Скачать или смотреть The Pokemon trading card industry surprised me! This is not financial advice!!

Do you still have your old Pokémon cards? Because it could make you rich. Welcome to the 7Billion dollar trading card industry.

And most of these sales aren’t kids begging their parents for booster packs. They’re adults.

Infact eBay saw so much trading card activity that it bought a trading card platform for nearly $300 million. And this space is led by Pokémon. Remember Logan Paul? He spent over five million dollars on a single card. Five. Million. Dollars. For cardboard.

But here’s the thing: not every card is valuable. Collectors grade them from 1 to 10. A single scratch can slash the price. And Pokémon cards? They’re the most graded in the world.

What drives the price of these cards is the speculation that like any investment, the price will go up in the future.

And The Pokémon Company isn’t slowing down. Last year alone they printed more than ten billion cards. Seventy-five billion in total are in circulation. That’s enough to give every person on Earth nine cards — and yet, Pokémon is still the top-selling toy globally.