Sell to Us · Pokemon Cards · Mission Viejo
Mission Viejo was designed to raise children. Those children collected Pokemon.
Mission Viejo was one of the largest master-planned communities in the country when the Mission Viejo Company laid it out, and it was built around a single promise: a stable, safe place to raise a family. Families took it at its word and stayed, sometimes for forty years, which is why the city is now full of parents downsizing out of the homes where they raised kids in the 1990s. And in those homes, in the garages and the closets off the old bedrooms, are the binders those kids filled with Base Set holos and never quite took with them.
We are the team behind Old 44 Vintage in San Juan Capistrano, buying across Mission Viejo from our warehouse just up the road in Laguna Hills, which makes this one of the fastest house calls we offer. We sort the collection at your table, card by card for the valuable pieces and honestly in bulk for the rest, read the 1st Edition stamps and shadowless printings that families almost never check, and pay cash before we leave.
What we buy across Mission Viejo
Childhood collections
The binder, the shoebox, the tin from a 1990s bedroom. Base Set through the e-Card sets, sorted in front of you with the good cards explained.
1st Edition and shadowless cards
The stamps and early printings that multiply value. We check every card, because the ones that matter are exactly the ones a quick look misses.
Sealed boxes and packs
Unopened WOTC-era product is blue-chip, and even modern sealed has a market. Nothing needs opening before we look, and opening a vintage box to check is a costly mistake.
Graded cards and other games
PSA, BGS, and CGC slabs at graded prices, plus Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh collections riding in the same box.
Minutes up the road, all of Mission Viejo
From Laguna Hills we are at your Mission Viejo table in minutes, from the neighborhoods around Lake Mission Viejo to Aegean Hills, the Deane Homes, Madrid, and the streets above the 241. Card collections usually surface while a family is clearing a room or preparing a downsizing move, so we are happy to evaluate everything else on the same visit, from the garage to the jewelry box. If you want an answer first, text photos of a few binder pages to (949) 449-1255 and we will respond the same day.
Why It Matters
The difference between ordinary and valuable is in the details: a stitch, a hallmark, a date code. Knowing them is our entire job.
How it works
Call us.
A real conversation about what you have, no forms, no waiting.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
My parents are downsizing and found my old cards. What now?
Have us read them before anything gets sold in a moving sale for a dollar a binder. Downsizing sales are exactly where good WOTC-era cards get lost, because the family has no reason to know which pages hold the value. We sort it at the table, explain each pile, and make one clear cash offer for what we want.
What condition details actually change the price?
Edge whitening, corner wear, scratches on the holo surface, and centering. A card that looks clean to the eye can be worth a fraction of one that survived twenty-five years untouched. Do not clean, re-sleeve, or flex anything; bring the collection as it sits and we will read it in front of you.
Do you buy the rest of the childhood room too?
Yes, and it happens constantly. Cards, video games, toys, sports memorabilia, the lot. We evaluate each category honestly, tell you what has a market and what does not, and make one cash offer for what we want.
Know what it’s worth before you sell.
Our field guides explain how the market actually prices these things. No fishing, no hype: real ranges and the details that move them.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
(949) 449-1255Mon-Sat 6 am-8 pm · Sun 8 am-5 pm
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