So I decided to buy a 9 and upon arriving noticed looks a lot of holo bleed. Is is sun faded? Lack of ink? Or fine?
Did you buy the card because you wanted that card in a 9?
Well had 1st ed but had awful scratch so cashed out. Bought 8 near raw price and then thought maybe upgrade to a 9 for about £100 more. I won’t be keeping this forever just until I can get a 1st ed again.
I believe it’s really faint holo bleed. Had a few cards like this in the past but I sold them at the time because I thought they were grease stains 
There are natural print variations between cards - I have multiple copies of cards, including this charizard, that showcase this. Sometimes they’re lighter, sometimes they’re full color. IMHO, this is not sun-fading.
EDIT: To put this another way, if this was sun-faded, the entire card would be washed out, not only the background. The rest of the card looks crisp to me.
well, the easy way to tell if something is sun faded is to use a blacklight.
How?
UV light from the sun is what primarily fades the ink. Black light is lots of UV spectrum light. Under UV it will glow. If it is damaged by too much exposure, it won’t glow anymore, or glow more dimly. Some bad scammers will just blast a card with UV to fake a “missing ink” error. But a missing ink error will still glow because the ink hasn’t been broken down by UV light. So to be sure there isn’t just a situation of one card being printed with more or less vibrant color, all you need to do is shine a black light on both, if they glow the same, then its not sun faded, just different batches.
Sunfading alters the colour pigments, it doesn’t remove physical layers off the card. To get a holobleed effect via alteration you’d have to somehow remove the white ink layer under the CMYK colour layers.
I’ll stick with the one on the right. The one on the left is the one that made me question things. I’m convinced some sort of error but oh well.
