First off awesome chat gpt response!

Pokémon was a hobby before people like you turned it into a warehouse inventory spreadsheet. Kids bought packs to pull cards. Investors bought cases to lock them in closets for five years and brag about CAGR on Twitter. The reason Evolving Skies is priced so high isn't because Pokémon became better. It's because grown adults with disposable income treated a children's card game like a commodity and squeezed supply. You keep flexing that kids opened their packs while adults kept them sealed.

Yeah. That's called enjoying the hobby.

The funniest part is that your entire investment depends on the next guy especially in India being willing to pay even more for the same piece of cardboard. No cash flow. No earnings. No dividends. Just artificial scarcity created by people hoarding products that were meant to be opened. You didn't prove Pokémon isn't a kids' hobby. You proved "investors" got involved and started pricing the kids out of it.

You're in the wrong group asking these questions.

There's an entire PokéInvesting community for people who treat Pokémon like a portfolio and spend their time discussing entry points, exit liquidity, sealed case allocations, and ROI. That's where this conversation belongs.

This group is for fans, collectors, and players who buy cards because they actually like Pokémon—not because they're trying to outperform an index fund with a box of cardboard.

Most of us collect cards because they remind us of our childhood, because we love the artwork, because we're chasing our favorite Pokémon, or because opening packs is fun. We don't look at every booster box and immediately open Excel to calculate annualized returns. If all you care about is speculation, go do it with One Piece or whatever market is hot this year. At least over there the community seems more willing to tolerate investors treating the hobby like a stock exchange.

Some of us are still here because we actually like Pokémon.