Posted on 01/08/2020 12:24:56 PM PST by deplorableindc
A man shelled out $60,000 for a “priceless, rare” piece of pop culture history — a single Pokemon card — and is now suing because it vanished from a Queens shipping depot, according to court papers obtained by The Post.
Pokemon-loving plaintiff Marwan Alkhaja, 38, of Dubai says in his Brooklyn federal-court suit that he bought the “Trainer No. 3’’ card online from a US seller on eBay in August 2018.
“This is not ‘just a Pokemon card,’ ” Alkhaja’s lawyer, Mark Zaid, told The Post. “Nothing that is mid-five figures is ‘just a card,’ and it is one of the rarest collectibles within that community.’’
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Some kid in Queens has it in the back wheel of his bicycle now.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRAPPP
Lawyering for someone over a Pokemon card shows that Zaid is in touch with the common man.
Who told you to put the balm on?....
How do you ever prove that the actual card was actually mailed?
There are numerous possibilities and I don’t see how this ends well for the “collector”.
Any particular reason this was posted in the news forum?
The seller will have a tracking number, and probably sent it registered mail. The post office keeps stuff like that in locked cages.
Anyone with 60K to spend on a playing card can afford to lose it, like I’m sure he will when this is over
But this is the card they are talking about:
Good luck collecting on any insurance claim from the USPS, especially for $50K. It must have been shipped registered mail, since you can only insure for up to $5000 with other services. It's a good bet that someone in the post office stole it who was in position to know the insured amount.
PIKA - CHU!
Happy memories. Even better, our side street was a steep hill and it was paved with bricks. We got a 2-fer on our bikes.
Gesundheit!
Where have we heard of this lawyer, Mark Zaid before?
There was a guy on Pawn Stars with a $350,000 collection of Pokemon.
I don’t understand.
A bubblegum card!
Yep. When I was in Vietnam about 1/4th of all packages our families sent to us “disappeared” along the way in the postal system. Nothing new here.
What is Pokemon?
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