I lost $30,000 and counting in Pokémon cards… and the worst part is, I did it to myself. In this episode of Off THE COUCH TOK, I’m talking about my biggest Pokémon card collecting regrets — from trading away a 1st Edition Dragonite that could be worth around $20,000 in gem mint condition, to selling roughly $10,000 worth of vintage Pokémon cards for only $200 back in 2016. At the time, I thought I was done with Pokémon. I thought I had grown out of it. I sold my original collection for pennies, moved on, and never imagined the hobby would explode the way it has. Now I’ve restarted collecting — not as a scalper, not as an investor, not as a crazy card influencer — but as a normal nostalgic collector trying to reconnect with something I loved as a kid. This livestream podcast is about nostalgia, regret, the insane Pokémon card market, vintage ca ...