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submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just saw a video of a dude who managed to use a scanning machine to see inside of a pack of old Pokémon cards and see what the holo card was. It's gonna get crazy in the next couple years, you won't be able to trust that old packs might have a good card inside cause the vendor could just scan, open the good ones and resell the crap ones for a profit.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't the old ones be scaled? Or were pokemon packs not vulnerable to that?

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I actually don't know, I'm not huge into investing in cards. I'm mostly a collector of cards I like that are cheap sort of guy but with this technique you could hunt for the Charizard while more or less guaranteeing you'll at least break even, since you can sell the packs you know don't have anything instead of opening them.

I'm assuming this technique can be modified to work on modern packs too so it's only a matter of time till you can't guarantee that a pack hasn't been scanned for good cards. They can even scan unsealed boxes. Currently it's a bit unattainable for your average investor but any of the big players could easily afford it and get an advantage.

Here's a link for anyone interested.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I don't know how viable the technique shown in the video would be for recent pokemon sets, but it was really cool. Thanks for sharing.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

According to my friend, people are into boxes because you get a certain amount of guaranteed rarity, or will just buy individual cards. People distrust packs for just these kinds of reasons