A rare Pokmon card portraying Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president of The Pokmon Company, sold for nearly $250,000 in a recent auction run by Goldin Auctions
Redditor CardOfTheRings accuses CGC of "trying to legitimize their second rate grading service with a publicity stunt," reasoning that no one would pay this value when there are "records of similar quality BGS cards capping out at ~500,000." Many others express similar sentiments less politely, with some calling it "blatant laundry", which is meant not in the sense of money-laundering but in terms of artificially pumping up card values to inflate the market more generally
Not only is it still sleeved up, but it has become one of my favorite mid-powered decks
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