"The child said that a 'Little Pony' card can be sold for 210,000 yuan after being rated, so I have to take her to evaluate the card to see how much her card can score." Recently, Ms. Chen, a citizen of Chongqing, reported to The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that the popular cards among children have new tricks, and the cards they like are not finished, and they have to spend money to score the cards.
According to CCTV's "Financial Survey" column, many consumers will buy cards to card rating agencies for rating, and the value of cards can increase several times or even dozens of times after rating. The customer service of a rating agency in Chongqing said that the cards they rated were sold for up to 210,000 yuan. These rating agencies are also seen as driving high-priced cards.
The agency's customer service said that the cards they rated sold for up to 210,000 yuan. Source: CCTV Finance
A small card, can it really sell for 210,000 after being rated? On August 12, the surging news reporter went to Chongqing Kazang Culture and Art Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Kazang Company) - the statement that "the card can be sold for 210,000 yuan after grading" is from the company's customer service staff. Mr. Feng, the person in charge of the card collection company, told reporters that the customer service took the content of hearsay as fact propaganda for the purpose of showing off, which did not represent the company's caliber and had guided its values.
In fact, it's not uncommon to hype high-priced cards. The surging news found in the second-hand trading platform that cards with a price of tens or millions of yuan abound. Liu Lin, a lawyer at Beijing Shuangli Law Firm, reminded that consumers should pay special attention to whether there is a false price when trading on the second-hand trading platform.
The card evaluation agency responded: only evaluate the authenticity and quality, and do not conduct price appraisal
According to CCTV's "Financial Survey" column, the card collection company is a card rating agency, which can evaluate more than 100,000 cards a week, of which "My Little Pony" cards account for the majority. With the so-called rating, the value of these cards began to soar, and according to the ratings given by the so-called rating agencies, the price of the cards could increase several times or even dozens of times in subsequent transactions. In the report, an unannounced interview showed that the agency's customer service said that the cards they rated were sold for up to 210,000 yuan.
A graded "Pokémon" card displayed by the card collection company. The Paper reporter Wang Xin pictured
According to the aforementioned report, some industry insiders said that in this card blind box trading game, card game companies sell card blind boxes, and rating agencies charge for card identification and rating, pushing up the price of cards. Second-hand merchants recycle rare cards and sell them, and every link makes a lot of money, but only children are addicted to dismantling cards and buying cards.
Ms. Chen, a citizen of Chongqing, told The Paper that her child is in primary school, and she spends a lot of money every time she buys a "My Little Pony" card for her child. Some time ago, the child suddenly told her that she wanted to take the card she bought to be rated and scored. I asked her why, and she said that a card that was overscored could be sold for 210,000 yuan, and my friends knew it. I thought it was too exaggerated at the time, why can a card be sold so expensive. Ms. Chen said that after listening to the child, she checked the Internet and learned that the card collection company was not far from home, so she decided to take the child to have a look.
Ms. Chen said that after arriving, the staff of the card collection company said that the company "only evaluates cards, not second-hand transactions", and it is not accurate that the cards can appreciate significantly after grading.
On August 12, Mr. Feng, the person in charge of the card collection company, told the surging news reporter that "the rated cards were sold for 210,000 yuan" did come from the mouth of the company's customer service staff, but it was understood that the customer service promoted the content of hearsay as facts for the purpose of showing off, and did not represent the company's caliber.
Mr. Feng said that the company was established in 2022, and its core business is card authenticity identification and color evaluation. "Like other collectibles, the cards are new, whether there are creases, oil stains and other traces of use, which directly affects the quality of the cards, and then affects the trading circulation in the secondary market. The cards will be scored in the future, such as 10 points (the highest score), 9.5 points, etc., in layman's terms, 9.5 points represent 95 into a new. ”
Who's hyping up "sky-high cards"?
The Paper reporter noticed that as early as 2021, a game card called "Blue-Eyed White Dragon" was speculated to a sky-high price of 87.326 million yuan in a judicial auction.
According to public reports, Zhang Yujie, a former staff member of the real estate registration center in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, who was born in 1995, embezzled nearly 70 million yuan of public funds. In November 2020, Zhang Yujie was sentenced to life imprisonment and confiscated all his personal property. After that, the court auctioned off Zhang Yujie's game cards. After 2,105 bids, the card, which was assessed at only 100 yuan, was pushed up to 87.326 million yuan. After that, the card auction was suspended due to "serious discrepancies between the lot and the actual bidding price, and there may be malicious speculation and bidding".
According to the WeChat public account "Shanghai Network Refutation of Rumors", recently, the news that a single card was sold for 160,000 yuan on the second-hand trading platform has attracted a lot of attention. However, the investigation of the Shanghai rumor refutation platform found that "160,000 yuan a card" has a price but no market, in addition to the misinformation and misleading of those who do not know the truth, it is not excluded that people with ulterior motives deliberately hype, and some are eye-catching and rely on traffic to make profits; Some also set up new consumption traps by inflating prices.
The surging news reporter browsed the card game Jingdong flagship store and the official mini program of the card game and found that the prices of cards such as Ultraman cards and "My Little Pony" cards ranged from a few yuan to more than 100 yuan. On second-hand trading platforms such as Xianyu, the price of cards is very arbitrary: the highest price is 10 million yuan, the lowest is 0.01 yuan, and hundreds of thousands of yuan and millions of yuan of cards abound. The reporter clicked into a "Little Pony" card sales page with a price of 148,800 yuan and saw that the seller claimed that this card was "a symbol of the top boss", "the highest rarity" and "the ceiling-level existence of the whole network". The seller also said: "There are only two tickets on the whole network, and the other one is 29,000 yuan, and the price of this one is negotiable." "How hot this one is, just look at how sour it is in the comment area." Some netizens commented on the page that this is a "hype ceiling".
The reporter noticed that on second-hand trading platforms such as Xianyu, most of the high-priced cards have been rated and scored. In addition, in the information of card products, in addition to the brand, IP, and condition, whether it has been rated is also the key information displayed by the seller.
On the second-hand trading platform, a "My Little Pony" card was priced at 148,800 yuan by the seller. Screenshot of the webpage
Lawyer reminds: Be wary of false prices on second-hand platforms
Liu Lin, a lawyer at Beijing Shuangli Law Firm, has handled a number of consumer rights protection dispute cases. Liu Lin reminded that on the second-hand trading platform, false prices are a common means of consumer fraud. The seller's arbitrary inflation of the price violates the buyer's right to know and is suspected of fraud.
According to the Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Online Consumer Dispute Cases (I), the court can determine that the seller is engaged in commercial business activities based on the nature, source, quantity, price, frequency, whether there are other sales channels and income of the goods sold by the seller, and the court should support the consumer's claim that the seller is required to bear responsibility in accordance with the Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law. If a minor is defrauded in a second-hand card transaction, parents can defend their rights on behalf of their children.
Source: The Paper