"Gotta Catch 'em All" When someone mentions Pokémon, many think of the anime cartoons and Nintendo Game Boy games that kids were clamoring for around the end of the Millennium. Even today, it is not uncommon to pass a park or public place and see a group of people huddled around . . . probably playing Pokémon GO on their cellphones. The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a collectible card game where players use Pokémon cards featuring an array of different characters with individual
Leaving Their Mark We see collections with initials, marks and notations all of the time. It was not uncommon for brothers and sisters to put an initial or a mark on their cards to differentiate them from their siblings or to identify them when they were sharing or trading with friends. Many times, cards with pencils, crayon or marker have little to no value after being defaced, but still are great for collectors that are looking for bargains in building
But It Is Graded We receive dozens of inquiries for evaluating collections every week and many of them include collections with cards that are not graded by the "Big-3." By the "Big-3," we mean Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), Sportscard Guaranty (SGC) and Beckett Grading Service (BGS and BVG). There are dozens of "other" grading companies and some of them are better than others. Some should be embarrassed to even suggest that they are "grading" cards. One of the most
Daddy Left It To Me Some families pass down good genes, some pass down wealth, some pass down fantastic recipes and some pass down collectibles. A father left his collection of baseball cards from his son and when the son was ready to capitalize on the collection, he did his research and reached out to several companies for appraisals and purchase offers. Just Collect outperformed all of the competition and in the end, was the choice of where to sell the
How Would You Spend Your Allowance? What did you collect when you were a kid? Would you have fired off a couple dollars of your hard earned allowance in the mail for a stack of 40 year old cards? Well, we have a collector that contacted us about a collection that he purchased through the mail when he was a youngster growing up in San Antonio, Texas in the 1960s and he did exactly that. While it