Single Card

[hhh_thegame100]

Single Cards help

I recently just got back into the Pokemon TCG scene. A few days ago I looked through my Pokemon card binder and remembered just how fun it was to collect, trade and get cool cards. I never really collected to complete the different card sets, I've always tried to get every Pokemon in card form (kind of like a Pokedex binder). I have them all in numerical order from Bulbasaur to Jirachi (soon to be Deoxys). I've collected all original 151 Pokemon, I'm missing 3 from the second generation, and I'm missing about 45 from the thrid generation. I bought two value packs that had three different booster packs from the new sets to give me a start on collecting the third generation. I then found a cheap site that had a very limited selection of cards but all for a good price.

I'll just get to the point, I dont know if this is against the Rules or not. (I've read both the General Rules and the rules for this specific forum and didnt find anything against it) But what I'm getting at is, whats a good reliable, but more importantly cheap, website (besides ebay), where I can buy single cards from the third generation? I dont really care if the card is promo, holo, rare, un-common or common, just as long as they are cheap and helps complete my collection. I really dont think I'll be buying any more booster packs because the chances of me getting something I dont have will be slim and in the end just not worth it. So any help will be appreciated. Again, if this goes against the rules, I'll delete this thread or have a mod do it for me.
Thank You!

 

[Fox]

You can trade with people at PokeGym, and here. Why not post the cards that you need. I'm sure someone will have 'em. I can almost guarantee that I do lol

 

[Totodileex]

How exactly does the trading work?;347;

 

[hhh_thegame100]

The problem with trading is that I dont have many cards that I can trade because I got rid of duplicates and cards I dont need. I do have about 5 or 6 holograms that I dont need.
Please explain how the trading works. Also since I've just got back in to collecting the cards, what are the different type of Holograms from the new card sets? I've noticed theres the regular holos, the ones that the whole card is shiny/glossy, and the ones that the whole card is a hologram.

 

[Cutiebunny]

I always wondered how others collect and organize cards. I, personally, organize my cards by the types they are. Cards with multiple types are grouped together by the family type(ie. All Swamperts are kept together, even though Swampert R/S version is Water while Swampert EX is fighting)...and then I organize them by HP.

Ok, I'm sorry about the boringness of that.... -_-'

Anywho, I find the cheapest way is using E-bay and looking for lots of cards. Some of these auctions start at $.01, and the only thing you have to pay for is shipping, more or less. You can generally get a good mix of cards this way and they're mostly in mint condition.

 

[hhh_thegame100]

I always wondered how others collect and organize cards. I, personally, organize my cards by the types they are. Cards with multiple types are grouped together by the family type(ie. All Swamperts are kept together, even though Swampert R/S version is Water while Swampert EX is fighting)

Thats sort of how I used to organize my cards before I decided to collect them all. I would start with like a Fire Energy then Have all the fire Pokemon like Charmander, Charmeleon... etc. I also used to organize them by putting all the holos together.

 

[Cutiebunny]

When you've collected as long as I have, you dedicate a 3" binder to each group of Pokemon.

...except Steel. There still aren't a lot of steel type cards out there. So I group them with Psychic, because, there just aren't a lot of psychic Pokemon...well, not as much as the mega collection that the Grass and Normal types have.

All my energies are in my trainer binder. I collect 1-2 of each energy type and put the reverse holo on top of the regular card(or behind if the card is a rev. holo of a rare holo card). Then I place these cards in card protectors to keep everything minty fresh.

In 40 years I'll be wheeling my collection into Antiques Roadshow too...

..Sorry, got off topic again.

 

[Shiloh Phoenix]

I just put rares in front, that's what people want. and I have a japanese league binder(the real little kind, 2 cards per page) for ex's. and all the others in boxes.

 

[UberSorcerer]

I have mine in set order for the ones I collect, Base (Complete), Jungle(Complete), Fossil(Incomplete), Rocket(Incomplete), Neo Genesis(Incomplete), Team Aqua VS Team Magma(Incomplete), Team Rocket Returns(Incomplete), Delta Spieces(Incomplete) & Holon Phantoms(Incomplete)

ATM, I kinda call a "Complete" Set all 'cept the EXs, because they are too expensive to afford and hard to obtain, I realy need to save up my money for a box.