How it’s built
- From GemRate's count of eBay sales, as reported in the press.
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Only single cards on eBay are counted. Other marketplaces and sealed product are left out, so this is a floor for each character.
Where it comes from
More than $2.6 billion spent on trading card singles on eBay in 2025 Yahoo Sports (GemRate data) · January 2026 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
Charizard was the top-selling Pokémon character, with over $74 million in sales.