Help verifying if this card a fake or real *few more photos*

Hey everyone,

Hoping for some help to verify if this is a real card. I have no reason to suspect other than my inexperience/self doubt about identifying a fake myself. I did the crappy marking around the edge on the last one trying to get rid of the background but quickly gave up on that task lol.

Thanks! :blush:

Looks real to me…texture of the card is right, holo looks right, the lighting makes it a bit hard to tell, but just based on those photos I would say real.

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Looks okay to me!

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Real

Do the light test, do the bend test.

Personally I would say it’s a fake because none of my Base Set foils have this glimmer on the yellow border as in the first photo.

I agree that the shimmer on the border in the first picture looks a bit questionable, but maybe that is just the result of the lighting?

I would look at that closely and make sure it is a more solid matt yellow.

Anyone else feel this way? I don’t own the card so I can’t do a light or bend test. Would be an online purchase.

Rest of the pics I got

I would personally ask for more photos. Front and Back. Feel free to post more here and people can help you.

Ask for more photos but the texture makes it look relatively real. Are you able to get your hands on the card?

Only if I buy it unfortunately. I’ll ask for more photos but i feel like if it’s a lighting issue might be the same results. does anyone have an example pic of a holo where the border looks different that this held at a similar angle?

This might come across as a little cavalier, but why not buy it, pay with a credit card, and simply chargeback if it’s fake?

From what people are saying, it’s probably real, you are going to feel silly if someone else buys it while you’re deliberating.

I’ve had a lot of things that I wanted sell while I was mulling it over, it sucks.

It’s a completely valid suggestion and I’m definitely considering it. I’m not super used to purchasing items like this online and am not sure how easy it is to return in a situation where i discover its fake. So i’m trying to get a much confidence as possible haha

In disputes, the buyer is always favored. There is pretty much nothing you can do as a seller in a dispute even if you are selling someone authentic stuff, nevermind fake.

Your Credit Card company/Paypal will protect you.

I’m not sure what camera or filter they’re using that’s throwing the color out of whack, however it’s authentic… Also the comment above is suggesting blatant abuse of ebay/paypal policy. Don’t buy it if you don’t know what you’re looking at.

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It’s blatant abuse to return something because it’s fake?

That’s what the policy is there for, in case you buy something thinking it’s real and it’s fake.

The card is being sold as real, so if it’s fake, he is well within his rights to return it.

I really don’t see the problem here. I’m sure that Paypal would prefer you buy 100 things and return 3 because they are fake and they get to make revenue 97 times than you never bought anything your whole life because you don’t want to utilize the generous return policys…

It’s not like the seller is selling the item as ‘It might be fake, it might be real, no returns’ for $10. He is selling it as a real card.

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You weren’t suggesting a return lmao. You were suggesting a chargeback

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Someone sells you fake shit you wouldn’t chargeback? Why not?

If he’s buying on eBay, yeah, just open a return, but OP never said this was on eBay.

Wish OP would say where he found it so I can buy it out from under him :wink:

thanks so much for all the feedback everyone!

@kaiohsan its real, just weird lighting to make the border look glimmery. But you can tell because that lighting or filter effect is homogenous. It applies to the entire texture.
But asking for better pics with daylight lighting is recommended.