When Pokémon Card Vendor Deals Go TERRIBLY WRONG!

Every vendor sets up their table hoping for a smooth day of buying, selling, and trading. But some customers have very different plans. From lowball offers and fake cards to full-blown crash outs, here are the times when Pokémon card vendor deals went terribly wrong. Kicking things off with this guy, who walked up to a vendor's table and started flipping through his cards like any other customer. But it didn't take long for things to get suspicious. Because every time the vendor looked away, another card would disappear behind the customer's phone. But what he didn't know was that the vendor had been watching this entire time. Over $100 worth of cards were hiding behind that phone, and he still tried to play it off like he was texting a friend. Luckily, the vendor got every single one of them back. Now this kid walked up to a vendor's booth with a binder full of cards that he wanted to trade, and he already had two picked out. But the second the vendor took a closer look, something didn't add up, so he asked the kid one simple question. Admitting your cards are fake right to the vendor's face is a bold strategy, and the second he was told to rip them up he was gone but he wasn't the only kid at a card show trying to make a deal on his own terms because this little girl walked up to a vendor's booth with a graded Charizard card and she had already decided it was worth exactly three hundred dollars oh shoot unfortunately they're not that rich and when the vendor tried to negotiate she made him do something no other customer has ever asked a vendor to do. Making a grown man open his wallet to prove he can afford your card is wild, and she was pretty rude about the whole thing. And after all that, she still walked away without her $300. Now this next buyer had been eyeing a Tatsugiri illustration rare at a card show in Virginia and after looking it over he was finally ready to make the vendor an offer. He offered $20 which is right around market price so this should have been the easiest deal of the day. But the second the vendor stopped to think about it this happened. The vendor didn't even get the chance to answer before the buyer was gone and judging by his reaction he still has no idea what just happened. Now this grandpa had the opposite problem because he found a graded card priced at $28 and he was determined to walk away with it for 20 bucks, no matter how many times the vendor said no. The vendor even offered him a coin flip, but grandpa was not having it. so he tried a different approach coin flip 20 40. i can't do 20 on that i'm sorry i can't i can't this is fair it what was that you got she confident at 30. what's your best i'll just hold on to it then i'll just hold on to it then we can do a coin flip 25 35. That one for 25 and that one for 20. I can't, I'm sorry. Be nice. I am being nice. I know, nice ahead. I can't do 20 though, I'm sorry, I can't. It's only grade 9. 25. I have to be like at 28. Ah, you can be the whole day at all the numbers. Ah, you can be the whole day at all the numbers. That card comps at $30, so the vendor was already giving him a deal, and he still stayed polite the entire time. Next up, this customer had his eye on two cards that added up to $185, and instead of paying it all in cash he wanted to use his Hydreigon EX to bring the price down so that'd be 185 you can do 166 i'll give them to you both since the vendor takes in trades at 80% the 45 dollar Hydreigon brought the price down to 150 so he said yes but the second the numbers worked out the customer changed the deal i can do the Hydreigon and 150 i can do the Hydreigon and 150 That's right on. I'm saying, like, this on $150, and I'll trade this. Yes, you'll get those for $150 if you throw in the Hydreigon. Like, you're saying you want to trade me the Hydreigon for those two cards plus cash, right? Yes. That's what that would be. This is at $150. Those are $185. Your card is $45, right? Mark it. I take trades in at 80%. So 80% of $45 is $36. now if we take 36, 185 minus that 36 that puts it right at 150, I can do that I'm saying this if you value these two on 150 which i won't, that's that is what i'm asking can you do that i can value them at 150 if you trade me the high dragon but otherwise those are 185 and that's it no no it's not how it's gonna work he had that exact deal he asked for and still tried to squeeze out more, so he ended up walking away with nothing at all. But something similar happened at this next vendor's table, when a customer asked for a whole package of cards at 90% of market price, and the vendor agreed to it. quick yeah i think the comp on that was like 42 so or 90 is that or maybe 39 i can't remember i just had the math up but when the vendor tried to take two cards out of the bundle the customer did not take it well really I just I just looked it up on TCG do you mind if I like if I'm like I don't know if I want to do this for 90 I put it to the side I'll throw them back in the bag. Okay. And we're just giving out birthday peeks. Dude, you know that. You know that. All right, don't worry about it. I'll pack. Because of the birthday pick up? No, it's fine. What? It's fine, it's fine. We're gonna take out all the good ones. All the good ones? What are you talking about? I took out two. I took out two. I took out two. It's fine. I'm just saying, it's fine. Bro, if I, the two of these would be the thing that, if I throw them back in, you'll do what you're saying? Yes. Bro. Can I add it up? All right, let me add it up. Let me just add it up really quick and look at the, look at the total. Four seventy, bro? Sure. I had no hard feelings, man. No, I, well, you were about to dip so fast. You could have just, you should have just. It's been a long day, bro. I was having a good week. No, no, no, that's all, that's all good, bro. But I was like, you gotta just say that instead of. Asking for 90% and then telling the vendor he's wrong about his own prices is a bold move. To his credit, though, he did come back later to apologize and the deal still went through. Now, this next customer asked to see a Charmeleon from a vendor's case. and he wanted to flip a coin for it to get it for either $40 or nothing. But when the vendor said no, the way the customer handed the card back made sure that that answer was never changing. Because one, you threw the card down, and two, I don't split the family. Oh, so it's a set. I love my cards. I don't appreciate people throwing it just because like, you know, these went from a person's home and it's just like, I don't think that's cool. But yeah, I'd probably have you walk. Yeah, yeah. I think that was very rude, but yeah. Tossing someone's card back at them is the fastest way to end any deal, in that Charmeleon was part of a set that the vendor was never going to split up anyways. But he wasn't the only customer who couldn't keep his hands off of vendors' cards, because this group of collectors stopped at a vendor's table and pulled his Moonbreon right out of its sleeve without asking, and the vendor made sure they knew how he felt about it. You got a Moonbreon. Ooh, it's pretty good. What's the condition of the Moonbreon? We have a three. they said that they were only checking the condition but the vendor was not buying it, and the mood never recovered. Pulling a card that expensive out of its sleeve without asking is never okay, but some people in the comments thought this vendor was overreacting. Let us know what you guys think. Now this vendor sells his elite trainer boxes at MSRP, Which sounds like a great deal and an absolute heaven for any Pokemon collector But he has one rule to make sure that none of them get scalped Hey guys, how's it going? Oh, so we sell them at MSRP However, we are anti-scalper So we do have to cut the seal if you did want to buy it Okay, so you're just gonna cut like a little seal in it then? Yeah, yeah, yeah We just have to make sure that you don't resell it Okay, so you're saying I'm a scalper or anything? Oh, no, nonsense You don't look like a scalper at all That's fine Yeah, so at least $50 is MSRP The buyer promised that he wasn't a scalper, so the vendor took his 50 bucks and handed over the box, just not the way he expected. I've seen a lot of ways to stop scalpers, but never one this fast. And while these deals have been wild so far, make sure to keep watching because these stakes only get higher from here. This next seller brought an incomplete Crown Zenith Master Set to a vendor, binder and all, hoping to sell the whole thing at once. The vendor only asked if everything was on a list, since the commons aren't worth much, but the seller took it a completely different way. Getting mad at a vendor for buying to resell? Come on man, that's literally the whole job. This next seller also showed up with a binder, but he valued his at four thousand dollars with slabs and an Umbreon included and the vendor had no way to check if it was really worth that much are you selling this are you selling these do you have a price on the whole binder okay yeah the slabs are oh these are included what price do you have the slabs at then compared to the binder i don't know it's just 4k total off of the binder separately how much is the value i don't know i mean the Umbreon on here is probably the big one either i gotta price it all up or you gotta let me know you know it just takes too long how about we value these out it's worth 4k we need to check it yeah i need to double check these prices are you dude that's 1700 anyway that's 300 so let's say 2k just for those two and that means the rest of it would be 1600. i feel like i'm probably a bit high for the rest of this you know with the moon briar alone worth about 1700 bucks the vendor tried to figure out what the rest of the binder was really worth i could probably do like two eight i think two nine three i'm just trusting you i don't know if it's worth 4k you know i have no clue oh if you have a list then then you should have brought me that straight away oh okay i don't have the comprehensive list got you got you offering 2900 without being able to check the value himself was more than fair and a simple price list would have settled this whole thing in seconds now next up this vendor offered a customer just 60% of market for his victini and the customer could not believe what he was hearing 60% it's a card i've been chasing for a minute 60% come back if you you know if you don't get a better offer. But it turns out that the vendor was trolling the whole time to call out vendors who still lowball at 60% which makes the situation a whole lot funnier. However, what happened in this next clip was very real. When this buyer offered $16.75 for every loose sun and moon pack on a vendor's table, only $25 under their asking price. He was already paying more than almost anybody would, but the seller would not move on a single dollar. He says that they even agreed to the deal off camera before telling him to get lost, but he got the last laugh by pulling two SARs from dollar packs right after. But while that deal fell apart over 25 bucks, this next customer was convinced that a vendor's prices were double because he was pricing this vendor skyridge cards with apps that are terrible for vintage and even after the vendor showed him where to look he refused to budge so far these are these are double comps what are you looking at oh we're using price turning all three of those are horrible for vintage the best vintage app to use is TCGplayer so i'll show you right here this is that you're selling a product say what that's other vendors no okay so show me well Pineco is 42 40 40. that's reverse so click on one of those during pricing that's at six that's last month the vendor pulled up sales to prove his prices were fair but the customer had his own comp from eBay because these don't sell often we just pulled that one off of eBay that's good yeah no no like it was it sold sooner and it was a lot less that's what i'm saying yeah that's fine i mean eBay has a different market july 9 this is 21 bucks right and you can just see i mean there's all here it's probably it's eBay sales so eBay sales are going to be 99% of your market because that's just eBay so that one's LP so that's why i i don't go off of eBay their their average prices are not accurate and near Mint Pineco Reverse Hollow really does sell for around $40, so comparing it to a lightly played eBay sale just doesn't work. Eventually, the customer dropped the deal and walked away. Things got a lot more heated when none other than Nick White was streaming live from his booth, and the vendor next to him gave a customer two free packs. But this fight was really about the table because Nick paid $1,000 for it and he said that the other vendors kept using his space. You took my whole table. You took, no, you took my whole table. The last collector, does he encroach on your table? Does he put all his stuff on your table? Oh, well, he takes his sign with the QR codes. He puts his binder all over my table. He puts everything on my table. I come here today. He spread eagle all over my table. So I say, hey, get off my table. I paid $1,000. You split the price between yours. So you paid for this portion. If you want to pay for this portion, this is my table. That is the point. You want to take advantage of my kindness by saying, oh, Nick White's not going to do anything. I'll just use his table the whole time. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Anonymous just tipped $3. No, that is the real problem. You taking my table is the problem. No, because I paid for it. This is my section. why no no let me ask you why are you on my i'm not being you just you just told these people not to buy my eight dollar card and lost me a three dollar sale you're being you're mad because you took my table and i said this is my table can you move you're taking my table and now you're telling the people not to buy at my prices so who what did i do to you what did i do all i said all I said to you is move off of my table. All I said to you, you're spread eagle on my table. And I say move off. I paid $1,000. I mean, who's in the wrong? What did I do to you? I didn't do anything to you. Watching someone else use a table you paid for would make anyone mad. And those free packs only added fuel to the fire. And the whole thing ended just as fast as it had started with both vendors going back to their own tables. This next crash out in Norman, Oklahoma started the day before, when one vendor sold another a bundle with a creased card marked as lightly played. When the buyer came back to calmly sort it out, the seller laughed at him, and that's when the camera started rolling. you're very clearly lying about you're not even a reason and i come over and you did mess up and i come over and i come reasonable i'm trying to talk to you and you sit there and smile at me and talk to me like i'm stupid bro you definitely were and it's not okay i came up completely reasonable trying to tell you man you have lied to me about the prices and the condition of these cards that's not cool can we work something out i'm looking for the coolest stickers for these other cards and you sit there and laugh at me bro He had every right to be upset, and laughing at a guy who came back for a refund only made it worse. This customer didn't like a $75 price tag, so instead of just walking away, he started telling everyone nearby that the vendor was ripping people off. and when the vendor next door stepped in to defend him things only got worse what's wrong with you bro he's ripping people off no he's not i know that no he's not just leave bro just leave you don't have to sell they don't have to buy tell me they don't have to sell they don't have to they don't have to you have to sell you don't have to sell just walk away just walk away just walk away kids come here don't tell me anything i have a phone i showed him this card bro they're like he's claiming that you're scamming people what the hell is wrong with this guy get out of here leave don't defend your friend leave leave leave leave right here security can you get this guy out of here nothing he's saying that we're scamming kids yes you are scamming kids i was on camera bro leave leave just leave brother you see this just leave sir what i'm leaving that same card had just sold raw for 75 dollars so the price was literally market and telling everyone it was a scam is what got him walked out by security but for second place on our list this seller walked up to a vendor with four psa 10 xy full art ex cards and the prices he had in mine were something else you have tens on Cosmo Hollows yeah yeah can i see it where you want to be here okay all right mazel tov my friend what do you say hi where did you come this one at my friend huh those are hard comps hard comps yeah the card value has it at five thousand yeah i have offers about so instead of going around and around you shoot straight with me and help me to help you What are you looking for that card? Card ladder value showed $5,165. Where do you want to be, man? I want a 10. What do you want on that? I want a 15. That sold not that long ago. Where are you at on that one? I'd offer $8,000. Where are you going to be on that one? $20,000. You want $20,000 on that? That is way off. We're just going to pass on that one. What number do you have on that? I'd offer a 15,000. if i had to offer you 30k the five that we agree is that something you'll be able to live with i think we're a little too far oh cool here we already agree but i'll do 30 000 those three and these that's great everyone has that five uh we couldn't agree unfortunately the vendor offered thirty thousand dollars for all four but a few minutes later the seller came back with a friend and he was not happy. Okay, here, take this seat. Don't worry about it. I don't want, I don't want. We don't want to give him to you. I don't want. He's been here, standing for several hours. What am I going to do? I had many people over here. I don't respect anybody. I respect everybody. You threw our slabs. You said, why are you giving me trash? I just saw the camera on there. No, no, okay, here, take this seat. Don't worry about it. I don't want. Don't ever do that to anyone's ******* slabs. Don't touch it. Okay, okay. Don't touch it. Okay. asking up to twenty thousand dollars for one card and then bringing a friend back to call the vendor trash is wild however this still pales in comparison to our number one spot because that vendor paid almost $2,000 for a box that wasn't what it looked like. Because this vendor bought a sealed Unified Minds booster box from a customer, and since they couldn't agree on an $1,800 or $1,900 price, they let a coin flip decide. But 10 days later, the box was finally opened. Every pack had been swapped for Darkness Ablaze, and sealed right back up. A real Unified Minds box goes for over $2,600 today. I honestly just feel so sad that this happened to this vendor, and that's what makes this one of the most insane vendor deals ever caught on camera. out this video on screen next to see even crazier Pokemon card moments trust me these are insane