how do we know they are real?

[Wickabee]

And that's fair, which is why I say it would tick off enough people to affect the bottom line of the card companies and drop the values considerably. At the same time, if it turned out the pieces aren't "real" and you didn't know, would it change how happy you were to get those cards? No. It would change what you think of them now, but not what you thought of them then. If no one ever knows, you die happy (card relatedly, anyway).

[RGM81]

It's unfortunate that this topic comes up as often as it does, but an error like the one UD made with the Vanek Cup 1/1 will inevitably have people questioning the authenticity of the memorabilia pieces in their cards. Are they actually worn in a game? Does the fabric on a Carey Price jersey card actually mean it was worn by Carey Price in an official NHL game?

It's the same scenario that we discussed here the other day - if it were to be revealed that the card manufacturers were deliberately and systematically using non-game-worn jerseys and/or misrepresenting those jerseys as being worn by a particular player when they were worn by another player, the hobby would quickly collapse upon itself due to a large class-action lawsuit against said company. The fraudulent company would be put out of business, and it would pretty much kill the entire market for what we all believed to be "game worn jersey cards."

[KangoBass]

This same company did knowingly make fake yu-gi-oh cards....... Wouldn't surprise me that they would do the same.

[comfortably9numb]

i thought about this before...i personally thought that after all of these years of jersey cards...if they were purposefully doing this...word would get out somewhere...maybe a disgruntled employee that was fired...or a worker that tells a family member not to buy UD products because of that...if it was purposefully done, word would have gotten out by now...on the same token...i DO believe it happens WAY more often than we think...mis matching cards with other players...but i don't think its done purposefully

[comfortably9numb]

This same company did knowingly make fake yu-gi-oh cards....... Wouldn't surprise me that they would do the same.

how do you fake a card in a card game? lol

[FFIMSMSI2007]

think about where the hobby started....

going to a game to see the players.
going to get an autograph of a player.
being around when the hockey card first appears.
getting your favorite team built of these cards.
completing an entire set of cards.
collecting rookie cards.
scratching an area above a players name to reveal who it is?
getting the first insert card from a pack, #1/25,000...
and thinking this was the best thing ever!
getting your favorite player insert card individually numbered
out of /1000.
getting an authentic autograph out of 1 pack at outstanding odds
of getting one in 8,000 packs!
getting an authentic game worn jersey card No numbering, but
with odds just the same!!
getting a SUPER hard to find GOLD Refractor Mystery card that
resales for HUNREDS of dollars!!
getting your very first guaranteed 1 autographed card per pack,
authenticated by the manufacturer!! (of course not in the NHL uniform??)
getting the GOLD version autographed card, again worth HUNDREDS!!!
finding the Signed Patch card worn in an official all star hockey game,
numbered out of /50!!! HUNDREDS!!!!
a graded autograph jersey stick patch rookie card, w/ a grade of 10!!!
1/1's
1/1 Auto's
1/1 Patches
1/1 Auto Patches
1/1 NHL logo shields
1/1 AUTOGRAPHED NHL LOGO SHIELDS!!!

.......

Dinosaurs? actual fossils that are over 100 million years old? really?
now, bugs......uh, yeah.

so, think about where it was and where it is.

there is money to be made, and I think the card companies
have done that. whether or not the cards are legit,
there is still the chance of getting an autographed relic card numbered 1/1
that will make any enthusiastic NHL hockey fan either a wealthy person
or happy knowing that they own the only one card like that ever made!!

perhaps your PC would be totally different if you didnt hit
the huge hit that the player you got was in?
would you settle for a plain white jersey, when you could find other
different colored ones? wouldnt you wanna pay more for these?

the card companies have brought you into the game.
you know more now, than you first did about the game,
the players, the arenas, the history.
you are given an opportunity to hold something that an NHL
SUPERSTAR once worn, played with or scored on.
and better yet, he was the last person to hold this card and put
his signature on it, just for you.

sales drive the market. hmmm? maybe im wrong?

anything else I missed?

[KangoBass]

how do you fake a card in a card game? lol

This is how,

http://yellow-menace.com/2010/02/upp...onami-digital/