![]() And the box was authenticated by a company called Baseball Card Exchange, which doesn’t have expertise in Pokemon cards. ![]() The box originally sold to the highest bidder for $72,500, but the deal fell through when the seller refused to allow the buyer to inspect the cards themselves. The seller had three different stories for where he got the cards: from an old woman’s estate sale in Canada, for his 12th birthday, and abandoned in an attic. Number1pokemonmaster had very little feedback, and their account is seemingly no longer active at all. And yet, the seller, number1pokemonmaster, chose to sell on eBay rather than Sothebys or some other highly reputable auction house (eBay is fine, but it’s rare for a collectible worth literally millions of dollars to be sold there, as PokeBeach points out.) The case originally popped up on eBay in March 2021, when the Pokemon card market was hotter than its ever been. Paul eventually bought the cards after a series of sales last year. According to an extremely thorough investigation by Pokémon fan news site PokeBeach, several clues tipped off the Pokemon fan community that this set might be inauthentic. ![]()
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