QotD: Where did all the collectors of cool looking phone cards go and why aren't you sharing anymore?

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QotD: Where did all the collectors of cool looking phone cards go and why arent you sharing anymore?

Helpful Considerations: No cool phone cards left? Put off by the hobby? Collected everything? Hoarding while no ones looking?

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Ive actually really liked seeing the phone cards people have posted about in the past and i realized i havent seen many recently. I think the collecting of phone cards has gone away as there is not reason to use phone cards now. So, i think all the collectors have moved into hiding, holding out for the perfect time to swoop in on the rare limited release phone cards. Theyre probably out there, watching and waiting.

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Phone cards are by far the least nauseating non-tcg cards. I’d even go as far as to say that I really like some of them, and would gladly own them.

Where did they go? As far as I can tell they seem very popular with two particular demographics: 1) Humpbacks that share very little in general and 2) Orcas that sort 10.000 card mercari lots into grading piles all day and as such don’t really have the time to share.

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Lol, I’ll share some phone card purchases either end of this month or next. I’ve mostly been buying cheaper ones and a lot more Non-Pokemon recently. I’ve also got a few at PSA and am sending out another PSA order with autos tomorrow where 2 of the cards are phone cards, but who knows when those will get back.

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Unrelated to pokemon, but my parents used to collect phone cards! I found the binder and they were kinda interesting






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Thats randomly cool!

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I often post my phone cards on my collection topics (YGO, Pokemon).

Random pics:






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Some phone cards. Mostly Studio Ghibli, but there are a couple Pokemon ones.



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Those are indeed cool looking. Thanks for sharing!

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If i’ve understood correctly the phone card collectors got bored of the tcg reign of terror and collectively moved in San Marino, formed a band called The Phone Cardigans and made E4 account named tokyopokemon to troll the tcg collectors they so much despised

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