Follow him on Twitter for bits cut from this article and other stuff no one should see.įor more insider perspectives, read 4 Useful Things Forging Documents Taught Me About Your World and I Get Paid To Write Fake Reviews For Amazon. Ryan Menezes is an editor and interviewer here at Cracked. I tossed the rest of that order in the trash. "Uh, actually, my other cards got put in the wash accidentally," I said. I looked up and saw there was a whole group behind him who'd heard about the cheap cards for sale, and all of them looked like they were still losing baby teeth. Then another buyer came up to me, cash in his hand. I headed over to a Pokemon tournament, and I sold two cards to an avid collector in his 20s. Wizards of the Coast Continue Reading Below
A reputable printing company won't even photocopy an encyclopedia page for you.
"We only print original designs owned by the requesting client or public domain designs," they said. But as soon as I sent them my tentative descriptions of my order, I got a crushing email reply. I had a long list of specifications for the "fan cards" that I wanted to print, and I figured these were the same sort of guys who made real cards, so they should do a good job. So I put together my digital file and turned to professional printing companies. Around the time I was doing this, Ebay was only a couple years old, but it became SUPER easy to find high-quality scans of cards online to put into a template. It can be sometimes difficult to find high-quality scans of cards, but you can scan a less-rare card for the backgrounds, put in the text yourself in Photoshop, and then it's really just the main image you need to worry about. When I work, I build the image up in layers. So I went to a self-service Kinko's and had a go at making a copy of a card I happened to own.
It got me thinking of how easy it would be to actually fake these cards. One day, a potential customer falsely accused one of my Shivan Dragons of being a fake. I started by selling off my old legitimate card collection in college, a broke student fascinated by how much these little pieces of cardboard could sell for. Related: 21 Cards You Need For Basically Any Game of Commander 4 Shady Printing Companies Happily Abet Criminals I'll let you decide which crime is worse. I printed it myself, and back in my apartment are 500 identical fakes just like it. The truth is, I didn't steal the card out of anyone's car. But I make my way to the exit, just in case her next visit is to security. "Okay." For a player desperate enough, fenced goods are an acceptable resort to stoop to. Nothing says "Honesty" like the word of a petty burglar.
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