hi! recently bought a what a life: exo sc chanyeol photocard from a seller im quite worried that i might have bought a fake one.. how to identify if it's fake? thank you
Yeah that's true but I got a weki meki pc once and thought it was fake cause the corners weren't very round but I checked the one I pulled and turns out it was just how all the pcs were
Well, I just checked all my exo photocards and for example my obsession chen pc is not perfectly rounded, its real cos I bought the album^, or for example my sehun exo-sc pc is not perfect rounded but its real. If it has the dots, its real
It’s hard to compare though for other groups. Because some photocards are just shaped differently, haha so if you have and compare a real to it’s fake counterpart then you can tell. But keep in mine not all real photocards are the exact same size if they’re from different albums. Sorry if I explained it weird haha
Muhammad Hafeez not always! Her legit love shot d.o. photocard didn’t have the “not for sale” on the back. SM doesn’t always do it. Also, I do not know any other companies who put “not for sale” on the back.
Gab Just as fyi, it was started when SM changed their company logo back in 2017. That was the last time we saw SM artis’s photocard with “NOT FOR SALE” written at the bottom back. As for EXO, you can compare to the 2016 releases (Exact/Lotto Album) with the 2017 releases (The War/TPOM Album) as well. In addition, SM nowadays pcs are just full logo of comeback and with the sign of member itself. Which is very annoying for us as a photocard collector.
On the other hand, when you order photocard from SUM Market. Then you’ll have a SUM Market written at the back. But we know SM only reproduce pcs for the artist that still stay under SM. Yups, we won’t be able to order Tiffany/Seohyun/Sooyoung/Jessica/Tao/Kris/Luhan’s pc on SUM Market LOL.
fakes are good if you’re trying to decide whether or not to collect a full set or if you want to put a photocard in your phone without the possibility of damage
For the Don't Mess Up My Tempo Xiumin and Baekhyun cards. On the real photocards the back side is silver and bronze/gold/idk respectively, but the fake ones are off because regular printers can't print metallic colors. They can print a color that looks similar but there is no way someones home printer is going to print a actual metallic color. You can't get silver or gold or bronze or like... metallic blue using CMYK colors, just no way to mix it using cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Same with white and fluorescent colors. For white, metallic and fluorescent colors you need a 5-color printer. It's a printer where you can use CMYK colors + an additional color. For the 5th color you can insert whichever color you like. For example: If you want that Xiumin photocard to have silver back side, you need to add a silver color to your printer. In that case, your printer can use cyan, magenta, yellow, black and silver. if you have only regular printer (4 colors), the printer is not able to print silver and prints the closest color it is able to, what in this case is gray. Other option would be to print on a silver paper but that affects other colors you print and it can turn out really weird. That's a lot of information no one asked for nor no one needed, but I'm bored. Sorry, if you actually read all that
this video is really helpful!! i think if you’re buying from eBay then check the sellers feedback, their location (usually china is a big alarm), and the price of the item! if you have trusted sellers then definitely stick to them! i’ve mainly seen fakes for bts, exo and nct but always do research if you’re questioning them! it definitely doesn’t help when there’s multiple presses (e.g. chinese and korean presses!) but just stick to well-known sellers, or just don’t buy it if you’re unsure!
good examples of different countries presses are from SM too, e.g. EXO MAMA Chinese press vs Korean press that have small differences and also more up to date cards such as WAYV’s TOTM set which have both Korean presses and Thailand presses (they have different corners and are slightly different in size) but research is key !!!!
babychuwu yes! korean sellers are definitely more likely to be genuine but always check the feedback 😊! The one’s that you see from china usually say that the entire set is included but it’s only like $2 which is fake
Yep, I think checking the quantity is good as well, like if there’s a lot available it seems a bit weird especially if it’s rare.. also is there a way to distinguish between a real pc being lightened from exposure to light or if it’s a fake with lighter colouring?
i think more groups have specs on the card. i looked through my svt, skz and bts cards. they all have specs but some of them aren’t as visible as the others but you can still see them. i also noticed on other inclusions like postcards the specs are also there but less visible again. idk but wanted to put that out there to help someone.
i also recently bought skz oddinary limited sealed album and pulled one felix pc, and one thing i noticed is that at the back of the pc, the cut didn't align with the color black print. it's hard to explain but i think it's just a minor error from the printing. one thing is for sure, the pc is legit since i bought it sealed, pulled it myself and it has some stem cuts to it in all corners :)
hi this video really helped me a lot, but today i just got a fake pc, and it was so good i nearly didn’t catch it. What surprised me and caught me off guard though was that the card had the white dots on it in the same spots as the real. But i compared it to a real one i had and realised the color was a tiny bit more faded and lighter, as well as felt a bit more rough and thick. Honestly this was the best fake card I have ever seen, no way would i have known until I had it on my hands. So be careful people, even white dots/specs doesn’t mean it’s real all the time.
I don't think the specs are for mostly sm, most of my pcs have them ( i collect got7 mostly, but i do have a big variety of groups from different companies and almost all of them have specs)
It's because it's mass production. They get cut off there and it leaves those dots. It's like those cards that are attached and you can rip apart. The fake ones aren't like that so they don't have those dots obviously ♥️
having worked with many printers, getting colours right is supremely difficult when you mass produce, so sometimes colours are not a good indicator either, gotta look at it thoroughly and sellers too
you can probably bend test them too. typically photocards are made with a similar quality of paper as trading cards. if you bend them, they shouldn't give out and crease unless completely folded. I've noticed, with fake photocards, they crease with bending.
sometimes even the real photocards don't come with those specs which makes it even harder to know if its real or not. there are sellers that are getting better at producing fake cards and people buy it without looking at the reviews from others.
Months ago i saw debates about fake pcs. Someone complained that sehun photocard she got from what a life album was fake, eventhough she pulled it from album. Her reasoning was the card had no specs on the edges. At first i was like "isn't it means the pc is good because it got cut cleanly and has no defects?". But then i read more and apparently specs is a sign that the card is indeed real lol
Yeah with the An Ode cards, literally the two cards I pulled from the same album, are slightly different colours on the back, it's probably something to do with inconsistencies in mixing the ink. But since I pulled them both from the same sealed legitimate album it didn't bother me at all.
I'm new to this and i bought a don't mess up my tempo kyungsoo photocard, there are little specs on the middle and bottom part of the pc, as a perfectionist i was sad about it hahahha then this vid is my savior, now i compared it to my official exo album pc that i have and it actually has specks too, turns out it's one of the important things to look at to know if a pc is official and legit
a lot of the times the fake ones are more “zoomed in” so the spacing is off and the quality isn’t as good, idk if you mention this later in the video or not but i just thought i’d put it out there haha
I have some questions: - Does these fake photocards come with album or only when you're buying them seperately? - If they do come with fake album, then how to know if an album is fake?
To tell if an entire ALBUM is fake, then look on the back of it. All real albums have the KOMCA sticker on them. Fake ones, although not as common as fake photocards because they are harder to produce, do not have it.
(sorry late) I have seen in online shops like Shopee, many of which sell PC replicas, they usually make their own from art paper or glossy paper. Usually they sell for around $ 0.21 / PC, I'm sure buying a PC replica is no loss because it will still get a signature behind. Hope this helps ...😊
this was really helpful thank you! also if you find out that you’ve bought a fake one,,, what do you do then lmao? like do you message the seller about it orrr? ._.
shawolzenl luckily i haven’t bought any fake ones yet and hope i don’t. but the tips in the video were really helpful for my collection so thank you :) 💚
For those watching this but doesn't want to compare it with EXO but instead with other groups, just look for the specs in the corners or not in the top and bottom (middle and there's supposedly 2 specs if it's on the middle) :)
amazing video as always :D i'm extremely late but i just wanted to say amazing job. very detailed!! im slightly bummed as i recently found out not only are my ktl photocards fake but.... now i just found out so are my square up.. im very devastated. thank you for the video!
Thank you so much for this very informative video! It will be very helpful to new collectors and others as well. I would be interested in seeing more about the different presses of photocards as that is an interesting topic. I think it's good that most of us care about having real photocards because we know that these were at one time in an album and therefore, in the initial purchase, that artist was paid for them. I think this is very important if we want our groups to keep going. Keep buying their music.
One time I got a fake card as a freebee and I was so confused cause I thought it was real and someone sent me it by mistake, but when I checked it with some real ones I had I realized it was fake. Pretty much if you have any real photocard from the same set as the fake one you can tell easily. It’s harder to see on camera but in person it’s obvious
A lot of Fake cards are zoomed in on the photo and on the back. so if you see, that for example there is less space between the ear and the edge of the pc then in other pictures of the pc, then you should be carful of buying it. If in doubt, ask someone for a second opinion. Facebook selling groups or on IG or Twitter or elsewhere, there are many people who will help.
I actually have this mental insecurity whenever someone ask for trading PC online ToT how to tell that theirs is real esp if this fan is a stranger and not our close friend.
I have two Ten Barista pcs and the coloring is way different and also the zoom in the photos are different too but it's hard to tell if one would be fake since it's not directly from SM
i noticed that most of sm's photocards have those lil specks, the only exception i've seen so far is EXO-SC's What a Life photocards, even its corners are sharper
I have few real pc and i have many fake ones too and i have the same pc and i easily notice the difference, the color i mean the fake has darker or yellowish and its not shiny and it is perfectly cut while the orig is very light in terms of color and the paper itself and its shiny and the sides have curves like lil bumps. I buy fake photo cards since i cant afford many album and i just really live to collect kpop stuffs i hope this will helps too.
Thanks Katie for this really helpful video. You are and will always be my Bible for being a photocard collector till I decided on last September. Started by using my mom’s Herbalife A4 Binder, then tried to buy a package of Bantex A4 sleeve with 9 pockets. Umm anyways.. it’s still unbelievable if it wasn’t SNSD’s Oh started their Photocard back then. A photocard community won’t get this bigger 😇
i can't tell if my wayv take off cards are fake. do your take off cards seem different compared to the take over the moon ones?? the ones i bought seem the same as the one i pulled but they all still feel different compared to other sm/nct photocards. and none of them have specs, even the one i pulled
yerimie I didn‘t compare my WayV cards yet but I guess why it could be official but looking fake: I realized that the Take Off albums are more expensive than the TOTM albums, and I think that it‘s because of the press. It could be that SM decided the Chinese press for the Take Off albums - since they‘re a chinese group but maybe it‘s easier for him to "create" (?) them in Korea. Created in other countries (US, Korea, China, Japan) they can come differences (like how Katie told us about NCT127 Neo Zone American vs Korean press (literally only a sticker), it can be with PCs too
I once bought a skz i am not pc and i was so shocked because the corners were rounded (the ones on the first press pcs are sharp) but it obviously turned out it was just a second press card😂 Thank you for this video i think it helps a kot of people to also look out for the specs🥰🥰
SM photocards are not the only ones with little specks on the edges. All official photocards (from every group) will have them because it basically shows that the photocard has been mass-produced. SM's are definitely more noticeable than other companies (from what I've seen at least) :)
This is a specific question but I was wondering whether anybody knew if the back of the neo zone Kihnos is a slightly different colour to neo zone T version photocards. I pulled the photobook card and bought the kihno one and I knew that kihno cards don’t have the specs and have different corners but the black back is a different shade and I’m unsure whether that’s how they’re manufactured or mine is fake?
i checked 2 of my svt an ode hope ver pcs (the white back, so there's a picture of sky and tree) and the colors are different. both i pulled out from the album.
I think most of the Kpop groups have the specks on the photo cards cause rn I have Dreamcatcher and Gfriend albums, they both smh have it (in the corners or in the middle of the photos). I thought that they didn't cut the photos properly while production (extra parts), and I tried hard to remove them, but I was stupid, that was on purpose LOL!
Thank you so much for this. 💜 I have a question. How common are fake albums? 🤣 I want to buy rare albums in the future but I am a little bit afraid they are fake.
I usually order online and just have them mail the photocards instead of meeting up with the seller so it's hard to see if the photocards are original or fake because in pictures it looks original. But in person you could actually see that it's not.
Are there such thing as fake albums too? I'm new to buying albums and I bought an Exo Tempo album off Amazon and now after watching this I'm questioning whether it's real or not! Can anyone help?
Ah this ! I rarely communicate with 'real' friend when in comes to kpop for my own privacy. So the only way to buy or trade PC is from online..but it is really hard to tell whether their PCs are real or fake. Esp if they also got the PCs from other seller and not from their own self bought album.
@@lennarias1344 cheaper? i bought a baekhyun monster pc printed at smtown museum and it was 11€ (~12$) :((( if i had known it was printed there i honestly wouldnt have bought it cuz the back looks different but at least its not fake so theres that
I have a specific question about the exos growl photocards. Some that I have have more information on the bottom than others. I have heard that its becuase some are Tiwanese press and the ones with less text on the bottom are Korean or chinese. Another thing is the "Taiwanese" press said it's made by some dude which I thought was weird. I've seen a few people mention this but I've had a hard time finding a good answer as if they are legit or not so i was wondering if you had any info on that.
yes! and i can most definitely make a video about this since i have the korean AND taiwan cards for exo’s mama! i can try to explain and show the differences in the pcs in another video^^
@@shawolzenl ah thank you so much! I have been worrying about weather they are legit or not becuase they look completely different on the backs I feel like
I’m here on this video because I’m about to buy my first ever photocard!! Kyungsoo universe forehead pc!! It has specks they said but I didn’t know what that is so I googled it haha
This was super helpful! Thank you!! I tend to buy pcs from ebay because I don't have friends that are into kpop that collect. If the seller claims to have many versions of the same pc available, is that also another sign? I'm just curious how to interpret that. I'm talking 10+
I am kinda confused because I feel like there are no specks (is that how you write it? XD) for the obsession cards, I got two of them through trades with two different people and none of them had some and the one I got myself had only one on top but for all the previous albums they always had them
hi! thank you so much for this wonderful video. just wanted to ask because i recently bought a what a life: exo sc chanyeol photocard from a seller im quite worried that i might have bought a fake one.. how do you identify if it's fake? thank you specifically i got the one where chanyeol is wearing a helmet
the specs aren’t actually just an SM thing haha. I don’t have any SM group photocards and all of mine have specs. Probably because they were connected to other cards due to mass production :)
the lil specks on the corners basically tell you that the card has been mass produced and was connected to other cards, while obviously fakes werent
but some of the pcs i pull dont have the dots
@@momosslave6148maybe its not from SM, like POBs. POBs dont have those white dots on the edges
in a nutshell
- check for specs
- make sure the coloring looks legit (like it's not super muted)
- make sure the edges look similar to legit pcs
Does anyone ever realize that fx’s photocard once were printed in a sharp edges back in 2013.
hi! recently bought a what a life: exo sc chanyeol photocard from a seller im quite worried that i might have bought a fake one.. how to identify if it's fake? thank you
ur pfp 😩
i did notice that the original pcs have cleaner corners like it’s a perfect curve then the fake ones have a bit of sharp edges then the curve
i did mention that in the video and it’s true! the fake pcs are not cut perfectly like the real 😊
Yeah that's true but I got a weki meki pc once and thought it was fake cause the corners weren't very round but I checked the one I pulled and turns out it was just how all the pcs were
Well, I just checked all my exo photocards and for example my obsession chen pc is not perfectly rounded, its real cos I bought the album^, or for example my sehun exo-sc pc is not perfect rounded but its real. If it has the dots, its real
shawolzenl yup with the minseok pc! so happy you got to post another video, keep up the good work queen!!!👑💖
It’s hard to compare though for other groups. Because some photocards are just shaped differently, haha so if you have and compare a real to it’s fake counterpart then you can tell. But keep in mine not all real photocards are the exact same size if they’re from different albums. Sorry if I explained it weird haha
Kinda hilarious that the fake one still has the “NOT FOR SALE” on it😂
so original photocards have the not for sale in it??
@@muhammadhafeez5659 yep, at least the sm ones
Muhammad Hafeez not always! Her legit love shot d.o. photocard didn’t have the “not for sale” on the back. SM doesn’t always do it. Also, I do not know any other companies who put “not for sale” on the back.
Gab Just as fyi, it was started when SM changed their company logo back in 2017. That was the last time we saw SM artis’s photocard with “NOT FOR SALE” written at the bottom back. As for EXO, you can compare to the 2016 releases (Exact/Lotto Album) with the 2017 releases (The War/TPOM Album) as well. In addition, SM nowadays pcs are just full logo of comeback and with the sign of member itself. Which is very annoying for us as a photocard collector.
On the other hand, when you order photocard from SUM Market. Then you’ll have a SUM Market written at the back. But we know SM only reproduce pcs for the artist that still stay under SM. Yups, we won’t be able to order Tiffany/Seohyun/Sooyoung/Jessica/Tao/Kris/Luhan’s pc on SUM Market LOL.
Who loves Exo🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️😘😘
Me, has never bought PCs from other sellers
Also me: omg let me check if the pcs that I pulled from my albums are legit
😂
Same🤣🤣🤣
fakes are good if you’re trying to decide whether or not to collect a full set or if you want to put a photocard in your phone without the possibility of damage
Hi can i ask what is the brand pf the paper?
@@k_loves_channel3543 for lomos ? i'm not sure the brand but if you just mean in general like where you can get them check ebay or aliexpress!
@@depressedani oh thank you
For the Don't Mess Up My Tempo Xiumin and Baekhyun cards. On the real photocards the back side is silver and bronze/gold/idk respectively, but the fake ones are off because regular printers can't print metallic colors. They can print a color that looks similar but there is no way someones home printer is going to print a actual metallic color. You can't get silver or gold or bronze or like... metallic blue using CMYK colors, just no way to mix it using cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Same with white and fluorescent colors.
For white, metallic and fluorescent colors you need a 5-color printer. It's a printer where you can use CMYK colors + an additional color. For the 5th color you can insert whichever color you like. For example: If you want that Xiumin photocard to have silver back side, you need to add a silver color to your printer. In that case, your printer can use cyan, magenta, yellow, black and silver. if you have only regular printer (4 colors), the printer is not able to print silver and prints the closest color it is able to, what in this case is gray. Other option would be to print on a silver paper but that affects other colors you print and it can turn out really weird.
That's a lot of information no one asked for nor no one needed, but I'm bored. Sorry, if you actually read all that
Thx
this video is really helpful!! i think if you’re buying from eBay then check the sellers feedback, their location (usually china is a big alarm), and the price of the item! if you have trusted sellers then definitely stick to them! i’ve mainly seen fakes for bts, exo and nct but always do research if you’re questioning them! it definitely doesn’t help when there’s multiple presses (e.g. chinese and korean presses!) but just stick to well-known sellers, or just don’t buy it if you’re unsure!
good examples of different countries presses are from SM too, e.g. EXO MAMA Chinese press vs Korean press that have small differences and also more up to date cards such as WAYV’s TOTM set which have both Korean presses and Thailand presses (they have different corners and are slightly different in size) but research is key !!!!
neo city is buying cards from a seller in south korea okay? 😳
babychuwu yes! korean sellers are definitely more likely to be genuine but always check the feedback 😊! The one’s that you see from china usually say that the entire set is included but it’s only like $2 which is fake
I bought a photocard off ebay from a random seller once without checking feedback or their location, thank god it was real, i dodged a bullet 🥲
Yep, I think checking the quantity is good as well, like if there’s a lot available it seems a bit weird especially if it’s rare.. also is there a way to distinguish between a real pc being lightened from exposure to light or if it’s a fake with lighter colouring?
omg I’m first! did you see the news about nct dream finally being a fixed unit?
I know you didn't ask me but I have and I'm so happy!!! It's time to see OT7 once again 😁😁😁💕
of course!^^
Emily yess!! It’s what we deserve!
i think more groups have specs on the card. i looked through my svt, skz and bts cards. they all have specs but some of them aren’t as visible as the others but you can still see them. i also noticed on other inclusions like postcards the specs are also there but less visible again. idk but wanted to put that out there to help someone.
thanks 💚
i also recently bought skz oddinary limited sealed album and pulled one felix pc, and one thing i noticed is that at the back of the pc, the cut didn't align with the color black print. it's hard to explain but i think it's just a minor error from the printing. one thing is for sure, the pc is legit since i bought it sealed, pulled it myself and it has some stem cuts to it in all corners :)
She kinda be sounding like Dora when she asking those questions doe 😳😳no hate tho
as someone who used to be a teacher’s assistant to 6 year olds i feel like it’s almost habit to talk like that when i make a video like this LMAOO
shawolzenl You are so cute
shawolzenl you’re the original cuteness! 🤗 And will always be my bible for being a Photocard Collector.
hi this video really helped me a lot, but today i just got a fake pc, and it was so good i nearly didn’t catch it. What surprised me and caught me off guard though was that the card had the white dots on it in the same spots as the real. But i compared it to a real one i had and realised the color was a tiny bit more faded and lighter, as well as felt a bit more rough and thick. Honestly this was the best fake card I have ever seen, no way would i have known until I had it on my hands. So be careful people, even white dots/specs doesn’t mean it’s real all the time.
I don't think the specs are for mostly sm, most of my pcs have them ( i collect got7 mostly, but i do have a big variety of groups from different companies and almost all of them have specs)
Yes, I realized a lot of JYP cards have them as well. I collect Stray Kids lol :).
yeah a lot of other cards have them too
It's because it's mass production. They get cut off there and it leaves those dots. It's like those cards that are attached and you can rip apart. The fake ones aren't like that so they don't have those dots obviously ♥️
@@myra0224 I know, i thought about it after i wrote the comment, but i was to lazy to add 😂
the specs are most for sm groups since all sm groups pcs have them not like other companies
note: kihno pcs have sharp edges and no specs
yups. And that’s kinda annoying at the same time for us who’s dedicated to be a Photocard Collector LMFAO 😂
5:20 the fake card is more zoomed in: his ear is nearer to the edge, same with his hand
That's the first thing I saw! Like in the fake one his ear isn't even completely on the pc and with the real one it is :P
having worked with many printers, getting colours right is supremely difficult when you mass produce, so sometimes colours are not a good indicator either, gotta look at it thoroughly and sellers too
you can probably bend test them too. typically photocards are made with a similar quality of paper as trading cards. if you bend them, they shouldn't give out and crease unless completely folded. I've noticed, with fake photocards, they crease with bending.
sometimes even the real photocards don't come with those specs which makes it even harder to know if its real or not. there are sellers that are getting better at producing fake cards and people buy it without looking at the reviews from others.
I was about to sleep but like priority first HAHAHAH
yes i would like a video on different press cards!!
Thank you for explaining about the colouring on different press cards. I've been stressing for over a week thinking I bought a fake cards. 😅
Months ago i saw debates about fake pcs. Someone complained that sehun photocard she got from what a life album was fake, eventhough she pulled it from album. Her reasoning was the card had no specs on the edges. At first i was like "isn't it means the pc is good because it got cut cleanly and has no defects?". But then i read more and apparently specs is a sign that the card is indeed real lol
Sometimes the coloring is different in real photocards as well. I have two MAMA pcs, both are legit but the coloring is slightly different in the back
Yeah with the An Ode cards, literally the two cards I pulled from the same album, are slightly different colours on the back, it's probably something to do with inconsistencies in mixing the ink. But since I pulled them both from the same sealed legitimate album it didn't bother me at all.
Hiii it’s been a long time but, are your pcs a bit blurry? Cuz mine are and the album is supposed to be a real one but I really don’t know ahahah
I'm new to this and i bought a don't mess up my tempo kyungsoo photocard, there are little specs on the middle and bottom part of the pc, as a perfectionist i was sad about it hahahha then this vid is my savior, now i compared it to my official exo album pc that i have and it actually has specks too, turns out it's one of the important things to look at to know if a pc is official and legit
My friend traded me a sound wave pc. It didn’t have the specs though. Is it fake or was it just not mass produced since it was a sound wave pc?
Yes this was really good! Also yes please do a video of different press pcs. Also love the intro. Made me laugh in a good way not bad! :)
a lot of the times the fake ones are more “zoomed in” so the spacing is off and the quality isn’t as good, idk if you mention this later in the video or not but i just thought i’d put it out there haha
Great video Katie. I’ll definitely apply this when buying photo cards in the future ❤️💕❤️. Thanks for making this and educating us 😊😊
NO BECAUSE THIS WAS SO HELPFUL- THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!
Almost all official photocards have those specs not only SM. They have them because of mass production :)
It's 2am in my country and i'm watching this because it's katie timee 🤣
im treating this as a pop quiz lmao, trying to guess which one is legit. i got all of them right, so i guess i'm better at this than i thought lol.
Love this vid!! this is (i think) the first youtuber who did this😊
I have some questions:
- Does these fake photocards come with album or only when you're buying them seperately?
- If they do come with fake album, then how to know if an album is fake?
Nope I think she got the fake ones from trading with others or joining a group order. No official albums will have a fake photocard
There is no way thr fake ones come in the album. These fake ones are just a way of basically scamming people buying pc's.
To tell if an entire ALBUM is fake, then look on the back of it. All real albums have the KOMCA sticker on them. Fake ones, although not as common as fake photocards because they are harder to produce, do not have it.
omg thank you guys so much 😭
(sorry late) I have seen in online shops like Shopee, many of which sell PC replicas, they usually make their own from art paper or glossy paper. Usually they sell for around $ 0.21 / PC, I'm sure buying a PC replica is no loss because it will still get a signature behind. Hope this helps ...😊
this was really helpful thank you!
also if you find out that you’ve bought a fake one,,, what do you do then lmao? like do you message the seller about it orrr? ._.
you gotta take the loss cause if you received a fake photocard, you most likely got scammed 😭
shawolzenl luckily i haven’t bought any fake ones yet and hope i don’t. but the tips in the video were really helpful for my collection so thank you :) 💚
1:04 1:15 Dora who?
For those watching this but doesn't want to compare it with EXO but instead with other groups, just look for the specs in the corners or not in the top and bottom (middle and there's supposedly 2 specs if it's on the middle) :)
yes waited so long for this video thank you so much 😊
amazing video as always :D i'm extremely late but i just wanted to say amazing job. very detailed!! im slightly bummed as i recently found out not only are my ktl photocards fake but.... now i just found out so are my square up.. im very devastated. thank you for the video!
Kyungsoo’s fake card looked like they closed in on the pic too. I noticed his face is wider and part of his hand and sweater is missing
Finally someone talkin' about this, thank you ☺♥️
something to note that Kihno cards usually don't have those little specs but album cards do
i noticed most of official photocards has tiny circle patterns on the print, i hope it can help
Thank you so much for this very informative video! It will be very helpful to new collectors and others as well. I would be interested in seeing more about the different presses of photocards as that is an interesting topic. I think it's good that most of us care about having real photocards because we know that these were at one time in an album and therefore, in the initial purchase, that artist was paid for them. I think this is very important if we want our groups to keep going. Keep buying their music.
Thank you so much , it's really useful and interesting. I really want another video talking about different press photocards. 😁
One time I got a fake card as a freebee and I was so confused cause I thought it was real and someone sent me it by mistake, but when I checked it with some real ones I had I realized it was fake. Pretty much if you have any real photocard from the same set as the fake one you can tell easily. It’s harder to see on camera but in person it’s obvious
A lot of Fake cards are zoomed in on the photo and on the back. so if you see, that for example there is less space between the ear and the edge of the pc then in other pictures of the pc, then you should be carful of buying it. If in doubt, ask someone for a second opinion. Facebook selling groups or on IG or Twitter or elsewhere, there are many people who will help.
5:17 idk if it's just me but when you scratched the table with your nails, my mind just went SKXJSNHBZBSHZNAK🙃
I think agencies need to find new strategy to make sure they make a hard-to-fake kinda PCs. Seeing this makes us anxious 😅😂
It's good for people to know what to look for when buying photocards. I unfortunately got scammed with fake BLACKPINK cards recently
where did you bought? can i have the link?
I actually have this mental insecurity whenever someone ask for trading PC online ToT how to tell that theirs is real esp if this fan is a stranger and not our close friend.
One thing I've noticed on fakes too is that the signatures sometimes tend to be either bolder or more fuzzy than the original ones.
Why do companies make 2nd press photocards different from the 1st press?
this video made me anxious and i basically went back to check if all the cards i bought were fakes or not, turns out they are not lol
Where can I buy the original photocards?
In addition photos are more focused at the fake version^^
I have two Ten Barista pcs and the coloring is way different and also the zoom in the photos are different too but it's hard to tell if one would be fake since it's not directly from SM
i noticed that most of sm's photocards have those lil specks, the only exception i've seen so far is EXO-SC's What a Life photocards, even its corners are sharper
I have few real pc and i have many fake ones too and i have the same pc and i easily notice the difference, the color i mean the fake has darker or yellowish and its not shiny and it is perfectly cut while the orig is very light in terms of color and the paper itself and its shiny and the sides have curves like lil bumps.
I buy fake photo cards since i cant afford many album and i just really live to collect kpop stuffs i hope this will helps too.
I bought my xoxo repackage album from fye and my photo card has not for sale on it. Does that mean it’s fake?
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Thankyouu for this, my cherrybomb nct pcs the back all have a slightly different pink back… so i was stressed! But now i am sure they must be real
Yall I got my moabong and the photocards were bigger than regular photocards is that normal?
Thanks Katie for this really helpful video. You are and will always be my Bible for being a photocard collector till I decided on last September. Started by using my mom’s Herbalife A4 Binder, then tried to buy a package of Bantex A4 sleeve with 9 pockets. Umm anyways.. it’s still unbelievable if it wasn’t SNSD’s Oh started their Photocard back then. A photocard community won’t get this bigger 😇
*probably this will help and guide us in multiple times not being tricked by those fake photocard sellers!* 😂
i can't tell if my wayv take off cards are fake. do your take off cards seem different compared to the take over the moon ones?? the ones i bought seem the same as the one i pulled but they all still feel different compared to other sm/nct photocards. and none of them have specs, even the one i pulled
yerimie I didn‘t compare my WayV cards yet but I guess why it could be official but looking fake: I realized that the Take Off albums are more expensive than the TOTM albums, and I think that it‘s because of the press. It could be that SM decided the Chinese press for the Take Off albums - since they‘re a chinese group but maybe it‘s easier for him to "create" (?) them in Korea. Created in other countries (US, Korea, China, Japan) they can come differences (like how Katie told us about NCT127 Neo Zone American vs Korean press (literally only a sticker), it can be with PCs too
I once bought a skz i am not pc and i was so shocked because the corners were rounded (the ones on the first press pcs are sharp) but it obviously turned out it was just a second press card😂 Thank you for this video i think it helps a kot of people to also look out for the specs🥰🥰
Thank you so much for this video. It's extremely helpful for those of us just getting into collecting photo cards. 💖
what about the thickness?
SM photocards are not the only ones with little specks on the edges. All official photocards (from every group) will have them because it basically shows that the photocard has been mass-produced. SM's are definitely more noticeable than other companies (from what I've seen at least) :)
This is a specific question but I was wondering whether anybody knew if the back of the neo zone Kihnos is a slightly different colour to neo zone T version photocards. I pulled the photobook card and bought the kihno one and I knew that kihno cards don’t have the specs and have different corners but the black back is a different shade and I’m unsure whether that’s how they’re manufactured or mine is fake?
i checked 2 of my svt an ode hope ver pcs (the white back, so there's a picture of sky and tree) and the colors are different. both i pulled out from the album.
I think most of the Kpop groups have the specks on the photo cards cause rn I have Dreamcatcher and Gfriend albums, they both smh have it (in the corners or in the middle of the photos). I thought that they didn't cut the photos properly while production (extra parts), and I tried hard to remove them, but I was stupid, that was on purpose LOL!
Hi I just wanted to say that the official SuperM tour pcs have the specks on the side instead
Thank you so much for this. 💜 I have a question. How common are fake albums? 🤣 I want to buy rare albums in the future but I am a little bit afraid they are fake.
i was waiting for this video, thank you so much! could you make a stray kids one?
I usually order online and just have them mail the photocards instead of meeting up with the seller so it's hard to see if the photocards are original or fake because in pictures it looks original. But in person you could actually see that it's not.
Oh ya, and the original one has like cutting marks (?) Either on the bottom and top of the card or on the corner
my chanyeol pc kokobop era was thin and soft :(( is it fake???
I order one pob photocard of skz member, but the pc seems a lot skinner.. it is hard to tell
Are there such thing as fake albums too? I'm new to buying albums and I bought an Exo Tempo album off Amazon and now after watching this I'm questioning whether it's real or not! Can anyone help?
Ah this ! I rarely communicate with 'real' friend when in comes to kpop for my own privacy. So the only way to buy or trade PC is from online..but it is really hard to tell whether their PCs are real or fake. Esp if they also got the PCs from other seller and not from their own self bought album.
hi can i ask if the photocards are glossy or matte?
i need a GOT7 ver. pleaseee because i have a Youngjae trading card from the 6th fanmeeting but i don't know if is the official :((
I have a card with specks but it’s WAY thinner than the other cards. The width is the only different I can tell but does that mean they are fake..?
sorry im late but some cards are thinner than others so maybe you have a real one!
quick question: are cards printed at smtown museum considered fake?
no but they are categorized as museum photocards and sold cheaper than the albums originals
@@lennarias1344 cheaper? i bought a baekhyun monster pc printed at smtown museum and it was 11€ (~12$) :((( if i had known it was printed there i honestly wouldnt have bought it cuz the back looks different but at least its not fake so theres that
I'm curious how they make the fake one?
Does anyone know how to tell real vs fake on cards without specks like from Cube Ent perhaps ?? I bought Pentagon cards and it’s hard to tell ://
Hiii.
I dont know ir i have a fake pc but it's of aother group. U could help Me?please
Hi can you also do unboxing for EXO dolls? How to know if they're official 😘like babyboo kai and gominee
I have a specific question about the exos growl photocards.
Some that I have have more information on the bottom than others. I have heard that its becuase some are Tiwanese press and the ones with less text on the bottom are Korean or chinese.
Another thing is the "Taiwanese" press said it's made by some dude which I thought was weird. I've seen a few people mention this but I've had a hard time finding a good answer as if they are legit or not so i was wondering if you had any info on that.
yes! and i can most definitely make a video about this since i have the korean AND taiwan cards for exo’s mama! i can try to explain and show the differences in the pcs in another video^^
@@shawolzenl ah thank you so much! I have been worrying about weather they are legit or not becuase they look completely different on the backs I feel like
I’m here on this video because I’m about to buy my first ever photocard!! Kyungsoo universe forehead pc!! It has specks they said but I didn’t know what that is so I googled it haha
This was super helpful! Thank you!! I tend to buy pcs from ebay because I don't have friends that are into kpop that collect. If the seller claims to have many versions of the same pc available, is that also another sign? I'm just curious how to interpret that. I'm talking 10+
hi I traded my exo-sc it doesn't have white specs is that normal? 😭😭😭😭
might be fake :(((
I am kinda confused because I feel like there are no specks (is that how you write it? XD) for the obsession cards, I got two of them through trades with two different people and none of them had some and the one I got myself had only one on top but for all the previous albums they always had them
hi! thank you so much for this wonderful video. just wanted to ask because i recently bought a what a life: exo sc chanyeol photocard from a seller im quite worried that i might have bought a fake one.. how do you identify if it's fake? thank you specifically i got the one where chanyeol is wearing a helmet
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I really needed this
the specs aren’t actually just an SM thing haha. I don’t have any SM group photocards and all of mine have specs. Probably because they were connected to other cards due to mass production :)