{"id":99224,"date":"2016-07-19T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=99224"},"modified":"2016-07-19T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:58:00","slug":"players-are-selling-their-pokemon-go-accounts-for-over-r5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99224-players-are-selling-their-pokemon-go-accounts-for-over-r5000","title":{"rendered":"Players are selling their Pokemon GO accounts for over R5,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pokemon GO players have begun selling their high-level accounts for sums upwards of $350 (R5,030)<\/strong>, reports Business Insider<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Even though\u00a0the game is\u00a0just over a week old, high level\u00a0“Pok\u00e9mon GO” players\u00a0are selling access to their accounts on sites like eBay and Craigslist for up to hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n

The question of course is whether people are actually willing to pay for the sums asked. The answer is perhaps unsurprisingly “yes” as Hieu Huynh told The Wall Street Journal.<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Huynh paid over $100 (R1,437)<\/strong> for a level 12 account this past weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t catch the good Pok\u00e9mon,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t have time to go that far.\u201d<\/p>\n

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How much would you sell your Pokemon GO account for? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Played a lot of Pokemon GO? This is how you can make a quick R5.000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":99226,"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":[2226,6],"tags":[19939,31,20314,20534,2163],"class_list":["post-99224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-account","tag-active","tag-pokemon-go","tag-sell","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99224","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=99224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99228,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99224\/revisions\/99228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}