I found a few auctions for Pokemon Uncut Sheets. How did these items get out of the factory? Did someone steal them or did the Pokemon Company give them away as part of some kind of promotion?
If someone stole them, why are they listed on eBay?
And one last question - where can you find similar sheets outside of eBay?
Outside ebay you can find them on facebook groups. Very few came from contest prizes. Most modern sheets were either taken from the production plant or salvaged from the recycling facility.
Multiple of these types of things get taken from dumpsters and then sold.
There’s a lot of modern sheets that have leaked out - way more than at any other time - so most likely there are one or more individuals taking them out of the printing facility.
whats that? Probstein selling a modern print sheet? Surely probstein would never sell items of dubious origin. I’m sure if asked, they be able to give you the totally above board and not illegal chain of custody of this item when asked!
I’ve tried “アンカットシート” and that seems to bring up listings of uncut card sheets for Yu-Gi-Oh and sports cards on sites like Mercari Japan and Yahoo Japan Auctions, but not Pokemon. I’ve only found uncut sticker sheets for Pokemon on YJA. It’s a decent starting point though.
Some listing titles might even have English thrown in there too, so it doesn’t hurt to search in English on Japanese secondhand sites. You can also try “アンカット” by itself.
Somehow I have a feeling finding uncut sheets in Japanese might be much more harder due to the law compared to English where factory theft just seems to go unchecked lol
What’s the logic behind WOTC printing just and entire 1st ed shadowless disco-like Charizard sheet lacking their characteristic and per se authentic high quality printing process
Why would someone fake a disco-like 1st Ed Charizard sheet that lacks resale utility and requires such a niche level of knowledge? Unless it’s not a fake—it’s a production remnant from a point in the process where no one expected it to ever leave the factory. Maybe the reason it doesn’t match the ‘high quality printing process’ is because it came before it. It’s not a finished product—it’s the prototype. The missing bridge between intention and release.