SINGAPORE, June 29 — As he gets ready for another long day at work, Roman Aymond boots up his computer, turns on his cameras and prepares his stock of Pokemon card booster packs...
SINGAPORE, June 29 — As he gets ready for another long day at work, Roman Aymond boots up his computer, turns on his cameras and prepares his stock of Pokemon card booster packs before his virtual customers come streaming in.
“No one has managed to pull one in the modern day, even on YouTube. It went viral on the internet that we managed to pull a card like that in Singapore,” he said.While there are many Pokemon trading card game products, one of the most recognisable is the booster pack. The owner of a Pokemon store also told TODAY that his customers had once been preyed upon by a scammer who used his store’s name as part of a ruse.For collectors, the surge of interest in the game in the past few years means it is now possible to sell Pokemon cards full time, or as a side hustle.
“Before Covid, a lot of people used to go to card shops and open packs with their friends. But with Covid restrictions, it became difficult to gather physically, so people started gathering online to open packs,” said Aymond. “It is also important to keep interacting and building a relationship with your viewers. I treat it more like a friendship rather than a buyer-seller relationship.”
The increasing value of cards has also led to a demand for highly priced cards to be professionally appraised, so as to truly assess a card’s net worth.“When we started, grading services were not very well developed in Singapore. Players would simply hand over cards to card stores to be sent for grading. However, the entire process was not transparent,” said a spokesperson from Oxley Grading.
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