PSA's first public fraud report dropped May 7. Counterfeit Pokemon submissions jumped 125% YoY. Altered Pokemon cards jumped 407%. Charizard is the most-counterfeited collectible on earth.
The 'Costco discontinued Pokemon' rumor traces to a single Facebook post in a February 2025 US Sun article. Costco never confirmed it. Pokemon TCG is still on costco.com. The real story is purchase limits, a quiet Pokemon Company T&C update, and Target leaning all the way in.
Pop Mart revenue grew 75-80% in Q1. The stock is down 60% from its August high. Labubu commons are softening while the rare chases hold. Here's the honest picture.
Umezawa's Jitte sat banned in Modern for 15 years. The May 18 unban took the original Betrayers of Kamigawa printing from $12.50 to recent sales near $39, with listings up to $53.62 shipped.
The Royal Pop dropped May 16. Eight pocket watches at $400-$420. Police in four cities, tear gas in Paris, India cancelled. The product worked. The launch failed. The flip may be next.
The only PSA 10 of the 1998 3rd Place Trophy Pikachu hammered $1,450,000 at Goldin yesterday. Three days earlier, a CGC 8 Pikachu Illustrator did $204,000 at PWCC. Vintage Japanese trophy and promo cards are running.
Phillips Geneva XXIII closed at $96.3M, the highest-grossing watch auction ever. A Patek 2523 ran $10.2M, but Akrivia at $3.9M and Journe at $6.3M wrote the actual headline.
Collectors announced a $200M expansion of PSA on the same day PSA stretched turnaround times across every tier and doubled the Value Bulk minimum. It landed in the middle of the #NoPSAMay boycott.
A CGC 7.0 Conserved Action Comics #1 sold for $1.4 million at Heritage's May auction. It's the first Conserved-label comic to break seven figures, more than doubling the prior record of $528,000.
eBay's board rejected GameStop's unsolicited $56B takeover proposal today as 'neither credible nor attractive.' The financing was the kill shot. The market already knew.
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