Alright, I'll start this out by saying I am new to the whole fake experience but ooof tonight was rough.

First some background, my friends and I go to college in Philadelphia. Two of us ordered old PA id's from FYD since we have strong Philly accents (not the best idea but really hard to mask an accent from growing up here especially when you're drunk) and the remainder of the group ordered FYD New Jersey's. The two PA's were ordered as a sample of FYD and the New Jersey's were ordered following receiving the first two.

So the two PA ID's have been used twice for the girls and four times prior to tonight for my own (male). They were used at a corner store to purchase beer and mine was used to get into Trilogy Night Club and also at Cavanaughs bar. The cashiers at the corner stores gave it their quick glances and it checked out in their eyes, when scanned there it also worked. It wasn't a crowded night at Cav's the first time we went so no bouncers and the bartender just gave our ID's quick glances. At this point everything was OK, the girl wasn't ID'd at trilogy but I was. The bouncers looked at it for a second and I walked right by without issue.

Issues we noticed to begin with: Girl Old PA ID has oddly thick signature Back of PA ID's are blurry and the barcode along the top is misaligned from the real ID Male NJ ID had wrong eye color (it said black eyes)

Tonight and the fuck ups: So the group decides to go to Cavanaugh's bar in University City for Thirsty Thursday and we head over. When we get there, there is a short line and our small group of PA, NJ, and MD (real) waits to get to the bouncers. The bouncer is in a horrible mood from the look of him and tells PA girl to get up against the wall and looks at her ID. He looks up for a second and says, "Have a good night," and then looks back down at the old PA ID and says "If any of the rest of you have fakes I suggest you leave," or something along those lines holding the ID out for her and then pocketing her ID a moment later. Not wanting to retaliate, the girl steps aside and the remainder of the groups moves with her... all of us shook with what had just occurred. In less than a second this man had decided that something was wrong with her ID without scanning it or even looking at the back. We were all definitely spooked. The girl had her duplicate with her as well and since the remainder of the group wanted to go out still we decided we would try a different bar. We walked to the next bar and this time I went first with my own old PA from FYD. The bouncer took a good 20-30 seconds looking at the front and back of my ID and then swiped it... "CANNOT READ DATA" his scanner said. He tried again... same thing and then again... same thing. He took it and put it up under the black light and gave it another 10 second glance, moving in close this time. I guess it looked OKish in his eyes because he tried to swipe it again and... "CANNOT READ DATA." So I asked for my ID back (at least this guy was a bro and gave it back) and left without another word.

Needless to say... this night sucked. We're down an ID and didn't get in either of the places we tried. I'm not trying to attack FYD I am just warning others to be careful out there. Tonight could have been a lot worst obviously had everyone not remained calm but it's unfortunate things ended this way.

If anyone could suggest some quality (and hopefully affordable ID's since I'm now out of the cost of the FYD's) for use in the Philadelphia area that would be much appreciated. Thanks and stay safe out there!