Record Price for Sealed Pokémon Base Set Box on Heritage Auctions
A collectibles-specialized auction house based in Dallas, TX, Heritage Auctions has a HOT AUCTION ITEM sold in November 2020!
The top view of the first edition Pokémon Trading Card Game Base Set booster box sold by Heritage Auctions for an astounding $360,000.You read that right, it's a bleeding $360,000USD! For a Pokémon First Edition Base Set Sealed Booster Box (Wizards of the Coast, 1999).
In this auction held, Heritage sold an extremely high valued Pokémon Trading Card Game for a whooping $360,000, breaking any record set beforehand!
These box sets have become very scarce, due to their low print run, and very few still remain in the sealed state. Since the cards haven't been handled, they are likely all in GEM MINT condition. A complete base set graded PSA 10 has sold for over $100,000! In February 2019 they sold a similar box for $78,000 but with the recent surge in prices there's no telling where this box will end up.
The triumphant offer was set by one Thomas Fish, leader of blowoutcards.com. Fish likewise bought a Gem Mint 10 duplicate of the Pokémon Demo Game Sealed Booster Pack right now for an astounding $22,800.
As indicated by Heritage's inclusion of their sale's indisputable outcomes, bidders were very forceful in their quest for the box, still in its unique WOTC shrinkwrap. The world record was in fact broken before web based offering was completed.
We are left to ponder precisely why this box has sold for almost twofold what the past one went for. Recently resigned rapper Logic appears to have offered the game's most vintage cards a supporter chance when he purchased a Gem Mint 10-reviewed duplicate of a first release Base Set Charizard for $226,000, the greatest price anybody has ever paid for the card.
From that point forward, influencers, for example, Logan Paul and Arin Hanson have pushed the market ever more elevated by gathering and showing live packs opening on YouTube.
Hurry get your own set of booster boxes and keep them for another 20years, who knows, your box might be the only one surviving till then!