>>7074482I wasn't that insanely upset actually since I wasn't that overly attached to the cards. Not to mention my absolute favorites cards like the holo lapras were still there. And the boys were really young, oldest was nine. Funnily enough, what had me the most upset was their complete and total stupidity in falling for the fakes.
"why would you trade my really old pokemon cards for fake YuGiOh cards?"
"They aren't fake and I didn't do it!"
"Aren't fake!? God damn! They look NOTHING like my YuGiOh cards! Even the backs are different!"
That was then I beat into them how to tell fakes from real cards and told them how when I was their age in elementary school everyone was telling each other how to tell fake Pokemon cards from real ones, and those ones LOOKED good too. Needed more specialized tricks like bend tests and looking at the card with a light behind it. I was flabbergasted that such horrendously obviously fake cards could spread so damn fast without any of the kids telling anyone what was wrong. It's like they didn't even bother trying to play with them, half the effects are so missworded you can never figure out what to do.
Then I found out years later the source of the fakes were from one man on the other side of the country in California. He was subject to a police raid, millions of dollars worth of counterfeits found in his warehouse. Just continues to baffle me they spread so fast so far despite how they looked.
