#pokemon #pokemoncards #pokemongo #shorts This might be one of the biggest Pokemon card heists in history. To see this many Full Art Pokemon Cards in one place is one of the craziest sights I think i've ever seen.
Not potentially. It is a real thing. He got caught, arrested, and every one of those cards confiscated by Pokemon Co. Hence the reason fusion Strike has abysmal pull rates. Had these thousands of ultra rares been in packs, each one of those would have gone to a paying customer, yet, pokemon Co put out a statement saying pull rates weren't affected. BS.
You say paying customers, but trust me when I say a good portion would have still been stolen. Worked for target for less than a year and every single day I’d find atleast 2 open ETBs randomly in the aisles
@@kylechastain7303truth. I see opened product even in checkout lines at walmarts. A lot of our walmarts and targets have stopped carrying a lot of tcg products
Low key feel like selling 10 at once would still be a red flag I think selling 5 at time per shop would be lowkey better. Only saying that specially if it’s the same card or just sell on eBay tbh
Sounds like it's time for a class action lawsuit! I spent over $1,000 on packs trying to get those exact cards. No wonder i didn't get any! They were already pulled out ahead of time!!!
You're not the only one, I've opened several elite trainer boxes with my kids and haven't pulled anything but common bs. I'll be staying away from S&V boxes.
yeah I quit opening pokémon last year because in 2k worth of product I got ZERO chase cards. I bought right from distributors. I do not trust the pokémon card company, open Yugioh cards.
@@generalgrievous6498Why else would these cards be worth so much individually? Because there are far fewer of them in circulation compared to other cards so the rate would be affected If a bunch of them were pulled off the line en masse.
@@generalgrievous6498it kind is. Pull rates are how likely you are to pull a certain card when you open a pack. There’s packs with the card and packs without. So the less packs without the card, the lower the pull rate. If you take away a ton of that card that would have gone to packs, your rates is even lower because there’s now less packs with that certain card.
It was confirm that it was stolen from the printing. They said it was the largest recovery of stolen property. And that he supposedly had more from a different set. But he had a whole bunch of the rare poles from fusion. Which made an artificially low pull rate for fusion.
@@Kakashi-gu3mi Technically the assigned retail value of the card is a shiny piece of paper not the resale value of like 150 so he got out relatively easy.
I don’t know what’s the most baffling thing: -that this guy decided to sell the cards all together, despite that seeing some of the rarest cards are so bunched up together!! -or that the printing company didn’t spread out the word that so many cards were stolen! ETHER WAY, this is one of the craziest stories I’ve ever heard of the Pokémon TCG!
over a pack of cards? cry abt it. I do treasure Pokémon cards but sueing is just too much over a set of cards. if you didn’t pull anything you wanted and get upset that you feel you need to sue then you are likely not enjoying the hobby and treating it as a gamble.
I honeslty can't imagine someone being able to swipe all those cards from the factory without getting caught, then thinking its a good idea to sell them all at once at one place. But here we are.
wonder if whoever did it didn't swipe it from the secure factory ~ Just need to know how the cards are being manufactured (the spec on the printing machine, its paper and ink source) and then print it off somewhere else. Definitely not very smart to try to sell so many duplicates all at once; in one location to.
@@michaelwang6125 unfortunately that's impossible. The techniques and materials they use are exclusive to pokemon and near enough impossible to aquire outside of the production environment. Thats why near enough all fake pokemon cards look distinctly different to the real thing
I have many shops around me. Plus my friend owns a card shop, this would of been an easy lick for me. This person was stupid asf to think ppl would actually believe he opened 100,000 packs to pull those.
@@RockHash cardmarket and ebay would also do the trick, just selling 16 cards a month casually with different accounts. Then maybe sell a couple on conventions.
@@LicPlate8VPL158 Nah it’s pretty hard once you think about it. It’s not 100 people, and they have so many other things to work on they can’t monitor every single employee. Did you think about that, buddy?
These stolen cards have almost surely not influenced the pull rates. I don't feel like explaining everything but alot of people have made video's about it already explaining why it didnt
I know I did not support my argument AT ALL but I just wanted to point it out without explaining cause I feel like Ando should have researched it before spreading the rumor at the end
Bs. It effected the area he was in. DALLAS FORT WORTH I have multiple friends who have spent thousands of dollars collecting. They got literally robbed chasing cards that weren’t even in their packs I guarantee it.
and the fact it looks like he has over a 100 copies of each. Dude shouldve just sold them anonymously online or just sell a couple at time to different vendors. The real kicker is he got them graded and sat on them he legit couldve made compounding prodit from year to year increase do to rarity.
and the fact it looks like he has over a 100 copies of each. Dude shouldve just sold them anonymously online or just sell a couple at time to different vendors. The real kicker is he got them graded and sat on them he legit couldve made compounding prodit from year to year increase do to rarity.
This has been happening for years this is just one of the guys that's been caught. The fact that he had that many and tried to off load them at the same time shows he didn't know what he was doing. At least now they'll crack down on these printing companies pulling cards off the line. Wouldn't be surprised if those are actually extra printed cards that weren't suppose to exist.
Dude got greedy, I could support myself for years maybe the rest of my life if I'd swiped all those. Sell off one or two at a time to different shops around town, on ebay etc. Not more than like 5 or 6 a week and you're golden. Shit it's depressing to know I'll never get a shot like that in my lifetime.
I've known about this for the past 2 years, I've noticed packs that were just plain wrong, it was so obvious when they were resealed. It always sucked when I know I got screwed...
The whole point of rare things is that there is a limited amount. The price of that specific card just went downhill. Dude ruined his own market by saturating it with thousands of the same card.
