Japanese Police Arrest Suspect for Selling Counterfeit Pokemon Cards Online

[ApricornNut]

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In the Pokemon Trading Card Game, scalping-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In the hobby, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious farces are members of an elite squad known as the TCG community. These are their stories.

In Pokemon's war on counterfeit cards, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the members of TPCI's Japanese branch. These are their stories.

DUN DUN.

 

[Zeeman]

Ho-Oh legend - but as a single card lol

 

[The Binder Guy]

Eh, this is a double-edged sword for me. On the one hand it’s nice to see people peddling counterfeit cards getting their just desserts but it really does show that Creatures Inc. and TPCi really don’t know how to properly gauge the hype for a given item.

Some of the cards shown are simple promos or SR/HR cards that are recent and should have been printed to heck and back and made more widely available (All set-related Full-Arts/Trainer Gallery SRs/Hyper Rares/Secret Illustration Rares/Classic Collection, Scream promo, Mario and Luigi Pikachu promos, ). Others are retro cards or tournament prizes and printing those after their associated releases is more questionable.

Next thing you know pikachu is gonna be a suspect on Law and Order

In the Pokemon Trading Card Game, the fight against scammers and scalpers is represented by two different and equally important groups: The players who seek metagame staples, and the collectors who fight to pay fair price for their chases. These are their stories.

DUN DUN.

In the Pokemon Trading Card Game, scalping-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In the hobby, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious farces are members of an elite squad known as the TCG community. These are their stories.

In Pokemon's war on counterfeit cards, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the members of TPCI's Japanese branch. These are their stories.

DUN DUN.

Do you want the Pokémon community to have its own Fur and Loathing-style fiasco? ‘Cause that’s how a fandom gets its own Fur and Loathing-style fiasco.

 

[Malavok]

Not a big deal. Let him free!

It is a big deal when they scam customers. Personally don't care about fake cards if they're sold for cheap and posted as "fakes", but selling a fake product as a real product, for full price, is only something a pure scumbag would do.

They should start arresting the people who open boxes and then try to sell them as new or return them as new, too. That's also fraud. It happens both in Japan and the US.