Hi guys,
So today I opened my first Booster box - XY Flashfire set, I've watched numerous amounts of pack openings, videos, as well as reading about the pull rates of other members on the Pokebeach over the years and thought it was time to carry on my collection. Starting with Flashfire.
I was immensely happy with my pulls:
MCharizard EX 13/106
Toxicroak EX 41/106
Kangaskhan EX 78/106
Pokemon Center Lady FA 105/106
Secret Rare MCharizard 108/106.
Some Holos
Initially I wanted to weigh the packs just as an experiment to get information on how much the average packs weigh so I could compare with packs I buy off eBay (have had far too many weighed packs.) I have to buy my packs off of eBay because I live in the UK with minimal comic book stores, rip off pack prices at larger stores and postage prices that make purchases obsolete on UK online card stores. However, I can't get a hold of an accurate enough weighing scale.
So my first question is
(i) Does anyone have first hand knowledge on how much an average (NO HOLO INCLUDED) pack of Flashfire weighs?
Next, I've only opened half of my Booster box, I've tried techniques such as measuring the curvature of the back of the pack to try and guess which packs would hold the EX and rarer cards. Having opened 18 packs only and getting the cards that I did, I think it was a success.
I'm wondering whether to open the rest or to sell them to cover the cost of buying individual cards (I need about 10 more cards to finish the set):
(ii) Realistically, should I expect anymore EX or full art pulls from the remaining packs, considering I've already got 5 pretty rare cards?
(iii) In the scenario that I do sell the 18 remaining packs, should they be listed knowingly as weighed? Although I have not, in any form or fashion weighed these cards, I have pursued packs in search of rarer cards within the Booster Box meaning the probability of getting rarer cards should be lower as they are from the same box.
And slightly unrelated,
(iv) I was stoked when I pulled the secret rare Charizard, so much so that I want to, if possible, get it graded like PSA do. Does anyone know if they do this in the UK?
(v) My full art card has some odd white specks on it, is this a printing error? I've already sleeved it, but it is worrying...
(vi) Does anyone know where I can sell my common/uncommon card duplicates? They're piling up quite a bit ^^'
Thank you all very much for taking the time to read this and helping me out!
So today I opened my first Booster box - XY Flashfire set, I've watched numerous amounts of pack openings, videos, as well as reading about the pull rates of other members on the Pokebeach over the years and thought it was time to carry on my collection. Starting with Flashfire.
I was immensely happy with my pulls:
MCharizard EX 13/106
Toxicroak EX 41/106
Kangaskhan EX 78/106
Pokemon Center Lady FA 105/106
Secret Rare MCharizard 108/106.
Some Holos
Initially I wanted to weigh the packs just as an experiment to get information on how much the average packs weigh so I could compare with packs I buy off eBay (have had far too many weighed packs.) I have to buy my packs off of eBay because I live in the UK with minimal comic book stores, rip off pack prices at larger stores and postage prices that make purchases obsolete on UK online card stores. However, I can't get a hold of an accurate enough weighing scale.
So my first question is
(i) Does anyone have first hand knowledge on how much an average (NO HOLO INCLUDED) pack of Flashfire weighs?
Next, I've only opened half of my Booster box, I've tried techniques such as measuring the curvature of the back of the pack to try and guess which packs would hold the EX and rarer cards. Having opened 18 packs only and getting the cards that I did, I think it was a success.
I'm wondering whether to open the rest or to sell them to cover the cost of buying individual cards (I need about 10 more cards to finish the set):
(ii) Realistically, should I expect anymore EX or full art pulls from the remaining packs, considering I've already got 5 pretty rare cards?
(iii) In the scenario that I do sell the 18 remaining packs, should they be listed knowingly as weighed? Although I have not, in any form or fashion weighed these cards, I have pursued packs in search of rarer cards within the Booster Box meaning the probability of getting rarer cards should be lower as they are from the same box.
And slightly unrelated,
(iv) I was stoked when I pulled the secret rare Charizard, so much so that I want to, if possible, get it graded like PSA do. Does anyone know if they do this in the UK?
(v) My full art card has some odd white specks on it, is this a printing error? I've already sleeved it, but it is worrying...
(vi) Does anyone know where I can sell my common/uncommon card duplicates? They're piling up quite a bit ^^'
Thank you all very much for taking the time to read this and helping me out!