When Pokémon Card Scammers Get What They DESERVE!

Pokemon cards are supposed to be about collecting, trading, and having fun. However, some people treat every card like an opportunity to scam. But not every scammer escapes without consequences. So these are the times when Pokemon card scammers finally get what they deserve. Starting us off with this grandma that was trying to sell her $5,000 card to a pawn shop to get some extra cash. However, the owner had a different idea. I'm doing pretty well. Look, I've got this stuff. Since after understanding that the grandma knew nothing about the value of the card she was selling, he decided to lowball her to an extreme extent. However, what he was not expecting was that everything was a setup made by her grandsons to expose the devious acts of the shop owner. know for sure if he's scamming if it's anything under a grand I'm going wow yeah that's crazy pretty good okay normally I'd you know sell it or give me a 250 to make a little profit but uh since then you know I feel bad for your son god bless you okay well I just I just remind me of my mom okay well I'll give you a 345 for it oh my gosh that would be great 345 coming coming 345 oh my god three hundred forty five dollars wait she's to sell it i'll have my son bring it okay we are live outside this horrible mean pawn shop and they just try to rob my grandma gentlemen how are you doing you are live in front of a million people say hello we just watched you scam this poor old woman out of a five thousand dollar card trying to scam an old lady is a really low thing to do but stealing from a vendor and lying to the police might be even worse. And that is exactly what this next scammer decided to attempt. But she was quickly caught on camera stealing $5,000 from a vendor's booth. So there was only one thing that she could do. She attempted to leave the scene, but that was the exact moment when the cops showed up. But when they began searching for the stolen cash, they couldn't find one single dollar on her. Now just when she thought she would leave free of charges, this happened. Luckily, this scammer was caught and sent to jail where she belongs. However, there are many more scammy thieves out there, and these next two are trying to pull off a more familiar scam, since at first, they look like a normal family shopping for some cards. However, as it turns out, they did not intend to pay at all, since while the father and boy browse at the table, the camera catches them swapping some cards into their pockets. Eventually, the seller notices the boy's actions and confronts him, and while the father even acts disappointed by what happened, the seller is not convinced at all, and when he asks to see the man's pockets, their entire scam falls apart. I find it almost unbelievable that the scammer turned on his kid just to pull off a part of the scam, and this type of education clearly explains the next kid's actions. He thought he could scam this vendor by using his age to his favor, because at first, he looks like just another innocent kid shopping around, but when the vendor asks him a question, he leaves immediately. What no one realized was that this was all part of the kid's master scam, as when he later returns to the table, he immediately reaches out for the Garchomp and tries to run away just like the first time. However, someone nearby notices what had happened and calls him back before he can disappear to the crowd. Thank you. You've just saved me $300. Where's that kid? Dude, he just ran off. Now, this kid may have been caught, but most kids aren't, and in the end, they end up growing into the worst types of people of them all, the scalpers. And when a new Pokemon product drops, you just know that the line will have at least one of these wild creatures. And during the release of this new product, this scammer could not wait for his turn and decided to cut through the line. However, the collectors who waited hours were not going to stay quiet. and you just know that this guy will either reseal or sell the box for way over the price he paid for it but scammers like this are everywhere and some even have their own vending table just like this one that wasn't even bothered to straight up lie to a kid just to get the best deal possible for his card because when this boy brings over his valuable Mewtwo GX the vendor cannot contain himself and immediately calls it damaged and you can tell by his face what his true intentions were here what are you looking for we're not really sure we're trying to see what we have no idea what they're worth like conditions stuff like that so he was told it's a nice card here we are so first damage uh last damage was 185 so what would you offer one of them A condition check should protect a collector and not become a magic trick where a valuable card suddenly turns damaged the second it reaches a scammer's hand. But this was not the only time that a scammer tried to take advantage of a kid. This kid showed this vendor the binder that she had just started. Noticing that she was new to collecting, the vendor decided to give her some advice and immediately warned her about the value of her Meowth. The girl then left to continue her trades but when she came back, the vendor noticed the meowth was missing and that something with the trade was not right I love the Umbreon is beautiful for it that is fantastic did you sell the Meowth I traded it you traded it how much did you get for it scratches dents I don't know they just gave it to me for 30 pounds I said okay so if this is like scratches and stuff just make it 30 pounds and he just traded me for that this is 32. who I think we should go back and get your money back why don't we go over and chat with them because that seems like it's a bit too much understanding what had happened the vendor immediately went to confront the scammer hey mate just coming to check the card that you traded for the Meowth it seems really unfair on the trades can I take a look at the Meowth to see on the conditioning of it it was him he traded if you want to have a chat with him can Can I take a look at the mouth that you traded with for it? No. For it, probably. What did you price this at? I priced that at £35. There is no way this is £35. It's a £90 card all day. We have the chip on the top right. It's going to be anywhere above that. Are you pricing it at damaged? Yeah, I'm pricing it at damaged. That's not damaged. It's not even... We've got a chip on the top right there. Yeah, that's not damaged at all. It would get a PSA 8 or PSA 9. All day it would get a PSA 8 or PSA 9. There's nowhere near... I don't think that's going to get that high. You're telling me that is damaged? Can I have my microscope, please? If you've got it. So I've got the damage up there. That's not damaged. That's damaged, man. That's the chip right on the card. That is not damaged. Let me take a look here, because that is just... I think you should trade back for it that that is an absolute ridiculous i would recommend trade it that's a 21 pound card for it right honestly that is the biggest load of crap i've ever heard no no problem i would rather give you some cash for it and spend the cash and i'll pay you high on it because that's a rubbish experience you want it let's go back to my table honestly that is the biggest baloney i've ever heard in the end the vendor decided to buy the card from the girl to ensure that no one would scam her on it again but as it turns out this wasn't the first time that the scammer had fooled a kid on the show that day she came back late i'm really excited she's like look what i've got show me a 20 pound umbreon card that a vendor had traded her for the meowth that's the second story i've heard of a vendor scamming kids so uh i went to the vendor and got the card back who was the vendor some guy around there i didn't catch his uh cat i'm gonna go do a walk in a bit and take a look so i know his dog on his back on his shirt i'm not too sure he had a big he had a beard he had a big beard ginger beard yeah he kind of yeah kind of ginger maybe same he tried to tell a couple of kids like usually my regulars that uh their Charizard GX from Burning Shadows 300 pound card is worth 30 quid which one is it can we check if People like this just ruin the hobby for everyone, and the next scammer is not any different. Just like this next guy that was trying to steal some cards from this vendor's binder while he was distracted by another customer. But what the thief didn't expect was for that same customer to tip off the vendor of what he was doing. and what happened next was a really long and awkward stare down as the thief kept flipping through the binders pages and was forced to buy some of the cards before security was called to the area oh what the dude that guy tried to steal cards from us wait what that guy across from us with the backpack on tried to steal cards from us i literally tapped him on his chest as he was trying to pocket them and took them out of his hand. He paid full value on everything else and I just stared him down while he sat at our table. But his whole family's with him. I was going to tell the organizer. But sometimes things get so out of hand that security is not enough and the police need to be called instead. And it all happened because this guy decided it was a good idea to scalp from a Pokemon vending machine in the middle of the day. And not only did he reach the limits for his purchases, he also kept restarting the machine to keep buying regardless of the store manager telling him to stop. Things got so bad that the police ended up being called. However, there was nothing that they could do as the purchases were already made. But to be honest, it doesn't even look like they understood that he was carrying away thousands of dollars worth of scalping. Although they told him to find a solution with the store, to this day, we have no idea on how this situation ended. But what happens when neither the staff or the police are called as these scammers are doing their dirty work? In that case, only the honest collectors are left to stop their evil doings. Just like this next guy that did his best to stop the scalper from continuing to buy more product from the machine, but the confrontation quickly became physical. get away from me you're putting your hands on me look get away from me brother oh you already got some bruh let me go i'm alive you already got get away from me you already got it is insane to see the extent which some people will go to scam innocent collectors luckily there will always be honest people going to the same extent to make things right and one of those people is Rattle Pokemon upon hearing that a customer on whatnot had been scammed by the seller on a Froslass ex he knew that he had to confront the scammer so he hopped in the live stream ready for a confrontation the scammer however decided to play dumb instead proceed to ask him what's the explanation for the cancelled order and he has a nice little response here so UPS didn't scan it in so i gave you that refund but your order is still on the way i guess he's under the impression that i'm the one that he scammed he's saying that uh i got a refund and that he's also going to ship the card it's coming anyway right surely it's gonna arrive i had to cancel on my end because it would f with my stuff but it's on the way it there wasn't a scan so i gave you that refund so it doesn't f with my order but your your stuff is on the way surely he has an explanation for why he blocked them so i'm gonna ask just that and we're gonna get a response i blocked him i didn't mean to block them i can i'll unblock them right now i didn't mean to all of a sudden he remembers the name of the woman that he scammed but nymph stuff is on the way i just had to cancel it because ups wasn't didn't scan it in and it was uh giving me alerts so i just went ahead and refunded it here he's going to confirm that it's it's on the way surely it is right but your card is on the way, rest assured it is on the way, it's on the way and although by the end he remembered the victim's name and made sure that he would make things right the truth of the matter is that at the end of the day this was just a bunch of lies, oh he still didn't make it right we got Nip who says guaranteed that's not right, i trusted him more too because he looked like a chill guy in his reviews too, still blocked but we'll see, and then we got an update this morning just finished band practice, he still didn't, he lied i think it's but it's okay, i'm just glad he admitted it, have a good night, thank you again so moral of the story, don't trust slimy rip and shippers please and thank you, now these scams have been insane so far but what we have left are the top four and these ones are so crazy that you might genuinely not believe it, just like this next scammer that got stopped by the police after he was seen stealing cards from different vendors a police officer moves in and pulls him away from the table however, no scammer like this goes down without a fight and the situation escalates as he resists and the officers take control. Going to jail for resisting authority over some Pokemon cards is insane. But what may be crazier are these new scams with slabs that have been getting more and more current. And although the scammers could not be found and confronted, I just had to include this scam in the list. Because this whole interaction may just look like a normal deal, since this vendor confirmed the card price on eBay before we finished the sale. However, there was a small detail that he didn't notice until it was too late as it turns out that the last sales of this cards were fake sales that ended up never being completed as scammers have been selling cards to each other in order to confuse collectors into thinking that the card's value had skyrocketed so they can sell them for way above market price, he brought me this card and at the time it was worth about 4200, we decided on 550 cash and the gray felt hat Pikachu so basically coming to a trade value of around $3,500 for this card, which is fairly reasonable for both of us considering it was just selling for $4,200. So, you know, it's towards that higher amount, but also gives me a little bit of room if it comes back down to, you know, around the $3,500, $3,600 mark, just because I had bought the Van Gogh for $2,500. Now, a couple weeks later, I still have this slab and I go ahead and scan it and I see comps for around $2,000, about $2,200 just two weeks later, which is astounding, right? A 50% cut. That's totally out of the ordinary. So I go back and look at the sales that happened during that week and they were marked as uncompleted. They were marked as fraudulent or some error occurred for a dozen different sales all over that four thousand dollar mark and so here's the scam basically that you need to look out for is people are selling cards to themselves and their friends on eBay to show up as real sales but never fulfill them and they leave unpaid be very careful buying with these types of scams out there now let's get into the final two confrontations. First, we have this couple that looked way too suspicious when they entered the Pokemon Zone in Walmart. So suspicious, in fact, that the police were called to the area, and they didn't take long to apprehend the suspects that decided to resist them. cards in her purse. That's why. You know that. We know that. Let's not act dumb. Let's not be defensive or dumb. We know why we're getting called here. It's not a thing. What is that? Yeah, that right there. I don't know. I'm going to go in there and grab it for you. Is that okay with you? Do you mind if I go in there and grab it? No. How about this? We're going to go ahead and grab it, okay? Is it going to poke, stick, or cut us or anything? No. Don't stop pulling your Later, when they searched for the cards, they They ended up finding all that they were looking for and the couple was sent to jail. But somehow this does not compare to our number one spot because this may have been the most extreme Pokemon card theft in the world as this guy decided to break into a Pokemon shop by breaking the glass with a chainsaw. After crawling inside and taking boxes and sleeved cards reportedly worth about $12,000, investigators followed the trail of the scammer to his parent's house. quickly apprehend the suspect in front of them and interrogate the entire family to find the whereabouts of the cards like i said i'm detective Rimmer with the sheriff's office okay i'm investigating a burglary to a business um in which clayton broke into a business this morning at 3 a.m okay that's my son um he used a chainsaw to cut through a hurricane proof window using the jeep that you own to get there and from and he stole a bunch of pokemon cards oh so oh my god um we do have a search warrant for the house he cut himself up badly going through the window so we have a search warrant for his dna as well show him this picture and he apparently at three o'clock this morning went and robbed and stole pokemon cards so what we'll do just to make everything easy. Um, if you guys want to go, I went in his closet today and I saw the step ladder in his closet and I'll show you that. And I noticed, I'm like, where's the suitcase? So then I had asked Clayton, uh, cause I got up like at four 30 in the morning and I couldn't sleep. And Clayton came out and I was like, well, uh, you can't sleep. And he goes, no, I can't sleep. but i asked him about the suitcase and he said oh yeah i was trying to see if i'm thinking about going up to to sarah's wedding and i got it out here and he had the suitcase here mr clayton how are you so it's very stupid yeah it was i would like a lawyer but i i would like to to explain and talk i can give you all the property back okay what possessed you i don't know i'll show you where it is okay come on he showed us where everything is he hid a lot of it in his fish room all of the pokemon cards um and then he had a bag that was stuffed in his closet with all of the bloody clothes and the bags that he used to take everything so a scam so bold and stupid may go down in history as the craziest way a scammer got what he deserved. Check out this video on screen next to see even crazier Pokemon card moments. Trust me, these are insane.