Would anyone want a knowingly re-sealed booster pack for themselves?
In my opinion, This only hurts the hobby as its easy ammunition for any scammer to buy them and re-sell them as legitimate packs.
There’s only 1 correct opinion, its terrible.
The seller is just using fake ignorance as an excuse to profit. This will do nothing but hurt the hobby as well as any unsuspecting victims down the line that buy these packs off his buyers. This seller is no better than the scumbag that resealed TCA’s box and the countless others from Spain/Italy over the years , whether he’s disclosing it or not in his description.
Thank you, I’m glad i am not the only one with that opinion i felt disappointed & angry when i first saw these listings but was unsure how the rest of the community feels about this.
This guy has already had minimum 2 or 3 listings taken down already by Ebay as he was listing them all on one listing that had a drop down menu to pick which packs. These packs will be used to scam people down the road. I looked at his previous listings and he started doing it after he himself purchased 4 resealed skyridge packs unknowingly. I messaged him and he knows that others wont disclose that the packs are resealed and literally doesnt care one bit about that fact as he basically tried to call me out for saying what I thought about the whole situation. Just remember that these listings are against Ebay TOS and can be reported by selecting report > copyright and trademark > counterfeit item or authenticity disclaimer > then either of the two final options. As I said previously Ebay has taken action against several of their listings already but will only continue to do so if people report the listings.
I think the bigger problem with this is people buy these items then try to resell them to unsuspecting buyers. So I think it is a net negative overall.
Going off of what @prochaos has said,It’s targeted at newcomers to the hobby and after realizing that they got duped, are more likely to leave the hobby which is a net negative.
As much as people complain about prices going up right now, it is new collectors (the capital that they bring to the market and the impact on demand) that are also making all of our collections worth much more than what they were. It’s healthy for the hobby. Resealed packs definitely hurt the hobby.
Well of course there’s a very significant difference between a seller who intentionally deceives a buyer (e.g., passing off a box as “factory sealed” when he knows it’s not) and a seller who transparently discloses all relevant information about what he’s selling with no intent to deceive (e.g., a seller who explicitly describes packs as “resealed”).
That said, perhaps the *buyers* of these resealed packs would not be much different than the seller of the box if they pass them off as “factory sealed” to other buyers when they know they’re not. Or perhaps there’s some *other* basis on which to criticize the seller of “resealed” packs, as others have suggested.
Thanks for everyone’s opinions and to everyone that reported the listings, It looks like the listings have now been taken down for now.
In case anyone in the future finds this thread - The eBay listings were resealed WOTC booster packs for around £20-£50 each, The seller listed them as resealed and also advertised that they were in great condition with no rips or tears to the packs , He also used the word *Proxy* in the description yet the pack wrappers were authentic.