1st Edition Base Set Cards: Real or Fake?

I’d greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

Update!
I managed to get in touch with the seller, and we exchanged the cards and money back.

Understandably, the seller was quite sad about this outcome — especially after realizing that a large part of his collection is likely fake — but it turned into a good learning moment. I walked him through the points you all raised here.

On a side note: this is my first time posting on a forum like this, and I’m genuinely impressed by the speed and specificity of the feedback. I really appreciate the support — thank you again!

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It’s great that you were made whole again and that there seemed to be no maliciousness on the seller’s part. Bummer about his collection though.

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Great news!!

many such cases. But these are really convincing fakes. I’ve reached out to sellers with a mix of fake and real cards and they always just didn’t know! This probably would have fooled me too.