Collectible card games are fueled by speculation and chance: Unopened booster packs can have shockingly high values simply because we don't know what's in them. A single sealed Pokémon 1st edition booster pack is worthhold a Charizard that could buy you a new house.
From there, II&C moved on to scanning actual sealed booster packs and booster kits, where it was also"able to extract the shape of the Pokémon due to slight density differences in the cards and foils." According to II&C, okJLUV's video brought an immediate explosion of attention, with the company's web traffic spiking over 17,000% as it received"endless requests to scan packs and kits from collectors, investors, and card stores.
"Because it's expensive technology to operate and manage," II&C said,"most who may have considered it were unable to find a value proposition to make it worthwhile." At $75 a scan—almost twenty times the cost of a current-day Pokémon TCG booster pack—II&C's card scanning is probably outside the casual collector's budget. Even so, II&C was unprepared for the scale of response."One colleague jokingly bet another $100 that we would have 10 requests over the next week," II&C said."We had 10 requests in the first two hours.