How To Spot Fake Pokémon Cards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Counterfeit trading cards are a big issue for the games industry, and some of the fakes can be hard to spot. We visited Roy Raftery, a trading card expert with years of experience buying and selling Pokémon cards, at his shop in East London to find out more. Roy gave us some tips on some of the key things to look for when buying and selling cards, before challenging us to see if we could spot some fake Pokémon cards.
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How To Spot Fake Pokémon Cards
Now this is the important stuff we've been needing....
Well, if your being sacastic, not true.. It is because people buy rare cards for 500 dollars and imagine if they got scammed!
@@oklizzie They deserve it for being stupid enough paying that kind of money for pokemon cards lol
@@moises.305 How do they DESERVE it? People have a strong passion for this stuff.
I gave u 200 likes
lol
Hey thanks. That 3rd level was a tough one for sure.
the smaller sized all-holographic cards are often stickers
The light test is flawed, I've tested it on a 100% obvious fake and no transparency. Also the light used is a variable in itself, I used it on my real cards and you could see through it if placed too close to the phone light. To be fair the chances of 3 Targets, 2 Kmarts, 3 Big Ws & 5 Eb Games in my state selling fakes is highly unlikely
The Nidorina one was all to easy. Look at the card numbers in the bottom right of the card.
The holos seems simple and make sense. Yet I purchased a tin from the store sealed. An XY Evolution pack had a very poorly printed Tangela in it. This flies right in the face of the Venonat print quality reasoning. I've opened new cards that have been crimped and I've seen some so off center that it had half of one card and half another on the card.
I also have plenty of cards where the back blue border varies greatly. Again every card I have is from sealed packs at retail.
Do energy’s have a third layer because only my energy’s failed the flashlight test and they were the same size.
Me: *rips entire collection*
yup, they’re real
I just realized the rainbow charizard that my friend gave me is fake😩
And the EX entei i gave my friend
For a fake charizard
Xd
I want to like this but 151 likes is a good number
my friends are like bruh why u rip theres no reason to just to see if real
Recently I bought an entire Pokémon collection on eBay and I didn't know any of this tricks so I ripped them all. They were all real. RIP foil 2004 Poochyena
Gee, thanks...
This could have been really useful in my *CHILDHOOD*
rumor has it .....children still exist
@@Nnnnnnnnnn670 gotteemmm
Same
Well shi look at ppl now they brought trading Pokémon cards back ( grown men btw)
almost all my cards are fake
Imagine you bring your shadowless first edition charizard and he starts doing this 5:28
Lol. “Welp, can’t tell if it’s real or not by bending it. Gonna have to give it the Hoppip test now.”
Lmao
😭😂😂
He gonna catch these hands
XD
Them:shiny is fake
Me:still thinking why my 2013 cards has over a thousand hp
(True story)
Lol I will buy it😂
The back is extremely important, you can tell if its fake just by looking at the back
Unimornnbr1 explain
Some backs of the cards are so faded it’s obvious that is fake compared to other Pokémon cards but it doesn’t mean all fake or real cards are like that
i have plenty of legit cards i pulled as a kid with a lighter backing, i dont think you can go on back color alone
ur right i always look at the back too
u need to focus on the red part of the pokeball most of the time the fake pokemon card has a darker pokeball on the back and the real has a lighter pokeball
@@Noscripts Yet the print quality on official cards can vary a good amount. Border colors can be lighter or darker blues or yellows, centering can be perfect or half of two cards in one where the print line was offset in production, hell I got a pretty faded xy evo Tangela straight from a sealed pack. Can't remember if it was from Walmart or Pokemon Center.
My stepdad and his two kids ordered 120 pokemon cards for 5 pounds on aliexpress and they seriously dont want to believe me when i told them theyre 110% fake.
So i watched this video to prepare myself to absolutely demolish their false hope when those cards arrive
lmao
Furry
Need update 😂
@@notasian7620 yeah same lmfao
So what was their reaction?
I have a shiny gyarados which passes all the above tests (including the light test).
but its got 100,000 hp
I was about to be incredibly happy for you.
That means it’s fake. Only Pokémon card max hp can be 250.
@@pooo709 Gosh Captain Obvious. I missed you.
@@pooo709 I have a card from 390 tho-
testes...
Where TF was this video 20 years ago when I needed it the most..
What’s sad is I didn’t even have any real ones to compares them
Always do the rip test to make sure its legit
But what if u want money, and want to sell them. And then u rip them and its real then u cant sell it..
@@donttalktome.5922 .
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The problem with the rip test is that... well, it's the rip test. You should only use it on cards you already know are fake, and fake cards aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
After checking my cards I found out that my ALL CARDS ARE FAKE.😭
Rip
kuldeep singh same
Same ☹️
It's so hard to find a real card in India unless you are ready to pay through your nose
I don't really care if a adorable pokemon card(e.g) fake pikachu)is fake .is it just me?
People need to support shops like Sneak Attack Games more instead of buying from online warehouses.
Friend:bro how did you know my Pikachu card was fake
Me:(lifts glasses) you could say that I'm a detec...
Friend and anyone reading this comment: surprised Pikachu face🤔
wow this would have been so useful 15 years ago
More like 20 years ago
children still exist so does pokemon its useful info
Dwain McSwain
something else that exists is the qualifier, _'so'_
that dude placed directly preceding his _'useful.'_
*_so_*_ useful_
he didn't say it's useless...
yet that's what you respond to.
I dont know if my first gen charizard is real. Time to rip it apart and see for myself
Update: it was real
This is actually becoming a major problem for trading card games. Magic the Gathering has been dealing with fake Chinese knock offs for years and they just released their newest generation and I must say, They are getting pretty hard to detect. I have an Imperial Seal in my collection that is a counterfeit and I can tell you of at least two instances where a local game store wanted to buy it from me. The card is worth $800 if it were real but it looks so good people who actually deal with the cards all the time have tried figuring out if it's real or not.
Did you sell it?
Anything that’s a FAKE is from CHINA since “ANCIENT TIMES”
It always was a major problem. I was buying fake booster packs in 1999. Some were really good and hard to spot even then.
The forbidden city is filled with counterfeits.
@@superhappygamer1162 it's not just that, it's also illegal
Always used the light trick as a kid when the base set came out. Such a useful thing to do to easily spot the fake if it was difficult to tell. Glad to see someone mention that trick.
Efrain De La Cruz
sorry, but it is virtually impossible
for anyone _to easily spot the fake_
_if it was difficult to tell._
I have over 4k fake yu gi oh cards
going trading in 5 min thx
nice, I ripped 5x Charizard cards they all have inner layer. Good news is they are all real
Definitely what people need to know in 2019
news flash just cause your not a child doesn't mean children stopped existing
grow up lol
And 2020
I actually like the cards does this mean I’m a loser
Farmer Dreydan nah liking Pokémon cards is pretty neat
I have a moltres card that says retreal instead of retreat. I can't believe I never noticed it.
Thank God all my rarest Pokemon cards are real
And I think I wasted $3 today lol one person in the lcs I go to has tons of gym challenge/hero cards and I got an dudrio one and according to this video it 75% fake
This helped me find a fake Kartana in my collection :')
I dont get it why these cards cost so much?
Heres Why
Numbers Of The Pokemon Cards Decrease
A Pokemon Collectors Love
They are too cheep in my country. 30 cards for ₹ 15. Which is $ 0.21
@@vaishalirandheer3048 depends on the rarity, foil and number of it. if you get very common ones, they are literally worth either 0 or negative
I know uno is more cheaper
i think the best thing how to spot a fake card is that when you look on a pokemon card from the side the real one will have 3 layers (white,black,white)
and the fake card has only 2 layers (white and white)
Can't wait to go to my local card shop to give this a test. I've been getting back into collecting them just because I think they're neat. Definitely not reselling. I don't care if the cards are even worth a penny, they're just the coolest and moat amazing pieces of art to me.
I have 3 tins of non duplicating cards. Some I got as hand me downs and I've been staring at some and come to realize upon further inspection, that only full art cards would get a full holo. Not the weird pattern on a normal card. And those are so pretty too. I'll hide them in my fakes stash
You should try playing the game
@@LucasPlay171 I have online and it was fun. It’s just hard in person because you gotta build a deck. Kinda just wanna buy one of the ones already made and just try it like that without getting judged.
@@WhiteTenpenny i mean yeah, personally i find the building a deck part of it really fun(part of why i thought About not buying a trainer box, but at the end I'll have to anyway)
@@LucasPlay171 How do you even know where to begin tho if you don’t mind me asking? Like there’s so many cards in legal play that do so many different things. Do you use cards all from one set or mix it up?
But, how do I tell if my Beanie Babies are genuine?!?
Mark Stevens put them up for sale. If you find out they are worthless, they are real
Mark Stevens
yea, what the guy above me said.
however, if you're pressed for time...
try the rip test.
I am actually surprised that counterfeiters haven't been using cardstock with black layers sandwiched in between, since that shit has been available for a long time (and Magic the Gathering counterfeiters often use that stuff)
Gotta rip my 1st edition charzard to make sure it's real 👍🏻
thanks now rick harrison will call me
This video ruined my childhood. I have around 8000 cards, and non of them cleared the flashlight test😭
Sameeeee 😂 now that Pokémon cards r trending again I searched for my old card collection of 200 card turns out almost all of them were fake :,(
@@jackhoff5304 I will tried my luck now
@@Dgcamarena good luck !
Thank you for recalling my childhood franchise back again. :')
I know of one card that will never get old....
*THE UNO REVERSE CARD*
Yeah but is it real?
bayspotter this comment is under rated
Pft.. I watched this and went to check my 1st editions base jungle set, shined the light on the back and can clearly see the Pokemon logo shine through so was like well damn they fake.. ripped one in half and it does have the black going through the middle.. :/ super confused now and probably ripped a 1st edition for no reason xD
Its ok if you can see the logo its just you need to see if the circle is big or not the small one is real and the big one is fake
exact same thing happend to me and i was so confused
An informative video for sure. However, he's wrong at 2:28 when he says "Getting a card like this was really hard" - every booster pack in the Legendary Collection was guaranteed to have a reverse holo card. As a side note, I won some Pokemon cards in an eBay auction from Sneak Attack Gaming in 2018 (the same company) - the seller claimed he's shipped my item, but when it never arrived he couldn't produce any tracking info, then cancelled my order without offering an explanation. I wouldn't buy anything from this guy.
I have a whole box of cheap and fake cards HAHA I wonder if some of them might actually be real. I wanna check em out
I remember when I first found out about the light test - I went through my collection, and almost all my cards from the Team Aqua/Magma set onwards (i.e. until Holon Phantoms when I had stopped collecting) were fake. Probably hundreds of € wasted on worthless pieces of paper 🙃
maybe the light you used was too powerful and they were all real why didnt you take them to somebody just a to check a few
um so I got a hawlucha card it looks legit but it has a black line that looks like where you cut something it has spaces between the lines so idk if it is real or not
5:40 Spot on acting skills!!! 👏👏👏 He knew from the split he saw it 🤙🤙🤙🤙
My friends and I would always just assume that all the Japanese cards were bootleg in the early 2000s lol.
literally
I just opened up a pack of pokémon cards and I got older cards! Not first edition, nor second edition, nor third edition, but they were old enough to look like first edition without actually being first edition.
I asked my grandma if I could run down and get some pokémon cards. She said yes, but she was coming with me. I was telling her about vintage cards and that you have a chance to get a booster pack of vintage cards that you could sell.
When we got there, there was a choice. I could get a small pack for 5 dollars, a bigger one for 8 dollars, or a bigger one for 12 dollars. She didn't want to pay 12 dollars for pokémon cards, so I got the 8 dollar pack.
We got home, and my brother chose which pack he wanted to open. I grabbed the other.
I opened up mine, and as soon as I saw that Growlithe, I went nuts. I took a video of me going through the cards.
*"Growlithe, Nidoran, Vulpix, Sandshrew, Ponyta, Ninetales, Arcanine, Kakuna, Trainer: Energy Reveal, and Trainer: Blastoise Spirit Link."*
I haven't shown my parents the cards in person, but I sent them the video.
Why did you go crazy over a Growlithe?
@@superhappygamer1162 Favorite maybe?
@@superhappygamer1162 People have their favorite Pokemon, or you gonna tell me you only care about expensive cards?
@@TheDankShrimp Ok. I can understand that. I just wanted to know.
@@superhappygamer1162 Yeap, I think this is a recurring problem in the TCG community, people see the hobby as a way of making more money, so now people don't care about their favorite Pokemon or card, they care about which is the most expensive card... I'm not pointing fingers at you by the way heh, just the situation.
RIP the original Hoppip card
Wait, so I got real cards from Aliexpress? I even ripped one and it has the black layer and all. 🤔
I bought over 800 cards with like 38 GXs and two Vs and I just found out they are all fake 😤 my mom felt bad and sent me this video, would have been useful
my poke cards got inner middle layer of light blue but the light shines through easily, what does this even mean
same
SNEAK ATTACK GAMES LTD. London has been Dissolved on 18 April 2023.
Closed down permanently.
I still not sure how to spot after this video😂
Another Tip: Dont Buy Online, They Can Easily Mass Print The Cards
That's the only place I can buy cards. Where I live the only POKÉMON cards I could find have the rock paper scissors simbol on it.
IMO just saying "don't buy online" (and claiming that people can mass produce cards = no legit sellers exist) would be disingenuous AF.
i bought a pokemon card who sells rip off legos but im suprise they sell real pokemon cards since its price is ₱20
Great guide to identifying fakes. Want to start collecting pokemon cards so this really helps.
Can you also do the light test on gx and ex cards, where the graphic is different from a normal card?
I looked this up because I have a bunch of pokémon cards from 2011 that have an insane amount of HP and tons of constant spelling and grammar mistakes.
You helped my son identify a fake first addition Charisse’s😢
How to spot a dirty nerd from a mile away? just look for anyone with these cards.
dex räikkönen
spot one from the opposite side of the planet
with just a peek at his youtube history.
all my GXs was fake end my life :C
i ripped a 1st shadowless venusaur....turned out it had the middle layer..
5:39 The "hard" nidorina is immediately identified by the "40/64" text. Just like the last card, the text is too thin and small. Spotted it within the first second.
Do Korean Pokemon cards have the middle dark layer as well? I got a booster box and I was pretty sure the cards were fake, but the secret rare card with ridges looked quite good... Idk what to think.
Forgers are watching this and taking notes lol
Grab your torch to check fake cards boys!
Honestly I remember getting sick cards when I was younger and I checked them today, my mew ex was real, my Dark Blastoise was real, but my charizard ex was fake. Actually could of cried XD
LMAO I BOUGHT THE FAKE ONES FROM THE FLEE MARKET and then realized they were fake
that is SO interesting because in MtG the light passes through quite a bit differently than in pokemon cards. a good thing to know for folks who may be jumping into the pokemon craze.
am i the only one that realize that the real one was cut its silver lining
this is my fear with tech getting better it will come a point things will look identical.
J o n a t h a n
ya can rest easy. 'cos once they do start looking
identical, there will no longer be a difference.
@@selfademus TBH part of me hopes that day comes eventually, and the 2ndhand market for MAgic the Gathering gets messed with - the pricks who hold WotC hostage to the "reserve list" are gonna be up shit's creek.
I don't believe any of this.
Who asked you?
You know what interest me the most is the flash i mean i ripped the card open and saw a freakin black layer but still it passes through the card??
I've been going through some of my old Pokemon cards, and found this Kommo-o that on the back has a golden top of a pokeball instead of red. I tried searching this up thinking I hit the jackpot, but now I'm starting to believe its fake because I have searched all over the internet for it. I tried checking the obvious factors like if the rims are dark blue, but now I've tried all those tactics and it seems pretty legit... apart from the golden top. So is this real and super rare, or just a fake decoy? Quite frankly I think it's fake.
Grocery stores in NYC sell these fake cards.
We Need More Of This Important Stuff
Its not hard to spot
Why on earth would anybody fake a common
How to spot fake pokenon cards by "Tech" Insider
Thanks this video helped alot just ordered some and they are fake 🤦♂️
So i recently received a pokemon card, looked pretty normal in terms of shine, back was good, everything was pretty much perfect. even the smell lmao. (it's a full art btw) The only thing i found off about it was that there was REALLY shallow texture. you can obviously see it, but it's extremely hard to feel, honestly. is it fake, or is it possibly an error card?
Thanks for the tip I wish I had watched it sooner
Have 2 new packs sitting at home .. Will have to do the torch test.. Fingers crossed lol
BLWL I’d they are new and out of a pack, they are going to be real
i wanted to sell some cards and this helped me a lot. i had some oversized fake cards and the flashlight trick really helped me a lot
i check my 1st edition LT surge jolteon when i use the method to use the flash light rather than really small its medium but not large like the fake one can someone explain it to me (i used the i move the card and it makes the noice)
Great all of my pokemon card are fake 👍
Yes my 2016 charmander is real
I still remember the smell when I use to unbox a pokemon card box&tin
😍
james calderon
meth is odorless.
What about shiny Charizard's?
You know forgers can improve on these flaws and then what?
Are they gonna start putting watermarks and security ribbons on them?
I am so thankful that you did this because now I know that I have legit super rare cards
So far I've found two fake cards in my collection (old cards). I really hope I don't find any more 😂
dang I’m early
That's a lot of effort to be putting into a venonat
brandooooon5
rippin' don't take much effort...
c'mon.
I just realized I traded my real rainbow machamp gx for a fake mega raquaza ex.
I hate my life
I hate fake cards!:(
Always keep a old common Pokémon card a new common card
And maybe a cheap promo full art. Just to compare to
Everyone...grab your torches!