Every dollar figure below is an asking price set by the seller unless we say otherwise. Nothing has sold.

Imagine typing "Charizard" into eBay and finding one listing priced like a skyscraper. That is exactly what Gary Haase, better known as King Pokémon, has on the site right now: a single lot of 126 graded Charizards with an asking price of US $59,000,000, Buy It Now or Best Offer. When Pokemon Deal Finder checked it on October 10, 2026, the listing was still open and had last been updated October 2. eBay blocked our own live check this week, so October 10 is the latest confirmed reading.

Who is King Pokémon?

Haase is a Las Vegas collector who started on Pokémon in 1998, importing cards from Japan before they hit US shelves, according to Guinness World Records. Guinness lists him as owner of the most valuable Pokémon card collection, at an estimated $10 million. The record page does not say when that estimate was made. Guinness also notes he sold Logan Paul a PSA 10 1st Edition Charizard for $150,000 in 2020, one of the few actual sale prices tied to his cards.

Many fans first met him on Pawn Stars. In the episode "PokePawn" (Season 14, aired July 10, 2017), he brought in his graded Charizards with a $500,000 ask and left without a deal, as Pokemon Deal Finder recaps from Inverse and Looper reporting.

What is in the lot

It is Charizard only, and Haase says in the listing he will not break it up. Per the listing description, as summarized by Pokemon Deal Finder:

• 1st Edition Base Set: 6 PSA 10, 2 BGS Pristine 10, plus 6 BGS 9.5

• Shadowless Base Set: 12 PSA 10, 1 BGS Pristine 10, plus 4 BGS 9.5

• Unlimited Base Set: 54 PSA 10, plus 16 BGS 9.5

• Base Set 2 and Legendary Collection: 14 PSA 10s (7 each), a PSA 10 Legendary Collection reverse holo, plus one BGS Pristine 10 and one BGS 9.5 Base Set 2

• 1995 Japanese Topsun: 5 PSA 10 (2 blue back, 3 green back)

• Specials: 1st Edition Blaine's Charizard and FireRed & LeafGreen Charizard ex in BGS Pristine 10, plus a PSA 10 Arceus Charizard

One wrinkle: the listing's title says 97 PSA 10s (the title said 92 in 2020), but the per-set counts add up to 93, so treat the exact PSA 10 total as unsettled.

How the ask kept climbing

Archived copies of the listing show the price moving one way, per Pokemon Deal Finder:

• Nov 2020: $19,977,000

• Mid-2021 to late 2025: $21,000,000

• By Feb 2026: $29,000,000 (first seen in a Feb 2026 archive; the jump came sometime after late 2025)

• June 2026: $49,000,000 (Haase's own figure on The Iced Coffee Hour podcast)

• Oct 10, 2026: $59,000,000

By our math, that is nearly triple the 2020 ask, and works out to roughly $468,000 per card on average. You may have seen a viral post claiming he wants "almost $100M." We could not find any published report backing that up, so treat it as unconfirmed.

The critics' case

Not everyone sees Haase as a hobby hero. A sharply critical October 8 profile in Spain's VidaExtra argues he helped inflate the graded market, and claims that about 76 of the 123 PSA 10s of the card it discusses belong to him. That is VidaExtra's claim, not ours, and it does not line up neatly with the listing itself, which counts 6 PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set copies. We have not verified the figure against PSA's population report.

What it means for collectors and flippers

An asking price is a wish, not a comp. Best Offer listings can close far lower or never close at all, and this one has sat unsold since at least 2020. So do not reprice your own Charizards off a $59M headline.

Real reference points are sales. Guinness records that the only grade 10 Topsun Charizard Blue Back it knows of sold for $493,230 at auction in January 2021, and that Logan Paul paid Haase $150,000 for a PSA 10 1st Edition Charizard in 2020. Our read: the gap between those numbers and a near-$470K-per-card average shows how much of this ask is the "whole-collection" premium Haase is betting on.

For flippers, the more useful signal is concentration. If one holder controls a large share of top-grade copies, as critics claim, a bulk sale or a breakup could move prices for everyone holding the same slabs. That is speculation, but it is worth watching.

What to watch next

• Whether the ask moves again. It has climbed three times since late 2025, from $21M to $59M.

• Any accepted Best Offer. A real sale price would be the first hard number for the lot.

• An updated Guinness valuation. The $10M estimate looks stale next to his own ask.

• PSA population changes for 1st Edition and Shadowless Charizard PSA 10s.

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