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Fake Pokémon Cards

Scorbunny1scute
Scorbunny1scute Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
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in General Pokémon TCG Discussion #1

Have you ever bought fake Pokémon cards? I have and it's so annoying when you think you just got an amazing card and you suddenly find out it's fake. It drives me crazy and it's illegal. I mean, seriously, shouldn't the Pokémon Company have taken these people to court years ago? Tell us what you think!

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  • Octowen
    Octowen Member Posts: 773 ✭✭✭✭
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    #2

    I think there’s too many fakes for Pokémon to take them all to court and you have to figure out what’s fake and what’s not on your own. I have personally NEVER been sold a fake on TCGPlayer and I have never heard of someone having been sold a fake on TCGPlayer so you could start buying individuals from there.

  • Acornyo
    Acornyo Member Posts: 758 ✭✭✭✭
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    #3

    The thing about these is that it's like stopping a leak in a cartoon. Shut one hole, another opens. Shut that one, another one opens, and eventually you run out of things to cover them all, and they all leak.

  • OlderAngel11
    OlderAngel11 Member Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    #4

    I used to own fakes, but I never tried selling them, and now, as a more serious player, I can easily tell the difference between a fake and a real.

  • UnovanZorua
    UnovanZorua Member Posts: 2,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    #5

    When I was little I bought Pokémon cards from small stores. Turns out the entire chest of Pokémon cards I collected as a kid was fake. Which should've been easy to tell but I was a kid, how was I supposed to know.

  • Ravenclawed1234
    Ravenclawed1234 Member Posts: 904 ✭✭✭✭
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    #6

    I was fortunate to have never bought fake cards, my friend on the other hand had hundreds until he let me rip one to reveal the fact that it was a sticker

  • SmartAlakazam
    SmartAlakazam Member Posts: 338 ✭✭✭
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    #7

    I bought this pack of cards a long time ago while on vacation in India, and they were ALL EXes. And all of them were fake.

  • Scorbunny1scute
    Scorbunny1scute Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
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    #8

    Same here. Though I bought 20 of them. The packaging said Sun & Moon Cosmic Eclipse.

  • Scorbunny1scute
    Scorbunny1scute Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
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    #9
    https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/comment/28358#Comment_28358

    They all had just 8 cards, all EX and all fake. Also, they were in Sun & Moon Cosmic Eclipse packaging.

  • fishy4you
    fishy4you Member Posts: 16 ✭
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    #10

    I used to have this one Braixen card that was so obviously fake like its insane it took me so long to figure it out. I cant remember where I got it, but the picture was all pixelated and the pokeball on the back was upside down, whoever made it glued it on the wrong way lol.

  • Pokémon342548
    Pokémon342548 Member Posts: 359 ✭✭✭
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    #11

    I really think that fake cards can also be found in some countries that don't support Pokémon Trading Card Game.

    Unfortunately, my country also have fake cards too!

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