Are scammers making fake booster packs and filling them with legit cards?

[casual]

@pfm

And if you can 1:1 replicate a pack without detection, then does it ultimately matter whether your pack is real or not if there’s no way to tell?

Why is a card more valuable to you than a proxy?

Ive been thinking a lot about NFTs and trying to wrap my head around them. They’ve been really popular among people in my industry & raises some good questions in Pokemon as well. Why do we (as collectors, flippers, whoever’s) see more value in owning an “original” print vs a near perfect proxy? None of us own the original, those are locked in a vault at Pokemon somewhere. Many of us are happy to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a print that was authorized by the owner of the original…