Online, you're looking at the Pokmon Center website, Amazon, and hobby-focused platforms like Troll and Toad or TCGPlayer for singles
Subsequent reprints, expanded distribution through the Pokemon Center, and additional allocation to the museum eventually brought supply closer to demand and prices back down to earth, but by then the grading floodgates had already opened wide
Fast forward: today I am 32 years of age, live in Stockholm with my wife Mikaela and my two wonderful (and demanding) twin boys at the age of three
It was because I did not have anything to offer them that would allow for these interactions
It could have been dropped there not from the stack at all, but, say, discarded from hand or put from the library