How did this all start?
Well, I guess it was one day that we had gone to the flea market. And we found some Pokemon cards, going for a dollar a pack. I don’t care what kind of cards they are, (not to knock Pokemon or anything) but at a dollar a pack I’ll be buying it. My first thought was that if they can sell them for a dollar, how cheap are they getting them. There must be some money in that, I can buy these dollar packs and sell them for two, and double my money.
We ended up buying a bunch of packs, Easy Money. Or, so I thought. When we got back to the house, we cracked those packs to see what we got. I noticed right away that the quality was terrible. I was thinking, this Pokemon company is printing this garbage and charging top dollar for it? I always knew it was mostly for kids but, come on. Some of these are even blurry, where’s the quality control?
I didn’t realize it at the moment, but I knew something was wrong. So, I grabbed my sons Pokemon cards and took a closer look. They looked nothing like the cards I had just bought. These are all Fake. How could they do that to me? Who would have thought that they’d be selling fake cards at the Flea Market.
Lesson learned. But, at least I got off cheap. All I Spent was 4 bucks on those packs. And, a lesson. It was pretty easy to spot the differences once they’re next to each other, but sometimes you can tell right away just by looking at the cards. I spotted some fake cards in my Godson’s binder just flipping through the pages. I asked him what he traded for a certain card and was disappointed when he said he gave a Full Art for it. The word Fake on the bottom didn’t have much meaning after all.
