this video was brought to you by channel URL_TOKEN so if you'd like to pick up magic the gathering singles pokemon singles or flashing blood singles check out the cfpb marketplace for the link in the description below to help support the channel logan paul tweeted out back in december that he had bought a case of pokemon cards for three and a half million dollars this is the only sealed case of base set first edition pokemon cards in known existence hence why it was worth so much PROFANITY_TOKEN money for those of you coming to this video who aren't into pokemon trading cards or whatever i'll explain some terminology a case is a box with multiple boxes inside multiple black boxes of booster packs uh base set is the original pokemon snap first edition is the first print one um i think that covered everything oh sealed it's not been opened that's an important one as well this news set the pokemon collecting world are light as people deep dived into uh case numbers who authenticated it what the story of its existence was prior to him buying it other signs as well things like our logos on the box to all trying to find out it's a legitimate box more on that a little later so this was a buzz around the christmas time just after christmas when he bought it and now more recently because of all the stuff asking is it legit and people claiming it's not pokemon youtubers point to it saying it's not logan paul decided to go and get it authenticated talk to people who authenticated it in the first place and then ended up opening it he hiked up the verification and he got the original seller this person here who's like his magic card dealer and the people from bbce to open it with him in order to verify and check out what was going on with the case the video shows them opening it seeing first edition boxes inside and the people from bbc which are baseball card exchange i guess i should explain who they are this is a company that looks to authenticate a sealed vintage card product originally baseball cards and sports cards and more recently moving into yu-gi-oh and pokemon when they see this first edition boxes inside they get excited but logan and his buddy here can tell they're not real at all at first and upon opening one of the boxes to totally check what's going on it's gi joe cards gi PROFANITY_TOKEN joe cards when you've been around collectibles and stuff for a lot of your adult life you do get this feeling this sense that some things don't look legit sometimes that sense can be off for example ice age packs not really a vintage or expensive thing in magic but the packaging looks awful and feels awful it looks like it should be fake um you get to know these things as you open them though right they point out that with these first edition boxes upon first inspection of opening up the seal that hadn't been opened for supposedly NUMBER_TOKEN years uh the boxes look puffy non-vacuum sealed the boxing is light there's a lot of problems that are very obvious and apparent to anyone who's seen a first edition or even a base set booster box in the past there's also something very very funny about being gi joe cuts i can't put my finger on it but it is funny also depending on the date and age of those gi joe
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