Online trading card store TCGplayer has announced a new partnership with American DJ and music producer Steve Aoki that will see an estimated $3 million worth of Pokémon merch go up for sale.
Said to be an "incredible curated selection of high-value and graded Pokémon products," the lineup of goods on offer will include a wide range of Pokémon cards from Aoki's personal collection. Fans will also be able to get their hands on exclusive products from Aoki’s personal collection of clothing, memorabilia and records, and hand-filled Mystery Boxes that include things like artist meet-and-greets and concert tickets.
Here's how it'll work:
Aoki and TCGplayer will release periodic waves of individually listed graded Pokémon cards and Mystery Boxes on the TCGplayer marketplace. Throughout the Steve Aoki Vault series, TCGplayer will advertise new products, with drop previews available on Mondays, one day ahead of the products’ live release on Tuesdays.
Wave one will be listed weekly from November 3, 2021, through December 17, 2021, except for the week of November 29, 2021. The second product wave is planned to launch in early 2022.
Aoki says, "My journey into card-collecting was initially about connecting with a new community, as the pandemic made it impossible for me to play shows, tour or be with my fans. As my love for the hobby grew, I started thinking about new ways to bring the products that got me hooked on collecting to a community that has embraced me from the start. This is exactly why I am so excited to partner with TCGplayer, which has given me the opportunity to bring the products I love to an even larger portion of the hobby community."
If you're interested, you can go ahead and check out the Steve Aoki Vault here.
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I still have sanity to not purchase ridiculous expensive items like that.
Purchasing those items with ridiculous expensive price will not make you worthy as a human being.
It just wasting money for nothing.
ok, good for him, I guess?
If anyone’s interested, I’m selling $3 million dollars worth of pencil sharpeners. Well, I say sharpeners. It’s only one sharpener, but I’m asking 3 mil for it.
Drop me a DM and help me give back to the community.
@Anti-Matter It's all relative. If you have millions in the bank, as some collectors do, then spending a few hundred thousand to add some rare cards to your collection is peanuts. Same if you have thousands in the bank, spending a few hundred to add to your collection is peanuts.
If only a crass materialistic obsession with a children's card game, and the desperate and ceaseless climb for wealth, actually made a human being happy.
@BigLarry
I have different point of view.
Even if i have million dollars in my bank, i will not purchase something ridiculuos expensive for a card that i can print from Google image by myself for private collection (not for playing, not for selling).
@Maxz
$3M for pencil sharpener ?
LOL 🤣🤣🤣
@Maxz Is it hand picked though?
F*ck. Off.
I cannot stand this guy or his music and now he's infiltrating my videogame space too. And this whole Pokemon card speculating thing is getting out of hand. The people selling them for outrageous amounts of money should be ashamed. And the people who buy them, well... I've got nothing positive to say about them...
It’s akin to a pyramid scheme and this low cost easy to make items have a fake value. Someone at some point will be left holding something that no one will pay for. Just don’t get left holding the bag
people are starving in the world.
@Daniel36 I picked some pencil shavings out of it with my hand so I think so.
The bigger question is why a celebrity musician/DJ is buying Pokemon cards to begin with, or why him selling them is somehow special? You'd think this guy has enough to do with making millions selling music, producing music, and touring that collecting overpriced pieces of children's cardboard wouldn't really be on his to-do list?
Sounds like he only started collecting during the pandemic, so he's essentially flipping some Pokémon merch to claw back some of the cash he lost while not performing, or am I missing something?
Also, I've never heard of him - does that make me old? 😂
@dmcc0 No, it just means you weren't in on the whole Big Room EDM fad.
@Daniel36 I had to look up Big Room - never heard of it. Seems I didn't miss much.
@PessitheMystic Why so much hate for the dude (aside from card speculation)? Genuinely curious, I don't know anything about him. Is he a colossal douche?
@Ratchet916 I’m a big fan of electronic music. I like expansive, tightly-crafted soundscapes rich with textures and emotion - completely the opposite of the products of the corporate music-making machine that flood the market nowadays (you know, the kind of stuff they play in gyms).
Steve Aoki is one of the worst offenders of this. A talentless fool who makes too much money for doing terrible collaborations with people I have never heard of. YouTube some of his tracks, you will be sorry haha
Dumping his artificially inflated priced junk onto others before everyone realises that a mint condition base set Pokemon card isn't actually worth anything.
@Dr_Lugae Well that's not true. Rare Pokemon cards will always have value. The TCG is 25 years old and is too big and well established to fail. Sure the value of certain cards will go up and down as the market determines but the value will never be zero.
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