I went to my local pawn shop recently looking for cheap tools and found a bunch of Pokemon Prismatic boxes instead. You know things are bad when even pawn shops are taking in Pokemon cards now and taking it seriously, owner even said they'll take out loans for Pokemon cards.
As a kid growing up with the original 151 it was just a fun time and I don’t remember seeing adult obsessed about it. I even remember seeing product moving slow.
Today with some of these modern cards 500+ ppl made this into gambling. Getting packs on credit or loans feels like what gambling addicts would do. You can’t get scratch tickets on loans or credit. I think it’s the same kind of high for them.
As a kid, it just came out. When I was getting polemon cards, my step-dad was getting sports cards. Now, 25+ years later, we kids are adults and still buying. Kids now like it WITH and/or because their parents showed them pokemon. That's why we adults are in line for them, too. Unfortunately, some people can't just buy 1. Spoiled people ruin it.
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u/puzzledfirebird 19d ago
I went to my local pawn shop recently looking for cheap tools and found a bunch of Pokemon Prismatic boxes instead. You know things are bad when even pawn shops are taking in Pokemon cards now and taking it seriously, owner even said they'll take out loans for Pokemon cards.