The Pokémon card trading market operates on principles of market value assessment, negotiation, and strategic pricing, where vendors balance competitive pricing with profit margins by referencing TCG market values, adjusting prices based on demand, and offering percentage-based deals to experienced collectors, while also considering card condition, rarity, and market trends when making sales decisions.
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I know Jesse's going to watch this and he I told him he should have came to gas me up today. Which one?
>> All the shinies.
>> At the end of the day, I made 640. So, >> all right, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Sash and Trade. What is it?
The boy Eddie. He hooked us up today.
We're sharing a table. Gas me up TCG. I just got off work. I'm half awake. We're already halfway down to Celsius, but we're here. We're going to thrive. We're flipping cardboard. There's no free giveaway in this, but there's definitely going to be some great deals, right, Eddie?
>> Yes, sir.
>> All right, let's get to it.
>> Dude, one and done. One and done, right?
Yeah.
That's super cool, bro. Mind if I show the camera?
>> Yeah, dude. Check that out. We're just walking around with a Mega Gengar on a Thursday. That's so cool, bro. You know what? I'll have to take a pass on it.
But if nobody else in the building makes an offer on it, uh, come back to me.
Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> How much is that Genar?
>> The Gen guy running for I think Mega Gengar is going for like two grand, right?
>> Yeah, it's something like that.
>> But your prices are too high, bro.
>> I said a thousand. You said what's going on, man. What's going on? Hey, >> you got some Alolan Doug Doug trios.
Alain Doug trios >> not on me. I know which ones you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah.
>> You have them?
>> I do have them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But um to be honest, I'm probably gonna sit on them. They're gonna they're going to do well later.
>> Oh, really?
>> Oh, yeah. I think so.
>> Like the blonde hair.
>> Oh, yeah. A great art style. I'd even grab the pinser.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a really unique card that I think >> Yeah, it stands out.
>> Oh, it stands out hardcore. Yeah, >> it stands out. I only use it to roast my friends.
>> I got a couple bald guy friends.
>> Oh, you want to hand them out?
>> Reminds me of you. Damn, bro. I mean, as a Baldi, that's just crazy, bro.
>> Hi there.
>> What you looking for today?
>> Which one?
>> All the shinies.
>> All the shinies.
>> Yeah.
>> I can tell you this, the shinies are just going to keep going up.
>> I know. I know. I just bought I just bought like 40 of them.
>> But these are like the high the more the more higher end ones, you know.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. The right shoe.
>> How much you get?
>> Want some?
>> Yeah.
>> The Pikachu.
You can get >> it's also this one was 13.
>> Oh, I added that one.
>> Oh, 10 mouse.
Just divide two.
>> Hey, what was your number?
>> 140.
>> Yeah.
>> Could you meet me at 145?
>> I'm too market. What was market? 140.
>> Market was 157.
>> 157.
>> The thing is like if we come this 1850 and then I do up the price.
>> Cool. Cool.
Yeah. You mind if I show the camera real quick? What was your name?
>> Ezekiel.
>> Ezekiel. We are hooking up Ezekiel with >> shiny Snorlax, Jigglypuff, Raichu, and Tan mouse for 145.
>> Perfect. It was a pleasure, Ezekiel.
Yeah. Yeah. If you're ever looking for more stuff, come on back. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I ran from work, like literally hopped out of the ambulance, >> thumb print, got out, drove home, grabbed all my [ __ ] ran real quick, showered, and now I'm here.
>> Appreciate you coming.
>> Oh, yeah, of course, dude. No, what is it? I I've always wanted to do a Gas Me Up here cuz it's such a vibe. Like, I love it. So, I'm I'm very happy I finally get to say I'm part of the alumni of Gas Me Up Irvine. So, >> cuz I used to go to the the old shop in in Orange. I used to go there all the time.
>> I think my first like >> buyers like POV was at gas tcg like like the original original spot. Yeah. Yeah.
>> You don't need to go into that table.
You don't need to. What is it? I I'll give you the best deal here.
>> I'm also um I'm hunting for my friend right now, too.
>> Yeah.
What is he looking for?
>> They send me like a list of stuff.
>> Yeah, this is Labra. Slow [ __ ] on the Violet. Poly World. I got Poliworld >> protein.
You said it was like >> Oh, I opened this way earlier. one >> you guys collectors, investors, players.
Which one?
>> Collectors.
>> Okay. What's your uh your Pokemon?
>> Well, I look for anything with books in the art.
>> Okay.
>> Specific, but it narrows down my selection at all.
>> Yeah. I I would say >> Alakazam.
>> I was about to say I think I have a healthy actually >> a healthy bunch. I think I got the uh the Machamp. I got the Alakazam. I believe the Gardevoir and the Eevee.
have to double check those. And then even the Curillia right down there.
>> Can I see the actually?
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> That's a nice little >> And if you were looking to pick up uh 151, this is the time to do it. It popped, it dropped, and now it's like definitely settled and corrected, and it's starting to climb back up again.
>> I think I'm going to wait on it. Okay, cool. Yeah, no worries. What is it? If uh five bucks off, I could I don't know if that helps.
>> I mean, >> what is it? I could double check pricing on it. Let me see.
That's tough cuz right now the swing on it is 70 to 85.
So, do it for 70.
>> You do it for 70.
>> All right, let's do it.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> What is it? I don't want to be known as one of those vendors that doesn't match TCG. So, I got you.
>> You're very welcome.
>> You have I do actually.
>> And do you mind if I show the camera?
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, what's your name?
>> Maggie.
>> Maggie and >> Taylor.
>> Maggie. Taylor. Who is it? Maggie and Taylor. We're hooking them up right now with this Alakazam 151 for $70.
>> You're very welcome.
>> Oh, perfect.
>> All right. Thank you.
>> All right. Have a good one, guys.
>> Yeah.
>> What's up, boss? How you doing, man?
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Get out here.
>> Oh, yeah. No. What is it? Eddie hooked it up today, man. He's my boy.
All right, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, I saw you jump. It's loud.
>> Hey, this thing loud. Not like I'm loud enough. Huh?
>> All right, but coffee is ready, ladies and gentlemen.
>> If you're looking for a crazy low pop Ivy store, Eddie, show it to the camera. Look at that. That's crazy. Hit up Eddie.
It It's kind of a weird market right now. It could go any way. It could go left. It could go right. I I personally think this whole summer is just going to be >> it's just going to be super high. Like the whole summer, >> the whole anniversary period.
>> Yeah. Luckily, it's over in September and we'll see what happens then. We're in dark territory after that. So, >> yeah.
Hey, could you help me with this though?
Woo! First time ever doing two tables.
Let's go, camera. Let's go.
So, camera, this is my first time ever doing two tables. So, I may have to like figure this out later, but it's something that I've always wanted to do cuz I knew at some point with my entire collection, I was going to be moving out to two tables at some point. you know, I would be bringing out the uh like a sealed Zion case eventually at some point, right? So, you know, if it's weird editing or weird angles, please bear with me. I am still new, but thank you. Yeah, definitely. Thank you to Mario, too, dude. Like, thank you so much for giving me a second table. Like, me and Eddie, we really appreciate it.
Cheers.
>> Oh, yeah. No, it's because what's happening is Temporal Forces is slowly turning into a Gengar set.
>> Oh, really? Yeah, because it's moving out and it's going into that collector status. I mean, God bless Pokemon for trying, but like Raichu looking like a giraffe was one of the worst decisions ever. So, like all of those like prehistoric uh legendaries are kind of getting moved out and and all the Gengars are moving up. So, Gastley is going to be the front runner for that set. And then right behind it is going to be the um this trainer and then the full art.
>> Yeah. No. was that Scarlet and Violet definitely had some weird like like I think a couple years from now when everything's fully like kind of like been grandfathered out and people look back on it, it's going to be like it didn't matter if it was an SIR if it was a good IR it completely took over like with Black Magikarp in Palia Evolved.
>> Which one?
>> Is that Silver Tempest?
>> I don't know. I don't know what set that one's from.
>> This one. This is the Crown Zenith.
>> Crown Zenith.
>> Secret Pikachu. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Everyone I saw like four people would have it all priced differently.
>> It's probably because of like they bought it at different times and they are trying to save money.
>> Yeah.
>> Me I usually go off of TCG so um I keep it at market value if not a little bit lower just to be competitive.
>> But yeah. No, that that's usually where I have it at. But if you've seen it all over the place.
>> Yeah. The highest I saw was 70.
>> Yeah. Somebody bought it really high and it dropped and now they're trying to make their money back. Yeah, which sucks at that point in my opinion. Just just take the card out of the case because well, the numbers are so apart at that point. It's just going to I've seen vendors get really upset like that and they'll like they'll want to like fight the the customer and it's just like dude like they're asking something very honest and very like industry accepted being like, "Hey, we're going off TCG prices. Why are you not?" Oh, like they just don't want to admit I'm an idiot and I bought high.
>> Yeah, >> the Pikachu in that in that one.
>> This one right here. This one.
>> I kind of like that.
>> Yeah. Take a look at it.
>> Let me Let me check TCG again and see if I'm right.
>> It's spot on.
>> Is it spot on?
>> I checked earlier. It's spot on.
>> It's Yeah.
>> No, I'm I'm usually really good at that.
>> That's the thing. I'm just like, this guy's actually honest about this. Would you entertain 45?
>> I don't think I would just just because I'm looking at it like today.
>> Yeah.
>> 59 53.
>> So it's almost like I'm already market >> technically.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Market's already over now at this point. If anything, I got to resticker it to 55. So it would be it would be um 50 would be like kind of like the $5 off that I would take.
>> You'll be like right there.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. I'll do 50.
>> 50. Perfect. Thank you.
>> You're okay with that?
>> Absolutely. Yeah. No, no, of course.
What is it? Um I should have I should have restickered.
Was it my um >> car? Oh, >> absolutely. No, no. What is it? Um my uh my demise is your a gain of fortune.
>> Do you guys mind being on camera?
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, what's your name?
>> John.
>> John and John and Whitney. What is it?
We're hooking up John and Whitney with this Pikachu from Crown Zena Secret for $50. Congratulations, guys. Appreciate it.
>> Yeah, of course. Of course.
Congratulations. Yeah.
slowly getting turned into my own table.
>> Hey yo, Eddie.
Hello. Hello. Hello.
What is it? We got pushed over and we actually have our now our own table.
Eddie is hooking up with his uh his homie right now. They're going to be doing a table together. So, um yeah.
Wish you the best of luck, brother.
>> Uh how's it going, brother? How are you, dude?
>> Good, bro. Check YouTube video. I saw that.
>> Oh, dude. Thank you, man.
>> Yeah, I know. The episode this morning or for Oh, yeah. This morning, >> dude. Thank you, dude. Dude, man. Yeah, man. Means a lot, bro. [ __ ] Pick whatever you want. I'm giving you a discount.
Um, I'm always down to hook up the fans or anybody who watches my stuff, you know? I mean, it's it's the least I can do to say thank you.
>> I was like, I want say I want say what's up.
>> All right. Got you, dude. Well, thank you so much, brother. I really appreciate that.
>> Keep it going. Keep it going. You're pumping up, >> dude. Man, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Damn, bro. I'm letting y'all know when you come up to me and you tell me stuff like that. Thank you. Thank you.
It really does mean a lot. I don't know if I'm actually like like is it doing good? Is it doing bad? I don't know. I'm just putting it out there into the world that I am a man just trying to be a dude. I'm just a man trying to be a dude that has a rocking mustache.
>> Yeah. Yeah. But thank you. Thank you guys. I'm gonna have to just pass right off the bat, man. I mean, it is a great card, dude. I wish my boy was Jesse was here right now. Do you mind if I show the camera cuz I know I know Jesse's going to watch this and he I told him he should have came to gas me up today. Yo, Jesse, what you missed out on? That could have been yours, bro. Could have been yours right there.
Hey, what's going on again, dude? What you guys looking for?
>> How much the packs? So, I got Silver Tempest at 16. I have um Temporal Forces at 10. The PLA evolve is at 15. And then Battle Styles is at 13.
>> Feeling kind of lucky.
>> Feeling kind of lucky. Which one?
Which one? Which one speaks to you, brother?
>> Which one's going to get the best? I haven't like >> Hey, in my opinion, that black Magikarp that comes out of how they evolve, that is nothing but the best, bro.
>> I'll do one of those.
>> You want to do one of those? All right.
Hey yo, Pinto, what's going on, man?
Dude, how you guys doing? How you guys doing?
>> Yeah.
Any win deal right there.
>> Oh yeah. There you go.
>> Come back around. I guess I take a look.
Come back around. See if you want anything.
>> Sure. Sure. Absolutely.
>> What's in there?
>> I'm just looking.
So, what's the verdict? Is he sick?
>> I mean, yeah. There's like that white spot on the back.
>> There's what?
>> Has that like white, you know, the speckled?
>> Yeah, the white dot. Yeah.
>> I mean, as long as there's less than two, less than two imperfections is what you can get at PSA now. So, one white dot and then maybe you get something else.
>> Yeah. I mean, it's the best one I've seen so far cuz some other people had them. One guy.
>> Gotcha. I got you. And then there was >> Oh, god. No.
>> Like friend light in it.
>> Yeah.
>> This is the only one you have.
>> That's the only clip I have. Yeah.
Unfortunately.
>> What's the best I pro? Let me see.
>> What is it? There was a purchase today at 61, but there was also a purchase today at 47. So, uh, I'm I'm in the middle already at 50.
God, >> you know what? I could do 45.
>> I probably just stay at 45. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I I'm one of those non flippers. I I'm very uh I'm very um investor minded when it comes to this stuff. Yeah.
>> You don't want to gamble, huh? No.
>> Be like the rest of the degenerous.
>> You have changes?
>> Yeah.
>> Three, four. 1 2 3 4 five.
>> Cool. Thanks, bro.
>> Was it Brad? Do you mind if I show the uh >> Yeah.
>> Thank you.
>> You can tag me if you want. My uh IG is Card Junkie.
>> Car Junkie. Absolutely. Thank you. What was it? I I'll definitely plug you in the uh the video, too.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> What is it? We're hooking up Brad right now, aka Car Junkie, with this KFA for $45.
>> Yep.
>> Congratulations.
>> Thank you, bro.
>> Yeah. Thank you.
>> The old stuff that he had like from a few years ago any of these.
>> Let me see. I didn't have a time to look it all up.
>> I mean, the only problem with some of these cards are like these two are fake.
>> Oh, yeah. I know those.
>> And this one I'm pretty sure is fake.
>> Oh, really? You go check it out.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Because a lot of these a cards Yeah. they were um >> they have like really intricate shiny details on it.
>> Yeah. That's why I'm like it's pretty damn shiny. So, >> well, the only thing though is is it doesn't have any texture on it.
>> So, it would either be one of the rarest errors you can get. It's called a non-exture error.
>> Or I get I mean I could double check it real quick. The Denden for sure is good.
Same thing with the Zassian V. Um, and it's just this page, right? Yeah.
>> I can double check it for you real quick.
>> I mean, so far >> more lighter.
>> Yeah, the back is more lighter.
>> I mean, a lot of the things that they mess up on, they'll always make the Pokemon yellow when in fact it's a little orange tint. Also a second way to tell there's something called a print line.
>> So there's no data on your >> So you see that right there at the top >> with if you mind holding this?
>> Yeah.
>> When they put together the Pokemon card, it's actually two layers and you're going to get a little thin black line right there. You see that? And then the way to double check that black line.
>> Oh, you hold like a light up.
>> Yeah, you hold a line up to it. And with a with a real Pokemon card, >> like a black light almost, right?
>> Exactly. What's going to end up happening is >> we be like, >> it doesn't go through, right? So, let me see that one real quick.
>> Don't go through.
>> Yeah, it goes through. See?
>> Oh, yeah, it does.
>> Yep.
>> My my two cents. Just go with your gut feeling on anything. There's such a big space. You can literally do anything.
You could be a mid- era guy. You could be a vintage guy. You could be a promo guy. Like you you could be the bulk guy.
There are people who actually make a living off bulk. I think that would be a nightmare personally, but like yeah, like some people they know how to make a business out of it. So yeah, here you go, brother.
>> What is it? Um, I have those listed at 45 for the 10 and then uh for I think it's like 14 or 15 for the uh the uh the sleeve booster. It's like 97. Just give me 95.
>> Yeah.
Always down to hook up the homie.
>> Yeah, of course. No, no, that's you.
Like if I can get you away from Franken's that's like that is like they pissed me off so bad one time I went in there is Are you sure bro dude I dude brother thank you what is it hooking up Ivan dude Fantasmal flames right here.
Thank you guys. No I went in there.
>> I'm not even joking you DVDs for 20 bucks.
>> Dude I was like no. Are you crazy?
Box set's going for 150.
>> Yeah. He tried hooking me up with uh Haley William tickets. Oh yeah.
>> And I like he's like, "Yeah, she's coming by the the will turn. Do you want tickets?" And I was like, "I already know for a fact that's not going to happen, but sure, I'm going to say yes."
And of course, two weeks later, he's like, "It's not happening."
>> All right. Which one? We are hooking up Raul and Karen with all of this for $20.
Thank you so much, guys.
>> You find my collection. I just started it today.
>> Perfect. Perfect.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Of course, guys. Of course. Of course.
>> And then I'll send you the picture.
>> Absolutely. Please.
>> I'm really going to look at it.
>> Of course. I'm not I'm going to I'm going to hard it and then I'm going to repost it on my stories.
>> Thank you.
>> Have a good one, guys. Yeah.
>> Yeah, sure.
To be honest with you, I'm pretty I'm pretty selfheavy right now. I'm not really taking in anything. Um, something like that.
>> I I'd take a pass on it.
>> Yeah. Um, yeah, I'm already given pretty good percentages on it. I probably have to stay pretty firm on it.
I'm at 10% with it. Let me see what 85 looks like.
>> You have your card?
>> Yeah, I can do 640 coin flips.
>> I don't do coin flips.
>> Hear me out.
>> All right. All right. Here.
>> 620.
>> Yes.
>> Hey, bro. 635.
>> 620. 635.
>> Hey, you're you're talking mom. Yeah. I got to stay firm on 640. I have to I'm already >> Okay, so 640 640.
>> What is it? Um I'm already doing >> like I wouldn't give this percentage to anybody except that you're a veteran and I love hooking up veterans. Um >> usually with vendors I stick between 5 to 10%. I wouldn't even go past that, but with you I would definitely do 15%.
>> Coin flip.
>> No coin flip. No. Are you going to do it, brother? All right. What is it?
>> You got a video?
>> Got on the video right here.
>> All right. We're hooking up the homie.
He's a veteran and we love honoring our veterans here at Stash and Trade. We are sending out this city in Flames PSA 10 Charizard for $640. Brother, this was a pleasure. Absolutely.
>> How much cash I have?
>> Let me see.
>> If not, that's going to be >> absolutely fine.
>> 200 >> 200.
>> Yeah, I got you. I got And honestly, this card >> I don't like I don't mind paying high because cards that I don't mind PCing >> on that card is probably very high.
>> Well, that that would be a good card to PC. It's going to run a little bit before.
>> So, you take the percentage, sit on it for a little bit, you'll get back a nice return on it.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah.
>> Got it.
>> Hell yeah, brother. Absolutely. Thank you, dude.
>> I'm gonna come over. I'm going to check out your uh your table. Okay.
Deal.
>> Sold the Zardi.
>> Yeah. I gave him I gave him a good percentage on it. He's a veteran and uh I love hooking up veterans. So, but at the end of the day, I made 640. So, yeah.
>> No, that one I traded, sent it. Obsidian flames had at 750 brought it down to 640 50%. So, yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Just looking. I want like one like this like good condition.
>> You want it in good condition?
>> Well, who doesn't want that, brother?
Come on.
>> Okay, let's go.
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