When Pokémon Card Vendor Deals End In COMPLETE DISASTER!

Pokemon collectors always go to card shows hoping to have a fun day, however, not every deal goes smoothly. From drunk customers trying to fight, to massive trades and ridiculous scams, here are the top 20 craziest vendor deals that ended in complete disaster. Starting us off with this collector who was hoping to trade away his PSA10 Poncho Pikachu, but the vendor thought something looked off, and walked over to the next booth to get a second opinion. Why is the holo so weird? The second this other vendor got his hands on the card, he immediately knew something was off, but since it was already PSA graded, there shouldn't have been any way for it to be fake, right? However, to everybody's surprise, the more they examined it, the clearer it became that PSA itself might have made a huge mistake. And although this vendor was sharp enough to notice the fake on time, the next one wasn't so lucky and ended up falling for a scam, but unlike our last vendor, they were not sold a fake, but a stolen Bubble Mew instead. And what looked like a great deal, quickly fell apart just a few minutes later, when another vendor came around looking for that exact stolen card. Realizing what had just happened, they managed to track the thief down and confront him on camera. But as it turned out, this was not his only theft. Luckily, this scammer was caught, but this next one somehow managed to scam the same vendor twice, and it all began when this collector spotted what he thought was a Japanese You want to take a look at anything? 1200. Yeah, English is like three grand or something crazy. Oh my god, that's that's you're up on that. My god. Yeah, what are you looking at? Give me a couple bucks off. I'd do that. Or I'll pay you 12 and give me this. I guess it's 50 bucks either way. That works for me. All right, Moon Kitty going out. Umbreon going out. He jumped on this deal immediately, but it wasn't long before he realized that his plan had backfired in the worst way possible. The card wasn't actually Japanese at all. It was a Korean print instead. Worth far less. Realizing his mistake, he went back to the vendor and tried to get his money back. Uh, no, I do not have one in Japanese. I thought you had a Japanese. I didn't realize it was Korean until I hit the PSA tab. I'm a vendor right there. Oh, okay. All right, I gotta go deal with this. Bro, I'm still going to take it. Yeah. But I obviously can't pay. Yeah, the Japanese is like $2,800. So that was, yeah, that was my PC. That's why I had it at $1,200. There's sales at like $900. So, I mean, here's all our sales at a PSA 10. You know, we're between, I'm going to say $800 and $900. $765, $909, $950. Yeah, I had it at $1,200 because I paid high on it and it was my PC card. That was really why. Because like the Japanese is $2,800. So that would have been insane to get it at $1,200. When that didn't work, he has to add another Umbreon card to the deal as some kind of compensation. I'm cool with keeping it, but would you mind doing something? Yeah. Or, I mean, are you stuck at, I'm just done $400. No, I mean, I'm not going to like you over. I just had it a little bit higher because it wasn't, I wasn't going to sell it. If I did $1,000 for it, I mean, what were you at on it? Was it a pull or were you ahead of it or did you pay? No, I paid high because it was my PC. Like I paid full market. I didn't get any like from a customer or anything. So I paid, I think I paid $1,000. All right, so I'll give you $1,050. Does that sound fair? I'll let you win a little bit. I mean, it's clearly it's my fault. You know what I mean? But like, what do you want to do? So I put at $1,200. The Japanese is almost like $2,800 or something. Yeah. So I was like, I don't know. All right. It's hard to believe that that scam actually worked, but luckily not every scam is successful. And this next deal proved just that because this customer came to the vendor looking to make a huge purchase for his collection. However, it quickly became clear. He wasn't willing to make this deal without a serious discount. What's your best on T-Money? I did $12,000. Cash? What's that? You just got a concert back? Last sell was $13,000. I did $12,000. $16,000 for both? Uh, my guards are included. So you take the guards off? I do $16,000 without the guards. Okay. $16,000. What would you do on that? Best on that? That was last sold. $500. I do $90,000. $40,000. $45,000. Do $2,000. That's $12,000. $16,000. $4,000. No guards. It couldn't be that low on that one. I do $20,000, $50,000. My best for those three. $16,000. $50,000 off? Yeah, because I want to be at least 90%. What's that at? $350,000. I'll do that one for $300,000 if you want. So that'd be... I'll do $23,000 with that. I'm trying, bro. $23,000 with that. Yeah, but then you're getting that at like 60%. It's not 60%. You want to be at $250,000 at that. It's $20,000, $50,000. Here, $250,000. I said $3,000. That'd be my best. That's like 80-something percent. What are we at? So plus $3,000, it'd be $23,000, $50,000. You want it to be at $23,000. I got you, bro. These five, you want? Okay. So this was... $20,000, $50,000. I said I'd do three at this. It's $23,000, $50,000. $26,000, $75,000. Oh, well, I mean, everything... The $150,000 one's just pumped. So last time I checked, it was $500,000, but I can double check. Yeah, like all the $150,000 ones are kind of... Okay. Dude, see, this is a low comp. Look, these are sales on Squirtle. And if I check that one, it might be crazy as well. I might actually have my ---- lower than comps. All right, so plus $500,000. My boy just ignored it. Plus, you just paid $500,000. If you take that $500,000, take these as stickers. Actually, these are great deals. I'm telling you. I don't even want to check the price though. $4,350,000. No guards, right? No guards. And not only did he try to sneak a Squirtle in that was $200 under market value, but after the deal was already done, he tried to squeeze out an additional $6,000 discount under the table. Wait, it's a... What is $2,075? That's what we had for the original stack. $2,675 for the original stack. It was this, this, these two. $2,675. This was a separate stack. $280 was here. $500's here. $450. $520 here. $2,675. Not $2,075. Yes. I mean, it doesn't make sense. This is already over $2,000. Yeah, $1,200, $400, $450. Plus $300 here and $325 here. I just want to make this easy. I mean, we already comped everything out. $4,920. Because you had this at $2,065. It was $2,675. So that's why I was just trying to correct it. You're about to take $600 basically. I can't. What? That was worse than our original deal. You offered me more. You're trying to cook me. I don't know how I f***ed that up. Because, bro, you put this at $2,065. That's what you said though. I said $2,675. I literally have it on my calculator. Look, this is the last number. I think you said $2,065, so that's why. Maybe you misheard. I said $2,675 all day. Yeah, like, play it back. Okay. So this was $2,050. I said I'd do three at this. It's $2,350. $2,675. $800, I'll give you my cash. $4,800 cash. It's $125. $4,825? All right, I'll do it. Easy. Claiming the vendor quoted a completely different price when the entire interaction was caught on camera is absolutely ridiculous. Now, this next guy had what he thought was a genius plan to land the deal of a lifetime. Since apparently the best way to get a discount is just repeat the price you want to pay over and over and over again until the vendor gives in. $35? Yeah. I would just not sell you this, honestly. Yeah. Because $35 would be just these two right here. So if I were to give you this $12 free, I'm basically giving it to you at 66%. I'd buy a Haiti. I'll be at $30 for those two. That's over 10% off. I would just give you the 10% off. That 10%. So this is what? $35, right? Yeah. The 10%. This one's going for like $18 right now. This is the $9? I just want you at $62. I want $62. This? I might be all right. This one. This might be $20. All right, I'm gonna check right now. I'm at $30 on this. I would just give it to you at $62. I appreciate you, buddy. He was tripping. Yeah. No, he's tripping. Luckily, the vendor didn't budge. However, this next vendor did not have a choice but to take the loss because this scammer managed to swap a card's price tag the second no one was watching and the vendor didn't notice until it was already too late. Best price in that? Sorry? $350. $175. That one came out. Yeah. That one came out there. Really? Yeah. $125. So that's $300. I'll do $280. Yeah. Sick. So we sold a Poké Park, Blue Suicune and a Holo First Edition Suicune for Rocket for $280. Yeah. Sick. Card? Cash? Yeah, sick. That's $80. Yeah. And then $80. Perfect, brother. There you go. Enjoy that, man. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. The Rocket Suicune. It was. It was $125. But while most of these deals go wrong because of the sneaky customers, sometimes the vendors are in on it too. Just like this vendor who blew an entire deal over just $25. I have no problem putting it back in the showcase. I mean, I'll do $1,675. I'll take it now. $1,700, bro. It's not even about the money. It's enough for my head. First of all, whatever he just said made no sense. I literally walked up to their table and just offered to buy all their loose packs. It's nothing special. It's Sun and Moon packs. You can find that sh** anywhere. And they want to act like it's something crazy that I can never find it. And I'm only... I'm deadass only offering $25 below their asking price. Loose packs. Right now, $1,700. Yes or no? No, I can't. Okay, bye. But he's not the only vendor who let a small price difference blow up an entire deal. For example, take this next vendor who completely lost his mind after a customer refused to pay an extra $5. Right here. Yep. It's unlimbed. Yeah, that's perfect. Pretty clean copy though. $45. Cash dollar bills. $45.50 flip. The thing is, I kind of got chased through to my stickers just because... I mean, I just did a $45 trade. I appreciate it though, brother. Yeah. That overreaction was clearly justified. $45 for that. It's all good, bro. All right, flounder. It's simply impossible to negotiate with certain people, but not every deal falls apart over the price. Sometimes, it's over honesty instead. This kid had hopes of getting a great deal on his cards, but the second the vendor checked them over, he had to break the bad news right then and there. And he held nothing back. Oh, would you be able to look at my binder? Sure. Let's take a look, dude. Let's see. This card is rare. Yes, this is the biggest hit. Do you mind if I look at the back of this? It's in good condition. No, it's not actually. How much would it go for? Heavily played, that is worth about $60. I have a Gengar VMAX. That one's fake. This one is fake. Any card that looks like this with the gold border, Pokemon never makes cards like this. You can instantly tell. I know this is really expensive. Let's see. So this one's in pretty bad shape as well. I know it's not a 10. Maybe like a 9 or an 8. No, this would be a 2 or a 3. This is not. A 9 or a 10 has to be perfect. Because I know this has to be a 10. Because as soon as I pulled it, I put it in the sleeve and put it in my binder. Yeah, looks good. It's a little bit right heavy, which means it might not 10. It might be a 9. Okay, 9's still good. I also have those two cards. Yeah, I don't think there's anything in here that we would take, unfortunately, bro. You got cool cards, though. You just gotta take a little bit better care of them. That's all. Now, while this kid eventually walked away once he heard the bad news, not everyone takes rejection so well. And these next kids had a very different plan in mind. Because since they couldn't afford cards they had their eye on, they decided to just steal them instead. But while in the middle of setting up a deal with this next vendor, hoping to walk away with some free cards, their plan got interrupted in the best way possible. Huh? Let's take a look at what you got. Do I ever respond to her? Oh, no. Flashback. He tried to sell those to me, so... He tried to sell them to me, yes, ma'am. Now, these deals have been insane so far, but make sure to watch to the end because they will only get better from here. Now, I didn't know you could open graded Pokemon cards like booster packs until I tried this. There is a site called Slab Dynasty where every pack you open contains a real graded card. And you can either have the slabs shipped to your house, listed on their marketplace, or instantly sell it back for 92% of its value. So I opened some of their $150 packs to see what I could pull. And in one of the packs, we ended up pulling a PSA 9 thick font base set booster pack. Thank you to Slab Dynasty for sponsoring. And if you want to try it out for yourself, use code GTC to get 20% off your first pack. Next up, we have this kid who was convinced he had found the ultimate loophole to make money at a card show. As he went from vendor to vendor trying to sell what was actually a 21 cent card for a whopping $100. Hoping no one would bother to check. Are you trying to trade this? A hundred dollars. I'll, I'll probably pass. It's little kids, bro. A hundred dollars? Yes, it's super rare. I'll pass. Should I take this in for a hundred bucks, guys? So it's a cool card, but I'll probably pass. 80. 80? Yeah, I'm going to get to 80. Come on, bro. Cop it. What's your comp say? Yeah, what's the comp? What's the comp say? The comps are at a hundred. See, I don't know what that means. Is it $300? A hundred dollars? I bought this for a hundred dollars. How about 70? 70. I'll pass on it. Hey, 60. No, I'll pass on it. Now, this kid may have not been the sharpest, but this next one was a few steps ahead of him. Because unlike the last kid who was trying to sell a trash card for a hundred dollars, this next scammer went with a classic trade-up challenge instead. You're doing a trade-up challenge, huh? He tried trading up this $13 card, but the vendor wasn't interested and turned him down. I'd probably pass on it, unfortunately, brother. He mistakenly comes back again, and that is when we learn the truth of his intentions. As another vendor had offered him a $20 card instead, but even that wasn't enough for him. What's up? For what Bulbasaur? Oh, I didn't. I said that I'd pass on it, bro. I said that like I'm good. Oh, it's all right. It was probably at another table. Yeah. No, no, it's all right. Are you serious? He's like, value's 13. I was like, I'll give you a $20 card. He's like, I can't. Are you serious? That's insane, bro. Now, you might think this is just an innocent kid who doesn't know any better, but trust me, he'll grow up to be exactly like this next guy. Because there's no way a kid his age isn't doing trade-ups purely for the money. But this vendor wasn't about to let that slide. Wait, what card could you trade me? I'll give you a sticker. For free. For free? Can I get one as well? Yes. Can I get one as well? Me and my friends, we all got $1 cards. If you're trying to trade up, can you get the highest? I did my one trade-up challenge for the year. I'm trying to trade up. The kid didn't take the hint at all and kept pushing the deal, only to get shut down completely. Why not? I got a deal. What'd you get? I know I was here like 20 times, but... All right, look. So I'll trade you this. Bruh. Okay. Oh, it matches. It's cool. Oh, I got this pack. Did he give you that for free? It gets better. No. Yeah, I got two stickers. One of them's mine. You're just giving it back. Oh, yeah. Well, it's okay. Look, can I get a sticker back? I have a thousand of them. What would you trade me? I'm trying to go positive value. Nothing. Really? I'm sure. I'm positive. I don't like the worst card, but it looks shiny. I don't think I would want this for free. Yeah. Bro, it looks cool, though. It is cool. I don't want it, though. Do you play, like, TCG? No. I ride dirt bikes. So I like... I don't really know what a new Pokemon is. I'm just, like, trading random things. Yeah, no. I don't have any use for it. But while this kid didn't even know what Pokemon was, this next customer knew exactly what he was doing. He just couldn't control himself, because this next vendor was about to face something that none of his years of vending could have ever prepared him for. An intoxicated customer barging in to disrupt an ongoing deal. Hey, man. Can you come back? Hey, what's your name? Appreciate it. Dominic. Dominic? Dominic. You got so many people trying to deal with you, it's just... You don't mean nothing. You're buying one card. I said I could do it in the rental car. Can you stop? No. You need to step away, bro. Things escalated fast, as the two customers even got aggressive with each other. Tell him to get out of my face. No, he's already doing it here to me, no? I don't know where he's going to go. I got him. Don't worry about it. This guy, this guy... What's wrong, dude? Don't worry about it. Luckily, event security stepped in just in time, before things could get even uglier. Now, whenever a customer thinks he knows more than the vendor, a deal is far more likely to go wrong. And this next interaction is the perfect example of that, since this customer was trying to price his vintage cards, using some of the worst apps out there for vintage pricing. And even after the vendor explained exactly where he should be looking instead, he ignored it completely, and instead accused the vendor of doubling his prices. Hey. Which of the Skyridges do you guys have? Do you remember what the Skyridge symbol looks like? What was that? Do you remember what the Skyridge symbol looks like? Is that one? Do you want me to take out the Skyridge stuff? Yeah, yeah, please. So far, these are double comps. What are you looking at? We're using price charting. That's why. And we're also using a card ladder. All three of those are horrible for vintage. The best vintage app to use is TCG Player. So I'll show you right here. That's other vendors selling the product. Say what? That's other vendors. No. Okay, so show me. Well, Pineco is $42, $40, $40. That's reverse. So click on one of those. You're at pricing. That's last month. Because these don't sell often. We just pulled that one off of eBay. That's good, yeah. No, no, no, like it sold sooner and it was a lot less. You guys know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's fine. I mean, eBay has a different market. July 9th, this is $21, right? And you can just see, I mean, there's all... Here. It's probably good. It's an eBay sale. eBay sales are going to be 99% of your market. Wow. Because that's just eBay. So that one's LP. So that's why I don't go off of eBay. Their average prices are not accurate. And I wanted to let you know, you know, it makes sense. Yeah. I sell these all the time at the near-mid prices. These are what's sold often. I had about 40 of these and I sell them all day. I price it the same way. If you're off, that's totally fine. I'm okay with that. I just wanted to let you know. So you just want to keep your prices double? Well, it's not double. Oh yeah, it's absolutely double. And that's fine. That's your opinion. It's absolutely, oh no, it's the market, my friend. This customer eventually dropped the deal and walked away once the prices didn't go his way. However, he is not the only one arguing with the vendor over a card today. Since this guy approached the vendor looking to trade, claiming his card was near mint. But the vendor spotted some white spots on it and called it lightly played instead. And things only got uglier from there. This one, we got 15. Plus I was looking at the wrong thing. Yeah, light played sold today for $15. You're putting this one at light play? Yeah, it has like five white dinks. Dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink. This is the definition of light play. Where five white dinks consider light play. Three white dinks are considered light play. It's somewhere on there. It's like conditioning standards. I'm reading it right now. I don't see anything about white dinks. Are you trying to tell me that you think it's near mint? Yeah. It's not. I mean, for vintage, for sure. You can't say just because it's vintage. I'm not going to measure a modern card any different than what I would vintage. So what's a near mint in a PSA? A PSA 7. That wouldn't get a PSA 7. You don't think so? Well, it's not mint. That's what I'm saying. It's not a 7. It'd probably get like a 6, which is LP. It's near mint. No, it's not near mint. I would consider it near mint. I'll pass on these as well. I appreciate you for your time. Huh? I wouldn't consider it being... It has like several, like 6 to 7 white dings on it. I don't... I really wouldn't consider dings to be considered light play. I don't know what to tell you. Near mint is near mint. I appreciate you for your time. Thank you for your time. This guy clearly didn't know what he was talking about. And I have to say, I feel sorry for this vendor because he cannot seem to catch a break. As just a few days later, he was accused of resealing a pack by this customer. Someone literally broke him down of a... Let me see it. It came out of a Blooming Waters bag. Bogs. This is fine. Yeah. I've seen this a million times. What is this? Oh, I haven't ripped that yet. Did you just buy it? And it was $26? I will buy it off of you for $26 and rip it right now. I mean, if I can swap it for a pack that looks less expensive. Do you want to rip it? I would rip it. I mean, if you don't get a hit, I promise you it's just because you weren't going to get a hit. It's good, bro. We want to see if there's a banger in there. Yeah, I would like you to rip it. There's cellophane that came from the other pack to that pack. So honestly, it looked a little... I would love for there to be a hit on it. Kyle, if someone's wanting to trade for the Sea and Sky box, the Crown Zenith one, those ones that got all the resealed packs in them. At the end of the one time I did get scammed, there was like a tiny little string of what looked like hot glue. Yeah, it's tough. Kyle, I mean, I watch him break down all of his stuff. He's a good lad. Oh, that's radiant. Once again, my apologies for coming out of the gate so late. You came around the corner. I was like, who's this guy talking to? I've had one too many experiences with... Dude, would you mind if it looked good if I clipped it? Would that be okay if I like explained? Because you would have came right around the corner. Now, this may have turned out to be just a misunderstanding, but this next trade involved a box that was actually too good to be true, as he ended up trading for a completely fake Pancho Pikachu box. However, his gut feeling told him to open the box right then and there. All right. Do you want me to tear it any specific way or just whatever? At this point, it's already open. Yeah, okay. Well, I'm hoping something's in here. How are you feeling, Will? Yeah, that's what I was scared of. It's supposed to be packs, a deck box in there, and then two promos. It's resealed, you know? Yeah, it's resealed. The seal's not right. No, that's what I was saying. The minute I ripped it, this doesn't feel right. But he couldn't feel it from the outside. Resaled goods are one of the worst ways a deal can fall apart, but I don't think they're anywhere near as bad as our final two clips. Because when this kid approached the vendor with a trade-up challenge, things looked odd from the start, since he claimed to have seen the vendor's content. But if that were true, he'd have known that this vendor is completely against these challenges. The vendor then shut down the challenge in the best way possible. I am going to give you this. For anything I want. All right, cool. Hand sanitizer. For the kid. And that's when the real mastermind stepped out from behind the curtain. I'm the dad of the kid that you gave hand sanitizer. Yeah. Don't be giving kids f***ing liquids. Don't be doing anything you shouldn't be doing. I mean, these are minors. Why is he walking around without his dad? Is there a reason that they can't do that? So that's a fair trade to you? Him and his friend came up to me and said they watch my videos. All my videos are me doing trade-up challenges where they get something of less value. Okay. And I can show you all the videos. Well, see, that's why you should be talking to me. Asking me my point of view before you come at me. I came over here. No, you came at me. You started lecturing me. That's what exactly what you started doing. Because he didn't know that it was he didn't come back here. That's okay. Come up to me. Talk to me calmly. But don't lecture me. I'm an adult. You're an adult. We don't got to be like that. I'm a very down-to-earth guy. I wrote on the top loader for the kid. There wasn't a guardian with them. So I'm just taking their word for it. What's your name? My name is Eric from Violet City. Again, you're dealing with minors. That's why I would prefer their guardians to be with them while doing a deal. That's fine. So we agree on that. Why do you have them walk around then? I didn't have him walk around. What do you want me to say? Nothing. Okay. Be aware that you need to be cognizant. I'm just explaining to you why there's a miscommunication. And again, this would have been solved if his guardian were walking with them. What's your name, bro? Now, as an adult, having kids running scams for you is disgusting. But somehow it does not compare to our number one spot. Because this last deal had every single ingredient needed to go wrong. Because not only was this grown man running the trade-up challenge, he decided to try it on none other than Jason Page. Hey, guys. I'm back here at part 68 of the trade-up challenge. I'm here with Jason Page. Jason Page. Gotta catch them all. Jason Page. I'm here at Colecticon San Antonio. And I'm going out my Mega Dragonite, my EVEX of my Magikarp, and the Wobbuffet for a mystery slab that they're letting me possibly choose. So yeah. Bam. Look at that. Auto 10. Full name. Auto. A Venusaur. Called a Mew. Or a Mew. What do we get? We're gonna mix it up. Yeah. Turn around. No, we're good. All right. Here we go. All right. Which one is it? I'm gonna go... Which one is it? Oh yeah. Thank you. I'm gonna go with this one. All right. Let's see it. And as he goes on with the deal, Page's team begins to celebrate as they have completely allegedly scammed this guy. But he would leave the convention thinking he had landed a deal of a lifetime. Until he realized that the Venusaur he'd received wasn't even base set. And this card in reality was worth way less than the ones he traded away. But it gets even better when you realize that Jason used this video to get publicity for his ringtone. This code right here. Oh. Uh oh. Yeah. Hold on, keep going. Yeah. This gets you a free ringtone and whoever watches this, if you scan that code, you put your email in and you get a free ringtone. Pick it up, gotta get that card. This entire situation was so ridiculous and it easily makes this one of the worst vendor deals to ever go wrong. Check out this video on screen next to see even crazier Pokemon card moments. Trust me, these are insane.