Famous Pikachu Illustrator and Pikachu Trophy Card Sheets that Recently Sold Likely Forged in 2024

[HershelLayton]

Honestly a shame, these people thought they were getting a very unique part of the game's history and got duped. Items this valuable can't be flipped in a day on Facebook marketplace so they likely did genuinely care about the game and just had deep pockets too. Hoping this gets investigated

 

[MagnaDrake]

The only way that I can think of to make Akabane free from suspicions is that when he (or his team) handed over his collection to CGC to be graded, some parties in CGC replaced the original copies with fake printed ones a la spy movies.

Which is to say, very unlikely he have no hand in this at all. Unfortunate.

 

[TheLegend]

The only way that I can think of to make Akabane free from suspicions is that when he (or his team) handed over his collection to CGC to be graded, some parties in CGC replaced the original copies with fake printed ones a la spy movies.

Which is to say, very unlikely he have no hand in this at all. Unfortunate.

He should have know better

 

[Chari]

Akabane is a clown lol

 

[treeckonation]

I see why Logan Paul did what he did.

 

[Snowy Lilacs]

Honestly a shame, these people thought they were getting a very unique part of the game's history and got duped. Items this valuable can't be flipped in a day on Facebook marketplace so they likely did genuinely care about the game and just had deep pockets too. Hoping this gets investigated

the fact that someone thought there would be an uncut sheet of these cards are funny as hell to me. Like come on this is so fake even Stevie Wonder can see it!

 

[fleshrum]

so you're using the term to mean something it doesn't mean in the slightest? using words like "NFT" interchangeably with "scam" like they are the same word?? "yeah so the other day i totally got NFT'd. yeah i fell for a phishing NFT in my email and got my account NFT'd." "the figure i ordered online was a counterfeit. no wonder it was so much cheaper. what an NFT!"

get a grip, please.

he... isn't. He didn't say any of this. Where did it come from? Did you reply to the wrong person?

The boom and bust of the NFT market is an extremely apt comparison. Someone convincing enthusiasts in a relatively small niche to spend exorbitant amounts of money on something with no actual value besides the promise of appreciation. And it increasingly seems that said Someone was in the know about the market's false bottom and cashed out. Meme coins come to mind as well.

 

[LOTTEN]

he... isn't. He didn't say any of this. Where did it come from? Did you reply to the wrong person?

The boom and bust of the NFT market is an extremely apt comparison. Someone convincing enthusiasts in a relatively small niche to spend exorbitant amounts of money on something with no actual value besides the promise of appreciation. And it increasingly seems that said Someone was in the know about the market's false bottom and cashed out. Meme coins come to mind as well.

i don't know if you know this but scams and forgeries predate the existence of NFTs. it is not an apt comparison in the slightest. selling forgeries for a lot of money does not make something an NFT or anything like an NFT, and there is a pretty large distinction between the two things.

people who let NFTs live rent free in their head are so unaware of what goes on around them while simultaneously being so desperate to strike back at things they don't like, poorly, that they make me have to "defend" things that i also don't like from their really bad attempts at owning them for updoots. this was really, really transparently someone just blabbering about how a thing they half-understand is bad and pretending that this completely unrelated situation has anything to do with it. and now you are also doing it. are you aware that "relatively small niches to spend exorbitant amounts of money on something with no actual value besides the promise of appreciation" can describe most vaguely scarce collectibles... ever?

"forgeries are like meme coins" dude get real and please go outside.