hey guys i really need a second opinion i feel like im losing my mind 😭
i bought this Karina Armageddon BDM Daegu fansign event photocard from an ebay seller with 99.9% positive ratings and over 100k items sold. i should note that i already have this photocard, i bought an extra one as a gift to a friend who really wanted it for their birthday, and im sure that the photocard i have is official because i got it through my friend who was visiting korea (she literally opened the album in front of me)
1st pic: when it arrived i immediately noticed that it looks off. it's blurry and has a slight warmer tone/orange-ish hue, but i heard that photocards can have different colours sometimes so im not sure. i took a picture of it in sunlight to hopefully show the difference
2nd pic: then i noticed karina's sleeve at the topish right.. see how it kind of cuts off in the ebay photocard, whereas in the official card it shows more? doesnt that mean its zoomed in? all pictures i found online of this photocard are also consistent with the official, i have not seen it cut off like the ebay photocard a single time
3rd pic: then i noticed that the back of the photocard is also weird? i feel like my eyes are tricking me but doesnt the text on the bottom card seem a bit off-center and smaller?
4th pic: i also aligned them ontop of each other to look for size difference and you can see that the ebay photocard is slightly bigger than the official photocard… there's no way for me to show this but it also feels more flimsy and thinner, like easier to bend
i tried contacting the seller but they keep sending me screenshots of the receipt in korean where they ordered the cards and also sent me a link to a korean photocard website (5th pic) im not sure what theyre trying to prove by sending me that link because if anything it looks nothing like the photocard they sent and looks more like the official photocard i have. theyre insisting that the photocard is real and that its just a manufacturer error and also keeps urging me to email the people from the site they sent and ask them if the card is fake like 😭
im thinking of contacting ebay but i just wanted to ask for a second opinion first, i just think theres too much wrong that theres no way its a defect but at the same time the seller has a really high rating with many cards sold so im not sure whats going on 😭 thoughts?
