These are terastal festa sealed cases(supposedly).
I couldn’t find any historical threads about sealed Japanese cases of any sort. This is the first time I ever got any. I had these for a while now when prices were relatively affordable. But I am very sketched out on the chances that they are resealed. Either way I felt it would be unethical to resell them with uncertainty. I wanted to pass on opening them after I opened my 5 boxes from pokemon center japan and got cards with Quality Control issues as bad or worse than English. Each case is from a different source, and they are both different. I’m more suspicious of the one with marker and tape on it. I can provide further info if needed. I won’t touch them until I’m sure. If either is deemed tampered/resealed I’m going to open it to avoid fobbing the toxic product on someone else. Thank you for your help. 
No one can authentic sealed. All I can tell you from ordering from a distributor for over a decade there isn’t usually tape on the cases. That could have just been applied by the seller for shipment. But again there is no actual way to 100% authenticate sealed product.
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okay so basically resealing a case is easy peasy lemon squeezy? Curious if you know why someone would bother blacking out parts of the box like that. Its all so odd to me. And thanks for the quick response. I basically do just want to know if anything is obviously wrong, so if nothing looks out of the ordinary then I’m sure its fine. The sources I bought from are both ones I have confidence in, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t get bamboozled between distribution and the stores I bought from. So I was curious.
And at the very least this can stand for future people to look back on in the future.
secondary market. 3rd hands the case been in… Most likely nothing wrong. But, Japanese are experts at resealed, resealed even gets pasts experts that handle 1000’s of boxes weekly. The SCAMMERS are always a step ahead. (looks good, but you will not know until you crack the case and look at the glue)
well, time to get a PHD in glue forensics I GUEEESS
make fun, but easy to tell.
Dont get boxed in by one way of thinking. We are huge buyers from multiple sources. Each source sees different types of resealed and scams. Some of the bigger smarter sources we deal with put Identifiers on the box/cases so if they are deemed searched/resealed by a buyer, they can track the box/case back to who sold it to them. The scammers in Japan are way ahead of everyone. Everything changes daily, do the research on your own. Old news is old .
Your best bet if you are concerned about authenticity is just to crack them. Cases don’t carry too much of a premium in Japanese, in fact it often just hides that the boxes have been resealed. Especially if you bought these through a middleman, I would be concerned. Resealing cases to send to westerners is a huge scam on Yahoo/Mercari right now. I personally don’t buy any sealed product from Japan unless it’s from a reputable card shop or Pokemon Center.
Crack the case, crack one box, if it’s good, congrats, you have 19 other legit boxes. If not, at least you know what you have.
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thats fair. And both are from shops, not some rando on ebay/mercari/yahoo but as it stands still a abstraction step between me and the original source that is unavoidable really. I appreciate this insight. I will likely do just that, crack the cases, and see what I find.
These parts look like signs of a potential reseal to me.
The cases I had, had no glue sticking out. The only time I saw glue showing was a case that was actually resealed.
I would crack that one to check if the badge is legit or not.
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