First 2 picturea shows a legit copy of pokemon emerald and last 2 pictures shows what the seller sent me š¤£ currently waiting on my refund after i sent that sh*t back! To bad mercari sited with me! Beware of scammers and always pay with credit card incase you cant get a refund you can do a forced charge back!
Yeah looking up the seller it appears they have quite a lot of cancellations and thatās never a good sign. Seems like a moderate scammer to me. They have regular thrifted or personal items they sell just fine but more collectible and pricier items they likely try to squeeze all they possibly can out of the sale including trying to skirt around the description wording but even if they outright said it was fake at the very bottom of their description, what is picture should always be what is received and generally will always find in favor of the buyer who was wronged. Only way they can get away with selling a fake is if they both had pictures of the fake and the description mentions it as fake so thereās no dishonesty in the sale. Glad you got your refund OP
I should of seen it as a red flag when she was selling a bag of unchecked jewelry in a ziplock bag from a storage auction š yea like you aint going to check it with how high the price of gold is and silver
Good to hear. I figured eBay. Had this same thing happen to me in 2020 with a copy of Final Fantasy V. Guy labeled it as authentic, got to my house and it was obviously a bootleg.
My dad once bought a cart of Castlevania aria of sorrow with reviews saying they were fake and received a real one! I think maybe even some of the listing photos looked sus but he took a risk. The game is mine now
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I bought a new copy of Super Mario Odyssee from an eBay seller when Amazon were out of stock. There was a slight discount, so that was all good, until the item comes down in a different language and with a damaged case. Posted it back for a refund. They claimed they didnāt receive it - I didnāt think to send it tracked. Big mistake. eBay sided with the seller and wouldnāt refund me. I explained my experience in my feedback, saying the seller is dishonest etc - the seller asked me to take it down, of course I wouldnāt. Days later, they managed to get eBay to remove my feedback.
I was so pissed about that. I bought the game from Amazon eventually, but naturally, I resent it, having basically paid like Ā£70 for it. Iāve been on eBay for 20+ years, 1000+ feedback mostly buying. Thankfully the vast majority of transactions are fine
I bought a pokemon card off an eBay seller recently and when I got it it was the worst fake id ever seen, kinda on me for not catching it in the pics. I emailed them and eBay immediately with photos showing what I received vs a few real cards of the same style(the card wasnāt even the right size compared to real cards.)Got my refund back almost immediately, seller never said anything to me about it but I was asked to return the card and I just never did,i didnāt want anyone else to get scammed like I did especially if they tried to go to a card show or something and get over trading it to a kid for something expensive, which unfortunately happens a lot.
He will get banned. It's against their policy. I sold a reproduction on there and said it was a reproduction in the title and description sold it for $5 and they banned me.
Cant guarantee authenticity but asking above market value?
You're going to have to open a dispute but this really sucks man I'm sorry it happened.
Ive been itching for a copy of emerald but stuff like this always puts me off it
For sure. I think locally here tends to be a lot cheaper because it's such a small market but I was very much under the impression about 150 was the norm. Was there a big price surge in the last year or two?
Yes there has been i think even 2 years ago you could get a copy for $60 now a usa copy goes for over $200 even if it looks bad and a very good looking copy will go for $300 with a new battery
Yeah euro cartridge are much cheaper got my near mint emerald FRA so its french only for 130 with a dead batterie. Maybe you can find and Uk version for the same price
Right, and claiming to also have swapped the PCB from a previously broken case?......so.......she knows nothing but knew enough to get a tri-wing screwdriver and source a repro?
If you compare the two pictures of the back of the game, you'll see that there are a lot more lines on the motherboard. (Sorry, don't know the technical term) Look towards the bottom half of the carts in the pictures. There are thin lines packed close together that each lead to the dots near the bottom. Carts with motherboards that look a lot busier than they should be are usually fake.
Close.
There are razor thin lines that lead to the top of the pin connectors in the photo of what OP received whereas there are no razor thin lines in the seller's post.
That's the most noticeable difference between the motherboards in these two pictures so what OP received definitely isn't what was advertised and most certainly is fake. The seller is also trying to explain away the different looking label and lack of number stamp on the label by claiming they changed the shell/case. Can't change the motherboard, though. There are other ways to tell if a gba cart is fake that aren't pictured. Give it a quick Google/YT search. It's not that complicated so don't worry about having to sit through a long technical video. Lol
Mercari is filled with idiots and scammers these days. Iām about to give up using their platform as Iāve dealt with this kind of BS many times now.
There's a saying within the watch community, about buying the seller not the item. And unfortunately that is seeping out into every other community. That is the way things seem to be going. Typically a good rule is to message the buyer and try to find out how much they know about the item before buying. If they claim to know little, unless its dirt cheap I'd avoid.
It might be possible for buyer to do that but my conscious wouldnt allow me to. Iv been done dirty other times and wont do what i dont want done to me!
This happened with me on eBay, only got a partial refund since they never said in the description that the cart was authentic. Good to know for future purchases that Mercari is more on top of rooting out fakes and refunding if someone misleads you
Mercari is tough to buy from.. I canāt believe the horrible shipping of items I get and amount of scams and stupidity from certain sellers. Itās really hard to find a good seller. They obviously were just trying to get by the 3 day period and grab $175 for a fake item glad Mercari sided with you.
Yea i called mercari as soon as i opened the package sent them pictures, called again they reviewed it and sent me a return label and shipped it back out within like 2 hours of opening it.
As soon as I saw the third picture I just started laughing. Even if it wasn't a scam (yes, it was), how could anybody think they could argue those are the same things
I believe because of all the glitches you can do on it since its an official nintendo/pokemon hardware duped Pokemon are recognized as legit and so are items! Thats just my idea. And overall is one of the best if not thee best Pokemon game
Fair enough, guess you learn something new every day, I bet the price might fall abit after that pokemon bank closes, since doping items and pokemon come abit pointless
Yea thats true and sucks they closing that down i would have loved to one day be able to move stuff up to modern nintendo from gen 1-3. I think also might start going down since its rumored to be coming to switch 2 with ruby and sapphire version aswell
I've stopped using mercari. When they first came to be I genuinely thought this site could be one of the best places to sell and buy. More its just headaches and scamming all around. Either you'll get scammed by sellers or mercari will scam you with extra fees if you use a big box to securely ship something.
I just love how scammers that double down after mailing a counterfeit item and the easiest thing you can say that they mailed a fraudulent item. "Thank you for mysteriously mailing Item B after i purchased for Item A". E-commerce law be damned
You bought a 175$ unique item only a fellow nerd would have from that profile picture expecting it to be legit? She looks like she sells sneakers for her baby daddy on Mercari.
Q poca m*dre efectivamente se hizo el loco t envĆo una copia/fake/reproduccion ilegal de un cartucho original, claramente se ve q el de las 2 primeras fotos son el bait, porq ese si es original y el q t envio es claro q es una copia ( la etiqueta es plastificada y en el cartucho los copias no tienen la marca "Nintendo" impresa q los originales si lo traen, ojalĆ” t devuelva tu dinero y si habrĆa w hacer el reporte de una publicaciĆ³n fraudulenta para q no caiga otro cliente
Cool, you've just sent back the European release (French to be specific) of Emerald which came in exactly these cartridges. They even are branded Nintendo so they're legit.
so if it has GBA embossed it's a knock off? do the knock offs at least work? i ask because if they don't work i won't care on my next purchases if the price is right
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Quit buying from leeches. Even game stores donāt sell it for that much. If they were capable of replacing shells, then they understand what is real and fake. Selling a game for that much, especially knowing it is fake or potentially fake, is criminal
The 1st photo does not include the embossed factory code and in your 2nd photo it does not have the 4 rectangles on the back of the PCB on the left hand side
It's this type of thing that makes me want to sell my chilhood authentic copy of emerald but tbh call me greedy but I need the price to go up a lot on these for me to sell it. $200-$300 just isn't enough money to justify getting rid of my childhood copy. Also my battery is dry so that makes the value go down somewhat already
I dont think they value will go up more itll probably stay like that since its rumored that the gen 3 Pokemon games are coming to the switch 2! Because of the great success fire red and leaf green had, but who knows the gameboy emerald is very very popular since there is alot of glitches that you can do on the official legit copy of the game
Is it still a rumor? I thought it was confirmed that emerald and other gen 3 games were coming to switch 2. Although it should also come to switch as well. It's literally such an easy game to run the switch can more than handle it
Last i heard it was rumored but that was a few weeks ago it might have been confirmed. And i wouldnt sell my childhood copy if i were you. If i could go back 13 years i would stop myself from doing that!
Yeah the only thing is it just sits in my nintendo ds case doing nothing. My gameboy advance sp is missing presumed lost forever and recently my ds lite broke so I have no way to play it other than on emulation. But I also have way too many fond memories of it
Why are your pictures so bad? They are dark and blurry. Tbh maybe Iām dumb or missing something, but I canāt easily see what the difference is between what they posted and what you received based on these photos.Ā
Itās not like their original photos were stellar. How could you even tell from those two photos that they took pictures of a real game?
Maybe Iām weird, but I would want better pictures from the seller before buying something like this, and I would want better pictures from the buyer before taking any of their claims seriously.Ā
The pictures the buyer sent are perfect. Iām not really sure where you find issue with them.Ā
They clearly show the PCB differences between the two games. Just look at the back - the sellerās cart has two dots on the right side. The cart the buyer received does not have those dots. The color of the cart is also different.
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u/PAUL_DNAP Aug 18 '26
Well done, that's a clear "bait and switch" and happy the site saw sense and sided with you.