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We've heard all kinds of wild Pokémon resale stories over the years, but this one might just be the craziest of the bunch and has left us ringing our parents telling them to get up in the loft and look for our old collections again.
Last week, we heard that a man from Woking, UK, had received an eye-watering £1.56 million (a little over $2 million) at auction for his classic Pokémon collection. The best part is, he had no idea that the TCG was such a big deal these days.
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, told the BBC that he didn't know his collection was worth any money until his local newspaper informed him that a single card had pulled in over £6,000. Cue a quick search through the loft for his binders that had been sitting up there for 15 years, and boom, he was sitting on a gold mine.
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According to the BBC, the man's son got into the hobby in the late '90s, and he started getting involved too under the assumption that "they might be a good investment" one day. He told the outlet that his son had his own set of cards, though "he never got to touch these".
Apparently, he had picked up some complete sets from an eBay seller in Malaysia at the time, one of which sold for £75,000 at the auction (despite only setting him back £300 on initial purchase). The big ticket item was a Legendary Collection Complete Master Set, including the all-important Charizard, which went for a whopping £100,000 in the end.
The auction house, Ewbanks, claims that the sale is the UK's most valuable trading card auction of all time, and may set a new European record. "The buzz was incredible," Andrew Ewbank told the BBC, "especially because the collectors could not believe how good this collection was – extensive, untouched, complete, and with just about every rarity you could hope for."
Of course, we're no stranger to Pokémon cards selling for silly amounts these days — there's an argument to be made that it has ruined the hobby, somewhat — but hearing about it from forgotten collections like this is always heart-warming. Now then, back to searching through boxes from the attic...