{"id":86959,"date":"2026-08-01T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86959"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:37:44","slug":"palworld-tcg-prices-skyrocket-as-ebay-scalpers-profit-off-of-card-game-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86959","title":{"rendered":"Palworld TCG Prices Skyrocket as eBay Scalpers Profit Off of Card Game Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/palworld-official-card-game\">Palworld TCG<\/a> has officially launched, and so too has a wave of scalpers looking to make a quick buck on developer Pocketpair&#8217;s new collectible cards.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/they-really-are-going-the-pokmon-route-palworld-is-getting-an-official-trading-card-game\">promised back in January<\/a>, the developer has partnered with Bushiroad to deliver an official Palworld trading card game and released its first wave of cards, Dawn of Palpagos July 30, 2026. It was an announcement that predictably triggered further comparisons to Pok\u00e9mon, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-pokemon-company-announces-facial-recognition-system-to-help-kill-scalping-at-japanese-card-stores-mandatory-from-elementary-school-age\">like the original pocket monster property<\/a>, Pocketpair&#8217;s latest creation has some people selling cards for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/tabletop-gaming\/palworld-tcg-cards-are-already-selling-for-up-to-usd4-000-as-pocketpairs-tabletop-game-follows-in-pokemons-footsteps-with-resellers-dominating-the-market-1-day-after-launch\/\">GamesRadar<\/a>, eBay has filled with both successful and ongoing listings for everything from booster box cases to, of course, individual (and extremely rare) cards. For reference, retailer Lumius was selling a booster box case \u2013 which comes with 12 booster boxes that carry 12 booster packs each \u2013 for $499.99. Cases are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_nkw=palworld+case&amp;_sacat=0&amp;_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m570.l1313&amp;_udlo=1000.0&amp;_odkw=palworld+cattiva&amp;_osacat=0&amp;LH_Sold=1\">going for about $1,800 on eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"palworld-official-card-game-official-teaser-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>While there are plenty of Palworld fans clearly looking to collect their favorite Pals simply for the love of the game, scalpers online have a different plan. Some buyers who lucked out and got their purchases shipped early had already posted listings for cards before that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palworld TCG has officially launched, and so too has a wave of scalpers looking to make a quick buck on developer Pocketpair&#8217;s new collectible cards. As promised back in January, the developer has partnered with Bushiroad to deliver an official Palworld trading card game and released its first wave of cards, Dawn of Palpagos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":86961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86963,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86959\/revisions\/86963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}