Hello everyone,
I recently purchased a graded japanese card, and it seems like it has holobleed? I’ve never encountered this phenomenon before, so I want to make sure this is indeed the case here… and not something else.
If it is holobleed… is this usually a turn off for collectors or?
I don’t see any holo bleed. If you are talking about the holo on the border (e reader), that is intentional.
Holo bleed can be desirable
Said no one ever…
Are you joking right now? I once had a Leafeon double from Majestic Dawn with holo bleed that sold for 3x
I’m aware the windowed border with holo is intentional, but I was referring to the yellow border, there are quite a few dark splotches with what seems to be holofoil pattern.
unfortunately in the listing photos it wasn’t visible and I only saw it when the card arrived.
I heard holobleed is more common for Japanese, but my other e reader holo Japanese cards don’t seem to have any holobleed. Not sure if I’m just lucky or 
No, those are grease stains on the borders. It happens when someone handles the card after eating at Popeyes or McDonald’s
People love the crap out of holo bleeds. The market values them more than I do, otherwise I’d have all my DP era cards with holo bleed
there are tons of DPPT cards I would challenge you to find that doesn’t have holo bleed. Legitimately. Its like they lost the technology of the opaque layer for a while.
I love holo bleeds, obstructions, double holos, shifts, etc
You mean that they’re “always” desirable, right?
I probably had 10 different copies of Leafeon and Glaceon Majestic Dawn in my hand and only 2 of them had holo bleed
This is Verts moment… when everyone proves him wrong haha
In the older Japanese sets, seeing the holo foil pattern throughout the card is common, but most of the time, they don’t actually shimmer like a holo. That said, I think my Japanese Aquapolis holo Jumpluff does have light bleed (or I saw a listing where that card has light bleed), as in actually seeing a bit of the iridescent shine of the holo pattern in the attack box area.
I can confirm that diamond and pearl era cards are much more likely to have heavy holobleed cards, especially the theme deck cards and promos. Sample size being in the thousands or else I wouldnt make that conclusion definitive. That doesnt mean they arent desirable, people still like them.
For me holobleeds are “damaged good”. In my collection I want “proper cards” which dont carry this rare factory defect. Interesting, though, how some people go crazy for that 
