Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5m

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA retired decorator just sold his Pokémon cards for one point five million pounds, after keeping them in his attic for fifteen years.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEwbank's auction house estimated up to two hundred fifty thousand pounds. It sold for more than six times that.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd his first set cost about three hundred pounds, from a seller in Malaysia on eBay. Does anyone check their own attic like that?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe people whose whole job is knowing the price said jaws hit the floor. At their own auction.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorForty-two complete sets, all mint, and their best sale in over thirty years. I'd say that's a good Wednesday.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentClip it. Three hundred pounds for the set, twenty to forty thousand for one card in it. Somebody in Malaysia is refreshing a listing.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFifteen years in an attic and the only person not shocked was the guy who bought them.