Why do you buy cards ?

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Enjoyment of collecting the cards/sets, hoping they slowly continue to rise in value and that great feeling when you save up for a big card purchase you really want and finally get it

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Edit: Yeah, youā€™re right, it doesnā€™t make sense now that I think about it. Just forget it lol.

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Yes, but most people complain about how they lower prices because theyā€™re not holding on to the cards and flooding the market.

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Itā€™s fun!

I love all the avenues you can go down with Pokemon cards. So much to learn and explore. I get the same thrill I did when I was a kid. Iā€™m a collector at heart. Iā€™ve collected musical instruments over the years. This year Iā€™ve funneled a lot of my disposable income into Pokemon. Iā€™m a very low risk type person when it comes to money and investing. Pokemon cards felt like a low risk long term investment that I would have an absolute blast with and I am.

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I read it a few times and didnā€™t get it either

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I like eevees.

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This is excellent. :heart_eyes:

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I started out as a flipper to make some money while Iā€™m in college, at one point I bought a collection with a ton of obscure japanese promos and they were so neat that I decided to keep them lol. Ever since that Iā€™ve kept some of everything that I buy, I guess I would be classified as a ā€œscummy flipperā€ still, but my whole collection has been free because of it :blush:

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Because Japanese promos are bloody awesome! :slight_smile:

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pokemon
-alakazam is my favorite, I finished my goal except for grey stamp alakazam.
-got inspired by joetehman to collect energies. Almost done, but felt it impossible to find the pcg-p set.
-the rest I collect whatever it seems cool

yugioh
-highest rarities heroes (finished, just waiting for more) (second binder)
-old/htg/nostalgic/whatever it seems cool (main binder)

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Like others have pointed out, because itā€™s fun, reminds me of my childhood, and I like the organizational aspect.

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Because I always liked collecting, and itā€™s cool to have a goal now. When I was six years old I started collecting nice-looking peddles and post stamps. Iā€™ve collected all kind of things in my life: peddles; post stamps; coins; PokĆ©mon TCG cards; flippos/pogs; Happy Tails; Yu-Gi-Oh TCG/OCG cards; minerals & fossils; virtual TF2 weapons; virtual Smite items; twisty puzzles; etc. etc.

Nowadays I still have three main collections, and some sub-collections among them:

So to answer the question: In the past I bought cards because I liked them (and for Yu-Gi-Oh to create Decks). Nowadays I buy to get closer of completing my collection goals.

Greetz,
Quuador

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Coz they look cute.

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I could just quote this and leave it with that.

All i want to add is that the hobby is not a big hobby here in Norway. I see myself as a superhero who saves old and forgotten cards and buy them to show their true beauty and share them wih the few collectors here in the north.

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I loved opening cards as a kid. The only ā€œtoysā€ I cared about were Pokemon cards and Gamecube games haha. I had my parents buy me boosters all the time. From base set through ex team rocket returns give or take. Of course I stopped collecting around age 10ish because ā€œpokemon is for little kidsā€ But around 16 I started to buy cards here and there and by 20 my collection was in full swing.

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For me to say I think your community gets bigger and bigger :blush:

I myself are from Denmark and have had maybe 100 deals with Norwegians

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Idk if Iā€™ll ever sell. Even though Iā€™m 99% positive that these cards, especially the older ones, will keep going up in value as time goes on. And this COULD be seen as a retirement investment if they keep going up, and you buy a lot while theyā€™re cheap, and you keep them for 30 years.
However, in that same breath Iā€™ll say the nostalgic factor could wear off and the prices stay the same. Or even go down. But I wonā€™t care. I love them for the nostalgia. My childhood wasā€¦ okay but one of the best parts of it was Pokemon. Iā€™ll buy these forever and keep collecting my favorites because I was very limited when I was younger as far as collecting goes. I think we all collect them for the same reasons why scientists build things such s the large hadron collider. Because we want to. Because weā€™re curious. Because weā€™re trying to satisfy the kid thatā€™s still inside all of us.
As long as itā€™s fun, Iā€™ll keep collecting :blush:

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The nostalgia is what pulled me in. I loved collecting cards when I was younger and did so with yugioh, dbz, and Pokemon. Like others, I thought I had aged out and stopped collecting. Something about collecting is very wholesome and peaceful. Nowadays I buy and sell to help pay off my wife and Iā€™s Debt and in the process keep the cards I truly like the most. The handful of cards that are off limits are cards that I bought from/were given by friends and cards that have always been my favorite (CHARIZARDā€‹:heart_eyes::heart_eyes:). I also like to think of myself as rescuing cards from homes and getting them into the homes of collectors where they will be better taken care of

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Personally I get them for many reasons.

The first one being that I had kept most of my original collection, and can now afford to expand it, since I still like Pokemon (the concept).

Second reason is that as I have grown I know have a much deeper appreciation for the art in the cards, as well as the nostalgia some of them bring.

Lastly, I have recognized Pokemon has now an established collectors market, and I enjoy speculating and taking some risks here and there while I explore trade ideas, for a potential long-term future gain, especially with sealed product.

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I was always into pokemon. And cards seem like a nice way to ā€œimplementā€ a whole meaning of favorite pokemon in physical form. Itā€™s nice to go through them and there are ways to store them and display them.
the art on some modern ones is ultra fantastic. Beautiful kickass artwork make some cards look like they are on an ā€œaction figureā€ level instead of being just thin pieces of cardboardā€¦

Also I collected games and action figures but after moving to another country i left all of that behind and still frustrated about that.
Cards on the other handā€¦are a much better thing to store than boxes of figures or games. They are much more compactā€¦you can literally put couple of hundreds of them in an album :sweat_smile: