Love your work and your video series so far. I also think it’s wonderfully entrepreneurial how you first create a problem to then be the first one fix it, brilliant. Keep it up, love ur content
It's worth considering. Background radiation at high altitude is 10-20 times higher than sea level! At least according to my cheap Geiger counter, anyway. That said, if it couldn't be calibrated to avoid altitude radar then it wouldn't work just in general - it would expire after a while anyway.
Ahron, I think you're actually the most honest person out of anyone commenting on this issue. To me, it's the same debate with graphic designers and AI. Capitalism is constantly redefining the "value added" when prices go up and down. Maybe the world is just growing up, and that might mean that some of the magic is lost. Science almost always makes the world a better place though. It's people that can turn the knowledge into something negative. Thank you Ahron for your contribution to SCIENCE!
Way to strike at the haters with a counterattack by letting everybody know there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Still no answers for vintage packs and probably won’t be. Like you said, if the description says scanned the simple solution is DO NOT BUY from that seller and it’ll deter them from scanning in the future.
It seems like adding the reactive ink saying VOID on the outside of the package might be better than on the card. No need to ruin the card if people know what they are buying, but it'd show on an unopened package before you open it so you don't get scammed in the first place with non-existent odds. So scanned would be no better than opened for resale. That would also mean if it turned while in your possession, due to something environmental, you could just open it, knowing it was a false positive, and it wouldn't hurt your legitimate cards.
Actually it is very much in their interest. They aren't allowed to say this (because then they would admit to selling IRL lootboxes) but the second hand market matters a lot to them. The perceived value and gambling in packs drives a lot of purchases. If the second hand market collapses / changes significantly, it will affect their sales and how much they can charge for packs.
@@flyingby3703this is what I'm thinking. Whether you call it gambling, speculation or investing in future nostalgia, the manufacturers might not feel *responsible* to police the second hand market, but still have an *incentive* to do so.
As an oldhead, this doesn't matter. Anyone who makes their money on cards is not going to buy the equipment needed to do this at scale, and if/when it becomes economically viable, the actual solution will be the same as it always has been: Don't buy loose packs from untrusted sellers, don't buy sealed product from untrusted sellers, don't believe deals that are to good to be true. People have always resealed packs, mapped boxes, and any other miscellaneous ways to abuse product to squeeze more money out of it. As far as vintage product is concerned, value will just move from sealed to opened and graded. If there's a fringe use for this it would be to be able upcharge sealed product "Mox Inside!". And I honestly don't see the appeal there since anyone who wants that ultra bougie high end probably doesn't care about the pack it's in. Small niche market.
it's a cancer because evil people exist and this could wipe out the sports card trading market, but for pokemon it may not be as big as issue. There is no nice way of framing CT scanning into a positive because all that fluff talk simply points to the scam at the end of the tunnel for this market.
This is ridiculous/stupid for so many reasons. 1. every suggestion you made to obfuscate the cards (while cheap in small amounts) would be insanely expensive to implement per pack/box. 2. most TCG's don't give a f*@k about the secondary market (they get their money before that). 3. there are only a hand full of sets (From any TCG) that would be worth scanning (Per pack $ amount + cost of scanning + shipping to and from). 4. the suggestions you offer help drug dealers more than they help the TCG community. Honestly there is nothing that can be done. If manufacturers started doing anything like this to interfere with ANY scanning Tech, the first place it would become a problem is at customs. this is a point I have made multiple times, there is no cheap solution and most TCG's are expensive enough. also I'm recording this comment in the event its deleted. I suspect there will be those who will look to this video as a reference (for whatever stupid reason).
Pokemon tcg will most likely use this as an excuse to increase pack prices by making them "scan proof". What I think is going to happen is that the code card or the energy card that are right behind the Rare hit in each pack will have some sort of tungsten or some metal infused in its paint. Packs will most likely increase by $0.50-$1 in price while it'll cost them about $0.05 more per pack to mix some metal in the paint.
thanks for sharing countermeasures, fun to leverage patent to encourgae shady folks to bring these industry wrecking methods to light hope you get your bag. your technically first ip cause noone would share lol
👏 Ahron! The Tony Stark of Pokémon TCG is back at it again Boys! SMH if Pokemon doesn’t contact you. 💪 Great video man!
Love your work and your video series so far. I also think it’s wonderfully entrepreneurial how you first create a problem to then be the first one fix it, brilliant. Keep it up, love ur content
3:26 Wouldn’t this ruin the card if you take it on a plane?
not because of TSA but because of the increased radiation just on the plane??
It's worth considering. Background radiation at high altitude is 10-20 times higher than sea level! At least according to my cheap Geiger counter, anyway.
That said, if it couldn't be calibrated to avoid altitude radar then it wouldn't work just in general - it would expire after a while anyway.
@@WaynesStrangeBrainuse a shield honestly, better safe than sorry
Ahron, I think you're actually the most honest person out of anyone commenting on this issue. To me, it's the same debate with graphic designers and AI.
Capitalism is constantly redefining the "value added" when prices go up and down. Maybe the world is just growing up, and that might mean that some of the magic is lost. Science almost always makes the world a better place though. It's people that can turn the knowledge into something negative.
Thank you Ahron for your contribution to SCIENCE!
@@williamtburt thank you for your kind words! And for SCIENCE!
Way to strike at the haters with a counterattack by letting everybody know there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Still no answers for vintage packs and probably won’t be. Like you said, if the description says scanned the simple solution is DO NOT BUY from that seller and it’ll deter them from scanning in the future.
It seems like adding the reactive ink saying VOID on the outside of the package might be better than on the card. No need to ruin the card if people know what they are buying, but it'd show on an unopened package before you open it so you don't get scammed in the first place with non-existent odds. So scanned would be no better than opened for resale. That would also mean if it turned while in your possession, due to something environmental, you could just open it, knowing it was a false positive, and it wouldn't hurt your legitimate cards.
Great video
Ahron clearly knows his stuff . Question , are sealed elite trainer boxes safe from scans ?
Really cool. I feel like i should be doing something cool for a job instead of what I do 😅
This is very fascinating but I don't see card companies trying to fight this. It's just not in their interest to police the second hand market imo
Actually it is very much in their interest. They aren't allowed to say this (because then they would admit to selling IRL lootboxes) but the second hand market matters a lot to them. The perceived value and gambling in packs drives a lot of purchases. If the second hand market collapses / changes significantly, it will affect their sales and how much they can charge for packs.
@@flyingby3703this is what I'm thinking. Whether you call it gambling, speculation or investing in future nostalgia, the manufacturers might not feel *responsible* to police the second hand market, but still have an *incentive* to do so.
As an oldhead, this doesn't matter. Anyone who makes their money on cards is not going to buy the equipment needed to do this at scale, and if/when it becomes economically viable, the actual solution will be the same as it always has been: Don't buy loose packs from untrusted sellers, don't buy sealed product from untrusted sellers, don't believe deals that are to good to be true.
People have always resealed packs, mapped boxes, and any other miscellaneous ways to abuse product to squeeze more money out of it.
As far as vintage product is concerned, value will just move from sealed to opened and graded.
If there's a fringe use for this it would be to be able upcharge sealed product "Mox Inside!". And I honestly don't see the appeal there since anyone who wants that ultra bougie high end probably doesn't care about the pack it's in. Small niche market.
Haters gonna hate. Scanning is a good thing
I think there are definitely ways to use it for good
it's a cancer because evil people exist and this could wipe out the sports card trading market, but for pokemon it may not be as big as issue.
There is no nice way of framing CT scanning into a positive because all that fluff talk simply points to the scam at the end of the tunnel for this market.
This is ridiculous/stupid for so many reasons.
1. every suggestion you made to obfuscate the cards (while cheap in small amounts) would be insanely expensive to implement per pack/box.
2. most TCG's don't give a f*@k about the secondary market (they get their money before that).
3. there are only a hand full of sets (From any TCG) that would be worth scanning (Per pack $ amount + cost of scanning + shipping to and from).
4. the suggestions you offer help drug dealers more than they help the TCG community.
Honestly there is nothing that can be done. If manufacturers started doing anything like this to interfere with ANY scanning Tech, the first place it would become a problem is at customs.
this is a point I have made multiple times, there is no cheap solution and most TCG's are expensive enough.
also I'm recording this comment in the event its deleted.
I suspect there will be those who will look to this video as a reference (for whatever stupid reason).
its okay to be wrong sometimes man. relax.
Why are you recording this comment in case it's deleted?
@WaynesStrangeBrain because he is automatically defensive because he is delusional
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Pokemon tcg will most likely use this as an excuse to increase pack prices by making them "scan proof". What I think is going to happen is that the code card or the energy card that are right behind the Rare hit in each pack will have some sort of tungsten or some metal infused in its paint. Packs will most likely increase by $0.50-$1 in price while it'll cost them about $0.05 more per pack to mix some metal in the paint.
thanks for sharing countermeasures, fun to leverage patent to encourgae shady folks to bring these industry wrecking methods to light hope you get your bag. your technically first ip cause noone would share lol