{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/seven-cards-we-refused-to-rate",
  "slug": "seven-cards-we-refused-to-rate",
  "title": "Seven Cards We Refused to Rate",
  "summary": "A famous Lillie with one grade row. A Scizor priced off five stale comps. A Mudkip whose nine costs double its ten. Our competitors print a confident number for all of them. We wrote stubs instead, and this is the argument for why an honest desk sometimes says: we do not know yet.",
  "section": "Methodology",
  "published": "2026-08-30",
  "readMinutes": 7,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "7",
      "measures": "refusals collected here",
      "basis": "deep-tape cards the desk declined to rate"
    },
    {
      "value": "5",
      "measures": "comps behind a $2,832.61 median",
      "basis": "the thinnest number we refused to print as fact"
    },
    {
      "value": "2",
      "measures": "identical snapshots",
      "basis": "what some 'registry trends' are actually built on"
    },
    {
      "value": "$3,650",
      "measures": "a PSA 9 above a $1,997.50 ten",
      "basis": "the inverted ladder nobody should trade"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "What was missing, card by card",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "The loud number",
        "Why we declined"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "[Lillie](/card/sm5-151), [Ultra Prism](/set/ultra%20prism)",
          "The loud number": "$1,842 PSA 10 (21 comps)",
          "Why we declined": "one grade row: no nine tape, no pop, no gem rate, no EV, no velocity"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Rocket's Scizor ex](/card/ex7-101), Team Rocket Returns",
          "The loud number": "$2,832.61 PSA 10 (5 comps)",
          "Why we declined": "five comps, tape stale since July 21, round $600 ask"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Mudkip](/card/np-5), Nintendo promos",
          "The loud number": "$3,650 PSA 9 vs $1,997.50 PSA 10",
          "Why we declined": "inverted ladder: comp pool likely mixing three Mudkip promos"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Jolteon VMAX](/card/swshp-SWSH184), SWSH promos",
          "The loud number": "11.95x multiple, $900 ten",
          "Why we declined": "registry series is two identical snapshots four days apart"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Raichu IR](/card/sv02-211), [Paldea Evolved](/set/paldea%20evolved)",
          "The loud number": "8.23x vs a 4.22x peer median",
          "Why we declined": "two identical snapshots: no growth, no drift, no velocity"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Gengar](/card/swshp-SWSH241), SWSH promos",
          "The loud number": "26.11x multiple, $705 ten",
          "Why we declined": "no population, no gem rate, no EV: odds unrecorded"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Roaring Moon ex](/card/sv08.5-162), [Prismatic Evolutions](/set/prismatic%20evolutions)",
          "The loud number": "313 comps on the ten",
          "Why we declined": "deep tape, three flat snapshots, nothing anomalous to trade"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "The seven, and the specific hole in each file"
  ],
  "method": [
    "All figures are the recorded tapes behind the desk's house views, re-verified against the live report payloads on August 29, 2026: verified sold comps, PSA registry snapshots, and the disclosed comp gates (n>=5, 0.5x-45x band) every report enforces. Stub status reflects the data available at authoring; several of these files are one population feed away from a real note, and the notes say so. Not financial advice."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}