![]() 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. Today, if you told me that my collection had no value at all, I would still continue collecting it.” Mr Fong has also represented Singapore for the Pokemon Trading Card Game World Championships twice, in Hawaii in 2012 after winning the national championships, and then in Nashville in 2018.Īlthough he knows the value of his collection, Mr Fong said: “It will always be a hobby to me. He has been collecting Pokemon cards since he began playing the game in early 2012 and has spent an estimated S$200,000 to build his collection. Mr Reuben Fong, a 32-year-old business development manager, is both a collector and player. I treat it more like a friendship rather than a buyer-seller relationship.” “It is also important to keep interacting and building a relationship with your viewers. “I try to research on the trends, on which chase card prices are going up, and try to procure booster packs from that particular set for the viewers,” she said. With an average of 20 concurrent viewers per stream, she estimates her monthly profits to be around S$800. Ms Lee streams on weekday nights, into the wee hours of the morning, and makes roughly S$1 to S$1.50 per Pokemon card booster pack sold. Upon seeing the growing trend of livestreamers selling Pokemon cards, Ms Sherry Lee, a 23-year-old Singapore Institute of Technology student, quickly set up a TikTok Shop of her own in May. But with Covid restrictions, it became difficult to gather physically, so people started gathering online to open packs,” said Mr Aymond. “Before Covid, a lot of people used to go to card shops and open packs with their friends. Mr Aymond has casually collected Pokemon cards since he was six years old, before stopping when he turned 14.Ī year and a half ago, however, he reignited his passion for the trading card game and began streaming his booster pack openings on the popular social media platform TikTok.Įventually, Mr Aymond’s content started garnering more views, and he was approached by collectibles company Skylightz Collectibles to join its team as a full-time streamer on a separate streaming site, Twitch. Players often buy booster packs in hopes of obtaining a card of high monetary or sentimental value, also often referred to as “chase” cards.įor 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. While there are many Pokemon trading card game products, one of the most recognisable is the booster pack.Įach booster pack generally contains 10 random game cards of varying rarities, drawn from a particular set of cards depending on that booster pack’s theme.Įach pack contains at least one “rare” card. The Pokemon trading card game was originally released in 1996 in Japan. It went viral on the internet that we managed to pull a card like that in Singapore,” he said. ![]() “No one has managed to pull one in the modern day, even on YouTube. Mr Aymond recalls one of his most memorable experiences on the job when he opened a booster pack containing a card with a potential estimated value of S$5,000. ![]() He will then mail the cards to his customers. The 29-year-old is a full-time streamer whose content revolves around him interacting with his audience while opening Pokemon card booster packs that viewers purchase online.Īs customers’ purchases pour in, Mr Aymond carefully prepares each order and opens the purchased booster packs live on stream. SINGAPORE - As he gets ready for another long day at work, Mr 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. ![]()
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