Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

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1984

This is great news for all that purchased!

Mike

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1985

So happy to see CGC do the right thing here…have not been contacted yet but hopefully soon

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1986

Can people who got the full refund also mention which auction houses they bought from?

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1987

I bought 4 from Fanatics.

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1988

@pfm I just want to say “thank you” for all of your hard work and diligence on this.

You have done some AMAZING work in research and testing, and none of this would have been possible without you.

Thank you.

Also, hopefully they make a movie about this whole situation, or at least a docu-series :joy:

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1989

Woah! Did they email you confirmation or did you have to follow up?

Also, did they give you an eta on when you’d see it?

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1990

I bought 2 cards from ALT. They emailed me stating I would get a full refund, including the CC fee and ALT shipping fee. They sent a Docusign 1 minute later to get my address and bank information. “Allow up to 30 days” for the refund.

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1991

Wow that’s great to hear. I’m in the same boat as you and bought from ALT.

Didn’t expect them to refund the credit card fee and vault outake fees as well! :clap:

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1992

Full refund approved here as well. (2x alpha, 2x beta)

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1993

Has anyone had a refund who bought from Heritage or Goldin?

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1994

Were those auction houses sending preliminary refunds? I thought they had all walked that back pinning the blame on CGC

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1995

I meant if anyone who purchased from those auctions houses received a refund from CGC. I edited my post as it wasn’t clear!

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1996

I purchased from ALT and Goldin; haven’t received any emails. @smpratte

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1997

This is awesome! Glad to hear that people are finally getting fully refunded.

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1998

I’m very curious to see how hard cgc and the insurance company are going to go after the fraudsters now that they have their proof and are refunding

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1999

I want to see them chase down Akabane like he’s in a 90’s episode of COPS.

running-from-cops-running-from-police

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2000

Purchased through ALT, full refund approved! :confetti_ball:

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2001

Now an interesting question. Will the notorious nature of these cards and their history with the creator of Pokemon leave some of the cards that aren’t returned desired for entirely different reasons than their original false identity of playtest card

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2002

Are people getting those refunds straight from CGC or through alt/fanatics where the cards were originally purchased?

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2003

That’s exactly what I was thinking about with my previous question…
The cards inspected and confirmed as fakes will be destroyed or re-sent to the owner?

I’m sure these cards will have their “own market”, sad but true.

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