Logan Paul May Have Dropped $3.5 Million On Fake Pokémon Cards

Logan Paul, recently in the news for using his vast wealth towards angering ends, is in the news again, this time for using his vast wealth towards potentially hilarious ends.

Late last year, the Paul brother excitedly announced to the world that he had purchased $3.5 million of first-edition Pokémon cards. According to collectors in the know, the cards scream "fake."

the only known one in the world pic.twitter.com/UZEAavgD8e

— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) December 20, 2021

On Christmas, YouTuber Rattle Pokémon uploaded the first of what would become several videos about the sketchiness of Paul's purchase. Over the course of his series, Rattle identified multiple problems with the box. The first was that it first came from an eBay seller in a listing that was riddled with errors, eliciting mistrust from potential buyers. One buyer did grab the box at a relatively paltry sum compared to what was being advertised, but the seller refused to let the buyer see the cards in person before purchase, so the buyer backed out.

According to Pokébeach, the seller also changed the story behind the box three different times, which was another significant red flag for potential buyers. Ultimately, the box landed in the hands of a buyer who had the cards verified with a company named Baseball Card Exchange, which, as the name might imply, did not have much experience verifying Pokémon cards. Some collectors predicted that the collection might end up getting "verified" by a little-known or inexperienced authentication company in order to give it some legitimacy, so the BBCE verification did little to persuade those following the case that the cards were legit. The box itself has raised significant concerns in the TCG community, as it has multiple discrepancies between itself and other supposedly 1st-edition sets of Pokémon cards.

Ultimately the cards were flipped by sellers multiple times before they reached Paul, the collection's highest-profile owner yet, which only upped the scrutiny on the box.

As the suspicions of a scam grew louder, Paul announced he would fly out to the BBCE to discuss the matter. On the plus side for Paul, if it turns out he was scammed out of millions of dollars, at least he'll get some good content out of it.

update on this: I’m flying to Chicago this weekend to verify the case with BBCE, the company who insured its authenticity

to be continued… https://t.co/grLMa92JCM

— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 5, 2022