San Francisco is hosting one of the biggest weekends in the Pok\u00e9mon franchise\u2019s history. With some collectibles worth thousands of dollars, there\u2019s another battle happening behind the scenes: keeping it all safe.<\/p>\n
Thousands of fans, competitors and collectors from around the world gathered at the Pok\u00e9mon XP and the World Championships in San Francisco. For many of the fans, the events also mean a lot of shopping.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy total at Pok\u00e9mon Center for San Francisco was $1,119,\u201d Washington resident Austin Reno said. \u201cI brought about $8,000 of cards to trade and sell.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why safety is serious business this weekend in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Some of the most coveted cards at Aloha Card Shop\u2019s booth can fetch five, even six figures; with big money, comes bigger risks.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially nowadays with all the money coming into the hobby, there\u2019s a lot of ne\u2019er-do-wells looking for a quick buck, so you really have to be vigilant. We\u2019ve had people steal from us in the past because there\u2019s so much going on and it\u2019s easy to let something slip,\u201d Aloha Card Shop Co-Owner Reece Felix said.<\/p>\n
Ali Reid has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco is hosting one of the biggest weekends in the Pok\u00e9mon franchise\u2019s history. With some collectibles worth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-447697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}