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[-] chumbaz@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago

Upper Deck was the king of sports trading cards and even though they were making hundreds of millions in the 80s, they got caught creating counterfeit versions of the most desirable cards to make even more money. Once they got caught there wasn’t much to be done as it wasn’t actually illegal for them to do so. It soured the collectors market for a long long time.

Circle back around to around 2000 and upper deck somehow got a license to print Yugioh cards in Europe. Only, they decided to start also making counterfeit cards of the 10 most desirable cards and made 50K of each of them and started seeding the collector market in the US by selling them in the states to make even MORE money. It wasn’t long before they got caught and then sued and settled out of court for some insane amount of money.

Somehow they’re still around and printing sports cards. It’s kind of mind boggling.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, I totally remember them and trading cards in the 90s. Always wondered what happened with that, now I know.

What a fall from grace. Then and fleer were the shit.

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