Rare Blastoise Pokémon Card Sells For $360k, Whilst A First Edition TCG Box Fetches $408k

Why? Why spend so much on cards?

whilst a child somewhere is living in a box. HUMANITY!

for a card??!! barking mad

I wish I could go back in time and tell my child self not to trade my Pokemon cards (including Charizard) for a copy of Spyro 1 because my brother sat on the disc.

Could of been rich XD

Thank the bs youtubers like Mr Beast or whatever.

I've never seen that card in my life XD

Utter waste of money. It’s unbelievable

LOL
It just only a card.
I can find from Google image, print the image in poster size.

Wow! That's a crazy amount of money for a card.

I know I have some cards that would fetch about £30.

I was thinking of selling, but might hold on.

I hope he ends up selling that card for double what he paid for it just to spite the numbskulls who keep saying " but it's just a card".

I remember telling kids about the black lotus, how mtg was cool and Pokémon was dumb.

Lol, who’s dum now

God the salt here, clearly people here don't understand collecting.

@Miyamotosan i hope he sells it for half the price just to prove those people correct

Ridiculous amount of money

pokemon,magic and yugioh cards are very collectable especially the extreme rare shiny cards worth alot of money.

Good grief. Are these the same people paying five figures for graded, sealed games like Mario Bros and Contra? Insane.

I have to go through my collection, maybe I have something really high valued

Not really much different than the fine art market if you think about it. It’s all based on perceived/intrinsic value, not the actual worth of the materials involved.

I still have all my holographic cards from the first run of pokemon cards. Not many first editions but the value is still in the thousands. Definitely going to hold on to them as the value just goes up and up.

But dat Oxford comma... kisses fingertips mwah!

@TheSmashTheorist Collectors in the world who have so much money that they don't know what to do with it. Sadly...

I always wanted a blastoise i guess it's too late to buy one now...

I have a whole bunch of first editions, some i know will fetch upwards of 10k but im going to hold off.

Also to those who are wondering why people spend so much money on this, collecting these things go beyond a hobby for some people.

Also that is a huge investment because that card is ridiculously rare, rarer than the first edition Char card, in 10 years time the card will be worth double that amount.

Also look at old Baseball cards, an original Babe Ruth card would make you tens of millions.

@popey1980 Example of expensive cards: Black Lotus Magic the Gathering Card.

I noticed that the card mentions "Pocket Monsters". Was the full name EVER used in any official English (or any western-language) media?
(I doubt it, because I think the ENTIRE POINT of calling them Pokemon was to avoid potential trademark issues with whoever owned the Monster in My Pocket early '90s toy line.)

Well, now we know what a $360,000 bill looks like. It’s blue and sparkly and has a giant armoured turtle in place of a grumpy-looking bearded dude.

In Blastoise We Trust.

I suppose.

What's a pokemon

@stocko DW man, the reason why that Charizard is so expensive is because it's in perfect condition, and a rare print of that card (there's multiple, with small differences..) For example, I have that Charizard card and it's not even worth 100$ because of the print being a tiny bit different and the condition being 6 at best. So you prolly didn't lose too much on that trade.
FML on the other hand for losing few bitcoins the past 5-6 years that would sell for ~100k today. Don't have any left now.

@Maxz
Thats funny!, My son has over 100 all together of the holographic new still in the plastic wrapper that it came in inside of the foil wrapper and all but in sleeves there mint !,

I wish I could go back in time to tell myself to screw the bullies who made me feel so bad about liking pokemon to the point where I just threw out all my cards.