Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

I have decided to purchase the Prerelease Raichu!

Will-iam said:
Please note that the person who has given you the photos does not actually own the card, but is in fact a friend/seller from ebay. the vendor and the current owner wishes to remain unknown, the above person does not even know nor do I who has the card currently all I know is that it is a good friend of the person I requested to find me an ultra-rare Pokemon card.
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Just read the whole thread.
 
bleh, missed that post. I Saw him post that it was from someone on the site or something and saw you post the pics. Didn't know he sent them to you.
 
Will-iam said:
The vendor and the current owner wishes to remain unknown, the above person does not even know nor do I who has the card currently all I know is that it is a good friend of the person I requested to find me an ultra-rare Pokemon card.
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You DON'T know who has the card right now....then how did you pay for it? Did you pay your friend?

You say it is a freind of a person you asked to find a rare card for you.
I'm sorry to say, but I think you are being scammed.

I am really skeptical on this. I do not beleive that the OP is receiving a real deal card.
Reasons can be found here: http://pokegym.net/forums/showthread.php?t=32583&highlight=prerelease+raichu


Note this part



Because of all this, the card was known by many to really exist, but with the lack of official confirmation and no copies to point to, an air of mystery and desirability grew over the card. Many top collectors had it on their "want list", but they all knew it was futile. That no copies of the card had ever hit the market, either for sale or trade.
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AND THIS


Now, imagine that this sheet had Clefable after Clefable after Clefable and then at some point it switched over to a series of 8 Raichu. I say eight because that is the number given by Mr. Boozer (Certainly, it could have been 11 copies as Mr. Finch reported to Edo all those years ago. However, 8 or 11, the number is exceeding small). When they ran the sheet through the foil stamped, these few Raichu were also stamped. Once the proof copies were delived to WotC, the managers noted the problem and corrected it for the rest of the print run. However, what to do with these 8 or so copies? They each got one and have kept them to themselves for all of these years.
(Sounds a bit like Lord of the Rings at this point, doesn't it?)

While no copies have made it onto the market, we are glad to finally at least offer definative proof to collectors that the cards do, in fact, exist. Any price estimate would be just that, an estimate, since none have been sold.
However, conservatively, this is the most valuable and desirable English language Pokemon card and so any estimate of it's value starts at a conservative $5000.00 and goes upward from there.
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That leads to 3 possibilities

1.) Your Friend's Friend somehow has connections to WoTC managers of the time and recieved the card due to having a releative or connection to them.
2.) It is fake
3.) It's not a Pre-Release card, and just the normal Raichu that has been shopped to scam the buyer.
 
Will-iam said:
To let 'Absoltrainer' and everyone else know I have dealt with the person in the past who is a friend of the current owner of the card. I trust and hold the seller in the highest respect and not blindly mind you for I have bought from this person very rare cards in the past.
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It's enough for me to believe it. Well done. The username of this seller and a price would be a nice way to confirm to the rest that you're not being scammed. If you want you can even PM me the name of the seller. I likely know them well enough to confirm it with them or simply that they're stand up individuals.
 
Will-iam said:
Order #20285412 / Submission #658006
Line # Item # Cert # Grade Description Type Country
1 1 14786476 NEAR MINT 7 1999 POKEMON JAPANESE PROMO 129 MAGIKARP TAMAMUSHI UNIV. PRIZE Card US
Total Items: 1
Date Received: 3/17/2009
Date Shipped: N/A
Order Status: OK
If anyone is a memeber of PSA they can look up this card that I sent in it just got graded, this is a pretty rare card, now granted not as rare as the PR-Raichu but still fairly rare, this Magikarp Prize card is the lowest grade so far there are 2 others one an 8 and one 9. the certification # is 1 1 14786476 and it should be avaiable under the certification page on psacard.com in a day or so. I'll send the certification # of the PR-Raichu when it is sent.
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That doesn't do anything...
 
Will-iam said:
it dosen't do anything as far as showing a picture but it does prove in advance that I have the above mentioned card that only I have the privy to know unless I share the information. That any PSA memeber may see on the shared order pages once it is shipped also the certification-number will be avaiable to the general public .ie. non-psa members on the PSA site.
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Seller and price would be a huge bonus. Would be more than willing to entertain a PM too...
 
I am confirming there is a deal pending on the sale of the Prerelease Raichu. As soon as his funds are clear, the card will be in Will-iam's hands.
 
spookees said:
I am confirming there is a deal pending on the sale of the Prerelease Raichu. As soon as his funds are clear, the card will be in Will-iam's hands.
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If it's yours, would you reveal how you came into possesion of the card (if you don't mind me asking). Or are you the person in the middle who's friend has the card?
 
Why can't everyone just wait and see how this pans out? If the gets the card- he wasn't lying or bluffing. If he doesn't get the card- he might have been.

This is all a waste of time and spam otherwise.
 
Yeah. This whole thing is kind of ridiculous. You posted here because you were excited about getting such a rare card, and wanted to share it with the community- and you've been met with nothing but hostility, criticism, distrust, and general animosity.

Ever heard of benefit of the doubt, guys? If he doesn't get the card, we get no benefit. If he does, we get the benefit of it- and so does he. So let's just see how this pans out, and hopefully will-iam gets that awesome card he wants, and maybe if he is nice enough he will contribute to our gallery so we can all see how awesome the card is.
 
will-iam: i say if youre going to spend 10k+, raichu was an AWESOME choice :thumb:
good luck getting it and if you do i hope we all can see the glory that is prerelease raichu :biggrin:
 
Any really rare cards that you have, we'd love to get high quality scans of for our gallery.
 
spookees said:
I am confirming there is a deal pending on the sale of the Prerelease Raichu. As soon as his funds are clear, the card will be in Will-iam's hands.
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spookees has played 'middle woman' on several high profile sales.

She has handled sales of past Top Trainer cards and the like.

spookees posting regarding her involvement in the purchase should be good enough proof for those non believers.
 
EeveeLover said:
spookees has played 'middle woman' on several high profile sales.

She has handled sales of past Top Trainer cards and the like.

spookees posting regarding her involvement in the purchase should be good enough proof for those non believers.
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That's new knowledge to me =p.

At this point, I pretty much beleive it, I am just more curious as to how the card came into possesion of whoever has it now. Just curiosity
 
Will-iam said:
Thank you but please everyone understand it is not in my possession yet but I have paid for it, this weekend I'm going to buy a digital camera and take pictures of a couple of rare cards that I have, I do not have much but what I have is fairly rare.
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A scanner does better at taking images of cards.
You also don't have to buy one. Any UPS Store should be able to scan the images using their copier for you. Or Kinkos and such.

Digital cameras just don't take good enough close up images of cards like these to be useful.
 
I would like to know myself since I paid for the card, it must not have changed hands too often if at all. I should know who it is once the card arrives and will post the information if and only if the current owner wishes for me to do so.

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Thank you PokePop for that input I'll go to kinkos or a UPS store. will they be able to help me post the pictures on this site? I never had to send a picture over-line intill now...
 
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