Call me crazy but I buy trading cards to actually play the trading card games. All these failed crypto bros pivoting to TCGs as 'investments" are making it miserable to actually play and enjoy the game.
Scalpers and speculative investors are a huge problem in the space right now. They’re cleaning out stock faster than stores can stock it and reselling at over a 10x markup. Check out some of the stories with recent releases.
Nope. It took off during COVID when crypto-bro YouTubers pivoted to Pokémon and other TCGs. And now even Coinbase has started working in Pokémon card speculation.
Investments are investments
Call me crazy but I buy trading cards to actually play the trading card games. All these failed crypto bros pivoting to TCGs as 'investments" are making it miserable to actually play and enjoy the game.
doesn’t sound crazy ro me, that’s what the cards are for. how does their involvement spoil your game-playing?
Scalpers and speculative investors are a huge problem in the space right now. They’re cleaning out stock faster than stores can stock it and reselling at over a 10x markup. Check out some of the stories with recent releases.
They must have been a huge problem before crypto investors started buying cards though, right?
Nope. It took off during COVID when crypto-bro YouTubers pivoted to Pokémon and other TCGs. And now even Coinbase has started working in Pokémon card speculation.
Wow, that’s interesting I’ll check out the debacle, thanks
Personally I think TCG’s are popular investments because they’re much easier to forge than cash
Good point. Are forged tcgs a big market?