{"id":21135,"date":"2025-12-08T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/kids-cant-buy-them-anywhere-how-pokemon-cards-became-a-stock-market-for-millennials\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:37:17","slug":"kids-cant-buy-them-anywhere-how-pokemon-cards-became-a-stock-market-for-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/kids-cant-buy-them-anywhere-how-pokemon-cards-became-a-stock-market-for-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kids can\u2019t buy them anywhere\u2019: how Pok\u00e9mon cards became a stock market for millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"

A surprising economic bubble is making it hard for anyone to buy Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2013 especially children<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon has been huge since the late 90s. Millions of people have fond memories of playing the original Red and Blue games, or trading cards in the playground for that elusive shiny Charizard (if your school didn\u2019t ban them). The franchise has only grown since then \u2013 but, where the trading cards are concerned, things have taken an unexpected and unfortunate turn. It\u2019s now almost impossible to get your hands on newly released cards thanks to an insane rise in reselling and scalping over the past year.<\/p>\n

Selling on your old cards to collectors has always been part of the hobby, and like baseball cards or Magic: The Gathering, Pok\u00e9mon cards can sometimes go for thousands of pounds. However, the resale market for Pok\u00e9mon has climbed so high that even new cards are valued at hundreds, before they\u2019ve even been released. The latest set, Phantasmal Flames, had a rare special illustration Charizard that was being valued at more than \u00a3600<\/a> before anyone had even found one. When a pack of cards retails at about \u00a34, there\u2019s a huge potential profit to be had.<\/p>\n

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\nA surprising economic bubble is making it hard for anyone to buy Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2013 especially children
\nPok\u00e9mon has been huge since the late 90s. Millions of people have fond memories of playing the original Red and Blue games, or trading cards in the playground for that elusive shiny Charizard (if your school didn\u2019t ban them). The franchise has only grown since then \u2013 but, where the trading cards are concerned, things have taken an unexpected and unfortunate turn. It\u2019s now almost impossible to get your hands on newly released cards thanks to an insane rise in reselling and scalping over the past year.
\nSelling on your old cards to collectors has always been part of the hobby, and like baseball cards or Magic: The Gathering, Pok\u00e9mon cards can sometimes go for thousands of pounds. However, the resale market for Pok\u00e9mon has climbed so high that even new cards are valued at hundreds, before they\u2019ve even been released. The latest set, Phantasmal Flames, had a rare special illustration Charizard that was being valued at more than \u00a3600 before anyone had even found one. When a pack of cards retails at about \u00a34, there\u2019s a huge potential profit to be had. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A surprising economic bubble is making it hard for anyone to buy Pok\u00e9mon cards \u2013 especially children Pok\u00e9mon has been huge since the late 90s. Millions of people have fond memories of playing the original Red and Blue games, or trading cards in the playground for that elusive shiny Charizard (if your school didn\u2019t ban …<\/p>\n

\u2018Kids can\u2019t buy them anywhere\u2019: how Pok\u00e9mon cards became a stock market for millennials<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}