While we have learned that the famous Pokémon cards will be making their big comeback in MacDonald’s Happy Meal menus for the month of September, we imagine not without difficulty that some people will be ready to do without the famous Big Mac for a Happy Meal. story to expand their collection of cards. And if you find this attitude a little abusive, there are some who go even further… In South Carolina, a collector had several cards stolen for a rather staggering total value.
Thieves steal $500,000 worth of Pokémon cards!
This is the sad tale of the collector answering to the name of Christopher Polydorou, 62 years old and then living in South Carolina. The latter was at the head of a sacred collection of Pokémon cards but saw the latter being stolen. This is indeed what a report from the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, dated July 13, states, according to which the collector called, stating “that a stranger walked into his collection room and pulled out a box and a half of Pokémon trading cards worth half a billion dollars“.
And there you will tell us “HALF A BILLION?!”, well, no! Fortunately, this large sum of money recorded was an error coming from the agent who transcribed the call, the real sum of the stolen cards being in reality 500,000 dollars, which is already quite enormous it takes l ‘confess. In all and for all, Christopher Polydorou allegedly had three boxes stolen, and according to him, the thieves were in fact employees of the HVAC company, a company dealing with everything related to air conditioning. The men were reportedly hired by his mother, then 91.
According to a report from The Smocking Gunthe boxes in question were sealed boxes, unopened, and more than 20 years old, including, among the latter, a Japanese edition of great value… Let’s hope that Christopher can get his hands on his collection, even if unfortunately, his cards are probably in the wild and already in the hands of new owners.
When the pa$$ion goes way too far…
As we told you, collectors are ready to do anything to find the rarest and most expensive card, and recently, YouTuber Logan Paul decided to make one of them a.. NFT! Yes, for a few cents, you can if you want to get a piece of the Pikachu Illustrator card, at the price of 0.10 cents each. In all, there are 50 million tokens for it.
It would not be surprising to see other Pokémon cards transformed into NFT appear in the future, and good or bad idea, difficult to really position yourself on this kind of subject… Can’t wait for McDonald’s Pokémon cards in NFT!
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