https://theotcg.com/tags/condition/Recent content in Condition on Theo TCGHugoen-us© {year} Theo TCGSat, 29 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0600https://theotcg.com/blog/how-to-photograph-pokemon-cards-for-an-offer/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0600https://theotcg.com/blog/how-to-photograph-pokemon-cards-for-an-offer/<p>Short version: photograph each valuable card three ways — straight on, at an angle with light raking across the surface, and from the back — in bright indirect light with the flash off. Everything else goes in group shots. That is nearly the whole method, and it takes about a minute per card.</p>https://theotcg.com/blog/what-are-my-cards-worth-without-grading/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0600https://theotcg.com/blog/what-are-my-cards-worth-without-grading/<p>Short version: an ungraded Pokémon card is worth whatever identical ungraded copies have actually sold for in the last month or two — not a price guide&rsquo;s headline number, and not a graded price with a discount applied to it. Raw and graded are two separate markets with two separate sets of buyers, and the raw one is much larger.</p>https://theotcg.com/blog/i-found-a-box-of-pokemon-cards/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0600https://theotcg.com/blog/i-found-a-box-of-pokemon-cards/<p>Do four things, in this order, and you will not destroy any value in the first hour: photograph the box exactly as you found it, clean nothing, resist sorting by which cards look coolest, and separate pre-2000 cards from everything else.</p>https://theotcg.com/blog/pokemon-card-condition-guide/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0600https://theotcg.com/blog/pokemon-card-condition-guide/<p>&ldquo;Near Mint&rdquo; is not a compliment you pay your own card. It is a defined standard with a point budget, and most cards people describe as Near Mint are not.</p> <p>That gap is expensive. Below is what each condition actually allows, how the three scales in common use disagree with each other, and what the difference is worth in real sold prices.</p>