
(FILES) This photograph shows displayed collectible cards from the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG), rated mint as graded by French card grading service PCA, at an amateur collector's appartment in Paris on March 11, 2026. Sold-out stock, soaring online prices: the massive buying of trading cards (Pokemon, One Piece, etc.) by speculators who resell them at sky-high prices is infuriating collectors, who are up in arms against this "scalping" practice. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP via Getty Images)
