How To Tell If A Pokemon Card Is FAKE! By Leonhart

That was a fake Pokémon card. Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Lina were more than a channel. We are a community in hearts. Wad today, I will be doing an instructional video that was highly requested. After this past weekend, I opened up the remaining booster boxes of my fake Pokémon cards, and it was a lot of them, but in that particular video I started saying the difference, because the differences between real and fake Pokémon cards, because fake Pokémon cards are becoming a bigger than every problem in the Pokémon card community and many people reached out to me thanking me for doing that.

Instructional input in that specific video and, as you know, I won't be opening up owning any more fake Pokémon cards on this channel unless it is for instructional purposes, and that is what this video is for. There were tons of people that emailed me wanting me to do a more thorough video on the difference between real and fake Pokémon cards, so their kids can just be more on the lookout for it, for their parents can be more on the lookout for it and, frankly, just anybody that wants to collect, especially I, was talking to a fan today as I'm recording this video that lives in a different country and all of their Pokémon cards are fake. But if it wasn't for the video that I did show them the differences, they would be getting fake, Pokémon cards right now, and it would probably be too late. So I wanted to thank everybody for your input for reaching out to me for wanting to do a video on this. This will be just like a smorgasbord of rain and things to look for places to avoid and kind of just when you're done watching this video.

Hopefully you will have a bigger outlook on with the difference between real and fake Pokémon cards. So I did save a couple. Fake Pokémon, booster packs and I will first off do a little comparison between this fake booster pack. Let me make sure everything is good and recording okay, so the difference between this fake pack- and this is a Sun in moon, fake, booster pack. It was part of the booster boxes that I opened up earlier this week, but I saved this one in three other ones.

I have already opened up one, and we'll do a little couple tests kind of just go through it. So if you will notice right off the bat comparing from this fake pack in this real roaring skies pack. So when you do the touch test, I guess is what I call it. You can quickly pick this up, and you'll notice, even though they have improved that the Sun and Moon fake Pokémon card booster pack is very, very flimsy when it comes to the paper and the quality of the paper. It has a glossy feel if you just go like this I.

Hopefully you all can tell that this one is just way more bendable way, more frigid and also a few other things. Now you can first look off well I want to let you guys just take five seconds to look and let me know in the comments section, the first off immediate notices that you noticed were the difference in the two packs, this fake one in this real one ready one, two, three four and five well. The first thing you may have noticed is the word Pokémon at the very top now over here. There's like a weird like shade. It is like I, don't even know what the word is, but it's a weird shade to the fake booster pack, which makes the Pokémon logo a different shade of yellow in blue for the title itself, because this one it is not as mustard I guess you can say as the fake one so right there, you can tell the difference between the word Pokémon so always be looking at that from now I don't have a Sun and Moon sealed pack on me, but I did notice.

The six plus sign for the age difference is. It is right there on the Sun and Moon pack and on the roaring skies packet in the top right corner. So that is something to look out for, as well as the very top of the packs. Now I have a few other ones, let's see if yeah they're, all the same, the top of the packs, if you'll notice, the top of the fake pack, has that little like silver lining at the very top and on any Pokémon regular, real booster pack, like this roaring skies, one you'll notice, there's no silver lining, so please be sure to look out for the silver lining test, I guess at the very top, as well as at the very bottom. You will notice where it says ten additional game cards now.

The font, if you take a really, really close look, is its a little different as far as the font goes and which will be on the actual cards itself, the font is different as well now, when you turn each pack around. This is where, if you just look at it really, really fast, it gets even more difficult, but there's a lot of stuff that usually happens in the actual like description of the card. Obviously, the font again is different for each of the packs. The little like graphics, you can tell it's just it looks fake and the way they do it. It's much more clear.

This one's not as clear for the contains a code card as well as like this is more white than that down there. You can go through it and it you know it looks like it has all like the good sayings of the Pokémon company and everything, but you can go through like the actual text itself, and you'll read. Oh, there's always like a lot of misspellings. They usually say the wrong name of the series, especially in my evolutions box, that I open up in the other video you'll notice that it said like Steam siege, and it's spelled stuff wrong. So always just take a look at the packs as well, but if you're seeing a bunch of before I get into the cards, if you're seeing a bunch of packs that look like they're all lined up when you go to like eBay, for instance, which is like the number one place other than like a flea market or something especially in other countries, people tell me that they go to their local flea market.

They'll, see tons of packs they're all kind of just mashed together like this, and then they wonder if they're, real or fake so usually like on eBay, and it says like huge Pokémon pack lot or something, and you notice that all the packs have a different like kind of like shade to it. They're most likely fake, especially if the prices for them are very, very cheap. Booster boxes like the ones I got were from China, and they were only like I think 20 to 30 US dollars each, if not even that. So if you're, seeing a booster box, that is very, very cheap online odds, are, it is a fake Pokémon cards, booster box and that's why you should always look at verified sellers on eBay and always look at their review status and whether they're, actually real or not, so always check that as far as like on eBay, because you can also go on Craigslist to get cards as well. But when people stack up all the cards and stuff you'll notice, they look very, very different and if you're noticing something like just a huge shiny difference between them- and this is the Sun in moon one.

So this card is from these packs right here, and you'll notice. It's like this is supposed to be a full art, one there's no texture on the card to it all the full arts are just gold, and they have this like this gold shade going across it. So I'm going to compare, let's see I, don't have a full art on me, but I do have this Sol Clio GO card, which I'll continue opening up the packs and trying to find an actual GO, but things that you will notice first off the backs of the cards. The back of this card is once again in a different shade in a different color. This one is brighter.

Hopefully it's showing in person. You can definitely tell the difference. One. The fake card is smaller by just a little than the real card over here. This is lighter blue, just like there's like a little haze over it like a little white haze, and you're, just like what is going on with that and clearly the best way to tell is just to do a little bend test so for the real cards.

They are much more rigid in less bendable than the fake card. So if you just go like this, and obviously it's much more difficult to do it on video than when you do it, but just so you don't ruin the card, bend it just a little Ben that look at that one's. Just it's so, so much more bendable and easily to bend and as you saw at the beginning of the video which I will not do again with a real one. But there is something you can also do, and I really can't do it on the video. But you can do it yourself.

So if you go take a look at your Pokémon card, a Pokémon card actually has two layers that are going across the going across the car. There's the back in the front and in the middle there's a little like black inky haze that goes cross it, and if you actually tear a real card, you'll notice, there is a black haze that goes across and even if you don't tear it like tearing, is like the last option that you want to do. But if you take a quick, very close, look at it, you'll notice a little black line. That's going through clearly in this one and say goodbye, Lily, I'm, sorry, I'm, sorry, so this one's different as far as where's, the other fake one I think I may have thrown it away, but here's another fake one look at that that tore really easily just very and there's. No.

If you check like that, little white right there's absolutely there's no little black film that is here, and so I actually did for test purposes, and I've never will do a ripping other than for instructional purposes. I did have this star, you rest in peace. Just so you guys can know there is that black little film that is going across the card, and that is how you can know for sure that that was a real card. Rest in peace, star you, but here's more of that full art one. It's literally just a little film, and they just put it on this back.

It's its absolute trash, and it's terrible. So there is that here. So here are: let's get a little example of and yet to tell for the different sets like evolutions, which is this card right here. This is a real evolution dodo card. This is a fake, a lowland Growth, Sun and Moon, and in from evolutions to Sun and Moon, they did change.

Oh, wait: is this the real one or fake one now I'm like getting me so confuse a went from the font size on evolutions. It was a thinner font and in Sun and Moon they increased the font to be yes. So here is a real Sun and Moon Jupiter card. There's the font and it did go up. So a lot of people say just look at the font and where the HP is as far as like HP, 60 or 60 HP, and how big in both the font is, but now, since Sun and Moon kind of changed it, the fake Pokémon card people are a little smarter, and they made it much more like the same.

But what you can notice is the font is still different on the fake ones and on the actual, real ones. First, off once again take a look at the bottom, and you'll notice. The font is just it's just different you'll. Take a quick look at it, and it looks like they just want, like Microsoft Word pad or word, and just like type that up and that's essentially what it is. So you can just go like that again, and you'll notice.

This one is just way more I'm doing the same as bending and this one's just way more bendable, it's the color overall is completely different and a lot of times. You can just go ahead and sometimes look the name like on these fake Pokémon cards. In my previous video there was an orange guru, but it was named like, and it was named something else, a Sharped or something like that, and people were noticing that out. So one of the first things to look at is the name itself, the HP symbol, the energy symbol that is in the top right. Sometimes they don't mix and match it up right.

So you want to look at that. You want to see if there's an actual shadow, that's going around the border of the cards and as well as the moves itself, because a lot of times they will misspell the actual moves on the card down here. The resistance and weaknesses always make sure those are correct, as well as where it says the illustrators it really just it drops the ball there, and it can completely tell that it is not real as fair as far as like the rarity symbol as well. This one doesn't even have the rarity symbol on the card itself, so you're just like what is going on with that. Once again, I do like just that little trying to like to tear tests there barely did it and that one just ripped the fake one, don't worry guys that was a fake one, so I want to just quickly open up the rest of these fake packs.

These are the fake ones right here. These are. This is the real roaring skies one and just so we can try. I can try to get like I'm a champ break card or something else. So here's a professor Lucy.

What did you say to me, professor? No, no I, didn't mean to oh I'll, see that that's different that was difficult to rip just because it's all film, so these are more of the fake ones. Yeah, it's you'll notice a lot of times the fonts different. They misspelled. The actual names of the Pokémon themselves, like everybody, was pointing out in that previous video, and you'll also get a very you're good, an ultra card in every single pack as well. A lowland Dug trio, Marine, chin, Chow, pursuit's and I.

Think I just have this one last pack remaining, but if you always just do the touch test at the very beginning with a pack, you will notice that they are fake. If they have pictures of cards always check for all of those things from the top of the cards. The font itself, because I mean it's its crazy. They have the illustrators name wrong. Everything is its just different so and if you ever do come across them like on eBay Craigslist Amazon.

Any of those places definitely report them and make sure that they shouldn't be selling those cards, so I think I. Essentially went through everything I wanted to go through. Hopefully this was very instructional and for you guys above all, just be very vigilant out there guys, and especially if your parents out there just watch the video again and make sure whenever you're, seeing like a post or something that's all the cards you'll see like a lot of posts there, like if I, don't put pictures already on this there's just like oldies, just like lined up in like tons of them, and you're just like whoa. That looks too good to be true because a lot of times, if it's too good to be true, it's actually too good to be true. It's up made sense anyway, guys, if you can please do it, leave a like on this specific video check out the eye right here.

If you want to see some amazing Pokémon card openings, my name is Leonard, stay awesome, stay positive and, as always, I'll see you all in my next video.

Source : Leonhart