I'm sorry but your cards are fake :(

Koppee

Koppee

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Hey all,

Really bad experience today when I went to go trade some cards with a kid and well turns out all 200-300 of his cards are fake. It was really hard to break it to him.

I mean I don't think it was his fault since he was well 13. He had one real card, a holo Rayquaza from POP1. But I mean since all his other cards were fake too I mean there was no way for him to tell.

How many other situations did you guys encounter like this? Doesn't it suck to have to break it to the person T__T
 
Loooong time ago my little cousin, 10 at the time visited Thailand with his family (Father is Thai) and brought back ALOT of cards back. At first it was a wow they have weird cards in Thailand and then it was "Hey I'm positive these are fake". It was so bad that when I got back into Pokemon I was looking at the Delta Species cards and swore they were fake.
 
This one british kid came to my league monday and all he had was a small stack of cards. They were all fake. It was heartbreaking.
 
@ chitownkid : Yea I know what you mean @__@ Actually I just recently got back into pokemon cards as well and never knew of anything during the third gen cards. I bought some cards and then I saw charmander as a fire type I nearly flipped lol. Spent the entire night doing my research and asking people what is going on ;x

@ crm103top08 : Yea it really is heartbreaking :\ I felt so terrible all night.
 
This is what I do:
If I've got the card in REAL, I take the fake & replace it for the real deal.
This is coming from someone who's got 20+kg of un/commons in a huge box.
 
Being a league leader in a town where mostly kids aged 6 to 12 take their time to come to my league, I get it an awful lot. VERY hard to do so, fortunately they often have enough reals.
 
Yeah, I was trading for an Uxie and good cards and someone pointed out they were fake so I had to trade them back. The kids and parent didn't know when they bought them from the Swap Meet that they were fake, so the little kid (like 5) was crying. It's really unfortunate. :[

dmaster out.
 
My girlfriend's little nephew is just getting into Pokemon TCG, he's 10. He wanted to trade with me and he was telling me how much he took pride in how much his cards cost. I just hated telling him that his Luxray GL Lv.X was a fake along with quite a few others.
 
my mom runs a league and this one kid (he was like 7) came ond he had a stack of like 1 foot of fake cards and my little brothers went over to him while he was "showing off all his great,awsome cards" and told him that they were fake and he left crying and i felt so bad because his mom was like "i spent lots of money on those cards and your telling me that there fake!?!?!" and she left comforting her son while he was crying his head off but i feally felt bad :(
 
I once got a Slowking card from my cousin. When I got home I looked at for a while and I said "This is FAKE!!!"
 
JDilla said:
Lol, way to dramatize something irrelevant to real problems on this planet. Fake cards? So be it...

Start a collection of the real deal, problem solved. Sure it'll cost some pennies though.
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Umm, I'm sorry, but if you read, it appears most the people with fake cards are younger children. To them pokemon is something they do and they love. Finding out they have fakes just breaks their heart. The world problems don't mean anything to them. And its not their fault their parent's more than likely look for good deals on cards. Everyone looks for a good deal no matter the item.
 
Well, once a guy traded me a rocket's mewtwo ex but I saw it was fake and i told him and despite (IMO) being an obvious fake copy, the guy really thought it was a real card.
 
if its a little kid i feel horrible like at cities i was looking for a lux x and when i asked a kid what he wanted for his 2 he said $80 and i gave him 80 and he pulled out some worlds lux's i snatched my $ back lol but when they try to rip u off its nothing to feel bad about
 
Wow I'm so pissed off now. The kid that I met to buy those cards from is advertising them on the same site I found him at as real cards...

I don't feel bad about it anymore at all.
 
Yes, back when I used to play I had a lot of experiences like this - it's worse when their parents are with them who are certain they're real - and you end up with the "I payed about £20 for them packs"...
 
You should've seen the Pokemon Fanday I worked at in 2008. I saw a kid who had a binder consisting of 75% of fake cards. So I went and told him that, explaining we didnt mind him having the cards but that he couldnt trade them. In comes his dad who scoops up the kid, says "We payed 20 euros to get in here, thanks for ruining our day you -insert a bunch of expletives here-" and left. Poor kid.
 
I got sold a fake Claydol on eBay and the seller claimed that they 'didn't know'.

There was no way to tell on the picture because they didn't scan the real card. ._.
 
At league a few months back, this really annoying guy kept trying to build Luxape, and he finally got an Uxie, and he was waving it around in front of my face and I looked at it and I was like:
"Its...fake."
His facial expression hit the floor and I laughed. the next week, I traded for my first and real Uxie.
 
What's the best way to tell what is fake and what isn't? I remember that fakes happened a lot with the original base set. I don't want to spend some decent money on Ebay to build a deck and find out that all of the cards I got are fake.
 
Look at the energy costs, usually the symbols are a little off. Also, look at the text(now its difficult to tell w/ HGSS cards, because they look like fakes to begin with), and just the placement of things.
 
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