About a month or so ago I purchased a Salamence GX Dragon’s Majesty box, and a Lost Thunder ‘Build and Battle’ box from my local GameStop. Both were sealed, obviously. Got home and opened everything up in a bit of disarray and started sorting my cards to put in binders. When all was said and done I had these three cards, and no idea what they are or where they came from.
Based on the set number they’re from Ultra Prism. But they’re full holos with a strange holo pattern; here is a close up–
It’s sort of like very fine/thin hatching. The cards themselves are a bit thicker than most cards, and the font is definitely different.
It seems easy to say they’re fake, but how and why would they be in my sealed, official product that I purchased in person from GameStop? Searching eBay and Google have gotten me nowhere.
I also would not be surprised for the answer to be something really simple and unremarkable, but it’s just not coming to me.
Wow these are interesting to say at the least. Even the reverse holo patterns of this card are not even close to the original. I noticed one thing, the original illustrator is “Yumi”. On those cards it says Illus “Stuido Boro Inc”. I tried researching the company but it almost seems like custom cards, but in an official box, unless it is some kind of exclusive Gamestop thing, I find that odd. Wish I could be more of help.
Really unsure of how you ended up with them but those certainly do look fake. A few misspelled words, grammar issues strange colors, and bad holofoiling define what it means to be a fake card and these have all of the above.
Those are some blatant fake cards you found there, @queendrifloon . I think @aquaz might be on to something with that fake mini tin you posted on November 17th. If you still have it sealed though, this would mean GameStop sold you some fake cards and you’re eligible for a (partial) refund. Let us know if you have already opened that mini tin or not?
I would get in contact with the manager of that particparticular store and get a full refund. A major chain store like that should not be unknowingly selling bootleg product. Now if there is an asterisk with some small print in some secluded corner of the store saying it isn’t official product, you may be outs luckkkk
Last year when i bought a bunch of cheap booster from gamestop, 99% of them were perfectly fine. However, I got one odd steam siege booster where the last three cards in the pack were from evolutions. My guess is that there r few dirty folks in the hobby returning resealed packs.
This all makes sense, thank you for your responses! Luckily they aren’t any kind of thing I’m looking to collect anyway so I’m not out any money. Just a very strange situation.
I would agree with this comment. There were fake cards already in your possession so if you only noticed it all after the fact, they probably got mixed in.
-If the product was truly sealed then there is no way the cards were inside the box. It would take a menacing worker at either the print shop or distribution center to open a pack of cards and insert fake cards at the risk of losing their job and never being able to see the end result of their prank. There really isn’t any logic to it.
-If someone bought the packs and then tried resealing packs and returning them, I think that they would have replaced more cards than just 3… Most likely I’m assuming they would take all Ultra rares/secret rare type of thing… and if they wanted to do a decent job they probably would have resealed the packs with real cards? **I’m beginning to think like a criminal** Why put in fake cards when you could put in 1 cent common cards that would not be noticeable and potentially get you caught.- I usually don’t reply to Virbank posts but I was a bit triggered a month ago when a guy was trying to sell freshly opened Walmart packs that were all fake cards. He claimed he had just opened them from Walmart and said they did look odd and was claiming that they could be error cards. So when it comes to modern product, I’m not sure if people are actually opening product, resealing them with fake cards, and then returning them but if the product is officially sealed with the plastic wrap (non tampered) on a booster box I just feel as though it is implausible. I know that we’ve all heard of or know personally of scams with old sealed product that get’s resealed so I guess a take away is to check sealed product for tampering.
I know that we’ve all heard of or know personally of scams with old sealed product that get’s resealed so I guess a take away is to check sealed product for tampering.