The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questionsj are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Today’s Question: QotD: What security features would you start implementing on Pokemon cards to prevent fakes?
Helpful considerations: Microchips? Exploding dye packs randomly inserted in cards to throw off weights? Microprinting? Decentralized tracking databases every time they change ownership?
If you make an unpopular game or popular game unpopular, the issue of fakes takes care of itself.
third party stores that resell product (like ebay) can do more to confront obvious fakes and proxies pumping. but i’m not sure there’s a loud concern there.
Wouldn’t need security features if they just printed enough to meet demand. Most of the fake issues go away, as the fakes would be competing with MSRP available on Pokémon Center
This makes me think of the one that is currently implemented with the Chinese Pokemon cards, the micro printed (? - not sure how to characterize it) Pokemon logo in lower left corner of front of card.
There will still be fakes even if you add more layers of protection, just like with watches. Bad copies will remain bad and cheap, while high-end clones will become almost identical to the original but much more expensive. Everything can be replicated eventually: chips, microprinting, UV stamps…
All cards are now made of real 24k gold, and branded with the official Pokemon logo on the back in silver. Wouldn’t be a hard change considering theyre already worth that much now.
there was a feature that USPS introduced decades ago, that used a printing grid to create ghost images in the image, when viewed through a grid. That would be kinda cool. A way to enhance art.
Maybe ghost images in the card when viewed through a bright light?
IDK. Just throwing things at the wall…
Just skip the middlemen and have TPC ship out slabbed cards. Holo-security thingies, QR codes, high-res scans, blah blah to prevent counterfeiting. You could even pay them more for a “gem mint” copy . (TPC feel free to hit me up for more amazing business ideas)
(100% a joke, but it is kind of funny to think about all of this if you really took it to the ridiculous extreme…)
. (TPC feel free to hit me up for more amazing business ideas)