We Buy Pokémon Card Collections on Theo TCG

Should You Grade Your Pokémon Cards Before Selling?

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Grading gets recommended far too casually. Sending a card to PSA, CGC, or Beckett costs money and months, and it only pays off under conditions that most cards don’t meet.

The question isn’t “does grading add value” — sometimes it does. The question is whether it adds more value than it costs on your specific card.

What Is My Pokémon Card Collection Worth?

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Almost every collection we’re sent follows the same shape: a few hundred to a few thousand cards, most of them worth cents, and somewhere in there between one and five cards holding 80% of the total value. The job of valuing a collection is really the job of finding those few cards and grading them honestly.

Base Set Shadowless vs Unlimited: How to Tell Them Apart

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600

English Base Set was printed three times in 1999, and the three printings are worth wildly different amounts. People routinely sell shadowless cards for unlimited prices because nobody told them there was a difference.

About

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Why this site exists

Most people who inherit or rediscover a Pokémon collection have the same two problems: they don’t know what they have, and every buyer they find wants to weigh it.

Affiliate Disclosure

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The short version

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may receive a commission from the retailer. You never pay more because of it — the commission comes out of the seller’s side.

Privacy

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What we collect

When you submit a collection, we store what you type into the form — your name, email, phone if you give it, location, and the details and photos of your collection. We also record your IP address and country, which our spam protection needs in order to work.

Sell Your Pokémon Collection

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Fill this out once and you’re done. We read every submission personally — there’s no bot generating a number from a photo. Most people hear back within a day.

What helps us make a strong offer: set names, anything you think is rare, and clear photos. Even phone photos are fine as long as we can read the card names.