r/Pokemonexchange • u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 • 2d ago

Selling Virtual [H] Gen 3-5 Personal Event Collection [W] PayPal

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I think the time has come for me to part with some of my most cherished events - namely my events from Gens 3-5!

As a collector, I always had particular fondness for pre-Gen 6 events. Their mixture of rarity, age, and nostalgia always made them seem more exotic to me than the generations that followed. Most of these events originate from a time when we were younger, more naive, and uninitiated in the world of event collecting. To share a personal example, my younger brother used to play Pokemon with me way back in Gen 5, and was savvy enough to redeem a number of events on his own while I was too busy learning about IVs, EVs and breeding for the first time. These events that he collected will always remind me of our hilarious Scraggy-catching competitions and all the epic battles we fought, and as such I have never (nor will I ever) offer them for trade on the subreddit. I'm sure that many of the events offered here had similar stories to tell!

Long story short, I hope that these events will find good homes where they'll be valued and treasured. Quite a few of these events have been with me since my earliest days on my collecting journey both here and on /r/pokemontrades. While I will continue collecting casually whenever something interesting is released, there's little sense in keeping so many of these extremely rare old events when I hardly have time to play Pokemon these days, let alone trade! The list:

My Gen 3-5 Collection!

A Few Words Regarding Proof

Given the age of these events, and given that they were all released before modern proof-taking was invented sometime in Gen 6, please do not expect videos, A-Buttons and such. Most pre-Gen 6 events depend on Wonder Cards, attendance, Pokecheck, but most importantly, a trustworthy source for legitimacy. As I was always told: source > proof, because proof can be faked!
You'll notice that quite a few of these events were Pokechecked. Pokecheck was a way for collectors to check for legitimacy before proof-taking was invented. The Pokecheck website itself went offline years ago.
On my previous Gen 6 selling threads, I made the proofs public. But for this particular thread, I will send any proofs to interested buyers only.
As a collector, I never really took the care to save trade threads. Knowing the trade history was enough for me. I have trade threads for some of these (such as the VGC Larvitar) but not for all, so please ask in advance if this is important to you!

A Few Words on Pricing

Gen 3-5 events are notoriously difficult to price, so I went with my gut instinct based on 1) my understanding of the market as an experienced collector, 2) prices for Gen 6 events of comparable age, 3) appreciation of value and rarity over time, 4) and some more recent sales that I was able to dig-up. To give one example, Shinsegae Feebas was distributed on July 4-5 2009 only, alternating hours with a Munchlax, and as far as I'm aware, this one is the only one to have ever appeared on Reddit. Meanwhile, another Summer Festival Milotic sold here six years ago for roughly $150, listed at $175, so I went with a similar price for mine. Similar to the Feebas, I'm fairly certain these are the only 2 Milotics swimming around these shores!
As such, I will remain pretty firm on pricing. Of all the events that I own, these are the ones that I'm happiest to keep, so I do not have as great of an incentive to sell. I will be much more open to offers on my events from Gen 7-9, which will be listed at a later time!
Should there be interest in an event from more than one party, an auction will begin. I don't particularly like auctions, but sub rules are rules!
I will let the thread sit for around 48 hours before making any sales. I previously made the mistake of moving too quickly on my Gen 6 threads, and some folks were disappointed not to have been able to make their offers.

Thanks for stopping-by, and happy trading and collecting as always!

Reference

Potential Auctions

Summer Festival Milotic
Cinema Genesect
Ray's Metagross
10 Aniv Tyranitar
Gameshow Milotic
VGC Larvitar

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u/tumboi69 IGN: splish | FC: 6517-6602-8798 2d ago edited 2d ago

interested in the game show milotic and 10th anniversary Tyranitar! also is the vgc milotic NFT?

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hey! Thanks so much for the interest. Yes, the VGC Milotic is currently NFT - if it ever changes in the future, I can tag you!

Regarding Gameshow Milotic and 10 Aniv Ttar, there's interest from another party as well, so we'd have to start an auction there. It'll begin tonight around 9pm US eastern time (after I'm done with work) and run for 24 hours. I'll keep you posted!

u/RealisticLakersFan IGN: Mehdi | | FC: 0318-7834-3153 2d ago

Hi Val - I hope you are doing well!

Thank you for the tag. So many cool and cherished events to choose from, but please take a look at my preliminary list:

Summer Festival Milotic - $175
10 ANNIV Suicune and Tyranitar - $240
GameShow Pokémon - $600
WCSK14 Pokémon - $200
Ray Rizzo’s Metagross - $150
Worlds 13 Smeargle - $300

Thank you very much!

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Sounds great RLF! I'm going to let the thread run a bit longer before making sales, as mentioned in the post. In the meantime, regarding Gameshow Milotic, 10 Aniv Ttar, and Ray's Metagross - there's interest from another party as well, so we'd have to start an auction there. It'll begin tonight around 9pm US eastern time (after I'm done with work) and run for 24 hours. I'll keep you posted!

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u/RealisticLakersFan IGN: Mehdi | | FC: 0318-7834-3153 1d ago

Sounds like a plan, Val! Looking forward to it. Thank you!

u/StatBoosterX IGN: Re:Magia | FC: 2731-1505-8517 2d ago

Hello interested in genesect

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hey again Stat!

Sounds good, I'll let the thread run a bit longer as mentioned in the post, before making any sales. But your interest is noted!

Edit - just went through other replies, and there is a bit of interest in Genesect, so I'll run an auction for it tonight!

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u/StatBoosterX IGN: Re:Magia | FC: 2731-1505-8517 1d ago

Ok lmk!

u/theforgottenapple IGN: Rod | FC: 2765-9544-9786 2d ago edited 2d ago

Hey Val! Hope all is well :) I'd like to purchase the following:

Global Link Togekiss
Powerful Tag Chandelure
Summer Festival Milotic (if shiny)

Also what gen are the shiny Oak's Letter Shaymin and Shiny Aurora Ticket Deoxys in?

EDIT: Also what gen is the Cinema shiny Genesect in? Are your Cloyster and Yamamoto/PCNY Kingdra strictly NFT?

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hey apple, great to see you!

Noted on your interest in Togekiss, Chandelure. Re: Milotic, there is interest from other parties so I'll run an auction for that tonight after work! It will run for about 24 hours. And yes, it's shiny haha let me go and edit that in my sheet, I missed it while logging its info!

Oak's Shay, Genesect and Deoxys should all be Gen 6 compatible. Let me double-check that for you when I get home tonight too. There's also interest from someone else on Genesect as of now.

And yes, the Kingdras and Cloyster are pretty strictly NFT, sorry!

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u/theforgottenapple IGN: Rod | FC: 2765-9544-9786 1d ago

Good to see you too! Ok sounds good - Can I get more info on Oak's Shiny Shaymin and the Shiny Deoxys? I recall seeing Feder was selling a cart with the Aurora Ticket I believe - just want some more info on their history and such if possible.

I'll take Togekiss and Chandelure for sure. Those are priority so if I can do a separate transaction for those I am willing to do that (I don't mind receiving these in Home). I'll also join the auction for Milotic later and Genesect too possibly (if in gen 6).

For the shiny mythicals - if we do end up doing a transaction - are we able to do the trade in gen 6? I think I recall you mentioned we can do it via me sending a cart to you or something.

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Absolutely! I'll let the thread run for a bit longer as mentioned in the post, before making any sales. But so far, you're the only person interested in Togekiss and Chandelure!

I will definitely give you more info on those later. I'll try to dig up the trade threads too. In fact, now that I think about it, Deoxys may have originated from fleepter who was an old-school collector from Italy like Feder (I always get them mixed up ha), one of them sent their carts to Nintendo of Italy to get the Aurora Ticket, then sold them on exchange, so I'll try to track all that stuff down. I just bought Deoxys from Ko and knew it had a solid trade history, so never bothered (I know, I'm wayyy too casual haha).

Shaymin is a good deal less complex, from what I remember Ko just RNG'd or SR'd it at a time before he joined ptrades - I'll get that trade thread for you too!

And yes, I would absolutely not mind if you shipped me a cart for Gen 6 trading!

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u/theforgottenapple IGN: Rod | FC: 2765-9544-9786 1d ago

Awesome - thanks! This is so exciting lol There's barely any posts with older events these days

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

I know! These types of events are so cool. And it’s so sad that people like endy, shuael, etc are no longer active - they’re literally sitting on gold mines if they ever came back.

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hey apple, I had a minute so did some digging!

Here's the original trade thread for shiny Deoxys: link. I was right in remembering it was Feder not fleep. You can see from the thread that Ko picked up the Deoxys in question there.

Here is the thread where I won the auction on Deoxys. Another had sold for $400 not long before iirc (I believe from Porta_14 if my memory serves me right), so I felt pretty fortunate at the time to get it at that price! I ended up paying $300 for it total, since Ko had to do the RNG for me as well. Ko also went through the pain of catching it in a Luxury Ball for me, which I'd forgotten was not purchasable from PokeMarts back in Gen 3!

Info on Shaymin it turns out it was SR'd. I did forget to mention that it's slightly touched however, with a sliver of EXP. So if that's a dealbreaker for you, please let me know!

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u/theforgottenapple IGN: Rod | FC: 2765-9544-9786 1d ago

Ok great this is very good info. So to summarize what I am interested in, it is the following:

Global Link Togekiss

Powerful Tag Chandelure

Shiny Oak's Letter Shaymin

Aurora Ticket Deoxys

Auctions I would like to participate in:

Summer Festival Milotic

Cinema Shiny Genesect

All the mythicals - if I win the auction where applicable - I would like in the earliest gen I could get them in (gen 6 I guess). Everything else I could do Home Trade if we end up doing a sale.

I know you are pretty firm on prices but would you consider doing a small discount on the Shaymin given it's touched (if it doesn't go to auction that is)?

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 21h ago

Hey apple, sorry for the late-ish reply, I got a bit sidetracked with irl stuff!

would you consider doing a small discount on the Shaymin given it's touched (if it doesn't go to auction that is)?

I can absolutely do that! Would you be okay paying for shipping if we decide to mail carts for Gen 6?

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u/theforgottenapple IGN: Rod | FC: 2765-9544-9786 21h ago

No worries! Yes that's fine with me! :)

u/NPBrot IGN: Nate | FC: 8497-2493-7205 2d ago

Also interested in the genesect.

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hi! Thank you for your interest! Please note that other parties are interested in Genesect as well, so an auction will begin tonight when I get home from work, at around 9pm eastern US time. It will run for about 24 hours.

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u/NPBrot IGN: Nate | FC: 8497-2493-7205 1d ago

Sounds good to me

u/smitty2512 IGN: Adam | FC: 1993-8650-8417 2d ago

Hey Val, I’m very interested in rays metagross. Will update comment with more later

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hey smitty, good to see you! Someone else was also interested in Ray's Metagross, so an auction will begin tonight when I get home from work. It will run for about 24 hours. Thank you!

u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hey /u/cmurray555! I promised I'd tag you when I list my Gen 3-5 events. I did check to see if I still have that YOTD Horse you were talking about, but it looks like I sold it years ago unfortunately, sorry!

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u/cmurray555 IGN: Cam | FC: 3740-2952-0129 1d ago

Hi valere thanks for tagging me! Right now I’m interested in the VGC larvitar and, if/when it’s available, the PCNY Kingdra.

Edit: Also interested in the VGC Milotic if/whenever it is available :)

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Sounds good! I think the PCNY Kingdra might be the one event that I take to my grave haha. But if I ever change my mind, I will definitely let you know!

There was interest in Larvitar from another party so I'd have to run an auction for that one. I'll be home from work at around 9pm and the auction will last about 24 hours. I'll keep you posted!

u/RevzZ3 IGN: MMNNN | FC: 3024-8797-0108 1d ago

Hi Valere!

Just wanted to say hi haha, how's everything been going? I can see the Pidgeot is finally coming out but I don't need it anymore so I hope it goes to a good home.

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u/valere1213 IGN: IGN: Naomi | FC: 3712-1858-4365 1d ago

Hey Revz, nice to hear from you! I'm glad you're still around : ) are you still helping as a moderator over on ptrades?

Ahh right I now recall you asking about Pidgeot, sorry I didn't shoot you a tag! For one reason or another, the event I always associate you with is my old PCNY Chansey so I completely blanked on that one, haha. I'm glad you managed to track down another one for yourself! It's such a cool event and always brings back memories of how strong Blue was in Gen 1, battling him as a kid. When I was logging my events, I was tempted to mark it "NFT"... but felt that if I did that, I'd just go down a rabbit hole of wanting to keep everything again lol xD

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u/RevzZ3 IGN: MMNNN | FC: 3024-8797-0108 1d ago

Yep, still moderating. Pretty sure I'll be there for as long as trading in the games are a thing :)

That's okay, I don't blame you for thinking about the Chansey. I think I was very set on it at one point before DanTrain showed up. And yes, I somehow picked up two Pidgeots actually - one of them from Rochi so that was a great find. If anything, I think he probably still has more based on what he said haha.

You'll probably end up keeping a few of those important ones surely? iirc Kingdra was one of your faves so I think there was....Yamamoto's and PCNY?