HACKER Q&A
📣 throwawaycodrrr

Is buying first edition packs of Pokemon a good investment?


Genuinely curious about people's opinions. Please don't write it off because it seems silly...

To add: One of the problems is that some are 'heavy' in certain packs so maybe people only sell the light ones but dont say theyre light? But maybe that's a bad way to determine whether they have holos.


  👤 smt88 Accepted Answer ✓
No. If they were, a lot more people would be buying and trading them.

Trendy assets with no intrinsic value (e.g. trading cards, NFTs) are high-risk.

Assets like land and housing have utility. Assets like stock are supposed to have value because you have a share of the profits, although many people still speculate on public markets.

Put your money into something you use first, like a home purchase. Even if the price collapses, you may still be saving yourself money every month vs. renting.

Then move to something that generates value, like a high-yield index fund.


👤 CA0DA
Seems like it matters if the popularity of Pokemon will go up or down in the future. Hard for anyone to know for sure.

👤 andrewfromx
yes, but scan each one and make an NFT of them on https://opensea.io