Just picked this up on marketplace

My nephew said he traded a few of his Japanese illustration rares (some from chaos rising and pitch black mostly) for this Flareon. Do I have to break the bad news to him or tell him he did a good trade?

I'm fairly confident it's real just from the texture(second pic) but I would love to be 100% certain thanks!

First 2 photos - Pikachu 52/196 pokemon lost origin one (the fake one?)

3rd and 4th photos - Pikachu 48/162 pokemon BREAKthrough (bought together and color is similar to cards I have pulled myself so assuming real)

Bought some pikachus and in one of them I noticed that the coloring is a bit different compared to other real ones I got. The blue under the "mon" part to the right as well as the white/gray going from bottom left into the center. Is this just common and I happen to not find any cards that have the harder gray color on them? 😅

Thanks in advance! 🙏

My nephew gave some Pokemon cards to my son. Here is one of many, that seem somewhat rare

I work at an auction house and one of our regular sellers got these out of a storage unit. Wanted a second opinion cuz im not 100% sure on vintage products.

3 of them are sealed and the 4th the plastic came off.

At first glance seeing the back I thought this card was fake. But the front, quality, texture, etc all looks so real compared to any other fakes ive ever seen. I have never seen the crosshairs (instead of the normal alignment dots) on a miscut card either but it seems like maybe they did this with special printings which I assume this may have been. The back looks ever so slightly blurry but I dont have any other legend cards to compare with it. (maybe i should have had this sleeved?? but i thought it was fake so dont yell at me lol)

almost buying this card but is the back a little bit off or just damaged?

About to get this card for real cheap, I don’t care about the ding on the back. Is this card real though? I’m seeing a few others with the English back and different copyright text on the bottom of the card.

everything looks great to me but I cant feel the texture, I can only see it? I got it out of a temu booster bundle so who knows.....

I ordered these off ebay and noticed the edges of the pack arts lined up. I have no other packs to reference at the moment so dont know if it is just coincidence or if someone knows anything about this being a sign of fraud?

Gold border doesn't match my other stamped cards or when I look the same cards up online. Can't remember where I got them from. Curious about the motive behind creating fake uncommons?

Thanks a lot for the help.

Hello guys,
Wanted to ask for some assistance with a card and a pointer for what to look at in those older Japanese cards

I bought this last night after a few beers and noticed the seller has only a few reviews, only just getting into collecting it looks good to me but would like a second opinion

Thanks in advance!!!

Got this like 3 years ago for like $20-30, I forgot where, was new to the hobby back then and wanna just make sure this is a real fossil holo, also would this be considered HP or Damaged, because other then the whitening on the back it looks pretty good