now.
what happened to the mighty stoicemesses, now i will die.
And the venubaez.
Best of luck with this set, its pure fun to collect regardless of which grade your going for 
I’d say i’m 75% done with mine after a year and half.
Can you please translate that into Japanese 
Kyōdaina stoicemesses ni nani ga okotta no ka, ima watashi wa shinde shimaimasu.
Soshite venubaez.
P.S I’m buying your pristine zard one day, and der be nothing you can do about it 
Definitely some good points around non pokemon focussed investors. I generalised a little and should have mentioned i was referring to 10s. There will always be a high demand i guess i was referring more to the point that just how expensive can tens get before newer collectors simply refuse to begin that challenge, as woolsluk says hed rather pay 10-20% of the price of a 10 for a 9.
Also i get that kid collectors are getting jobs now etc, but that doesnt necessarily mean all of them have that kind of level of disposable incone and even if they do they may have other priorities than this one particular set.
Going to be very interesting to see how the values of lower grades move in relation to the 10s
If MTG can get customers to pay $100-$13,500 on their primier set I see no reason to believe Pokemon can’t acheive that price point at some point either. sample of MTG Alpha that ended yesterday