Name: How To Spot Fake Pokémon Cards
Uploaded: 2020-11-08T19:05:11.000Z
Duration: 8 min 48 s
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Harry Kersh: So, we're here in East London.

And we're gonna visit Sneak Attack Games.

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who's a trading-card expert with years of

And he's gonna teach us about what you should be looking for

when you're buying and selling Pokémon cards

and how to tell if a card is fake or real.

Roy Raftery: Typically, people don't know

They're coming to me with their childhood collections,

which people just have no idea they have.

you can just spot it just from a mile away.

you have to do a little bit of background research.

Harry: So, before I do the fake or real challenge,

can you talk me through some of the things

that maybe we should be focusing on in these cards?

Roy: So, first of all, it's the card quality

So, the way these cards are in their foil,

they were just never printed like this; it's quite shoddy.

The card itself, there was never any foiling

So, you'll see here, the whole thing is shiny;

that just wasn't the case back in the day

'cause it's hard to make out what the card does.

The cards from the very first era of Pokémon,

Another big one is the actual size of the card.

If we pull up an actual version of this Mr. Mime,

you'll see that it's a little bit smaller

if you just measure them up to other cards,

smaller than the other one, why is this one bigger?

Chances are the smaller card is the fake.

Harry: I'm noticing on this Farfetch'd card,

Roy: So, there was, I remember as a kid, my brother had

So this Dark Blastoise came from the Legendary collection.

I know I said the whole card was never printed in foil,

but when these were printed, these were, like, '98, '99.

And then the Legendary collection came about mid-2002.

And it was kind of a swan song appreciation

But getting a card like this was really hard.

This is, like, the premium foil edition of this card.

The major thing about these all-foil legendary cards

And on all the fakes, again, everything is foil.

on the Legendary collection or any Pokémon card.

where we've got a fairly obvious fake and a real.

I'm hoping that I'm gonna be able to guess these ones.

about the size of the card, some of the colors,

I'm fairly confident that this one's the real one.

and, again, we've got the whole card is foil.

Which, as we now know, bit of a red flag.

Harry: In terms of difficulty to spot the fake,

we've got three Venonats, and I'm gonna try and guess

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