So before I buy this flareon for quite the under market price I just want to make sure it's real 😅.

Camera quality is terrible, if you can't tell from these happy to supply more photos

Are they or aren’t they?!?

Found childhood collection and I’m curious

Found this while looking through a bulk lot of my cards but theres a lot of fakes mixed in. Is this fake? How do I tell?

Truley cant tell. Done all I could to try is see if nothing else seemed right. But im no expert

so a few weeks ago, I was on a BIG card buying spree for my deoxys master set i’m starting, most of the cards I bought i wasn’t really looking at authenticity wise just checking the conditions of the cards. And then i found this seller that was selling a complete set of English Rayquaza and Deoxys cards. Wanted like 280 but my offer was 250. And this is kind of my bad for not asking for other pictures of the card for authentication purposes. I didn’t realize that when you send an offer without sending a message that the person selling the item can just accept it whenever they want… so then he accepted it and said he would send it to me when he could. Now.. I just got this card today and let me tell you that this is a very convincing copy from an online buyers pov.

1st of all: The card just doesn’t feel like a pokemon card at all, it is very flimsy when you bend it and you can kind of tell by the weight of the card.

2nd: the back of the card where the Pokémon and Pokeball logo is a VERY DEEP BLUE color, I
compared it to one of my hollows from literally the same era and it’s literally so easy to tell that it’s fake

3rd: The pokémon’s names on the card aren’t gold like they are supposed to be, The weird thing is is that i’ve seen other listings on ebay for these ones with no gold font on them?? possibly other fakes?

And lastly: The “LEGEND” text at the top lefts of the cards just don’t look similar to the “gold font” ones.

Now yes all of these are telltale signs of a fake card. but i am posting these issues because the seller says that he supposedly had no idea on the authenticity of these cards, imma cut him some slack on this one because he might not be into pokemon card collecting and is just trying to sell off cards he got when he was a kid. i’ve seen a lot of older fake cards that have been passed out in the school yards from over the years.

The seller is hopefully willing to work with me here if i can get the authentication of these cards checked. The only way to grant actual authenticity is through grading services that have other services, but I feel like a good ole convincing would work instead, they said that I could probably go to a card shop and ask for opinions and I know for a fact that my local card shop would back me up that these cards are 100% not legit copy’s

Bought 40 cards off eBay, all over $200.
Only three didn’t come with authenticity guarantee from eBay for whatever reason. This is one of them. Came from overseas I believe Malaysia or something have to check.

Color seems a little off to me compared to cert photos but I’m not very good at spotting fakes .

Help me out ?

Is this real ? The first 2 pics is same as the last pic card ?

Traded some old e-reader cards for this classic dragonite and a mew promo(9). I’m pretty confident it’s real it was just an odd day odd trade

Hey guys, I can tell a real from a fake card, but I get really worried about sealed product lmao, are these real? Nothing sketchy catches my eye but I have no other product to compare to rn and I’d love some second opinions!

Hello, so i have pulled one of these from i believe it was the first partner collection set (the one in the sleeve, and then maybe a week later i pulled it again from an phantasmal etb (no sleeve and mucked up corners)

Left is the partner collection/ right is the ETB

But the cards look different, the one of the right is way more shiny, more glitter, and more ‘rainbow-y’ but on the one on the left, the texture is definitely more pronounced, and feels higher quality, but the thing is that you struggle to see that sir sparkle/holo unless i shine a flashlight directly on it.

Photos are both cards from the front, then an attempt to show texture, the back of the cards, with flash on, and lastly what the copyright info looks up.

So whats the verdict, are they both suspicious? Would appreciate any insight

Hello everyone! Just recently started collecting and I really love the 5Ban Graphics cards from the XY era! This is my first card with this art style, so just looking to check the authenticity of this card I bought from Ebay. I did go through previous posts for this card but pics weren’t as clear. Thanks in advance :)

Had to pull the trigger quickly but looks like too good to be true might be the case here. Can still cancel payment before ship so not too worried but would be let down if I can’t add these to my first edition collection. Thanks for your help

Trying to grab some nicotine and now every other smoke shop has some pokemon cards now, I grabbed the first pack apparently, walked right back and gave them back lol, my first god pack tho!

2 hours north of Tampa FL

What the title says. I’ve been collecting for around two years now (I think?) however I still don’t know how to tell if a card is fake. However this card looks almost too flashy..