U.S. Sonic with UPC sells for $981.33

[Sunnyvale]

I don't think there's enough information contained within the sticker to actually extract, even with chemical testing. It's unlikely Sega used any kind of special printing techniques that can't be reproduced by the average person. It's a silly UPC sticker. What company is going to invest anything more than necessary for something like that? The only alternative is trying to establish whether the sticker is 20 years old or not. But the thing about dating is that it's inexact. Even carbon dating, what they use to determine the ages of shit like fossils, leaves open a gigantic range of time.

There is enough chemical information in a microscopic shred of paper to determine it's makeup. And yes, paper made in China will be different than that made in Egypt.

If people have successfully snuck forged baseball cards through professional graders (it has happened) then what the hell do you expect is going to happen with a UPC code printed on a sticker paper that is more than likely easily found today?

So they know for a fact that people have snuck baseball cards by proffesional graders because... other graders caught it? Umm...

You've been told before that you're overestimating what can be done and I'll echo that now. You're overestimating it by a longshot. Show a professional a pristine Sonic with an authentic pristine sticker and a pristine Sonic with a forged sticker and I'd say that professional will fare no better than chance, CSI bullshit or otherwise.

I will politely call your statement a religious one. I am a pothead, and I sell second hand shit for a living. But I know that chemical analysis is frequently used to verify all kinds of things, and you probably do as well, but are refusing to admit it. Fuck carbon dating, I'm talking chemical makeup. Grab your Strider sticker and your Sonic sticker, and test them both (unless you think people are forging Striders, too). They'll either match or not. But hey, why take the word of a guy with '420' in his name, eh?

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If they can do it with a painting, they can do it with a sticker. Money is the only factor here, and the game fetches a lot of money...