Nostalgix Brokers Two Top-Graded VHS Sets: Pokemon at $85,000 and Rocky at $60,000
The Sales
Nostalgix has brokered the private sale of two VHS sets, each the highest-graded example of its kind: a Pokemon VHS set for $85,000 and a Rocky VHS set for $60,000. Both were handled as separate private transactions, with full anonymity for buyer and seller on each side.
The Pokemon Set
Pokemon tapes were sold everywhere in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in toy aisles, supermarkets and rental stores, and most of them were played. Kids rewound favorite episodes until the tape stretched, slipcases went into toy bins, and the copies that survived mostly survived in rough shape. Few made it through a childhood untouched, and a set at the top of the grade is scarce for that reason, whatever the original print numbers.
At $85,000, the set sits comfortably alongside the graded cards and sealed games that usually anchor Pokemon collections.
The Rocky Set
The Rocky films reached home video in the early years of the VCR, and a generation of fans owned them on tape. The franchise remains one of the most recognizable in American film, and its collectors skew older than Pokemon's. The set Nostalgix placed is the highest-graded known, and it sold for $60,000.
Grading has changed how tapes from this period are bought and sold. Once a third-party grade sits on the case, a top example can be priced and traded the way a slabbed card or a graded sealed video game is, and top-population pieces tend to trade privately rather than on open listings.
How the Deals Came Together
Each sale was brokered privately from start to finish. Nostalgix matched seller and buyer, kept both identities confidential, and managed payment and delivery through its own process. Neither set was publicly listed, so neither seller exposed what they held or what they would take for it, and neither buyer bid against an audience.
With a single top example of each set, a public listing would have told the whole market who owned it and what they wanted for it.
Nostalgix brokers private, fully anonymous sales of high-end collectibles. To sell or source a piece of this caliber, start a conversation.
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