Resellers hike Jirachi card prices after young Pokémon creator's death
According to MSN, after 12-year-old creator Avery the Poke Kid died on September 18 following a nearly eight-year battle with stage 4 pancreatoblastoma, resellers tried to inflate prices of the Jirachi card tied to him, drawing sharp anger from the Pokémon TCG community.
Grief-driven price spikes are almost always thin and short-lived: a few sellers list high, a few buyers panic, then it settles. Anyone paying inflated Jirachi prices right now is buying the story, not the card. The better marker is whether transaction prices, not asking prices, actually moved and held past a week or two.
Our read, from the people who buy and sell these cards. Opinion, not financial advice.
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MSN Pokémon community outraged as resellers exploit Avery the Poke Kid's passing to inflate Jirachi card prices Published Sep 28, 2026Figures are as reported by the source; we haven't verified the sale ourselves.