Due to a variety of different factors, classic cards from the Pokemon Trading Card Game have been rising in price. Card collecting has seen recent rise a popularity and many Pokemon fans have been purchasing cards hoping they will be worth something in the future. Some collectors who have been holding onto rare Pokemon cards for years are now making videos of box openings and showing off rare cards with six figure values. Even content creators not normally associated with Pokemon have dipped their toes into the Pokemon TCG market, with YouTuber Logan Paul opening 1st Edition Booster Boxes on his Impaulsive podcast.
With all the hype surrounding the sale of expensive Pokemon cards in the last several months, fans and newcomers to the Pokemon TCG are looking for ways to potentially make a profit with card collecting. But in a market where the most sought after cards and memorabilia are sometimes over $300,000, not everyone has the money to get in the game. However, an investment app called Otis has recognized the recent boom in Pokemon card popularity and is now offering fans the chance to purchase card shares at much more affordable prices.
Otis works through purchasing a wide variety of cultural assets like trading cards, sports memorabilia, and art, and then breaks those individual assets up into shares for investors to buy. It’s a little bit like a mini-stock market that allows investors to buy and sell 24/7, with new cultural assets added to the site every week. Otis even has a magazine section on their website with articles explaining current collection trends, and one piece is dedicated to the Pokemon TCG.
Aspiring investors can purchase shares in classic Pokemon cards for as low as $10. An upcoming featured asset on Otis will be a 1999 1st Edition Holographic Base Set Blastoise card, and shares will be $10 a piece. On the trading market right now is a 1999 1st Edition Shadowless Holographic Mewtwo, also $10 a share. Gamers interested in other memorabilia besides Pokemon cards can expect another classic piece of gaming history to hit the market tomorrow; a 9.8 grade A+ sealed 2001 original copy of Halo: Combat Evolved can be invested in for the usual $10 a share.
Besides buying and trading shares, investors can make money from Otis if the company sells one of the assets a person has invested in. Otis investors have an indirect ownership of any assets they’ve bought shares for, and if the market price rises for a particular asset, so does an investor’s share. It’s all a little complicated but at least in this format buyers don’t have to compete with all the Pokemon trading card scalpers. Otis LLC owns each physical asset which investors can actually look at in person at a gallery space in New York City.
Pokemon TCG cards can be purchased from select retailers and local game stores.
Source: Otis Investment App
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