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Historically interesting, sure, but not worth $3.5 million. On opening one of the boxes, they found no Base Set packs, but a whole load of packs for 1991 GI Joe trading cards. Crumpled boxes or misarranged booster packs inside should raise an immediate red flag. All in all, nothing added up about this case, and the expertise of Baseball Card Exchange was brought into question.įinally bowing to demands to do the unthinkable and open the case to verify the contents, Paul and his partners were stunned to see booster boxes that were poorly printed and misshapen – obvious fakes. An obvious tell that a retailer - like Wal-Mart or Target - Pokmon TCG booster box is fake (or has been tampered with) is damage to the packaging.
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Paying $2.7 million for the box, they sold it to Paul for $3.5 million.Įven the box itself had warning signs, such as the code on the label not matching up with other known booster box cases or its own barcode, and it being faded in a way that's inconsistent with labels from the time. From there it passed between a few people, before it was allegedly verified by trading card authentication company called Baseball Card Exchange and ended up with the person who sold it to Logan Paul, Shyne150.
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Despite that, it did sell for a fraction of the value of a single booster box: $72,500 by an Ebay user known as PSAPikachu.