Good God, this is such a game changer. The fact that someone worked the system so perfectly and cleverly to make this, and it almost passed as a legit PSA card hurts my stomach.
Makes me want to send a message to everyone I know with details on how to watch out for these.
Here is the actual PSA 9 Pikachu card with the same exact serial number. It was purchase on September 16 by a buyer with 903 feedback.
The fact that he’s actually trying to sell it off is what bothers me the most. Agrees with comment that its “the pinnacle of his collection”… meanwhile has seemingly legit (probably fake) trophy cards. (ref. instagram comment).
Edit: wording
Eh, if he actually tries to sell it, we should warn people.
The worst part is he is not alone. I get messages like this about once a month. Guys who type up this massive story about how their family owned a card shop, and bought an illustrator in 2000. The pictures are always fake. I am sure they hit a few gullible people.
The ebay listing does it for me. Not sure how it works on IG, but I will put his name on this thread so people know not to buy.
He’s convinced that the card is real…
But thought earlier in the day that the fake “Prerelease Charizard” on Ebay was real and bought it.
and is handling this all extremely well since he apparently paid $6000-$9000 (telling different people, different numbers)
Wow, didn’t think it would turn into this
It definitely highlights why reputation is paramount, especially for high end items.
The ended ebay listing says it all. His story is completely irrelevant.
@smpratte
He made it, I have all the pieces that confirm it.
He bought that listing. Messaged my buddy, Brossi, and told him he would have a PSA 9 Snap card coming in the mail soon… weird thing is though that he didn’t have any pictures of the card, only showed stock images of just the SNAP card, no serial number or anything.
And then bam, he has the card, and all the pictures needed, meanwhile this card sold a week ago… and the seller just confirmed that the card was bought by someone in the UK.
The corners are the definition of crude!
@shizzlemetimbers Your gif ability is out of control!
“I don’t understand why people can’t just make custom cards for themselves that look like real cards.”
“Who do custom cards hurt?”
“If there are only so many of the rarest cards, fakes should be allowed to be made as long as they don’t sell them because it’s not fair to the average person.”
“If I mark it as fake, it’s okay if I sell it because I SAID it was fake.”
Whens a real one gonna appear so I can win it in a bid war that smprattican can do nothing about 
That is crazy on how far this guy is willing to go. At the end all of you guys did your part and made sure this card was real or not.
You guys are the true MVP.
Maybe someone should contact PSA to make it harder to fake a card with the same title as another.
Let’s hope no one falls for this and buys it
Update:
At this point he’s begun making fake “PSA emails” to help validate the case, “claiming that they’ve used those cases in the past and that they must’ve used it again on accident”.
He’s also made two fake account, @spencerfitzyy and @jack9999johnson, who are commenting all over his page, and mine, saying that they both have been in the industry and know the card and cases are real. Even better is he showed the email to a friend on Instagram, and they’re pretty much word for word commenting it. It’s pretty obvious they’re fake since they both have 2 followers and followed 20+ people.
At this point, he’s trying so so so hard to convince people it’s all real by using fake email, and accounts, that in my mind, he created the case and everything.
I would contact PSA and send a huge letter detailing all of this and all the info you know on the guy. They have a HUGE desire to not have people getting scammed by buying cards with their names on them that are not legit. Perhaps also send it to his local law enforcement. Long shot, but somebody needs to stop this scumbag.
Should we warn other collectors on Instagram by making a post about this character? Please advise!
His name change, it’s @snap_poke
I’ve already made a post, that’s reached a decent amount of people about the card and the details behind it. Unfortunately he lives in the UK so idk how to go about that.
OH MY GOD STOP BEING HATERS YOU GUYS JUST BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE RARE POKÉMON
