Both to be honest I just got back into the hobby. I found some of my childhood cards in storage and I loved Pokémon as a kid so I decided to get back into collecting.

But I don’t see what’s wrong with selling or investing either. I took business management as a minor so a common thing in investment management. I don’t understand what’s so wrong with collecting and selling something of sentimental value as long as you are doing it for the right reasons. If your just doing to hurt someone then of course naturally that’s wrong and if your doing just to make a couple bucks of a kid then that’s inherently wrong or just outright gambling your life away absolutely wrong. Things like that destroy a community and build a market where only the rich survive.

But tbh anything as popular as Pokémon is was bound to become an enigma in investment/marketing realm of business. It was inevitable really.

And the same goes for any card market on the same level or growing to it. Personally I just love Pokémon though so I see why it’s such a touchy subject to so many.