How Whitening on Card Backs Destroys PSA Grades
Whitening on card backs is the single most common reason Pokemon cards fail to achieve a PSA 10 grade, and the financial penalty is brutal.
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What Centering Does to Your Pokémon Card Grade
Centering is one of the most impactful sub-grades in Pokémon card grading, and poor centering alone can drop your final grade by one to three full points...
This Card Has a PSA Pop of 1 — Here’s What That Means for Price
A PSA Pop of 1 means that out of every copy of that card ever submitted to PSA for grading, only one has received that particular grade.
How Population Reports Change the Value of a Pokémon Card
Population reports change the value of a Pokemon card by quantifying scarcity at each grade level, turning abstract rarity into a concrete number that...
What Happens If PSA Grades Your Card Lower Than Expected?
If PSA grades your card lower than expected, you are stuck with three options: accept the grade and sell at a reduced value, crack the card out of the...
What PSA Grade Does Your Card Need to Be Worth Grading?
For modern Pokémon cards, your card generally needs PSA 9 or PSA 10 potential to justify the cost of grading, and the raw card should be worth at least...
How to Check Pokémon Card Prices in 5 Minutes or Less
The fastest way to check a Pokémon card's price is to pull out your phone, open a free scanner app like PokeScope or Dragon Shield, point your camera at...
Attic Find Pokémon Cards: Real Values vs. What People Think They Have
Most Pokémon cards found in attics, basements, and childhood closets are worth very little. That shoebox of cards from the late 1990s or early 2000s that...
The Pokémon Card Bubble: Are We in One Right Now?
No, we are not in a Pokémon card bubble — at least not in the way most people mean when they use that word.
Pokémon Card Market Crash of 2022: What Happened and Where Prices Are Now
The Pokémon card market crash of 2022 was a sharp correction following two years of unprecedented speculative mania, with some cards losing 60% or more of...