I am looking at buying a blister pack and wanted to reach out to anyone who can provide me with some things to look out for on the blister. I would be buying off eBay and don’t want to get scammed or buy a pack that’s been swapped, altered, etc. if it’s weighed whatever, I just want it for my collection.
Post some photos of it if you have one in mind
Blisters are super tough to tamper with in an undetectable way. It’s almost impossible (AFAIK) to remove the plastic cover without also removing some of the surface layer of the cardboard backing.
So I think blisters are pretty damn safe. If it’s a reseal or altered in some way, it should be pretty apparent under close examination.
Blisters can be resealed and there are quite a few 1st ed base set out there. A now infamous scammer out of BC in Canada has been doing these for years (pokebutler). I owned a few myself as well as some big names who fell victim to a few of his resealing scams over the years.
Radar has a podcast out there detailing a few of his scams that have come out recently.
Interesting. I still have to imagine that it’s significantly more difficult to convincingly reseal a blister pack than a booster pack or box. Resealing a blister involves also producing a convincing resealed booster pack to place in the plastic. Unless we’re talking about people resealing blister packs with authentic light boosters inside.
What he was doing was removing the plastic seal… I wont go into too much detail on how this was accomplished - and then placing resealed legit 1st edition wrapped packs inside. After cracking 2 of the blisters they contained a random mix of worthless base energy’s and slices of cardboard if anyone decided to weigh them. They were quite convincing.
I’d have to agree with zorloth
If you remove the plastic that adhesive and paper are going to show signs.
Even if you managed to pull it off clean with tricks, you would have to put it back on in the exact same spot just to get it aligned (imagine how hard it is to perfectly line up a screen protector) Now imagine trying with time sensitive glue.
If you see haze or particles in a seal stay away.
On the other hand, if it’s crystal clear, and everything is lined up… probably a safe bet.
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I used to collect vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures and people would buy backing cards, plastic blister covers and the other components in order to put together a complete “kit” of sorts, then create an illegitimate sealed figure. They weren’t easy to spot in eBay photos much of the time, but when you got them in hand and inspected them carefully, you could usually see glaring issues on the backing board of the figure.
Usually you’d see tears on the graphic portion of the backing board. You could tell the board was repaired in order to minimize the appearance of the tears that were accrued during the original opening of said packaging, as when these figures were originally opened, it wasn’t done carefully.
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