I’d feel bad if I was able to actually buy any cards at msrp
As a fellow Massachusetts resident, I have to say… Hah, you got owned kid!
I’m almost certain that card theft is always an inside job. I’ve met a lot of people dumb enough to break into houses in my time but the number of them that would look at my magic collection and think it’s worth the weight can be counted on one hand.
I’m confident that the person who does this is someone who knows the player.
the player.
This was a shop.
CCG’s were fun till “investors” started treating them like stocks. Now CCG companies treat their products like stocks as well. Even older long dead CCG’s that had little success get priced at ridiculous levels.
Whenever you send a card to get graded, no matter which grading service, they serialize every single card
Wouldn’t serializing a card “damage” the card and make it less valuable? I know the grading service wouldn’t say so, but that’s because they damaged it.
The card itself doesn’t get serialized, but the card gets “slabbed”; put in a plastic case that is serialized and can’t be opened without damage.
Without damage to the card or to the case? Because it seems pretty silly to steal a graded card and not remove it from its case and send for rating sgain to get a new number.
The case.
Cracking and sending it in again is possible, although I think the vast majority of thieves want a quick payday and would not be willing to invest money and wait the months or years (backlog) for grading.
There’s people who like to buy graded cards and “liberate them from their prisons” to be played. The whole collectors’ grading system is insane. See also: the massive fraud in video game grading by Wata and Heritage Auctions.
Nice.
People are such fucking chodes, they feel the need to steal little pieces of paper with value placed on them by children.
Obviously, I know the wider issue is capitalism and governments being shitty to their citizens, but I still can’t help but cringe at stories like these.
It’s not really children that make these price tags. Trading card games have pretty lucrative secondary markets with the values based on the cards potential in strategy and tournament play as well as scarcity.
Personally I’m a magic the gathering guy and the main reason I don’t do tourney is is that I neither can nor would pay $120 for the 4 cards I need to make my deck competitive.
