Oh yeah. Those methods work really well when all you have is a single front picture on a listing.
Amazing! Good eye. Interesting shape 
To be fair, your method would only work for the small number of cards with the repeating print dots. 
We live in a time where the Authenticity Guarantee program exists at eBay for raw and graded cards, and a similar service is expanding at Buyee as well. If you are anxious and unsure, you can send your card in for grading at any grading company and have assurance through their authenticity/grade guarantee program.
On a related topic, I have yet to see a convincing forgery of a Pokemon card. It’s the forgeries of a graded slabs that I am much more concerned about.
What has made you extra concerned about forgeries? The CGC Prototype scandal? Something else?
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I feel like you’re misrepresenting my point. I’m presenting it as an option when available; not THE ONLY POSSIBLE method - i never made that argument even though you seem to be arguing against that strawman. There are benefits to owning cards with tiny quirks. Like if it ever gets stolen and put up for sale online, you may have a small chance of identifying it based on location and image. This thread wasn’t created to argue about the validity of errors and whether or not they hold value to YOU as a collector. They hold value to me and the other people who post; judgement free. I’m willing to pay well over market for them and have on multiple occasions. It doesn’t say anywhere in the intro to the thread to criticize people’s posted error cards and argue with them about what counts. It’s subjective. As much as you’d like to say that there’s some rigid mathematical, objective metric to determine the the percieved value of any given error card there is no such metric. So I’d very much appreciate it if you’d stop criticizing what I enjoy. You can mute this thread. You don’t have to mingle with and scoff at the untouchables who have no taste in error cards. Just contribute or go.
The really special thing about repeating errors - even the most miniscule - to me is the idea that somewhere out there is possibly another! By putting this knowledge in the hands of others, you gift them an enjoyable life side quest (for those who accept). 1-offs don’t grant that opportunity. Not only do I want to collect them but I want others to have an opportunity to seek them out too. I personally enjoy other error cards but I don’t derive enjoyment from seeing error cards I cannot hunt because the hunt is what I really enjoy and the spoils thereafter (staring at a tiny red spec and stroking the card while whispering “Myyyy preecious!”).
On that note, I want to point out that not every repeating error card can be equally interesting. Some like hunting big game and some like hunting small game and some just like to hunt. So here we have a Next Destinies Reverse Holo Reshiram 22/99. Some copies have a yellow dot in the stage border.
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Not newly discovered yet I don’t see people talking about these errors too often. Both english Gym Challenge prints for Koga’s Beedrill 9/132 occasionally have red dot over GAMEFREAK copyright text.
On top of this another dot appears mostly in 1st ed. print, black dot on right side of illustration window. Card in last picture is mine. 
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Nice! I want one!
gonna pull a muscle reaching this far
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To be fair I think the Articuno should be a legitimate widely accepted error. The sliver of missing holo is obvious and it’s unique - there are few other widely accepted errors like it. The others… I can understand why they are not widely accepted. I still like them and still see them as desirable errors. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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I owned every repeating error up until 2020, except for mid-nintendo era errors. The amount of cards being discovered with small specks that were technically repeating was growing rapidly, so I decided to dip out.
The truth is microscopic dots, inks dots, small lines, aren’t that interesting. The reason I got into errors is because they caught the eye and were unique. A pin sized dot on the back of the card is anything but. The only smallish repeating errors worth considering at that point was the red dot blastoise, Black Dot Charizard, green/blue dot machamp, black dot clefairy, and green dot exeggcute from jungle. and maaaaybe the black dot dark Charmander from Rocket. Those errors were big, front and center. You don’t need to examine the card for more than 5 seconds to see them. The dots were big enough and repeated enough to actually establish a healthy market and desire for them.
The truth is any major repeating error from early wotc has already been discovered. Yes, we will always find metapods with a hairline ink error, or a geodude with a pin sized red ink dot in the artwork. But you have to ask yourself if you’re willing to shell out a premium for something almost nobody cares about and that you need a microscope to even see. I’m exaggerating, but you get my point.
The time of major repeating errors being discovered is over and I think hardcore error collectors, while passionate, are sorta kinda chasing their own tails here. The last major wotc repeating errors discovered were Illus Blastoise and I believe Illus Mewtwo. It’s been years since those hit the mainstream and there’s hasn’t been any noteworthy discoveries since.
To each their own, but I’m outtie.
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Wasn’t the d-edition Jungle Eevee only recently recognized? Not sure if it’s always been known as an error, but I think I only learned about it on E4 in the last couple years or something.
But you’re probably right in that so many eyes have been on WotC cards for so long that all major repeating errors that stand out have probably already been identified.
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Hello fam, new user here!
Not sure if found anywhere else in other languages, but in one of T.Chinese’s early sets, there were misholoed card like the one shown in the picture: The cards is Zapdos, but the holo(shadow?) pattern is Suicune, from the same set.
Really love this kind of error since it’s like having one Pokemon’s spirit in another Pokemon, hope you all like it=)
Please share if you know more of this kind of cards, thank you!!!
Btw it really brings the memory back of browsing/dealing/trading on PTCO when I spotted this site.
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That’s a cool one. Wrong holo almost never happens on Pokémon cards.
Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing!
Greetz,
Quuador
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