Dallas Card Show - Fake Slabs

[philo98]

Having lived in Asia for decades, counterfeits are everywhere, and as you know China dominates in this category. In fact, there is generally a 1-10 scale given on how good the fake is. China fakes everything and has really started to increase their fakes on sportscards and Pokeman, etc especially with the way the collectibles market is today. Most likely, the flood of these fakes into the US has just begun.

Whenever I am in China, I only buy from very few suppliers, include grocery stores I go to. This is a country that has fake lettuce, fake eggs, fake contact lens solution, fake cars, fake iphones etc etc. Not only do they fake the iphone, but there are also fake Apple stores which can be extremely difficult to tell if its one of the high quality fakes. The fakes that are very high quality, even the experts cannot tell the difference between what is real and not real.

[Eric72]

Great. PSA graded lettuce.

[Rich Klein]

Ryan Nolan (and yes that's his name) has also authored a book on card fakes which has sold remarkably well. A really good young man and he travels to a lot of shows so he is aware of these issues more than 99 percent of us on this board.

https://www.amazon.com/Spotting-Fake.../dp/B09MYST97Q

Link to his book. As noted it's sold enough that he is out of his personal allotment.

Rich

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by philo98

Having lived in Asia for decades, counterfeits are everywhere, and as you know China dominates in this category. In fact, there is generally a 1-10 scale given on how good the fake is. China fakes everything and has really started to increase their fakes on sportscards and Pokeman, etc especially with the way the collectibles market is today. Most likely, the flood of these fakes into the US has just begun.

Whenever I am in China, I only buy from very few suppliers, include grocery stores I go to. This is a country that has fake lettuce, fake eggs, fake contact lens solution, fake cars, fake iphones etc etc. Not only do they fake the iphone, but there are also fake Apple stores which can be extremely difficult to tell if its one of the high quality fakes. The fakes that are very high quality, even the experts cannot tell the difference between what is real and not real.

It is crazy but yes almost everything in China is faked. When you go to Beijing you take 2 large suitcases. One, half full of clothes for the trip and the other 1 1/2 full of gifts for family. I know several computers/electronics have made one way trips over the last 20+ years. Then the suitcases come back full of moon cakes and other food items we can't get out in the middle of nowhere USA.

Fake slabs have been around for a very long time and many have been coming from Asia for years.

[Johnny630]

The good thing about the Dallas show is mask aren’t mandatory makes it easier to describe the suspect/perps.

[Tao_Moko]

What in the hell is a MBA sticker? Oh nevermind. I'm going back to my mid grade vintage world of raw fat bordered cards. They don't have stickers.