$45,000 worth of Magic: The Gathering and Pok\u00e9mon cards<\/a> stolen in early May.<\/p>\n“These cards range anywhere from like $300 to a little under $1000 and there’s about 5 or 6 cards he took,” Gartenbush said.<\/p>\n
The cards at Video Game Rescue were on commission and belonged to someone else who was hoping to sell the cards to one of Gartenbush’s customers. Now, both parties are out quite a bit of money.<\/p>\n
“It hurts me, it does,” Gartenbush said. “But it hurts the person that I was trying to help as well.”<\/p>\n
Video Game Rescue posted the photos to Facebook and within 24 hours received dozens of comments and hundreds of reshares.<\/p>\n
“I made a post saying that we had gotten basically robbed and how I was to my stomach and how it made me feel,” Gartenbush said. “And to have these people come to my side, it really touched my heart.”<\/p>\n
Gartenbush opened Video Game Rescue 12 years ago as a passion project surrounding his lifelong hobby of collecting video games.<\/p>\n
“I was a nerd for a very long time, even in high school,” Gartenbush said. “It’s always been something that I loved.”<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is now investigating. In the meantime, Gartenbush says he’s going to keep operating as normal. But he’s also getting some new locks and upgraded display cases.<\/p>\n
“This isn’t gonna hold me back at all, not at all,” Gartenbush said. “I love what I do. I’m gonna keep on keeping on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular video game store in Jacksonville had thousands of dollars worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards stolen on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[123645,116,118,117,46937,24003],"class_list":["post-292927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-dustin-gartenbush","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-pokemon-cards","tag-trading-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}