Pokémon cards are still so friggin expensive. I’ve been a TCG competitor since about 2016, and it used to be a niche community with meta decks that cost about $50 to make. However, everything exploded when influencer Jake Paul made up how expensive his Pokémon pulls were to children in 2020.
Seeing how desperate kids and their grandparents had become for overpriced cards, scalpers started buying up all the product at stores and then selling it for even higher prices online, exploiting the scarcity they created. Now we have 40-year-old dudes beating each other up in Walmart, breaking into Target to sleep there overnight before an expansion drops, and even Pokémon stores getting held at gunpoint for their product. What a fun hobby!
Anyway, prices have skyrocketed. And for some, Pokémon cards have become an investment.
Over $140,000 in Pokémon cards
In a Facebook group dedicated to collecting Pokémon cards, a dude named Geoff Pritchett, stated that he traded in his Audi R8, a pretty cool supercar, for a collection of Pokémon cards. This included sealed products and individual cards.
He wrote: “Finally closed the deal. Trading my R8 for a huge Pokémon collection.”
For his supercar, Pritchett was able to get $75,000 worth of sealed product and $65,000 in singles. The whole ordeal was “exhausting,” but Pritchett plans to sell the cards and will make a video of the haul soon. 
I have to say, I’m personally not a fan of this trade. I think my colleague, Dave McQuilling, would call this man a “wanker” or something. Trading in a fun track car to sort through Pokémon cards to sell to a bunch of tweens seems like a depressing life change. And this is coming from someone who plays the card game.
Matter of fact, I’ll call him a wanker myself.
Pokémon cards have been crazy lately, I’ll give him that. But it’s just a trend that will likely decline eventually. He has to sell these cards in the next few years or he will probably be sitting on a bunch of cardboard. I’m not sure what Audi R8 he had, so I can’t tell you what it’s worth, but I think the value in a supercar like that goes beyond the money value: it’s more that it’s just a fun, exhilarating experience with glorious sound to match. And you don’t have to beg kids to buy it from you all the time. You can be left alone with your car.
But if I were to guess, maybe it’s a later model from 2020 to 2023, which sell for around $140,000. This would give him enough money to get all those Poke products.
The 2023 Audi R8 has a 5.2-liter V10 that produces 602 horsepower, getting you to 60 miles per hour in around 3 seconds, and eventually up to 200 mph. It’s high-revving with great handling, making it easy to control, fun, and fast. It’s no LFA, but it sounds good as well. I mean, it sounds better than Jigglypuff’s singing.
I guess who am I to judge? At least it wasn’t Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
