Last week an intriguing post popped up in one of the Taiwanese Pokemon TCG Facebook groups.
An individual was at a bookstore in southern Taiwan and found the following items in the clearance section, and asked if the following items looked to be authentic and worth picking up:
From what I could see in the photo, the 2-person starter deck was selling for 399NTD, base set theme decks 120NTD, and the base set booster packs apparently for 99NTD per later media reports.
That individual ended up purchasing all the items.
Some of the decks look opened maybe or damaged? The text/art matches the ones I own, they are probably real. Hopefully some of those starter decks show up for sale soon. They are almost always sun faded or in poor condition.
For clarity, the layout of the deck boxes dont match displays as seen. They could have been mixed around but there are only 2 zap decks seen, 8 starter decks, 5-8 of the other styles, neither display is in the correct order or has the right boxes. At least 2 overgrowth and blackout decks and 1 zap deck and starter deck are open.
It can all be explained by someone just shuffling boxes around but the loose cards that are shown are likely from the opener decks, not the packs.
I dont doubt they are real, just wanted to make sure people were aware that these were not just opened and put on display but at bare minimum have been shuffled and some used.
