Reverse Holo Pokemon Cards - Where are they?

Reverse Holo Pokemon Cards - Where are they?

When we are working on a set binder, we often find Reverse Holo cards are the most difficult to acquire!  Not because of their price - but because there are very few listings available.  

We also do not list many RH and Holo cards due to the 'low' prices these cards capture on the market.  Being Canadian - we often follow US tcgplayer prices which are both 'high for big cards' and artificially 'low for more common cards'.   The reason for this is really the lack of card sorting equipment and stores able to sell common/uncommon/playables via tcgplayer. 

We don't have the ability to submit cards to tcgplayer for sale - so we need to manually image, upload and create listings on our web store.  There is little incentive when a card is listed as 5 cents on tcgplayer market.  So we focus our effort on hits and cards that are valued at 1$ or more.  

Many small stores across Canada are likely finding the same - so they don't spend the effort capturing value from Reverse Holo RH cards.   After we found ourself spending over 15$ for 3 RH for our Chilling Reign set binder - we decided to put the time into posting more RH and Rare cards.  

We cannot spend the time looking up values, and we cannot follow the tcgplayer market values for RH since we don't have the automated (card sorter) machines to count, categorize and sort bulk at scale. 

We will be attempting to sell RH/Rare at the following rates: 

Common RH:  50 cents

Uncommon RH: 75 cents

Rare RH / Rare:  1$

These amounts are over the tcgplayer market - any many will not sell at these rates - but we wanted to provide an option for collectors who need that 'last card' that they just cannot find searching through bulk at their local LCS. 

Our RH selection are also Near Mint and stored in sleeves.  Many times when we ordered RH cards from competitors to complete our sets - the cards aren't given the same treatment as higher valued cards.  They come with scratches - and RH capture scratches quicker than any other card type! (maybe not as fast as WOTC holos) 

 

So we are going to try to provide a searchable selection of RH and try to be that store that has that one low value card you might be looking for.  It will take us a long time to get our RH inventory up - but we will move like Torterra and get it done! 


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