Cards that sometimes resell at gold prices

Pokémon cards represent imaginary creatures with fantastic powers. Children dream of collecting them, and adults to speculate. Pokémon cards sell at sometimes very high prices. In a unit sales shop, one of them is worth more than 349 euros. A profitable investment, according to Sasha Laloum, collector of Pokémon cards. Collectors buy hoping to resell more. The prices fly away. More than twenty years after its release, a card is now worth 2,700 euros.

Nasser Sidi, owner of the Fuji Store store, explains that prices depend on the number of cards printed for a Pokémon, but also on the desirability of the Pokémon. To fix this value, the cards pass through the hands of professionals. In the leader of the sector in France, rare cards are certified and noted. Employees remain anonymous so as not to take the risk that collectors are trying to bribe them. Other franchises also have value on the playing card market, including Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh!. The collecting card market weighs nearly $ 11 billion worldwide, and is expected to increase by 5% until 2030.

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