Hey, thanks for checking out my video!! Like I said in the video, a huge thanks to the channel Obscure Japan for letting me use some clips from the time they visited this store! Check out their full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EREhmx_K_4k

ALSO please don't try and find or contact this store. The "fake game" incident from this video has been dealt with by the authorities, so we're just here to learn about it, not to go all vigilante! Cool cool!

I'll see you next week - byeee!

2:30 there wouldn't even just be a shouting match, that's straight up illegal in the US. Consumer protection laws forbid this sort of thing from the get go. My company regularly audits certain stores to ensure the price being charged is the price on the sticker, and any discrepancies can be bad.

2:20 Is not just social pressure, in many countries it is ilegal for a store to charge you more than is advertised, in Spain at least, they're legaly obligated to honor the lower advertised price, and that is specifically to prevent these situations.

I’m so used of bootleg and fake products everywhere that I’m impressed they could arrest that man… for a day.

Sleazy store, double pricing, counterfeits. This is the exact description of a Crazy Redd.

I don’t know about other counties, but I know that in Australia charging more than the price displayed is actually illegal. That thing in the US where the tax is added at the end and not included? An actual crime.

I've experienced double pricing here in the US, this one store I live within walking distance of does this all the time, I see some Mario plush that's like $8 on the tag but when I bring it to the checkout they say it's like $17 or something. Bullshit. Usually I just say something like "That's not what the price said, so I guess I won't buy it"

This is why I stick to Polywag Pokemon cards

This explains a lot on why a lot of Japanese trading card shops don’t allow recording because if they get caught selling fakes by the police their done for

I love it when Thomas goes detective mode

"Double pricing" in the US has a different name: bait and switch.

6:02 i like to believe the 150 fakes found in the store were one card for each Pokemon

With the guy confessing immediately, that's just how it works in Japan. Japan is infamous for its insanely high conviction right and high rate of false convictions. If you get caught there is no way you are not getting a guilty verdict. This is precisely why Japanese crime fiction, and even stuff that have to do with it like Persona 5, but such an emphasis on it. And why Phoenix Wright, at least in the Japanese manual for the first game on DS and the trilogy on 3DS, says that he believes his duty is to prevent these false convictions.

Meanwhile "double pricing" would get the shop owner in jail

He just admitted to the police that he was selling bootlegs? What a chad

“Double pricing” is illegal where I live. You’re entitled to the price listed on the store’s sticker.

My school actually made Pokémon cards illegal back in 1999. To the point a few kids got arrested because the police claimed they were a new form of gambling 😂 I guess they forgot trading baseball cards was a thing?

never trust those kind of store - they then to rip you off.

In England people would argue that they must honour the price tag that was displayed.

Fun fact, in the US (at least where I am) if the clerk tells you the price on the tag is out of date/too low, they'll apologize for the mix-up and either refuse to sell you the item or just charge the lower price.