Collectibles

The slab in a young collector's room is often the whole portfolio, no house behind it. That makes every headline about thefts, robberies, break-ins and inside jobs land harder. Keith got a voice note about Pokémon maybe… Afficher plus

A rebrand might be what NFTs actually need, and Pokémon feels like the obvious candidate to carry it. Here's the part that gets missed: plenty of Pokémon collectors could already be trading NFTs and not know it. Over on… Afficher plus

Major players in the Pokémon card market pulled significant revenue from NFTs before pivoting back to cardboard once activity cooled. The expectation is they'll rotate right back into NFTs if that sector starts climbing… Afficher plus

The parental advice was to get the house instead of the cards. Turns out a PSA 10 first edition Charizard was sitting under $20,000 back in 2017, and the same grade pulled $550,000 in 2025. Median new US home prices only… Afficher plus

Goodsmile pre-orders are open for the David and Lucy CYBERPUNK EDGERUNNERS figures

Cyberpunk Edgerunners David and Lucy figures

Logan Paul flipped the Pikachu Illustrator card from a $5.275 million buy to a February sale of $16.49 million, setting a Guinness World Record for a trading card. That same asset was meant for his fractional ownership… Afficher plus

The part that gets me is a card can be doomed before it's even out of the pack. Factory centering off enough and the grade drops, so what looked like a PSA 10 comes back a 9. People crack the slab, resubmit, eat the fees… Afficher plus

FedEx truck robbery took multiple PSA graded card orders worth over $100,000 #FedEx

PSA cards stolen in FedEx heist

Collector says a FedEx truck heist wiped out over $100,000 worth of rare trading cards fr

FedEx truck heist rare trading cards

Participation in the Pokémon card market drops as prices fall because enthusiasts prioritize financial gain over the games or show. Most of the roughly 10 billion cards printed annually hold no monetary value, and a new… Afficher plus

Brian from Memes & Markets tackles the question of whether it's too late to buy your first Pokemon card ever. The answer is no, but he warns that riding the money wave everyone's been on is a different story. Most angry… Afficher plus

Adam Rubin put the price tag on the mechanical bird at $15 million for Art of Play, tying the listing to the Kelly Clarkson controversy. The backlash that followed has resulted in higher sales numbers and more people… Afficher plus

Art of Play mechanical bird sale

A question worth sitting with: if people will happily sink real money into cardboard as an investment, why wouldn't NFTs end up on the same road? Nostalgia is the reason collectors give for the pull. But plenty of the… Afficher plus

If NFTs were truly about the art, screenshotting would make them worthless just like printing a Charizard card. The Pokémon hobby relies on people claiming they love the art, but that's mostly cope for those who bought… Afficher plus

A collector paid $400 for a PSA 10 Pokémon card two years ago. The same card, with the same certification number, is now listed for $150,000. Sell now, or hold for more?