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Super Mario
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Alright, I know we have some card shop owners here, so I thought I would ask this question.
Based on a lot of my own personal experiences, card shop owners that I have encountered in person are scum bags for the most part. Sans two card shops (Mikey B's Bleacher Bums, and Fox Sports Cards) every other card shop I have ever been into, the owner of the shop has either struck me as crooked, or exhibited to me he is a scum bag.
So that leads me to my question.....
Do you guys think it's ethical for card shop owners to open their own packs that they have for sale in the shop?
I remember when the 2005 Skybox Autographix came out. I went to the only place in my town that sold baseball cards. The ONLY card in the entire set I wanted was the David Wright autograph. The cards went for $40-$45 on eBay at the time. So I go in there, I spend like $50 busting packs of Autographix in hopes of pulling that card, and for the fun of it in general. So I don't pull it after spending all that money. And I know my limits, so I stop spending. After I stopped, the guy starts just opening pack after pack out of the two boxes I was buying packs out of. About the 5th pack he opens, he pulls the freaking David Wright auto. I told him I'd give him the $45 that I had in my pocket, and that's exactly what they're going for on eBay. The mother-f****r told me NO. And then he put it in his case and marked it up to $75 bucks. Last money I ever spent in there.
Later I came to find out that the guy had regularly been busting packs out of the new boxes that he opened and put on the shelves and pulling the hits and then trying to sell the garbage packs.
Based on a lot of my own personal experiences, card shop owners that I have encountered in person are scum bags for the most part. Sans two card shops (Mikey B's Bleacher Bums, and Fox Sports Cards) every other card shop I have ever been into, the owner of the shop has either struck me as crooked, or exhibited to me he is a scum bag.
So that leads me to my question.....
Do you guys think it's ethical for card shop owners to open their own packs that they have for sale in the shop?
I remember when the 2005 Skybox Autographix came out. I went to the only place in my town that sold baseball cards. The ONLY card in the entire set I wanted was the David Wright autograph. The cards went for $40-$45 on eBay at the time. So I go in there, I spend like $50 busting packs of Autographix in hopes of pulling that card, and for the fun of it in general. So I don't pull it after spending all that money. And I know my limits, so I stop spending. After I stopped, the guy starts just opening pack after pack out of the two boxes I was buying packs out of. About the 5th pack he opens, he pulls the freaking David Wright auto. I told him I'd give him the $45 that I had in my pocket, and that's exactly what they're going for on eBay. The mother-f****r told me NO. And then he put it in his case and marked it up to $75 bucks. Last money I ever spent in there.
Later I came to find out that the guy had regularly been busting packs out of the new boxes that he opened and put on the shelves and pulling the hits and then trying to sell the garbage packs.
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