London: Location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go is getting widely popular. The popularity and the craze surrounding the game is so much that a 26- year-old woman in the UK has quit her teaching job to become Britain’s first full-time Pokemon Go player!
Sophia Pedrazza from High Barnet north London, a teacher giving private lessons to kids in mathematics, English and music, believes that a lot of money could be made from the game. She plans to cash in on the craze by hitting the streets to collect virtual characters and then sell her accounts on eBay. There are a huge number of Pokemon Go masters who are making thousands of pounds on eBay by selling their accounts to players who prefer to buy the Pokemon instead of catching them all.
“I downloaded it and immediately realised there is money to be made. If you can get to a decent level you can sell it on to people on ebay. I heard accounts were being sold and I looked on eBay and some accounts at level 20 and above were going for 1,000 pounds and level 15 bids were about 100-200 pounds. If you put the time in you can get to level 15 after a day or two,” Pedrazza told ‘The Sun‘.
With plans of buying multiple phones to boost her productivity and catch Pokemon on multiple accounts, Pedrazza says that she plays the game for 18 hours a day.
“You can play all the time even when you’re out with your friends in bars and clubs. My mum thinks I’m mad but she’s coming round to the idea. I’m going to do it for as long as it makes money. It’s a big craze at the moment and there’s money to be made, but if it slows down I can always go back to teaching,” she added.