What we buy
What we buy: vintage, graded, sealed and modern Pokémon cards
You do not have to know which of those you have. The point of the call is that somebody who does know looks at it with you, and tells you the number before anything moves.
Vintage cards, 1999 to 2003
The 15 main English sets from Base Set (January 1999) to Skyridge (May 2003): Base Set, Jungle, Fossil, Base Set 2, Team Rocket, Gym Heroes, Gym Challenge, Neo Genesis, Neo Discovery, Neo Revelation, Neo Destiny, Legendary Collection, Expedition Base Set, Aquapolis and Skyridge.
- 1st Edition and Shadowless printings, which are a different market from the rest of the run.
- Holos, and the odd non-holo that is worth more than the holo beside it.
- Played and binder-worn copies are still worth a call; condition changes the number.
Pages for the Pokémon of the 1999 Base Set: Charizard, Pikachu, Mewtwo, Blastoise, Venusaur, Gyarados, Alakazam, Machamp and Zapdos.
Graded slabs
Cards that have already been graded and sealed in a hard plastic case, at any grade. A low grade on the right card still has a number. Read us what the label says on the call; our card values pages show how far apart the grades of one card sit, and selling graded and PSA Pokémon cards covers slabs in full, including when a PSA 10 clears the cost of grading.
Modern chase cards
- Alternate arts, special illustration rares, hyper and secret rares.
- V, VMAX, VSTAR, GX, EX and ex printings.
- Trainer gallery and promo cards, including tournament and set-launch stamps.
Sealed product
- Booster boxes, booster packs and other factory-sealed product, vintage or current.
Tell us what it is and whether it is still in its original wrap, and the price comes on the call like everything else.
Bulk
The shoebox nobody has sorted, and you do not have to sort it either. For context on what plain bulk fetches: as of October 16, 2026, Meta TCG publishes a bulk buylist paying $0.02 per Pokémon common or uncommon, which is $20.00 for 1,000 of them.
That is why the cards mixed into a bulk lot matter more than the count. Holos, ex cards and anything from the vintage sets above are worth pulling out and describing, and how to judge a bulk collection walks through it. Published rates from more than one buylist sit on our page about selling a box of bulk Pokémon cards.
If what you have is not on this list, ask anyway: the call costs nothing, and someone who knows cards can usually tell you in a minute whether it is worth sending.
A word about condition
Played-with cards are still worth ringing about.
A card that was carried around in a pocket in 2001 is not a wasted card. Condition changes the number, and on some cards it changes it enormously, but the floor is rarely zero on anything from the early sets. The cards people apologise for on the phone are frequently the ones worth the most in the box.
They are bent, scratched, or the edges are white. Still worth a call?
Yes. Say so on the call and it is priced accordingly rather than discovered later — which is the whole point of quoting before anything is posted.
Should I get them graded first?
Grading costs money and takes time, and it only pays on a card that is genuinely close to perfect. Call first: it takes a minute to say whether grading is worth it on what you have, and that answer costs you nothing either way. The numbers behind that, card by card, are on our page about selling graded cards.
Are they worth more if I sell them one at a time?
Sometimes, and we will say so if that is true of yours. Selling individually means listing, packing, posting and chasing each one, which is exactly the work most people are ringing us to avoid. How selling a collection to us works, step by step.