some card show vendors are now selling their cards at listed eBay prices not sold prices. Another reason I won’t go anywhere near a cardshow
A friend of mine who collects told me she was seeing a lot of this at an anime convention in California.
Here’s a story post from a vendor I follow on insta (he’s in a different state)
If they can sell for ebay prices they can buy for 80% of ebay prices trust
It just baffles me how people will pay thousands for these. You can take the same money and go buy an authentic auto of an actual OG Pokemon artist (as in, the ones who illustrated the great art being copied) 
If the original artist draws a rayquaza gold star on a gold star, does the gold star become a rayquaza gold star or does it become a fake gold star - Socrates.
Near Mint lol.
This has been sold. Thanks to @top10pokemon
My same reaction irl.
Have you guys seen the video from the UK of a mob pushing down the shutters of a store to get in and queue for Pokémon last week?
Absolute madness.
I miss the old days…
Why do people film themselves committing crimes? And who did they think would be there to run up the tills, or did they just steal the cards?
Anyone using an AI description in a listing makes me cringe. Shows how little you care (or know) about what you’re selling.
My biggest surprise here is actually Sports Direct sells Pokemon cards!?
Mike Ashley owns Sports Direct & Game.
Most Sports Directs have Game in them now which has the cards 
I’ll counter this:
Very few people care to even read the project description, especially for graded cards. Even if it only saves me a minute per listing, using the AI goobbledigook is way more efficient, and I’ve never had a buyer or ebay user complain about it.
Whatnot adverts on Youtube where streamers who obviously just joined the hobby since it became mainstream are screaming whilst opening modern packs, and struggling to pronounce the names of Pokemon.
People who turn up in comment sections with pitch forks to complain about scalpers as if someone in a queue at a store is the number one problem in the hobby or the world, and because they think that anyone lining up to buy cards at a store is automatically a scalper. Meanwhile the same people probably don’t see a problem at the corporate level with grading companies and distribution etc. doing much more shady stuff
The funny thing is that this was absolutely everyone who was at the convention it was signed at. They just threw everyone on there if they had a pokemon credit.
Jason Paige (sang the pokemon theme song) just dropped his newest song. 
The AI is so strong too.
At the end he has the Gengar card in his hand hahahaha.
He really is an insufferable prick.
I almost… ALMOST feel bad for him
