I've never heard of this! It hurts my soul enough when someone uses a rare-holo to make jewelry (especially if it's a card I like and never got)... Though, now that I think about it, I'm somewhat guilty of this myself having stripped at least two rare-holo classic cards I had doubles of (Fossil Articuno and Jungle Clefable) to use their starry foil on custom cards.
More views equals more money and doing shocking things gets people to click.
I wonder though if some of those cards are fake.
Do people even bother to make convincing fake Pokemon cards? Magic, sure, but it doesn't seem like Pokemon cards have enough value to be worth it.
Do people even bother to make convincing fake Pokemon cards? Magic, sure, but it doesn't seem like Pokemon cards have enough value to be worth it.