{"id":100357,"date":"2016-08-01T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100357"},"modified":"2016-08-01T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:34:45","slug":"r60000-for-a-notebook-and-other-crazy-money-south-africans-are-paying-for-pokemon-gear-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100357-r60000-for-a-notebook-and-other-crazy-money-south-africans-are-paying-for-pokemon-gear-online","title":{"rendered":"R60,000 for a notebook &#8211; the crazy money South Africans are paying for Pokemon gear online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pokemon fever has infected South Africa, with gamers\u00a0willing to pay an extraordinary amount of money for Pokemon memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>BidorBuy recently\u00a0revealed that &#8220;Pokemon&#8221; was the most searched term on the site in the last week of July, overtaking other popular search terms including &#8221; iPhone, laptop and PS4&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are more than one thousand <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hermes.bidorbuy.co.za\/campaigns\/bm040570c5122\/track-url\/xa508f3wtw5c9\/495d7e70df1df2514078bf72e144e2131eb63ee8\" target=\"_blank\">Pokemon-themed listings<\/a><\/strong> on bidorbuy, from cards, video games, and movies to action figures, soft toys, caps, mugs, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>So what crazy items are actually up for sale? Check them out below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hermes.bidorbuy.co.za\/campaigns\/bm040570c5122\/track-url\/xa508f3wtw5c9\/d058024afd5bf4ea12fa6a111c6e9d58006da71a\" target=\"_blank\">Pokemon Center Original Notebook A6 Espurr Wanted<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<strong>R60,712<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hermes.bidorbuy.co.za\/campaigns\/bm040570c5122\/track-url\/xa508f3wtw5c9\/7bdd7273e18aad2c06637434c3a47aa6a48bdb21\" target=\"_blank\">Official Nintendo Pokemon Center Black and White Plush Stuffed Toy 12&#8243; Reshiram<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <strong>R10,138<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hermes.bidorbuy.co.za\/campaigns\/bm040570c5122\/track-url\/xa508f3wtw5c9\/48df7ccc4b8ee6e33e963ecd0939a1ba04cf2a20\" target=\"_blank\">Booster packs<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; (Prices range from R3 to R100 for a single card with mint booster packs going for over <strong>R10,000<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also find a complete list o Pokemon-themed listings <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidorbuy.co.za\/search\/Pokemon?TextColumn=Trade_Title\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How Mr Robot\u2019s massive Season 2 conspiracy ties into the Matrix, cartoons and South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/100228-how-mr-robots-massive-season-2-conspiracy-ties-into-the-matrix-cartoons-and-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Mr Robot\u2019s massive Season 2 conspiracy ties into the Matrix, cartoons and South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This secret loophole means people can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100224-this-secret-loophole-means-people-can-still-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This secret loophole means people can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100216-behind-pokemon-gos-missing-footprints-and-why-people-are-so-upset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R10,000 for Pokemon cards? Check out the ridiculous money South Africans are paying for Pokemon memorabilia online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,2226,6],"tags":[31,7066,10698,20314,2163],"class_list":["post-100357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-bid-or-buy","tag-money","tag-pokemon-go","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100369,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100357\/revisions\/100369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}