Today, a counterfeit Terastal Festival ex box was brought into our store.
It had been shipped from an online gacha site. When we told the customer that we suspected it was counterfeit, they opened it in-store, and it turned out to be fake. Show more
📢 ~ Warning Regarding Counterfeit Products ~ 📢
Today, a counterfeit Terastal Festival ex box
was brought into our store.
It had been shipped from an online gacha site. When we told the customer that we suspected it was counterfeit, they opened it in-store, and it turned out to be fake.
The box itself felt slightly off, but compared with a genuine product, it was almost identical and difficult to distinguish. However, the packs inside were obviously counterfeit at first glance.
The coloring of the paint was pale, and there were typos.
Example: registered trademark written as “dezu”
Mirror cards and ACE cards did appear, but there were no SR/SAR slots included.
The QR code also connected to the official website, so it felt extremely sophisticated.
It seems counterfeit products are increasingly circulating in Kansai as well.
They have also been seen in relatively new boxes
such as MEGA Dream ex and Ninja Spinner.
Regarding this case, the customer directly contacted the gacha site and the police station with jurisdiction in front of our staff, so our store is sharing this information as a warning.
Nearby shops and customers, please be careful 💦
Our store does not buy counterfeit products,
nor do we buy inked or trimmed cards.
Thank you for your understanding.
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All oripa are scams, and the products they send are scams too. Best not to get involved. It’s probably funding organized crime anyway.
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~ Warning Regarding Counterfeit Products ~
Today, a counterfeit Terastal Festival ex box was brought into our store.
It had been shipped from an online gacha site. When we told the customer that we suspected it was counterfeit, they opened it in-store, and it turned out to be fake. https://pic.x.com/DkoQyXFmzu
8:09 AM · May 29, 2026
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If you look closely, you can tell it says “dezu,” but if they start making typos around that area more precisely too, won’t it become impossible to tell?
Feels like counterfeits have finally reached this point. Maybe this is one reason BOX prices have been dropping overall lately.
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~ Warning Regarding Counterfeit Products ~
Today, a counterfeit Terastal Festival ex box was brought into our store.
It had been shipped from an online gacha site. When we told the customer that we suspected it was counterfeit, they opened it in-store, and it turned out to be fake. https://pic.x.com/DkoQyXFmzu
10:59 PM · May 28, 2026
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to commit crimes.
It’s just printed paper.
Putting tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yen in value on that stuff is absurd to begin with.
This is fine.
The price spikes are just too extreme.
At this point, maybe there are more fakes circulating than real ones.
A currency from a country like that
has no credibility and is worth less than the won.
That’s all there is to it.
They can be forged with far less sophisticated technology than counterfeiting a 10,000-yen bill.
And even if the fake is exposed, it’s way lower risk than counterfeit money.
Of course it’s going to become a free-for-all.
It’s been like this since the MTG days too.
This is what happens when they get complacent thinking everything they print will sell.
Isn’t it the opposite?
Prices go up because they hold back on printing, right?
The production cost can’t be that different, so it’s honestly getting ridiculous.
It became popular when I was a kid too, but back then it was the Pokémon boom plus the fun of the card game,
and it was content you could easily get your hands on.
There were rare cards, but there wasn’t anything like ultra-super-rare cards.
It was peaceful. This is ultimately the result of the official side overheating things.
They’d sell even without that stuff…
It’s pointless saying that to Pokémon Cards, which added an insanely brutal new rarity with a 0.2% pull rate in 2025, even though resale and price spikes were already a problem, further fueling the surge.
That’s so scummy lol.
Do they have no corporate ethics?
Their technology for making copies is number one in the world.
If they have materials that look close enough, they can probably make anything.
Those are hard to counterfeit.
There are tons of bootleg plastic models too.
They just aren’t circulating in Japan.
I live in Southeast Asia, and genuine kits aren’t sold here, so we can only buy Chinese ones.
All the tools for painting and such are Chinese-made too.
If you try importing from Japan personally, customs are extremely strict, and it costs too much time and money to be worth it.
Content that sells by exploiting addictive mechanics shouldn’t be encouraged.
Then let’s just call both of them real.
If you’re just playing, it doesn’t really have to be genuine in the first place.
I get that expensive rare cards exist, but there are probably also people who’d rather have cheap ones even if they’re fake.
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Honestly, once trading cards start being treated as investment assets, counterfeits becoming a serious problem feels almost inevitable. If even card shops struggle to tell real products from fake ones, the entire market starts losing credibility.
Introducing a store where you can buy Japanese clothing.
