Pokemon cards are a luxury purchase, and when people are worried about grocery bills and rent, buying a $200 slab or a $150 booster box moves down the priority list
Collectors seem to have also bought into this rationale and, for all intents and purposes, if a card exists with the same art and set symbol on both set lists, theres no real reason to figure out which version youre holding
Designer Notes: Swarm the board with tokens, then play your commander to overwhelm your opponents and remove their smaller creatures
One PSA 10 Chansey-Holo 1st Edition card was sold for $36,877 on eBay in November 2020, and another sold for $32,433 the following month
Pikachu Illustrator was originally awarded to winners of a drawing contest hosted in Japanese magazine CoroCoro Comic during 1997 and 1998
15.5 If a Lot is proved to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company to be a Forgery then the Company may rescind the Sale as agent of the Seller in which case the Seller shall refund the Sale Proceeds to the Company, which will refund the Purchase Price to the Buyer and make the Lot available to the Seller for collection provided that: (a) the Buyer provides written notice to the Company within 14 days of the auction date of the Forgery allegations