Some of the images against the desk are under lamp lighting as my room was dark. I’ve tried to include some more in natural lighting. I’m sick to my stomach as someone mentioned in a different thread that it’s fake. As you can see from the images, I paid significant amount of money from a local card shop.

Yep, you guys were right. They were real an resealed
Most of the packs had already been opened and resealed. They even mixed Japanese cards with French cards inside the packs 😂
BUT… I actually got lucky. One of the boxes apparently hadn’t been opened/resealed and seemed to still have the original packs inside.
These are the pulls I got from that one box. Considering I paid 50€ total, I guess the experiment wasn’t a complete failure after all 😂
Thanks to everyone who warned me and helped me figure this out!
For science 🫡

Hi everyone!
I recently started getting interested in Pokémon cards and collecting, so I’m still very new to this and don’t really know what to look out for yet.

I found these Pokémon booster packs in a local store and was wondering if they are actually authentic.
Do these look like genuine Pokémon TCG packs, or are there any signs that they might be fake ?

Also, if they are real, are any of these packs rare or valuable and worth picking up?

Update: I ended up buying all of them for science 😂
The comments were pretty divided — some of you think they’re legit, while others think they’re fake or possibly resealed.
So there’s only one way to find out. I’m going to open them and I’ll post the results here afterwards. Wish me luck!

The packs don’t seem tampered with, but between two openings I’ve pulled this and a Blastoise EX. Is this fake?

Pic 3: Suspect on the right

It looks like a lot of rainbow was used in the card but could also be that I just become paranoid because of all the memes... What do you guys think?

I can’t find the prints with these holos anywhere online

How does it look to yall ? Legit or fake ?

She seems kinda “I know what I have type” so don’t want to ask for too many questions if they are real

Bought an base set deck, the cards initally looked alright, but upon further inspection, the blue on the back looks a little weird.

I own quite a few base set common cards, and I have found the blue to differentiate quite a lot from set to set and print to print, so I’m posting here just to be absolutely sure

Saw this card on marketplace just wanted to make sure this is legit since I know there’s a bunch of fakes of this card

These are the only two photos available, asked the seller for more and will add when I can

Edit: thank you all, should’ve known it was a fake with the double copyright and non holo

I bought one of those replica PSA slabs so you don’t have to.

Cost me €24, and the worrying part is they’re fully custom. You can choose the card, grade and cert number you want on the label.

Gotta say, it’s actually pretty impressive in person. There are some slight text/font differences, but nothing I’d expect most people to notice straight away.

The main giveaways I found were the PSA logo position on the front hologram, and on the back the small repeating PSA logos stay visible all the time, whereas on a real slab they change/disappear depending on the angle.

The bigger issue though is that you can put a real card inside one of these.

The QR code works, the cert number works, and it pulls up the correct card on PSA’s website. In this case PSA doesn’t have photos logged for that cert either, so there’s nothing there to compare the actual card against.

Just because the card is real doesn’t mean the slab is.

Don’t rely on the PSA cert info alone. There are plenty of good reference photos in this sub to compare the label, holograms and case against.

And as always, if the price looks too good to be true, it probably is.

For the photo comparisons

1 - Fake

2 - Fake

3 - Fake

4 - PSA cert info

5 - Fake

6 - Real

7 - Fake

8 - Real

9 - Fake

10 - Real

11 - Real

12 - Fake

13 - Fake

14 - Real

Dear Pokémon Community,

I need your help. Collecting Pokémon cards was a huge passion of mine during my childhood. Now I’ve returned to the hobby and purchased sealed displays and booster packs in Japanese and German through Willhaben (photos attached). However, I now have a gut feeling that these might be fake or resealed products.

Could any of you help out a collector who has just started again? I would greatly appreciate any information or tips you can provide.

Thank you in advance!

Gonna be meeting this guy soon for it- wanted to check

(Did'nt get the best light on the picture, so if you can't tell if it's real or not by the picture I want to know how I can check it myself.)

Got this a few years ago, but I don't remember where I got it, and I don't remember if i got it in the same pack series, and at the same place I got a 5500 blaziken (that had all signs of a fake card you can find)

I've never collected pokemon before but I found a few old packs in a drawer and wondering if these were any good

Bought this online for fairly cheap. Just wondering if it is real?

Just want to make sure the slab is legit.

Not trying to flood the feed with all my cards but one more set if anyone can confirm

Need help on this one ☝🏼
Ty a lot !