Hello friends
I feel like Pokemon make too much of Errors card, I mean, any flaw of any kind gets a title, gets a mark when it’s graded.
According to CGC we have these:
1, 2, 3 Square Corners and Square Cut
Additional Ink
Albino Back
Alpha Cut Corners
Blank Back
Double Printing / Triple Printing
Double Stamped
Doubled Holo Pattern
End of Holo Roll
Foil Back
Fold Over / Printed Fold Over
Incomplete Print Layer
Incomplete Texture / Misaligned Texture / Missing Texture
Incorrect Holofoil Layer
Insufficient Ink
Inverted Back
Inverted Back & Texture
Inverted Stamp / Misaligned Stamp
Minor Miscut, Miscut, Major Miscut
Miscut & Inverted Texture
90° Rotated Miscut, Narrow Miscut, Short Miscut and Twisted Miscut
Misaligned Print Layer
Misalignment
Missing Holo Layer
Missing Holo Pattern
Missing Print Layer / Layers
Missing Stamp
Obstruction / Retained Obstruction
Offset Printing
Partial Crimp / Crimped / Crimped and Cut
Pinched Layer
Printer Hickey
Sheet Wrinkle
Pokemon has printing issues, staffing issues and instead of complaining about it and saying how wrong it is, we as a community embrace it and even name it and collect it because it’s more “rare”.
In sports for example, when things like this happen, it lowers the value of the card significantly. For the simple reason that this is a problem, and not some award
I think it is completely fine either way. People collecting errors enjoy collecting them. Another way to collect is always nice in my book.
I personally am not very interested in small errors. But if an error occurs on one of my favorite pokemon or artists, I really enjoy them, because they are unique…
Some errors really change the look of the card as well, layer shifts or complete missing layers are supercool.
I dont think small errors are very desirable, even in pokemon.
It all just depends on what people want; if someone is willing to pay up for an error card it is at least desirable to them. Generally speaking a lot of the errors listed aren’t things I would personally pay a premium for, but there are a couple that I do think would be neat particularly for a species collector, namely the holofoil missing from a card that is supposed to be a holo (or maybe the holoshift where it looks like the Pokemon’s soul is ascending into the skies ). But paying more for one extra small dot of ink just isn’t worth it to me.
I think the errors that are more interesting are not the ones created as a result of the printing/cutting process but rather the ones where the card itself is produced with incorrect information (Stage Error Blastoise, Wartortle Evolution Box, No Damage Ninetails, 1st Edition Ivy Pikachu Promo, etc.).
I actually dislike the grading mentality which is in my mind a money driven interest and I assume that most graders dislike error cards because those cards are not perfect. I see a graded 10 card as another boring copy of some card while an error card brings allot of interesting storys to the table. That’s why I assume sports collectors dislike errors because in sports cards collecting that money value is allot more important.
I do know that everyone has different interests and the thing that interests me is how the cards are made and where because I like to find true rarity in printed cards. For me that is a card with weird errors that only rarely happen on a certain card, that’s why I would choose a creased error card over a graded 10 any day but from a money point of view that would be a dumb choice. For me collecting has evolved from having certain pictures to finding cards that have these rare occurences because in my eyes that one is truly a gem of gem’s.
I also know that most people don’t agree or understand why these things are interesting to me so I don’t expect that many people to like the things I like but that’s the beauty of it. Everyone is different and a collector should be happy with their interests despite everyone else’s opinion, without disliking someone else’s interests ofcourse.
it’s not like I have a problem with it Im just putting it up there.
It’s just the over-regarding of it in the hobby in recent years.
I am sure that all these “defects” were also in the past, but they were not treated as they are today.
I think editorial issues are deeper and with the intention(Of course not on purpose, but by their own doing) of the people we love and hand to us set after set every few months.
And printing problems are printer problems,Problem would not have existed with a better printer
You can say that editing problems is like a chef putting duck in his stew instead of beef. And printing problems is that he will put too much salt in his stew.
Both are mistakes, but editing problems give something else and printing problems just highlight the low quality we experience
Some of the errors don’t have anything to do with the quality of the printer though, a lot of the cooler errors are due to human error (holo shift, upside down back, etc)
As long as there is demand, and there are definitely people that collect these error cards. To me, it sort of makes sense that sports card errors have no demand because collectors want pristine copies of their favorite players
And while we are taking about error cards, here’s a recent error sports card I pulled lol
). But paying more for one extra small dot of ink just isn’t worth it to me.
