My god I hate the Pokemon signature environment right now.
Itâs neat but why does it gotta be the Charizard 
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What does Bill Nye have to do with Pokemon at all? Maybe if there was a tie-in to science or one of the professors, I could see that.
But a Charizard? Ugh. 
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Clearly some guy unexpectedly ran into his hero, Bill Nye, while he was waiting at the airport, and all he had on him at that time that was worth signing was an unlimited Base Set Charizard. And he has since fallen on hard times and needs money, so heâs been forced to sell his treasured Bill-Nye-autographed Charizard.
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Maybe they didnât have a Nyenetales card with them?
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Or just use the base set Bill card if anything lol
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PCL would have been a cool choice (and zero value, which is why Charizard was chosen)
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Science RULES!
So, now I really want a Bill Nye signed copy of BillâŚ
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I donât know whatâs more sad. The fact there are 10 watchers, actual bids, or that the seller thought they hit the jackpot. People shouldnât be spending more than $20 on cards if they donât know what they are doing.
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This is disconcerting, but Iâve been seeing some pretty well made fake PSA slabs being auctioned fairly frequently. I donât think Iâve seen these fakes on auction until the past few months. Please be careful when bidding on items.
This auction and at least the other pikachus from the promo set the seller has listed are fake PSA slabs.
At first glance, the font looked a bit off. I checked PSA certs, and they match the cards. However, PSA website has scans of the card and you can see that the barcode do not match up.
Sellers eBay photo of label:
PSA website scan of label:
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Yikes. Yeah the font spacing is definitely off. Plus the photos/cropping on the listing look⌠weird? (Photo of a photo with the wrong aspect ratio.) Almost like the seller doesnât even have those fakes in-hand. Feedback indicates not shipping a sold card too.
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scanning the barcode poses no threat. Itâs just a number.
the top barcode actually scans 011914720175? Itâs not consistent
*edit: the scanner grabbed only part of the code⌠overzealous apps. 
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Yea the app is not always accurate but if you scan the barcode a few more times, itâll usually bring you to the right slab.
A lot of fake slabs, when you compare the barcodes, Iâve noticed they donât look identical. Whoever is making these slabs is not copying the labels from the original slab or the online scans. Iâm sure if we had photos of the back of the label, the QR codes would not match either
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For the bar codes, I find it so strange that they donât use correct codes. I mean, Itâs easy to do, and is a dead giveaway.
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Same card, same slab cert, new listing, and listed by another seller. Itâs very possible multiple fakes of this exact slab and cert are floating around.
If you check the sellers other listings, the background in their photos match. So I do think itâs highly likely this seller has a separate copy of this slab (and the previous seller has another copy themselves). This seller also posted photo of the back and the QR code on the label does not match with scans on PSA website
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Who will take one for the team and buy a copy to see if it passes authenticity guarantee? 
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Still donât understand why this scam exists on âauthenticity guaranteeâ listings (probably just pure ignornace?). Does anyone know of a reported case where the authenticity guarantee has been incorrect and the buyer got screwed? I thought I remembered reading one somewhere, but it mightâve been a resealed slab with a real card, in which case it might pass?
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Perhaps ignorance or the seller tries to contact the buyer about âshipping issuesâ and asks to transact outside of eBay.
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